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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Benohe that we.

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Speaker 2: Got to talk about the Toxic Avenger. Oh good lord, So,

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Speaker 2: oh look this is this is one of those movies

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Speaker 2: that falls into the category of so bad it's good.

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Speaker 2: And the original film back in nineteen eighty four. So

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Speaker 2: if you might remember going into a civic video maybe

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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty seven, and you would have seen in

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Speaker 2: the one dollar ninety nine a week rentals in the VHS,

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Speaker 2: you would have seen the cover of The Toxic Avenger,

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Speaker 2: the original movie. You could not miss it. It had

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Speaker 2: this sort of weird disfigured looked like the guy from

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Speaker 2: the Goonies on the front cover, and he was ripped though,

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Speaker 2: and he was holding a mop, a flaming a flaming mop.

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Speaker 2: The American flag was waving in the background, and had

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Speaker 2: this sort of tidal treatment the Toxic Avenger that made

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Speaker 2: him look like a superhero, like a comic book superhero,

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Speaker 2: and he kind of was. It was meant to be

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Speaker 2: a bit of a sp better than a aqua man anyway, exactly.

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Speaker 2: And so the plot of the original film was this

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Speaker 2: scrawny nerd is bullied. He gets transformed into a mutant

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Speaker 2: by this toxic sludge and then basically avengers you know,

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Speaker 2: all of the wrongs done to him and sort of

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Speaker 2: teaches these bullies a lesson. And it was kind of

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Speaker 2: filled with gore, lots of blood splatter, but it was

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Speaker 2: a comedy, so his muppy could clean it up exactly.

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Speaker 2: And it was from this production house, Troma Entertainment. And

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Speaker 2: it's easy to dismiss everything that they did as just

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Speaker 2: kind of schlocky garbage, certainly B movie quality, But if

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Speaker 2: you think about some of the people who came out

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Speaker 2: of the Troma family, Kevin Costner, Samuel L. Jackson, JJ Abrams,

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Speaker 2: Oliver Stone, the guys who created South Park, they all

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Speaker 2: got their start in movies made by Troma. So it

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Speaker 2: has this kind of, you know, cult occult feeling around it.

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Speaker 2: So many many years later, they've come up with this

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Speaker 2: remake of The Toxic Avenger. They've kind of it's more

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Speaker 2: of a reboot really because they've kind of departed from

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Speaker 2: the original storyline, the basics the same with Peter Dinklige.

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Speaker 2: They've kept the mob as the Toxic Adventure. He plays

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Speaker 2: this guy Winston, who is a widower. He's raising his

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Speaker 2: step son, having some challenges being a dad and working

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Speaker 2: for this pharmaceutical company run by this sort of nefarious

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Speaker 2: CEO played by Kevin Bacon. So now they've all got

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Speaker 2: one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon, which is fantastic

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Speaker 2: for them. And so Winston is diagnosed with a terminal

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Speaker 2: brain disease. He's only got a few months left to live.

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Speaker 2: He goes to his boss and says, look, you know,

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Speaker 2: my company's health insurance is not covering it. Is there

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Speaker 2: anything you can do? You're a really rich guy. Kevin

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Speaker 2: Bacon just dismisses him, laughs it off, and so Winston,

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Speaker 2: as a last resort, decides to break into the company

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Speaker 2: and Robert rob the Vault gets the money. But in

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Speaker 2: the course of that Robbery is exposed to the toxic

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Speaker 2: waste that this pharmaceutical company produces, is transformed into toxy

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Speaker 2: the Avenger and then basically goes on a rampage to

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Speaker 2: right the wrongs in this town. Yes, but why why

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Speaker 2: is it happening? At least made a great point.

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Speaker 1: Has Hollywood run out of ideas like the Naked Gun

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Speaker 1: remake without Leslie Nielsen who wants to see it?

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Speaker 2: This is the same thing? Oh no, Well, they ran

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Speaker 2: out of it ideas years ago. So there's very few

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Speaker 2: original story ideas in Hollywood at the moment. It's all

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Speaker 2: sequels and remakes and reboots or you know that's adapting

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Speaker 2: TV shows, or they're adapting the lives of musicians. Like

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Speaker 2: in terms of actual original storytelling, bugger all in Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: But I did watch the trailer.

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Speaker 1: There is a fair bit of sort of ridiculous gore camp.

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Speaker 2: It's so kitch, it's so camp and at one point,

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Speaker 2: so originally this hit film festivals in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of been hidden away since then, and

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Speaker 2: there were rumors that it was so gory that it

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Speaker 2: would never be released publicly. But it's not that bad. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: it's not that bad. It's a funny movie.

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Speaker 1: It's how bad can it be? With when the yeah, yeah, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: the does there's one there's one point where the Toxic

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Speaker 1: Avenger is sort of dealing with this gang of bad

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Speaker 1: guys and he says to one of them, show me

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Speaker 1: your lunch and then sticks his hand up the.

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Speaker 2: So so that gives you an idea of what we're

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Speaker 2: dealing with here in terms of the level. But it's

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Speaker 2: actually really difficult to make a movie this bad and

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Speaker 2: and and actually have a beat really really entertaining, like

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Speaker 2: it's ertah. Yeah, to deliberately make a movie so bad

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Speaker 2: it's good. Most movies that are so bad are just

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Speaker 2: actually bad and espial skill. It takes a special skill.

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Speaker 2: And you question, you know, like you watch it and

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Speaker 2: you go, what did I just do with the last

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Speaker 2: one hundred minutes of my life? You don't deal it

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Speaker 2: with this film. You actually will genuinely enjoy it. So

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Speaker 2: how many something's really gone wrong with Mickey's mops in Fantasia?

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Speaker 1: Are you giving it?

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Speaker 2: You guys are going to be shocked to hear this,

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to give this three and a half?

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Speaker 2: Oh my actually actually really? But who's so fun? Who's

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Speaker 2: it for?

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Speaker 1: Who's the movie for?

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Speaker 2: Is it? Horror nerds? Are you a horror nerd?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: I hate horror movies like I think the way the

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Speaker 2: world is at the moment, which is a real life

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Speaker 2: horror show. It is the sort of mindless silliness that

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Speaker 2: you would go to the you'd go to the cinema,

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Speaker 2: you'd get your popcorn. Remind you of those movies that

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Speaker 2: Evil Dead from you know, from the nineteen eighties and

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Speaker 2: you just go, do you know what. You walk out

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Speaker 2: of it with a big smile on your face and go, jeez,

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Speaker 2: that was dumb, but I enjoyed it. Thank you, Ben,