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77. The Best of Roger Corman
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Streamin' Demons Podcast: Celebrating the Legendary Roger Corman
Welcome to the Streamin' Demons Podcast! In this special series, we delve into the fascinating world of Roger Corman, the undisputed 'King of the B’s.' Renowned for his groundbreaking work in low-budget filmmaking, Corman has left an indelible mark on Hollywood, launching the careers of legends like Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola, and Pam Grier ! Join us as we review the best of Corman's eclectic filmography, from his chilling Edgar Allan Poe adaptations featuring Vincent Price to his innovative sci-fi, horror, and exploitation films.
Roger Corman's films are more than just B-movies; they are a testament to his ingenuity, creativity, and relentless spirit. Tune in to the Streamin' Demons Podcast for a journey through the macabre, the thrilling, and the downright entertaining world of Roger Corman.
Available now on all major streaming platforms. Don't miss out on our celebration of one of cinema's most influential mavericks!
Transcript
Introduction and Focus on Roger Corman
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Hey everybody, it's Jim Phoenix here and with my co-host J.M. Brannock, we're actually going to do some stuff with none other than the best, best, best of Roger Corman, dude. I said Roger this time. So you did. Why are you so excited? This is my actual voice. People start to use my voice. So here we are now.
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If this is the best of episode and you hate Roger Corman, probably skip this one. Other than that, here we go. Hit it. Roger. Corman. Roger.
Humor and Podcast Dynamics
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Oh, hey, everyone. I don't know why our podcast go like 12 hours. It takes me a minute 30 just to do the intro.
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It takes you so long to do everything when you go into your soundboard. My soundboard, I have to expand the soundboard too. So, welcome to treatment demons. It is the warm biweekly. Is that the correct term now, biweekly? Or is it more like, is it panweekly? It's...
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Old man jokes. Come and get them here at HauntonMTL.com. And like and subscribe for more old man jokes and some horror. Horror. Horror. Horror jokes. Yeah, horror jokes. Veterans. Veterans. Now, although today it's a bit of a jokey joke and a bit of a horror all mixed together because we're doing. And a veteran.
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The best of Roger Corman or as I like to call him Robert sometimes More an IMDB underneath for Robert Corman. I think that I think you look that up. I think you also put all of those there
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Maybe. So if you like people on IMDb, like and describe now, it takes a click. You gotta click it before you lick it. No, wait, what? Anyways, I don't think that's the one. So welcome to Streamin' Demons. Today is a special, special, special one.
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It is. Not because I wanted to. Honestly, I was stoked for the witch thing. I was even watching a witch movie. And that was so proud. I had the idea to watch these fucking movies. And Brandon was like, hey, I hope you're not watching a witch movie right now. Because, you know, Roger Corman, we have to do that. I'm like, who the fuck's Roger Corman? And then you're like, Robert, I'm like, oh, Robert Corman? Yeah, we have to do something with Robert Corman. Wait a minute. Yeah. Stop the presses. Robert Corman, of course. Like, what the fuck's that?
00:03:28
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So we are doing a show that's kind of like the best tribute. Randy Rose tribute. Oh, that's Ozzy. Roger Corman tribute. Yeah. Robert.
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or doing it on a pay phone to honor him. So, why? Because I know my reasons why. My reasons why, I don't really know. He's recently passed. He was at the drive-in thingy with Jim Joe job, Bob. Right. He was there. In Vegas? Yep, in
Corman's Influence on Filmmakers
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Vegas. They did a huge special thing for him there. He is a Detroit native, so. Oh.
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Absolutely. And he actually also inspired a lot of other directors, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Joe Dante. So it's really a tribute to everyone because he gave so much. Yeah, I think. And exploited so much.
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Well, it's weird because you're looking through the IMDB. I'll be honest. I, last week I was a Sebastian Bach concert. And then yes, you have to say Sebastian Bach. I mean, there are other box, but it's funny that you're like dropping it. Like you guys are really good. Hey, I just want to let you guys know. Well,
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But I think that to watch the last drive in until the week after, because what to do, what to do. I'm like, Oh, sorry. I'm going to watch this. And then I watched the last drive in yesterday. Long story short, plus three jobs. I didn't watch any fucking Roger Corman movies. I am going to school ever to ever one job. Sucker. But I also helped plan a funeral. So and I still watched.
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Roger Corman, three movies, a documentary, and I got an okay grade on my midterm. I'm fine with that. Congrats on the midterm. I'm fine with an okay grade. I'm taller, so I don't know. Oh, fuck. He is taller. I'm fucking taller. Okay. He's got me. Damn right. So I did the best thing I did was Google. Sadly, I did watch other movies.
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I watched all the trailers, watch all the screeners people sent me so I can do reviews on those.
Support for Indie Films
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I also watched two screeners. Which one did you watch? If you could talk about it. I haven't put it up yet. One of them, it's Pandemonium from our good friend Justin. And then the other one was
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Silence of the prey which is up on haunted mtl, which you can go look at. Okay Meow meows. Yeah, I was a guest my cat jelly beans the the cat everyone job beans going. Hello She's a big thing. I did grow in a box. I
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This is a girl in a box or trunk. Sorry, Jesus. It wasn't much. Or was it a fridge? There's a boy in the box. There was like it was weird. That was a long. Yeah, there was a boy in the box a while ago. No, I did a girl in the box. No, fuck, man. I did a girl in the trunk. But the movie was like the girl in trunk exists because Roger Corman existed. Yeah.
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because it allowed the indie film team to go or I hope they're in the car. I'm so sorry. I kind of like the trash like manes. Yeah, I think a lot of people that come to us with screeners are indie, which we support 100 percent or so. It's kind of hard to say otherwise. And it's it's going to be more of you get Blumhouse and Castle Rock. Oh, like who else would be non-indie?
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That one we're both trying to think of, we can't remember. I know, I know exactly. There's like one more major one actually. And we're screaming at us right now, but a lot of them are kind of like the subsidiary of, but it is a woman in a trunk for like an hour and 30 minutes for most of it. Yeah. Okay. And it's, it's shot and you loved it. You would have loved the shot. Oh my God. That's why I said box in a trunk or woman in a box because ankle shots.
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Oh, well, yeah, five out of five. With like heels and stuff, you know, exactly right. But that actually wouldn't exist without Roger Corman.
Corman's Rapid Filmmaking
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I mean, he wrote, he shot Little Shop of Horrors in three days, you know? Directed and shot, I think. Produced. He did a lot of producing. He never lost money.
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He did lose money on one. Really? I thought he never lost money. It's actually, it has Jack Nicholson in it. Oh wait, no, William Shatner. It has William Shatner. And I will talk about that later. Yeah. We both have, we originally, we were going to have four movies, like the top four. And so we might do like a little feast of feasty. Is that part of your top four? Kind of. Let's say that. Let's say that.
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Because I just Google shit, honestly. Well, the thing is I haven't watched yet because I had no idea about it until I watched the Roger Corman documentary. Oh. Which is on 2B. Which is on 2B. It's free. I highly suggest it. 2B. I love 2B. I love 2B.
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It has a lot of directors as, um, Francis Ford Coppola. It has Ron Howard as Joe Dante. It has, uh, his wife. It has Roger Corman has his brother. I mean, it's got a lot of people. Brother Rodbert. This is a brother named Robert. That'd be really funny. The last thing about Robert fucking government.
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So we got you want to start with the back and forth top four and then kind of like pop in some things. Okay. Normally we'll do a movie each and we'll talk about a movie together. But this is like a special of and if you have a special movie of Robert or Roger Corman.
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Chop us a line, I'm honestly curious because he had such a long career. He did. That I'm curious to see what fans come from where. And because mine, I don't think, well maybe, maybe one movie might cross over for one of your top four. We didn't talk about our top four before. No we didn't, we didn't. That was gonna be a surprise for both of us. It will be a surprise. What would be your number four, so you're not your top top server number four?
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I know. Um, I would have to probably say, cause again, it is a long list and we said we were, we could do producing as well. So, but not acting. No, but not acting. Cause otherwise it's like sounds of the lambs and you can't like, what the fuck it, you know? So I would actually have to say the little shop of fours. Okay. That's your number four. Okay. Yeah. It's so iconic. Um, like I said, it was shot in three days.
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It's a great story of just this nerd. He gets a plant, plant like steep blood, plant like seed bodies, and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And basically after that, it became the off-Broadway musical, then it became the... Steve Martin, Rick Moranis. Yeah. And you know who played the original, he was a masochist who just wanted
00:11:26
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the dentist to give him pain. And that was Jack Nicholson. That was one of his first movies. Oh, that's right. And it's a hilarious scene. He does a great job. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Little Shop of Horrors appears on the last drive in of Joe Bob Riggs. I'm sure it does because it's an iconic movie. That's the original
Exploring 'Death Race 2000'
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1960.
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Black and white hour 13. Yeah. And it's just a great B movie. It's, it's funny. It's, you know, and again, like to watch it now. And you hear of all these movie production companies and they take like, you know, six months of shooting and this and that. And this took three days, like of hard fricking work.
00:12:13
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Right. No, that's, there's like six months of shooting and the budget was a million dollars million dollars. And then that means the production of the, uh, the advertising budget is $10 million. There's a $20 million movie. This is like, fuck, you can knock this shit out with some construction lights and a VHS super, a lot of paper mache, a lot of paper mache, but yeah, so it's, it's a fun movie. Again, it's, it's cool because the nerd is the protagonist.
00:12:42
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You're the one who you get to follow his journey. Uh, so it's, it's just a fun movie. It is a fun movie and it is my number one, Roger Corman movie. Oh.
00:12:58
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But your number four is for me is number one because he directed he wrote it and then the cast itself is pretty fucking amazing. Even like the throwaway like walk on type things are fucking solid. Plus, it gave birth to one of the movies I remember was The Kid, which is, of course, the recolorization of it, not recolorization, the remake in color, Little Shop of Horrors with Rick Moranis.
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Yeah, which is again is just it and it took the musical of that and put the music into into so it's basically the baby of the musical and also the movie.
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Yeah, this one's the original has Dick Miller and Jack Hunkers and you already said, and these are the things that make you go like, Oh shit, this is all possible. If you were like, Oh, I need to make a bazillion dollars. I need to go kickstart my movie. I need a Kickstarter and I need like a credit card and I need all this fucking movie money and motherfucker. You need three days and a warehouse and an idea. Yeah. And now for just fucking iPhone.
00:14:03
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Yeah, three days, fucking I hashtag Chad gets the ax. They did it. All iPhones. I know. So that it was your number four. That's my number one. So I'll just say, ah, okay. What's your number three? And I'll do my number four. Okay. I do like, yeah, I guess you do your number four. Let me do my number four. Okay. Yeah. My number four is Saturday, the 14th.
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1981 PG motherfucking movie and hour 15 agains. And it is like this horror comedy, I think. I remember watching it as on a VHS date. A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangers.
VHS Era and 'Saturday the 14th'
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that has all the monsters in the world trapped inside of it. And I do remember like a meow meows. I remember like the creature of the black lagoon, I think type scene with a bathtub. So it was a movie. Remember kids back in this days, we did not have the internet.
00:15:06
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No, we didn't. If you want to rub one out, if you know what I mean, you had Thundercats. Creature of the Black Lagoon. Apparently for you. Well, you had the Sears catalog. You had the JC Penning catalog. You want rewards catalog. You see where I'm going. Yeah, there's no Victoria's Secret back in. No. And even then, why the fuck would you have a Victoria's Secret catalog? Exactly. Think about it, kids. It means your parents were not oppressed and all parents back then were.
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You would have arguably the Thundercats with T'Gara. Maybe She-Ra, but she was like wearing too much She-Ra. So you wouldn't do the snorks because they all look the same. You wouldn't do the Smurfs. Look, look. Okay, Smurf F once in a while. We're not going to kink-shame anybody. We're not going to. Fucking will. I'm going to kink-shame everyone, God damn it.
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But here we go. You had to take your moments. That's my point. So Saturday, 14th, if there's a moment of someone taking a bathtub and it's on a VHS tape, which means you can pause it. Fucking a rut you do. And there's actually one of the photos of IMDB is someone taking off their underwear. That is her photo. So that alone.
00:16:28
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is enough for making this comedy horror awesomeness. I believe the best review on IMDB sums it up nicely. Oh, that's a big one. It's 80s cheese. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's what the 80s were. It's basically a parody of all the kind of universal monsters and everything that kind of went before that. And this is coming from Friday the 13th.
00:16:59
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Yeah, it's Saturday. So it's the next day. The next day gets better. And this is actually nominated for the worst movie of the year. Well, so was the one about Jim Crawford. That was a great movie. No, Mommy Dearest. Oh, Mommy Dearest. I thought that said Jim Crawford. Jim Crawford. Anyway.
00:17:26
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So I dig this with the salaries of young everyone. So as a very young Jeffrey Turnbull, it's got Jeff. Oh boy. Jeffrey Tambor, which you guys might most notice from the Joe Black. I don't know. It's more of my generation. Maybe you'd notice him from the show with the do from the bow. Yeah. Keep going. Bateman. What was Jason Bateman's show?
00:17:56
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The people watch. Oh, the latter one. I don't know. The one of poor. Arrested development. Yeah, I think you might recognize him from Arrested Development. I think that's Jeffrey Tambor. Yeah, I think so. Welcome to Stream of Demons where Jim tries to remember things. Let me click on his shit, man. So you have Jeffrey Tambor in it. And but it's like always people are very, very young at the time. Yeah. Yeah, he was arrested. Yeah.
00:18:27
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That's my number four. Okay. And like I'm saying, I don't think most of them are going to follow up with each other. So what's your number three? Three. Okay. So my number three is going to be basically, so Roger Corman was really interested in making movies about a grail and Poe stories.
Poe Adaptations by Corman
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You know why? Because it's public domain. Oh, well, yes, that too.
00:18:56
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They kind of write themselves because they're really there. Well, and he initially got pushed back with the fall of usher because before then he was just doing monster movies and the movie company said, but there's no monster. And he was like, the house is the monster. And that's how he got the budget is selling it on the house, but it's not actually going to be my number three is going to be mask of the red death.
00:19:23
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Mask of the Red Death. I did have that one on my list and I took it off. Oh, wow. Yeah. Actually, no, it's still on my list, but it's not on my thing. Yeah. It's got, of course, the the late and great Vincent Price. Yeah. The color of it is gorgeous. It's beautiful. It's basically during the plague, which I think we can kind of all relate to. And basically it's about like parting
00:19:53
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until death comes. And it's just such a classic iconic movie with just the most beautiful color palette. And when he was doing these, what do you call it, Edgar Allan Poe films, he was able to do them in color because he basically told the studio, look, I'm doing all these movies for you. They all make money.
00:20:16
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I need to do one in color." And so he went hard for it. Remember, being able to make a movie in color in the olden days was not just, you didn't just do it. It was not a right that you just had. You had to actually fight for it. The olden days of 1964.
00:20:36
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Yeah. Calvin days, 1964. Um, where you had to fight to have color in your movie. So we take it for granted too. And so I don't understand why so many horror movies of today, this is my old person speak why so many movies of today mute out the colors so much because it is an opportunity and you'll see it. If you watch mask of the red death to really propel the story.
00:21:01
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And I want to say, and I'm going to say, I want to be right. I think this is also on last driving of Joe Bob Ricks. Probably. It's again, very iconic. It's beautiful. Goodbye, Kat. And I mean, the acting's great. The atmosphere is great. He was able to do these grandiose atmospheres and sets that look way more expensive than they were.
00:21:29
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and just create this foreboding. And of course Vincent Price being the absolute gem that he is absolutely sells it. Yes. Yes. And not only that, but if you look at the parents guide, this is what I want to talk about old horror versus new horror, right? If you look at the parents guide, sure. There's going to be some sexuality and nudity because nobody did what apparently wasn't evil. Then there's going to be violence and gore swearing. No.
00:21:59
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There might be smoking, but there might be some drinking. There's not a lot of drug. Well, later in his career, he did do LSD, the movie. Oh, wait, no, wait. It was called the trip. But still, this is like 64. If you wanted to see older horror and it's kind of their family films, they get past all the blood and the gore.
00:22:22
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Yeah, Spiro aptly name a little bit more Shakespearean Prospero. Yes, it is. And you got this. Oh, that's like the tempest on Prospero. Yeah. But it was based off of two ground things, which was the Mask of the Red Death and the Hop Frog. So I guess they kind of just mixed it in two.
00:22:44
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Right. But if you get to just the name itself from the Tempest, and then I love the tagline because look into his face. Shutter, it actually is an advertisement for Shutter, the streaming service. Which is a good, it's a good service. You should get fucking wrong with you for that one. So that was your number three. That was my number three.
00:23:08
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Yeah, I can see that it was almost on my list. It was on my list for a while. And then it dropped out for, uh, not this one, but dropped off for the next one. Okay. It dropped out for my number two. Okay. Yeah. My next one is rock and roll high school.
00:23:24
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I am not seeing it. Oh, my. I've seen it. Rock and Roll High School was supposed to be with like Van Halen, but Warner's like, no. And so they went with the Ramones.
'Rock and Roll High School' with the Ramones
00:23:35
Speaker
Warner being crazy. Well, because Van Halen was Warner Brothers and Rock and Roll High School was born with the Ramones, all because Roger Corman really wanted to do a musical. But you want to do like a fucking like a teen musical. And that's what we get.
00:23:52
Speaker
We get the actual fucking Ramones in this, in Vince the Barty high, right? All I remember is a giant rat. I remember the Ramones and like, I'm guessing like Clint Howard's in it or some shit. I'm guessing. And it's a musical. All I remember. I saw it. Okay. It came out in 79. I saw it in 79. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:21
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And it had a 200 gram budget. So that's actually pretty hefty, but it actually has. Yeah, in a way it is. And in a way it's not, you know? Oh, they had to pay for all the Ramones guitar lessons. Oh, no, that's fine. And again, who was in it? Dick Miller. And Alan Arkish was the director who is, he and Joe Dante go back way, way when they started, um,
00:24:49
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They just would clip trailers together and that's how they became friends. There you go. There's a lot of cool stories like that. There's a, there's a story. Oh man, it's horror, but it's not quite Roger Corbinish. It's the Eli Roth. Eli Roth got his start by basically being a security guard on private parts or something like that. Just like guarding trailers.
00:25:16
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Yeah. I mean, and to be honest, that's what Roger Corman, well, he did basically, he was an, I think newspaper guy for Fox and then started saying like, Hey, I'll work a six day, no pay just to be on set. And that's kind of how he started. Yeah. It's the whole mystery is made for the wrong reasons. And this movie comes from the writer who actually does stage a walkout, allegedly stages a walkout in his own high school.
00:25:47
Speaker
So, you know, 1920s. Yeah, oh, yeah. That's wild. Yeah. So that's it. Rock and Roll High School. Hormone wanted Trick, Trick. Todd Grungen. Van Halen was throwing around, and they all settled on Ramones. Aww. It was just great. Yeah, I know. The Ramones are great. I think if they did Van Halen, it's a different movie. I think it had a Ramones. A way different movie than Ramones. A lot of using color. Yeah, yeah.
00:26:16
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So that's my number three. What's your number two? Okay. So my number two is kind of my number one, but you'll see why I picked my number one. It's not Sharkopuss is it? Is it Sharkopuss? I don't think he did Sharkopuss, but it's not Piranha. It's not Piranha. It's not Piranha. It's not She Gods of the Shark Reef. Um, it's actually going to be, and this is where he was a producer.
00:26:44
Speaker
It was Death Race 2000. Oh, it's the one you asked me if I watched like, what the fuck's that? Yeah. And I'm like, I died inside that, you know, today. I think I used to say Flesh Gordon, which was my number two as well. Oh, no. It's not Flesh Gordon, it's Death Race. It's Death Race 2000, which is, I mean, I feel like it's an essential movie for everybody to watch. It's a recent one though. It was like 2000.
00:27:13
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No, no, no, no, no. You're thinking of death, race, 20, 50. Yes. I don't watch that one either. Yeah. No, this one stars David Carradine. Um, it also had Sylvester Stallone in it. Uh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this, uh, okay. I saw moving violations. I like, holy shit. He did moving violations. The comedy from the eighties. No, it's about a fucking Miami house. It's about if she really likes it.
00:27:43
Speaker
It's about a fucking like David Carradine. Is this like a sequel to that movie? This is like its own little thing. It's like a racing movie. Yeah. It's basically after like this, um, economic rune destroys, you know, basically our economy, United States government is like,
00:28:08
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Let's do a like martial law kind of thing, but we get to have this road race where these racers get to go and try to kill people for bonus
In-depth on 'Death Race 2000'
00:28:18
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points. Um, it's kind of all run. It's hilarious. It is hilarious. So basically we have like calamity Jane. She's a cowgirl. She has a car looking horse, uh, not horse. It is a, a cow looking
00:28:38
Speaker
Car. Cow looking car? Yes, it's a cow car. Cow car. Near the hero, the Roman gladiator. These are the things. It's kind of like, what's that? They would have like flash and blade, American gladiators. It's like American gladiators with cars. Like demolition man? Or running man, not demolition, running man with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:29:03
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kind of, but where they have to car and they basically, whoever gets there the fastest. But like I said, if you kill people, you get certain points. If they're elderly, they're worth them out a certain amount of work. Is that where that fucking thing comes from? Yes. You should do that too. Right. Driving rig. Oh, God, if it came five points. Yep. Yep. Yes. It was like, I don't watch this movie. I've looked and lived it.
00:29:31
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Yeah, basically it made bank at the box office. It propelled, you know, because Sylvester Stallone's in it. He's great. He has so many people, Simone Griffith. And basically it's about, you get to learn the characters of them and basically this dystopian future. And it's kind of like a rise up against that.
00:30:01
Speaker
That's cool. It's hilarious. It's funny. It's cute. It's got heart to it. It's just, it's a fun movie and I've watched it many times. I'll watch it many more times again. Well, that's, that's fantastic. And it's a great segue to my number two. Yes. But also I just want to say it is directed by Paul Bartol Bartel, but it is produced by Roger Korna.
00:30:28
Speaker
I said, Oh, I'm feeling time. Okay. We'll take it. You can say you're going to watch this many times. Do you think everyone should watch it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. My number two movie used to be red mask. I was, I was dropped the, I hear a cat, but I remember just like a thousand. I thought I would have her along because she's a huge Roger Corman fan. There you go. Always.
00:30:57
Speaker
Yeah, she agrees. My number two was almost flesh Gordon, Misa cosmic cheerleaders. But like, no, then I'm like, maybe it should be screwballs because he also did screwballs and one and two. I'm like, no, I already have like Friday, the four, four, Saturday, the 14th. So my number two was a movie I would watch again and again and again. And I suggest everyone does too. No.
00:31:26
Speaker
No, not that one. It's actually something of a sequel. Oh, it's the fourth one. Okay. It came out in 1984. No, we're not Star Wars. It's Emmanuel four. No way. Really? Yes. Yes. He produces the main manual series.
00:31:51
Speaker
I guess she sure the fuck didn't write it like, Oh, they're actually writers listed. Like, okay. Well, I guess good. Good for writing. Yes. If you don't, if you've never seen the manual series, get your family together.
Humorous Look at 'Emmanuel 4'
00:32:04
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Mom, dad, everyone gets the neighbors in, make sure it's extended family religious holidays work best for this. And then.
00:32:14
Speaker
You just sit down and watch it. And if you get through it, I believe that the sister movie of any of the Linda Lovelaces would be perfect for you. But in order to escape from her former lover Mark, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santano transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuel. This new identity comes at sexual awakening, which is dot, dot, dot.
00:32:40
Speaker
Yeah. If you hear Emmanuel, you know immediately. The genres are drama and romance. And drama does come first, let me tell you. It was riveting. The review, I love the most, the feature review on IMDB, Lost the Magic was the fucking tagline. I'm like, really?
00:33:09
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because he didn't jerk off enough or like, I didn't know how long this movie is. How long is this movie? I'm just curious now. This movie run times an hour and 32 minutes, but I can guarantee most people only singing it like three or four minutes at a time. I have no idea.
00:33:28
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It's on Skinemax. It pops on Skinemax, and then it pops right on top. I don't think Skinemax is even a thing anymore. Oh, okay, so you're back in our time. Back in my time. Back in my time. Back in my time, too. Okay, use. Cinemax was this, I guess you have HBO Max, and then Cinemax is by this thing. Cinemax was trying to get viewers at night, so they would do what would be considered
00:33:55
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Just light porn hard soft core porn. Yeah, you wouldn't see penetration you would see people and a lot of boobs a lot of boobs a Lot of a lot of block a lot of blocking. There's a lot of block. There's no penetration, but you knew what was going on Emmanuel was basically the same that was like a fucking series movie Jogger Max was how I figured out I was by I
00:34:24
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Really? How could you see it throughout the snow? The snowy, the fuzzy lines because you can never really pay for this shit. You always had to like- Well, cause they always had like the little trailer, teaser trailers, you know, and if you want to watch this movie, you know, paper, ba ba ba ba, yeah. Yeah. I'll pay for the ba ba ba ba ba. So I can ba ba ba ba. Dude, you know how many Emmanueles there actually are? Seven.
00:34:52
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Yes. There's at least seven, there's at least seven and including the somethings that could be Emmanuel-esque. I once actually goodbye Emmanuel. So this was like a James Bond thing where the new actress, I think. Yeah. It was kind of like Debbie Does Dallas, you know, cause it was like Debbie Does series. That was a precessor to Emmanuel. Emmanuel's. I actually guess. Roger Corman did a lot of
00:35:24
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softer, core-ish, kind of lesbian. He did, basically when he did, I think it was New Line Cinemas, when he became a distributor, he did a lot of like caged heat, which is in a women's prison. I think he did like women's prison. I think he actually did one that's called just women's prison or something like that. Well, I think
00:35:45
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I don't think it was that. But basically, that was becoming the popular thing at the time. Cage Heat was the first one, I know for sure. And basically, after that, because they sold, you know, they were safe, they sold. And it was like, bad girls doing bad girl stuff and really, you know, provocative at the time. Oh, absolutely. All of his movies were actually very provocative.
00:36:16
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Oh, well, not all of them, but a large majority because he did really try to focus on staying relevant with social issues in America, and staying relevant with contemporary problems, kind of like the LSD movie that he had. And it was Jack Nicholson, he did a rewrite on that. It's called The Trip. And he told
00:36:42
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Roger Corman, well, you got to take LSD if you're going to make a movie about LSD. And so, and so he did. Um, so he was, yeah. And actually he started to fight with studios because they're being more and more conservative. And so basically he jumped studios to kind of protect his directors because his directors were also making movies that were more provocative for the time. Directors.
00:37:10
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And that actually kind of leads into my number one, if you want to. Before we get to number one, let's do honorable mentions and then we'll do number ones. Okay. Okay. Yep. Yep. Yep. So what do you have for honorable mention, like three or four? Oh gosh. I guess Deathstalker. That's a crazy one. I did a Carnosaur. That's a great one.
00:37:39
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And like I said, if you're really into Al and Edgar Poe, if you're into sets, if you're into scenery, I would check out the fall of Usher. And basically kind of all of his, his ones because Pitt and Pendulum was really fun. I would not suggest the Raven unless you're really high. That movie was fucking wild. Like I could not make heads or tails of it. I did try this past week to watch it. I think I got.
00:38:09
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three, fours through and I just kind of gave up because it is really coo coo crazy. Um, it is, it is suburbia, which I guess maybe I was just in the eighties when I did suburbia. So he's got this party massacres. Oh yeah. The summer party massacres. That was a big one. Massacres and there you go. That's awesome. They also did like a cock fighter, cock fighter.
00:38:38
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I think that was Pei's favorite, cockfighter. Fighter?
00:38:42
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We talked about it. Piranha, like we said. Piranha, yep. Yeah. Piranha, we always said Def Sport, I think. There's a ton of ones that look, that sound like things. Moving Violation, which was not the movie violation I was thinking of. Oh, what's that big one? What's that big one that they did? Oh, shoot. Because he did it the Fast and the Furious. Yes, I saw Fast and Furious. That was like in the early 60s.
00:39:09
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Yeah, I think so. Late 50s, early 60s. Yeah. Sounds about right. Sounds about right. Yeah. St. Valentine's Day Massacre. That was actually on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, by the way. The Haunted Palace. He did some TV shows, not TV shows, but made for TVs. He appears on things. He was an actor and a bazillion little things as well. Yeah, because a lot of the people
00:39:34
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Uh, career to exactly, exactly. Yeah. It's like Stan Leeing it before Marvel, you know, I was like, I'm the agent, this guy and I also lambs. Right. Cause it's just like, I might as well just, and of course who wouldn't, who wouldn't want to, you know, like that's, that's great. Yeah. I dig it a lot. And I had.
00:40:01
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one of the funnier things because the Fantastic Four from 1994, which is now known as not the worst Fantastic Four movie. Yeah. It was a complete ship bomb. Yeah. But it's now no longer the worst Fantastic Four movie. It's not. Yeah. If you think of all the cool side or special effects from 1994,
00:40:28
Speaker
take away a lot of the budget and it's, it's, it's, it's bad. It's bad. It's like watching the He-Man movie. It's kind of at the same time. Oh, Wild Angels. Wild Angels. That was like one of the first, first biker movies. He wanted to do something basically about the hell's angels as a protest against the Vietnam war. He did Blood Fist with Don the Dragon Wilson. I'm not going to,
00:40:59
Speaker
No. This is the M.M.U.L. 8 Bloodfist. It ain't that. This is kind of like when the kickboxing movies started coming out with Van Damme and... Fist blood. Blood of fists. Blood of fistings. Bloodfist, wow. The fisting of blood. The deepening.
00:41:22
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No, but he did a lot of different fucking things and the Marlene Dietrich, her own song. He does a dock of fucking mentories. And it doesn't well. So he did a lot of shit. That's our thing. I think. Oh, yeah. Well, he's called the the pope of pop, the grandfather of.
00:41:46
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The Ayatollah of Rock'n'Rolla, that's what we don't. That was too short, sorry. It's not the Ayatollah of Rock'n'Rolla. Although, I hear that it's gonna be a vacant spot soon. If you want to pay for it, it'd be Ayatollah of Rock'n'Rolla. Call 1-800. I'm not gonna give our number for that one. No, because it's just gonna be Bigfoot anyway. Or Tara Reid. We haven't decided yet.
00:42:13
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One day. So he did a lot of stuff. He did a lot, a lot, a lot of stuff. And he had an Oxford. We say we want death and breath. He had both. He had, he could go deep and he can go wide, wide. He was girthy and long. He was girthy and long. As we say, even to the jazz movie, knowing people's fucking horror is jazz, which I'm surprised not your number one. Is that your number one, the jazz one? No, because I hate it. It's scary.
00:42:46
Speaker
Yeah, damn right. So what is your number one? Okay, my number one. Dick Miller's in it, right? I'm guessing. No. Dick Miller's not in it. Oh no. I don't think so. Dick Miller's in everything though. William Shatner is though. Oh, this is Bill Shatner one? Okay. Yep, this is the Bill Shatner one.
00:43:04
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So, okay. I'm going to be a hundred percent honest. I'm not seeing this movie yet. No, I know. Right. No, no, no. Hear me out. Hear me out. Because this is the only movie that actually failed and that nobody would back him. So he and his brother actually put forth the funds. His brother reborgaged his house.
00:43:26
Speaker
to do this. This is one where they got death threats, where they filmed the last scene of the movie and had to literally like film it, wrap up, grab their shit and leave because people were chasing after them. Wait, I know this movie. I had to Google what it was. You never saw this movie. I've not seen this movie. You never seen this movie. But I will be seeing this movie now because it is about horror, horror.
00:43:54
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It's about the terror. And like I said, he was he wanted to stay relevant with filming about social social issues in America.
The Importance of 'The Intruder'
00:44:04
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And he wrote a film, it's called The Intruder. It's also called Shame. It has a lot of like different names to it. I hate your guts. Yeah, I hate your guts. You know, all these dangers. And it's basically a drama and I would consider horror film.
00:44:23
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It was from 1962 and it stars William Shatner as basically, it's all about racism in the South. It's about racism and baby Yoda. No, in the South. And I don't think he's racist. So it's basically this person who comes to the small town and incites white violence against the black town people. And they had like the Ku Klux Klan, I guess like tried to,
00:44:53
Speaker
You know, people were very, very cautious to film this, and were like, this is crazy, because they've shot it in the South. They filmed it in the South. And with the Black people as protagonists, as the ones in the right, because he was very passionate about this, and about basically the violence that was being caused onto the Black people at the time, and during the desegregation.
00:45:21
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So this was a huge risk. It was a financial flop, but it was incredibly, I think, important to the time, you know? Is it? Thank you. I'm glad you agree with me, Jelly Beans. It's like, yeah, mouse, it was very important. Yes. And so, yes, I have not seen you yet. I didn't even know before, and I did watch, and I recommend this,
00:45:49
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was the documentary, which is on Tubi, and it's called Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema. It's only an hour long, and it's great. It goes through his film career, and it talks about this. And especially, again, William Shatner, he is a good actor. We know he's a good actor. He's done great stuff with The Twilight Zone. He's done
00:46:18
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Well, hurt PJ Hooker. He's done Boston legal. Yeah. Boston legal. That's another one. And again, like for him to also take on this, this film, you know, we know now that, um, when he was filming Star Trek, they had the first interracial kiss with him in a Hurrah. And he was very for this when they wanted to cut it. He's like, we're absolutely not cutting that kiss. Yeah.
00:46:46
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It's absolutely got to be in there. So again, like it was a lot to put on the line and Roger Corman did because he saw an injustice. However, however, it's just so people are like, Star Trek happens after the movie. Yes. Yeah. So this was, this is predated, but I just wanted to show kind of Shatner's role in all of this as well. Like he was also a staunch supporter of desegregation and civil rights.
00:47:18
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because he comes from Montreal. Here all Canadians and Montrealers are like that. Well, and Roger Corman comes from Detroit and we have a very black population who is, it's vibrant here. We're doing great stuff. Really in Detroit. Did he live in Detroit afterwards or did he leave as soon as he got money?
00:47:41
Speaker
He laughed as soon as he got money. No, he went to where the films were. Oh yeah. That's what I'm saying too. Me? I'm going to go where the films are. Just where they are. Which would be wherever I want to live. But yeah. Twist your arm if you live in sunny California. Yeah. I mean,
00:48:03
Speaker
But anyway, so I'm gonna be seeing this. It is free. You can find it online for free. It's even on YouTube. I'm gonna check it out. I hope other people check it out with me. Is it free? Let me see. Are we hosting it? What do you mean? Are we hosting it?
00:48:23
Speaker
Are we hosting it? 1962? It can't be, does it? Maybe, I don't know. It's on Plex for free. It's on, you look on YouTube, there's tons of it. Full movie. I'm asking, does our YouTube channel? Oh, I think it's public domain, or at least this person is saying it's public domain. I don't know, 100% sure. Well, let's see if we get a YouTube censorship strike.
00:48:53
Speaker
Can always just look at our ours for 1962. Yeah. I'm putting it on YouTube before this episode gets out. So fuck all the other sites. If you want to listen to and watch the intruder, go to haunted MTL's YouTube channel. Yeah. I can click on that shit. And I'm going to watch it too. Yeah. You're done listening to our podcast on YouTube or clips or whatever it's going to be.
00:49:16
Speaker
Click on that shit, man. Man. And celebrate Roger, celebrate Roger Corman. Also Robert Corman. Celebrate them all. Want Corman to rule them all. That's what I hear. All right. All right. Oh, my number one was a little shepherd horse. Oh, that's right.
00:49:39
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All right. Not bad. Not bad. Hey, look at that. 49 minutes. I love this timing shit. All right. The power vested in me. Are there any plugs to give? Nice. We want to do for a plug. Of course there's plugs to give. Are you, what are you talking about? I'm the plug king. So what I say always and what I always will say
Supporting Indie Films and Events
00:50:00
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is go support local, go support your local indie theaters, go support your local things. Also look up and see if there's a film festival near you. We're gonna have Motor City Nightmares coming in July. I hope to go attend that. And also Small Town Monsters is going to be having their Monster Fest in June. Small Town Monsters. It's going to be in Ohio.
00:50:33
Speaker
They're going to have tons of people there. Um, that also, well, Tara Ruby, there is Sasquatch. That's why I want to fucking know. No, I don't know. She might be a special guest. We don't know yet. That'd be awesome. But like I say, like I will say, go support local, go see what's going on. Go. That's, that's where
00:50:54
Speaker
Everything happens wherever the magic happens. That's where the magic does or does not happen, depending where you live. And I'm going to say, don't support anyone local. Hey, you have a Montreal film festival coming up that I'm very jealous about because they are going to have a new witch board coming out. I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Yeah, there is. Is it like a sengora one or? No, it's let me see. Because I was bummed out that I couldn't go. I'm like, oh, well.
00:51:24
Speaker
Montreal Film Festival. I'm going to have it in just a second. Oh, it's Fantasia. Fantasia. So what I said. It's not fan. It's not fan. It's Fantasia. The same fucking thing. July 18th through August 4th in Montreal. And like I said, they're going to have a new witch board. So that's exciting. I have no idea which board it is. What is that? Oh, my God.
00:51:54
Speaker
All right. Well, we'll talk about that more when we talk about witches or witches, which will be our next podcast on witches because God damn it. If I had to watch a fucking movie, we're doing the podcast. And I think Nicole on our website is going to be doing a witch thing as well. Coming up soon. So that's Nicole. She wants to be on a fucking podcast about witches. No one's going to guess my fucking movie.
00:52:20
Speaker
Is it witchery? Is it? It's fucking bonkers. That's what it is. I look forward to it. It's not like we're talking about Roger Corman doing a lot of the nudity stuff later on. The whole witchery thing.
00:52:39
Speaker
A lot of the witch movies were like that in the beginning. Oh yeah. They were basically like showing booze and torture porn for mostly. We're going to put a branding on this woman. Well, that's realistic. But yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. All right. My plug is go buy my fucking book or go buy Joe's book, to be honest.
00:53:03
Speaker
That's very, there was very assertive. Damn right. I'm being assertive. Dude, you should all buy my book or Joe's book, whoever's book you want to buy surviving Gen X. I don't remember the book's name. So I didn't look at it. Look at it.
00:53:17
Speaker
Yeah, I see the poster in your background. It looks nice. We got posters, we got pamphlets, we got sphinga big diggers. I don't know what that is. It's an advertising, an advert that was in a award show advert. Oh, lovely. And award season coming up. If you buy Surviving Gen X, make sure that you vote for the motherfucker too. Go for whatever awards. Go to Goodreads. Go to Goodreads. Leave a review. Leave a good review. Damn it.
00:53:44
Speaker
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00:54:14
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, happy pride too. I'm not going to do it. Why? Happy pride. Yeah. It's happy pride. It's pride month. June? Yes. This day. It was July. The year of our Lord, sixth one. Yeah, there we go.
00:54:52
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Okay, okay, okay? Oh my god. Oh here it is. This is the outro. Oh wait. Meow meows. Jelly beans man. And although for reals, if you want to watch the intruder, go check out our YouTube channel HauntedMDL. It's up.
00:55:23
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