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The Best of Bruce Campbell: Evil Dead, Burn Notice & B-Movie Royalty
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Grab your chainsaw and Hawaiian shirt—it's a Bruce Campbell appreciation bonanza! Jo and Brannyk deep-dive into the cult icon's insane filmography, from Evil Dead and Army of Darkness to Burn Notice, Bubba Ho-Tep, Spider-Man, Fargo, and beyond. They talk TV cameos, forgotten classics, franchise royalty, and why Bruce is the MVP of genre cinema. This is the ultimate chin-check episode.
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⏰ Key Moments:
- 01:00 – Jo & Brannyk kick off Bruce’s IMDB rabbit hole
- 04:00 – Bubba Ho-Tep, Elvis, and the audiobook fake-out
- 07:00 – Evil Dead, cameos, and why Bruce is every director's secret weapon
- 10:00 – Burn Notice vs Ash vs Evil Dead – Bruce’s TV dominance
- 15:00 – His insane number of franchises
- 21:00 – “Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way” and other curveballs
- 28:00 – Dream roles: Ash vs. Pinhead? Bruce as Doctor Who?
- 37:00 – Final thoughts + what Bruce Campbell film/show to start with
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Transcript
00:00:00
Speaker
one hey everyone joe here and today we are doing another stream and demons another other other stream and demons and this stream and demons we're talking about today is none other than for bruce campbell that's right the best of so brian and i just hit our music likes and subscribe now and let's do it
00:00:40
Speaker
but There we go. Oh, dope. yeah was dancing. Everyone dances to that music now. Yeah. It's like 12 hours long. i feel It feels 12 hours long. You're 12 hours long. Wait. Maybe. I don't know.
00:00:53
Speaker
I don't know. so welcome to Streaming Demons. Today is brannic day. Hello, Box. Hello. How you been? Hello. I've been tired and busy, but you know what? It's going. We're doing it. Happy Pride, everybody. I actually got my nails done.
00:01:10
Speaker
This goes out in July. oh fuck. Happy July Pride, everybody. Happy July 11th, everyone. We're going to fucking do it. Let's go. We're going to take a couple more months.
00:01:24
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do you So we talked about Bruce Campbell a bit ago and we did, and we got very excited. Yes. As, as one does.
00:01:35
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And I have to say, I went through his IMDB to get ready for the show. Cause I don't watch anything anymore. I never did. i know. I was just about to say, yeah, but I, I see,
00:01:52
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A lot of fucking uncredited stuff or early on stuff that didn't even know about. Like, Oedipus Rex from 1972. Super bad from 73. ah He played Adolf Hitler in 73 as well. And then the son of Hitler. And then, like, three on the couch, like, Manhunt. And, like, there's like there's a Shump movie. James Bombed in Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
00:02:18
Speaker
There's a lot of of movies he's done. There's a lot of. um um Like, I mean, he is really the what is it called? The millennial man or the millennial man, the motherfucker?
00:02:32
Speaker
What the shit? No, like, what do they call it? The millennial man? Something like that. Like. mar Marathon? What is it? Marathon of a millennial. You know, when they can do everything. He does everything.
00:02:46
Speaker
Renaissance man. molecular man. You know, the you know the the hangman like that hangman. Renaissance millennial.
00:02:57
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The Gen Z man. James Hoffa story part one and two. And I i love this one. I'll never hile again. but I just shumpies the moon.
00:03:09
Speaker
I can just go through his old shit. William Shakespeare, the movie. Attack of the Helping Hand is actually a hieroglyphic helper. Coming to life, apparently. Oh, yes, yes. He's Pillsbury Doughboy.
00:03:22
Speaker
Yes, I do know that that one. Jesus fucking Christ. Well, and that's the thing, too, is that he's done a little bit of everything except for song. i don't think he's done a lot of song, which I think he should.
00:03:37
Speaker
Well, I hate to tell you. He actually does song. Does he? yes Yeah, yeah. Okay, tell me. Well... spoilers, but one of the movies I'm going to talk about is the beloved, beloved Bubba Hotep. Oh, I'm sorry. elvis You're right. You're right. You're right.
00:03:56
Speaker
I forgot about that. Fucking Elvis, yo. He is Elvis. The real Elvis. yeah Yeah, the real Elvis. The real Elvis. Just with the real GFK. And real GFK, of course, is going to be ah black man.
00:04:10
Speaker
I forgot about that. Yeah, I love that movie. I honestly fuck do. So why were we talking about I mean, did I bring it up last time? I don't. We it was just an organic thing that just came up because he is ah fantastic person and, you know, artist. He is an artist of the be movie B movies. He's the fucking Spider-Man.
00:04:36
Speaker
Yeah. He's he's as the major day here. i mean, like. Okay, i have I have a story about the Richard Gere stuff.
00:04:48
Speaker
Richard Gere stuff with him? Like, make love the Bruce Campbell way? That's what I'm talking about, i yes. Amazing. Amazing fucking audio drama he did. Okay, so, okay. All right, okay. We're getting into this. Rami, Ted Rami, I believe. we're We're getting into this. So, I had bought that.
00:05:07
Speaker
Thinking it was love story. thinking it was an autobiography. Oh, no. Yeah. And I was like a couple chapters in like, OK.
00:05:19
Speaker
And then I got to the Richard Gere scenes. And then I was like, what? we Wait, what? we Oh, you're reading it.
00:05:30
Speaker
No, I was listening to it. You did an autobiography with Ted Ramey fucking doing the voices? I didn't know that. I didn't know that at the time.
00:05:41
Speaker
I just, I popped it in. i was excited. i was a few chapters in and then I was like, wait. Wait, what? Because I remember him fighting Richard Gere, like literally physically fighting in the book.
00:05:57
Speaker
Yes. And that was about the point when I was like, wait, I think I would have heard about that before. Not the point where they go to Las Vegas to teach Richard Gere how to pick up a woman?
00:06:09
Speaker
No, I was still. You're like, oh, that could happen. I was young and naive. I think he was like not a ladies' man, you know. Like, look, I, when you put Richard Gere next to Bruce Campbell, I feel like Bruce Campbell's the better ladies man.
00:06:24
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so I believe if you read the actual autobiography, ah if Chins Could Kill. I did, I did after that. Okay.
00:06:35
Speaker
He's another one out that's kind of like a follow up. But he's like, if you're writing for me, I'm a great ladies man. In real life, I, i you know. I don't know.
00:06:46
Speaker
There's a lot of ladies who like him. Well, you know, it doesn't mean they can pick him up. The difference between being liked being picked up. Oh, I don't know. I think there's a lot of ladies, but I think they're the groupie kinds, you know?
00:06:59
Speaker
The groupie kinds that come in bunches? Yeah, they come in bunches and bunches. Bunches and bunches of oats. So he's... We're talking about a lot of this stuff. He's not even in horror. We probably mentioned Bubba Hotep. That's like a horror movie. It is. think so far it's not horror yet.
00:07:19
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Yeah. Yeah, I suppose so. I don't know. Which is fine. that's ah That's the greatest part about him being so multifaceted. That's what I'm saying. being a millennial man. He's a millennial man and he can do anything. them fuck Except buy a fucking house.
00:07:35
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I'll go with this. It's weird because if you look at it as auto but or as IMDb, and it's obviously a lot of just short films that they did and Fucking VHS tape, probably. Oh, yeah. Like early 90s. mean, like and he's the cameo guy. Like he has so many uncredited cameos um and just he's not slanding.
00:08:04
Speaker
He's the guy that you want to be in your movie. You really want him because he he's fun and he brings such charisma to every film. God damn. I want Bruce Campbell my movie. It means I'm i'm in a Sam Raimi movie.
00:08:18
Speaker
Like, fuck it, that's Bruce Campbell's here. up mess see I must be on a Stan Ramey movie, guys. They are buddies and from Michigan. It's like saying Jason Mewes in your film. Like, fuck yes, want Jason Mewes in my film because that means Kevin Smith's directing me.
00:08:30
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Well, I'm just saying, like, if you are directing a film, if you're directing a film, like, or whatever, like him and Doug Jones, I feel like that's part of my power team. Like. That motherfucker never hugged me, man.
00:08:43
Speaker
I'm sorry. I know. I feel bad about it, man. was thinking about Doug Jones said today. I really want, no, I love Doug Jones. i was thinking about him today. I'm like, yeah, don't know, man. You know, i bet he was just having an off day.
00:08:56
Speaker
no and No, no, no, no, no. no He was having the best day of his life. best if He just got to sign up to Star Trek Discovery. and was like, no, I'm kidding. it like the nicest guy yeah Doug Jones like honestly like you can't you could try to be nicer than Doug Jones but you won't be nicer than Doug Jones no no he's honestly the guy like the most pleasant fucking guy to be around but yeah no he's he's just like Bruce Campbell where they they can do anything Exactly. It's amazing.
00:09:27
Speaker
and And have so much charisma and energy to something. And, you know, I tell you what, Bruce Campbell is just getting better and better as he ages, too, because like the Evil Dead TV show. Love that. That's one of my top. Holy shit.
00:09:44
Speaker
Yes. Evil Dead TV show was ah amazing. It was not a money grab. Because a lot of things could have been a money grab. and Oh, yeah. It was well acted, well written.
00:09:58
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It was just smart. It had Lucy Law. It had a great cast. It had ah a phenomenal cast. Yeah. And for those of who don't know, like Bruce Campbell, although he does movies, he's had actually like legit hit TV shows. He's done Burn Noise.
00:10:12
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was on Burn Notice. He was on Briscoe County Junior, which is very beloved. You know, Briscoe County Junior, the two short lived of a series. And then like Burn Notice probably arguably maybe went season two extra.
00:10:26
Speaker
But still, you know, he got a movie out of Burn Notice, The Fall of Sam Axe. And he was I didn't know he was in the fucking Cars movie, Cars 2.
00:10:37
Speaker
Oh, is yeah like it Just go through this IMDb. You just don't know this shit. Like, yes, we know or notice. Yes, we know. Evil. Yes. Yes. We but we don't like what the fuck. He's in Fargo as ro Reagan.
00:10:49
Speaker
He was he was in Fargo as a soap opera a pre actor. Yeah. Ronald Reagan. Yeah. It was really amazing. So that's what I'm saying. He's so ultra averse. I forgot it he was in Congo.
00:11:03
Speaker
Was he? Yeah. And Archer. Yes. He was some fucking, you know. Honestly, he was he was the best thing about McHale's Navy, too. Yes. 100%. Yes, he was it was. He really was. Like everything else. The remake, not the original, anyone is wondering.
00:11:20
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I think, I don't know. Yes, yes. Yes. Absolutely. He was like the man with the screaming brain, which is super fun.
00:11:33
Speaker
Fucking Intruder, which is one of the best, earliest non-Rammy slash sort of really Rammy movies. it That was one you and I watched together, and it was fucking amazing. We did, and the fucking... didn't even know who was in it until I saw the shots they were doing. like, this motherfucker ripping off Sam Rammy?
00:11:55
Speaker
what the fuck they're doing? Like, oh no, it's actually... It was motherfucking Sam Raimi. Okay. Ted Raimi was in it. He had a fun part. Like, it was, i love Intruder. Actually, you you bought me a DVD of Intruder. Did it really? You did. Oh, good for me. For my birthday. Thank you. Hey, happy birthday, Box.
00:12:13
Speaker
Well, yeah. it was it was mercy It was a birthday. wasn't yours, but it was someone's birthday. Yeah, it was someone's birthday. It was your birthday. Oh, it's It's all good.
00:12:24
Speaker
um That is, in a nutshell, the only TV show I would love to see him on. You know, since he's done so much, like, okay, my name is Bruce. He's very self-aware of the role. Oh, yeah.
00:12:39
Speaker
And it plays so fucking well. he's like It's so funny. Yeah, it's like, how would you play yourself? He's playing himself, and he did it before, what's his name? Nick Cage did it with Peter Pascal.
00:12:53
Speaker
Oh, no, he didn't watch that one. Oh, it's OK. It's a bull. Yeah. The unbearable weight of like like the cage. Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:05
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It's fun. But ah Bruce Campbell did it first. Well, I know somebody else probably did it first, but he made it real good. He made it really smart.
00:13:17
Speaker
And although, you know what, even Bruce Campbell might have done it first-ish. And there's going to be a movie that I'm drawing a blank on, being John Malkovich, not drawing a blank Yeah, that's right. So we have something like that. But even after those, and still before the Nick Cage one, ah Footloose, Ren, who played Oh, my God.
00:13:43
Speaker
Kevin Bacon, sorry. Kevin Bacon does one for Guardians of the Galaxy. Oh, yeah. Where he plays himself in a Christmas special. That's right. And that happened before. Yeah, but it's the matter of really, really, really hitting the Bruce Campbell thing. i love ah love what I'm hearing.
00:14:05
Speaker
Yes. It's just... He makes every movie special. He was in Spider-Man 1, where he's like, back in the ring, bitch. He's like, throw him in the ring for Macho Man. That's right. That's right. Always this awesome stuff.
00:14:18
Speaker
He was on Xena. He was on Hercules. Xena, Hercules. Absolutely fucking correct. Jack of all trades, which I really loved. i love Jack of all trades. Yes. Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
00:14:29
Speaker
Yeah, he was Chicken Little, Chicken Biddle. Chicken Biddle? Yeah. And video games, too. It was like Hellboy and, of course, Ash vs. Evil Dead and that by daylight, he i don't... I want to see... I'm not saying he has great deals, but God damn it. I want to see this residual fucking... What's your income on residuals?
00:14:53
Speaker
You've made like 171 fucking things, like always... Different fucking genres. Oh, there I guess there's a new Ripley's Believer or not, and he was a host. but Ripley's Believer. That's pretty cool. Didn't Dean Cain do that?
00:15:10
Speaker
Dean Cain? Yeah, i think I thought Dean Cain did Ripley's Believer not for a bit. Did he? I don't know. Dude, I really remember what I did today. We could do a Dean Cain episode as well.
00:15:21
Speaker
We could. We could. He's been in a lot of shit, too. Yeah, he's been in of shit, aren't Yeah, but Maniac, Maniac Cop 2. Maniac Cop, oh my God, yes.
00:15:32
Speaker
Like, these are, like, really fun movies, you know? Like, yes, I think, honestly, I think we've danced around this, yeah is that he was in the Evil Dead movies.
00:15:45
Speaker
Yeah, he was also in Evil Dead or some shit. Yeah. Or whatever. This never really caught on, unfortunately. Yeah, it barely gave him a career. But I'm going name you shit. And this is just like, I'm only going to name the the the franchise type things. Okay, so Evil Dead.
00:16:01
Speaker
That's one. Yes. And then we go, I'm going to go Evil Dead 2, so it rest to the same... Maniac Cop, I think that's still franchisable. Not the biggest, but it's still franchisable. Yeah. Because there's a two them.
00:16:14
Speaker
Darkman didn't fucking franchise, but still big. ah We're talking about Amory. Darkness is also franchisable. ah Adventures of Briscoe County Jr. TV shows, 27 episodes. It ran for only a year, though.
00:16:30
Speaker
Yeah, that was a bummer. Yeah, it should have gotten, I think they just timed. I feel like, yeah, they were shifting around the times like they do, and then it just kind of fell off.
00:16:43
Speaker
Yes, but then you have <unk> coming up is going to be, you know, Charmed, which is a fucking franchise. Yeah. Spider-Man. Yep.
00:16:54
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Like one of the bigger real first, and not first first, but you know, real first superhero franchises, Hercules and Xena. Yeah. andnchise X-Files franchise.
00:17:09
Speaker
Yep. And I was like, Dust and Dawn 2, there's only two of them. i'm not going to as a franchise, but still decent and shit like that. Jack of All Trades, we mentioned that only 22 episodes, but still.
00:17:21
Speaker
i really like that was like one of the first shows that came to Netflix streaming and i kind of yeah And I was just like, I'll give it a go. And it's just such a fun. I mean, it's not horror. You know, it's it's like old timey times, but it's fun. like And that's the thing. We're like, welcome to Streaming Demon. We talked about fucking Barry.
00:17:43
Speaker
Amelie and I have been doing deep dives in Barry for like a fucking season. So we're we're expanding. But Duck Diders, Donald fucking Duck franchise. He's been in that one.
00:17:56
Speaker
We're going to go with. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse. Multiverse franchise. Robot Chicken franchise. Yep. Fucking Aqua Thing, Hunger Force. We said before, but franchise.
00:18:10
Speaker
Ellen. Wait, no, not a franchise. That's the wrong one. Hellboy. ah Is Hellboy franchise? Yes, Hellboy a franchise. was like four or five fucking Hellboy movies. Yeah, there there's a lot of Hellboy movies. Don't notice.
00:18:24
Speaker
Franchise. Franchise with of a TV movie, and he's the one that gets a TV movie. That's an amazing 111 episodes for Barnodas.
00:18:35
Speaker
Psych. Oh, yeah. The TV show is Psych. Franchise. Fargo. Franchise. Call of motherfucking duty. Oh, yeah. Call of motherfucking... Franchise.
00:18:49
Speaker
Call of duty, I bet. Call of Mother Duty. The Archer is not a franchise, but God damn it. It's like it's Archer. It's this is like, you know, right there. And you just keep going and Invincible, probably the new franchise coming out. So this is at least two seasons in.
00:19:07
Speaker
Well, yeah, Invincible is pretty big. um that's just a that's just a shit That's just a fucking franchise. I'm like, what the fuck? Even if you did a little bit of a voice, yeah one episode, how much that? ah I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm not going to ask him ever how much he gets money for, but fuck, man.
00:19:24
Speaker
It's not enough. It's not enough. No. needs more because he's got he's so talented. He does. he's it's It's an amazing thing. It's kind of like if we went through William Shatner's IMDb.
00:19:39
Speaker
It's just you franchise a franchise. or Or Keith David. Keith David, who had a birthday recently. Keith did. Happy birthday. By this time this airs, they had a birthday of like a month and a half ago. but Yeah. You know what? Every day is Keith David day. Damn right.
00:19:56
Speaker
I didn't know Keith David was in the movies I was watching. But yeah, that's how good Keith David was. was like, this could Keith David? Like, holy shit, Keith David looked young. Well, he's he's in Haspen Hotel too, so he sings.
00:20:10
Speaker
Yeah, right there. And that's huge. Singing, Shatner sings, Campbell sings, Keith Davis sings. Oh, my God. What if they sang together?
00:20:21
Speaker
Oh, my God. I would buy the i'll go to that concert. Oh, my God. Is that the next boy band? I love it. That would be the outer space as I hit my toy horse. Oh, and Matthew Lillard. Matthew Lillard. There we go. Matthew Lillard.
00:20:35
Speaker
i Yeah, know. I was... Remember I had like, I don't know, it was around Halloween. and I, I went to work as Shaggy.
00:20:48
Speaker
Okay. I was working on the Shaggy voice, but I was actually kind of probably copying Matthew Lerner's voice. Uh-huh. Because he's the one that did the most success, like the only one who did it for live. And then every once a while that would stick with me, like the, just the G, you know, G scoops.
00:21:04
Speaker
That Shaggy would say. I'm walking around Gen Con. Like, and I do it. It was like a nervous tick. It's like 12,000 fucking people. I'm like, did I just fucking shaggy fucking Matthew Laird? I'm like really embarrassed. I'm like, oh yeah, i'm not I didn't know you were here. I'm like, I'm sorry, man. I wasn't trying to fuck with y'all. I was just fucking, you know, trying to not get run over by 12,000 people of carts.
00:21:27
Speaker
That's what i was doing. Well, you know, i think he would have appreciated it. Yeah. A good old zoink scoop, you know? was like, fuck, man. Sometimes sometimes you just got to zoinks it.
00:21:38
Speaker
Yeah. But also a good dude. by so that's one like These are all decent people. We should have a dude episode. Good dude episode. um But what you could do Bruce Campbell. Yes.
00:21:49
Speaker
what like What was your first memory of him? Do you remember? Well, we were alone in the closet that one Oh, that's so so that's so romantic or scary. it could be either.
00:22:01
Speaker
I'm not saying he was putting his hand on my leg, but you know there was hands being put on legs. Allegedly. There was a lot of legs, a lot of hands. It was dark in the closet. Those closets are.
00:22:13
Speaker
i I don't know. but Like, so like, what was the first time? Like, show me on a doll. I'm like, God damn it. Like, watch, that's the A.I. clip that comes out for the show. be like, so what's your first time with Bruce Campbell? Like, well, was alone from the closet.
00:22:27
Speaker
This episode called Lawsuit brought to you Ryan X question and A.I. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to trigger you. We can step it back. No, let me see. I honestly.
00:22:40
Speaker
Oh, I'm guessing Evil Dead, right? That makes sense. It it was Evil Dead for me, but it was the poster. it was Ash's the poster. And then the first time I actually saw him, because ah again when I was a younger box, I was very afraid of horror movies.
00:22:57
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So I watched a little bit of the evil, the the fine of what it? The Evil Dead Army of Darkness. Army of Darkness. AOD, yeah. Yep. and And that was honestly what started me into like, oh, OK, like this is not all boo scary. And then I watched the other two and then I was like, oh, wait, no, it was scary.
00:23:21
Speaker
Well, that's that's the weird thing. I think Armory Darkness gets a lot of shit for being the weaker of the three. At the same time, it's the more entertaining of the movie. It is very entertaining. You're going to laugh. he does he's He's really good at um ah and things that take place in the past. I don't know how to say that. but He's a millennial man. He needs a millennial man.
00:23:46
Speaker
He's a millennial man so he can do it. got to do this shit. Because a lot of his stuff is like from the the past. Hercules, Briscoe County, Briscoe County Junior. um ah He also does current. I mean, Burn Notice was contemporary.
00:24:04
Speaker
Burn Notice is. Sam Axe is fucking amazing. and And, of course, Army of Darkness. I mean, Evil, God damn it. Evil Dead. Evil Dead, the series.
00:24:17
Speaker
um Which he looked so freaking incredible. Like, yeah I watched um the first Evil Dead after I watched, you know, the series just to rewatch it. And I mean hate to say, but I think and think he's a lot cuter now.
00:24:35
Speaker
Well, he was like a fucking a model look. Yeah, when he was doing Evil Dead before. I mean, when he was doing Army of Darkness and Evil Dead, he was cute. But as an older man, like, like good he good. has aged very well. Well, yes, and.
00:24:50
Speaker
Brannock is showing a lot of hands right now. Well, okay, watch. You've seen burn notice, yes? Yes, yeah, of course. so you see Hawaiian shirts. He had a lot of Hawaiian shirts. Yeah, but you've seen his fitness regime change after the first season.
00:25:06
Speaker
Yeah. He's like, oh shit, I have to be on camera again? Yeah. What do you mean it's not goingnna to just to be a pilot? We're in Miami. Like, we're really filmed.
00:25:18
Speaker
And they actually filmed this shit in Miami, which like a bazillion fucking degrees are half time. God, that's so, so hot. So you better get in fucking shape. But yeah, he he kept it for, i always see that the Sam Axe character is almost an extension of ash um Like, because you see ash versus the Evil Dead, that would have been what Sam X could have been if it was not for Michael.
00:25:46
Speaker
Yeah. That makes sense? Yeah, it does make sense. Like, all one more beer, one more drink, one more fuck, whatever it's going to be. Mm-hmm. No purpose. Right. And that's what they kind of have.
00:25:58
Speaker
And is a testament to his acting. I mean, he's legit solid actor. Oh, yeah. Like, honestly, it would be nice to see because you see this in Burn Notice, especially that he gets some pretty juicy like scenes that are super um serious and like and very emotional, very, you know, and you get to see. And I think this is like one of the reasons why i think it's is one of his greatest roles is because he does get to like tear his teeth in there and show you how good of an actor he is.
00:26:36
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Yeah, and he's got he's working with like jar Jeffrey Donovan, who was an amazing actor, especially in Burn Notice, and Gabriel Noir. But Sharon fucking Glass.
00:26:49
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Mm-hmm. I mean, the scenes that those two had together are just fucking amazing because it brings up the warmth in something.
00:27:02
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And they work so well off each other.
00:27:06
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You know, could have gone completely wrong. And then Burnor's is just one hop, skip away from ah Archer, which because essentially with Colby Bell in it, because it's the same fucking guy. I do believe Archer and Burnor's both have Colby in them.
00:27:21
Speaker
I could be fucking wrong. me I don't know. I have no clue. Now I have to look this shit up. God damn it. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ah, fuck. i was wrong. Whatever.
00:27:34
Speaker
No, yeah, Conway Stern. No, Archer. yeah plays the same type of thing. Okay, phew, thank God. Like, God, am just fucking racist? I just think, like, Kobe's like, oh, he probably is. I don't know.
00:27:48
Speaker
Oh, man, but you you have this ability to be a fan favorite and not always be a good guy. Yeah. And well, and what I think that he plays very well and that he he plays, you know, quite a few times, but basically the redeemable loser, you know? Yes.
00:28:12
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he And he plays it so well to where it's just asshole enough to be like, OK, I can see why you're here as a character, but just charisma enough to be like, but I want you to do better. Right.
00:28:26
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And were there ever series that you watched because Bruce Campbell's in it? Oh, absolutely. if he's in a movie, I'm like, I want to see it. You know, i want to experience that because he is so charismatic and he does light up the screen.
00:28:43
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Even if it's like a shitty B movie, you know, it's it's worth the watch when he's in it. No shitty B movies for Bruce Campbell unless the B stands for Bruce. and you And his name is Bruce. His name is Bruce.
00:28:58
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You know what? I actually started watching Burn Notice because of Bruce Campbell. Oh, OK. I didn't have fucking what it came on TBS. I got it through a library. camel yeah. Like you stop defending, defending libraries. You can get cool stuff like Burn Notice.
00:29:15
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ah Sure. At your way, I said library. Yeah, I know. I was library.
00:29:21
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I got the wire through the library. See, i didn't know. Yeah, that's the thing like you can discover some shit because when it first came out, like in TBS, i was what ah what year did Burn Nose come out?
00:29:32
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ah Early 2000s. ah Yeah, ah probably when I'm i'm in Vegas. Yeah, I'm actually going to fucking watch TBS when I'm in Vegas. Fuck off. 2007 to 2013. Oh, yeah. No, fuck off. No, there's no fucking chance.
00:29:47
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There's no fucking chance I saw this first run. No. Yeah. like None. There's no fucking none. And that's the the fun thing about it where I i got to discover a series that went ran for like, what, 11 fucking seasons or Oh, God, yeah. It was insane. It was a while.
00:30:04
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Yeah. And all because I saw his character. I'm like, oh, I want to see this. Oh, okay. You know, i saw Bruce Campbell in it. So he's one of the people that even if he's not the the lead. Oh, yeah. You will actually go out and see.
00:30:18
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i mean, you bought a book that says make love the Bruce Campbell way. And I was very excited. How old were you? I was, was early So I wanted to. I was like, I was 12. Like, oh, fuck. No, no. I was early and I was like, you know, I want to learn how to make love the Bruce Campbell way. I And um yeah, it was not the book that I was expecting. So you're basing this off his work in like Evil Dead? Like, I think Ash is a great lover.
00:30:48
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don't think he's a great... Well, his... He uses every fucking person he's dated, You know, but they... He's very loyal. He's a loyal boyfriend.
00:31:02
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He's all in. um Except for the evil part of him, you know, because there's a good ash and there is a bad ash. He's right and die. A lot of die, though. Yeah.
00:31:13
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the fire guy That's his next book. Yeah. got very um But you're right. Like I started watching notice because he was there. Honestly, my ex was watching it and I'd kind of like come in the room, you know, like a little goblin and be like, oh, what's that? That's, but you know, Bruce Campbell, you know, like and you sit down you watch it.
00:31:35
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And I think Evil Dead one of the best. um That and Intruder, honestly, um is are some of the best horror movies that I've ever seen. Actually, the Bill Shatner Intruder is also really great horror movie.
00:31:50
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just Just watch any Intruder you want. Just watch an Intruder movie. It's going to be great. Just don't watch the Intruder coming at you. That'll be bad. Yeah. But we have like the evil dead.
00:32:03
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i can't believe there's only three years, but it's Bruce Cambo, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLaranzo, and Lucy Lawless. Oh, yeah. Yeah. she looks fabulous. She has an incredible character, too.
00:32:17
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Absolutely. She's evil and it's perfect. She's great. Absolutely. And I think... I think when we see Lucy Lawless go from Xena to Spartacus, it's like, well, thank God that happened. Because I don't think that's a huge jump. Yeah. That was a huge jump.
00:32:35
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But and i mean, and again, in Spartacus, she was amazing. Her, John Hanna, was living. God. christ i i was driving across country when spartacus came on and i saw the same episode like 15 fucking times because i was like whatever like hotel room i was in i was like is this fucking the zena getting topless right now what the fuck am i oh yeah there's a lot of sex she used to call what she called spartacus crack tv for adults It's guts and ass.
00:33:06
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Yep, it is. It really is. she i think she needed that to jump into Ash vs. the Evil Dead. Otherwise, i don't want to do that work. I think you're absolutely right because she does play a villain kind of in Spartacus.
00:33:20
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And this, it's just, she plays so well off of ah Bruce Campbell as well. Like the scenes they have together are so good. Yeah, and they they kept doing that from Xena. Like the the chemistry is there since then.
00:33:34
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Absolutely. Absolutely. And that that must have been really fun to have together again, you know, like to be able to work again. Work again, like work with Ted Ramey.
00:33:46
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Ted's also on this one. And Lee Majors, Lee Majors playing his fucking dad. hmm. That's fucking. And that was amazing, too. So we have a lot of shit, man.
00:33:58
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It brings back to like being in in a smart, you know, and like. being Again, it's the lovable loser, but back back into badass. And it's so believable.
00:34:11
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Yeah. He's not Superman always making the right fucking decision every fucking time. Right. He's guy going like, can I just fucking take a day off?
00:34:22
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Yeah. Yeah. yeah um I think it was in an interview somewhere. he he had he had talked about how Ash is just basically like he's in a slump.
00:34:33
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Like he has PTSD from like everything. Like it sucks. His fucking arm, his girlfriend gets mad. Exactly. All his fucking high school or his early college friends get killed.
00:34:47
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And he still has to fucking work at S-Mart. You know, like he saves the world like 13 fucking times. Exactly. Like, it sucks. So, it yeah, just, I don't know. It's great.
00:35:02
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Yeah. It is a testament to kind of, like, what people can take for granted in a way of dismissing people who are like, oh, it's just Bruce Campbell, like a big movie.
00:35:18
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Right. Very dismissive of it. and Except that, like, we just named several franchises that he was fucking in. Absolutely. and Absolutely. I think Ash was evil. Wow, that's a different one.
00:35:29
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I think Make Love, the Bruce Campbell way, does that in a very smart way, addresses that early on. Yes. And like the whole Richard Gere thing is trying to be a B-movie star. that You know, like, oh, everything's like the over-top jumping on it. Like, oh, we have to go higher and bigger and bigger, you know.
00:35:47
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Again, I don't know Richard Gere. He could be like that. Hollywood people are weird.
00:35:54
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It's funny you say Hollywood to people because i don't i don't think no one's really telling stories out of school. that He literally says this and if chins could kill, Campbell doesn't really live anywhere like there. He like lives the middle of the fucking woods, if I remember correctly.
00:36:10
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i meant I meant Richard Gere, but... oh No, I'm just thinking about it. I'm just saying it's funny that you're saying that because it's... Yeah, he's he's buried down to earth. he i think yeah I know he's in a he can officiate weddings, and he has.
00:36:23
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and think he has for fans before. um ah you know, he's just an all-around cool dude. Today's episode, Fox and Joe suck Richard Gere's dick. Oh, my gosh. Bruce Campbell's dick.
00:36:42
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He's just a cool dude. I'm thinking, like, what are we really calling this episode? It's more of like love fest. It is. Oh, we could make love the Bruce Campbell way.
00:36:54
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We could make love the Bruce Campbell way. Perhaps. Perhaps. We don't know. But, yeah, I don't like – and he's he might be in a new Evil Dead that's coming out.
00:37:06
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ah ah new new evil dead Yeah, he wasn't really in the last one. Oh, the reboot-y continuation, yeah. But hopefully he can maybe have a role in this or something. I don't know.
00:37:20
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It would be nice. Yeah, I think, as I'm adjusting my levels, I think that but what it i think that you actually naturally led to my question.
00:37:35
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That was going end with, by the way. Oh, if I like and subscribe now, motherfuckers, we're taking a break. This episode will appear between season one and season two of Barry. So if you're wondering where Barry's at next week, motherfuckers, and thanks for wondering where Barry's at.
00:37:51
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But let him subscribe now. I have a question. and And this question goes out to everyone, really. Because Bruce Campbell is so iconic. And he's like the chin, he's, I think he, they should have fucking trademarked the word groovy, by the way. that Oh, absolutely. That would have been. yeah That'd be like, boomstick.
00:38:12
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Boomstick and groovy. The just fucking vernaculars, you know. It's just so much fun. Like he, it should, okay. Here's what I would say about Bruce Campbell too. Spies, you bitchy little girls. Same with like Bubba Hotep and everything. It should not work.
00:38:26
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It should fail. It sounds so dumb on paper, but when he does it, Fuck. You're like, he's the coolest guy in the world. like And that's his magic power. That's his superpower. His magic superpower is being TJ Hooker.
00:38:42
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Is being fucking cool. Yeah, I was giving a Shatner thing. But yeah, this is the thing. that Sorry. No, no, no, no. But I agree. No, I agree 100%. It's the way he presents, the way he can do pull it off.
00:38:57
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What... franchise that he's not in you think he just could knock it out of the park like oh man that's a great question um as as him as himself or as ash anything Oh, man, because, ah you know, again, and I know that this was kind of like played around with way back in the days. I'm going to go with this one because it was I wanted to see it.
00:39:27
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Remember when Alien versus Predator and then Freddy versus Jason? And I wanted him versus like Pinhead or something like that or something like that. Yeah. Oh, wrong Pinheads.
00:39:41
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Because, again, like he's so used to Cenobites and like they're through a different kind, different kinds. I would enjoy that. I really would enjoy that. I would.
00:39:54
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see um Because, again, i think it would be fun because it would be something new to Hellraiser that I'm sure Clive Barker would not be you know happy with. But it would bring something to Hellraiser that because Hellraiser is such a serious movie until. It would bring something to Hellraiser that Hellraiser has not had in 30 years. Yes.
00:40:15
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yeah
00:40:18
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I would say like people's watching it. it would it would be It would be a lot of fun if written well, if done right, I think it would be a lot of fun because you're, it's, what if it was like a buddy cop movie?
00:40:32
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Ash and Pinhead go to the hell. and They have to like, they have to get the bigger bad. They have to get the bigger bad. And so they have to team up at one point. is being naughty again.
00:40:46
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the Engineer needs to be digging down a peg. Yeah. Like maybe Frank is is something, something, something or whatever. Like, I think that would be fun. Buddy cop, because one plate guy's playing the straight guy. And I say straight guy.
00:41:03
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That would be Pinhead. And then Bruce Campbell could play Ash and be like the coolest motherfucker, you know. I can get behind that, man. I could.
00:41:14
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All right. What about you? What about you? Oh, God. ah I was actually hoping you wouldn't ask us. My God, there's so many of them, though. You know, top my head, nothing. No. Top of my head, I honestly think he could pull this off.
00:41:28
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It's about fucking time we had someone with this integrity. I just want to see it. Okay. I want to see him as Doctor Who. And no spoilers for anyone who's watching this here. Oh.
00:41:39
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want to same as doctor who I want to see him as as whenever like Disney is kind of like fucking around.
00:41:51
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want to see him as special. I don't care what it is. I want to see that episode. Okay. See? yeah I mean. James Bond. I don't like to see him as James Bond, but you know, it just ain't going to happen.
00:42:02
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Yeah, that's going to happen. Also, I would like to see him playing for the WNBA Indiana Fever. go at night I would also like to see him on Broadway. you know, I would like to see i want to see him fight Jake Paul on Broadway.
00:42:20
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want to see him with Gordon Ramsay. Oh, my. I actually would want to see him recording. I know. Kidding with the Jake Paul thing. But yeah, I would want us to see that. think that'd be a great show. That would be so fun.
00:42:32
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would be so fun. Like he has to like try to make something like him as himself. Gordon as himself. And then they have to make a spooky cake together. I don't know. We'll we'll fix it in post. Win bake off shows like one like chili fest in like fucking Nebraska. Yeah.
00:42:48
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and By the way, we actually see this fucking show like Bruce Campbell Gordon Ramsay team. like, motherfuckers. Yeah. who Yeah. But you know what? You know what? It would be okay. I would be fine with that. I mean, fine with shit, man.
00:43:02
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I would be fine with it because at least I would get to see it. i would get to see it. Chucky Ash would be fun, too. That could be a fun. They did that. They did?
00:43:13
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No, and didn't they like the Ash doll or the little Ash gremlin, right? I don't remember that. fuck. All right. Like and subscribe and put in the comments if this is real or if Joe's just pulling this out of his ass.
00:43:28
Speaker
Pulling out of my ass. But yeah, see, this is a great thing. We talked about everything that he did. and we didn't really deep dive it into movies. Pick any movie you want. what Okay, if you had to say one movie, one TV show, where do you start with Bruce Campbell?
00:43:42
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Oh, if I'm going to show introduce him to somebody? Yeah. Yeah. either Either the first Evil Dead or Maniac Cop, because I think they're both really, they encapsulate him.
00:43:59
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You know, honestly, let's just make it super easy and say Evil Dead, the movie, and then Evil Dead, series. Oh, that's funny. i was going do Berm Notice, the series, and then The Fall of Sam X, the movie.
00:44:12
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Oh, ah there we go. Yeah. There we go. ah but And I probably would like Burn Notice and like, oh, God, would you do Evil Dead? or You were doing Evil Dead or Ash?
00:44:25
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Or Army of Darkness? You know, that's, I guess I would have to do Army of Darkness because that makes it a little bit easier. And there is that short, short recap in the beginning.
00:44:39
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It helps them a little bit that way. You know what? I'm going to go against my own thing. i have a new one. have a new one. I think this is going to be it.
00:44:51
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And you might want to like and subscribe now. Please like and subscribe. Yeah. You might want to like fast forward. wouldn' um I believe i still believe Burn Notice.
00:45:04
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That has to be if I'm doing one TV show, at one movie. It has to be Burn Notice for me. OK, I know I love ash for the Evil Dead well, but I think Burn Notice just has more teeth. It's got more. It clicked. It just like really clicked with you. Yeah.
00:45:17
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And then for the movie, oh, this might be an unpopular or popular pick. I don't know. Boba Hotep? No, no. Although I do love Boba Hotep. you Yeah. You know, we we probably, have we done that before? I don't know. No, we have not. But you've talked about it many times. will talk about that many times. Many, many, many, many times.
00:45:38
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I think I'll never hile again. I think if I had to pick a movie out, that's the one I have for him. That's never pi again. But that's the one you would introduce somebody to. him I would I will find the fucking archival footage of I'll never how again and go and not even tell him the Spruce Campbell.
00:45:59
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hey I'm just going to watch this movie. it's ah's ah It's a documentary. Yeah. Documentary. Yeah. Well, I mean, it sounds like me at 20 years old would be your target audience.
00:46:12
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Absolutely. not going to say anything about like Sam Ramsey or none of this shit. It's just going to be like, yeah, guess what? No, this the nu is true. Yeah. No, History Channel. We're watching History Channel right now. Yeah. And then you can play Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way. And that's like his autobiography.
00:46:30
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Yep. Everything. It's all tied in. It all comes full circle. all right, folks, that's it. So you've got Ash versus the Evil Dead and Evil Dead.
00:46:40
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You got Burn Otis and ah I'll never Hyl again.
00:46:47
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Today's topics. and like Maybe you have your own. Maybe as you got your own thing. Let us know what you want. Let us know what you do. yeah Yeah. Thanks for hanging with us on behalf of myself.
00:46:58
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Joe, I guess. And then Brannick. Brannick. Hello, Brannick. Hello. We bid you a good day. And next time, something else. Bye, y'all.
00:47:11
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00:47:15
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