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Nowhere in man's history does he display
more tenacity, more perseverance than in his

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search for eternal youth. Holding.
The relentless process of aging has been a

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constant dream of man's and of woman's
each youth. Is it really a dream?

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Or is it possible? At somewhere
someone found the secret. The following

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experience gave me a new attitude on
the whole subject of youth and aging.

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September twenty eight, o five PM. William Cobby, aged twenty two,

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deeply concerned with retaining his youthful vigor
his trim physique. This concern had made

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him a dedicated jogger. Cobby would
never know if they jogging really helped.

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He was the first of a series
of Chicagolans who were spared the ordeal of

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seeing their youth slip away slowly.
That was the voice of reporter Carl Kolchak

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in The Case that We Are Calling
The Youth Killer. Originally released March fourteenth,

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nineteen seventy five. It was directed
by Don McDougall and written by our

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old friend Rudy Borchett. Actually Don
McDougall's also an old friend. He directed

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Legacy of Terror and Rudy Borchett.
Gosh, what was that? It was

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the Trivy Collection. I am joined, of course by my co host,

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supreme mister christass you no, I'm
here And this was this was an episode

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of Colchack that we watched. It
was definitely an episode, Yeah, it

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was. It was. It was
interesting. There were a lot of good

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parts and a couple couple of strange
colchacky things. But I actually liked this

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episode a lot. Did you have
a chance to read the script? I

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did not have a chance to read
the script. There were some interesting differences.

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The balance between the B story and
the A story was a little bit

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better. So our A story is
a series of murders that are happening that

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Kathy Lee Crosby, who we fine. So I remembered Kathy Crosby mostly from

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That's Incredible, but I didn't realize
that That's Incredible was nineteen seventy nine,

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eighty eighty one. She was known
primarily as being a big tennis star.

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Apparently she got her start in tennis
and then she started doing the acting thing,

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and she was all over the place, both as herself in things like

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Battle the Network Stars, and then
a ton of guest appearances, including this

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guest appearance here, and yeah,
she's looking fantastic in this, and I

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think it's very appropriate that she's basically
Helen of Troy re not reincarnated, but

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has lived. Oh god, she's
lived forever, Chris, and she has

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to make sacrifices every few years in
order voice sounds like something we've seen on

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this show multiple times, I'll tell
you what. Like, I'm not going

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to go down the road of bemoaning
that again because we've done it too many

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times now. But it's nice that
it was a female character. Yeah,

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it was nice to have a murder
rest instead of our murderer this time.

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However, it is the exact same
shit we've seen before, and I don't

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need to see it again. And
guess what, They've got one episode and

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I don't think we're seeing it again, So three times in twenty episodes.

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Well, not only was I thinking
of Ericastrata in this episode, but I

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was also thinking of the episode that
we just recently saw of the Coal Check

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two thousand and five series, where
it was the woman with the super sharp

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teeth and the boys that were maybe
her son's, maybe not. But I

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was just like, Okay, here
we go again. That's what it reminded

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me of more than the original Cold
Check was the reboot almost like very beat

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for beat. So she's going around
and killing all of these people, and

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then it just so happens that her
gig is that she has created an online

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dating service so that she can or
sorry, I should say a computer dating

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service. Yeah, computer dating service, so that she can find the most

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perfect specimens in Chicago, male or
female, doesn't matter. She wants the

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most perfect people so that she can
sacrifice them to hectate the goddess and then

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be able to get this eternal life
that she's had for however many years now.

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And luckily, Carl has been put
on for the best story. He's

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been put on the case of trying
to write a story about or he's been

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told by Vincenzo because New York wants
that. New York wants a story.

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Carl wants a story about the single
scene, and you got to write about

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it. Hecate is the god of
herbs and poisonous plants. Like she's she's

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not the god of beauty. She's
like part of the underworld. That's where

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she lives. In Greek mythology,
in Greek religion is under the underworld.

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I don't understand why that was the
character that was picked as the one that

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she's praying to. Yeah, it
kind of reminds me again going back to

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the Ericastrada one where it's like,
well, katz a kuwadal would make more

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sense than who you're saying, because
that's supposed to be a good guy that

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you're making sacrifices too. But whatever, it feels like, just just pick

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some shit and we're gonna go with
it, and people aren't gonna I mean,

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nobody's gonna go and do like us. And you know, look,

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I mean that's that's fair, Like
I get it. But okay, like

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that, that to me is just
it's a I mean, look again,

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we're overthinking it because the show came
out fifty plus years ago and they didn't

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they were just oh heckat sure,
why not. But but again, that

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whole the whole thing where it's just
another sacrifice, I kind of overlooked it

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because this episode was a lot of
fun. There were some really fun side

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characters like Dwayne Hickman is Sergeant Orkin. We get Gordy the goul back the

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final time he's only been in it
three times. I was so happy to

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see Gordy. I was so excited
when I was reading the screenplay. I

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read the screenplay before I watched it, and when Gordy the Goul showed up

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in there, I was like,
there's no way, there's no way he's

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coming back. I mean, we
haven't seen him in what sixteen episodes or

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something. There's no way he's going
to be there. Sure enough, there's

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Gordony the cool I'm trying to remember
the last episode we saw him, and

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I want to say it was they
are, they have been, they will

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be. They have been, they
are, they will be, And that

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would, like you said, that
was a long time ago. I don't

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know why he wasn't in more because
if you go on IMDb and you look

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at like the build buy and who's
been in every episode, he is like

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five people down. Darren mcavin,
Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt,

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Craig Arbaxley who played you know,
mister Ring and then apparently he plays

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the monster in the next episode,
and then you have John Fiedler. Yeah,

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he was a more of a stunt
man than a behind the camera guy.

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But other than him in front of
the camera with masks on. So

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yeah, I was actually surprised because
I was like, whoa shit, John

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Fiedler's pack, Like what just randomly, It's like they're just acting like Dave

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like what since when? And then
we know that Jack Rennage wasn't in everything,

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because there were a couple of times
where he was over in Europe or

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doing other stuff and it was just
like, oh, yeah, Ron's on

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assignment. But outside of the fact
that we finally get to see Gordy again,

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we did get George Savalas, yes, Telly Savalas's brother, and Kathleen

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Freeman who's great in everything, and
also Eddie Firestone playing what I can only

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describe to be Gill from The Simpsons
in human form, like that's his character,

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Like, Hey, I'm I own
my own business, like okay,

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cool man. George Savalas being billed
as the Masthenese in this episode. When

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that title came up on the screen, I was like, who the what

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am I missing? They were calling
him cat yeah, but his his actor

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name. Yeah, that was kind
of crazy. I don't know what that

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was all about. That was a
little bizarre, but he's great, right.

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I kind of wish George saval Us
would have been a regular character because

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he seemed to be like the man
on the street guy that Carl really needed,

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right like the oh, like he's
my guy who takes me places like

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I would have I would have loved
that if that had been a bigger part

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of the show, because you know, Colcheck never really had someone who wasn't

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in the office as like a reoccurring
character, and that's something I honestly think

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the show was missing as Like another
component was the kind of on the beat

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on the street person Johnny, the
guy that polishes his shoes, like from

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police squad or something. What's the
word in the street Johnny. I don't

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know. I hear a lot of
things. Pick a topic. One.

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Look, we were never going to
have a cop being that on the show

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because Colcheck has always had even in
this episode with Sergeant Orkin, like you

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expect that you're almost going to have
this like changeup of his a changeup of

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his relationship with the cops. But
there's it's not that it ends up.

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It ends up one scene and then
it's right back to the same you know,

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antagonistic cop nonsense, which I was
like, oh man, this is

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going to be different, and then
it wasn't, and I was really kind

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of disappointed. Honestly, I want
to say that there might have been like

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one more scene that was in the
script, because after please help me out

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here, because it's one of those
weird things where I'm like, Okay,

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I read the script and now I
saw the thing, and now I can't

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remember which is which. Does he
end up hearing back from Sergeant Orkin and

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hearing your right, those prints match
these old people. No, okay,

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nope, that's in the script.
The the final scene is throwing of the

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pin wheel at cool. Okay,
yeah, there's more to it, which

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is a bummer. That's a bummer
that there was not a bigger wrap up,

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and you know, I always try
to read the script ahead of time.

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This was the only time I haven't
gotten to read a script recently,

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and I felt like if I had
read that, I probably would have been

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missing it too, because it needed
it. It needed some little third bit

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to put a cap on their relationship. So he's like, well, I

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should have listened to Colchick, because
there's never that moment, and to be

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fair, there's never really that moment
in the show anyway, so it kind

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of tracks with the rest of the
show. This episode almost has too many

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things going on because there are just
little shades of stuff that are missing.

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It's like the whole thing of Tony
has this whole subplot where he is going

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to work out and he's eating right
and all this stuff, and there's more

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to that as well, like when
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there, like stuck in the lotus
position. There had been a scene where

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Carl saw him in the lotus position
and was like, what are you doing?

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And then he explains, you know, oh I'm now I'm mastering yoga,

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and he's just so full of himself. And then when he finally calls

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for help from Carl, that's that
breaking point. So we get much more

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of like Tony being in charge of
himself and you know, bettering himself alf

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and like he even yells at Carl
because Carl wants to rather than that donut,

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Carl wants to tempt him by going
down to like a greasy spoon diner,

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and Tony's like, oh, you're
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lunch and try to get by on
the company dole and da da da da

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da. So it's there's a lot
more to that. There's a lot more

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to the whole dating thing. There's
one thing I want to read to you

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because it is amazing. He goes, he has Tony yells at him like

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I had this kid go around town
and get you all of these papers and

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all of these different catalogs for these
dating places. And carl sits down at

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his desk and he picks up a
copy of a magazine called Singles Weekly,

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and he reads his voice over is
the single scene had indeed changed. Carl

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leaves through the tabloid to the classified
ads. Reads one white female, twenty

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two good bod digs, light B
and D, passive SNL, classical music

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and water sports. No weirdos or
Republicans please, there is no way that

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that would have That's exactly what I
said. And then the next one is

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Carlos thoughtful form for a moment,
reads another ad group square dancing, old

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time fund singles or couples refreshments,
nudity optional. Yeah, and it just

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this whole scene is like him saying, like the most conservative newspaper in Chicago

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had a classified column headed social clubs. The ads offered photo mating, Jewish

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Polish, oriental introductions, computer matching, astrological matching. But it all boils

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down to a simple need. So
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Yeah, there's a lot more to
him with this hell Singles thing, and

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that's a bummer because, look,
you know, ultimately at the end of

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the day was something like this show
the time constraint. Look, you know

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there is a time constraint, but
it's not like another show that I'm watching

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right now for another podcast, like
where Wolf. It's not a twenty three

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minute show. This is a full
hour long show. So there's some stuff

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in this, like the whole subplot
with Irvin that could have been completely cut

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down. Well again, it's like
Rudy is writing a script that seventy seven

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pages long, and I'm like,
this is not a ninety minute show where

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you're leaving some room for commercials.
What are you doing even handing in a

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seventy seven page script Because maybe he
knew that it was going to get cut

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down anyways, could be, but
I mean, every single one of these

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pieces, and there's even a moment
in the show where it like fades out

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kind of quickly, and I was
like, oh, there is more to

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that. There's more to that particular
scene. So it's like it almost looks

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like they shot it and then just
cut it out. It's a total bummer

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because I actually kind of like this
episode, even though we've talked about how

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similar it is to some of the
other ones. I thought it was.

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Yeah, it was intriguing. I
really liked some of the effects works they

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were doing. I mean, yeah, old age makeup has come very far

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since then. Boy right, But
like the scene of the woman on the

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balcony who's doing aerobics and she goes
down, comes back up, and she's

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older, goes down, comes back
up and she's older still. I mean

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that was it was a cheap effect, but it was really effective. Can

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I ask you something, though,
why do you think with the character of

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Irvin they had someone playing him as
an old man versus everyone else? It

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was just the young actor an old
person makeet That was kind of a strange

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choice. It's a strange choice considering
I mean, was it because we had

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been following him? I mean,
he just dies on a bench and then

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the next scene, we get another
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to just do it every time and
just have like an older actor portraying that

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person. It just seemed it was
an odd choice. Yeah, the person

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that dies in their bed. I
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I was like, did we need
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kind of strange. The answer is
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oh, so I we get it. So it's it's just increasing the body

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count. Two men and two women. Go oh okay. That's another one

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where I was just like, I
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So why would they shoot that and
not some of this other stuff that

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actually like adds to the whole overall
episode. But can you please tell me

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what it is with Greek characters and
having these bizarre home remedies, Because the

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immediately when I saw him putting mayonnaise
mayonnaise on Colcheck's hand, I thought of

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Windex from my big fag Greek wedding. The whole thing of the cab and

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them talking outside the cab and the
conventionaire. You know you talked about Gil

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coming to life from The Simpsons pretty
much? Was he not? I think

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that that's supposed to be in the
cab And then they end up going to

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a mechanics place and they put mechanics
grease on his hand rather than mayonnaise,

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because that was bizarre. Well,
I mean even the show acknowledges how bizarre

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it is, because Vincenzo goes,
who the hell are you? Like,

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Yeah, exactly who the hell is
this guy? This Telly savals his brother

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just in the you know, the
ions like building, Like, what the

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hell? Like, why is he
in there with him? It's bizarre.

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He does not look like Telly Savalas, Oh doesn't he not. That's that's

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fine, though it would have been
a little distracted. Oh yeah, I

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mean if he just had like the
word schlub written across him, it was

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amazing. Yeah, he's a big
old schluve, like an emphasis on the

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big because a big old guy too. But he's great. I like him.

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He portrays exactly what I was expecting
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kind of show. Oh. Another
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Carl is arguing with Vincenzo about covering
the singles and he was like trying to

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give him other people to do it, so like, oh, miss Emily's

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too old. And then Ron it
was like he had like this whole thing

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about Ron doing the singles thing,
and I was just like, oh again,

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we're trying to pretend that Ron has
had hersexual Okay, thanks, well

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again, this is this is the
seventies. But I know, I know,

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but I mean, it can't have
Light B and D in here,

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but we can't have Ron being gay. Well they didn't have that in there

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though, to be fair, well, but we did get that reference when

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he's on the phone to the Yenta
and he's just like, you know,

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oh, I don't need a girl
right now, and miss Emily is saying

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good night and she thinks that he's
ordering a prostitute. Yeah, that's true,

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but it's not as overt as hey, Ron's gay true, or Light

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B and D and water sports which
who in the seventies would have known that

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water sports is being paid on.
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about the end of the episode.
It has one of the best shots in

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the series together where Colcheck is getting
out of his car and all of a

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sudden it's like really lit well,
and it's like a tracking shot. It

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like zooms out and then follows him
into the building. It's really weird because

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I was like, we don't get
these like kind of high class shots in

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this show. And then on top
of everything else, col Tex straight up

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breaks the fourth wall, yeah,
right, which is not common. He's

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like normally talking to you, but
not directly at you. And at the

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end of this episode he is talking
at the audience like he is full on

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facing the camera and I was like, what where did huh? Well,

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that's kind of what they were trying
to do with that last episode where he

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looks at the camera that's in the
wall and it's like you believe me,

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don't you? Or whatever he was
supposed to say when he was in the

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a scene asylum, right, But
in this episode it's it is that come

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to fruition, but in a way
that is just it's not that it doesn't

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work, but it doesn't work like
it's I am. I am appreciative of

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what it is, but honestly,
it feels a little ham fisted, and

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by a little I mean a lot, because it's just it's they haven't done

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that before, and the time that
they were thinking about doing it in the

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last episode they bailed out of it
for whatever reason. Seems like there's something

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else I was going to say about
this episode, and I'm trying to remember

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what it is. Is it that
Colchack destroying the temple is amazing? He

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is the laziest destroyer of a temple
you have ever seen. He's just oh,

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walking around, just lazily throwing.
He's like, it might be the

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best thing I've ever seen in this
show. Colchack just like a yeah there's

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column, sure, oh there's bust
whatever. Yeah, this that whatever.

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It's so lazy in the best way. It's lazy, and only the way

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I would believe it's actually Colchack doing
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he's actually supposed to start getting older. And there's this whole thing again

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where it's like, hey, Carl, you looks so good, and they

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talk about how it looks like he's
aged five years since the last time they

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saw him. I'm almost glad that
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like I said, the old age
makeup could be a little distracting,

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but thematically, it doesn't make any
sense right. Thematically, it makes no

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sense act that he would get older, that he wouldn't get older, that

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he doesn't get older because everyone else
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And if he's not, then what's
special about Colejack? He has the

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mark of Kine. That's way.
Oh is this not a crossover episode?

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Yeah? I keeps looking at that
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Ultimately, this episode is pretty good
and Kathy Lee Crosby's a great female villain

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and she's actually a pretty solid actress
in this I like how apparently also,

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a midnight interview, if you're a
journalist, means you're breaking and entering.

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We're going out for one of the
midnight interviews, Coljack. That's b an

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a dude, Like, that's straight
up breaking and entering. Like, what

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are you talking about? But I
mean again, like we've had our issues

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with this show, namely the way
the villain's arc is resolved, and in

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this episode it's resolved really well.
She turns into a statue, Like that's

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great. That works thematically in the
context of the story. And it's not

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that it's not believable, but it
makes sense for what they were going with

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for the mythology behind the villain right, and that Caz says, like she

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looks exactly like every statue I've ever
seen of Helen of Troy, and it's

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like, okay, and if you
disappoint the gods, you get turned into

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stone. It just fits perfectly.
And it's not one of those like they

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couldn't find any traces or turns into
a funny looking skeleton or something, or

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is stabbed with a stick right,
or becomes a dog and never turns back

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again, or is stabbed with a
stick. That's the one that will constantly

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stick in my mind. The MATCHI
mideo who just gets stabbed with a stick.

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Oh you know, you could just
take a battle axe and hold it

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out and then the suit of armor
just falls around it. A werewolf just

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jumps off of a ship. Yeah
later, Yeah pretty uh you know.

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In regards to the way the villains
tie up in the show, I might

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go out on a limb and say
that this is the best we've seen.

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I think I'm there with you.
Yeah, it's really good and it works,

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and it makes it honestly makes a
lot of sense, Like it makes

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more sense than anything else we've seen
in the show. Regarding a villain dying

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in quotations. Yeah, this was
a surprise that it was this solid,

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because it's like, yeah, I
mean, like, okay, the Trevy

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Collection had a little bit of a
problem with the way that he, you

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know, that villain ended up,
But like mister I n G, I

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think this one, this goes in
kind of the higher levels of of you

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know, episodes. For me,
I would agree. I mean, we're

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look, I don't want to spoil
the fun here, but we are one

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episode away from the show being over, which something about one season shows I

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know something about is that at the
end of this we are going to want

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more and we are not going to
get anymore. And I am disappointed by

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that because the last couple episodes have
been pretty good and it feels almost like

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the show is settling into a groove
and the next episode is the last one.

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Yeah, and I'm very curious to
see what the next episode brings because

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that's another al Ford Neil and John
Huff episode and they were the ones that

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gave us mister r I n G. So really very curious to see what

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the centuries like. Yeah, me
too, because again, this is a

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really this was a really well done
episode, and Richard if you're listening,

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You're welcome. I was positive for
once, so there you go. I

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really can't find much wrong with this
episode. No, and like you said,

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those guest spots are fantastic. I
love Dwayne Hickman, so was seeing

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him in here. I was so
happy. And you're right. As far

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as Kathleen Freeman, she is always
great. She is such a comic genius.

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She used to be in a lot
of the old Cherry Lewis stuff and

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she could take him toe to toe. She was just a solid, solid

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comedian. I just think of her
from the Third Naked Gun movie and obviously

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from the Blues Brothers. Oh my
god, yes, yeah, so but

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again, she's great in this and
honestly, with the way we've had this

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show going, with the way the
show has gone, with how great the

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like supporting characters have been, it's
not surprising that she's good. But I

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really like the fact that this episode's
side characters almost steal the show because they're

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all memorable, especially Telly Savalas's brother. Poor guy. He's probably always known

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as Telly Savalas's brother, right,
or Demosthites, Demo Steenies or whatever his

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fake name is. I was looking
through his filmography to see if he had

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been called that any other time,
and I wasn't seeing it. I wonder

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if it was just to not bill
him as tells of all as his brother

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could be kind of weird, right, well, not really. I mean

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when you and I talked about Lone
Wolf and Cub, I mean Wakayama Thomas

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a Burro. His name is a
made up name because he is Katsu Shintaro.

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He was more of a star than
his brother, and so he didn't

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want to have the same name and
be like, oh, it's the other

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you know guy, So he took
a completely different name. So I can

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see Demosthenes doing the same thing.
He was billed as Demosthenes to avoid confusion

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with his brother. That's what it
says. That's what it says an IMDb

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and IMDb would never lie. It's
got to be true, then it must

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be true. So next month we
are back and we're going to be covering

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something a little different. We're not
changing into an X Files podcast, but

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we are covering it. An episode
of The X Files, which was supposed

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to be an episode of the Coal
Chuck reboot, which is called Molder and

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Scully Meet the wear Monster. It
was based off of the script The M

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Word, so we'll be talking both
about the M word and Molder and Scully

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Meet the wear Monster. What a
horrible title, that is? Why are

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we talking about the M word or
Molder and Sculling Meet the wear a Monster?

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Meet the wear a Monster. Yeah? I think it kind of works

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in like a Pope comic book way, but that's not it's a little too

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on the nose for its own good. I mean, at least like The

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X Files didn't try to do.
There are like shows out there that have

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theme names to them. Now,
so like you mean, like Chuck,

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is that right? Chuck was like
Chuck versus the That was the that was

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the episode titles was always Chuck versus
the and then the real was one of

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the episodes where Chuck versus the Pink
Banana or some horseshit like Friends, right,

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I mean, Friends were the ones
that came up with that dumb naming

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convention. The Friends Friends one was
the one with something right. I've never

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seen a single episode of Friends.
So hashtag roast me, please, You're

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better off for it, I guess
so, but everybody loves it, not

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me, everybody but you. Yeah, And honestly, your opinion is more

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important than the general public. Thank
you, Chris. But here's the thing.

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I am an X Files fan.
I didn't watch that episode of the

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show. Well, I look forward
to seeing it with you for the first

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time. Me too, I look
forward to finding out if it is as

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bad as everything else that came before
and after it, with those reboots,

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because those reboots spoilers were not good. Ah. This is one of the

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few that I watched from that season. I think I watched actually the first

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three, and I quit after watching
this, So maybe that we'll say something.

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I mean, I remember watching the
Mythology episodes and thinking to myself,

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good, great, Chris Carter's back
to his old bullshit again. He's back

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on that bullshit, because that's I
mean, anyone who's a fan of The

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X Files, and I'm sure some
of you listening are, you know that

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once Chris Carter got on that bullshit
with the Mythology, the show just nosedived

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real hard. It just never felt
like he knew where it was going.

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Well, it's like the jj Abrams
mystery boxing right, I know what the

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boxes, but I will never tell
you what the contents are. And once

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I start telling you what the contents
are, it is immensely disappointing. And

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the X Files kind of had the
same problem. Yeah, I'm sure Ray

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is related to the Skywalkers somehow.
Oh dear God, Oh my god,

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Chris, what is going on with
you in your life? Sir? Right

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now, we are third episode of
the one season shows coming out. If

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we had never done this podcast,
cole Check probably would have been a show.

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We would have done a one season
show season because it only lasted one

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season. And honestly, the effects
and the influence of Colcheck cannot be understated

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or overstated or stated enough, frankly, because I would say a lot of

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modern television takes from Colcheck. So
we're doing the one season show where we

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talk about shows that only lasted one
season. We are still talking about Werewolf

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from nineteen eighty seven, which it's
kind of like The Incredible Hulk meets I

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Don't Know a Werewolf. Just replaced
the Hulk with a werewolf, and you've

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got Werewolf of the TV show.
And also, I do a podcast called

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the Culture Cast where we talk about
movies once a week you're on there sometimes

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this month we're talking about weird nineties
comedies and boy there are a lot of

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them. And you and I do
a little podcast with a good friend of

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ours called Dreams for Sale where we
talk about twilds of nineteen eighty five,

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So a lot of kind of not
vintage but you know, pre Golden Age

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or Golden Age of TV, before
there was such a term being used for

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everything TV. Where can people find
you? What are you up to?

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Well, we are in the midst
of Chechtember over at the Projection Booth Projection

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Booth podcast dot com, and yeah, we're just looking at Czechoslovakian Actually,

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we've got some Slovakian centric films,
even one from Milan Nasa or whatever that

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middle part between like Bohemia and Slovakia
is. So I'm learning more about the

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actual layout of Czechoslovakia right now,
the former Czechoslovakia aka the Czech Republic plus

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Slovakia whatever. So yeah, that's
what I'm up to. It's pretty exciting.

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Come on down to the Projection Booth. You'll talk about movies and get

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a history lesson, a little bit
of geography, a little bit of history,

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maybe some math. Oh the sadness. I can tell you that,

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yeah, definitely. As someone whose
family is from Eastern Europe, boy,

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the Eastern European history is just one
long famine. They're not all Oldiita sax

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Nova, so there are some funny
ones in there too. I'm just talking

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about the country. That's true,
that's true. I want to thank John

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Walker for our theme music. I
want to thank everybody for listening. Have

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you stuck with us this long?
You should be impressed. Pat yourself on

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the back right now, do it. We love you, We too love

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you. I took some pictures,
but it seemed pointless. The destruction of

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the room would be labeled vandalism or
a faulty sprinkler system. I don't need

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any photographs of Helen is that she
would always be as she always was,

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cold and beautiful and unchanging. As
a PostScript, I offer this bit of

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advice. Should you ever find a
ring, no matter how pretty or valuable,

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consider well before you slip it on
your finger. You may never get

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it off again. Bound h Chapter