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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, this is Sam from the suburbs of Chicago.

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Do you find yourself constantly on the go? Are you overworked, stressed, tired?

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Need a break? Well, you've come to the right place.

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Whether you're conscious or semi conscious. If you have a

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pulse ears, are you above the ground and breathing on

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your own? If you can't, try fifty five, but you

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sure as hell can go eighty eight. And I got

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the show for you. All the killer, none of the filler.

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I am proud to introduce Jason and d Surely you

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can't be serious podcast?

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Speaker 2: Enjoy?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Jason, I have a new criteria. As you know,

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we frequently have guest hosts. Come on here. I've got

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a new criteria that you have to meet in order

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to be a guest host on the Surely you can't

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be serious podcasts? Okay, okay? What is it? You have

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to be able to hammer a six inch spike into

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a board with your penis? Don't be a degenerate me.

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What about that time I caught you naked with a

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bowl full of jello. I was hot and I was hungry.

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All right, Now that all the moms have turned to

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the channel, right exactly, Welcome back to this Shirley You

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Can't Be Serious podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back for

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another fantastic episode of nineteen eighty five movies, because we

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are here to talk about the movies real genius and

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weird science.

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Speaker 4: I know these are like nerds just want to have fun, right.

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Speaker 3: I know. Nineteen eighty four we found out that nerds

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can be heroes and it took off like a frickin' firecracker,

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like a spaceship out of the back of a house. Right,

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that's right, I mean, because we just we covered a

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little earlier this season. We covered One Crazy Summer and

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Better Off Dead, both totally nerds against you know, the

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what about the snobs against the slobs? Right right? And

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we've got a couple of movies that are just both

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icons of nineteen eighty five, which we've been talking about

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doing four years. We finally put it on the schedule

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this year, and tragically it falls just after the death

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of Al Kilmer. You know, that one really hit me hard.

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Speaker 4: He was somebody that I enjoyed his movies. I found

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him funny, he was dramatic, he was could be a

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romantic lead. He kind of covered the board and just

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a super skilled guy and real loss.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, truly. And it was funny because when they announced

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his death, like the New York Times included the Batman

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role on there. And I'm like, guys, I mean, of

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all the roles, you're gonna mention Batman, come on, I mean,

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it's an iconic role, but he didn't but not for him.

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He didn't really do it. No. No, I mean say

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Doc Holliday, say Jim Morrison sayin yeah, Chris Knight even, yes,

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but not not Batman.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you this for me, the most iconic roles

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of Val Kilmer. I mean it's Iceman, Jim Morrison, and

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it is Chris nine and Doc Holiday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and the you know he said he said

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after a Top Gun he has never ever been in

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an airport where another pilot didn't call him iceman. That

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makes sense, right, right? I mean, how many pilots or

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pilots because of that movie? Right? Oh?

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Speaker 4: I know my roommate in college was one exactly, Doug Huggin,

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friend of the show yep.

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Speaker 3: Oh. And by the way, guys, we have covered Top Gun.

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Definitely go back and check that episode out. We also

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covered the soundtrack. Go check that episode out. We compared

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it to Maverick, which is one of the best I mean,

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coming twentieth century to the twenty first century remake or

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reboot or whatever you want to call it, best sequels

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I've ever seen. It was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, funny story. Yes, my roommate in college,

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Doug Huggin, Yes, a friend of the show.

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Speaker 3: You've met him.

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Speaker 4: He would put in the top gun VHS tape in

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our room. Uh huh, hit pause to look at and

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make sure he's put his uniform together the way.

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Speaker 3: That's fantastic, Doug.

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Speaker 4: All right, So we're talking about Weird Science, which is

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Speaker 3: Yep, we really haven't.

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Speaker 3: Gone all the way. This is the first one of

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the John Hughes movies that we've talked about that he directed.

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Speaker 4: Right, And you know he directed this one intentionally. He

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made a deal with the studio essentially, yeah, you let

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me direct the one I really want and I'll direct

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this one, okay. And the one he really wanted to direct,

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The Breakfast Club, Oh wow, And they said, okay, listen,

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just a comedy. He was a comedy guy, and Breakfast

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Speaker 3: Yep. I'm excited to talk about Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: But I was going through so the John Hughes movies

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that I think we've covered so far, and correct me

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if I'm wrong. I know We've done Home Alone, which

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he wrote, right, We've done Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Christmas Vacation,

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which he wrote both of those. Yes, Vacation is where

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Speaker 3: In exactly the Hollywood. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I heard him talk about that though even though John

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Hughes wrote that script, Anthony Michael Hall did not meet

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him until after that until on the set of sixteen Candles.

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you know Hughes wrote it, there's Anthony Michael Hall, and

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their relationship. It was an amazing. Like we talked when

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we talked about that John Cusack before he did those movies,

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was one of the two sidekick you know, King of

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the Geek Farmer Ted had, Yeah, and the other one

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was in was in Real Genius. Did you see him

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another little cameo bit? I told you he has this

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had a tiny little cameo bit in One Crazy Summer

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and he had he has a tiny little cameo bit

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hall and doing stuff like I think it may have

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been at the party with the cosmetology students or whatever

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they are. The invitational is, yeah, but just one of

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those things where it's just like they're watching the girl

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walk by and I'm like, oh, there he is again.

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such a relationship with John Hughes at that point that

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when they were auditioning the sidekicks, he said, why don't

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you pick these guys because they're going to be your friends.

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year old kid, not even yeah, and he gets to

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he so he picked John Cusack, that's right. And the

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other dude whatever his name is, right, I can't remember,

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it's real smooth Cliff. Hey, I got something for you. Yeah,

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But do you know who almost was hired to be

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Chris Knight in Real Genius? No, John Cusack? Wow, Well

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that would have been something.

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Speaker 4: It's just, you know, it's just this pool of young

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actors just kind of moving around each other all the time.

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about the actors that were hanging out with each other,

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of course on the set, but also because Back to

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the Future was being filmed at the same time, hanging

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being filmed at the same time. So weird Science is

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being filmed right next to the studio where Back to

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the Future is being filmed, right, And I was listening

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to Judy Aronson talk about this, and she is the

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one who plays Hilly, she's one of the girls in

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the brunette, right, And she said, so they're right next

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to us. We were next to them we're all young,

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we're all hanging out, we're watching that movie be filmed.

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this stuff was going on. I was watching them film.

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Speaker 3: Back to the Future.

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Speaker 4: So we wrapped up Weird Science and left. And she said,

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and to me, Back to the Future starred Eric Stoltz,

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because that's the way it was, and when I left,

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that's the way it had continued to be.

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Speaker 3: And so she was like, what Michael J. Fox. Holy cow,

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when did that happen? You know?

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Speaker 4: So anyway, she was saying that Eric Stultz was actually

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not the first Marty McFly right, And so I was like,

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Speaker 3: To me it was Eric. They went after Michael J.

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Speaker 4: Fox, they hired Eric Stoltz, and then they replaced him

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Speaker 3: Fox. Well, that's not totally true.

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Speaker 4: So according to her, and I went online and I

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found some corroborating video of this. Yes, so they went

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after Michael J. Fox, they didn't get him. They hired C.

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Thomas Howell to be Marty.

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Speaker 4: Well here's what happened. The movie Mask came out and

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Speaker 4: He is the head of Universal and he said, this

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kid who's starting in this Mask movie is the Bee's knees.

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Speaker 3: We need to hire him.

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Speaker 4: And so they fired Tommy Howell, brought in Eric Stole.

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we need to not call this back to the future.

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Eric Stoltz is not working, get him out of here.

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Speaker 3: Bringing Michael J. Fox and here we go crazy. Yeah. Well,

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and Illan Mitchell Smith had just been run. It's like

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Elon Musk. Well, okay, is it? I heard That's that's

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how they were Okay. I was just listening to Anthony

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like like you be ill who knows. We don't know him.

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in a movie before Weird. He had just been in

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a movie before Weird Science with Eric Stoltz. He was

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you know else was in that movie, Chris Pin, Leah

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that was the other name I was thinking of. Cameron

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Crowe wrote that movie. And of course Chris Pinn would

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go on to do Footloose. Yes, and Kevin Bacon of

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course we talked about that in our Footloose episode. Go

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back and check out our Footloose episode and we did

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the movie and the soundtrack on that one as well.

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It was good. But going back to Val Kilmer, he

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little kid. But when he started in career acting, he

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was in a stage play called Slab Boys I think

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was the name of the show. Okay, and he had

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gotten the lead role and then they were like, oh wait,

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we can get Kevin Bacon, do you mind doing the

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second lead? And he was like, okay, I'll do the

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second lead. And they're like, oh wait, we got Sean Penn,

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do you mind doing the third. So he'd went from

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star of the show to butt of all of the

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jokes in this but his first like major acting gig

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was starring in this play with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.

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How about that? Yeah, well that's cool. I got a

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story for you. Okay, you're ready for this? Yeah, okay.

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So in March of nineteen seventy five, McDonald's has this

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contest and it's just in California, okay, and they're going

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to be giving away stuff, big prizes, but it's it

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real short entry window. But it's March third through March

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twenty third. And there are three students at cal Tech,

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Steve Klein, David Novakov, and Barry Megdahl. And they notice

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says ter as often as you wish, no purchase necessary,

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no purchase necessary. And so they start thinking about it

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and they're like, well, what happens if we really just

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follow the letter of the law here. So they recruit

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about twenty three other friends from their dormitory, the Page

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House at Caltech and they go to I mean we're

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talking mid seventies big IBM mainframe computer. They programmed the

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computer to print out these sheets of entry forms for

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this contest. Because it wasn't like the you know, you

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had to have a particular form. You could make your own.

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all the sheets, they went to a print shop, they

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cut them all up over On the last day of

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the contest, they and their twenty three friends went and

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stuffed ninety eight McDonald's box last day on the last day,

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with one point two million entries. Good for them, one

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point million entries. Now there were cash, prizes, gift certificates,

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euro groceries, and a dots and Z available as prizes, okay,

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but the total entry for the contest was something like

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three point four million, so they had a third of

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the entries, right. They ended up winning twenty percent of

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the prizes, including the groceries, the car and much of

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the cash and the gift certificates and stuff like that,

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which very similar line came from one of them. I'm

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not really sure how we had a third of the

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entries but only one a fifth of the prizes. I

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don't know how the math works out, but that was

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the inspiration for Laslow Hollyfield and his entry of the

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free doo Lay contest because and here's the rest of

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her loops all the way back around the Caltech students

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were inspired by a similar hoax act, prank, whatever you

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want to call it, from guys from Caltech from nineteen

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sixty nine who did it in a free delay contest.

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Really yep, So that is the inspiration for Laslow Hollyfield's

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machine of freeedolay entries. I love it, I love it.

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Speaker 2: These are entries into the Freedom La sweep stakes. Don't purchase,

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necessarily enter as often as you want, so I am

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it's great. How many times welp?

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Speaker 5: This batch makes it one million, six hundred and fifty thousand.

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I should win thirty two point six percent of the prizes,

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including the car.

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Speaker 4: Weren't you telling me a legal type of story? Remember

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when PEPSI did some competition in the early.

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Speaker 3: Ninety yesh I go, You could win a jet harrier

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Jet Harrier jet if you reached a certain amount of points.

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You like it, and it's million. It was supposed to be.

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but they just the guys for the ad team didn't

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put the right zero in there, so it was like

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one hundred thousand points. And yeah, some kid wanted to

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claim his Harrier jet. He entered enough to get the

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one hundred thousand points, and PEPSI said no. When there

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is a big old, ugly lot, there's a whole documentary

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on it. It's really quite good.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, where do we want to start here?

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Speaker 3: I would say, let's start with real genius.

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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, d Before you start talking about real genus,

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I just want you to know that compared to us,

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most people have the IQ of a carrot.

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Speaker 3: We're different.

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Speaker 2: Better, let's just pause, put that down. Let's just take

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a step back.

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Speaker 3: No, I was wrong.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, I take step forward, take a step back, step forward,

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and step back, and then we're tutching.

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Speaker 2: We stop it. I'm serious, Okay, I'm serious too.

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Speaker 3: All right, So we start with a guy named Neil

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Israel who he started off. He was raised in New

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York and was an assistant to Broadway producer and director

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George Abbott, who was a Pulitzer Prize winner, and he

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eventually made his way out to la where he become

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an executive. Became an executive at ABC and CBS, and

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he wrote and directed a little independent film called tunnel Vision.

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Tunnel Vision introduced are you Ready for This? Chevy Chase,

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Al Franken and John Candy. His next movie was a

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movie called Ringo, which starred Ringo Starr and George Harrison

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and Vincent Price, John Ritter and Carrie Fisher. Like I've

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never heard of either one of these movies, but I'm like,

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what this is like mid seventies, right, Like Carrie Fisher

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has just finished with Star Wars and she's in this

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guy's she's in this guy's movie. And then he starts

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writing with his writing partner for several other shows, a

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guy named Pat Proft. Now Pat Proft helped him write

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the original Police Acagement. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, So before you go any further, yes, Neil Israel,

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I believe is the guy when High Tower smashes into

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the back of the car.

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Speaker 3: The guy gets out of the car.

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Speaker 4: And says, you dumb idiot and sticks his head in

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and he's like, that's try.

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Speaker 3: And then then Neil Israel went on to write and

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direct a movie called Bachelor Party, which introduced us to

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Tony Katy, Oh my goodness. And so he's just got

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this history of writing these movies that well they introduce

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us to people who become big mega stars. And then

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he writes this movie called Real Genius. Look, I want

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to start seeing a lot more of you in a lab.

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Speaker 2: Fine, all game? Wait, thanks, Jerry.

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Speaker 3: Try Now. Martha Coolidge gets the script and I think

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she turned it down the first time she saw it,

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and so it went through some major rewrites with a

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couple of script doctors that we've talked about before, a

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guy named lu Gance and you'll remember this name, babbylo Mandel.

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Remember babbylu Mandel. Yes, if you don't remember them, wrote

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night Shift splash spies like us. And when we talked

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about him, it was because they had written Multiplicity. So

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to go back and check out our Groundhog Day versus

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Multiplicity episode, fantastic episode. Yes, they doctored it up. Still

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wasn't quite good enough. So she got together. Martha Coolidge

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got together with a guy named PJ. His name was

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Peter at the time, but he he transitioned she oh

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to she in like two thousand and one, but anyway,

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back then he was Peter or she was Peter, and

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they worked on the script together to get it where

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it needed to be, and it was always going to

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be a revenge movie. But she didn't have the end.

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She didn't know what the end was going to be.

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And the end is maybe one of the most iconic

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parts of the movie, right, Like everybody, if you talk

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about that movie, they're going to be like, I wonder

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how they did this right? Right? And so it was

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I can't remember the guy's name, God forgive me, but

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he like helped design some of the Star Wars guys.

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He helped design the the DeLorean and Back to the Future,

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like he had done all of this amazing design work.

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And he was the one that suggested the popcorn destroying

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the house ending. Really, yes, that's fantastic, you know.

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Speaker 4: Martha Coolidge got her movie start with the movie called

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Valley Girl, Yes, which introduced us to Nick Cage yep

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and Deborah Foreman.

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Speaker 3: Who makes her lovely appearance in this movie. She shows

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up for seen a body like that before she's my daughter.

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I guess you have funny funny, right.

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Speaker 4: But this movie was originally supposed to be more like

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along the lines of Revenge of the Nerds, kind of

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boobs and jokes and yeah, you know, revenge and that

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type of thing. Martha Coolidge was like, wait a minute, guys,

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let's brain this in. Let's make it smart. Let's make

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the nerds the heroes, and you know, let's make this

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a smart comedy. Rather than just take the cheap low road.

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Speaker 3: She spent months researching laser technology, CIA policies and tactics,

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and she spent months interviewing Caltech students about what they

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did at cal Tech. You know, when he's spouting off

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some of the stuff and I can't possibly repeat it

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because science is not my bag, man, but he's spouting

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some of that stuff off, I had to pause the

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movie and I looked it up. It's accurate stuff. The

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stuff that they are saying is I mean you, is

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it accurate that you can destroy a house with popcorn? No?

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Probably not. But like the science that they're shooting out

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of their mouths that makes sound really complicated, is real, genuine.

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Speaker 4: Size a gashous not chemical state?

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Speaker 3: You know whatever? I understood. This is ice. This is

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what happens to water when it gets too cold. Right,

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This is kent. This is what happens when someone gets

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too sexually frustrated. That's so funny, right, This movie is

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very clever. It's very so good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Val Kilmer's giving like this dry clever humor.

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Speaker 3: He's dropping jokes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's looking at you deadpan.

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Speaker 3: But he also will chuckle with you too.

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Speaker 2: You know, what is that toy in your head?

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Speaker 5: Because if I wear it anywhere else, it chase. I'm sorry,

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it's just that I didn't want you guys to think

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I was stuck. You know, no fun brain, no penis.

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Speaker 2: Pardon me. I'm sorry. It's just an infantile response to authority.

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Yes you are Chris Knight, aren't you. I hope. So

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I'm wearing his underwear. It's a joke.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just can't help. But you guys are such

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fun yourself, try to be. Isn't that right, Mike?

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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, they're like, ah, it's a joke. He's like,

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it's the perfect delivery. It really is. So here's here's

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something interesting. Like I was telling you, you know, I

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caught the beginning of the Vowel documentary and he he

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wanted to be an actor from the time he was

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a very little kid. His older brother brother Wesley Kilmer,

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was an aspiring film director, and he said his creativity

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was dwarfed by his creativity. Wow, super creative guy, and

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Val says he remembers the first time being on stage

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and making a group of people laugh, and he says,

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I want to do this for the rest of my life.

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And he ends up being the youngest person ever accepted

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into the Juilliard School of Acting. Before he goes, he

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has a dream, and his dream he is with his

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girlfriend and his girlfriend's mother, and his girlfriend's mother tells

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him that she is not afraid of death because at

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that point she will get to meet her creator. He

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is awakened from this dream to his other brother telling

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him that Wesley passed away the night before, had an

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epileptic seizure in their whirlpool and drought. And so he

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goes to Juilliard in this kind of despondent state. And

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Wesley was also an avid painter and illustrator, and so

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he put all of his artwork up in his dorm

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room walls. Right now. He ultimately gets the top secret,

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which is fantastic movie. I definitely think we need to

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cover that at some point. Sure, but he said it

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was just fluff. You know, this is Zucker Abraham's and

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Zucker parody piece. Right, Well, they came out after airplane,

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you know, yes, and so he kind of felt silly,

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but he said he whatever kind of work he was doing,

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he would try to find the truth behind it. He

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was a an actor's actor studied with with the best, right. Yeah,

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meets his wife out there, he comes back and in

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the in the documentary they jump over with just the

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shortest little clip of Real Genius. They go right from

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Top Secret to Top Gun. But in that short little clip,

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if you're not watching, you won't you'll miss it. You

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remember what the dorm room looked like in Real Genius.

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Sure had the Einstein and all the others. The Saturn

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on the wall. Yeah, yeah, one of the pieces of

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artwork on the wall was his brother was Lee's drawings.

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Oh that's good. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, nice, nice moment.

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I don't get the impression that Val was very proud

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of Real Genius. Yeah, I mean he kind of he

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kind of blew by it, and he even didn't want

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to do Top Gun. I mean he but he said,

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I was you know, I had signed a contract and

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I didn't really have any choice.

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Speaker 4: Tony Scott basically said, no, you're doing this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's and he admired Tony Scott a lot

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in that process, but he was he didn't expect it

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to be as big as it was, and he wasn't

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excited about doing it. But that's I mean, that's three

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for three. I mean, I love all of those movies,

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Top Secret, Real Genius and Top Gun. That he was

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just wrong about that movie. So yeah, that's right, but

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you gotta pay your dues. Whatever.

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Speaker 4: Do you remember the last time we talked about a

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movie with Tony Scott and Val Killer or.

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Speaker 3: Is it not Top Gun? Not Top Gun? True romance?

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Oh right? Because Val is the invisible Elvis. That's right,

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he's the mentor, the mentor because they couldn't call him,

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they couldn't him, and they never showed his face. It

469
00:24:38,079 --> 00:24:40,799
was just his voice and his hands and his jacket

470
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,359
or whatever. Yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. Now

471
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,960
Tony Scott and Val Kilmer are both gone. Yeah it's tragic, yep, tragic.

472
00:24:47,039 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 2: If you want to be a party animal, you have

473
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,039
to learn to live in the jungle. And now stop

474
00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:52,359
borring and go and get dressed.

475
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 3: John Hughes got the idea for Weird Science from the

476
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,559
comic book Weird Science, Called Weird Science, Call Weird Science. Now.

477
00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:04,079
You remember when we did Creep Show with Amanda Janic, Yeah,

478
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,839
compared it to Twilight Zone. We talked about Bill Gaines

479
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,880
and his He had those comic books that would you know,

480
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,680
you'd see the severed head or whatever, and they put

481
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,599
the the the the controls and effect like the rating

482
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,559
for comic books into effect because of some of his stuff. Right. Well,

483
00:25:21,559 --> 00:25:24,279
one of the guys that he worked with who was

484
00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:27,920
big on the ec comics that he did and big

485
00:25:28,039 --> 00:25:32,640
on Mad Magazine was a guy named al Feldstein. Okay,

486
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,960
and back when they were doing ec comics and doing

487
00:25:36,039 --> 00:25:40,440
Weird Science, al Feldstein had a story that was called

488
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,440
made Him Ad of the Future, Made of the Future,

489
00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:48,559
and this was the inspiration the first I've only seen

490
00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:52,559
the first frame, but it's a guy whose fiance is

491
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,640
calling off the engagement and saying she's going to go

492
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,319
marry some guy named Bob. And then it looks like

493
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,920
he's got you know, he's got his Your bride is

494
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,279
Frankenstein's bride ready to pull the plug on? You know?

495
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:05,519
This is how dumb I am.

496
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 4: It took me about ten times through a Weird Science

497
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,720
to realize this is a retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

498
00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:14,799
It is right, and you know, I know it. They

499
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,279
even watched the movie and get their watch there's a

500
00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:23,200
live right. Well, when you're when you think you're watching

501
00:26:23,319 --> 00:26:27,359
a teenage sex comedy, yeah, you're not thinking Frankenstein, you know,

502
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,200
So I think that's that's fantastic. John Hughes wrote the

503
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,799
screenplay in two days.

504
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said that, and Anthony Michael Hall. What I

505
00:26:35,799 --> 00:26:38,160
caught was they were in the middle of filming what

506
00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:40,319
was breakfast No, it couldn't have been breakfast club because

507
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,839
it was before that. They must know it was breakfast Well,

508
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,039
it was breakfast Club. Okay, so they're in the middle

509
00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:48,440
of filming breakfast Club and he hands Anthony Michael Hall

510
00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:50,799
thirty pages of a script. Yeah, and says I wrote

511
00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:53,480
this last night. You should you should take a look

512
00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:56,599
at this is our next project together. Yes, And that

513
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,160
was the first thirty pages of Weird Science. And it's

514
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,599
just absurd. Like if you look at John Hughes's other stuff,

515
00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:08,200
this is beyond the absurd meter, comparatively speaking, like even

516
00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:11,920
Uncle Buck and the crew, oh not even. It's just

517
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,240
there's nothing as weird as weird science.

518
00:27:14,559 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 4: Nothing makes sense, but you absolutely accept it. Right, Yeah,

519
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:22,000
it's because we hooked up the computer, We bowled through

520
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:25,519
the access denied thing, We went around this skull, we

521
00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:27,680
hooked up the doll. We put bras on our head

522
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,480
and boom, you have a magic woman who appears out

523
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:30,839
of nowhere.

524
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,759
Speaker 3: You have to put the bras on your head.

525
00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 4: So we mentioned that John Hughes came to Anthony Michael Hall.

526
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,839
You know, John Hugh's a very loyal guy, right, He

527
00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:46,359
leans on people that he trusts. Right, So obviously Molly

528
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,640
Ringwold has been a big part of John Hughes's catalog.

529
00:27:49,759 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 3: Right.

530
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,279
Speaker 4: Mcaulay Culkin was a big part of his catalog as well.

531
00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:56,519
He had latched onto Anthony Michael Hall. Okay, now get this.

532
00:27:56,559 --> 00:27:58,920
So Anthony Michael Hall had been in vacation, he had

533
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,240
been in sixteen Candles, he had been in Breakfast Club.

534
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 3: We're in Science.

535
00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:06,039
Speaker 4: He was supposed to be in Pretty in Pink Next

536
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,279
and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He was supposed to be

537
00:28:09,319 --> 00:28:12,079
Ferris Bueller. He was supposed to be Ferris Bueller.

538
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:18,799
Speaker 3: John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller with Anthony Michael Hall in mind.

539
00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 4: That's right, So get this. Matthew Broderck did such a

540
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,519
good job. I can't really say anything bad about that performance.

541
00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:27,599
I think that was probably a better fit.

542
00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:28,559
Speaker 3: But here's the thing.

543
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 4: Anthony Michael Hall decided he wanted to do something other

544
00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:33,640
than John Hughes comedies.

545
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,039
Speaker 3: Right, Which what was it he picked?

546
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 4: He did out of the Bounds, right, Yeah, which I

547
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,880
did that podcast with Jeff Johnson. It's on their patreon.

548
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,240
If you go over to the film buy sign up

549
00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:46,920
for their patreon, go listen to the out of Bounds episode.

550
00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:50,200
It's like a fish out of water story where Anthony

551
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,519
Michael Hall is a country boy. He goes to La

552
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,559
Sunset Strip in eighty six, which is pretty fun, and

553
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,480
makes terrible decisions, gets in trouble with the law, but

554
00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,039
he's kind of fighting for his own instance. It's a

555
00:29:03,119 --> 00:29:06,440
dramatic role. It's kind of more serious. There's gun play involved.

556
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,279
It's not farmer ted. Yeah, and it's completely forgettable.

557
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,279
Speaker 3: Yeah it is.

558
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 4: And really from that point forward he struggles. He does

559
00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:17,920
Johnny Be Good, which was kind of a fun eighties movie,

560
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,559
but it wasn't a big hit. Yeah, he does Edward

561
00:29:20,599 --> 00:29:23,079
Scissor Hands and then he vanishes for about ten or

562
00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:23,799
fifteen years.

563
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he did. I don't remember when the

564
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,680
Dead Zone TV series came out.

565
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:32,039
Speaker 4: Early two thousands, but that's when he really reappears. Yeah,

566
00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:33,880
which that's a great show if you haven't seen that.

567
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh and by the way, SI, go check out

568
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,759
our old Kujo versus Christine versus the Dead Zone matchup

569
00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:43,480
from I think it was October of twenty three. Yeah,

570
00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:45,519
I think that's right. Yeah, Okay, that's kind of a

571
00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:46,759
Halloween thing exactly.

572
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:48,559
Speaker 4: All right, d So let's get into casting. I got

573
00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:51,000
some stuff for you on the cast. These casts are

574
00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:53,160
amazing and have some crazy stories.

575
00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 3: Really for sure, they really do. Right, So let's let's go.

576
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,200
We're right here at Weird Science and scho word Skill

577
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:58,680
Word Science.

578
00:29:58,759 --> 00:30:01,519
Speaker 4: Okay, So we talked to Gout Anthony Michael Hall already

579
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,960
elon Mitchell Smith.

580
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,039
Speaker 3: By the way, why are wearing bras on our heads?

581
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: Ceremonial?

582
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,599
Speaker 3: He had just done The Wildlife.

583
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,559
Speaker 4: We talked about that with Rik Stoltz, Chris Pin.

584
00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 3: Leah Thompson got his start in ballet. Did you know this?

585
00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 4: I've read that I didn't see any video of that though.

586
00:30:19,799 --> 00:30:22,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he was. He was had made it into

587
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,640
got a scholarship to a very good ballet school. But

588
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,640
that was where he got discovered. He played the younger

589
00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:32,880
version of Timothy Hutton in the movie Daniel, okay, which

590
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,480
was based on the Book of Daniel. And then yes,

591
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,559
it's biblical.

592
00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 4: Well, I cruised right past that I saw Daniel.

593
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't recognize no, no, no, no, no, it's

594
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:48,680
like there's a book called the Book of Daniel. Lions.

595
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,240
Then when we talking about I mean, I haven't seen

596
00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:52,039
the movie. I don't know. Maybe it is biblical. I

597
00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:54,839
really I don't. I couldn't tell you, okay. But then yes,

598
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,640
as we mentioned before, he was in The Wildlife, which

599
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,039
is written by Cameron Cowe and had Chris Pin and

600
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:04,599
Leah Thompson and Eric Stolton. And then they see him again.

601
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,160
This is I mean, John Hughes and Anthony Michael Hall

602
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,880
are tight and they see him in the Wildlife and

603
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,039
they're like, let's get him as the other guy for

604
00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:12,680
this movie.

605
00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 4: Right by the way, I think he was paid about

606
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,119
a third of the amount of Anthony Michael Hall.

607
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,799
Speaker 3: But that's okay. That kind of makes sense. Here's some

608
00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:24,559
tidbits on him. Okay, yeah, he acted. He did some

609
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,759
other stuff obviously, but he quit acting in I think

610
00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:33,240
it was ninety one. Yes, he got his bachelor's degree

611
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,359
in medieval studies. He got his master's degree in medieval studies,

612
00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:41,559
and then he got his PhD from Texas A and

613
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,200
M and is now a professor of English, I believe,

614
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:50,200
associate professor of English at cal State University in Long Beach.

615
00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:55,160
But this whole medieval thing. He is a tabletop gamer.

616
00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:57,759
He is a guy who like he not only plays it,

617
00:31:57,799 --> 00:32:00,799
but like he organizes the events. He's like written some

618
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,160
major articles on tabletop gaming. So he's a huge dungeons

619
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,880
and Dragons guy. That's interesting, which is perfect for the

620
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,839
character that he played, right. He mean he admits that

621
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,640
he's a big nerd.

622
00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard that he doesn't really want students to

623
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:17,920
take pictures with him and gets annoyed that people are.

624
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:20,559
Speaker 3: Like, eh, why it's teaching my class? Right? You know?

625
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,400
Well he did. He did do a brief cameo in

626
00:32:24,559 --> 00:32:28,200
The Goldberg. Yeah, in the episode Weird Science, where one

627
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,759
of the kids is like, I want to do what

628
00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:32,599
they did in Weird science, and he's the science teacher going,

629
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,960
you can't that's not I can't do it right?

630
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,279
Speaker 4: And he lied, and Adam Goldberg is like, why why

631
00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:40,319
did you lie? He's like, well, I had an older

632
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:41,839
brother who was a buttead.

633
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 3: Sir, in your expert scientific opinion, is it possible for

634
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,640
me to weird science up a girlfriend?

635
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: It was game over scientifically speaking.

636
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,839
Speaker 3: My teacher always took science seriously absolutely until he didn't.

637
00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:02,160
I knew it. Watch out, Kelly LeBrock, the taste. He's

638
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:02,680
coming for you.

639
00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 2: Why would you lie like that? Between you and me?

640
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,720
I have a butt lot of an older brother too.

641
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,319
Speaker 3: That's hilarious. So okay, the part of Lisa.

642
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: So what would you little maniacs like to do? First?

643
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,799
Speaker 4: Which I found super interesting. They took the name from

644
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,119
the Apple Lisa computer. Do you remember the Lisa way

645
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,079
back at the beginning, Like Steve Jobs had a daughter

646
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,880
named Lisa, I think, and he named that first one

647
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,960
of those first Apple computers he.

648
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 3: Called the Lisa.

649
00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: Okay, And that's where they get the character Lisa from

650
00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:39,640
Perfect Perfect Now Kelly LeBrock panting.

651
00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 3: Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. I still use panting conditioner.

652
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,640
To this day because of Kelly Lebron. I am not lying.

653
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,279
I have used panting conditions the last forty years because

654
00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:52,319
you don't, because you're beautiful. Thank you.

655
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 4: But you know, on a serious note, that was an

656
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,359
iconic commercial from the eighties. A lot of people girl

657
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,480
kind of turned off by that.

658
00:34:00,559 --> 00:34:00,799
Speaker 3: I think.

659
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 4: I know some girls at my school were like that stupid.

660
00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:06,079
Speaker 3: They didn't make it for them, I know. I mean,

661
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:07,839
they may envy her, but they're going to go buy

662
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,760
the stuff that is going to make them look like

663
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,199
or make their hair look like her hair.

664
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,599
Speaker 4: Right, So I sent you a little tidbit this morning

665
00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:18,119
that you didn't know, and I didn't know until last night. Yeah,

666
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:21,079
there is a song, a prominent eighties song that is

667
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,719
written about Kelly LeBrock.

668
00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 3: Blue my mind, bro blew my mind. Okay.

669
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 4: That song is the Hollan Oates classic man Ere.

670
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 3: What you Wow.

671
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,559
Speaker 4: I heard John Oates talk about this. He said they

672
00:34:46,559 --> 00:34:47,320
were at a club in.

673
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 3: New York City. Uh huh.

674
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,159
Speaker 4: And it was one of those clubs where famous people

675
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,559
hung out, actors, singer and blah blah blah, and Kelly

676
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,360
LeBrock walked in the room, sucked all the oxygen out

677
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,920
and everybody's like, way will they were?

678
00:35:03,639 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, So I mean you've seen her, yes,

679
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,960
and did an excellent job. Yeah. So she was born

680
00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:15,000
She's born in nineteen sixty and.

681
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,559
Speaker 4: That makes her twenty four to twenty five in this picture.

682
00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 3: Ish yes, and Elan Mitchell Smith was born in seventies seventy,

683
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,199
like sixty nine. I think he was born in sixty nine.

684
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,960
So in both of these movies, you have women in

685
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,400
their mid twenties kissing deeply fifteen year old boy, it's

686
00:35:36,519 --> 00:35:38,159
like what I know.

687
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:42,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, and in both of these movies you have popular

688
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,400
songs written about those women.

689
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:51,679
Speaker 3: That's wait a minute, there's a popular song on Weird Science. Really,

690
00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:55,320
I mean I real genius. Yes, Oh, I don't know

691
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,000
this old tight Okay, get there, Yeah, all right, we're

692
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,199
still talking casting on Weird Science's a little teaser, all right.

693
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,519
Speaker 4: So Kelly Imberg was originally hired. I think they went

694
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:08,639
after Kelly Lebron. She said something along the lines of

695
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,199
she's having too much fun riding horses in Spain because

696
00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:15,320
that's what beautiful people do, right, rough life, right, And

697
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,320
so they brought in Kelly Imberg, who was a popular

698
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,400
model in the eighties.

699
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,039
Speaker 3: I looked at her.

700
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 4: She's pretty, but I don't recognize her. Okay, two days

701
00:36:24,639 --> 00:36:27,719
she gets the boot Creative Differences and they go after

702
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,199
Kelly LeBrock again, say hey, listen, we had to fire this.

703
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,679
Speaker 3: We really want you. Can you come?

704
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,519
Speaker 4: So she comes and she takes the role of Lisa.

705
00:36:34,599 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 3: She had just done the woman in Red. Oh right,

706
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,039
Gene Wilder. Gene Wilder. Yeah. Can you name the song

707
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,639
that was Oscar nominated? Not? The name of the song

708
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,320
is not that one. It's it with Me and what

709
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:49,960
is it? I don't know.

710
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,599
Speaker 4: It's the Jason Colvin non favorite I Just Called to

711
00:36:54,639 --> 00:36:59,599
Say I Love You, which against all odds by Phil Collins,

712
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:01,920
which we talked about a couple of weeks ago.

713
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,199
Speaker 3: Right, go check out those episodes. All right.

714
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 4: Do you know who almost got the job of Lisa

715
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,280
before Kelly Emberg was hired.

716
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 3: Christy Brinkley. No, that's a good guess. Yeah.

717
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 4: At that time, brace yourself. Robin Wright was almost hired

718
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,079
as Lisa. Wow, what was she twenty?

719
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, she was a baby way Yeah. In eighty

720
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:31,800
seven when Princess Break exactly, yeah, what and Demi Moore, Wow,

721
00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:33,800
that would have been a heck of a year for

722
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,159
Demi Moore, seriously, because that was that she was in

723
00:37:37,199 --> 00:37:39,039
three from eighty five already, right.

724
00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 4: You got one crazy summer. Yeah, you had last night

725
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,559
and you had sat Almo's Fire. Yeah, and she was

726
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,000
getting ready to start melting the camera.

727
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. Still not Kelly LeBrock though, not that hot yet

728
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,480
man smoking. All right, we got to talk about Bill Paxton, Yes,

729
00:37:55,519 --> 00:37:55,760
we do.

730
00:37:56,119 --> 00:38:02,559
Speaker 2: How about a nice ceazy pork sandwich served in a

731
00:38:02,599 --> 00:38:03,840
dirty ash tray.

732
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 4: This was kind of when I first became aware of him. Absolutely,

733
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,880
he had had you know, he'd done a little bit

734
00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:12,119
like he was one of the punks that got killed

735
00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:14,880
at the very beginning of the Terminator movie, right, and

736
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:17,800
you know he worked as a stage hand on Yeah,

737
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:19,800
not only with the stars or whatever.

738
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he was, he was. He was one of

739
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:25,199
the right hand guys for James Cameron when James Cameron

740
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,760
was making crappy b movies for guy what's his name,

741
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:29,559
Roger Corman.

742
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,519
Speaker 4: Yes, he was like gluing big Mac boxes on the

743
00:38:33,559 --> 00:38:34,519
walls and stuff like that.

744
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

745
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,159
Speaker 4: And so Bill Paxton had done just a few things

746
00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:38,719
here and there.

747
00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 3: He's hired.

748
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,519
Speaker 4: He comes and does weird science he had been hired

749
00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:46,639
by this time to be Hudson in Aliens.

750
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 3: Okay, but I heard Bill.

751
00:38:48,639 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 4: Paxson talk about that he was nervous that James Cameron

752
00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:54,679
was gonna watch Weird Science and think, this guy's an idiot.

753
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 3: What are we doing?

754
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 4: He's not a soldier, So he was real nervous about

755
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,440
Weird Science. Thought it was gonna costume his job in Aliens. Yeah,

756
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,719
but instead you get two fantastic Bill Paxon off the

757
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,800
leash rolls here.

758
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.

759
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 4: He's the funniest part of Weird Science.

760
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,199
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yes, oh yeah. That the gun and

761
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,960
he wakes him up and he's got the gun. So

762
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,639
the gun was made of plastic. Like I was like,

763
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,920
he's hitting hard, right, Apparently the gun's made of plastic.

764
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,559
But he but Anthony Michael Hall was like, we couldn't

765
00:39:22,559 --> 00:39:25,360
stop laughing because he was playing. So he was so

766
00:39:25,519 --> 00:39:27,400
freaking funny.

767
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:30,159
Speaker 4: I cracked up last night. I mean everything about it.

768
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,119
I mean whacking them on the head, pushing her nose off,

769
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,199
and then he goes in the other room and he

770
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,679
blows the doorknob off with his shotgun and it scares

771
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:39,519
the heck out of there.

772
00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: They wake right up. So Bill Paxton.

773
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 4: On fire in this absolutely, by the way, I told

774
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,000
you right before we started. I read the guy in

775
00:39:48,079 --> 00:39:51,280
charge of the special effect of the chet blob, right.

776
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, the doll the blob, yes, which.

777
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 4: Originally they were gonna put Bill Paxton in and and

778
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,840
he was gonna kind of puppet it, but it just

779
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,000
didn't work, and so they had him like voice of

780
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,119
offscreen whatever. So the guy who was in charge of

781
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:07,280
that effect said, for they struggled with it for a while,

782
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,079
like initially it looked too much like job of the

783
00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:11,320
Hut and they weren't real happy with that. And then

784
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,639
he said, they went to a different design and ultimately

785
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:16,159
it just wasn't funny. But he said it all flipped

786
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,079
when they added the Chet's crew cut to the blob.

787
00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:22,119
Speaker 3: Would you please turn me back to normal? Please.

788
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 4: I haven't done anything to you.

789
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:30,199
Speaker 3: No, but you've done plenty to your brother, like what, well,

790
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,039
let me see.

791
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 2: You've nagged him, harassed him, suppressed him, kept him in

792
00:40:35,519 --> 00:40:37,639
fear of you, extorted money from him.

793
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:39,559
Speaker 3: It's done out of love.

794
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: Just for that, I.

795
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 2: Ought to give you a set of elephant bulls.

796
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,119
Speaker 3: That's perfect. And I was like, that's funny. That's all

797
00:40:50,159 --> 00:40:53,840
you need, right, you just need that one symbolic little thing. Yes,

798
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:54,639
Oh it's awesome.

799
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 4: Uh okay, So a couple of the girls I want

800
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,000
to talk about real quick. Suzanne Snyder deb she's the Blobe.

801
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 3: She's been in a few things. Yeah, but she's always

802
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,920
just kind of that girl that she never She's very pretty.

803
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,719
I always expected her to be more, but she had

804
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,599
been in like family Ties.

805
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 4: She's like killer clowns from outer space. But there is

806
00:41:16,039 --> 00:41:19,039
kind of a connection to another movie in eighty six,

807
00:41:19,079 --> 00:41:20,920
which I've done with Jeff Johnson. Go over to the

808
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,440
Film by podcast check them out. But Suzanne Snyder and

809
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,840
the girl who plays Sue the perfume girl, perfume girl, either,

810
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,679
guys have got beat up at the homecoming dance.

811
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 3: Right.

812
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 4: They were in a movie called Night of the Creeps.

813
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,159
Speaker 3: That's right, I remember. Yeah.

814
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,519
Speaker 4: By the way, Jason Lively plays the lead role in

815
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,639
Night of the Creeps. He replaced Anthony Michael Hall in

816
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:45,800
European Vacation.

817
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 3: Oh he's rusty. Yeah, he's the new Rusty. Yeah.

818
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 4: And Anthony Michael Hall passed on European Vacation to do

819
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,559
weird science.

820
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 3: Okay, but here's the interesting part. The girl who was

821
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,440
originally supposed to be Audrey.

822
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 4: They were going to bring her back, but when Anthony

823
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,559
Michael Hall didn't return, they were like, well, let's just

824
00:42:04,559 --> 00:42:06,920
get two new people. So she lost her job because

825
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,000
Anthony Michael Hall didn't come back. Yeah, okay, I want

826
00:42:09,039 --> 00:42:10,679
to talk about Judy Aronson for a second.

827
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:11,119
Speaker 3: Okay.

828
00:42:11,159 --> 00:42:14,079
Speaker 4: First of all, she's about sixty years old now and

829
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,800
still a smoke show.

830
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 3: Really, oh man?

831
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 4: Okay, So she had been in Friday the Thirteenth Part seven.

832
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,599
She actually has kind of a cool little role cameo

833
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,039
role in Kiss Kiss Bang.

834
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 3: Bang, Yes, which also has Valkilmer in it, which that's

835
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,039
why has Robert Downey Junior.

836
00:42:30,159 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 4: Well, that's why she got the role is because she

837
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,159
had played Robert Downey Junior's girlfriend in Your Science There

838
00:42:35,159 --> 00:42:36,679
you go, okay, and there was that connection.

839
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 3: She walked up to him and talked to him in

840
00:42:38,519 --> 00:42:39,400
kis Kiss Bank Bank.

841
00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:43,639
Speaker 4: Robert Downey Junior, Yes, is in this movie.

842
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,199
Speaker 3: He plays Ian. His character's name is Ian. Okay. Yeah.

843
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 4: He talked about how at this time in his career

844
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,920
he's still playing the best friend. He's still he's not

845
00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:56,480
leading role material. He is definitely way far from Tony Stark.

846
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he's way far from less than zero

847
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,800
at this point, even though it's just a few years away.

848
00:43:01,039 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean he's playing the funny sidekick best.

849
00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 3: Friend Roles right by the way. He and Anthony Michael

850
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,360
Hall are like true blue friends, like been friends for

851
00:43:11,679 --> 00:43:12,960
it makes sense years now.

852
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 4: Anthony Michael Hall is the godfather of one of Robert

853
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,519
Downey Junior's daughters, and they also if you remember, Anthony

854
00:43:20,559 --> 00:43:23,960
Michael Hall and Robert Downey Junior were cast members of

855
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:24,920
Saturday Night Live.

856
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 3: That's right, for one week season. Yeah, that was the

857
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,559
last of the non Lauren Michael seasons. And at the

858
00:43:33,639 --> 00:43:38,119
end of that season, he grabbed John Lovett's and pulled

859
00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:40,000
him out of the burning building where the rest of

860
00:43:40,039 --> 00:43:42,960
the cast was supposed to have ferished. That's how bad

861
00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:46,360
Saturday Night Live had gotten at that game, Calley Robert

862
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,199
Rustler plays Max. Huh call him mad Max.

863
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:52,199
Speaker 4: This is his first acting role. In fact, his first

864
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:54,360
scene was dropping the slushie at the mall.

865
00:43:55,519 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 3: That's great scene, he.

866
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,599
Speaker 4: Said, about thirty seconds before film was rolling. They made

867
00:43:59,679 --> 00:44:03,039
up that fake little handshake. Nice and he and Robert

868
00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:05,800
Downey Junior were friends from that. His next role he

869
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,639
played like one of the main people in Nightmare and

870
00:44:08,639 --> 00:44:09,519
Elm Street Part two.

871
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 3: Robert Downey Junior drove him to that audition. That's great,

872
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:14,480
pretty cool.

873
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 4: Just a couple more people I want to mention real quick. Okay,

874
00:44:17,519 --> 00:44:22,079
you have Vernon Wells, who plays the lead biker that

875
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:24,519
destroys Gary and White's house.

876
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,079
Speaker 3: So Anthony Michael Hall said, it's a weekend, John Hughes

877
00:44:28,119 --> 00:44:30,679
and I are watching Matt Max and he said, we're

878
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,159
gonna get that guy to be in the movie. And

879
00:44:32,199 --> 00:44:33,440
that's what happened. Wow.

880
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,559
Speaker 4: And he looks exactly like he does and it's the

881
00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:39,800
same character. They don't it's a different name, but it

882
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,079
looks exactly the same.

883
00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:43,559
Speaker 3: Yes, And I don't know who the metal face guys

884
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,480
guy is, but the bald guys, the guy from the

885
00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:48,679
Hills Have Eyes. Keep this just.

886
00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:55,599
Speaker 4: So that the guy with the metal face, Yeah, he's

887
00:44:55,639 --> 00:44:58,320
a stunt man. Okay, in fact, he's a big guy,

888
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,519
so he always does like big stunts. Yeah right, But

889
00:45:02,039 --> 00:45:05,559
Michael berryman, he's the bald headed guy from the Hills

890
00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:09,159
Have Eyes. Yes, he plays the principal in the Motley

891
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:10,760
Cruz smoking in the Boys droops.

892
00:45:11,039 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 3: He's got the ridiculous that's right.

893
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Vernon Wells, the head biker. Yeah, he plays

894
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,639
a bad guy in a movie we're getting ready to

895
00:45:20,679 --> 00:45:24,400
talk about. He's the bad guy in Commando. Yeah, I'm anxious.

896
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,519
Speaker 3: You still haven't watched it yet. I still haven't seen

897
00:45:26,519 --> 00:45:28,639
it yet. I have not watched Commando. I have not

898
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,480
watched Rambo. Everybody be sure and hit that subscribe button

899
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,239
so that you will be here when I tell you

900
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,039
about losing my Rambo Commando Virginity.

901
00:45:39,159 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, I just want to touch on John Capelos

902
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,159
was in this for just a few minutes.

903
00:45:44,199 --> 00:45:47,199
Speaker 3: He's the owner the of the bar. Okay, he was

904
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:54,119
the janitor in Breakfast Club. Oh, the Malacca guy. I

905
00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:57,880
don't know what to tell you. She's in the Malaccas. Yes,

906
00:45:58,039 --> 00:46:00,920
they improv that whole scene like they had it. They

907
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,880
had it kind of sketched out, but the rest of

908
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,079
it was just improv and it is. It's hysterical. It's

909
00:46:07,159 --> 00:46:10,320
it's top top of I would say, top three scenes

910
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,679
in that movie. Oh, it's so funny. Yes, And the

911
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:16,519
other top scene in the movie is whenever she's talking

912
00:46:16,559 --> 00:46:20,119
to his parents. Oh my gosh, it's so funny. Oh,

913
00:46:20,199 --> 00:46:22,519
it's great. She need him in the nuts and call

914
00:46:22,599 --> 00:46:25,599
him which they threw that word around a little bit

915
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:30,800
in the family jewels. Yeah, give it the keys.

916
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,639
Speaker 4: How do you know good so Chino Fats Williams. You

917
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:38,679
know him by his voice?

918
00:46:39,079 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, he plays Fats. Yeah.

919
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 4: And I just want to drop a quick name on you,

920
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,440
Kim Mahlen, Does that name anything to you? Do you

921
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,880
remember when the piano gets sucked out of the chimney and.

922
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 3: Well, sure, And that's a memorable scene for anybody who

923
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,639
is ten eleven in nineteen eighty kind of pose it.

924
00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 4: And really kind of focus in to see anything.

925
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, having just watched it, I was I was like, oh,

926
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,599
she's less nude than I thought she was. She's she's

927
00:47:08,639 --> 00:47:11,239
got her bron panties on when she's holding on, but

928
00:47:11,639 --> 00:47:13,760
as she gets sucked out, she no longer has the

929
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,000
bra on because John Hughes.

930
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 4: Well, when you have the Playmate of the Month from

931
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,119
May of nineteen eighty.

932
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,599
Speaker 3: Two, she's an excellent piano player.

933
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 4: When you've got somebody of that caliber, you've got it.

934
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Speaker 3: Don't you have to? Well, obligations, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Do you remember the last time we talked about a

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playmate from nineteen eighty two, Marianne Gravett who was in

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the lay It Down video which was in our Best

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of eighty five. Oh wow, she was in the rat

939
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video lay It Down. Okay, all right, that does it

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for cast for Weird Science.

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Speaker 3: Okay, guys, that is going to be the end of

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part one of Weird Science Versus Real Genius. Come back

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next week for part two. We will talk about casting

944
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for Real Genius. We will tell you about all the

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exciting tidbits. We'll talk about the cool songs and music

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that we're involved in these movies, and we will give

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you our final judgment on which of these two nineteen

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eighty five Nerd Hero movies are the best. So you guys,

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never pretending like it's nineteen eighty five and I'm drinking

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a coke. I don't drink these on the regular. But

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this is I notice that, and this is says Sis.

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I guess I'm Sis today and I'm okay,