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Speaker 1: We're all owned by the Syndicate Body and Soul or

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should I just say Bunny?

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Speaker 2: Hello? Filthy movie Lovers, Something Weirdos and Anti Criterion Bros.

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To the twenty eighth episode of The Sin Syndicate, the

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only podcast that treats an early morning movie lab raide

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as holy writ and believes that every home video distribution

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company should be run by a five foot tall pop artist.

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My name is Gentry Austen, writer and researcher, and I'm

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here with my co host, adult film historian Casey Scott.

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And in this week's episode, we are joined by the

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Queen Bee herself, Miss Lisa Petrucci, the owner operator no

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longer CD replicator of Something Weird Video, which if you're

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listening to this podcast you should be intimately familiar with.

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Lisa is going to be talking with us about all

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things s WV, but specifically we asked her to come

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on and chat with us about the recent announcement of

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the new double and triple feature home video releases dedicated

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to the films produced by the Mighty Monarch of Exploitation,

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The thirty ninth Thief David F. Friedman.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to make hold the

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sight so strange, so horrifying, so utterly monstrous, that I

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heard those of you who are easily frightened or upset,

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who's up a rob nervous dishorders, weak hearts, or queasy

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stocks who experienced nightmarees, and any children under the age

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of sixteen years before goal witnessing Miss Exhibit.

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Speaker 2: Dave was an integral part of this Something Weird story,

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and beyond being an early business partner, he was also

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a really close friend of both Lisa and late husband

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Mike Rainy. So we will get into all that and

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more with Lisa, but first some updates and news from

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the sexploitation world. I think Casey wants to keep teasing

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our first joint project together, so take it away.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, I also think it. I thought it was

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appropriate to maybe mention it again because we got this

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project because of Lisa. So we're having Lisa on which,

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by the way, is a great Christmas present for both

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us and the listeners. It's very appropriate that that we

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close out the year with a visit from our queen. Yeah.

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So the releases should be announced January twenty twenty six,

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and we can't. I will say that it is coming

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from AGFA, and it has a commentary by us, it

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has liner notes, it has a liner note piece from Gentry.

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There's an interview that we did with an actress from

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the film, and also there's another set of liner notes

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from another friend of the show that we looped into

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the project as well. It really is like top to

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bottom kind of you know, we were involved with a

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lot of it. Yeah, so I'm excited and it's yeah,

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I think that's enough. It's something to get excited about.

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And well it should be announced in January, is what

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Speaker 2: So hmm, yeah, I'm really excited to see how it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of a light couple of weeks since

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we last chatted regarding announcements. I think a lot of

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the boutique labels are just trying to get all their

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stuff out to you guys before Christmas. Casey just got

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a big box today.

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Speaker 4: I know that.

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Speaker 2: One thing that I did notice was they finally announced

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that partnership between it's sort of sexploitation adjacent is that

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partnership between Delirium Home Video and Vinegar Syndrome. I think

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they're now an official label partner, if you've been kind

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of keeping track of that. They had recently announced some

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of the Jess Franco Irwin C. Dietrich titles and then

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they pulled them and people were wondering what was going on,

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wanted to present them through Vinegar Syndrome and they got

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some new art and some other cool stuff. So yeah,

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I'm kind of excited about those. If you're a Jess

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Franco fan, you should be as well. The first one

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is going to be Doriana Gray, which is a It

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comes in a soft and a hardcore version. It's a

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beautiful film. I think if you like what Jess Franco's

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by Lena Romey. But I am most excited about getting

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Rolls Royce Baby. I don't know if you've seen that one, Casey,

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of the only releases of Lena Romay's movies where she

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that ascot Elite Blu Ray. This is perfect, and then

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them because all the Franco I kind of like all

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the Franco d Trich movies I don't have. I don't

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and it's yeah, it's it's crazy, it's totally a love

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letter to her from someone who's not just Franco. So

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it's kind of interesting in that listing. Yeah, but there

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are other podcasts that cover Jess Franco more extensively than

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So I wanted to mention that I'm excited about that. Yep, reminder, listeners,

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to do a episode answering your questions. It doesn't matter

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what they are. They can be stupid or silly or serious.

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if it's if it's if it's specific towards a question

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for Casey or myself or Alex, just let us know.

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and answer. Thus, so yeah, we're going to try to

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do that early January, so I will keep bothering people

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online about that deadline, So end a year for sure.

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Get those to us again, since syndicate email, it's in

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the show notes, message us, Facebook, Instagram, wherever. Just send

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Speaker 3: And you know, I don't hold back, So ask anything. Yes,

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there's very few things that I will not discuss. I

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have no shame left, so yeah, ask whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: End of the year wrap up, Casey, what do you got?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it's kind of interesting. We haven't even been

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Speaker 2: A year, but it's been quite a year.

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Speaker 3: It feels like a lot because we've been doing so much,

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so much deep diving and so much research, and we've

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gotten involved with, you know, boutique label projects and yeah,

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so I mean it's been it's been quite an experience

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that he is because of you, because you invited me

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to join you to do this podcast. So I just

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wanted to thank all the people that have been listening

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to us and been helping us out and contributing to

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us documenting the history kind of from the beginning. We've

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had a nice following from the beginning, and we've had

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really good contributions from, among others, like Sean Langrick has

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been very helpful, Mike McCollum, John Charles, Alex Holmes, of

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course Alex DeSanto, who's kind of our unofficial third since

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syndicate member. And we've also been really blessed with some

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really great guests we've had, We've had special guests and experts.

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Texas exploitation. We had Will Sloan to talk about ed Wood.

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Crane to cover Bob Chin. And then we had of

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course Dakotonit Newt and Christopher Velasco to take us over

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the Ocean to do our first international crossover episode, which

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the new year. I'll tease that because we do have

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a mutual friend that we would like to discuss potentially

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing to add there everything that Casey said, Yeah,

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just thanks for listening. Like you said, we're not even

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a year in, and I think we've kind of, you know,

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like I told Casey and Alex, we've kind of found

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our people. You know, we found our tribe, as they say,

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And we appreciate everybody who's been following along with us

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and yeah, sending us stuff online. You know, this is

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just this isn't this is a community project in a

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way as well. You know, we welcome input and research

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from everywhere all angles. So yeah, thanks again for everybody

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to listen, and yeah, hopefully some fun stuff in twenty

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twenty six. Yeah, we've got some stuff lined up that

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might surprise you or maybe not. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: Last potential guests lined up too, Yeah, trying to get

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all those scheduled. Actually, our January is busy, kind of

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pack January. Our January February is pretty packed. So if

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you're listening and I've reached out you to schedule something,

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a community project because there's not one person who's the

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main historian of everything, and there are people who will

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know who I'm referring to. It's all. It's a group

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that one person can be responsible for it. And so

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we're all kind of able to contribute and help each

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that most of the figures involved in it are gone.

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tell this story. And I'm happy to be a part

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of that village for sure.

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Speaker 2: I forgot to mention. Yeah, you follow the Disconnected Instagram account,

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you'll know that they also they host a Thursday night

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live show where they kind of run through all the

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new releases. They have a guest on and they usually

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do some sort of like stir fun thing at the end.

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We are going to be on that show January eighth,

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so tune in. I know Ryan is pretty excited. If

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you caught, our friends Dakota and Chris were on there

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recently and for a especially unhinged episode. So we have

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probably because I just feel so comfortable. You know, I

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don't trust a lot of people, so so I chatting

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and honest. Of course that leads to some crazy shit.

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Speaker 2: But I think you had one last update Jerry Denby.

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Speaker 3: Yes, any opportunity I have to give Alex credit, I

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I love being wrong if it means that the history

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is going to be corrected. So Alex suggested we were

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discussing Sandy Johnson, and we had talked about pre CIP

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Sandy Johnson. He Alex had suggested, I think he was

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a partnership with Jerry Denby before CIP, and I said that, well,

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he wasn't a partner with Al Rubin. It turns out

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that both things are true. The three of them were

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together in a partnership. I always think of Al Rubin

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just because of the Cassavetti's connection, and so I forgot

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that Jerry Denby was also an early part of that,

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of that Sandy Johnson connection.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, they were all together in the Sex Blaters.

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. And then there was another one they did

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have three and there Barnabas, Quentin, and Angelique, so guess

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dark Shadows.

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Speaker 3: I love that. Okay, great, the.

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Speaker 5: Three parrel, elderly and decrepit. Now yes, well, how are

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you guys doing good?

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Speaker 3: Better? Now? This is this is my Christmas present that

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we get to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've been putting this off, Like I think

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when we first started, we were like, okay, at some

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point we have to have Lisa on. But we were

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just waiting for the perfect moment to do it. And

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when I I think Casey had told me about this

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David Friedman collection coming out, I was like, well, that's

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probably the best time once that gets announced.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely to you know, have a big splash, because

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I mean there's been other things, like, you know, we

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did launch the cull Picks something weird channel, and we

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did some other things as well, but this was this

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is a really big deal. But you know, I was

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still waiting for like, you know, district Picks and Melasine

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to make the announcement first. So now that they have,

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we can move forward with any kind of promotion such specifics.

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From the first day, I saw the syndicate on Instagram,

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and I'm not on there that much. I mean this

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was even before I was like even on there, I

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was just like, whoever this is. It's like they're inside

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my brain, so like glad that it was. I'm like,

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but I'm so glad that you are. And I know

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that passing the baton to people like you really means.

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Speaker 5: A lot to me.

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Speaker 2: So well, I remember the first time you reached out,

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you were like this, I don't remember the exact Messa,

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but you're just like, this is great, but can you

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just tag us?

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Speaker 4: I know that was really the only thing I wanted,

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is because like, Okay, it's great to know about this stuff,

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but where did it come from? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I didn't even think about it because I was like

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new to like posting clips and videos from you know, movies.

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I was like, oh, yeah, of course I should be

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doing that. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean it's me.

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Speaker 4: I mean that there's like so many people out there

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doing stuff and some are doing it great and others

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are just cringey. And I mean I just saw that

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this was like, oh my gosh, this is totally what

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I would do if I was a fan.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think Cultpics was also a big help because

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so much stuff was on there, so it's easy to

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like capture through Cultpics as opposed to like recording on

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a TV screen, you know.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, well I noticed too, like with some of

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the latest posts that it is like the latest things

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we've posted on Cultpics, which is cool, and there's a

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lot of them are like buried deep in the catalog stuff.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I got excited when he posted Marina

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and Jennifer. I was like, yes, I love those. See

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more duelism movies. So I was like, yes, okay, good,

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get more eyeballs on these please because they're they're enjoyable.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, those are definitely way very deep in the catalog.

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Most people aren't even aware of them. So way, So

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how do you usually start this.

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess I just well, just me personally, I

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have to say, not only would the podcast not exist,

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I would not do who I am today as an

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adult without you and Mike and Something Weird. And I

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think I speak for a lot of people on that.

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I mean the way that the company started and it built,

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built and grew over time. I mean it became its

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own cottage industry that I think everyone else has been

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trying to imitate for years now, and I think it

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stands alone as its own. Something Weird is its own entity.

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And yeah, I mean we've had now generations of people

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who are into these films and researching these films, and

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it's because of you and the work you and Mike

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did well.

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Speaker 4: I mean I have put all the credit on Mike.

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I mean because literally he's the one that started all

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of this. I mean I came along in ninety four.

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I mean I met him in ninety three, and you

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know a lot of people know the story. I was

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just some fangirl going to Chiller Theater and I had

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called the Something Weird offices and asked if I could

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interview Mike and Dave because I know that they were

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going to be guests there, and you know, I had

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just only you know, dip my toe into sexploitation cinema

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and I was just especially fascinated by the New York

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Ruffis and all of that kind of stuff, and I

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just needed more information and understand like why were these

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films made and like meet the people now who were

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like putting them out there and stuff. And Mike was like,

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oh yeah, I just come to my table. And I

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walk up to the table and like literally, you know,

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like like a cartoon character's eyes, just like the hearts

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came out, and he just was so excited.

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Speaker 5: He's like, you really like these movies. I'm like yeah,

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and he goes, well, who are your favorite directors? You know,

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he's like testing.

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Speaker 4: I go, well, I love the finlays and door wishmen,

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and that just sealed the deal that plight. So and

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you know, we stayed in touch just in the beginning

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as friends. Like he would send me boxes of like

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whatever the latest releases were before they had come out,

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like in the clam shell cases. So I'd get these

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just handwritten VHS tapes with like Ultimate Degenerate or whatever.

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He had just recently transferred and I worked in an

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art gallery then, and I don't know, my bosses were

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just kind of like what is this one? I got

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the side hustle going on or something. But yeah, that

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was how it all started. And you know, a year later,

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here I am in Seattle, you know, and I didn't

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expect that to happen. It's kind of like, this was

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the start of something that I was interested in. And

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I remember at the time thinking to myself because I

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had been, you know, as I said, working in art

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galleries and I was curating art exhibitions and managing just

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the day to day operations at those and I just

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kind of disenchanted with the whole thing and decided, well,

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I really want to have a job, you know, a

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career that combines my love of pop culture, art and film,

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and just you know, threw it out there and I

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didn't know what that looked like. And here I am

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thirty years later plus and doing exactly that. So I'm

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just so grateful.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the Well, that was something we

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were going to ask, is how it all started? So

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so something weird had been going? How long is something

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we'd been going? Then when you first met Mike? When

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did they start?

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Speaker 4: There's always okay, there's the different chapters of something Weird,

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the fact that Mike was a like I'll just come

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out and say it was a video pirate and a

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bootlegger from like around nineteen eighty eight eighty nine, and

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you know he was putting out like television shows and

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more kind of pop culture classics and you know, cartoons

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and Japanese superhero things and you know, basically selling them

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met conventions and doing like little fansy mail order stuff like.

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I mean, there was so many people involved in that

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time period, like selling stuff that they shouldn't have been selling.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Howie Pyro was one. Kevin Clement was doing.

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Speaker 4: It as well, So I mean things changed around nineteen

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ninety that was when the company was incorporated from just

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Mike Freeney in an address to Something Weird and he

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took the name in the logo from the Herschel Gordon

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Lewis movie Something Weird. And he started finding like sixteen

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millimeter like film loops like girly and nudie stuff, but

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also wrestling loops and some stags and these were just

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like out in the wild here in the Pacific Northwest,

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and he was like, oh, I think I can, Like

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I'm going to transfer these and put them on home

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video and see what happens. And so he had some

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just janky operation here locally doing the first few volumes

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of like nuti Quti shorts, loops and peeves and wrestling

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she Babes and Bucky Beaver's loops and put him in

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the you know, his little listening that he used to

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send out to people, and like they started selling like crazy,

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and he decided, well, there's got to be more films

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out there. And then he came into a cash of

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thirty five millimeter films and you know, put just this

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kind of relates to you. One of the first ones

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was like The Sins, then to get Zero Girls and

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having that one transferred and he found a prino a

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smell of honey swallow o'brun career bit.

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Speaker 2: This was like all before the movie lab Reid.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this was this was just like films that

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he was finding in the Pacific Northwest area. And so

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he you know, he didn't know anything about how to

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check a copyright registration or any of that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 5: But he was like, well, I think no, he didn't.

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Speaker 4: He knew of these movies because he had a giant

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press book collection and we also used to like read

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the you know, American Film Institute like catalog, Like it

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was our bible. So I mean, like we knew about

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all the different films that were out there. It was

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just a matter of where are they and do they

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exist still? And so he did really really well with that,

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just you know, in a very makeshift way. And he

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was also starting to put out some exploitation titles that

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were on big box VHS's, which was not okay, but

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you know, he was like I said.

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Speaker 5: Total total pirate at that point.

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Speaker 4: And you know, Jimmy Maslin gets in touch with him

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and he's like, hey, those are my movies, and they

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end up working out a deal.

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Speaker 5: But it was Friedman that contacted him. And you know,

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so he hears from David F.

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Speaker 4: Friedman and he called the office and somebody, you know,

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the Secretary's like, you know, there's a guy named Dave

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Freeman on the phone, and Mike didn't believe it at first,

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and then he started talking to him, and you know,

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Dave said to him, oh, I say that you're selling

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my Ryballtales Robin Hood and Mike's.

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Speaker 5: Like, yeah, people love it.

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Speaker 4: And that was always a response time anybody like would

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be you know, concerned, like yourself my movie and you

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don't have permission.

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Speaker 5: He'd be like, yeah, but everyone loves it.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of times these guys like didn't think

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anybody cared about that material anymore. So Friedman was like, well,

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you know, let's let's keep in touch, kid, and like, well,

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we'll see what happened.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, like we'll work out something.

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Speaker 4: So Mike meets him in Las Vegas like a few

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months later, and his grandmother was still alive back then,

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and she lived in Vegas. She was like a retired jeweler.

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She lived in some like mid fancy pants kind of

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Liberaci style house. She drove a gold plated Cadillac. So

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he shows up pickup Dave and a gold plated Cadillac,

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and Friedman was totally.

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Speaker 5: Impressed with that.

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Speaker 4: So he already had him on the hook from that

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point on, and you know, they hung out and then

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they ended up driving to La and you know, Friedman

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shows him the Cordova Street film vault and that was

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the beginning of everything, I mean as far as something

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Weird becoming a legitimate like video company that was working

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from original film elements and doing skins and re releasing

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this material.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Dave kind of legitimized it the business for

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you guys.

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Speaker 4: In a way, absolutely, especially when he started introducing like

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so he was, you know, I was still not quite

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too sure about this because like Mike was excited about

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titles that he was not the like he's like, really, no, no, no,

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you want this one, you know. I mean, Dave had

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his favorites, like she Freak and you know, The Defilers

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was his first movie, so he's very proud of that one.

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And you know, Rodic Zoro had a big budget and whatever.

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And there's Mike in the film Bulk going what's this?

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Dusty Can says space thing, and Dave's like, you don't

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want that, and he's like, yeah, I do.

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Speaker 5: It's a science fiction movie. He's like yeah, and he goes, yeah,

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I definitely want that. Oh my god. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: When Freeman got his first royalty check, he was he

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was shocked. I mean, he didn't expect that much money

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00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,279
to come out of there, and you know, with this material,

475
00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:55,279
and you know, like he and Dan Sunny used to

476
00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:57,519
always say, you know, a film is like a bag

477
00:24:57,559 --> 00:24:59,920
of flower shake it and a little bit more keep

478
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,319
coming out meeting money. So after that, Dave was like,

479
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,200
I'm going to introduce you to everybody. And you know,

480
00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:12,079
we started with Harry Novak, Yeah, Arthur Morowitz and you know,

481
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,000
all of the big names in this business. And you know,

482
00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:17,960
by that time, Bob Cressey was retired, but you know,

483
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,640
we got in touch with him and had found some

484
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,599
of his movies out in the wild. So Dave became

485
00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:26,559
Mike became friends with like all of these people, and

486
00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:30,039
I used to call him the old man whisper because

487
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,680
he just had a way of being able to, I

488
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,839
don't know, get these like stories that no one else

489
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,119
had heard out of them, a lot of confessions, a

490
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,880
lot of like you know, dark areas of their lives that.

491
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 5: They had never exposed before.

492
00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 4: And but also just had fun with them, you know,

493
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,519
going out to dinners and taking Dave on film tours

494
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,680
and everything. So yeah, I mean I look back now

495
00:25:56,759 --> 00:25:59,599
and that was just like such an incredible time to

496
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,079
be in this business with all of these people still alive.

497
00:26:03,839 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave was with you guys when he went over

498
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,559
to Scandinavia.

499
00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, So in nineteen ninety eight, just Mike and

500
00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:15,640
I had gone to Scandinavia and it was Rickord Grahm

501
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,480
Firs from Club Super eight had contacted us and he

502
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,279
was like, you know, would you guys be interested in

503
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,119
doing something weird like film festival like in Sweden in

504
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,960
a couple of different cities. And so we went over

505
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,440
there and we had a blast, and you know, obviously

506
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,400
it was very well received by everybody over there, and

507
00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:36,359
we became really close friends with Rickard right away. And

508
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,559
he calls us a few months later and he's like,

509
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,759
do you want to come back and bring Dave Friedman

510
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,680
with you? And we're like sure, and we're like, but

511
00:26:43,759 --> 00:26:46,359
it's going to be a Scandinavian tour, Like we're not

512
00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:48,480
just going to do Sweden, We're going to do den Mark,

513
00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:50,920
We're going to do Finland, and we'll do a bunch

514
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:51,599
of locations.

515
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, that's exactly what it was.

516
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 4: So and I also had curated an art exhibition of

517
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,680
like women lowbrow artists, so I was because I'm still

518
00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:05,359
doing my art back then, and so we had this

519
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,839
dual thing happening, and you know, first of all, Mike

520
00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:11,640
and I were thinking, what's it going to be like spending.

521
00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 5: A month with Dave? I mean, because we already were

522
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,279
family by a month is like when.

523
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,519
Speaker 4: You're in each other's faces for that much amount of time,

524
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,880
it could get interesting, and you know, he was a blast.

525
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:24,119
We had a lot of good stories came out of

526
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:29,480
that weekend. But that definitely like inspired Club Super eight

527
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,880
to model itself on something weird and they basically became

528
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,960
like the Scandinavian something weird from that point and have

529
00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:38,480
you know, created their own empire.

530
00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:42,079
Speaker 3: So now, was that the trip when the pickup was

531
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,039
found or was that a separate trip?

532
00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:46,519
Speaker 4: No, that was that was the trip that was found,

533
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,880
So it was actually found ahead of time. But we

534
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,599
had this whole plan that you know, because record had

535
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,559
come across a collection that had a lot of the

536
00:27:54,640 --> 00:28:00,240
Kressy movies and Olympic International titles that some distributor from

537
00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:03,640
I think they were from Denmark. Yeah, a Danish distributor

538
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,200
had so he just bought everything and he goes, I

539
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,079
have this idea, it'd be really funny. I'm going to

540
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,519
just like put this box with the pickup in it,

541
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,240
and when Dave comes to Club Super eight headquarters, like

542
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:19,680
I'm gonna tell him, I'll just go go poke around

543
00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:22,960
in the vault and he would just like stumble upon it.

544
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,240
So we got quite a chuckle out of that, because

545
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,559
he's like, you have the pick up and there was

546
00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:31,519
a whole plan to show it, you know, in a

547
00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:32,480
theater that evening.

548
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,519
Speaker 5: So yeah, we like played our joke on him and stuff.

549
00:28:36,559 --> 00:28:38,559
Speaker 4: But it was really fun that night because you know,

550
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,200
none of us had seen that movie, and Dave hadn't

551
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,359
seen it since it came out theatrically. So I'm sitting

552
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,640
in the theater right next to him and he's doing

553
00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:53,240
like the whole commentary the whole time. But when his

554
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,960
love scene came on, it was so crazy. I mean

555
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:57,599
I'm sitting there.

556
00:28:57,559 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 5: Like I'm like right next to him, like, no, I

557
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:00,640
don't like uncle Dave.

558
00:29:00,759 --> 00:29:03,079
Speaker 4: I don't want to look at uncle Dave, you know,

559
00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:05,759
doing the naughty stuff with some beautiful woman.

560
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,559
Speaker 5: And and did Carol ever see this? He's like, oh no, no, no, no, no,

561
00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:18,359
she didn't know. But he was like very a word

562
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,079
he would use braggadoccio about his love scene.

563
00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:27,279
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not a short scene either, It's no, yeah,

564
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,160
it's not short.

565
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:30,119
Speaker 5: Yeah.

566
00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, an may he must have had he must have

567
00:29:34,079 --> 00:29:36,519
enjoyed her company for a little bit.

568
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:40,359
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe I didn't ask.

569
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 3: About that, Yeah, I know, yeah, how do you. Yeah, right,

570
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:45,200
exactly right.

571
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,519
Speaker 4: N you know, you give him a few few extra

572
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,880
scotches and he might tell us all kinds of stories

573
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:50,240
about that.

574
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 5: So in that case he didn't other people, that'll go

575
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,000
in a book someday. I thought you were never coming back.

576
00:29:58,359 --> 00:30:00,279
I want to talk to you about that new at

577
00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:01,519
the Palace we.

578
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,559
Speaker 1: Got All the Time in the World, baby, all the time.

579
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 4: In the world.

580
00:30:21,599 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: Well, that pick Up release, I mean, on that note,

581
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,839
the recent seven Blu ray that you guys did for that,

582
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,960
we never thought we would get a version of that

583
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,720
without those burnt in sub Swedish nor what are THEYSH Danish.

584
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 5: Subtitles, so we talk about obscure.

585
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was such a I mean a surprise release

586
00:30:44,079 --> 00:30:46,799
when that was announced and I just rewatched it again

587
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,680
and yeah, it really does look amazing, it does.

588
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:52,519
Speaker 5: I mean, I was so.

589
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 4: I mean, they did a great job of tracking down

590
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,680
you know, the pick up and also better elements for.

591
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 5: Spur and Scavengers.

592
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,119
Speaker 4: So I'm thrilled that Severn is, you know, handling all

593
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,359
of those Olympic International films for the most part. And yeah,

594
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,960
I mean to have brand new like upgrades and restorations

595
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,839
is really incredible, and.

596
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,759
Speaker 2: The other dream release would be The Animal. Do you

597
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,680
know anything about subtitles?

598
00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 4: Right?

599
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, put a pin in that. Yeah, But I

600
00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:33,440
will say I'm also the crazy completest that I am

601
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,480
still holding onto my DVDR of the Danish subtitled one,

602
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,960
because that's the one that I watched for years and

603
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,279
I and I remember when Something Weird did a series

604
00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:46,880
in anthology here in New York, the actual print screened

605
00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:49,079
at the theater and so I got to sit there

606
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,640
and see it with the subtitles, and so like, I

607
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:55,039
love that release, but my DVDR, there's too much sentiment

608
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:55,759
of value.

609
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,119
Speaker 5: So I have to keep it. No, it's like any

610
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,440
of your favorite movies. I do this same thing.

611
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:04,559
Speaker 4: It's like you got it from VHS to DVD, now

612
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,759
the Blu ray, and who knows what the next thing

613
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:07,240
is going to be?

614
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 3: So right, right?

615
00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 2: Was that Frank Hennon Lauder behind you during that screening, Casey?

616
00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:13,359
Was that the story you told me?

617
00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:16,119
Speaker 3: He was either at the pickup or smell of Honey,

618
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:19,039
And it was a situation where we were talking back

619
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:20,920
and forth with each other like, oh my god, can

620
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,319
you believe this? Oh look, this is extra footage in

621
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,319
this print. Yeah, I was.

622
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 5: It was.

623
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,799
Speaker 3: I felt like I was back in the sixties and

624
00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:31,119
we were at some flophouse watching some movie and just

625
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,799
like excitedly being excited. I can't believe we're seeing this

626
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,680
like that. Yeah I was. That was fun.

627
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely have to say that, Like, you know,

628
00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:41,599
as much as these new digital restorations are gorgeous and

629
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,200
you know they're getting shown theatrically, when we get to

630
00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:48,640
see the actual prints of these movies, you know shown,

631
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,759
I mean, we said a few years ago we did

632
00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:55,039
Teenage Gang DIBs at the New Beverly Cinema. It was

633
00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:58,960
from my friend Howie's memorial celebration that we were doing

634
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,759
as one of his favorite movie. And just like that

635
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,480
brings me so much joy just seeing the Prince and

636
00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:06,519
in that case, like the print is still in really

637
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:07,519
really nice shape.

638
00:33:07,559 --> 00:33:09,319
Speaker 5: I mean, it doesn't have very much wear and tear.

639
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,799
And the fact that we have these to be able

640
00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:14,200
to experience in that way.

641
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, But at the same time, I'm also thrilled when, like,

642
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,160
you know, I did a screening with Defilers and Smell

643
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,920
of Honey Swallow O'Brien last year at a local microcinema

644
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,519
and it just looks so like it was sparkling on

645
00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:29,400
the screen because it was all the brand new restoration.

646
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,759
So yeah, I mean I can't go either way, but

647
00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:36,319
it is something about having the films shown makes it special.

648
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, that in that series was all prints, I think,

649
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,440
but I think I think, I think Smella honey. One

650
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,559
of the prints was actually sent for that too, So

651
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,559
I was just like, this is one of the only

652
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,599
prints that still existing, and I was I was over

653
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,359
the moon that I sat there. I don't think I

654
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,680
blinked because I was just like, I'm seeing this rare

655
00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:56,920
print of one of like two that exists, so I'm

656
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,279
not going to miss a second. Yeah, there is something

657
00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:00,440
special about that for sure.

658
00:34:00,559 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 5: Well.

659
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:04,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, on that topic of like film prints, I always wondered,

660
00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:05,599
and I don't know if I've ever heard you talk

661
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,199
about it, Lisa, is like the process early on for

662
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,159
you guys to get I mean, you guys had so

663
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,599
much stuff. How were you scanning and like duplicating all

664
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,360
this material with I mean you guys had a small team.

665
00:34:18,119 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, So when Mike realized that there were so many

666
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,760
thirty and like the sixty millimeter films, it was a

667
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,679
little bit easier because you could do that locally. But

668
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,119
like once we were getting into thirty five millimeter film

669
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,880
scanning and Mike had already formed a partnership with Jimmy Maslin.

670
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,840
He had a transfer house down in North Hollywood. It

671
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,559
was called QC Film and Video. So the Something Weird

672
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,760
archive was stored there and Jimmy was doing all of

673
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,159
the scanning. But it was tele Asini back in those days,

674
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,960
so everything was going to one inch masters. I mean,

675
00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:55,599
I'll tell you I got a garage full of one

676
00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:56,440
inch masters that.

677
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 5: I don't know what to do with it.

678
00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:01,079
Speaker 4: I mean, when we've done brand new restorations of films,

679
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,280
they get tossed. They just do unless, like you know,

680
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,000
if I've sold some films to or you know, have

681
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:10,760
licensed films to different partners, like whether it be Severn

682
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,440
or let's say Alternative Cinema or something like, I will

683
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:13,960
give them them.

684
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 5: I'm like, here, this is a gift, like I don't

685
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:16,719
want to get rid of it.

686
00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 4: But literally, like you're dealing with like a you know,

687
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,079
a twelve inch square that weighs ten pounds for every film.

688
00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:27,760
And it's so much different now. I mean, so like

689
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,320
back in those days, you know, Mike would either find

690
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,119
films out in the wild or go to you know,

691
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,760
let's say Box Office International and grab a bunch of

692
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,480
prints or negatives if the negatives were there, and bring

693
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:45,679
them over to QC and then do our transferring, and

694
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,239
then he would do all of his mastering from super VHS.

695
00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:53,280
So basically it would be like film one inch master

696
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,920
super VHS and then you know hit at the had

697
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,159
the little tag at the front, tag at the back,

698
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,639
you know, and do whatever or at all the little

699
00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:03,239
extras that would be at the end as well.

700
00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 5: So because I mean, people.

701
00:36:05,199 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 4: Don't realize this, but all of those I mean there

702
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,440
were over three thousand videos came out through something Weird

703
00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:13,119
Video in the thirty years that we were doing this,

704
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:18,400
and Mike like manually edited every single one of those,

705
00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:21,119
even like the ones up into the two thousands. He

706
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,440
never touched a computer. He's sitting there at his editing

707
00:36:24,519 --> 00:36:28,400
decks like hard d it's doing everything, which you know

708
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:30,440
is not the way that most people do it at

709
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,440
all anymore.

710
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,199
Speaker 5: But he was definitely a technophobe.

711
00:36:33,679 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 4: So once he would have the super VHS, let's say

712
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,559
VHS Master, SUPERVHS Master, that would go to the shop.

713
00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:44,199
Speaker 5: And in the let's say, the.

714
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 4: Early nineteen nineties till about I don't know, ninety seven,

715
00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:51,360
ninety eight ish, Well, I don't know the whole Let's

716
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,719
just say, like the whole nineties, we probably had like

717
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,719
forty duplicating decks up there, and we had twenty four

718
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,840
hours shifts, so there was always like one person per

719
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,119
shift who just loaded all the tapes.

720
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:07,559
Speaker 5: And I mean there were different aspects of it.

721
00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 4: We I mean, at that point we probably had about

722
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,760
ten employees working for us, all doing different things and so,

723
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,360
and they were being recorded in real time. It wasn't

724
00:37:16,519 --> 00:37:19,880
like you know, the super fast duplicating or anything. So

725
00:37:20,039 --> 00:37:22,440
every two hours, you know, you put in another round

726
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,719
of tapes and did that for years and years and years,

727
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,119
and you know, besides just regular like customer mail order

728
00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:32,599
that was coming in through the printed catalogs. And then

729
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,199
by like the mid to now, around the mid nineties,

730
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,400
we started having a website. We were still working with

731
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:42,559
Movies Unlimited and that was like our biggest, you know,

732
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,800
outlet for stuff. So I mean, you know, the Movie

733
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,840
Unlimited orders would come in and you'd just be duplicating

734
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,599
those for like days on end.

735
00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:50,639
Speaker 5: And stuff.

736
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,199
Speaker 3: So and then I was mining. The introduction to something

737
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,559
weird was the Movies Unlimited catalog, the whole pages and pages,

738
00:37:56,639 --> 00:37:59,159
and I was just like, what is this And that

739
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,360
was the beginning of it.

740
00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 2: Movie.

741
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,119
Speaker 5: Oh, that's that's interesting. Well, I'm glad to hear that.

742
00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:05,639
Speaker 4: I thought maybe it was like Kim's video or one

743
00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:07,119
of those kinds of things. But I guess you weren't

744
00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:08,159
any right.

745
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,039
Speaker 3: You know, I was. I was living in I was

746
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:11,719
living over seas at the time, and my parents got

747
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,480
me this catalog and they didn't know there was an

748
00:38:13,519 --> 00:38:15,679
adult section at the back, and that's where all the

749
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,000
something weird stuff was, including the space thing art and

750
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,039
all this stuff. And I was like, I must know

751
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:24,800
more about this stuff at ten years old, think like.

752
00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:28,639
Speaker 5: Okay, Casey likes movies. Let's see it's given him this catalog.

753
00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:31,039
Speaker 3: That's what it was because they had because you know,

754
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:33,280
they had categories for classics, but they didn't think I'd

755
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,440
go to the back of the catalog. And so, yeah,

756
00:38:35,519 --> 00:38:38,800
that's so something weird, corrupting, corrupting the minds.

757
00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:41,079
Speaker 4: Oh, there's a credit moview I've heard about when you

758
00:38:41,199 --> 00:38:43,159
were like Inger, I mean, I remember hearing from Alex

759
00:38:43,599 --> 00:38:45,519
he wasn't even eighteen, and I'm like, get back in

760
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:50,000
touch from me when you're eighteen. Yeah, I didn't even.

761
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,679
Speaker 3: Be talking to you exactly.

762
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 4: Yes, And he was telling me his mom and dad

763
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,119
used to buy him videos when he was a team

764
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,400
like you know, a young teenager. I'm like, oh, great,

765
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,599
you know, but you had good taste even then. So yeah,

766
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:06,679
that was pretty much like how the day to day

767
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,000
operations went. And we had like you know, there would

768
00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:11,760
be people who did the packaging, you know, we literally

769
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,400
with every cover there. I mean, so my job, I'll

770
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,719
just I'll kind of like plug myself into this narrative.

771
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:23,199
So I was an artist and graphic designer. So Mike's like, well,

772
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,760
you know, why don't you help out with catalogs and

773
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,880
the video covers, And like we had gone through a

774
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,280
lot of different artists at that point because like people

775
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,760
were either like moving away or they were just temporary

776
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,440
or whatever. So we were cutting and pasting, like the

777
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:41,239
VHS box art. So take a let's say a press

778
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,679
book for any title, I would go in either if

779
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,159
a beautiful color cover, would make a color copy of that,

780
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,119
but otherwise, if it was just a black and white

781
00:39:50,159 --> 00:39:53,199
ad Matt I would photocopy that, you know, blow it

782
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,199
up to the size of the case, and then on

783
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:01,800
different colored astro bright like copier paper print, like let's say,

784
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,159
five colors of the same ad mat and then literally

785
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,840
cut out all the little pieces and then stick them

786
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,679
down with blue stick and you know, to make them

787
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:14,039
have that garish, colorful lwerid look that we had. So

788
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,199
did that for a long time until like I learned

789
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:22,440
how to do photoshop and illustrator and whatnot. So yeah,

790
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,599
but they would take those covers that were like you know,

791
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,559
paste ups and just stick them on a color copy

792
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:29,639
or make over many we needed because everything was made

793
00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,559
to order. I mean people don't also realize that, like

794
00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:33,559
there wasn't warehouses full of product.

795
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 5: It was literally an order came in. You only made

796
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,159
what was on that order.

797
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 3: I remember sending those in snail mail to before the website.

798
00:40:41,199 --> 00:40:43,840
I write in the catalog number and send it in

799
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,400
with like my check and then and I knew that

800
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,320
they were going to be fresh when I got them.

801
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 4: So yeah, well I remember like that we used to have,

802
00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:54,840
you know, in the back of the catalog where that

803
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:55,519
order form was.

804
00:40:55,559 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 5: It would say four to six weeks for delivery. I

805
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
think you imagine now.

806
00:41:00,119 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 4: Day is saying that to something that's gonna take four

807
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:03,800
to six weeks to get your smut.

808
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, no, I knew it was worth it.

809
00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:08,400
I was like, as long as I can order these

810
00:41:08,679 --> 00:41:12,280
and I'll just eagerly anticipate it. And then when they arrived,

811
00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:14,960
you couldn't move me away from my room. I was like,

812
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,320
I need to watch all of these right now.

813
00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just looking at the

814
00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:46,039
Lust than the flesh Phs box art from our friend

815
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,440
Slipcase Alex. He sent it to us, and I was wondering, like,

816
00:41:50,519 --> 00:41:52,920
who made that? And so you probably put that together

817
00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:54,320
using press materials?

818
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, can I tell you exactly what happened.

819
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 4: So that was a black and white press book cover,

820
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,880
and like it had already had like the way that

821
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,000
the lettering and everything's laid out was already there. So

822
00:42:06,079 --> 00:42:09,199
basically I just made a nice black and white copy

823
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,800
of it, but then like did the same thing like

824
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,400
put put the lettering on colored paper and then cut

825
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,920
it out, struck them on there and that, but left

826
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,519
all of the black and white imagery the way that

827
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,679
it was on the press book, So, I mean it

828
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,400
was really kind of I mean, one of the things

829
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,559
that Mike and I really felt strongly about was just

830
00:42:27,039 --> 00:42:31,760
keeping the original ad materials because you know, those guys

831
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,960
were masters of that, and you know, sell the sizzle,

832
00:42:35,039 --> 00:42:37,880
not the steak is part of the.

833
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,159
Speaker 2: Presentation that you know that was originally there, so why

834
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,920
change that. Yeah, That's always how I think about it

835
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,800
as well. It's like this is the marketing is part

836
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,400
of the movie, you know, especially for exploitations.

837
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,519
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's the whole movie. Sometimes it's all the mark

838
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,519
that's the entire movie. Is the market I.

839
00:42:57,599 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 5: Certainly get me sucked into them.

840
00:42:59,039 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 4: I'll be like, I mean, I have all these press

841
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,679
books for movies that I mean, that's a whole other

842
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,239
podcast we can have is about all the lost movies

843
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,199
that we all want to see.

844
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 2: We did that podcast, we did too, and they were

845
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:10,960
like three hours apiece.

846
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,079
Speaker 3: Yeah, we spent like a whole work day, eight hours

847
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:14,159
talking about lossuits.

848
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 4: Yes, like staring at them. I must see this someday,

849
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,400
just because the art is so cool and or it's

850
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,880
just so weird. Like some of these press books are

851
00:43:23,119 --> 00:43:25,519
incredibly primitive and like I don't know who they were

852
00:43:25,559 --> 00:43:27,599
trying to sell that to but it's something really appealing

853
00:43:27,639 --> 00:43:28,000
about it.

854
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,159
Speaker 2: Well, that's why we had to limit our episode. We

855
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,320
were like, Okay, we're just going to focus on the

856
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,960
lost films that actually have a trailer, because if we

857
00:43:35,039 --> 00:43:38,119
focused on lost films that have the best press book

858
00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:40,840
press books, then that's a whole nother discussion, which we

859
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,280
might actually do one of these days.

860
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, we might.

861
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 5: Doing the doc Lord's work, thank you.

862
00:43:47,599 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 3: Yes, well, And so I guess related to the design,

863
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,000
I feel like you've talked about this somewhere else, but

864
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,800
I always am reminded of it because you know, I

865
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,960
have my my rose of something weird DVDs and DVD,

866
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:05,480
and there's something that seems very intentional about like the

867
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:08,400
choice of color and the choice of fonts and how

868
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,039
they all kind of really go together uniformly. And so

869
00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:15,320
I wondered, what the what was your process like in

870
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,719
terms of determining what the color of like a sleeve

871
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,440
was going to be and what the font was going

872
00:44:20,519 --> 00:44:22,719
to be because they're not all the same font and so.

873
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, pop art Lisa coming through there.

874
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was so subjective.

875
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 4: So the earliest like you know, we'll call them classics,

876
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:35,960
something weird video VHS releases like they basically the color

877
00:44:36,039 --> 00:44:40,400
palette was very black dominated with like red, yellow, cyan,

878
00:44:40,519 --> 00:44:44,800
and magenta. And in my kind of like his philosophy

879
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,800
was no blank space, no white, you know, fill up

880
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,719
every inch of the you know, if there's any space

881
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,840
at all, like you put something in there. So and

882
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,400
I kind of come from that. I mean, look at

883
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,599
my look at you could see this is space I

884
00:44:57,679 --> 00:45:00,079
live in, like one of my art things that I do.

885
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,760
So as far as the fonts and stuff goes, so

886
00:45:04,519 --> 00:45:08,320
I'm very partial to futura as far as text, so

887
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,719
I wanted to, like, you know, if you see something

888
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,639
weird catalog, they're almost always all in futura, either condensed

889
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:20,119
or regular. That it usually with the let's say the spines.

890
00:45:20,559 --> 00:45:22,840
I try to find something close to like if we

891
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,079
had original art, you know, because or I mean ideally

892
00:45:26,159 --> 00:45:29,360
I would just take the logo from an ad mat

893
00:45:29,679 --> 00:45:31,440
and fit it on there. But sometimes you can't do

894
00:45:31,559 --> 00:45:34,800
that because it just doesn't fit that narrow shape. So

895
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,960
just trying to get something close. I mean, I would say,

896
00:45:38,039 --> 00:45:42,400
like the other something weird font is one. I mean,

897
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,000
it's probably called a lot of different things, but it's

898
00:45:44,039 --> 00:45:46,119
called ad lib and it's kind of like the font

899
00:45:46,159 --> 00:45:47,440
that they use on the Brady.

900
00:45:47,159 --> 00:45:51,119
Speaker 5: Bunch title card and stuff. So we use that.

901
00:45:51,519 --> 00:45:54,119
Speaker 4: And there was a type font called Psychatronic, which you know,

902
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,400
go figure that worked out really well. But mostly it

903
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,239
really just depended on the release. I mean, if you

904
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,320
have like a boor like I shouldn't say this because

905
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:03,880
I know there's people that love them, but like Sword

906
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,719
and Sandal movies or something, if you just feel like

907
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,760
a very like Times Roman, you know, keep it simple

908
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,639
or or something that had a little bit of a

909
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:11,320
flare to it.

910
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 5: But m hmm, it was it was case by case

911
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:15,519
for the most part.

912
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,559
Speaker 3: Well like you, because I think even the artwork for

913
00:46:18,599 --> 00:46:22,840
All American Honeymoon makes that look like incredible. You know,

914
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:25,800
I thought it was. I thought it was a well done.

915
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,119
I thought it was well don considering that it was

916
00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:28,880
never released and so you really kind of had to

917
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:29,880
start from scratch with that.

918
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean the other thing too, I always have

919
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,199
to remind myself of this because I will look at

920
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,960
some of the older like especially for films that we

921
00:46:38,039 --> 00:46:40,320
didn't have any art for, and you know, we did

922
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,280
have a resource of friends and who also collected press books,

923
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:44,880
so if I couldn't find something, I would ask them.

924
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,079
But then you have a film like All American Honeymoon,

925
00:46:47,119 --> 00:46:50,679
where like there's no ad materials. Basically, what we decided was,

926
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,239
all right, we're just going to do a template with

927
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,719
like you know, some kind of font, a square with

928
00:46:56,119 --> 00:46:58,840
a grab and you know, a square on the back.

929
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,239
I mean, it was just party simple for the most part.

930
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,719
But the other thing was just that Mike was putting

931
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,440
out so much material at one point. I mean, like

932
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:12,159
you remember the days when there'd be like four catalog

933
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,800
supplements in a year, and in those four catalog supplements,

934
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,440
they'd be like fifty to one hundred titles.

935
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,199
Speaker 5: I had to make a cover for every single one

936
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:20,519
of those.

937
00:47:20,679 --> 00:47:24,119
Speaker 4: So depending on like the significance of it or if

938
00:47:24,159 --> 00:47:25,599
we thought it was going to be a better seller,

939
00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:28,239
I mean good. Another good example of a crappy movie

940
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,039
that like I just threw together was Mister Angel.

941
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 3: Oh my god, don't remind me of mister I was

942
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,199
so excited about that though. You you did a good

943
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:40,960
job without art because it made me want to see it.

944
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:48,079
Speaker 2: So I don't know, Angel Lord, it's like a you

945
00:47:48,079 --> 00:47:48,599
don't want.

946
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 3: To a fake spy man from uncle kind of thing.

947
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,639
But the guy looks like an Aryan dream. He's like

948
00:47:55,760 --> 00:48:02,599
bleached blondes bluem with a wig. Yes, yeah, it's yeah.

949
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,239
I mean, I'm glad I saw it. And I think

950
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,000
Stormterber's USA was around the same time. And so that's

951
00:48:07,079 --> 00:48:09,159
something else that you had to start to do work

952
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,360
from nothing with that, because that was tough, and.

953
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 5: It was also a time crunch.

954
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,519
Speaker 4: I'd be like, all right, I just got it, like

955
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:17,440
do it really quick, and I'm not really put much

956
00:48:17,519 --> 00:48:18,159
thought into it.

957
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 5: And but but it was also it kind of fit

958
00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:23,000
what we were already doing with that.

959
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 4: So people want to watch the movie, They're not going

960
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,320
to sit there and like gaze. Well, you guys are

961
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:28,280
gazing at the cover.

962
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:31,079
Speaker 5: The average person isn't.

963
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:32,079
Speaker 1: Right.

964
00:48:32,639 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I've ever heard this story

965
00:48:34,519 --> 00:48:37,599
behind the Little the little Man, the little Something Weird.

966
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,639
Speaker 3: I was going to ask about that, him and Buddy Beaver,

967
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,000
the two and the two mascots of something Weird.

968
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 5: All right, So little something weird dude, that's what I

969
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,440
call him. That was before my time.

970
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,639
Speaker 4: So I know that Mike found him in a men's magazine,

971
00:48:53,159 --> 00:48:56,000
like a vintage one and there was an ad and

972
00:48:56,119 --> 00:48:59,760
it was like, you know, for Newdy loops and he

973
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:02,320
was kind of like, you know, it was Tightened Films.

974
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,039
I think that was the name of the company, and

975
00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:07,000
they you could get mail order super not super but

976
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:09,519
eight milimeter gurly loops and.

977
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,159
Speaker 5: He's standing there like those.

978
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 4: I think Mike thought that was like kind of cool.

979
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,199
I mean, he grab some other pleased to be a

980
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,480
guy that he had a hat and people thought it

981
00:49:20,559 --> 00:49:22,440
was him. It was like an older dude, kind of

982
00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:25,000
pudgy with like glasses, and he had an ad that

983
00:49:25,079 --> 00:49:28,679
would say buy my shorts, and he was on stuff

984
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:29,480
for a long time.

985
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 5: I'll probably resurrect him in some way, I think. But yeah,

986
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,760
a little something weird guy. What's funny is there?

987
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 4: I've been through magazines and found like the original little

988
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,519
ads and like it's in so much nicer quality than

989
00:49:43,559 --> 00:49:45,519
the one that we use because it's just been xerox

990
00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:48,239
so many times over and over and over again. So

991
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,880
but yeah, he's our mascot. He'll always be our mascot

992
00:49:52,039 --> 00:49:55,679
even oh fun fact, and I can't think of the

993
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,079
artist's name, and I should, this should just I mean,

994
00:49:58,360 --> 00:49:58,639
as I.

995
00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:01,039
Speaker 5: Got older, hard time remembering is.

996
00:50:01,119 --> 00:50:04,159
Speaker 4: But the guy, the guy did that art, his daughter

997
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,079
was somehow contact and was just like, oh, my dad

998
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,320
did that art, which I thought was really She wasn't like, oh,

999
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,559
and don't use it or whatever. She was so excited

1000
00:50:12,639 --> 00:50:15,239
that it was being used, which kind of reminds me

1001
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,320
of me because my my own father is a commercial

1002
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,719
artist and I would see some of his stuff out

1003
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,119
in the wild being used and it's like exciting, like, oh,

1004
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,639
it has a second life, so you know, especially little

1005
00:50:25,679 --> 00:50:29,119
something Weird guy. I mean, people just recognize that is

1006
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,440
that's that's something weird. And the same with the Siddale

1007
00:50:33,119 --> 00:50:33,920
hell Raiser song.

1008
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 3: I mean that is the something Weird theme.

1009
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, people call it that's something yeah exactly, and it's like, no,

1010
00:50:39,679 --> 00:50:40,639
it's actually hell Raisers.

1011
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,159
Speaker 3: But we'll take that, so right exactly, Siddale getting a

1012
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,880
second life. I'm sure that it's good for everybody all

1013
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,960
around because that such a great piece of music.

1014
00:50:50,199 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 5: So well as far as Bucky Beaver, so in the earliest.

1015
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,599
Speaker 4: Bucky Beaver Loops VHS tapes, like there was kind of

1016
00:50:59,639 --> 00:51:02,840
a set looking Bucky Beaver. He was. He was very

1017
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,199
close card to me, but didn't have much personality, and

1018
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,320
he was just like a beaver smoking a cigarette, like

1019
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,000
in profile. And when we started working on the Blue Book,

1020
00:51:13,199 --> 00:51:16,079
we were working with an artist called Eric Eye at

1021
00:51:16,119 --> 00:51:19,880
that time. And this was another situation where like, one

1022
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,159
day somebody just sent us in the mail this really

1023
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,920
cool piece of art saying, hey, I'm a illustrator and

1024
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,039
I would love to do some work for you. And

1025
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:31,079
he's now become like part of the Something Weird family

1026
00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:35,599
as well. So when we started working on the blue Books,

1027
00:51:36,159 --> 00:51:39,199
Mike asked him, could you come up with a new

1028
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,239
Bucky Beaver? Like he has to look like a.

1029
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 5: Degenerate and he's like depraved and all those kinds of things.

1030
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:50,559
And Eric nailed it. So he and he did hundreds

1031
00:51:50,559 --> 00:51:52,239
of drawings of Bucky, as you can see in the

1032
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:52,679
Blue Book.

1033
00:51:53,679 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 3: Every it's like every other page is him in some scenario,

1034
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,360
and there there's a comic in there too. I think

1035
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,039
he did well.

1036
00:52:01,199 --> 00:52:05,159
Speaker 4: What's interesting is that a real life comic book artists

1037
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:06,199
kind of ran with.

1038
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 5: Our Bucky Beaver.

1039
00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 4: So it was Kat Moriarty and Jim Blanchard, you know

1040
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:16,199
from fanographics, did a story and inked it and that

1041
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,440
appeared and I think it was the second Blue Book

1042
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,400
that one's in there. So yeah, I mean he's in Bucky.

1043
00:52:22,679 --> 00:52:25,559
I feel sad because I mean, Bucky is in retirement now.

1044
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,119
He does occasionally go visit some other video companies and

1045
00:52:31,679 --> 00:52:33,360
have some things come out. But I mean as far

1046
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,599
as something weird, like we're letting him just you know,

1047
00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:38,000
be happy in the gutter.

1048
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's earned it, He's earned some time to us.

1049
00:52:41,079 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah, I've noticed he doesn't. I

1050
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,519
mean that kind of speaks to just the releases that

1051
00:52:48,679 --> 00:52:50,840
are getting put out, doesn't it.

1052
00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 5: It does.

1053
00:52:52,119 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 4: And but also so I mean, and a lot of

1054
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,400
people don't realize this with us companies that are like

1055
00:52:59,079 --> 00:53:04,840
releasing vintaj Erotica and Golden Age hardcore movies, that there

1056
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,400
are issues with having them on your websites and with

1057
00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:10,880
e commerce and stuff. And you know, I think I've

1058
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,119
discussed this at different times over the years, but it

1059
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,480
makes it really problematic to like run a business and

1060
00:53:18,639 --> 00:53:21,679
have like adult material. And you I know a lot

1061
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:25,800
of my other colleagues experiences as well. So you know,

1062
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,440
with the changes in the last you know, since Mike's

1063
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:33,679
passing in twenty fourteen, I kept the you know, the

1064
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,280
hardcore catalog available up until the end of last year

1065
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:42,039
twenty twenty four, and I just decided it was costing

1066
00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:45,079
me too much money first of all, to have a

1067
00:53:45,199 --> 00:53:48,679
high risk merchant credit card account to be able to

1068
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:53,880
even do the e commerce. Also, there's censorship. You can't

1069
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,280
have certain I mean, you probably noticed over the years,

1070
00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,480
like things disappearing off of something weird website in you know,

1071
00:54:00,519 --> 00:54:02,280
I'm not going to sit there and like let people

1072
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,280
know every single time that happens. I just figure like

1073
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,760
they'll just you know, fade away or whatever that it

1074
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,360
was because of like the banks literally contacting us annually

1075
00:54:11,559 --> 00:54:12,119
and being like.

1076
00:54:12,199 --> 00:54:13,639
Speaker 5: We have a problem with this or we have a

1077
00:54:13,679 --> 00:54:16,159
problem with that. There's certain words, I mean, and.

1078
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 4: I left, so I get the list of words, and

1079
00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:21,920
two of the ones that I I mean, one of them,

1080
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,920
I just didn't understand hypnosis hypnotists anything to do with that.

1081
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:33,159
And basically what they claim is that that implies you know, coercion, Yeah,

1082
00:54:33,559 --> 00:54:34,400
and you know, not.

1083
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 5: Non consent. So I know, I mean, who would have

1084
00:54:39,519 --> 00:54:42,199
thought the other one? Yeah, I don't know what this was.

1085
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,119
Speaker 4: I had to like ask one of my gay friends,

1086
00:54:44,639 --> 00:54:49,880
was you cann't use the word twink. What we could

1087
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,039
not use the word twink, And I'm like, what's what's

1088
00:54:53,079 --> 00:54:53,519
a twink?

1089
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:58,760
Speaker 3: And you know, yeah, it's like twinks should be illegal,

1090
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:00,559
but the word itself, that's very cool.

1091
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,119
Speaker 4: Don't use the word like don't you can't have and

1092
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,199
like we didn't even have that words I would have liked.

1093
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 2: No.

1094
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 3: Yes, I think it was usually in like plot descriptions

1095
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,280
or somebody, yeah, describing a character in one of the

1096
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,440
like the the Bucky Beaver, like male loops or whatever.

1097
00:55:15,599 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, so anyway, which meant going through the website

1098
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:24,280
and either removing and also images. Yeah, I know, I'm like,

1099
00:55:25,159 --> 00:55:27,199
so he was usually in the Bucky Bee re section

1100
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,920
that I had any issues and you know the fact

1101
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,599
that you're paying you're paying more to be a high

1102
00:55:32,639 --> 00:55:34,760
risk merchant. You have to pay annual fees, you have

1103
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,119
to jump through all these hoops, and it's like, you know,

1104
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:41,719
this isn't worth it because what I'm really want to

1105
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:46,719
focus on is like exploitation and exploitation and and not

1106
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,360
have to deal with all the nonsense because it's really stressful.

1107
00:55:49,519 --> 00:55:52,440
I mean, you know, you're just like getting the random

1108
00:55:52,519 --> 00:55:56,159
email your website's been you know, shut down, because of

1109
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,320
content or whatever from a bank.

1110
00:55:58,559 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 5: You know.

1111
00:55:59,039 --> 00:56:03,119
Speaker 3: So I remember when the I remember when The Adolescent

1112
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,920
was pulled from the website because oh, you're gonna sell

1113
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,280
a movie called The Adolescent.

1114
00:56:08,599 --> 00:56:09,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.

1115
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,079
Speaker 4: Well what was interesting was in the nineteen nineties, this

1116
00:56:13,199 --> 00:56:14,960
is like the first time we had any issues and

1117
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,039
this wasn't even when we had a website, so early nineties, and.

1118
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 5: There was a thing going on with.

1119
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 4: The post office where you couldn't send anything that had

1120
00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:29,559
the word young or teenage.

1121
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,199
Speaker 5: Or there was a whole list of those words. So

1122
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:31,760
we pulled.

1123
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,119
Speaker 4: That was when all that stuff got pulled from the catalog,

1124
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,559
like very early on, and you know, or Mike retitled them.

1125
00:56:38,679 --> 00:56:40,880
That's why a lot of films would be like, why

1126
00:56:41,079 --> 00:56:43,519
is it Renee Bond's sex Fantasies?

1127
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,119
Speaker 3: That's the big one, Yeah, because you can't take that

1128
00:56:46,159 --> 00:56:48,239
out of print, that's a masterpiece and just retitle it

1129
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:49,760
right exactly.

1130
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 4: So that happened with a lot of things, or we

1131
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,440
just you know, Mike loved he actually just liked retitling

1132
00:56:55,519 --> 00:56:56,239
things if he thought.

1133
00:56:56,119 --> 00:57:00,639
Speaker 5: The title was boring. You know, So that's do you

1134
00:57:01,039 --> 00:57:02,440
it's okay at your company?

1135
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 2: Well, igards over at Coultpics just had problems with like

1136
00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:10,119
the child Bride that old thirties move.

1137
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 5: Oh I'm I'm not surprised to hear that.

1138
00:57:13,599 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well the content is iffy too, still, that's all.

1139
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,559
The content itself is also iffy in that, but Kino

1140
00:57:20,679 --> 00:57:21,519
put it out, so.

1141
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and then we did it with them, So yeah,

1142
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,320
I mean I've thought about that. I've also do things

1143
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,840
like I'll if I if I think there's a word

1144
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,840
that might be probably problematic, you know, potentially problematic, I'll

1145
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,719
just use an asterisk in it, like in a couple

1146
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:37,159
of places.

1147
00:57:37,239 --> 00:57:40,639
Speaker 5: That way, it's kind of a little hidden, I don't know, right.

1148
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,199
Speaker 2: So right, well, Casey and I have had this conversation

1149
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:49,400
before where it's like censorship isn't it's not It's it's

1150
00:57:49,519 --> 00:57:52,440
not as obvious these days. It's more like behind the scenes,

1151
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,320
like you're dealing with where they just like make it

1152
00:57:54,559 --> 00:57:57,760
hard for you to do business. You know, they're not

1153
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,559
outright like censoring things, but they're just like making it difficult,

1154
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,800
which is sounds really frustrating. And I mean as a

1155
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:10,199
sexploitation podcast as well, like sometimes we have to think

1156
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:12,800
about it, but other times they're just like, screw it.

1157
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,599
It's like we're just going to do what we're going

1158
00:58:15,679 --> 00:58:17,360
to do, right.

1159
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,519
Speaker 5: Well, I mean you don't want I mean, but I

1160
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:20,639
totally understand it.

1161
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,079
Speaker 4: And the thing is, I mean what I find a

1162
00:58:23,159 --> 00:58:25,599
little like I don't want to be doing self censor

1163
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,599
or a second guessing. Yeah, I just remember how things were,

1164
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:33,760
let's say in the nineties and it was the wild West.

1165
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,559
I mean, you could be so abrasive and like, I

1166
00:58:37,599 --> 00:58:40,039
mean I was reading some of our old, you know,

1167
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,239
descriptions for some movies, like working on a project right now.

1168
00:58:44,239 --> 00:58:47,239
Speaker 5: And I'm looking at what you know. Mike Akamando, who.

1169
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 4: Was for Gentle Pure, Oh, he was just I wish

1170
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,039
he was still writing and contributing, but I see him

1171
00:58:54,039 --> 00:58:57,920
out in the water, Like so you met Chiller still

1172
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:02,360
around so okay, but he wrote something which was hilarious,

1173
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:06,440
but you literally could not reprint that the way he

1174
00:59:06,519 --> 00:59:06,840
wrote it.

1175
00:59:07,119 --> 00:59:09,239
Speaker 5: He would have to change some words because.

1176
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 4: Things have changed so much, and just being aware of that,

1177
00:59:13,679 --> 00:59:17,119
I don't like self censoring, but I also don't want

1178
00:59:17,119 --> 00:59:18,320
to go out of business, and I don't want to

1179
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,840
cause any problems for any of my partners or other publications.

1180
00:59:22,039 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 5: Or you know podcast any of that kind of stuff.

1181
00:59:24,039 --> 00:59:26,960
So just it's just different times.

1182
00:59:27,119 --> 00:59:31,119
Speaker 2: Well, what the Big Snatch, that issue with Image, that

1183
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,280
was early two thousands.

1184
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, so there were a couple of titles that

1185
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:39,400
Image wasn't going to touch with a ten foot poll

1186
00:59:39,519 --> 00:59:42,159
and Big Snatch and Love Camp seven were the two.

1187
00:59:43,119 --> 00:59:47,320
So and unfortunately it's like, you know, Mike had done

1188
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:51,719
a commentary with Dave Friedman for Love Camp seven and

1189
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,800
I mean I ended up giving that to David at

1190
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,000
sever and I said, do something with this, you know,

1191
00:59:58,119 --> 00:59:59,800
put it on one of your releases, because you know,

1192
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,159
we never did anything with it. But yeah, they definitely

1193
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,400
drew a line. And a lot of people know the

1194
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:11,239
story about Borders books and how you know, basically, you know,

1195
01:00:11,719 --> 01:00:14,480
the extra Weird sampler came out and they were giving

1196
01:00:14,519 --> 01:00:16,960
them away with anyone who bought us something Weird DVD.

1197
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 5: And some people were kind of offended because I mean

1198
01:00:22,079 --> 01:00:22,360
that there.

1199
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 4: Was scenes from like Adult Jekyll and Hide and Erotics

1200
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,960
or I mean things that were definitely if you bought

1201
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:29,400
your kid Wonderful World.

1202
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:30,719
Speaker 5: Of Oz and that was.

1203
01:00:33,119 --> 01:00:38,119
Speaker 4: Right right, So, yes, those all got pulled, but you know,

1204
01:00:38,159 --> 01:00:39,800
I ended up with them and I would just put

1205
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:41,880
them in. If somebody had a big order, I'd throw

1206
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:43,480
one in. And we also had it on the catalog

1207
01:00:43,559 --> 01:00:47,440
available as a catalog item for years too. So but

1208
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,599
who know, you know, I mean, I think part of

1209
01:00:50,679 --> 01:00:52,920
it is the more of the stuff you watch, and

1210
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,199
especially when you're take a deep dive into it.

1211
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:01,599
Speaker 5: Ye, I kind of jaded. I I don't like, oh

1212
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:02,480
that's offensive.

1213
01:01:02,559 --> 01:01:08,079
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, very I cast myself sometimes on this podcast.

1214
01:01:08,079 --> 01:01:10,639
I'll listen back and I'll be like, oh lord, I

1215
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:16,960
really just I really was not very a diplomatic when

1216
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,400
I'm discussing some of these movies. Yeah, just yeah, it's like, wow,

1217
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:24,320
maybe I shouldn't have discussed this woman's anatomy or you know,

1218
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:25,360
all these other things.

1219
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,519
Speaker 5: You know, that's what editing is for.

1220
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, I think loves when I go on

1221
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,440
my tangents. I know John't loves my tangents about like

1222
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,800
breast and plants and things on s Exploitation Starlet's.

1223
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 2: Well, to be fair, sometimes I think I instigate that

1224
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:41,760
as well.

1225
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:46,239
Speaker 3: So you do, yeah, well on that topic.

1226
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,639
Speaker 2: It's like you guys have done some theatrical as well,

1227
01:01:48,719 --> 01:01:51,880
so I think that's always an interesting venue because you

1228
01:01:52,039 --> 01:01:57,159
get to play like she Mob, which played of an audience.

1229
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,320
Yeah that's not really familiar with them.

1230
01:02:00,239 --> 01:02:01,199
Speaker 5: Well I'll tell you about that.

1231
01:02:01,519 --> 01:02:03,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we had the I mean, I have to

1232
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,280
say so, I had always been wanting to go to

1233
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:08,840
the Mahoning drive in because I keep seeing all the

1234
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,719
excellent programming happening. And you know, it was a couple

1235
01:02:11,719 --> 01:02:14,239
of years ago. I had bumped into Mark and Virgil

1236
01:02:15,159 --> 01:02:16,440
and they were like, you have to come out here

1237
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,480
and do something, and I'm like, okay, just you know,

1238
01:02:18,599 --> 01:02:21,079
let me know. So AGFA does a thing every fourth

1239
01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:25,320
of July weekend, so we decided last year that something

1240
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,360
weird would also get involved and do one of the nights.

1241
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 5: Like, well, what do you want a program?

1242
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 4: Because it has to be on thirty five, I said, well,

1243
01:02:32,199 --> 01:02:35,159
Teenage Gang Debs and She Mob. You know that sounds

1244
01:02:35,199 --> 01:02:37,679
perfect to me because I always want to do the

1245
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:43,440
female centric anything anyway, So and not realizing that like

1246
01:02:43,599 --> 01:02:46,519
we're in a drive in and for the most part, like, yeah,

1247
01:02:46,559 --> 01:02:50,159
the program was advertised as adults only, but.

1248
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 5: Teenage Gang Debs we showed that no problem.

1249
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,159
Speaker 4: You know, I always get a little like, I mean,

1250
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:59,800
the scenes that I usually get kind of concerned about

1251
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,320
our like anything where there's sexual assault or you know,

1252
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,360
so at the beginning of teenage game demes, you've got

1253
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,639
you know, Janet bands that being sexually assaulted, and but

1254
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:12,760
you know they don't really just implied, but yeah, but

1255
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,559
still it's like, I mean, I've literally had people at

1256
01:03:15,599 --> 01:03:17,840
screenings be like, you know, you should have done a

1257
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,639
trigger warning and blah blah blah about something.

1258
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 5: So I usually do do that ahead of time, but

1259
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:23,920
at the drive.

1260
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,239
Speaker 4: In, I was like, the movie just goes on, but

1261
01:03:26,599 --> 01:03:30,800
she mob starts and like the first you know, first

1262
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:36,079
part of it's like the splish Flashy, a lot of

1263
01:03:36,159 --> 01:03:36,880
cars left.

1264
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:43,719
Speaker 5: I mean like probably twenty cars left within the first minutes. Yeah,

1265
01:03:44,039 --> 01:03:45,360
but I don't think they missed out.

1266
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 3: So they didn't get to either. They didn't even get

1267
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,199
see Big Shim except for the little bit in the credits.

1268
01:03:51,239 --> 01:03:52,199
They didn't even get to her.

1269
01:03:52,719 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1270
01:03:53,119 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 4: And well also, I mean the other favor is between

1271
01:03:55,840 --> 01:04:00,199
the Splishy Flashy and then the masturbation scene with the

1272
01:04:00,239 --> 01:04:06,079
bait with a huge torpedo silicon boobies like up here somewhere,

1273
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,679
and that went on that that lingered for quite a

1274
01:04:08,719 --> 01:04:12,960
while and I'm sitting there myself going, maybe this wasn't

1275
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,440
a good choice. But no, everyone loved it, except for

1276
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:18,320
those people who left, right, maybe they were tired.

1277
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 5: It was it was after midnight.

1278
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 3: Myself that, yeah, teenage gang dots can be exhausting. You

1279
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,519
go on a journey with that because they're like, oh

1280
01:04:25,559 --> 01:04:27,079
my gosh, rough and tumble ladies.

1281
01:04:27,159 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, especially if you're doing the karate dance move. Yeah,

1282
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,400
that'll tire you out. You might need to go home there, true.

1283
01:04:32,639 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going the black Belt.

1284
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 5: Chili at night.

1285
01:04:39,039 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 4: So maybe they just wanted to be in bed. I'm

1286
01:04:41,039 --> 01:04:43,719
going to tell myself that, and that it wasn't my movie.

1287
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,239
Speaker 3: It wasn't an equivalent of a walkout, right exactly, yeah,

1288
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:47,960
right right.

1289
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 2: Don't make me mad.

1290
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:57,599
Speaker 1: Don't make me mad.

1291
01:05:00,119 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 2: You into Bay, your particular bob bad thing can be

1292
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:12,559
mean boy, but don't get me wroud. Don't make me angry.

1293
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,239
Speaker 1: Don't make me mad.

1294
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 4: But you know, for instance, I just you know, I said,

1295
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:22,559
I showed locally to filers in Samella, Honey Swaller, Brian

1296
01:05:22,719 --> 01:05:26,199
and I maybe had a dozen people come and which

1297
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,360
I'm like, okay, well, and also it was like you know,

1298
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,320
I did my disclaimer at the beginning, like there's you

1299
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,320
know this is you know, I understand the time period

1300
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,719
these movies were made, this is a roughie and blah

1301
01:05:37,719 --> 01:05:38,599
blah blah blah blah.

1302
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,599
Speaker 5: I mean, at least that crowd got it, but it

1303
01:05:40,679 --> 01:05:42,480
was like a lot of people just didn't.

1304
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:44,519
Speaker 4: I mean, I was surprised that we have a bigger audience,

1305
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,440
and I guess that this is not for everybody, and

1306
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,519
not just because we love those movies doesn't mean everyone

1307
01:05:50,599 --> 01:05:51,039
else does.

1308
01:05:52,519 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 3: That's true, Yeah, well, I mean they just I think

1309
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,880
that everyone I just automatically assume everyone would love Stacy

1310
01:06:00,039 --> 01:06:04,440
Walker and just ignore the content around her. Just just

1311
01:06:04,559 --> 01:06:07,519
focus on Stacy and you know it's it's it goes

1312
01:06:07,559 --> 01:06:09,199
down real easy that movie.

1313
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 5: So yes, let her eat up the scenery.

1314
01:06:12,119 --> 01:06:14,639
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, she would make a meal of that movie.

1315
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:19,159
Speaker 2: It's such a good segue, Casey, because smell honey defilers,

1316
01:06:19,239 --> 01:06:22,559
those have been put out. But now you're putting a

1317
01:06:22,639 --> 01:06:25,920
new David Friedman collection. How do you want to how

1318
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:27,119
are you presenting.

1319
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:31,039
Speaker 4: These films so so basically out of all so when

1320
01:06:31,079 --> 01:06:34,000
it up happening after Mike passed, you know, in his

1321
01:06:34,199 --> 01:06:37,480
mind he didn't care if this thing continued. But obviously

1322
01:06:37,679 --> 01:06:41,079
I am personally invested in it, you know, professionally, and

1323
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:44,440
you know, is my source of income. So I really

1324
01:06:44,559 --> 01:06:46,760
just had to figure out what was going to be next.

1325
01:06:47,039 --> 01:06:50,840
And there's something weird catalog. There's you know, thousands of

1326
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,840
titles and some of them are they you know, anything

1327
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:57,440
from like you know, kid children's film, Mattine films, to

1328
01:06:58,199 --> 01:07:01,679
hardcore pornography, and that is not something that one company

1329
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,920
is going to want to take on. And also the

1330
01:07:05,079 --> 01:07:08,800
logistics of that much film. I mean, there were five

1331
01:07:09,239 --> 01:07:12,199
warehouses full of film at the time of Mike's death,

1332
01:07:12,519 --> 01:07:15,199
and they were all over the place. And you know,

1333
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,440
fortunately when you Stephen Morrowits came out the first year

1334
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:23,039
to take possession of the movie lab materials that you know,

1335
01:07:23,159 --> 01:07:26,800
we had gotten from you know, in the late nineties

1336
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:30,360
that Arthur and Mike were partners in that kind of

1337
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:32,039
chipped away at it a little bit, but there was

1338
01:07:32,079 --> 01:07:35,719
still so much. So basically like cutting up the pie,

1339
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,760
giving you and curating it in such a way that like,

1340
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,760
I think this company would be a good fit with this.

1341
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:42,360
I think this one would be good for you know,

1342
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:45,039
and hope for the best, because I you know, I

1343
01:07:45,199 --> 01:07:47,000
know these people, but I don't some of them.

1344
01:07:47,039 --> 01:07:49,079
Speaker 5: I didn't know that. Well, well, I think.

1345
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 2: You've been doing a good job. Let me just say, like,

1346
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:53,280
I think you've been finding the right partners for the

1347
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:54,079
right material.

1348
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:55,719
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Thanks.

1349
01:07:56,559 --> 01:07:59,440
Speaker 4: But the Freeman films I sat on and because I

1350
01:07:59,519 --> 01:08:02,239
really just I knew that that was kind of like

1351
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:06,280
the jewel in our crown and just waiting for just

1352
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,920
the right opportunity also to be able to give the

1353
01:08:09,039 --> 01:08:12,159
time that I thought that they needed. So initially, when

1354
01:08:12,199 --> 01:08:16,000
I was just you know, getting film elements to either

1355
01:08:16,039 --> 01:08:19,880
film marquis or video companies, like I did, send all

1356
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:23,319
of the Freedman film elements down to AGFA and with

1357
01:08:23,399 --> 01:08:26,560
the understanding that we would probably release them together. And

1358
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:28,359
you know, after talking to those guys for a while,

1359
01:08:28,359 --> 01:08:32,800
I realized they're not interested really in releasing the like

1360
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,560
soft X titles. It doesn't fit in with their mission.

1361
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:38,760
And not that they have anything against them, it's just

1362
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,720
that like there's be a better fit for those. However,

1363
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:45,760
titles like you know, she Freak and you know to

1364
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:49,199
file a Smell of Honey, those are a good fit

1365
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,359
with AGFA. There's also one more AGFA release coming out

1366
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:55,359
in early twenty twenty six. That's a Freedman thing, so

1367
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,239
it'll be like kind of like we do a trilogy

1368
01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:58,000
with AGFA.

1369
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 5: So they're true. Yeah, like I said, I haven't an

1370
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,039
NDA thing. I can't talk about it.

1371
01:09:07,039 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 3: You know, it's like sexploitation. We love the teas. It's fine,

1372
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:13,319
just that. Yeah, the tea's is great. We have something

1373
01:09:13,359 --> 01:09:14,880
to look forward to exciting exactly.

1374
01:09:16,039 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 4: So so we will be having just one other AGFA

1375
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:24,079
Friedman double feature coming out, and it's good. It's a

1376
01:09:24,119 --> 01:09:26,479
good one. It's already all the you know, all the

1377
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:28,520
things are in the soup. It's simmering right now.

1378
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 5: But everything else, you know.

1379
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 4: I talked with Joe Rubin and I said, you know,

1380
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:36,720
would you guys be interested in doing this, because, like

1381
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,880
I mean obviously that that's just a good home for them,

1382
01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:43,439
and you know, with Stephen now having launched Malausine and

1383
01:09:44,159 --> 01:09:46,960
all of the Distripicks titles starting to come out as well,

1384
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:51,359
it's just a good fit. And also there's enthusiasm there

1385
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:53,640
because I you know, one of the main things for

1386
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:55,800
me is like I want to work with people who

1387
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,159
are just as excited about the material as I am

1388
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,960
because otherwise nothing going to get done, and you know,

1389
01:10:02,159 --> 01:10:05,920
also being able to plug in experts like you guys

1390
01:10:06,039 --> 01:10:08,279
and all this other stuff, like I want to I

1391
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,560
just want to be able to like have these be

1392
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:15,479
the best possible releases they can be, like almost thinking

1393
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,479
that this is like the last time, because you know,

1394
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,720
I'm in my early sixties now and I just don't

1395
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:22,800
know how much longer. I'm like, you know, I don't

1396
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:26,439
want to be doing this till I'm eighty, So let's

1397
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:28,600
get these out the door. But like we're going to

1398
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,039
do them super deluxe. I mean, Casey, I saw your

1399
01:10:32,359 --> 01:10:35,199
thing this morning. You were talking about the latest District picks,

1400
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:37,079
you know, super deluxe.

1401
01:10:37,279 --> 01:10:42,199
Speaker 3: Case In Stephen, I was like, I was misty eyed

1402
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:44,439
this morning. I was like, this is insane because I

1403
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:46,439
hadn't I had These are the first time I've seen them.

1404
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,960
I hadn't seen any of them, so these are the

1405
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:50,880
first ones that I got my hands on. And when

1406
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,279
you have them in your hands, You're like, this is

1407
01:10:53,399 --> 01:10:56,359
a big deal, Like this is this is really special?

1408
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,199
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, I mean it's there.

1409
01:10:59,319 --> 01:11:02,239
Speaker 4: I mean the amount of time and effort that's going

1410
01:11:02,319 --> 01:11:05,239
into every release, and you know, being able to like

1411
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,800
making sure that we try to think of everything. I mean,

1412
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,479
obviously you're going to miss some things here and there.

1413
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:13,560
But so with these new like out the gate, like

1414
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,039
you know, Joe was immediately well Adult Jekyll and Hyde.

1415
01:11:17,079 --> 01:11:19,520
He was dying to get that out. So I'm like, Okay,

1416
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,720
well let's put it on double feature with Zoro and I.

1417
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,359
You know, that's a really big splash to make for

1418
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,560
your first release as far as this goes, and for me,

1419
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,960
it's it was just really a joy because I got

1420
01:11:32,039 --> 01:11:36,920
to work with Dave's personal archival materials and which I

1421
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,560
have boxes and boxes and filing cabinets of and like

1422
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:42,880
you know, I've been slowly organizing them over the years,

1423
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,000
but with the thought that like I am going to

1424
01:11:45,079 --> 01:11:47,920
be doing these Blu Ray releases plus publishing some books

1425
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,760
and some other things in the future, but to actually

1426
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,399
like get all of the materials for a movie together,

1427
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,399
and which means not just like a still set.

1428
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,079
Speaker 5: It's like all of the production stills, you.

1429
01:11:59,079 --> 01:12:01,119
Speaker 4: Know, because Dave kept the negative you know, the box

1430
01:12:01,199 --> 01:12:05,279
with the negatives and the print sheets, and they're also

1431
01:12:05,399 --> 01:12:08,920
going through my own adult movie mag slicks and trying

1432
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:12,960
to find whatever pictorials relate to those movies because obviously

1433
01:12:13,079 --> 01:12:16,680
they know that was their advertising. You know, they all

1434
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:20,560
had their finger in there and trying to scan all

1435
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:24,479
of that and any just ephemera related to it and

1436
01:12:25,119 --> 01:12:27,920
present them in such a way like, you know, don't

1437
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,000
create new art, just use what's exists. I mean, when

1438
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:34,279
you've got Rudy Escalera doing the one sheets for any

1439
01:12:34,359 --> 01:12:37,119
of these films, it's like they're gorgeous.

1440
01:12:37,239 --> 01:12:39,520
Speaker 5: So it's just a matter of like do you have

1441
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,960
so much material, what do you want to use? Because

1442
01:12:42,119 --> 01:12:42,720
it's all good.

1443
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:46,520
Speaker 4: So I'm really happy with how this first you know,

1444
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:50,760
release of adult Jekyline Hyde and Erotic Adventures or how

1445
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:54,960
it came out, everybody involved with it and just knowing that,

1446
01:12:55,199 --> 01:12:58,199
like we've got to do this many many more times

1447
01:12:58,279 --> 01:13:00,319
now and keep the bar high.

1448
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:04,159
Speaker 2: So yeah, well yeah, no shade to the other releases.

1449
01:13:04,239 --> 01:13:08,520
But I do think, you know, Dave's stuff was kind

1450
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:12,439
of made for these special packages. I think that the

1451
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:16,720
presentation is amazing. Yeah, and I can't wait to see

1452
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:19,199
how the rest of them look, because Jekyl and Hyde

1453
01:13:19,239 --> 01:13:22,199
and Zoro is Yeah, like you said, it's a good

1454
01:13:22,239 --> 01:13:25,239
splash to start it out with. And you know you

1455
01:13:25,359 --> 01:13:27,399
got Renee Bond and Zoro. So it's like, yeah, like

1456
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:31,960
you said, yeah, I was going to ask about you

1457
01:13:32,039 --> 01:13:35,319
were talking about materials, Like what's what's the deal with

1458
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:39,760
this second volume of the Youth in Babylon Dave's book?

1459
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,319
Speaker 5: Okay, it's a sad story.

1460
01:13:44,039 --> 01:13:48,319
Speaker 4: So when Dave was still alive, you know, he had

1461
01:13:48,359 --> 01:13:51,319
sent Mike and I the first two and a half

1462
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:55,960
chapters of the book after his book had been rejected

1463
01:13:56,039 --> 01:13:58,960
by the publisher. Because it is called Kings of Babylon,

1464
01:13:59,079 --> 01:14:02,199
it's the second volume of his story, so it basically

1465
01:14:02,279 --> 01:14:05,680
picks up where he in Herschel part ways and he

1466
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:09,560
starts working for Sunny Amusement Enterprises. So he's like, hey, kids,

1467
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:11,399
like I need you to read this and let us know,

1468
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:15,039
like you know, like is this too wordy? They're telling

1469
01:14:15,079 --> 01:14:16,960
me it's too long, and like I don't want.

1470
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:17,359
Speaker 5: To edit it.

1471
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 4: I'm like, we don't want you to edit it either.

1472
01:14:19,039 --> 01:14:20,399
Let us look at it, and I'm like this is

1473
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,000
perfect the way it is. It's like, I mean, day

1474
01:14:23,159 --> 01:14:25,600
we all are familiar with, you know, from Youth and Babylon.

1475
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,479
He just had such a flowery way of you know,

1476
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:33,319
writing and also just telling a story, and that's part

1477
01:14:33,359 --> 01:14:35,800
of it. It's not like that can't be edited. You know,

1478
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,359
you're not going to take out words, you know. And

1479
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:39,279
he was like, the king of a literation, leave his

1480
01:14:39,359 --> 01:14:41,600
a literation in there, you know that that's just all

1481
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:42,479
part of the story.

1482
01:14:43,079 --> 01:14:45,279
Speaker 5: And so we have.

1483
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 4: So we kept these in our possession and like, you know,

1484
01:14:49,039 --> 01:14:52,399
this is perfectly fine. You know, just tell them you

1485
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:54,560
don't want to and if not, maybe we'll find another

1486
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:56,479
publisher for you. So a couple of years go by

1487
01:14:57,079 --> 01:14:59,880
and we start talking a Dave again, like so any

1488
01:15:00,159 --> 01:15:03,960
going on with the book, and he just got really quiet,

1489
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,359
and we're like, what's up, and he's like, I can't

1490
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:12,119
find it his manuscript and it was like a word

1491
01:15:12,279 --> 01:15:16,319
processed manuscript. It wasn't like on a computer or anything.

1492
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,319
And he goes, I think my wife Carol threw it

1493
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:22,479
out when she was cleaning my office.

1494
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:25,319
Speaker 5: Who throws out a thousand I.

1495
01:15:25,399 --> 01:15:29,359
Speaker 3: Don't see Carol doing that, although, okay, so.

1496
01:15:31,159 --> 01:15:33,079
Speaker 5: You know, can you look, can you look? Whatever?

1497
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 4: So years and years ago, you know, a few more

1498
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:39,239
years ago by Dave passes away and his niece Micah

1499
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:42,000
is going through his materials and he said hey, keep

1500
01:15:42,039 --> 01:15:45,199
an eye out for this manuscript. I go. It has

1501
01:15:45,319 --> 01:15:47,520
to be there, I said, I can't imagine where else

1502
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:50,279
it would be. I also called the publisher to see

1503
01:15:50,359 --> 01:15:52,520
if they kept a copy, and they said no, they

1504
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:54,920
they I guess they just throw that stuff out or

1505
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:58,079
they just send it back or whatever. And I also

1506
01:15:58,239 --> 01:16:00,600
called his Oh he wrote a letter to his ghost

1507
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:03,880
writer and who had helped him with it and with

1508
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:08,520
guys in his probably mid nineties now, and he wrote

1509
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:11,600
me a letter back talking about how Dave Freeman was

1510
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:15,359
a crook and he didn't pay him the money was

1511
01:16:15,359 --> 01:16:17,359
supposed to do from the books that he sold at

1512
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:20,159
conventions and all this other stuff, and no he didn't

1513
01:16:20,239 --> 01:16:20,479
have it.

1514
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 5: But so, I mean, that was all I want to know.

1515
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:24,920
Do you have it or do you not have it?

1516
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:26,720
I didn't need this out, I mean the SOB story,

1517
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:32,960
because they didn't the forty thieves for nothing, right, So

1518
01:16:34,279 --> 01:16:37,760
it is gone missing. And except for the two and

1519
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,439
a half, Yeah, you've got a.

1520
01:16:41,239 --> 01:16:46,119
Speaker 4: I have. I have already typed up and I've transcribed

1521
01:16:46,159 --> 01:16:49,800
them myself, so they have them digitally, and I plan

1522
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:53,960
on publishing books of the first chapter is going to

1523
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:57,399
be its own book because it was about the Sunny

1524
01:16:57,439 --> 01:17:00,960
family and how a Sunny Amusement and prizes came to be,

1525
01:17:01,159 --> 01:17:04,680
and like its whole history. I mean, even though it's

1526
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:09,640
one chapter, there's so much accompanying visual material from Freeman's

1527
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:11,439
own archive and just stuff that Mike and I have

1528
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:14,439
collected over the decades, and whynot that I think it

1529
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,920
could be a gorgeous, gorgeous book. Second book would be

1530
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:21,520
The King's of Babylon just two point five or whatever.

1531
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:25,199
So it'll be Dave starting to work for Sonny, him,

1532
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,720
you know, being them telling him, hey, make a movie,

1533
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:31,319
makes the Defilers, you know, the Stacy Walker stories in there,

1534
01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:38,159
also him making Notorious daughter of Fanny Hill right up

1535
01:17:38,239 --> 01:17:41,520
until they made Smell Honeys follow or Brian, and then

1536
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:44,600
he starts to talk about Stacy, like what became of

1537
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:47,640
Stacy Walker? And that's, oh yeah, I could I could

1538
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,399
go on and on about that as well. However, that's

1539
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,840
kind of where it stops abruptly. And I'm going to

1540
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,920
tell you my theory putting this out there. Probably I

1541
01:17:57,039 --> 01:18:00,119
think his wife read the book and was reading it

1542
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,600
got to i mean, like or start got to that point,

1543
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:04,239
because like we had the other part of it he

1544
01:18:04,399 --> 01:18:07,600
is singing the praises of this woman he was obviously

1545
01:18:08,079 --> 01:18:11,000
madly in love with. I think she was pissed off.

1546
01:18:11,199 --> 01:18:12,159
Speaker 5: I think she threw the book out.

1547
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 4: That's just my you know, my theory. But it's strange

1548
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:21,119
how it just disappeared. And I mean obviously that she

1549
01:18:21,239 --> 01:18:24,000
was a very long She's a wonderful Carol was wonderful.

1550
01:18:24,039 --> 01:18:25,479
I mean, Mike and I spend a lot of time

1551
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:27,800
with her, very long, suffering to put up.

1552
01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:28,239
Speaker 5: With him.

1553
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:31,560
Speaker 3: Through so much.

1554
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really did. And I just think the.

1555
01:18:34,199 --> 01:18:39,039
Speaker 4: Fact that you know, he was publicly talking about another

1556
01:18:39,079 --> 01:18:42,439
woman in such a in such glowing language.

1557
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 5: That that might have that might have been it. But

1558
01:18:44,039 --> 01:18:46,800
I could be completely wrong, But that's my that's my theory.

1559
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:47,680
I'm sticking to it. Yea.

1560
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:51,760
Speaker 2: In that sex sex is, there was just one sex

1561
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:57,720
I can't remember now, sex is. Carol's in that and

1562
01:18:58,079 --> 01:19:01,760
you know they that Stacey Walker does come up and

1563
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:03,720
it is kind of an awkward scene.

1564
01:19:04,159 --> 01:19:09,039
Speaker 4: So you noticed that too, yes, yeah, okay, well anyway,

1565
01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:11,359
so so that is what I think happened to the book.

1566
01:19:11,399 --> 01:19:14,680
But there, I mean, I promised you that in the

1567
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:17,560
next however many years, that I am going to be

1568
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:19,560
putting that those chapters out there.

1569
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,159
Speaker 2: I know you put out ye a little a little

1570
01:19:22,199 --> 01:19:26,039
snippet in the Mister Peters Pets release from Keno, Yes,

1571
01:19:26,119 --> 01:19:28,800
which waiting my appetite.

1572
01:19:29,159 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 3: The Defilers too, right? Was there something in the Defilers

1573
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:32,840
liner notes too?

1574
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:35,359
Speaker 4: I think I think I did take a couple of

1575
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:38,399
days quotes from that in there. I can't remember off hand,

1576
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:42,399
but I know with obviously, we've got some upcoming releases

1577
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:46,000
for Freeman in the next year, year two, and I'll

1578
01:19:46,039 --> 01:19:50,000
probably be using some parts about notorious daughter Fanny Hill

1579
01:19:50,359 --> 01:19:52,520
that were from the book and when we start to

1580
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,000
work on that project in the future.

1581
01:19:54,119 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 3: So yeah, that well, that piece and for the Defilers,

1582
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:02,600
I mean, that was everything us Stacy Walker fanatics wanted.

1583
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:05,079
I mean, we had the last known photograph that you

1584
01:20:05,199 --> 01:20:07,680
put that you put in there, and like the most

1585
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:09,920
information that we had ever had, even more than Dave

1586
01:20:10,399 --> 01:20:12,840
shared with us and commentaries were in those liner notes.

1587
01:20:13,159 --> 01:20:15,640
And I had to ask, have there been any updates

1588
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:17,279
in the Stacy Well story.

1589
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:21,039
Speaker 5: I'm working with Sean Langrick on that and good.

1590
01:20:21,239 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 4: It's a sensitive topic, so I'm sure just kind of

1591
01:20:26,079 --> 01:20:28,640
tippy toeing my way through it. But we have some

1592
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:32,600
leads on some things, and okay, yeah, I'll just I'll

1593
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:33,079
leave it at that.

1594
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 3: Sure, I hope she's still with us. I hope she's

1595
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,279
doing well me too.

1596
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, fabulous icon.

1597
01:20:41,199 --> 01:20:45,399
Speaker 4: Yep, you sit right here and talk to me while

1598
01:20:45,399 --> 01:20:46,239
I take my bed.

1599
01:20:48,199 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: I'll stand here.

1600
01:20:49,039 --> 01:20:52,359
Speaker 2: Shit, did you be a good boy and sit down?

1601
01:20:59,119 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 3: I wondered, so you so we have a bunch of

1602
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:06,279
exciting Freeman releases to look forward to. I wondered if

1603
01:21:06,359 --> 01:21:10,880
you had a personal favorite or like it, or one

1604
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,119
that really spoke to you that you're really excited to

1605
01:21:13,159 --> 01:21:15,520
get restored, and if and on the other hand, did

1606
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,600
you have one that you think deserves more attention that

1607
01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:22,520
has kind of overlooked h in his in the Freeman catalog.

1608
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I mean I put up my favorite ones already,

1609
01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:32,439
so obviously she freaked the filers Melhet And it was

1610
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:34,880
funny because, like I mean, I'm gonna be this is

1611
01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:37,439
probably sacrileged for me to say this, but I'm not

1612
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:39,199
a huge fan of Uncle Dave's movies.

1613
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:41,520
Speaker 5: You know that's okay.

1614
01:21:42,159 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 4: Those historical bodice ripper drama costume dramas are a hard watch.

1615
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:52,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he loved them. He really did.

1616
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1617
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:55,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved doing the costume pictures.

1618
01:21:55,239 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, well he was bringing some class to smut.

1619
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,680
Speaker 4: So yeah, I have to say I think I'm probably

1620
01:22:04,239 --> 01:22:08,439
excited about like maybe Brick Dollhouse and Sweet Sickness just

1621
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:09,800
because I like those movies.

1622
01:22:10,119 --> 01:22:13,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are my choices as well. Yeah, because I

1623
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:18,479
actually rewatched Sweet Sickness both of them recently, and because

1624
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,279
I was like, are these as bad as I remembered?

1625
01:22:20,359 --> 01:22:22,520
And they were not. I loved both of them. I

1626
01:22:23,039 --> 01:22:24,760
don't know what I was thinking when I first saw them,

1627
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,119
and I was like, you know, these aren't that great.

1628
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:30,479
I love them both, and I really want nice restorations

1629
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:33,279
of those. They're so yeah, very different movies.

1630
01:22:33,319 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 2: Well, in a Brick Dollhouse, just the colors in that

1631
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:38,159
movie are crazy. I would love to see.

1632
01:22:38,079 --> 01:22:40,279
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, supersaturated, It's really cool.

1633
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1634
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 4: Also Starlet, I mean because that never got an Image

1635
01:22:45,079 --> 01:22:48,600
Entertainment release. I think it was slated to be a

1636
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,840
double feature with Varshy Blows and there was some issues

1637
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,159
with the film elements. I'm hoping there's still there won't

1638
01:22:54,159 --> 01:22:56,239
be issues with the film elements when and if the

1639
01:22:56,279 --> 01:22:57,479
time comes we start.

1640
01:22:57,319 --> 01:22:58,079
Speaker 5: To work on those.

1641
01:22:59,079 --> 01:23:01,079
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think that that's a really important one

1642
01:23:01,119 --> 01:23:04,159
because I mean, basically, I love how Dave just inserts

1643
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:08,640
his own like personal you know things like with Sheefreak,

1644
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:10,880
obviously he was a Cartney so that means in there.

1645
01:23:11,119 --> 01:23:13,680
And then you know with Starlett, you're basically writing the

1646
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:17,880
story of like exploitation film producer and you know behind

1647
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:18,840
the scenes stuff that.

1648
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:19,600
Speaker 5: Goes along with that.

1649
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean I think all of those aspects

1650
01:23:23,119 --> 01:23:25,560
of the films that are coming out are going to

1651
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:27,279
be interesting to people as well.

1652
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:31,079
Speaker 3: Well, there's one one. There's one that we did discuss

1653
01:23:31,199 --> 01:23:35,159
on our Lost Pictures Lost Movies lists, which might be

1654
01:23:35,279 --> 01:23:37,399
the I think it is it the only EVI movie

1655
01:23:37,399 --> 01:23:39,560
that's still missing, which is Love Thy Neighbor and His Wife.

1656
01:23:40,239 --> 01:23:43,239
And I don't know, is there I don't know if

1657
01:23:43,319 --> 01:23:46,000
Dave getting any reason why that one is missing. Was

1658
01:23:46,039 --> 01:23:48,159
it because it was like a pickup from Byron? Maybe?

1659
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:49,399
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.

1660
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:52,880
Speaker 4: I think that maybe it's missing some film elements. That

1661
01:23:53,039 --> 01:23:56,439
might be because I I have some film elements for it,

1662
01:23:57,319 --> 01:23:58,840
it's just maybe not all there.

1663
01:23:59,319 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 3: Well, that was on Gentry's top ten lists. Nice to

1664
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:04,239
see it.

1665
01:24:05,359 --> 01:24:07,039
Speaker 5: It'll be a Christmas Miracle.

1666
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 3: That would be great. I mean even if there even

1667
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:12,840
if those are included as as like a bonus on

1668
01:24:13,039 --> 01:24:15,920
one of the one of the Freedman packages, just I

1669
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:18,399
mean it's ushi and it's Byron May.

1670
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're gonna use as much material like I mean, basically,

1671
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,319
so when I started to say when when all of

1672
01:24:25,399 --> 01:24:28,720
the films were deposited at AGFA, when I made the

1673
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:31,960
decision to have Melasine, you know, take it over, so

1674
01:24:32,199 --> 01:24:34,560
all of the all of the Freedman stuff got sent

1675
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:39,640
up to Connecticut. So it's all there now. So basically

1676
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,279
it's just a matter of like Oscar going through and

1677
01:24:42,359 --> 01:24:44,640
inspecting what films we have. I mean, there's a couple

1678
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:48,239
of things that are mislabeled where it looked as though

1679
01:24:48,279 --> 01:24:51,199
there were some elements missing from a few films. However,

1680
01:24:52,359 --> 01:24:56,000
oddly enough, they were somewhere in Jimmy Maslin's garage.

1681
01:24:56,479 --> 01:24:59,520
Speaker 5: I don't know how that happened, but it did.

1682
01:25:00,159 --> 01:25:03,039
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like big giant jigsaw puzzles, like

1683
01:25:03,079 --> 01:25:05,800
trying to get all these things back and together, because

1684
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:09,199
I mean, we had so many warehouses at one point,

1685
01:25:09,359 --> 01:25:14,560
like in the nineties and early two thousands, we had

1686
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:18,800
after Jimmy stopped doing QC video. There was a warehouse

1687
01:25:19,079 --> 01:25:21,640
under the sixth Street Bridge in LA that was just

1688
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,159
you know, where everything got dumped after it got transfer

1689
01:25:24,199 --> 01:25:26,520
because our transfer house after that was up in Reseda

1690
01:25:27,119 --> 01:25:30,479
and there was that stuff had to all come back

1691
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,840
to Seattle at one point, and I think just some

1692
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:34,640
things kind of got lost in the shuffle. They might

1693
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:37,600
have ended up at Jimmy's home and whatever. So yeah,

1694
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:39,800
we're just we're still finding things. I find things in

1695
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:41,439
my garage every once in a while, like, oh that's

1696
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:42,000
where that went.

1697
01:25:42,079 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 5: Cool, Okay.

1698
01:25:43,399 --> 01:25:46,640
Speaker 3: So it seems like that's kind of the nature of

1699
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:50,359
trying to document and save the history of the genre

1700
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:53,079
in general. It's like bits and pieces here and there,

1701
01:25:53,279 --> 01:25:55,079
and it's just like trying to put it all together.

1702
01:25:55,199 --> 01:25:56,520
It is kind of like a big puzzle.

1703
01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, well, I just appreciate all the kind

1704
01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:02,159
of work that you guys are doing because I mean,

1705
01:26:02,199 --> 01:26:04,119
I'll be honest, I mean, like my interest in like

1706
01:26:04,399 --> 01:26:08,039
I'm not doing the deep dive in research unless it's

1707
01:26:08,079 --> 01:26:10,760
a project that I'm specifically working on at that moment,

1708
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,439
because like I spent so many years like trying to

1709
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:15,760
find all the information before there was an internet or

1710
01:26:16,119 --> 01:26:18,039
when it was the early days of the Internet. And

1711
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:21,239
you know, we always laugh at like if you look

1712
01:26:21,239 --> 01:26:23,359
at the descriptions on this, like we now call it

1713
01:26:23,399 --> 01:26:26,199
the something weir at archive dot com, which is the

1714
01:26:26,279 --> 01:26:28,880
old something weird website. I mean, I kept it just

1715
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:32,520
because I sometimes kind of need to look something up

1716
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:35,000
and or even like with a NUDI, like what's on

1717
01:26:35,119 --> 01:26:37,199
NUDI QTS two seventy one.

1718
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,079
Speaker 5: I know that way I can just go on there.

1719
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:44,199
Speaker 4: But there's so much information that's incorrect now and mistakes

1720
01:26:44,319 --> 01:26:47,479
and just because we didn't know and like people who

1721
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,880
were using pseudonyms back in the nineties, we didn't know

1722
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:52,640
who those people were. And I mean, I am so

1723
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,720
grateful for people like you who are doing the hard

1724
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:59,000
work now and like making all of this makes sense,

1725
01:26:59,159 --> 01:27:00,840
because a lot of time we would just be like

1726
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:03,640
this looks like so and so's work, but the name

1727
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:05,600
on it is this, and like do you think and

1728
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:07,920
we're like, well, there's no nothing to back that up,

1729
01:27:08,119 --> 01:27:11,960
and then you find out, oh, okay, that makes we.

1730
01:27:12,199 --> 01:27:12,720
Speaker 3: Still do that.

1731
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 6: Sometimes I'll read the back of those VHS boxes and

1732
01:27:17,119 --> 01:27:19,640
be like, I'm surprised they even knew this much like

1733
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,359
some of the stuff you wrote, and I'm like, yeah,

1734
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:23,199
it's it's.

1735
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 5: Well, even in a press book, there were so many

1736
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:29,319
pseudonyms for people. Yes, and even go by that, right,

1737
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:31,199
I mean in my case, like as.

1738
01:27:31,079 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 4: Far as identifying people, like I one of my only superprised,

1739
01:27:35,039 --> 01:27:37,199
like I have a pretty good visual memory of like

1740
01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:40,199
with faces, so like even if somebody has got a

1741
01:27:40,199 --> 01:27:43,000
totally different like wig or what, I'm like, hey, that's

1742
01:27:43,039 --> 01:27:44,840
so and so, even though she doesn't really look like

1743
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:47,880
so and so. But and that was part of the

1744
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:50,800
way of identifying people as well, Like once I once

1745
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:52,760
I knew who somebody was, if I saw them again

1746
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:55,239
and they weren't listed in something, I was like, okay, yeah,

1747
01:27:55,279 --> 01:27:56,239
so let's put her in there.

1748
01:27:56,359 --> 01:27:58,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she is there. Especially, you can sell by

1749
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,439
like location too, like if there if this same person

1750
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,399
that looks similar is working in another New York film,

1751
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:06,000
it's like, yeah, that's probably her.

1752
01:28:07,279 --> 01:28:09,439
Speaker 3: But then you have examples like Maria Lease where she's

1753
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:11,680
on both coasts and you're like, wow, yes, possibly be

1754
01:28:12,039 --> 01:28:14,439
you forget the airplanes exist. But it's also just kind

1755
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:16,119
of like, well, wait a minute, how can she be

1756
01:28:16,199 --> 01:28:18,479
in vibrations? One month and the next month she's in

1757
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:22,439
Love Camp seven. It's just like twins. But yeah, it's no,

1758
01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:25,159
it is yeah, No, I.

1759
01:28:25,199 --> 01:28:26,319
Speaker 5: Mean that's one of the things. I mean, like, I

1760
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:28,720
know you you all have a love of the New

1761
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:32,079
York starletts like myself. I mean, we do love our

1762
01:28:32,159 --> 01:28:33,239
June Roberts and.

1763
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:39,119
Speaker 4: Judy Adler and Darlene Bennett and Gigi Darlene and all

1764
01:28:39,159 --> 01:28:42,880
of them. And just I could watch any movie that

1765
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,119
they're in. I don't even care what it is, you know,

1766
01:28:45,359 --> 01:28:48,880
just just seeing there, it's like seeing family or something like.

1767
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:50,039
Speaker 2: It is.

1768
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:50,760
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1769
01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:53,039
Speaker 3: We talked about that last week actually, or the last

1770
01:28:53,039 --> 01:28:55,279
time we talked about Hot Nights on the Campus, and

1771
01:28:55,399 --> 01:28:57,199
we were like, this is just a comfort movie because

1772
01:28:57,199 --> 01:29:00,800
it's Gigi Darlene and Darlene Bennett and Judy Adler and

1773
01:29:01,039 --> 01:29:03,079
Joanna Mills and the Sarno stuff. It's like, no, this

1774
01:29:03,239 --> 01:29:06,479
is just like a comfort movie for us because it's

1775
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:09,560
New York, it's Chuck Smith and it's all these ladies

1776
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:11,680
we love. It's just you know, goes down.

1777
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 2: Really, I was revisiting Barry Mayhon Sin in the city

1778
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:16,319
and I had that same feeling too.

1779
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 4: It's just like which is kind of an odd one

1780
01:29:19,199 --> 01:29:22,239
for you know, because I don't think he worked with

1781
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,119
I mean, he did work with Darling Quid, but I

1782
01:29:24,199 --> 01:29:27,079
mean like that actually had like a very sleazy sixties

1783
01:29:27,159 --> 01:29:30,399
exploitation feel like some of his other ones didn't really have.

1784
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:33,520
I mean they're more nud acuties or whatever. But and

1785
01:29:33,560 --> 01:29:35,800
it's always weird seeing any of those women in color.

1786
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:37,439
I don't know how you guys feel about that, but

1787
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:37,880
I'll be like.

1788
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:40,239
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, like this has said that. Alex said that

1789
01:29:40,319 --> 01:29:42,319
he was like, I love Judy Adler in black and white,

1790
01:29:42,399 --> 01:29:44,399
and he wished Confessions of a Bad Girl was in

1791
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:46,279
black and white. He's like, it's fine to see her

1792
01:29:46,359 --> 01:29:49,640
in color, but it's also jarring, you know. It's kind

1793
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:51,680
of like Uda Ericson, who we know from black and white,

1794
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:54,039
from the Findleys, and then she's in Love Toy in color.

1795
01:29:54,159 --> 01:29:58,920
For Doris Wishman, it's like, oh jarring, you know, Yeah,

1796
01:29:59,239 --> 01:30:01,920
it is jar when you're used to seeing them in monochrome.

1797
01:30:02,279 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 5: Yeah. So what was your first Gateway film for Something Weird?

1798
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 3: My first one was boring. It was Axe. It was

1799
01:30:10,079 --> 01:30:12,640
the Harry Novaka That was my first Something Weird VHS.

1800
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:15,640
But then it was the Findleys, the Next Touch of

1801
01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:18,319
Her Flash, Curse of Her Flesh, and then Kiss wasn't

1802
01:30:18,319 --> 01:30:20,560
out yet, and so I remember when Kiss came out,

1803
01:30:21,039 --> 01:30:23,239
and that was a big deal because it was just

1804
01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:26,399
like we finally get to see the end of the trilogy.

1805
01:30:27,359 --> 01:30:28,520
You know, that was a big deal.

1806
01:30:29,239 --> 01:30:31,520
Speaker 2: I think I think She Devil's on Wheels might have

1807
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:34,319
been mine, which is a great first one, isn't it.

1808
01:30:35,319 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 5: I think, so, yeah, that's a really good way.

1809
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:40,319
Speaker 2: And then yeah, and then all the Herschel's and then

1810
01:30:40,359 --> 01:30:42,479
I just kind of went from there. Herschel's.

1811
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1812
01:30:43,039 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of people, Herschel was kind

1813
01:30:45,039 --> 01:30:46,319
of the gateway in as well.

1814
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:48,199
Speaker 5: Well.

1815
01:30:48,239 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 4: I mean he definitely as far as like the early

1816
01:30:51,079 --> 01:30:53,840
days of home video. I mean, so many of his

1817
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:57,039
movies came out like on those big box format and

1818
01:30:57,239 --> 01:31:00,800
Joe Bob Briggs, you know, Sleaziest Movie, these series and

1819
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:03,239
all of that kind of stuff. So people definitely got

1820
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:05,479
like and you know, I think, you know, when I

1821
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:09,000
talk about like how people get into these kind of films,

1822
01:31:09,039 --> 01:31:14,039
it's like I remember getting like the Incredibly Strange Films book,

1823
01:31:14,439 --> 01:31:15,600
you know, in the eighties, and.

1824
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 5: Even though like I may not have seen all them.

1825
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:20,079
Speaker 4: It's like I got familiarized with all of them, the

1826
01:31:20,119 --> 01:31:23,920
same with the Psychotronic Encyclopedia. And fortunately I lived in

1827
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:25,960
New York, you know, in the in the eighties and

1828
01:31:26,039 --> 01:31:30,239
early nineties, so having Kim's video, all of those were

1829
01:31:30,279 --> 01:31:34,359
right at your fingertips at that point. So but definitely,

1830
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:38,680
I think those those big box videos introduced people. I mean,

1831
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:41,319
like I remember like basket Case being one of my

1832
01:31:41,399 --> 01:31:44,239
first VHSS I ever saw, you know, because it was

1833
01:31:44,319 --> 01:31:44,560
like I.

1834
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:46,920
Speaker 3: Saw that when I was like eleven, way too young

1835
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:52,840
to be seeing that, and that was my little brothers

1836
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:55,720
and sisters. Still remember me showing them that and being traumatized,

1837
01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:57,840
like you really, like you ruined us. I was like,

1838
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:00,600
I'm sorry, but it's ann and later I'm sorry, I'm

1839
01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:03,319
not that sorry about it. No, No, but I had video,

1840
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:05,640
so you had Kim's Video. I had Video Vault, which

1841
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:09,039
I'm sure you and Alexandria. So that's where I would go.

1842
01:32:09,119 --> 01:32:10,920
And they had a max of nine movies at a time,

1843
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:14,159
so I would just rent nine movies, go watch them,

1844
01:32:14,279 --> 01:32:16,600
take them back in like two days, and I just

1845
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:19,359
made my way through the catalog before I started actually

1846
01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:23,079
purchasing them. But yeah, each new one was just like

1847
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:25,840
it was building on the next. It was yeah, it was,

1848
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:28,560
it was. It just it made me ask so many

1849
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:31,359
questions and want to see every movie by every filmmaker

1850
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:31,840
I loved.

1851
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:33,800
Speaker 2: Did you know they were something weird as you were

1852
01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:34,880
checking them out? Casey?

1853
01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, Yeah. I specifically looked for something weird artwork

1854
01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:42,399
because I was like, Okay, I'm gonna keep going, We're

1855
01:32:42,399 --> 01:32:43,720
gonna do to something weird.

1856
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,880
Speaker 5: And yeah that's what I did too.

1857
01:32:48,359 --> 01:32:50,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the touch of Refleshed. The first version I

1858
01:32:50,479 --> 01:32:53,640
saw was the was the pre negative version, so I

1859
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:56,159
remember that there was like a real change I think

1860
01:32:56,319 --> 01:32:58,560
in the telesiny and I was like, it made it

1861
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:01,039
feel sleazier. It was like I shouldn't be watching this.

1862
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:06,279
I shouldn't I really shouldn't be watching this but dirty. Yeah, yeah,

1863
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:07,199
it's very.

1864
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:09,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's funny? I mean?

1865
01:33:09,359 --> 01:33:12,239
Speaker 4: And I'm sure you have heard this story before, I mean,

1866
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:13,840
or if you have it, I'm going about to tell it.

1867
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:18,760
The earliest thirty five millimeter films that Mike put on,

1868
01:33:19,119 --> 01:33:24,039
like home video, were him shooting them from his you know,

1869
01:33:24,159 --> 01:33:28,680
his projectionist job at the Apple Theater from the audience.

1870
01:33:29,079 --> 01:33:31,600
So like the first versions of like since in Tok

1871
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:36,680
Career Bed Smell Honey's Fellow, they are literally from like

1872
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:39,880
just a cam couarder you see people like walking by them,

1873
01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:44,399
so even more slazy than those that first you know,

1874
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:46,600
real release of touch of her flush.

1875
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,279
Speaker 3: So I would love to see one of those. I'm

1876
01:33:49,359 --> 01:33:51,560
sure I did, and it's just lost a time because

1877
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:53,920
all the video Vault stuff is gone because they never

1878
01:33:54,039 --> 01:33:56,359
really replenished or updated their VHS if there was a

1879
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:58,119
new version reissue, they were just like, no, we're just

1880
01:33:58,199 --> 01:34:00,000
going to keep renting this into the ground.

1881
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 4: The masters for those I might like, you know how

1882
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:07,239
we do with AGFA the super VHS parties.

1883
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:11,600
Speaker 5: Maybe there'll be an Apple Theater super VHS party. I

1884
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:12,119
love that.

1885
01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:15,000
Speaker 3: I would be like, basically you could advertise is like

1886
01:34:15,079 --> 01:34:16,800
put yourself in Mike Rainy shoes.

1887
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not, it's like Mike Brainy in the audience mode.

1888
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:25,199
Speaker 3: Yes, I think actually I think that that is brilliant.

1889
01:34:25,239 --> 01:34:26,680
I think you should definitely.

1890
01:34:26,359 --> 01:34:28,079
Speaker 5: Do that well down the road.

1891
01:34:28,119 --> 01:34:31,039
Speaker 4: But funny, speaking of Herschel and I don't know if

1892
01:34:31,079 --> 01:34:33,960
you guys have discussed this yet on your but some

1893
01:34:34,119 --> 01:34:36,279
of the movies that hadn't come out on the Arrow

1894
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:40,600
box set are being restored next year for and it's

1895
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:44,399
AGFA plus something weird with a license from Jimmy Maslin

1896
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:48,680
doing like all brand new restorations. I mean I even

1897
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:51,640
thought to myself like, Okay, how many times could Blood

1898
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:53,880
Feast be restored?

1899
01:34:54,279 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 5: But it hasn't been restored in new HD?

1900
01:34:56,159 --> 01:34:56,359
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1901
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 3: No, And what is what is it that Dave said?

1902
01:35:00,079 --> 01:35:00,800
Did David David?

1903
01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:06,119
Speaker 2: David Dan saying, ok, the funny thing is about that

1904
01:35:06,199 --> 01:35:09,159
announcement is like, yeah, you know, I know that the

1905
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,079
jewel of it is, you know, getting those up those

1906
01:35:12,119 --> 01:35:14,640
four K updates of the Blood trilogy. But I want

1907
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,279
to see miss Nympha Zappan Like I want that.

1908
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:21,159
Speaker 4: I think the vinegar syndrome version of that might be

1909
01:35:21,159 --> 01:35:24,640
better than what we had. A really our print is

1910
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:25,680
really rough of that.

1911
01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:29,439
Speaker 3: I mean watching it, Yeah, I still have a DVD R.

1912
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:31,279
And I was just I was just glad that it existed.

1913
01:35:31,359 --> 01:35:33,920
So I took me. I didn't. Yeah, I was just like,

1914
01:35:34,079 --> 01:35:34,840
I'm glad it's here.

1915
01:35:35,279 --> 01:35:35,800
Speaker 5: I am.

1916
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,399
Speaker 3: I am probably the only person that is excited about

1917
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:39,399
Jimmy the Boy Wonder.

1918
01:35:40,119 --> 01:35:40,560
Speaker 5: No, you're not.

1919
01:35:41,399 --> 01:35:45,560
Speaker 4: That is the first ever that literally I get asked that, like, oh,

1920
01:35:45,640 --> 01:35:47,600
you're restoring Jimmy, right, I mean like that they don't

1921
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:48,479
care about any the other ones.

1922
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:52,159
Speaker 5: Jimmy, the Boy wonder imagine, I need, Yeah.

1923
01:35:52,399 --> 01:35:55,680
Speaker 3: I need, I need the I'm Mister fig song in

1924
01:35:56,159 --> 01:36:00,680
re Store Please to Blue. That movie is crazy and wonderful. Yeah,

1925
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:02,479
that's that's definitely a favorite of mine.

1926
01:36:03,239 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 5: So it's going to be a really really busy next

1927
01:36:06,079 --> 01:36:06,600
couple of years.

1928
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 4: I mean, like I feel like I was thinking before,

1929
01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:11,239
like wow, you know, it's been pretty steady with all

1930
01:36:11,319 --> 01:36:13,880
of the Blu Ray releases, so like, you know, I

1931
01:36:13,960 --> 01:36:17,279
have to keep track of about six partners, yeah, and

1932
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:19,800
like which ones, like which.

1933
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:20,520
Speaker 5: Projects to work on.

1934
01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 4: And I mean obviously I have my my favorite projects,

1935
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:25,600
which I devote most of my time too, but then

1936
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:27,399
I also do I got a baby the other ones

1937
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:31,239
as well. So this coming year, there's just so much

1938
01:36:31,319 --> 01:36:32,199
good stuff coming up.

1939
01:36:32,399 --> 01:36:35,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Casey, it's not just yeah yeah talking about that.

1940
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:37,399
Twenty twenty six seems like it's going to be a

1941
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:40,079
big year for I mean, yeah, we got the Herschel's,

1942
01:36:40,199 --> 01:36:43,479
the Herschel and Dave, like two of the biggest names

1943
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:46,840
and exploitation have collections coming out.

1944
01:36:47,359 --> 01:36:47,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, and.

1945
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:52,000
Speaker 4: It's not I mean, it hasn't been announced or anything yet,

1946
01:36:52,079 --> 01:36:55,399
but people have boso been wondering, like we're the Barry

1947
01:36:55,439 --> 01:36:57,960
Mayhon films and those.

1948
01:36:57,840 --> 01:37:01,880
Speaker 3: Are entries specifically, Yes, Jener specifically wants a Berry may

1949
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:03,159
On collection or two or three.

1950
01:37:03,359 --> 01:37:07,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have been getting slowly restored, but it's it's

1951
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,119
basically it's a process. So those are going to be

1952
01:37:10,199 --> 01:37:12,399
coming out from a completely different kind of I'll let

1953
01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:14,399
them make the announcement and do all of this stuff

1954
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:18,079
related to that, but it's happening. So that's also a

1955
01:37:18,159 --> 01:37:21,680
fun thing. And Keno Larber and Keno Cult are doing

1956
01:37:22,199 --> 01:37:24,920
a couple of titles that we're getting out of U

1957
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:28,800
c l A Archives from the Sunny Collection. There'll be

1958
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:32,079
some like road show titles, but there's also some sexploitation.

1959
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:36,920
There's one exploitation title that's we've only found part of

1960
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:38,840
it before and now that we're going to release the

1961
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:42,640
whole thing, so that'll be a big deal as well.

1962
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:44,920
Speaker 5: But just keeping on keeping on.

1963
01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:50,039
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, so the Maeons I love the shorts, are

1964
01:37:50,079 --> 01:37:52,520
those being restored by any chance. I'm a big fan

1965
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:53,760
of the shorts.

1966
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:57,000
Speaker 5: Okay, adding them to.

1967
01:37:58,720 --> 01:38:00,720
Speaker 4: Whatever the release is so will be like you know,

1968
01:38:01,119 --> 01:38:05,119
if it's more if it's the newest oriented release, probably

1969
01:38:05,239 --> 01:38:07,279
newest related shorts will be on there.

1970
01:38:07,319 --> 01:38:10,560
Speaker 5: If it's more like you know, sexploitation, there'll be those ones.

1971
01:38:10,680 --> 01:38:13,079
Speaker 3: Yeah, so great, right, it's all good.

1972
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:16,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, those those would show up at the end

1973
01:38:16,239 --> 01:38:18,399
of like the tapes all the time, like that, what's

1974
01:38:18,479 --> 01:38:21,159
that Double What the two with the Bennett's sisters that

1975
01:38:21,279 --> 01:38:21,640
was on like.

1976
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:28,079
Speaker 3: Double Double Trouble, And I also love Naked Moonshine, which

1977
01:38:28,159 --> 01:38:29,560
was on a lot of those at the end of

1978
01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:34,039
the movies and yeah, like yeah those those like you said, like,

1979
01:38:34,159 --> 01:38:36,279
it's like seeing family, even though it's just you know,

1980
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,319
these models taking their clothes off for beer Mayhon, but

1981
01:38:39,359 --> 01:38:41,439
it's like, oh I get to see Darlene and Dawn,

1982
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,319
and yeah, I get to hear them talk, which is

1983
01:38:44,359 --> 01:38:46,159
great because you really don't get to hear their real

1984
01:38:46,279 --> 01:38:49,119
voices and a lot of stuff, so love to hear that.

1985
01:38:50,079 --> 01:38:51,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it's gonna be.

1986
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:53,760
Speaker 4: I mean, I have a lot to do with a

1987
01:38:53,800 --> 01:38:57,119
lot of scanning involved with like these archives and stuff,

1988
01:38:57,159 --> 01:39:01,560
but also assigning writing and doing my own writing and

1989
01:39:02,079 --> 01:39:04,319
you know, and which I should say, like, I'm basically

1990
01:39:04,479 --> 01:39:07,920
just trying to focus on like the something weird history

1991
01:39:08,039 --> 01:39:10,720
aspect when I do a contribution now to these releases,

1992
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:13,039
unless it's something like I mean, this has been a

1993
01:39:13,119 --> 01:39:15,960
few releases that came out in the last year, in particular,

1994
01:39:16,119 --> 01:39:19,920
like with Teenage Gang, DIBs and Love Goddesses of Blood Island,

1995
01:39:20,159 --> 01:39:22,439
Undertaker and His Pals are all those ones from AGFA.

1996
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:24,600
I mean, like I just I wanted to have myself

1997
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:26,640
all over those because those are some of my favorite movies.

1998
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:32,520
Like so, but for the most part, I I see

1999
01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:36,000
myself as being like the historian for my own company,

2000
01:39:36,119 --> 01:39:38,960
because you know, when you're doing this stuff, you're not

2001
01:39:39,199 --> 01:39:42,279
realizing that it's going to even matter, and if like

2002
01:39:42,319 --> 01:39:44,720
you're just doing your job or like what you enjoy,

2003
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,520
like you know, being involved with and then you look

2004
01:39:48,560 --> 01:39:50,880
back in retrospect and it's like, oh, I guess this

2005
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:53,479
did matter, you know, I mean, because if you've got

2006
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:56,640
people talking about it on a podcast, I mean, you

2007
01:39:56,720 --> 01:39:58,279
know how many decades later.

2008
01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:01,239
Speaker 5: It's it has its own history now.

2009
01:40:01,359 --> 01:40:04,039
Speaker 4: So it's up to me to document that as much

2010
01:40:04,039 --> 01:40:07,279
as I can, because I mean, there's so many questions

2011
01:40:07,319 --> 01:40:10,079
I have that Like I occasionally I'll be working on

2012
01:40:10,199 --> 01:40:11,880
something and I'm like, oh, I wish i'd ask Dave

2013
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:14,079
or I wish i'd ask Mike that stuff. And unless

2014
01:40:14,079 --> 01:40:17,159
I get out of Ouiji board, you know, I don't

2015
01:40:17,199 --> 01:40:19,560
know the answers to some of the questions. So I'm

2016
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:22,079
trying to put everything out there that I know now

2017
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:24,000
before I lose my mind.

2018
01:40:32,399 --> 01:40:33,880
Speaker 3: Well, we were happy you're doing that.

2019
01:40:34,039 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm glad you have so much more time

2020
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:39,199
now that you're not just like sitting at your CD replicator.

2021
01:40:39,399 --> 01:40:40,960
You can actually like write.

2022
01:40:42,439 --> 01:40:44,479
Speaker 3: Every time I sent in an order, I felt so

2023
01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:48,199
bad because I was just like, Lisa knows I need these,

2024
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:51,479
and I but I hate asking her to send me

2025
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:53,920
these things. And I remember that I was kind of like, well,

2026
01:40:53,920 --> 01:40:56,039
maybe to make it easier, just send me the discs

2027
01:40:56,079 --> 01:40:58,560
in the art. I don't need the Amory cases. So

2028
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:00,520
I was just like, just send me the the you

2029
01:41:00,560 --> 01:41:02,399
don't have to do any more packing. And so I

2030
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:04,039
still have a lot of stuff that's still in those

2031
01:41:04,159 --> 01:41:07,079
little slip sleeves. I haven't bought the Amory cases, so

2032
01:41:07,239 --> 01:41:10,079
I have myself thing weird stuff that's just here.

2033
01:41:11,199 --> 01:41:12,359
Speaker 5: Well, we've got it. Well.

2034
01:41:12,479 --> 01:41:14,520
Speaker 4: The other thing that people don't realize is, you know,

2035
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:16,000
it wasn't just like oh, I don't want to do

2036
01:41:16,119 --> 01:41:16,720
this anymore.

2037
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:18,399
Speaker 5: I mean after like during and.

2038
01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:24,000
Speaker 4: After COVID getting supplies for MANUF, like DVD are manufacturing

2039
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:28,520
in particular, like I couldn't find blank discs anymore, or

2040
01:41:28,640 --> 01:41:31,960
they were so expensive. It's like, yeah, because it's dead stock.

2041
01:41:32,319 --> 01:41:35,439
And you know, my duplicators are old. I actually went

2042
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:36,880
and I bought a couple of new ones and they

2043
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:39,520
didn't work with the old masters. So I'm like, all right,

2044
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:44,039
well that's not helpful either. So and you know also

2045
01:41:44,199 --> 01:41:47,439
even you know, getting the cases, and it was it

2046
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:50,039
was really just a logistics thing as well as the

2047
01:41:50,119 --> 01:41:52,359
fact that this is taking up an awful lot of

2048
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:54,920
of my time going up and down the basement steps,

2049
01:41:55,159 --> 01:41:58,479
you know, making a DVD R one at a time,

2050
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:00,560
because I only had one duplicator by the end that

2051
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:03,800
was still working, right, and this.

2052
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:06,159
Speaker 3: Was after and this was after Tim had stopped right,

2053
01:42:06,159 --> 01:42:08,760
because I know Tim Tim Lewis had been had been

2054
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:11,439
involved too, because I remember emailing Tim a few times

2055
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:14,239
and then you were like, Okay, Tim's going it's just me.

2056
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:19,119
Speaker 4: So I did have one other dude helping out after

2057
01:42:19,199 --> 01:42:21,319
Tim loved just to do manufacturing and he was part

2058
01:42:21,399 --> 01:42:23,600
time so and it was good because like he would

2059
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:26,000
just command whenever he felt like it, and h'd have

2060
01:42:26,199 --> 01:42:28,159
orders waiting for him, and you know, and I do

2061
01:42:28,239 --> 01:42:30,520
the shipping and the customer service and all of that

2062
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:33,880
other stuff. But then eventually there just wasn't enough orders

2063
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,840
to and also like I wasn't making enough money to

2064
01:42:36,920 --> 01:42:41,199
have an employee and you know. So and by the way,

2065
01:42:41,279 --> 01:42:44,760
Tim Lewis is a train conductor at Amtrak now living

2066
01:42:44,840 --> 01:42:47,640
his best life playing guitar for him.

2067
01:42:48,159 --> 01:42:53,640
Speaker 3: I know, I love tis. Wow, Oh that's amazing that.

2068
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:57,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that. So I mean there is life

2069
01:42:57,920 --> 01:42:59,800
after Something Weird if if you choose.

2070
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:03,960
Speaker 4: But right, so, I mean, just as far as like

2071
01:43:04,039 --> 01:43:06,880
the day to day operations stuff is so much more manageable,

2072
01:43:06,960 --> 01:43:10,600
Like I mean, I the only like this year, the

2073
01:43:10,680 --> 01:43:15,119
focus was getting this Something Weird channel launched, which we did.

2074
01:43:15,359 --> 01:43:16,159
Speaker 5: That was in June.

2075
01:43:16,560 --> 01:43:19,600
Speaker 4: And then I mean I went eight months without having

2076
01:43:19,680 --> 01:43:22,800
a retail point of purchase for Something Weird, which is

2077
01:43:23,159 --> 01:43:25,800
you know, because the old website was I wasn't about

2078
01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:26,760
to try to tackle that.

2079
01:43:26,920 --> 01:43:29,199
Speaker 5: I wanted to do something different, and I ended up

2080
01:43:29,239 --> 01:43:30,479
just asking, like, you.

2081
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:32,560
Speaker 4: Know, all of my colleagues, like what do you guys

2082
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:36,560
use And seems like everybody uses Shopify. So yeah, had

2083
01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:39,840
a little learning curve there, but it's now, you know,

2084
01:43:40,279 --> 01:43:42,640
it's up there, and we've got all the latest Blu

2085
01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:47,079
rays and soundtrack albums, whatever image DVDs I still have

2086
01:43:47,199 --> 01:43:49,960
left in stock. I mean surprisingly, I have a lot

2087
01:43:50,039 --> 01:43:53,800
of the herschel titles. I still have stacks of so interesting.

2088
01:43:54,039 --> 01:43:58,319
Speaker 3: Okay, but this is the next chapter something that I

2089
01:43:58,359 --> 01:44:01,840
did want to do. I know we talked before recording,

2090
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:03,159
we didn't want to keep you for that long, and

2091
01:44:03,199 --> 01:44:05,800
now we've been going for ninety minutes. But because this

2092
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:08,279
is our last episode of the year and you're the

2093
01:44:08,359 --> 01:44:11,039
Christmas gift to everyone that we get to spend some

2094
01:44:11,159 --> 01:44:12,800
time with you and we get to learn from you,

2095
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:16,560
I wonder if we could maybe We've talked about a

2096
01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:19,239
lot of filmmakers in the past year, and I know

2097
01:44:19,359 --> 01:44:21,680
that you had some experiences with some of these filmmakers

2098
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:24,119
during your time with Something Weird, So I wonder if

2099
01:44:24,159 --> 01:44:25,840
we could throw some names at you to see if

2100
01:44:25,880 --> 01:44:27,880
you remember any interactions with them.

2101
01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:30,640
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll see get my senior brain going.

2102
01:44:30,800 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I mean speaking of the man Barry Mayhon,

2103
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,119
who we said we've had talked about a bunch.

2104
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:42,079
Speaker 4: So Mike and I met him in person at his

2105
01:44:42,199 --> 01:44:45,960
house in he was kind of in the valley in California,

2106
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:51,359
and he was lovely man. He did not remember anything

2107
01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:53,680
about any of the movies. Like I would ask him

2108
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:58,319
specific questions, and it was right after the north Ridge quake,

2109
01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:01,920
and all he wanted to talk about was seismic activity

2110
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:05,359
and like every all this factual stuff about earthquakes.

2111
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 5: Like you know, like scientific.

2112
01:45:06,279 --> 01:45:08,359
Speaker 4: When we're like, all right, let's get back, let's talk

2113
01:45:08,399 --> 01:45:10,960
about you know, like we're asking about different actresses that

2114
01:45:11,039 --> 01:45:13,880
were in multiple movies of his, and he didn't remember

2115
01:45:14,039 --> 01:45:17,600
anybody or anything. It did end up at some point

2116
01:45:17,720 --> 01:45:21,159
that Frank Henon Lawter did a phone interview with him

2117
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:25,199
for Cult Movies magazine and at least got a little

2118
01:45:25,239 --> 01:45:29,159
bit of background, you know, as far as like he remembered.

2119
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:30,119
Speaker 5: Some things and stuff went up.

2120
01:45:30,119 --> 01:45:32,359
Speaker 4: But he was really nice and he didn't He actually

2121
01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:35,560
died not long after we oh we'd seen him, so

2122
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:37,800
but yeah, I'm glad we did it. To me, know,

2123
01:45:37,840 --> 01:45:39,520
I got a nice photo of Mike with him.

2124
01:45:40,159 --> 01:45:42,680
Speaker 2: So that makes sense because I always think of Barry

2125
01:45:42,720 --> 01:45:45,520
as kind of he's a bit he was a businessman.

2126
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:47,960
He was probably more interested in like the money side

2127
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:50,600
of the of the of these movies. He wasn't so

2128
01:45:50,760 --> 01:45:53,199
interested as like what was happening in front of the camera.

2129
01:45:54,800 --> 01:45:55,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he might be right.

2130
01:45:56,119 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 2: So, yeah, did he talk about airplanes at all? I

2131
01:45:58,560 --> 01:45:59,600
know he loved his airplanes.

2132
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:01,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we did talk about that, I remember, yeah.

2133
01:46:01,720 --> 01:46:03,600
I mean it was just more like personal stuff, and

2134
01:46:03,600 --> 01:46:06,560
it was like, okay, it's a funny example. So one

2135
01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:12,680
of my favorite sexploitation actors is Sam Stewart. Yes, yes,

2136
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:14,880
I have a little crush on him, and which is

2137
01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:15,760
kind of creepy because he.

2138
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:20,039
Speaker 5: Looks like my dad a little bit. We don't go

2139
01:46:20,239 --> 01:46:22,239
there anyway.

2140
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:26,439
Speaker 4: I finally had a phone conversation with him, and he

2141
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:29,000
didn't remember much of anything either, and he just wanted

2142
01:46:29,039 --> 01:46:30,720
to talk about when he was in the Navy and

2143
01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:33,000
they he got to be in Seattle. He was asking

2144
01:46:33,079 --> 01:46:36,399
me about Seattle, Seattle stuff, and I'm just like, let's

2145
01:46:36,439 --> 01:46:37,000
get back.

2146
01:46:38,359 --> 01:46:38,880
Speaker 5: Full circle.

2147
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:40,439
Speaker 4: But then he passed and I didn't get to get

2148
01:46:40,479 --> 01:46:43,079
any more stories out of him after that tell us.

2149
01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:44,319
Speaker 2: About Sheila Britt your wife.

2150
01:46:44,680 --> 01:46:45,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know.

2151
01:46:46,079 --> 01:46:49,680
Speaker 4: I wasn't like it was our first phone conversation, so

2152
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:51,840
I didn't like want to get into the nitty gritty.

2153
01:46:52,199 --> 01:46:55,039
Speaker 5: But yeah, I didn't get to do that with him,

2154
01:46:55,279 --> 01:46:58,000
but kind of. So I have a good Doris story.

2155
01:46:58,359 --> 01:47:02,000
Speaker 4: And Doris wasbody who I you know, I spoke to

2156
01:47:02,039 --> 01:47:05,079
her on the phone occasionally, but for the most part,

2157
01:47:05,119 --> 01:47:08,119
I hadn't met her in person until she was doing

2158
01:47:08,239 --> 01:47:11,039
a screening of Bad Girls Go to Hell in Boston

2159
01:47:11,239 --> 01:47:14,479
and I was I went back there because I'm from

2160
01:47:15,079 --> 01:47:16,000
that area anyway.

2161
01:47:16,039 --> 01:47:17,279
Speaker 5: Originally I was visiting some family.

2162
01:47:17,319 --> 01:47:19,680
Speaker 4: It just happened to be the same weekend, so you know,

2163
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:21,840
I was hanging out with her there, sitting at her table,

2164
01:47:21,920 --> 01:47:23,840
and you know, she was like this with her glasses on,

2165
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:26,600
and there was a blizzard outside. I should preface it

2166
01:47:27,079 --> 01:47:30,520
by saying that there was like a huge snowstorm, like

2167
01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:32,119
the snow is piling up everywhere.

2168
01:47:32,840 --> 01:47:34,199
Speaker 5: I made a good turnout for the thing.

2169
01:47:34,279 --> 01:47:37,359
Speaker 4: But so she's there in her little like green jacket

2170
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:41,159
with the leopard collar and open toed mule.

2171
01:47:41,199 --> 01:47:45,520
Speaker 5: Heels in the snowstorm. She was like, so Dorius.

2172
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:49,159
Speaker 4: You know, she's she was in Florida and she's signing

2173
01:47:49,279 --> 01:47:53,239
things and you know, bantering with her adoring public. And

2174
01:47:53,520 --> 01:47:56,680
for one second she took her glasses off, like her

2175
01:47:56,680 --> 01:48:00,399
sunglasses to like probably so she could see, and some

2176
01:48:00,520 --> 01:48:02,640
guy snapped a photo and she went mental.

2177
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:05,520
Speaker 5: I mean, she was like, oh, you monster her, and

2178
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:08,600
she's like, you better not show that picture to anybody.

2179
01:48:08,800 --> 01:48:10,720
Speaker 4: She just she just went off on the guy. It

2180
01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:13,640
was it was actually really funny. But then then she

2181
01:48:13,680 --> 01:48:14,239
put him back on.

2182
01:48:14,319 --> 01:48:15,319
Speaker 5: She was back to being Dorris.

2183
01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:19,119
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, that was my That's so funny. That's

2184
01:48:19,199 --> 01:48:23,319
like she even she considered that like part of her persona.

2185
01:48:23,640 --> 01:48:25,760
Speaker 4: In the vanity aspect, because I mean, you know, when

2186
01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:28,000
you get a little older, you getting crinkly around your eyes,

2187
01:48:28,079 --> 01:48:30,399
and like, you know, you always look glamorous in a

2188
01:48:30,479 --> 01:48:31,640
pair of sunglasses.

2189
01:48:32,680 --> 01:48:38,039
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And you mentioned Bob Krussey. Did you ever

2190
01:48:38,119 --> 01:48:38,600
meet Bob?

2191
01:48:39,079 --> 01:48:40,520
Speaker 5: I never met him in person.

2192
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:42,600
Speaker 4: I did speak to him on the phone quite often

2193
01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:46,239
because he called the house constantly, but he irritated me

2194
01:48:46,359 --> 01:48:46,680
so much.

2195
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:53,960
Speaker 5: I would just hand the phone to Mike highly so

2196
01:48:54,039 --> 01:48:57,039
I'm sorry to bother you. And I was like one

2197
01:48:57,680 --> 01:48:59,319
always is opening line, but.

2198
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 4: Having a very nice relationship with Tim Lewis. I mean

2199
01:49:03,640 --> 01:49:07,000
they were buddies, and Tim Lewis is the best Bob

2200
01:49:07,079 --> 01:49:11,800
Cressey impersonation of anybody. Although his impersonation of Bucky Beaver

2201
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:14,119
is exactly the same as Bob Cressey's voice.

2202
01:49:15,119 --> 01:49:17,840
Speaker 3: That tracks, I think I could see them being the

2203
01:49:17,880 --> 01:49:21,560
same person actually, And you know, I can see Bucky

2204
01:49:21,600 --> 01:49:24,239
Beaver maybe being just an animated version of Bob Kressey's

2205
01:49:24,279 --> 01:49:26,279
Bucky Beeves have a two way mirror.

2206
01:49:26,479 --> 01:49:31,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did get to know Don Davison really well,

2207
01:49:32,199 --> 01:49:35,520
and because yes, and I really enjoyed talking he was

2208
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:37,960
he was really great. But he and I both shared

2209
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:41,960
a love of carnivals and circus memorabilia, and so if

2210
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:43,840
we didn't just talk about movie stuff, and we'd talk

2211
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:46,760
about just collectibles, and I just think he liked to

2212
01:49:46,840 --> 01:49:47,840
talk to a woman.

2213
01:49:48,359 --> 01:49:51,560
Speaker 5: At that point in his life, so he just caught

2214
01:49:51,640 --> 01:49:52,359
like chit chat.

2215
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:55,520
Speaker 4: And I have a lot of his stuff, you know,

2216
01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:58,000
when he passed, he ended up giving Mike and I

2217
01:49:58,399 --> 01:50:02,600
a whole lot of just not just his exploitation exploitation memorabilia,

2218
01:50:02,680 --> 01:50:06,039
but like his circus stuff and his duncan yo yo stuff,

2219
01:50:06,159 --> 01:50:07,760
and he was just an incredible guy.

2220
01:50:08,199 --> 01:50:12,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe a Don Davis collection. Maybe I would

2221
01:50:12,319 --> 01:50:14,000
love Honey Britches to get restored.

2222
01:50:14,119 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 5: I love that movie Stay tuned, well I see that

2223
01:50:18,039 --> 01:50:18,960
happening in the future.

2224
01:50:19,359 --> 01:50:21,680
Speaker 3: I would love it. Yeah, I think Gentry just watched it.

2225
01:50:22,079 --> 01:50:25,359
That the Amazon woman in that movie. I'm obsessed with

2226
01:50:28,319 --> 01:50:31,479
such a character, such a character. And actually Alex found

2227
01:50:31,520 --> 01:50:33,560
some ad where she did personal appearances of the movie.

2228
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:35,479
And I would have fainted if I was at the

2229
01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:38,520
theater and this giant woman came out that I just

2230
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:40,920
saw on the screen, I would faint because she was

2231
01:50:41,319 --> 01:50:42,600
just too fabulous.

2232
01:50:42,159 --> 01:50:44,479
Speaker 2: As she was alive nowadays, like she could make so

2233
01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:48,039
much money at like cons, like men would like pay

2234
01:50:48,159 --> 01:50:51,239
to like have her step on them or something weird.

2235
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:55,079
Speaker 3: Something weird rost opportunity.

2236
01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:56,039
Speaker 2: I know.

2237
01:50:56,720 --> 01:51:00,000
Speaker 3: Well, actually, speaking of actresses, that was something else I wondered, because,

2238
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:03,960
as I know, I think you've talked about how the

2239
01:51:04,159 --> 01:51:08,560
arquettes order their mom's movies from something weird. Brenda did.

2240
01:51:08,640 --> 01:51:10,680
Brenda did not like all of me, but she's actually

2241
01:51:10,840 --> 01:51:13,920
really good in Did you ever have any actresses who

2242
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:16,239
made these movies reach out to you? And and and

2243
01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:19,640
ask for copies without you know, just to see their work.

2244
01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:22,239
Speaker 5: Not I mean, what's that is? I wish?

2245
01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:26,000
Speaker 4: I mean I do, like I have a good story recently,

2246
01:51:26,319 --> 01:51:29,159
like that happened that was totally bizarre, but no, I

2247
01:51:29,239 --> 01:51:32,199
mean like for years and like you know, I obviously

2248
01:51:32,279 --> 01:51:34,079
we sent stuff to Audrey Campbell because we knew we

2249
01:51:34,159 --> 01:51:36,399
got to know her. I mean, she she did surface,

2250
01:51:36,800 --> 01:51:39,079
but like, I mean, I would have loved to, you know,

2251
01:51:39,399 --> 01:51:42,000
get a phone call from June Roberts or Darlene Bennett

2252
01:51:42,199 --> 01:51:43,880
like hey, can you send me my movies or whatever?

2253
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:46,800
Speaker 5: Uh, what's her name?

2254
01:51:47,399 --> 01:51:52,279
Speaker 4: Okay, she was one of Friedman's Okay, Fryman oherry Man.

2255
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:54,479
Speaker 3: Yeah she's resurfaced.

2256
01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:57,319
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, So she's somebody who did reach out as well.

2257
01:51:57,359 --> 01:52:00,600
So I hooked her up. But so right before we.

2258
01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:06,760
Speaker 4: Started doing the Teenage Gang, DIBs release this, you know,

2259
01:52:06,840 --> 01:52:08,560
I heard the story and it was like, this is

2260
01:52:08,600 --> 01:52:12,079
a weird coincidence that this elderly woman shows up at

2261
01:52:12,119 --> 01:52:17,520
AGFA one day and she's with her granddaughter and her

2262
01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:19,199
daughter and she's k not going on.

2263
01:52:19,399 --> 01:52:22,640
Speaker 5: She goes, hi, is this a Teenage Gang? Debs Museum.

2264
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:29,359
Speaker 4: And Tnan are there and they're like, no, but we

2265
01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:32,159
do have that movie, and so they invited her in

2266
01:52:32,279 --> 01:52:33,680
and whatever, and she said, oh, well, I was in

2267
01:52:33,800 --> 01:52:36,239
that movie. I guess that it had you know, they

2268
01:52:36,279 --> 01:52:39,159
had heard that it had shown. I guess that link

2269
01:52:39,239 --> 01:52:43,479
Letter had done a screening at Anthology down in Texas.

2270
01:52:43,640 --> 01:52:47,000
The other not not at Alamo or but like one

2271
01:52:47,039 --> 01:52:50,920
of those other venues and that. So they had seen

2272
01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:54,239
something on the internet which led to AGFA, which led

2273
01:52:54,279 --> 01:52:58,720
to her showing up and you know, them getting her information. Well,

2274
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:00,399
let us get to your information because we are going

2275
01:53:00,479 --> 01:53:02,119
to do something with this in the future and would

2276
01:53:02,199 --> 01:53:03,800
love to talk to you, or like, you know, one

2277
01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:07,159
of us would. So when we started working on Teenage

2278
01:53:07,199 --> 01:53:10,319
Gang Debs, I called her, Oh no, actually sent her

2279
01:53:10,319 --> 01:53:12,880
an email first, just like you know, hi am Lisa,

2280
01:53:12,880 --> 01:53:13,439
blah blah blah.

2281
01:53:13,560 --> 01:53:17,359
Speaker 5: The phone rings immediately. I'm was like, oh, Sandra Cain.

2282
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:21,119
Speaker 4: So Sandra Caine played Annie in Teenage Gang Debs called.

2283
01:53:21,239 --> 01:53:23,640
We were on the phone for three hours just because

2284
01:53:23,920 --> 01:53:27,199
this woman she's I mean, I was actually texting with

2285
01:53:27,239 --> 01:53:33,199
her last night, yeah, and she just was telling me

2286
01:53:33,239 --> 01:53:35,720
all about her life and she was just so fascinating

2287
01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:38,079
and interesting. And then like she had a you know mind, like.

2288
01:53:38,079 --> 01:53:38,640
Speaker 5: A steel trap.

2289
01:53:38,680 --> 01:53:42,119
Speaker 4: She remembered so much about being on set on Teenage

2290
01:53:42,159 --> 01:53:44,199
Gang Debs and all this other stuff. So, I mean,

2291
01:53:44,239 --> 01:53:46,159
in that case, it was really one was like, I

2292
01:53:46,239 --> 01:53:48,279
know this new friend. I love talking to her, you know,

2293
01:53:48,479 --> 01:53:49,680
here from her at least once a month.

2294
01:53:50,199 --> 01:53:52,920
Speaker 2: So did Sandy Johnson at all.

2295
01:53:53,079 --> 01:53:55,720
Speaker 3: The Sandy Johnson, Yeah, well she did.

2296
01:53:55,840 --> 01:53:58,399
Speaker 4: She she said that he was he was really like

2297
01:53:58,600 --> 01:54:02,600
she liked, she liked working with him. I guess some

2298
01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:06,520
of the girls had crush on him, like that.

2299
01:54:10,239 --> 01:54:13,159
Speaker 5: Good looking, like so and so was good.

2300
01:54:13,439 --> 01:54:16,479
Speaker 2: You wanted to be Brando. He was the next Marlon Brando.

2301
01:54:17,199 --> 01:54:19,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was an actor. He was a stage actor. Yeah,

2302
01:54:19,680 --> 01:54:22,520
he definitely. Yeah. He had that name Stan Stunning on

2303
01:54:22,560 --> 01:54:24,399
Hot Nights on the Campus for a reason.

2304
01:54:25,720 --> 01:54:30,399
Speaker 5: Johnson, Yeah, yeah, she was. She was a joy. And

2305
01:54:30,640 --> 01:54:31,479
I'm really glad.

2306
01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:35,119
Speaker 4: It's like she's eighty four now, and like we're trying

2307
01:54:35,119 --> 01:54:37,279
to get a screening in New York that she can

2308
01:54:37,359 --> 01:54:39,680
go to at some point, you know, a teenage Kingdom.

2309
01:54:39,920 --> 01:54:42,600
Speaker 5: So hey, Casey makes that happen. Yeah.

2310
01:54:42,920 --> 01:54:45,359
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, right here, let's let's start to

2311
01:54:45,399 --> 01:54:45,880
make this happen.

2312
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:49,640
Speaker 2: You need to get her up there like pre show show.

2313
01:54:50,279 --> 01:54:55,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's she lives in she lives in Queens, Queens

2314
01:54:55,399 --> 01:54:55,720
right now.

2315
01:54:57,880 --> 01:54:59,960
Speaker 4: I heard it's snowing. Mary, we might want to check out.

2316
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:01,640
I'm worried about her. Said she was going out to

2317
01:55:01,720 --> 01:55:05,359
get some groceries this morning. I'm like like imagining this

2318
01:55:05,439 --> 01:55:09,439
little you know, she uses her her little grocery hand

2319
01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:10,640
card as her walker.

2320
01:55:11,479 --> 01:55:14,840
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, I know those people well in these streets.

2321
01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:17,800
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, well, well they're going to give her your

2322
01:55:17,880 --> 01:55:20,279
phone number next time she needs groceries.

2323
01:55:20,279 --> 01:55:22,039
Speaker 5: I can go.

2324
01:55:22,159 --> 01:55:24,840
Speaker 3: I can help a teenage gang deb shop. I'll do it. Yeah.

2325
01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:28,279
Speaker 5: Absolutely, she is still a hot ticket. I mean, yeah,

2326
01:55:28,479 --> 01:55:28,920
she's cool.

2327
01:55:29,359 --> 01:55:32,800
Speaker 4: But anyway, yeah, well that's on your honeydeo list is

2328
01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:34,720
if you don't have enough stuff to do for me, Casey,

2329
01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:36,079
I know, I know I need to.

2330
01:55:36,079 --> 01:55:36,359
Speaker 5: Tell you that.

2331
01:55:36,640 --> 01:55:38,840
Speaker 3: Well, it also makes me wonder about like Diane Kanti

2332
01:55:38,880 --> 01:55:42,439
because I tried finding her for years, and I remember

2333
01:55:42,640 --> 01:55:45,880
I met Eileen Deets at Cinema Wasteland and she was

2334
01:55:45,960 --> 01:55:48,359
talking about making that movie and then she did The

2335
01:55:48,439 --> 01:55:51,880
Games People the Game People Play, which was Sandy's lost expectation.

2336
01:55:52,079 --> 01:55:55,359
Speaker 4: Moving okay, because we were trying to figure out thank you,

2337
01:55:55,880 --> 01:55:59,760
because that just solved a mystery because Sandra was telling

2338
01:55:59,840 --> 01:56:02,760
me that she was asked to be in another movie

2339
01:56:03,439 --> 01:56:06,560
and she could remembered the title, but that Eileen ended

2340
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:08,880
up being an and and I'm like, you know, I

2341
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:10,720
was giving her the names of the titles and she

2342
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:14,159
just so you just answered, Okay, thank you, that's it.

2343
01:56:14,399 --> 01:56:17,119
Speaker 3: And and that's that was one of our picks for

2344
01:56:17,680 --> 01:56:19,960
most wanted. Lost movie was one of those because the

2345
01:56:20,039 --> 01:56:20,920
trailer is so good.

2346
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:23,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I still need to find the Twisted Sucks too,

2347
01:56:24,680 --> 01:56:24,920
I know.

2348
01:56:25,600 --> 01:56:27,760
Speaker 3: Well, and that was something else we wanted to ask. Actually,

2349
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:31,600
on our list, did you and Mike have like a

2350
01:56:31,840 --> 01:56:34,520
top list of stuff like this is top priority that

2351
01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:35,119
we need.

2352
01:56:35,039 --> 01:56:38,319
Speaker 5: To find this, I mean in our heads? Okay, so

2353
01:56:38,640 --> 01:56:38,840
I have.

2354
01:56:40,159 --> 01:56:43,479
Speaker 4: We did make a list and was based on the

2355
01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:48,159
AFI catalog and I went through like basically fine toothcomb

2356
01:56:48,199 --> 01:56:51,159
went over everything, wrote down every title. As we would

2357
01:56:51,199 --> 01:56:54,760
find stuff, we'd cross it off. So there, I mean,

2358
01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:56,760
I still have that list somewhere. In fact, I think

2359
01:56:56,800 --> 01:57:00,720
I filled it out for the Lost Films documentary that

2360
01:57:00,840 --> 01:57:03,600
they you know, Vinegar Syndrome did and I held it

2361
01:57:03,720 --> 01:57:05,600
up even I think may not even be on them there,

2362
01:57:05,640 --> 01:57:11,479
but but me, he we definitely like the Okay, Satan's Mistress.

2363
01:57:12,279 --> 01:57:15,720
You know, there's the press book alone and the poster

2364
01:57:16,119 --> 01:57:17,560
and all of that stuff like that. I know that

2365
01:57:17,680 --> 01:57:19,640
was on the top of Mike's list. You know, he

2366
01:57:19,800 --> 01:57:22,840
just was obsessed with that movie. And you know, I

2367
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:26,079
was obsessed with you know, Sadistic Lover Burn maybe Burn

2368
01:57:26,199 --> 01:57:29,119
and like, I mean anything you know that exploitation stuff.

2369
01:57:29,159 --> 01:57:32,720
Speaker 5: I just want you as much as we can. So, yeah,

2370
01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:34,720
there was a list, and I.

2371
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:36,880
Speaker 4: Mean fortunately a lot of things have been found, but

2372
01:57:36,960 --> 01:57:39,359
there's still you may there's hundreds of movies out there

2373
01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:43,680
that are still you know not I mean, who knows.

2374
01:57:43,800 --> 01:57:47,199
I mean from what Freeman told us, you know, when

2375
01:57:47,319 --> 01:57:52,000
when he was downsizing eb I and you know, before

2376
01:57:52,079 --> 01:57:57,000
he moved back east to Alabama, like they were they like,

2377
01:57:57,039 --> 01:57:59,720
you know, they'd have all their prints, and he told

2378
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:03,640
me they would take trucks to the peers and throw

2379
01:58:04,680 --> 01:58:05,840
films into the ocean.

2380
01:58:06,359 --> 01:58:08,159
Speaker 2: Oh god, the Worst series.

2381
01:58:08,439 --> 01:58:10,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but this was like multiple prints of

2382
01:58:10,960 --> 01:58:13,520
whatever you know, their movies were, and they kept obviously

2383
01:58:13,520 --> 01:58:15,680
they kept the Negatives and a couple of prints of things,

2384
01:58:16,119 --> 01:58:21,079
so you can imagine that, like how many other film distributors,

2385
01:58:21,800 --> 01:58:24,159
you know, because film is it takes up a lot

2386
01:58:24,199 --> 01:58:28,039
of space in real estate. So if if somebody was

2387
01:58:28,079 --> 01:58:30,199
going out of business and they didn't care anymore, they

2388
01:58:30,239 --> 01:58:32,319
didn't you know, they didn't foresee there was ever going

2389
01:58:32,399 --> 01:58:32,640
to be a.

2390
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:35,600
Speaker 5: Market for exploitation in particular.

2391
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:37,560
Speaker 4: I mean, because you know, how many times have we

2392
01:58:37,680 --> 01:58:41,479
heard people from those days who you know, got involved

2393
01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:46,039
with hardcore lator just say like, oh, yeah, that's nobody, yeah,

2394
01:58:46,319 --> 01:58:49,680
book them with those movies exactly. So I think a

2395
01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:52,159
lot of stuff did just end up in a landfill.

2396
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:55,399
But hopefully there's somebody who, like you know, has the

2397
01:58:55,479 --> 01:58:59,560
my tam movies and all of those, well.

2398
01:58:59,479 --> 01:59:02,039
Speaker 3: We were lucky, you guys at least found tortured females

2399
01:59:02,279 --> 01:59:04,800
and for least that. But that, and that kind of

2400
01:59:04,880 --> 01:59:07,520
gives everyone hope that all of the movies are going

2401
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:09,520
to be like that, even though we know they couldn't

2402
01:59:09,560 --> 01:59:11,880
possibly be. But you still want to see them.

2403
01:59:12,279 --> 01:59:14,079
Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, I know.

2404
01:59:14,399 --> 01:59:18,640
Speaker 4: So it's I mean, I'm always surprised when somebody finds

2405
01:59:18,680 --> 01:59:22,359
something and you know, I'm thrilled, you know, I mean definitely,

2406
01:59:22,600 --> 01:59:26,520
like in the last few years, was The Last Vegas Strangler.

2407
01:59:26,560 --> 01:59:27,119
Speaker 5: I mean that one.

2408
01:59:28,359 --> 01:59:31,439
Speaker 4: Oh, that just blew my mind to see that come out,

2409
01:59:31,520 --> 01:59:33,520
because I mean only heard about it for so long

2410
01:59:33,600 --> 01:59:36,680
and then it's like wow and it delivered.

2411
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:39,680
Speaker 3: So yes, well that's like The Bushwhacker when you guys

2412
01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:42,520
finally found a print of The Bushwhacker after years of like,

2413
01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:44,760
we need to find this movie with this press book

2414
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:46,720
where where this woman is getting her breast caught off,

2415
01:59:46,960 --> 01:59:49,159
and it's like, could this live possibly live up to

2416
01:59:49,239 --> 01:59:52,319
this crazy press book? It did not, It almost does,

2417
01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:55,840
but I think I still enjoy it quite a bit.

2418
01:59:56,119 --> 01:59:59,319
But I could see I could see why it wasn't

2419
01:59:59,520 --> 02:00:02,000
why it's hard to get because how do you market

2420
02:00:02,079 --> 02:00:04,840
that after its initial theatrical run? How do you resell it?

2421
02:00:05,039 --> 02:00:07,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was like, I mean I know

2422
02:00:07,760 --> 02:00:09,920
that at the time it was made. I have a

2423
02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:12,960
couple of those adult movie mags that have it on

2424
02:00:13,039 --> 02:00:15,279
the cover or like have pictorials about it. So I

2425
02:00:15,319 --> 02:00:16,840
mean they definitely were trying to push it out there.

2426
02:00:16,840 --> 02:00:19,279
But it had Mercy Mantello in it, and like she

2427
02:00:19,520 --> 02:00:22,720
was a big deal, so somebody was going to bring

2428
02:00:22,840 --> 02:00:25,920
people in just to look at her. But so the

2429
02:00:25,960 --> 02:00:29,640
funny story about Bushwhacker was that. So one of the

2430
02:00:29,720 --> 02:00:33,119
places Mike would find films was eBay. And you know,

2431
02:00:33,880 --> 02:00:36,039
for guy who didn't use the computer, there were only

2432
02:00:36,079 --> 02:00:38,319
two places he went to on the computer. One was

2433
02:00:38,399 --> 02:00:39,800
eBay and one was Craigslist.

2434
02:00:41,159 --> 02:00:43,319
Speaker 3: So every day that's where you get this stuff.

2435
02:00:43,439 --> 02:00:48,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, so two prints of The Bushwhacker

2436
02:00:48,399 --> 02:00:51,159
were up on eBay at the same time, and one

2437
02:00:51,359 --> 02:00:54,680
had the scene with the you know, the breast being

2438
02:00:54,960 --> 02:00:57,760
cut off, and the other one didn't. He didn't know,

2439
02:00:57,840 --> 02:01:01,079
I mean, so we got our version, our first version

2440
02:01:02,079 --> 02:01:05,479
is edited, and when we re released it on Blu

2441
02:01:05,640 --> 02:01:09,920
Ray with MONDA. Maccabro, they were able to like kind

2442
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:12,880
of import some of the other missing footage into our version.

2443
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:14,239
Speaker 5: So at least now it's complete.

2444
02:01:14,319 --> 02:01:18,800
Speaker 3: But you know, I remember, yeah, I do remember that

2445
02:01:19,079 --> 02:01:21,600
when that happened, well, because eBay was also you know

2446
02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:23,520
who else did that? The Code Red Boys used to

2447
02:01:23,600 --> 02:01:26,800
do that. They would haunt eBay and get that and actually,

2448
02:01:26,800 --> 02:01:28,880
I have to tell you this story real quick where

2449
02:01:29,920 --> 02:01:34,159
the Code Red Boys had you know, egos obviously, but

2450
02:01:34,680 --> 02:01:37,000
like I said, everyone wants to be something weird because

2451
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:38,680
they see the cottage industry and they're like well, I

2452
02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:41,279
want to do sexploitation too. So they found the camera

2453
02:01:41,359 --> 02:01:43,880
negative to this movie called The Velvet Trap and it's

2454
02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:47,119
a black and white Las Vegas thing, and they were like,

2455
02:01:47,199 --> 02:01:48,640
I don't know if we want to do this. Well

2456
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:51,720
I told a little fib and told them this is

2457
02:01:51,880 --> 02:01:54,840
one of Mike Vrainy's top five most wanted last movies.

2458
02:01:55,720 --> 02:01:58,520
And they said, oh, really, well, we're gonna We're gonna show,

2459
02:01:58,560 --> 02:02:00,520
We're gonna show Rainy. We're gonna get this movie. So

2460
02:02:00,600 --> 02:02:03,560
they got the camera negative, they restored it and they

2461
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:05,159
put it out, but they weren't going to put it

2462
02:02:05,159 --> 02:02:08,079
out initially because they didn't like it. And I tell them,

2463
02:02:08,680 --> 02:02:11,279
I keep telling them, Mike really wants this. Mike really

2464
02:02:11,319 --> 02:02:11,640
wants this.

2465
02:02:11,840 --> 02:02:15,439
Speaker 5: Like if any movie that wasn't you know, that time period.

2466
02:02:17,000 --> 02:02:19,560
Speaker 3: It wasn't exactly a lie, but I definitely greased the

2467
02:02:19,600 --> 02:02:22,279
wheels there. I was kind of I had to get

2468
02:02:22,319 --> 02:02:24,880
the competitive egos going because I was like, listen, and

2469
02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:26,600
then I was like, and then Mike can't see it

2470
02:02:26,640 --> 02:02:27,399
because it'll be out.

2471
02:02:27,880 --> 02:02:30,079
Speaker 5: So you know, I don't think we ever got it

2472
02:02:30,399 --> 02:02:31,760
on like he would not.

2473
02:02:31,960 --> 02:02:35,920
Speaker 4: Okay, So things are a lot different nowadays than they

2474
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:38,640
were in those cutthroat days when there was like a

2475
02:02:38,760 --> 02:02:43,199
handful of video companies trying to do the exploitation thing,

2476
02:02:43,359 --> 02:02:48,000
and you know, everybody was constantly seasoned assisting each other

2477
02:02:48,319 --> 02:02:50,520
and like you're stepping on my toes, and it was

2478
02:02:50,560 --> 02:02:51,760
just it was a it was a really kind of

2479
02:02:51,840 --> 02:02:55,239
angry atmosphere. And I don't know what one of my

2480
02:02:56,199 --> 02:03:00,359
goals with you know, taking over something weird and was

2481
02:03:00,880 --> 02:03:03,960
to try to smooth out a lot of things. You know.

2482
02:03:04,199 --> 02:03:06,560
Definitely in the beginning, right after Mike died, I mean

2483
02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:08,119
it was a little scary because like I wasn't sure

2484
02:03:08,159 --> 02:03:09,439
what the heck I was going to be doing, and

2485
02:03:09,960 --> 02:03:12,000
vultures did come out of the woodwork, and I'm just like, ah,

2486
02:03:12,119 --> 02:03:13,680
just leave me alone right now, Like I just I

2487
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:18,960
need to process and assess the situation and what I found,

2488
02:03:19,520 --> 02:03:24,119
like especially like in the last decade in particular just

2489
02:03:24,640 --> 02:03:28,000
working with the new like these other boutique labels and

2490
02:03:28,239 --> 02:03:30,159
other companies that have been around a little bit longer

2491
02:03:30,199 --> 02:03:34,760
and stuff like just really stressing the whole collaboration aspect

2492
02:03:34,840 --> 02:03:39,479
of it. And also don't look at everybody else's like

2493
02:03:39,640 --> 02:03:42,760
your competition and your y it's like this is about

2494
02:03:42,920 --> 02:03:46,079
like we're all in this to preserve these films, and

2495
02:03:46,159 --> 02:03:47,880
if there's any way that we can help each other

2496
02:03:48,560 --> 02:03:51,800
do that, like, more power to all of us. And

2497
02:03:52,479 --> 02:03:55,520
it's just been really like for me, it makes it

2498
02:03:55,800 --> 02:03:59,560
a much more like pleasant experience, and you know, I

2499
02:03:59,640 --> 02:04:01,119
feel like, you know, when i'm.

2500
02:04:01,159 --> 02:04:04,000
Speaker 5: Defense here or there, like Okay, I'm trying to like.

2501
02:04:04,079 --> 02:04:06,600
Speaker 4: You know, make the world a better place, because there's

2502
02:04:06,600 --> 02:04:11,359
already enough, you know, just distractions and you know, all

2503
02:04:11,439 --> 02:04:12,760
of that kind of stuff nowadays.

2504
02:04:12,840 --> 02:04:16,720
Speaker 3: So yeah, right, but at least we're getting the Freedman's

2505
02:04:16,760 --> 02:04:20,800
I'm so excited, and I can't wait for Trader Horney

2506
02:04:20,840 --> 02:04:26,159
as well. I love Trading Oh good god, I know

2507
02:04:26,319 --> 02:04:29,119
I legitimate that. And also I love that all the

2508
02:04:29,239 --> 02:04:31,720
leads are redheads. I love the I love the red

2509
02:04:31,840 --> 02:04:41,840
I do like I think, Yes, that's my favorite of those,

2510
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:44,680
probably because it's less of a costume picture and more

2511
02:04:44,720 --> 02:04:48,520
of like a parody of old Hollywood, and I think

2512
02:04:48,560 --> 02:04:51,119
that's why I like it more. But I think Starlet

2513
02:04:51,319 --> 02:04:54,960
is I mean, Starlett is fantastic. You know, that's the

2514
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:55,720
redhead we love.

2515
02:04:56,239 --> 02:04:59,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well, like I said, I mean both, I

2516
02:04:59,680 --> 02:05:02,239
mean they're this stuff coming out the gate. Obviously, we

2517
02:05:02,359 --> 02:05:04,319
just had our first bake one and we've got something

2518
02:05:04,359 --> 02:05:07,439
in production right now, which Casey's all about he can

2519
02:05:07,479 --> 02:05:09,600
tell you off camera, and that's.

2520
02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:11,199
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2521
02:05:11,720 --> 02:05:15,039
Speaker 4: But it's funny about Trader Horney because Dave he was

2522
02:05:15,119 --> 02:05:19,079
really proud of that one, and he even put it

2523
02:05:19,239 --> 02:05:22,239
up like for consideration for an Academy Award.

2524
02:05:23,199 --> 02:05:26,479
Speaker 5: I kid you not, he like sent in the paperwork

2525
02:05:26,520 --> 02:05:27,039
and everything.

2526
02:05:27,640 --> 02:05:30,439
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he didn't mention that in the commentary.

2527
02:05:30,600 --> 02:05:31,760
This is brain new information.

2528
02:05:32,640 --> 02:05:35,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, wow, I have the paperwork.

2529
02:05:34,840 --> 02:05:37,119
Speaker 2: Because he didn't win. So he's not going to bring

2530
02:05:37,159 --> 02:05:37,439
it up.

2531
02:05:37,520 --> 02:05:40,000
Speaker 3: Oh that's why he's not going to bring nothing to

2532
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:42,279
brag about because he didn't dominated. That's interesting.

2533
02:05:42,279 --> 02:05:44,439
Speaker 4: I wonder what the Academy Award winner was that year.

2534
02:05:44,479 --> 02:05:46,000
I can't remember what year that would have been.

2535
02:05:46,159 --> 02:05:53,960
Speaker 3: So category homework like production design, cinematography, not can't cut,

2536
02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:56,399
can't you cost some design? Because what are people wearing?

2537
02:05:56,560 --> 02:05:59,159
But I don't know. I mean Dave, Dave reached some

2538
02:05:59,239 --> 02:05:59,760
shooting for the.

2539
02:05:59,760 --> 02:06:03,079
Speaker 4: Star or it's like a screenplay, because you know, he

2540
02:06:03,119 --> 02:06:04,720
came out the streamplay, so he might have.

2541
02:06:04,880 --> 02:06:07,560
Speaker 3: You know, he wants that. He wants that Oscar and

2542
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:10,479
that's ultimate bragging rights in around with the rest of

2543
02:06:10,560 --> 02:06:13,479
the thieves in that industry that I won an oscar.

2544
02:06:13,920 --> 02:06:20,560
Speaker 4: So much, you know, wild Yeah, for twenty six, twenty seven,

2545
02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:21,960
we're going to be very busy.

2546
02:06:22,560 --> 02:06:25,760
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, thank you Lisa for coming on in, Chatt

2547
02:06:25,800 --> 02:06:27,319
and Dave with us.

2548
02:06:27,359 --> 02:06:33,560
Speaker 4: And finally, well, I appreciate you having me and I mean,

2549
02:06:33,600 --> 02:06:37,960
I'm so pleased with what you're doing and keep at it.

2550
02:06:38,079 --> 02:06:41,720
I mean, like I totally had forgotten about like ownA.

2551
02:06:44,680 --> 02:06:47,079
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another one of my favorites. There's a lot

2552
02:06:47,119 --> 02:06:48,239
of good seventies.

2553
02:06:47,840 --> 02:06:50,119
Speaker 5: Ones or Marina or whatever ones.

2554
02:06:50,359 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jennifer, I love I love Mattine Wives. Like, there's

2555
02:06:53,760 --> 02:06:55,600
so much good stuff. The catalog is so much good

2556
02:06:55,600 --> 02:06:57,680
stuff in it and a lot of stuff that wasn't

2557
02:06:57,720 --> 02:07:00,399
put out through Image And so that's why it canntinues

2558
02:07:00,520 --> 02:07:03,640
to be since a rewarding dive into the catalog because

2559
02:07:03,640 --> 02:07:06,359
there's all this stuff that is just like all kinds

2560
02:07:06,359 --> 02:07:08,279
of different movies. It really is so diverse.

2561
02:07:08,800 --> 02:07:12,199
Speaker 4: Well, basically cult picks will be the source for like

2562
02:07:12,800 --> 02:07:16,039
the majority of movies that may not be getting to

2563
02:07:16,239 --> 02:07:19,239
Blu Ray very like you know, I mean, you've probably

2564
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already noticed, like on the Something Weird channel that it's

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not like the most recent restorations. We're just keeping the

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old standard definition content there because I mean, obviously we

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want people to buy the Blu rays, and but I'm

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hoping that just by having like all of these kind

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of you know, underrated titles that really you know, I said,

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they got buried in the catalog because there was just

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so much stuff that people are discovering them by streaming.

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Speaker 2: So they just put up love Me Please the Christmas.

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Speaker 3: And that's and we just talked about that because because

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he had asked, is there like a s exploitation Christmas

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movie beside Seeds? And I said, well, Linda Boyce does

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go window shopping on Fifth Avenue for Christmas and love

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Me Please, so that counts, you know with ud Erickson. Yeah,

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Linda boy Scott love her. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna have to clip that and post it

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at some point closer to Christmas here.

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Speaker 5: Look forward to get posted.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I know, exactly make sure due to those tags.

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Speaker 4: Yes, right. Thank you for listening to hear more shows

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