Speaker 1: Weird, weird.
Speaker 2: Welcome back midnight viewers to Fallow Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 2: I'm Father Alone, and the lady beside me, the one
Speaker 2: who arrived in the glowing six four Chevy Malibu, is
Speaker 2: miss ripley Gen. How are you baby? Oh good? Let's
Speaker 2: do business, yellowjackets. It can piss up a rope. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: over on the Xbox, the fucking Xenomorph is relentless and
Speaker 2: I cannot sneak past him. If you haven't been checking
Speaker 2: out the main show, I urge you to do so.
Speaker 2: HP from night, mister Walters and I are currently engaged
Speaker 2: in Fusco Fest. I'd say look at the works of
Speaker 2: screenwriter John Fusco. So far, we've gotten to Crossroads and
Speaker 2: Young Guns, got those out for your listening pleasure. This Friday,
Speaker 2: we're doing Young Guns too, and it is a blast.
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Speaker 2: never have to hear me use that phrase again. Here's
Speaker 2: a fun fact. Did you know that film production companies logos,
Speaker 2: you know, like the universal logo.
Speaker 1: Come up, bump bump.
Speaker 2: If the studio wants you to, you have to show
Speaker 2: that at the start of your film. But the filmmaker
Speaker 2: is under no obligation to use the production company's fanfare,
Speaker 2: which usually means you get a bit of wild sound
Speaker 2: from the feature, letting us know what the world sounds
Speaker 2: like before seeing it. Or more likely, they just start
Speaker 2: the music, whether it's a score or soundtrack. Technically you
Speaker 2: can just put ducks quacking or a clown car honking
Speaker 2: under the studio logos. I don't know why more filmmakers
Speaker 2: aren't doing it, considering every film now starts with three
Speaker 2: minutes of production logos. What's even better is then after
Speaker 2: the logos end, we get three minutes of credits with
Speaker 2: the same goddamn logos just in font form. You know
Speaker 2: what now that I'm starting to rant, what part of
Speaker 2: your movie is so inessential that you let the names
Speaker 2: of the filmmakers play over it? Seriously, if you haven't
Speaker 2: designed a credit sequence, and are just letting credits play
Speaker 2: over action. What are we supposed to surmize there? One
Speaker 2: or the other isn't worth your time? No such worry
Speaker 2: with our first pick. It's repo man meets auto.
Speaker 3: He's a green cup kid in a dirty business. He
Speaker 3: repossesses cars. He's a repol man.
Speaker 4: You're gonna give me my car back, or or I
Speaker 4: gotta go to your house and save your dog's head
Speaker 4: down the toilet.
Speaker 3: His mission is to repossess a sixty four Chevy, but
Speaker 3: hidden within its trunk, if.
Speaker 5: You're got on the trunk, you don't want to look in.
Speaker 3: There is the most important discovery in the history of
Speaker 3: our planets.
Speaker 2: Repol man. It's a mystery.
Speaker 6: Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody
Speaker 6: will say, like plate or shrimp or plate of shrimp,
Speaker 6: out of the blue, no explanation.
Speaker 2: It's a comedy, it's a chase.
Speaker 3: It's the forces of.
Speaker 2: Law, Maine.
Speaker 3: I'm on my coffee break against the representatives of discontented youth,
Speaker 3: against the finest minds in government.
Speaker 1: I had a Levyan lobotomy, isn't that for?
Speaker 3: Mooney's not all and they're all in pursuit of a
Speaker 3: sixty four Chevy Malibu from who knows where.
Speaker 1: Black eyes velts can explode zep everybody, Denman.
Speaker 3: The story of the Ultimate Repossession Repoman not just a job,
Speaker 3: It's an adventure.
Speaker 2: The credits here are an early computerized map of the
Speaker 2: southwestern US and the highways that twist and when their
Speaker 2: ways west all the way to the bombed out Edge City, California.
Speaker 2: It's not Los Angeles, it's Edge City. Before we go further,
Speaker 2: I have to tip my hat to writers Dick Rude
Speaker 2: and Alex Cox for their description of the title sequence
Speaker 2: in the script. It reads THUSLYE reveal the dread words
Speaker 2: repo Man, that's intoxicating. The writers reveal the film's title
Speaker 2: to the reader, and reader only. That description isn't going
Speaker 2: on screen, but they want you to know that the
Speaker 2: title has horrible connotations. These are protagonists, not heroes. What protagonists?
Speaker 2: I'm glad you ask. I'm gonna play Auto's introductory scene,
Speaker 2: which not only features Xander Schlass as his pal Kevin,
Speaker 2: who is at least a good argument for parallel thinking
Speaker 2: when it comes to Napoleon Dynamite, not saying those guys
Speaker 2: ever saw one of the most popular cult films of
Speaker 2: all time before making their film. But I digress.
Speaker 3: America's Drink and seven and it show feels right.
Speaker 7: Luck seven Kevin stops singing.
Speaker 3: Huh's a singing guy.
Speaker 7: I'm standing right next to you, and you fucking sing
Speaker 7: and cut it out? Why so tense guy, Auto, Mister Humples,
Speaker 7: you were late again this morning. Now, normally i'd let
Speaker 7: it go, but it's been to my attention that you're
Speaker 7: not paying attention to the way you space the cans
Speaker 7: many young men of your age and these I'm sure
Speaker 7: any times, Auto, are you paying attention to me? Fuck you?
Speaker 2: On rewatch, I realized that Auto's lame o Boss. He's
Speaker 2: wearing the exact same eyeglasses that I'm wearing right now.
Speaker 2: That's fucking sobering and a little sad and a little square.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt. Emilio Estevez has always been my guy
Speaker 2: as far as up and comers, making his dent in movies.
Speaker 2: As I'm really starting to pay attention to movies, and
Speaker 2: not just movies but cinema and punk rock and cult flicks.
Speaker 2: This is nineteen eighty four, man, I'd be seeing it
Speaker 2: a year later when I was entering teenagerdom. But if
Speaker 2: it was punk and fun and dancing on the fringes
Speaker 2: of culture, I was on fucking board. And here's a
Speaker 2: movie that's all those things and a lead character that's
Speaker 2: just as fucked up in directionless as any of the
Speaker 2: lifers he ends up associating with. And at one point
Speaker 2: Emilio Estevez sits by himself and drinking a six pack
Speaker 2: and singing TV Party by black Flag. I love this
Speaker 2: fucking movie. Which lifers? I'm glad you asked about them.
Speaker 2: Harry Dean Stanton Is he the greatest character actor of
Speaker 2: all time? Yes, the end, and one of the reasons,
Speaker 2: A major fucking reason this movie works as well as
Speaker 2: it does, because if Harry Dean is taking this lunacy seriously,
Speaker 2: you all better start doing the same. And not only
Speaker 2: is but a true goddamned American with a genuine code
Speaker 2: he lives by. He has some of the most quotable
Speaker 2: lines in film history.
Speaker 7: So how much ja get paid?
Speaker 5: Twenty five bucks a car paid? You don't get paid?
Speaker 5: Can you work on commission?
Speaker 2: That's better being paid?
Speaker 8: Most cars your repper worth two or three hundred dollars
Speaker 8: fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: Portion might make him five grand.
Speaker 8: Come on, dickhead, it helps him dress like a detective.
Speaker 5: Too, detective dress a square. I think this guy's a cop.
Speaker 5: You're gonna think you're packing some.
Speaker 2: You don't fuck with you so much?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 7: What? Packing? Some?
Speaker 5: An asshole gets killed for a car. Guys that make
Speaker 5: it are the guys that get in their cars at
Speaker 5: any time. Get in at three am, get up at four.
Speaker 5: That's why they need a repo.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I know they don't take speed.
Speaker 7: Speed hunh jesus.
Speaker 8: I never broke into a car, never hot weir in
Speaker 8: a car.
Speaker 2: I never broke into a trunk.
Speaker 8: I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the
Speaker 8: personal contents thereof, nor through inaction. Let that vehicle or
Speaker 8: the personal contents thereof come through arm.
Speaker 1: That's what I call a repoke.
Speaker 8: Oh kid, don't forget it, etch it in your brains.
Speaker 1: How many people got a code to live by anymore? Hey?
Speaker 5: Look at that repose?
Speaker 1: Assholes over the.
Speaker 5: Ordinary fucking people.
Speaker 1: I hate him, Let me too, What do you know? See?
Speaker 8: An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. Repoll
Speaker 8: man spends his life getting into pense situations.
Speaker 5: Let's go get a drink.
Speaker 2: That last one's kind of a motto of mine. That's
Speaker 2: an aspect of outsider culture that never really gets explored
Speaker 2: in a mainstream way. It's the Jaws island philosophy. It's
Speaker 2: only an island from the water. Just so, we're only
Speaker 2: outsiders if we buy into your bullshit to begin with,
Speaker 2: some of us think you're the outsiders, and no more
Speaker 2: so than the cadre of grizzled veterans at the Repo Office.
Speaker 2: Special shout out to sy Richardson, who shows up in
Speaker 2: all of Alex Cox's movie and is always effortlessly cool,
Speaker 2: except maybe for this one bit in Repo Man where
Speaker 2: he happens to say one of the uncoolest things. Ever,
Speaker 2: how many times have you heard someone lay this one
Speaker 2: on you?
Speaker 1: Do you like music?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 2: In that case, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: I was into these dudes before Environment parted with them
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: Asked me to be the manager.
Speaker 1: I called bullshit.
Speaker 3: All that big a job?
Speaker 6: You know me?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool? Sure you did SI. So the repamen are
Speaker 2: looking for this sixty four Chevy Malibu that's been stolen
Speaker 2: out of Los Alamos, you know where maybe the government
Speaker 2: has one of their facilities where they're keeping aliens under
Speaker 2: wraps from the populace, and in the trunk of that
Speaker 2: car potentially is an alien body, so the government's after it,
Speaker 2: and every rebo company in la is too. I mean
Speaker 2: a city that's the threat of a plot and the
Speaker 2: reason all the disparate strands of the narrative come together.
Speaker 2: But really the film is an excuse to send Auto
Speaker 2: into more and more dangerous scenarios while being ultra philosophy
Speaker 2: by the dregs of American society. It's really intoxicating. You
Speaker 2: know how as you get older, when you revisit a
Speaker 2: favorite piece of fiction, you find yourself responding to different aspects.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a really fascial example. When I was
Speaker 2: a teenager, I fully responded to Rorshak and the Watchman.
Speaker 2: Then in my twenties and thirties, I really grew to
Speaker 2: identify and I realized how horrible this sounds with the
Speaker 2: comedian of late as I get closer to a century
Speaker 2: in age, doctor Manhattan has his hooks in me well.
Speaker 2: As a kid, I found Harry Dean Stanton's furious outlook
Speaker 2: to be one of my own, but he's too earth
Speaker 2: bound he's too the comedian. There is at doctor Manhattan
Speaker 2: equivalent in this film. That's Tracy Walter, and I kind
Speaker 2: of think he's a genius.
Speaker 6: A lot of people don't realize what's really going on.
Speaker 6: They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents of things.
Speaker 6: They don't realize that there's this life lattice, a coincidence
Speaker 6: that lays on top of everything. Give you an example,
Speaker 6: show you what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a
Speaker 6: play to shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say, like plate or
Speaker 6: shrimp or play to shrimp, out of the blue. No explanation,
Speaker 6: no point look up one either. It's all part of
Speaker 6: cosmic unconsciousness. We love Acid Miller back in the hippy days.
Speaker 2: Okay, full disclosure. This film and Alex Cox's follow up,
Speaker 2: Sid and Nancy are about as formative to my young
Speaker 2: psyche as you can possibly imagine. When I moved to
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, I became fast friends with a young filmmaker
Speaker 2: name of C. M. Tulkington. Friends is a holloway to
Speaker 2: describe our relationship. He's been my big brother for fucking
Speaker 2: thirty years now. He made a flick called Loven of
Speaker 2: forty five, The director of photography on which was a
Speaker 2: fellow named Tom Richmond. I loved Tom beyond the beyond,
Speaker 2: one of the single coolest human beings I've ever had
Speaker 2: the pleasure of knowing Tom is no longer with us,
Speaker 2: so once again, fuck everything. But when I knew him,
Speaker 2: Tom shared a home with Alex Cox. Alex was forever
Speaker 2: in Europe, but the strange cinematic family that they all
Speaker 2: belonged to seem to float in and out of that place.
Speaker 2: It was an odd circumstance, let me tell you. Going
Speaker 2: from essentially having my brain wired by art and then
Speaker 2: hanging out with the artists, I felt weirdly at tuned,
Speaker 2: though it's hard to describe. The first thing out of
Speaker 2: my mouth to Abby Wool was a marriage proposal. Abby
Speaker 2: was the co writer of Sid and Nancy. Just between
Speaker 2: you and me and all the aging old krusty punks
Speaker 2: out there, Abby wrote that movie. She turned me down,
Speaker 2: but she did it really, really sweetly. And we're gonna
Speaker 2: be talking a little bit more about Abby right now.
Speaker 2: With the Ripley's pick h to the p K, Thank
Speaker 2: you HP. We've got to figure out the audio equivalent
Speaker 2: of the thrill cam. Speaking of movies that are as
Speaker 2: indelible to me as I don't know what is like
Speaker 2: Goonies for rest of gen X? Is that it? What's
Speaker 2: it for millennials? Cabin Boy? That's what those kids love, right,
Speaker 2: awkward humor and puppets? Wait a minute, was Chris Elliott
Speaker 2: the father of postmodern comedy? That's worth exploring, though not
Speaker 2: by me. I love Chris Elliot, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: but something we should all agree on His greatest achievement
Speaker 2: is his daughter, Abby Elliott. But we're not talking about
Speaker 2: Abby Elliot, though there would be worse ways to spend
Speaker 2: a half hour. Note, we're talking about Abbi Wool already
Speaker 2: told you she air quotes co wrote Sid Nancy, a
Speaker 2: movie I've already covered on the round up. You should
Speaker 2: go back and listen to that right now. We'll wait,
Speaker 2: but by way of recap, Sid and Nancy is the
Speaker 2: most romantic film of all time. I want to go on,
Speaker 2: but I've already said enough. But you know what, No,
Speaker 2: this is the kind of romantic flick that it is.
Speaker 2: It's an early morning in the world. Isn't awake yet,
Speaker 2: including your significant other? But it's like they have got
Speaker 2: their arms wrapped around you while you're watching that movie?
Speaker 2: Does that make sense in no fucking way? Well it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, because Abby Wall's follow up to that goddamned
Speaker 2: masterpiece is another minor miracle, her directing debut. Shot by
Speaker 2: Tom Richmond, starring John Doe of the absolutely seminal La
Speaker 2: Punk band X and Adam Horovitz, also known as the
Speaker 2: King ad Rock of the Beastie Boys. It's the most
Speaker 2: purely American movie of the nineteen nineties. This is roadside Profits.
Speaker 1: Somewhere between Barstow and Reno Older Uno. Why do you
Speaker 1: want to go there anyway?
Speaker 9: Because of this?
Speaker 1: You selling drugs? It's ashes. I met this guy, Jean Mosley,
Speaker 1: Dave Coleman.
Speaker 5: Hey, the coolest ride.
Speaker 1: They just died on the bike. No plan?
Speaker 2: Some video game?
Speaker 1: Wow? Which one? Sam and Joe are going to hit
Speaker 1: reality head on?
Speaker 8: What do you guys? Do you ride outlaws?
Speaker 1: I know Alas start out, he rolls through the few
Speaker 1: Stone and.
Speaker 9: Billie Idler, But you want to be a look out
Speaker 9: for his transcendent reality sting in sing Out.
Speaker 1: I want you to look around, Just look around, tell
Speaker 1: me what you'll see. Society that's obsessed with deal and
Speaker 1: good and happy. Come on, why do you like sex? Oh?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Does it feels good? Right for the barn together, they'll
Speaker 1: discover that Motel nine is a state of mind.
Speaker 8: And there was no driving on one of my drinking glasses.
Speaker 3: There was no baths off.
Speaker 7: In my room.
Speaker 1: You got our eyes and El Dorado ain't no Cadillac.
Speaker 1: They got these bishops here called wee Wise or something.
Speaker 4: When they get old, they get bigger.
Speaker 3: When they get big, they get beat.
Speaker 1: John Doe, Adam Horovitz, David Karrodine, Timothy Leary, Carlow Guthrie,
Speaker 1: and John Cusack. If you're going to think, don't drive.
Speaker 9: I guess if you want to die in the barne
Speaker 9: with vampiree decline, it's up to you.
Speaker 1: Roadside profits a film by Sid and Nancy's Abby Wool.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't love a road trip? Weirdos and psychopaths and
Speaker 2: not the good kind. Even agoraphobes love road trips. Where
Speaker 2: else can you really appreciate the forgotten art of the mixtape?
Speaker 2: Playlists can be a modern mixtape, but they've got to
Speaker 2: be curated and with love. There's a certain breed of
Speaker 2: barreling down the highway playlist that seem to merge with
Speaker 2: the moment and the company you're keeping, and it just
Speaker 2: feels like freedom personified geographically. I don't care where you
Speaker 2: are go on a road trip. Don't have a car,
Speaker 2: You have a friend who does, and they haven't seen
Speaker 2: you in a while, and it would be fun. But
Speaker 2: choose good surroundings. That's important. Now. This entire show is
Speaker 2: in my humble opinion, So keep that in mind, no
Speaker 2: matter what I say, even if it's something I like
Speaker 2: or you like, Oh nobody likes.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Having said that, you have never experienced the true majesty
Speaker 2: of a road trip until you've run from Los Angeles
Speaker 2: to Las Vegas. The trip in the opposite direction is
Speaker 2: thrilling for other reasons. But the trip we're talking about
Speaker 2: from the Pacific Ocean past thunderously green hills, through as
Speaker 2: urban as setting as you're likely to find in the
Speaker 2: United States, out through a mountainous outcropping and an honest
Speaker 2: to God pass. You have to ascend a pass to
Speaker 2: get to the high desert, where things just turn weird
Speaker 2: and arid, and away you go, and all civilization gives
Speaker 2: way to the desert and then it's just you and
Speaker 2: the rubber and the road. And the sky above and
Speaker 2: the music surrounding you. And at the end it carved
Speaker 2: out of the nothingness is a city shining bright enough
Speaker 2: to bounce its light off the moon. Imagine doing that
Speaker 2: besides someone you adore. Such is the journey our heroes
Speaker 2: are on. In Roadside Profits, Joe befriend's Dave, a guy
Speaker 2: at the refinery they both work at playing dig Doug.
Speaker 2: That's a rough way to go. Even video game nerds
Speaker 2: have got to know the shame of a dig Doug death.
Speaker 2: Joe knows nothing about the guy except he loved the
Speaker 2: town of Jackpot, Nevada. So Joe sets out to deliver
Speaker 2: his ashes there. Along the way, he's joined by a
Speaker 2: tag along kid with no real direction, and they encounter
Speaker 2: those aforementioned profits of the roadside. You heard their names
Speaker 2: in the trailer, By the way, Peter Cullen Optimist Prime
Speaker 2: doing the trailer narration from sidon Nancy's Abby Wool Rollout,
Speaker 2: Joe and Sam encounter a dozen or so desert eccentrics.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the Americana of it all, traveling down a
Speaker 2: ribbon of highway and running into the likes of Arlo Guthrie,
Speaker 2: Timothy Leary, and David Carridine. Those guys are the sixties counterculture,
Speaker 2: and they deliver some appropriate philosophical musings in their scenes.
Speaker 2: It's the latter day profits of the roadside that are
Speaker 2: a little less well known but way more interesting and cynical,
Speaker 2: particularly a couple played by Bill Cobbs from Hudsucker Proxy
Speaker 2: and Lynn Shay, who's had a renaissance recently with the
Speaker 2: Insidious films. His character is dying of cancer and hers aids,
Speaker 2: and they found each other and are living together in
Speaker 2: their desert home, making art and spending their remaining time together.
Speaker 2: There's a line from their scene that has stuck with me.
Speaker 2: It's ad Rocks Response test.
Speaker 4: Site where they test all the nuclear war is you
Speaker 4: must have driven right faster. I grew up thirty miles
Speaker 4: from the test site. I was dying a minute I
Speaker 4: was born.
Speaker 1: So's everybody.
Speaker 2: So they are My favorite scene in the film takes
Speaker 2: place at a fifties diner. There were so many fifties
Speaker 2: diners in the late eighties. What the fuck was happening
Speaker 2: to be fair Cafe Fifties in La had a great
Speaker 2: burger I know most of those have closed. Are there
Speaker 2: any of them left? Save the trouble of googling listeners.
Speaker 2: Let me know there is still a Cafe Fifties. One
Speaker 2: fifties diner that is definitely still in operation and I
Speaker 2: think is the basis for the one seen in Roadside
Speaker 2: Profits can be found outside Calico ghost Town in Yermo, California.
Speaker 2: It's Peggy Sus that is a sprawling diner where going
Speaker 2: back in time to the fifties wasn't enough. It's still
Speaker 2: all Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis inside, but the
Speaker 2: outside has become a mini Jurassic Park with dozens of
Speaker 2: dinosaurs everywhere. I don't think anyone saw the thunder lizards coming,
Speaker 2: nor would anyone have guessed the gigantic ice cream cup
Speaker 2: that would spring up just a few miles distant. This
Speaker 2: is all true. There is a certain craziness to the
Speaker 2: High Desert that has to be experienced to be believed.
Speaker 2: Also in the movie, Joe and Sam meet Casper, a
Speaker 2: Symbionese member played by John Cusack. Cusack starred in Tape
Speaker 2: Heads produced by Michael Nesmith and Peter McCarthy, and McCarthy
Speaker 2: is the producer on this. Casper has my favorite joke
Speaker 2: in the film as he lets Sam and Joe know
Speaker 2: that he's Symbionese. He winks conspiratorially, but Casper has an
Speaker 2: eye patch over one eye, and that's the eye he
Speaker 2: winks with. That ride from La to Victorville to Baker
Speaker 2: to Vegas is a magnificent one and it will deliver
Speaker 2: said craziness. But to get the real desert of oddity,
Speaker 2: you have to go north north, Miss Tesmacher. Are there
Speaker 2: any fans of Superman two that don't think Miss Tesmacher
Speaker 2: after someone says north, you know you do? Just north
Speaker 2: of Las Vegas is where every town gets smaller and
Speaker 2: all the vistas get larger. It's where you will get
Speaker 2: lost in red rock canyons, and you will find yourself
Speaker 2: dumb struck at the sheer void in some places, and
Speaker 2: you'll run into towns like e Lee, where you can
Speaker 2: have a damn fine snake while seated in an authentic
Speaker 2: jail cell from the eighteenth century. It was delicious and
Speaker 2: a disconcerting. The higher you go, the more desolate the surroundings.
Speaker 2: And while I've never been to Antarctica, the poll to
Speaker 2: go there for me is the idea that for a
Speaker 2: brief time there'd be nothing but the land and you
Speaker 2: and whatever deity happens to exist, and you can get
Speaker 2: that feeling somewhere north of Lundon, Nevada. Places that make
Speaker 2: you realize how easy it would be for anyone to
Speaker 2: disappear completely. The border between Nevada and Idaho where you
Speaker 2: find the actual town of Jackpot. It's where poor dead
Speaker 2: Dave's ashes are being delivered, and it's where our heroes
Speaker 2: are met with their final crushing defeats that the road
Speaker 2: trip has planned for them. Ay Man, sometimes songs end
Speaker 2: in a minor key. It's not a sad ending in
Speaker 2: any way, though certainly not as somber as the ending
Speaker 2: of Easy Rider, the road trip from which all others
Speaker 2: must be measured. Fucking boomers. Now, I take that back,
Speaker 2: particularly because Peter Fonda is in my Palcardi's film Love
Speaker 2: in a forty five, playing a variation of his Captain
Speaker 2: America character from Easy Rider. And that's a good movie,
Speaker 2: Easy Rider and Love at a forty five. But about Jackpot.
Speaker 2: It's a one strip town, like one lane highway that
Speaker 2: speed zones you down to fifteen miles an hour for
Speaker 2: about one mile like one mile, with a few dozen
Speaker 2: buildings lining other side. The two main buildings being casinos
Speaker 2: with attached hotels on opposite sides of the road. It's
Speaker 2: as way station a town as you can get, and
Speaker 2: it's really just an excuse for Idaho people to come
Speaker 2: gamble or people going to Idaho to have at least
Speaker 2: one last good time. Do you know that the speed
Speaker 2: limit in parts of Idaho are eighty miles per hour?
Speaker 2: Even the highways know you want to leave. One time,
Speaker 2: I was coming back from a gig in Spokane, Washington.
Speaker 2: It was a full day's drive to get to Jackpot,
Speaker 2: where I had booked a room site unseen. So I
Speaker 2: pull into the appropriate casino hotel combo and slept my
Speaker 2: way through the bitterly cold air. This was in November.
Speaker 2: I believe in the wind out on those planes fucked man.
Speaker 2: So I go into the reception desk and they inform
Speaker 2: me that the hotel is full and I'll be across
Speaker 2: the street at their overflow. And I'm like, the other
Speaker 2: casino is your overflow and he says, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: behind the casino, that's our overflow hotel. So I drive
Speaker 2: behind the other casino, which is the casino featured in
Speaker 2: Roadside Profits, and there's this squat looking hotel building. The
Speaker 2: parking lot is completely empty. There's a key card entrance,
Speaker 2: but the wind is so violent that the hydraulic doors
Speaker 2: never get to close. As soon as the door gets
Speaker 2: whisper close to relocking, a gust of wind wrenches it open,
Speaker 2: and clearly a door somewhere else open because some of
Speaker 2: those violent gusts are coming from inside the building, so
Speaker 2: basically anyone could be in there except staff. There's no
Speaker 2: staff at all. It's like a Romero film, just abandoned Apocalypse.
Speaker 2: That same wind is causing a door somewhere in the
Speaker 2: building to bang at irregular rhythms, the effect of which
Speaker 2: is to sound like someone running down a hall and
Speaker 2: getting closer. My stay in jack Pot, Nevada marked the
Speaker 2: only time I've ever shoved the hotel room's chest of
Speaker 2: drawers in front of the door. But it has a
Speaker 2: happy ending because I woke up after my forty five
Speaker 2: minutes of frenzied sleep. I was that scared to find
Speaker 2: that the whole world had been blanketed in snow. It
Speaker 2: was gorgeous, and thus began a treacherous drive home over
Speaker 2: unplowed snowy desert roads that made the previous night'sphere seem
Speaker 2: like a day at Disneyland. Nothing like that happens to
Speaker 2: Sam and Joe. They find each other out in the desert.
Speaker 2: They find themselves and what's left of America the oddball,
Speaker 2: insular freaks, and philosophy, you know, the stuff that makes
Speaker 2: this country actually great. No, not great, cool. No country
Speaker 2: was ever great, but god damn it, we were cool. Yes,
Speaker 2: you are still cool yourself, little lady. All right, that
Speaker 2: will do it for this week's a round up. Like
Speaker 2: I said, tune in on Friday, it's actually Thursday. Don't
Speaker 2: tell anybody. For our look at Young Guns two in
Speaker 2: our continuing Fuseco Fest. Thank you all for joining us.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave you with a bit of dialogue, naturally.
Speaker 2: It's coming from no not repo man ha ha. I
Speaker 2: actually like roadside profits a little bit better.
Speaker 9: Once upon a time in ancient Rome, there was a
Speaker 9: band of gladiators. You know, gladiators were all slaves, but
Speaker 9: these particular gladiators were utopian saints as well. This was
Speaker 9: during the decline. It's about one eighty or so ad.
Speaker 9: These gladiators refuse to perform their battles for the ruined class.
Speaker 9: That didn't matter to them that they would be crucified
Speaker 9: or burned or shot with slings and arrows. They wouldn't
Speaker 9: die for sport.
Speaker 1: They got killed anyway though.
Speaker 9: Well, everybody dies, it's part of life. But these gladiators,
Speaker 9: they didn't waste their deaths. And maybe because they were
Speaker 9: martyred or maybe because they were right, their convictions were
Speaker 9: passed down through the ages.
Speaker 1: They could see the truth.
Speaker 3: Touch Souls, Show, show, show,