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Speaker 1: Hello, It's a Jimmy on Sunday from the lake in Sweden.

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I'm out fishing today and I don't get any hooks

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at all, but oh shit, I got something now. It's

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it looks like a big one and it pulls and

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pools and I get it up in a boat and

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it's a rattle lot.

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Speaker 2: And it looks like a I surely can't be serious podcast.

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Speaker 1: And there they're wiggling around in the in the book.

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A bet I throw them back here, okay, Jason. So

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you know a lot of people ask me what we

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do here at the Shirley Podcast, and I say, you know,

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there's gonna be sex, drugs, rock and roll, chips, dips, chains, whips,

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you know, basic high school org type of thing. I mean,

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I'm not talking candle wax on the nipples or witchcraft

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or anything like that. I don't know. Just a couple

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of hundred kids running around in their underwear acting like

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complete animals. That's hilarious. You totally sell my life. That

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Speaker 3: That's great, that was what I had ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Well, so welcome back to the Shirley You Can't Be

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Serious Podcast? Everybody. Every time we're about to start an episode,

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Jason or I will say to each other, do you

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have an intro for this episode? And I today said

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do you have an intro? And he's like, yeah, I

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got an idea. And I'm like, okay, well I gotta

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got one. Yeah. He's like, okay, well I'll build off

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of yours. Totally undercovery on all that. Well, what do

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you little maniacs want to do? First? Shall we do

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casting for real genius?

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Speaker 3: How about we do part two a real Genius versus

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weird science and we start with casting of real genius.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that is where we're going. Welcome back to

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the Shirley you Can't be serious podcast everyone, or if

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catch it over my shoulder here. But we've got We've

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Speaker 3: So anyway, Thanksean, appreciate you man.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sean. Okay, now I think it is time that

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we get into the nuts and bolts. We're going to

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talk We talked casting for Weird Science at the end

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of our last episode. Let's talk about casting for Real Genius.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So leading off, the main guy in Real Genius

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obviously is the one, the only, the late great Val Kilmer. Yeah,

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he plays Chris Knight.

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Speaker 1: Something strange happened to me this morning.

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and realized Chris Knight is not a polite guy.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what Chris Knight needs to be. Yeah, the reformed,

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rebellious nerd. That's right, that's right. Didn't want him to

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think he was stuffy. You know, I'll bring no penis. Wait,

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I really really enjoy this movie. I'll be interested to

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, So tell me, did you see this movie

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it in theaters. I did see Weird Science in theaters, huh,

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Speaker 3: Right, So, I just want to run through some of

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Speaker 3: You have Top Gun, Yes, you have Willow. Yeah, you

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he died, and it said, all men across the country,

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in honor of Val Kilmer's death are quoting too Stone

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Batman and Robin made his performance in Banman Forever looked

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good Oscar worthy. But I've got something and we're going

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to talk about that with Jeff Johnson this summer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Badman and Robin versus Superman returns.

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Speaker 1: Yes though too. What happened episodes bat Nipples versus Stoker Superman.

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Speaker 3: When you've got a Stocker Superman, you've got a problem.

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Joel Schumacher found Vlkilmer difficult. I think Martha Coolidge found

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Speaker 1: He's a difficult guy. Okay.

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Speaker 3: The director of the Island of Doctor Moreau, Oh, which

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is that that's the one with Marlon Brando, right,

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Marlon Brando? Okay, I believe it was John Frankenheimer. I

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and I you know, I'm quoting from the Val documentary.

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If I were making a movie called The Life and

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Speaker 3: Legendary actor, fun on the screen.

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Speaker 1: Difficult to get along with them, not a friend of

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and from now on, stop playing with yourself. Yeah, that

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in eighty five, so yeah, he's probably fourteen maybe just

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hit fifteen, right, And interestingly enough, just a year and

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a half ago it circled full circle when he was

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old and after a fourteen year old girl he got

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arrested in a not arrested, not rest. He got caught

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because that the police. Oh that's right, those guys weren't cops. Yeah.

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patrol something like that name. Yeah. So anyway, basically a

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watchdog group that would lure guys into fishing text threads

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with girls that were under age allegedly which were not

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girls at all, just these guys out on witch hunts

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for these guys trying to uncover the pervs. And yeah,

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and Gabrielle Jarrett was meeting someone who he thought was

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a fourteen year old girl at the end of a

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pier somewhere, and once confronted, he argued for a bit,

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and then he took off on his little scooter a

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little like limewires. Can you just imagine the embarrassment of

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the situation, only to be intensified by the fact that

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you're escaping on a little battery phone app scooter.

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Speaker 3: He might have to go home and live in mom

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and dad's, So yeah, pretty awkward.

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Speaker 1: But as I point it out to you, you know,

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they turned over all their stuff the police. Just to

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be the devil's advocate here, They turned all their stuff

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over the police, and they still haven't filed any charges

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against him. So he maintains that he never posted anything inappropriate.

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posted all the inappropriate stuff and he was just coming

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to let her down easy in person. It was his story.

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I don't know why you'd not be able to do

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that by text, but I.

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Speaker 3: Rolled up a muscooter. I was gonna let her down easy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wearing my hoodie and dark sunglass. I don't know

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that I'm making that part up. I'm just kidding, Oh

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my gosh. Yeah, but anyway, kind of a kind of

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a sad end to a not quite career.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we didn't know that when we started this podcast.

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And sadly Mitch is in big trouble. Yeah, possibly maybe

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maybe we see who knows?

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Speaker 1: All right, Michelle Myrink.

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Speaker 2: I never sleep.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: Had a roommate and drove her nuts.

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Speaker 1: I mean really, I have to take away an ambulance

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and everything. But she's okay now. But she had to

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transfer to News your school. But I don't know if

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that anything, it would be my fault. But listen, if

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you ever need to talk any help saying, just let

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me know, because I'm just a couple of doors down

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from you guys, and I never sleep. Okay, Okay, So

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I dove deep on Michelle Myra. Oh good, okay, because

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I mean she is It's a literal like who's Who's

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list of movies in the eighties that she's in.

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Speaker 3: She had a string of great movies she.

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Speaker 1: Had Okay, so she had The Outsiders, she had The

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Joy of Sex, which I don't think was a great movie,

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but uh, I mean it had it looked like it

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had potential. I could see how she would be confused

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with it. Okay, just to interrupt you real quick. Joy

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of Sex. Yeah, I haven't seen that movie, but I

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do know it was directed by Martha Coolidge. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,

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so like the year before, working with the same director.

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So just a Martha Coolidge real quick. Because she's got

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there's some interesting things about her. Number one, she is

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a distant relative of Calvin Coolidge, the president. Oh yeah, wow,

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I thought that was pretty cool. After film school, directed

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a bunch of documentaries about New York City, but then

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went and studied with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler studied

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the craft of acting, not because she wanted to act,

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but because she wanted to direct. And then she went

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and went to la and joined Zoetrope Studios with Francis Ford,

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cole Ford Copola. Right, she does Valley Girl.

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Speaker 3: She basically discovers Nicholas Cage absolutely. I mean, he had

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been in been in Outsiders, Rubblefish.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yes, he had been in Rubblefish.

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Speaker 3: Right, because he's Francis Ford Coppola's nephew. But she's the

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one who actually gave him a shot. But you can

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see the connection there because he she's working. Yeah, that's right,

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that makes the connection makes sense. She was ended up

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being the first female president of the Director's Guild of America.

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So I mean not to say she's killing it.

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Speaker 1: But back to Michelle Myrink, Okay, So list of her

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shows nineteen eighty three, The Outsiders nineteen eighty three, Valley

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Girl nineteen eighty four, Joy of Sex nineteen eighty five,

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she was on an episode of Family Ties. I'd love

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to talk to you about that, okay. Then of course

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Real Genius, which we're talking about today. And then she

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did a few more movies, including Nice Girls Don't Explode.

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I'm really kind of curious about that one. But then

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in eighty nine she just said, this is not the

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life that I want. She went and studied like Zen

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Buddhism with her husband, and they now live up in

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Canada and she's opened her own acting studio up there

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where she tries to train people in the way that

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she was trained in the acting schools in Hollywood. Interesting. Yeah,

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you know.

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Speaker 3: One title that you didn't mention, Revenge the Nerds.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I totally jumped right over it. Yes, Yes,

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she's one of the girl Nerds.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So I want to talk about her Family Ties

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episode real quick, Okay, okay, do you remember Skippy, Yes,

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Alex's buddy. Yeah, love was like a nerd yea and

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he's always hanging around Alex p Keaton. So Michelle Myrink's character,

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I can't remember her name. She was one of Mallory's friends.

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She comes over the house and Skippy's like in love

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with her and he wants Alex to set them up

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on a date. And so Alex is doing his best

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to match make and Skippy leaves whatever. And so Alex

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and Michelle Myrink's character are at the kitchen table, you know,

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the Family Ties kitchen table, and he's trying to like

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build up Skippy and she's like, Alex, I've been waiting

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for this moment my entire life. And she plants one

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on him and he's like, he's like frozen.

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Speaker 1: But she's like a little vixen in this one.

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Speaker 3: Nice I was like, let's go Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Oh. And her character is I mean, it's steal. She

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steals every scene that she's in, that scattered, manic little thing.

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Are you done yet?

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Speaker 3: I can't start weird because I'm here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And she's like, yeah, she's just here and there.

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I never sleep, so come down and talk to me.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, great character, great character.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of great characters, we have the wonderful William Atherton

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as Professor Hathaway in this movie.

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Speaker 1: What are you looking at your laborers? You're supposed to

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be laboring, That's what I guess. We're not having an education.

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Not Peck, not Walter Peck, and not Harvey Thornberg. Right,

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he is in the trinity. We have completed our trinity. Uh,

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we've completed our trinity of a whole characters played by

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William Mathton with a math to think.

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Speaker 3: Let's rank these real quick. Okay, you got Ghostbusters. You

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got the Environmental Protection Agency Walter Peck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm Walter Peck.

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Speaker 2: I represent the Environmental Protection Agency the third District.

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Speaker 1: Great, how's it going down there?

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Speaker 3: You got the news reporter from Diehard, the one who's

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gonna call I N S. If they don't let him

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in Thornburg.

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Speaker 1: Thornberg. Yeah, all right, Look, sim I tell you what.

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You don't want to give me a truck, I'll go

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and I'll steal a truck. Hey, give us a break, Thornburg, Harve,

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eat it, Harvey.

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Speaker 3: And then you've got Jerry Hathaway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hello, Jerry. I told you before. Can't you don't

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get to use my first name? Did I?

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Speaker 3: Who asked Mitch if he asked Mitch's parents if he

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was possibly adopted?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Or well better than that. He was like, you

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won't graduate. Even if you pass, you don't pass. Right,

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Like he's gonna screw over one of the geniuses because

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he doesn't give him the stuff he needs for the

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under the table money that he's using to build his house. Right,

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I mean, so, which is the slimiest of those three? Woh,

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that's hard call. I'm gonna go with this one. I'm

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gonna go with Professor like he's he is bad in

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all respects.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, I think despite his terrible characters, you know,

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he's dickless and ghostbusters right, and he's he at least is.

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Speaker 1: He believes he is fighting the good fight. In that one,

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he's the EPA, like these guys are these guys.

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Speaker 3: These guys are releasing now's just chemicals and we have

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and you're right, but Professor Hathaway complete scumbag, vindictive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody loves and he's condescending and awful. Right, Yeah,

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this is this one wins for sure. I'm with you. Yeah,

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and I'm just gonna say, if you're playing a reporter,

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you kind of they're all slimy, So sorry say that

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l after right, Sorry, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: This is the last chance these kids are gonna have

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to speak to their parents.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I want to talk about Robert Prescott for

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a second. Okay, check it out. Well, yeah, for what mistakes?

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I guess he said you guys were stuck.

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Speaker 2: No no, no, no no no no no no no no no.

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Speaker 1: Let's get something very clear here. Okay, when Jerry's not here,

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you do what I he plays Kent.

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Speaker 3: It goes to Jerry to me, playing with yourself.

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Speaker 1: He's a bit over the top.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so he drove you crazy. Yes, I thought he

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was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's supposed to be unlikable, but yeah, I found

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his acting unlikable. But it's fine for this movie. He's fine.

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Speaker 3: So I first kind of discovered that actor in Bachelor Party.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 3: He's the guy that's vying for Tony Katain's love, yes,

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and like her dad really wants them together, and he

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just can't stand Tom Hanks.

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Speaker 1: And right, he's the blonde, handsome boy from the club, right.

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Speaker 3: That's right, the one that they dangle out, the one

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don't naked Bachelor Party. Yeah, and then of course he's Kent,

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who's like chief.

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Speaker 1: Of the butt heads in this movie.

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Speaker 3: Right, so he actually remember, he sabotages the laser by putting.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty slimy too, putting oil on his optics. So

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that at the end scene in the movie, whenever he's

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going to what he thinks is some sort of revelatory

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experience from God, let me have it. And like as

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the popcorns popping, he's just standing there and his hands

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are in this kind of I don't know, like almost

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epileptic form behind him. Like I'm like, what he thinks

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he's getting a sign from God. Okay, Okay, it's ridiculous,

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but all right, yeah, that's right. Yes, I think he

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does great in this movie. I love having somebody to

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fight against you know, right, Okay, all right, I want

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to talk about John.

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Speaker 3: Grys for a second. Okay, okay, he's the guy who

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plays Laslow, the guy who lives in their closet.

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Speaker 1: Yea, so that's Low Hollyfield Leslow Hollyfield. So do you

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know that this is based on a real person? Tell

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me his name is Hopfeld? What? Yes? Literally, they and

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Martha Coolidge talks about meeting this guy like this, this

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is a legitimate guy who was up at the top genius. Cracked,

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went kind of crazy, she said, when he came in,

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like he's nastier than Holyfield, like Hopfeld like didn't cut

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his fingernails, like he walked in and they were like

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long and you know, going to church and Atlanta a

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long kind of deal and I got you and and

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just bizarre, like smelled bad, just weird but obviously stratosphere

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genius with all these weird quirks and yeah, which I'm sorry.

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What was the actor's name, John Grice, Wry John Grice,

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who has been in a bunch of stuff. He was

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the werewolf in Yes, and he's uncle whatever his name is. Yeah,

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I mean he's done so many memorable parts, but this

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one he I heard him talking about it, and he's like,

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I really want to kind of wanted to hone in

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on the fact that he's wounded, and he nails that

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because he's very lovable, like Hollyhells. Even though he's so

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weird and mysterious. He's like you can tell that he's

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been like he's like the dog that shakes when you

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00:23:35,839 --> 00:23:40,920
go to petit, but kind you know, it's it's great.

464
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 3: I love when he comes to tell them. They're celebrating

465
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,279
this breakthrough in the laser and he comes to tell

466
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,039
and they're having a party or whatever, and they're like,

467
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,720
what do you think they're going to use this laser

468
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:51,920
for it?

469
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, he's the one that like tips the hand

470
00:23:54,319 --> 00:23:55,160
for the bad guys.

471
00:23:55,279 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is like, how about a big block of

472
00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,400
Swiss cheese? And you know, but he's like no, he

473
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,759
points it out to them and they realized they've been duped,

474
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,519
you know. Okay, so his dad is a director. Okay,

475
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,480
did you ever see the nineteen seventies version of Helter Skelter. Yeah,

476
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,759
oh yeah, yeah, he directed that movie.

477
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,319
Speaker 1: Oh wow. Okay, yeah, crazy okay.

478
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,519
Speaker 3: And actually I was listening to John Gray's tell the

479
00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:20,480
story of how he got involved in acting. So he

480
00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:23,920
was hanging out at his dad's job. Essentially, they're on

481
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,160
the lot, his dad's working and John was, you know,

482
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,319
bugging him, and he's like, just go play on the

483
00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:31,759
on the Bonanza lot and sends him over to the

484
00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:33,759
Bonanza lot. Well, he had just lost a front.

485
00:24:33,519 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: Door working about Little Joe Yes and haws.

486
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,319
Speaker 3: Yes, Bananza okay, Yeah, and he had lost a tooth

487
00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:44,559
and he's out there just screwing around. He's bugging his

488
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,480
dad to death. So he sends him over there and

489
00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:48,680
basically somebody looks at him and thinks, you know, that

490
00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:51,799
kid'd be pretty good. So that's how they discovered him.

491
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,319
Come here, Yeah, I need you right here playing on

492
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:56,200
the Bonanza lot.

493
00:24:58,279 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: Right. Wow.

494
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,559
Speaker 3: So okay, So I've got a couple other names I

495
00:25:01,559 --> 00:25:03,119
want to share with you before I drop my big

496
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:08,319
my big one. Okay, okay, So you've got Yugi Okemono.

497
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,359
I can't remember how he say his name properly.

498
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: He's the Howard Kosel from Better Off Dead or it

499
00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:20,279
was it real gene or no, it was better off Dead.

500
00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:21,119
It was better Off Dead.

501
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,640
Speaker 3: He does the uh language lessons.

502
00:25:24,319 --> 00:25:27,559
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, And we mentioned that he is of course

503
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,119
also in Karate Kid two as the bad is chosen

504
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,960
and he's chosen, and then shows up in Corporate Kai

505
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,759
as the same character again, but he is briefly in

506
00:25:36,799 --> 00:25:38,599
this it's at the pool party. He looked into the

507
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,960
right scene to be a part of in this movie,

508
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,839
as is the guy that we talked about last time,

509
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,640
Real Smooth Cliff. He's in that scene as well from

510
00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:47,960
sixteen Candles.

511
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,799
Speaker 3: Okay, just while we're here. The pool party is one

512
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:54,279
of the most ridiculous scenes in the entire movie.

513
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: I if wanted to have a party like that for

514
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,319
my entire life.

515
00:25:57,319 --> 00:25:59,279
Speaker 3: But I'm totally with you, right because it looks like

516
00:25:59,319 --> 00:26:03,200
a blast. But literally, they've set up a pool in

517
00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:07,279
like the orchestra section of the auditorium of the auditorium,

518
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,680
and they've got a water slign and somebody said, yeah,

519
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,519
let's set up a pool in this room and have

520
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:15,799
the Tanning Invitational come.

521
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, if people buy tickets, sell tickets, that's my gosh,

522
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,160
it literally was.

523
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 3: I was just looking at this going, could the production

524
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,640
not afforded to have this at a pool somewhere?

525
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,599
Speaker 1: No, this makes it so much better because I think

526
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:35,400
that that's kind of part of the atmosphere that they

527
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,359
were going for in this movie. I mean we talked

528
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,960
about how this is kind of based on cal Tech, right,

529
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,359
and so it would be more likely that those students,

530
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,039
instead of going to an actual real pool, would go

531
00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:49,279
how can we make a pool out of a theater?

532
00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:54,400
You know? Right? And and and even the you know

533
00:26:54,839 --> 00:27:00,480
the scene where everything is ice. You know this ice,

534
00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:02,480
This is what happens to water when it gets cold.

535
00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:05,960
So that was based on a real thing that that

536
00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:07,759
happened at cal Tech. I don't know if it was

537
00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:10,319
precisely that, but that same idea. And you'll notice the

538
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,119
walls have cartoons all over them. You notice as they

539
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,599
were walking on right, that's what the cal Tech like.

540
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,720
They literally went to cal Tech. They went to the

541
00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:23,200
dorm that these students were in, and they took pictures

542
00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:26,279
of the walls. I mean, this wasn't like some creative

543
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:28,960
genius put this up there. They took the pictures from

544
00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:32,559
cal Tech and re painted them, drew them all over

545
00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:35,680
the walls. And then she had some cal Tech students

546
00:27:35,759 --> 00:27:39,039
come in and they were like consultants to talk about

547
00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:42,119
how things worked. But then like when people left and

548
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,920
they were still there with Martha cool and she'd be like,

549
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,799
go draw on the wall some and they loved it.

550
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:47,799
They would go put more stuff on the walls. Right,

551
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,160
But that that kind of crazy. Let's spink outside of

552
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,960
the box. Let's do something different. Okay, that's fair, Yeah,

553
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:54,920
all right.

554
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,599
Speaker 3: You also have Deborah Foreman in this movie. She has

555
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,359
kind of a smaller part. She plays Susan Yep, she's

556
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,039
the girl who asked Chris Knight if he can ye know.

557
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,759
He's like, have you ever seen a body like this

558
00:28:04,839 --> 00:28:05,680
in your entire life?

559
00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: That's my daughter? Oh, I guess you have right.

560
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,279
Speaker 3: And she says, can you drive a six inch spike

561
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,359
through a board with your penis? And he's like, not

562
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:16,079
right now?

563
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: Like a girl's got a habrstandards. Yes, that's Devorah Foreman.

564
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,440
She's Valley Girl. She was in Valley Girl. Yeah, she

565
00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:25,440
was the val She was the Valley Girl.

566
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,319
Speaker 3: So, just to recap, we haven't talked about the movie

567
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,640
Valley Girl, but we have talked about Deborah Foreman.

568
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: We've now talked about Michelle Myrink. We talked about eg

569
00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:37,319
Daily in our Better Off Dead episode and Nick Cage Yeah,

570
00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:38,640
and Martha Coolidge.

571
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 3: We're kind of making our way through Martha around.

572
00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: Hovering around it. Maybe Valley Girl versus Past Times a

573
00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:48,359
Richmond High maybe maybe maybe.

574
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 3: All Right, here's the name I want to talk to

575
00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:51,319
you about.

576
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.

577
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 3: There is a older woman in this movie who's like

578
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,000
a groupie.

579
00:28:57,079 --> 00:29:00,839
Speaker 1: She's like a nerd groupie, nerd group Yeah, okay. Her

580
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,079
character's name is Cherry Nangel. Yes, is that right. I've

581
00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:08,680
been looking for you for sixteen years. Yeah, yeah, Cherry Nougel.

582
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,359
I think is her name? Uh huh? Okay.

583
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,039
Speaker 3: So she's played by Patty de Bonvi.

584
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a French name. Okay, Okay, now it's a

585
00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:19,319
d apostrophe, the apostrophe.

586
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 3: She was a model in London when she was a teenager. Okay, okay,

587
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,440
So this is my connection back to Weird Science where

588
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,599
we talked about. There is a song written about Kelly Lebroc.

589
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,279
Oh right, right, right, Man Eater, Man Eater, Go back

590
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:37,000
and listen to our part one, part one. Yeah, Kelly Lebroc.

591
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,680
The song Man Eater by Hollan Notes was written about

592
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,759
Kelly LeBrock, right, Okay, And I tease you you up

593
00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:45,920
that there's actually another song written about somebody in real

594
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,960
genius's this lady. So I'm gonna tell you a little

595
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:49,759
just a little bit about her.

596
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,559
Speaker 1: Okay, So she was a model in the sixties.

597
00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:56,359
Speaker 3: She was in this really important French erotic film in

598
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,960
the seventies, very artistic.

599
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: I don't.

600
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,559
Speaker 3: Know a lot about it, but I saw the movie poster,

601
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,640
and the French are okay with nudity on movie posters.

602
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,720
I just let you know about that, all.

603
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: Right, Google search. Yes. And so she was a kind

604
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,960
of a happening babe, you know.

605
00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:19,279
Speaker 3: And she went to a party where there are a

606
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:22,559
bunch of musicians and you know, musicians they like their

607
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:23,759
hot babes.

608
00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, those weird musicians like the babe I know.

609
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 2: Right.

610
00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:31,599
Speaker 3: So she goes to a party in New York City,

611
00:30:31,799 --> 00:30:33,920
right before she goes back to London to work on

612
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,920
her modeling career whatever. So just attendees at this party.

613
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,559
You have Jimmy Page, you have Steve Winwood, you have

614
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:41,279
Eric Clapton.

615
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,599
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've dang, You've got the Yeah, you've got

616
00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:49,000
a trifecta of English rock stars there.

617
00:30:49,039 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 3: That's incredible, I mean, right, yea, Now this is you know,

618
00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:52,720
early seventies.

619
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she meets Kat Stevens there, okay, yeah, moonshadow,

620
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,880
that's right. Yeah yeah, go.

621
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:02,039
Speaker 3: Back to our American Werewolf in London episode here.

622
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: Okay.

623
00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 3: So in nineteen seventy he releases a song called Lady

624
00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:08,759
de Bonvie.

625
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 2: My Lady da Banvie, Why.

626
00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:19,839
Speaker 1: Do you sleep? So, Steve, Lady de bond Vi And

627
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,960
this girl's last name is de Bonby yep, so I'm

628
00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:25,000
going to make the mental leap that the song is

629
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:28,400
about her. Yes? Was he at this party with Jimmy? Yeah? Yeah,

630
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,799
Cat Stevens. Stevens was there and he's still Cat at

631
00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:34,279
that point, that's right. He wasn't used tohamada yeah whatever.

632
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they started a relationship. He kind of was

633
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,039
like struck by her beauty. Obviously wrote a song about her.

634
00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:43,039
It reached number eight in the UK. Oh wow, so

635
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:45,079
kind of a hit song. Cool, not what I was

636
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:47,920
familiar with. But I also want to drop this song yet, okay.

637
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,079
Patty de Bonvie yes, also was on a Miami Vice

638
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:57,559
episode and she and Don Johnson were married basically common law.

639
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: Married for four years eighty one to eighty five, cohabitated huh. Okay.

640
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 3: They have a son together Wow. What she and Don

641
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:10,960
Johnson were like an item. Wow for several years. That's crazy,

642
00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:12,279
during the Miami Vice years.

643
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:13,079
Speaker 1: Wow. Nice.

644
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,839
Speaker 3: And now she's in nineteen eighty five. She's chasing down

645
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,880
Mitch because he's the smartest guy around, but she ends

646
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:19,720
up with Laslow.

647
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:20,079
Speaker 1: Yeah.

648
00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:21,799
Speaker 3: All right, so that's the cast a real genius.

649
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, love it? Okay, tidbits yeah, hit me all right,

650
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:28,200
which we're gonna start with, go back to Weird Science. Now,

651
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,400
let's go back to Weird Science. All right, dude, but

652
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,400
wad So here's the tidbit I have on Weird Science. Okay, okay,

653
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,799
So you remember what goes wrong when they try to

654
00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:42,400
recreate the that's a Persian missiles? Yeah right, my name

655
00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:47,599
is Chet. I didn't think it was a whales, right right,

656
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:54,440
So that scene obviously was not an inexpensive scene to shoot, okay. Yeah,

657
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,359
And so they literally had to rig up the floor

658
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,440
so that this gigantic missile would up through the floor. Yea,

659
00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:03,720
the whole you know, all the cast members are their

660
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,039
carpet parts and all of this is happening. And as

661
00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:11,640
it reaches its peak, Anthony Michael Hall lets one go,

662
00:33:12,359 --> 00:33:18,240
Like the place just starts lacking and John Hughes is

663
00:33:18,319 --> 00:33:23,880
like you, and so they had to they had to reverse.

664
00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:26,279
They had to pull it back down.

665
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: And like film clip it together, like they.

666
00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:33,599
Speaker 1: Filmed it taking it back down, because the carpet's already

667
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,759
ripped at that point, right, so they might to film

668
00:33:36,799 --> 00:33:40,240
it coming back down and then reverse the footage so

669
00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:42,799
that it looked like it was coming up. Because Anthony

670
00:33:42,799 --> 00:33:46,400
Michael Hall spoiled the million dollars shot.

671
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,319
Speaker 3: With Wow, that's hilarious.

672
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,039
Speaker 1: That is hilarious, man.

673
00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:53,759
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I've got just a couple of tidbits for

674
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:56,160
you on Weird Science. Okay, all right, So I thought

675
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,400
this was interesting. You know how when they advertise or

676
00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:03,720
distribute a movie in other countries sometimes they changed the name.

677
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,440
So Weird Science in other countries is not called Weird Science.

678
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,960
In Sweden, it's called dream Woman. In Russia, it's called

679
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:18,360
oh the Science right. Germany is called cool Magic with Lisa.

680
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:23,320
In Denmark it's Touched Me, I'm yours, Okay, okay, but

681
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,719
this is my favorite one. In Japan, it's called Electric Venus.

682
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: I really thought you were gonna say electric vagina, electric venus.

683
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,360
So okay, there was.

684
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 3: A scene apparently that was filmed.

685
00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: It was in a script.

686
00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:47,119
Speaker 3: It was filmed where the two bullies, the Robert Downey

687
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,800
junior character and Robert Wrestler is the other guy's name,

688
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,719
Ian and whatever the bullies where Lisa turns them into

689
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,440
like a pig and a donkey, and really we don't

690
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,920
really get any sort of resolution and resolution with them.

691
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:01,960
They just kind of vanish.

692
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, they go away, but a pig and a donkey. Yeah.

693
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,800
There's another scene in the movie that they cut out

694
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,280
where like these guys show up for the party and

695
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,800
they're all wearing like devo hats. Yeah, at least it's like, no,

696
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:18,639
you can't come in. Really yeah, okay, yeah, that's cool.

697
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,159
Speaker 3: Okay, I did like this. John Hughes described Lisa as

698
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,800
Mary Poppins with breasts.

699
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: Well, okay, Mary Poppins had breasts, so I don't really

700
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:30,519
understand that.

701
00:35:30,679 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 3: But okay, I mean Julie Andrews, Kelly LeBrock.

702
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: Dude, don't don't go there. Julie Andrews is hot. At

703
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,000
least she was back in the day. That's fair. It's fair. Okay.

704
00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:45,559
I want to just throw something at you. See what

705
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:46,960
you think about this? Huh?

706
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 3: In the John Hughes universe. Weird Science takes place at

707
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:55,880
Shermer High School. That's the same school that The Breakfast

708
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,079
Club takes place at. Yes, it's also the same school

709
00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:00,840
that Ferris Bueler's Dale takes place at.

710
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 1: Yes.

711
00:36:01,519 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 3: I think probably Pretty and Pink and others some kind

712
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,960
of wonderful Probably there is an alternate reality where Ferris

713
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,719
and Ian are buddies, you know, and like, you know,

714
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:16,320
Sloan goes to this party and runs into Lisa Or

715
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,119
she's friends with deb and Hilly. They're on the cheerleading squad. Yeah,

716
00:36:20,159 --> 00:36:22,360
I think it's kind of fun to think about maybe

717
00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:26,880
Sloan and Claire from Breakfast Club and Helly and Deb

718
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,199
or on the same cheerleading squad.

719
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,519
Speaker 1: Sure, And Anthony Michael Hall is the nerd from sixteen

720
00:36:31,559 --> 00:36:35,800
candis Or from Breakfast Club either on both is also

721
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,719
the nerd from Weird Science. I mean he could be

722
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,519
the same guy in each one. I mean, obviously his

723
00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:41,360
name is different, so that kind of messes things up.

724
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,400
But yeah, it's still fun to think about it.

725
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, tidbits from Real Genius do so if

726
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,599
you ever watch the trailer the original trailer for Real

727
00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:50,840
Genius there's a scene where Chris Knight is in a

728
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,039
lawn chair and there's like helium balloons and he's floating

729
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,559
and he's you know, he's got his ray bands on.

730
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,920
He's being cool and he's floating around in a launch

731
00:37:00,119 --> 00:37:03,880
air propelled by helium balloons. They actually cut that from

732
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,239
the movie, I think because they were afraid that people

733
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:08,000
were going to try that.

734
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: Ah, okay, and then they tell you up came out there,

735
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,480
you go. I do think people would have tried that,

736
00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:21,519
and people may still try people have tried that.

737
00:37:21,599 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 3: Okay, Let's talk about the popcorn scene for a second. Okay,

738
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,119
So literally, it was somebody's job for six weeks to

739
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:28,679
do nothing but pop popcorn.

740
00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:33,519
Speaker 1: Right. It turns out that popcorn is very flammable, because

741
00:37:33,559 --> 00:37:36,760
they rented a warehouse to pop all of the popcorn,

742
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,519
and they just throw it in the bag there, popped

743
00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:42,679
all of the popcorn, stored it, and then they burned

744
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,199
down the warehouse because the popcorn was flammable. And so

745
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,280
they said, okay, we have to do something to keep

746
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,320
it from number one catching on fire and number two

747
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,920
from rotting in the interim between when we pop it

748
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,360
and when we have it in this house, and then

749
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,559
of course they rig up a whole system so that

750
00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:03,119
they can like blow it out of the you know,

751
00:38:03,159 --> 00:38:06,119
cause it's they're not actually popping the corn, right, they're

752
00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:08,840
the tin foils over it to create the illusion. But

753
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,840
it's already popped. People. It's the magic of Hollywood, right,

754
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,920
And so they're they're they're gunning it out basically and

755
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,519
gunning it out of the windows. But the buttery looking

756
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:23,360
part of things is like a flame retardant sort of

757
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,480
anti rot spray that they put all over.

758
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: It, and they had to protect it from the birds.

759
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,039
They were real worried the birds was gonna eat it

760
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:32,360
and they get you know, die because of this flame

761
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,519
retardan stuff all over it, right, right, so they had

762
00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:35,559
to be real careful about that.

763
00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: Okay, now you sent me something. This is a little weird.

764
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,760
You sent me something, or maybe I just came across it.

765
00:38:41,599 --> 00:38:46,679
This is there is a rumor that Tom Hanks has

766
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,400
like a brief cameo in this. I keep in mind,

767
00:38:49,639 --> 00:38:53,880
this is nineteen eighty five, okay, and so if you

768
00:38:54,079 --> 00:38:56,920
if you search Tom Hanks cameo real genius, you're gonna

769
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,440
find some screenshots and you're gonna be like, is that

770
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,000
Tom Hanks, because it really it could be so at

771
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,679
You remember when Mitch first gets to the college, he

772
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,960
says hello to a lady and he's like, I'm looking

773
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,320
for this. She's like, oh, I'm glad to know that

774
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,920
we have one, and she takes him to the weird guy.

775
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:23,280
Never always check your references, yes, And then at that

776
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,039
point he's like, well, I gotta go, and he backs

777
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:28,119
up and he backs into somebody. That person. I mean,

778
00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:30,639
they've got their back to the camera, but just briefly like,

779
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,480
go like this and it really looks a lot like

780
00:39:34,559 --> 00:39:37,760
Tom Hanks. But I say that in the same way

781
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,039
that I think that the guy in the Rosanna video

782
00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:42,800
looks a lot like Patrick Sways.

783
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 3: It is Patrick Swaves, not Patrick Swade.

784
00:39:46,159 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: It does look like him, but it's not him. And

785
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,639
this guy and then I saw some other people are like, no,

786
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,880
that's not Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is in the popcorn

787
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,119
scene and he's got this white but I can't find

788
00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:59,519
any pictures of that. So I think this is urban bs,

789
00:39:59,639 --> 00:40:00,800
is what I thin. I think this is.

790
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 3: The only connection I can think of. Splash, Well, you

791
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:09,760
have Splash with Brian Grazer bachelor Party and Robert Prescott

792
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,480
was in bachelor party as well. Yeah, so there are

793
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,320
some connections there.

794
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,159
Speaker 1: It could have happened. Yeah, interesting, Yeah, okay.

795
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 3: On the subject of popcorn, yes, they tried to simulate

796
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,000
this idea that popcorn would burst through the doors blow

797
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:24,719
out the windows.

798
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,559
Speaker 1: They did find that you could you could heat the

799
00:40:26,599 --> 00:40:28,199
popcorn up with a laser and make it.

800
00:40:28,159 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 3: Pop legitimate okay from space.

801
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: Well that probably would have been a little hard for

802
00:40:33,519 --> 00:40:38,039
MythBusters to pull off. The test for that one, come on, guys.

803
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 3: But basically they found that the that was kind of

804
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,079
busted because the popcorn would just char and yeah, not

805
00:40:45,199 --> 00:40:47,880
tear the house down, right. Yeah, okay, so I just

806
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,079
got a couple more tibits. Right, William Atherton's real last name.

807
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: Is Night. Oh it's William Atherton Knight. Huh. I guess

808
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,800
Bill Knight would be too common. Atherton is less or

809
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,960
maybe just maybe it's his mother's maiden name or something.

810
00:41:04,039 --> 00:41:04,360
I don't know.

811
00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 3: Interesting, when they were promoting this movie, they actually there's

812
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,559
stuff out there I saw that claims this is the

813
00:41:13,599 --> 00:41:18,239
first movie that was promoted by the Internet. Now it

814
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:23,440
wasn't really the Internet. Well, it's they had a computer. Like, okay,

815
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,400
so here's here's the rest of the story on that.

816
00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:30,199
Speaker 1: Yeah. So what they did was this. They promoted this

817
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:36,920
was the first like movie conference, teleconference or whatever where

818
00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:41,920
they would appear by computer. And so Martha Coolidge and

819
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,079
Brian Grazier were in a different place than all of

820
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:51,480
the reporters, and they were connected with the comserve intranet's thing.

821
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,480
I mean, it's just like in the movie where you

822
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,519
see them put the phone receiver on the little thing.

823
00:41:56,559 --> 00:41:59,559
It looks like a couple of bunchs of right and

824
00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:02,840
so and so they had this, They had their conference

825
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:09,280
through the computer. It was wild and crazy. You know.

826
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,519
Speaker 3: I remember the first time I saw one of those

827
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:14,119
little where you put your phone actually, which is I

828
00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:18,800
guess the modem. When I saw Matthew Brodders's character do

829
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,920
that in War Games, I was like, oh, I need

830
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,559
one of those, right, And I had no idea how

831
00:42:23,599 --> 00:42:24,719
it worked or what it did.

832
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:27,599
Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, and it would have done nothing for

833
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,559
ten years, right, I mean, yeah, absolute useless to you

834
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,559
unless you were the ultra nerd who could actually, you know,

835
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:38,199
break into your school's computer and change your grades, change

836
00:42:38,199 --> 00:42:38,800
into pencil.

837
00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:42,079
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, before we get into final judgment.

838
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:42,599
Speaker 1: Okay.

839
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,599
Speaker 3: Something I found interesting is that Weird Science and Real

840
00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:48,480
Genius competed head to head at the box office. They

841
00:42:48,519 --> 00:42:50,119
were released within a week of each other.

842
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,639
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, so pretty good matchup, I think. Heck yeah,

843
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:56,719
absolutely a couple of songs that we just got to

844
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,760
touch on real quick, okay, and they were big songs.

845
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,760
And I say Big One was big and is still

846
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,119
big like we and so throw back to our cheers

847
00:43:06,159 --> 00:43:09,519
for Fears songs from the Big Chair episode. We have

848
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:14,199
the end scene credits roll and we've got Everybody Wants.

849
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 3: To Rule the World playing magical.

850
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: My kids love this song. You know, this is a

851
00:43:18,519 --> 00:43:21,719
song that has definitely stid the test of time. And

852
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,840
then for Weird Science we have Oingo Boingo and Danny

853
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,800
Elfman with like his I mean, this is really before

854
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:35,639
he became the composer, Danny Elfman, he's still with Oingo Boingo,

855
00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:38,239
but John Hughes hits him upbout He's like, hey, I

856
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,320
w should write a song for this, and literally driving

857
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,119
home within a couple of days, he like comes to him,

858
00:43:44,559 --> 00:43:47,360
runs home, plays it and that's that's the song. And

859
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,119
I gotta tell you you heard me singing it when

860
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:51,760
I come up the stairs. Every time I'm watching this movie,

861
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,880
that song gets freaking stuck in my head. It's a

862
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,639
great tune that I think kind of also stands the

863
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,760
test of time. But it it only made it up

864
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,519
to like forty five. But that's Wingo Boyn's biggest hit.

865
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely, I've got something for you on this.

866
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: Now.

867
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,199
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot about the legal details of it,

868
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,519
but the mall scene where Lisa is walking around and

869
00:44:11,599 --> 00:44:14,480
she's like driving the bullies crazy with her crazy good

870
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,840
looks whatever, and you know you have these underwear and

871
00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:25,360
barbed wire, right, So in that music montage for like years,

872
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,679
when I saw it, pretty Woman by Van Halen was

873
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,400
playing in that spot.

874
00:44:29,199 --> 00:44:31,559
Speaker 1: In the movie. Oh, I kind of remember that.

875
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,679
Speaker 3: If you were, I mean, if you're of our generation

876
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,360
and you watched it on HBO, pretty Woman was playing.

877
00:44:37,519 --> 00:44:39,559
Speaker 1: But it's not. It's the Weird Science song.

878
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 3: Now, weird Science, that's right.

879
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: Interesting must have lost the rights somehow. I don't know

880
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:44,480
how that works.

881
00:44:44,559 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, once we've talked before about how like

882
00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:51,559
people movies and music didn't they didn't realize what big

883
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:52,679
business it was, you.

884
00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: Know, sure, and and I mean in contracts back in

885
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,199
the eighties there would have been no mention of something

886
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,360
that had the concept of streaming service or or digital

887
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,920
disc even possibly sure. So yeah, so when you make

888
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,519
a good deal like hey, we can use this for

889
00:45:09,599 --> 00:45:12,719
any of these mediums, and then they're like, well, you're

890
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,400
streaming it on Netflix. It's no longer that medium anymore.

891
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,039
And so no, we're not gonna let you use our

892
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:18,599
song unless you pay us a bunch of money. And

893
00:45:18,639 --> 00:45:20,280
they're like, screw you, we got our own song, right

894
00:45:20,519 --> 00:45:21,159
something like that.

895
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,199
Speaker 3: By the way, I just wanted to before we got

896
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,679
off that subject, go back to our Tears for Fears episode.

897
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,440
That song makes that moment so enjoyable.

898
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:30,519
Speaker 1: You know.

899
00:45:31,159 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 3: Anyway, we're moving towards file and judgment, But.

900
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, why don't you go first? Okay, So this is

901
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,280
this is a genuinely hard decision for me, Okay, because

902
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,599
I love, love, love both of these movies. And Weird

903
00:45:46,679 --> 00:45:51,280
Science is the biggest departure from the John Hughes standard

904
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,800
canon of any movie that he made at that time. Right,

905
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,840
It just it's wacky, wacky. It's that you know, weird,

906
00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:05,119
magical things that are unexplained non things, you know, and

907
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:10,039
so I I had some reservations about it because of

908
00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:14,559
just how weird appropriately titled it was weird. Yeah, and

909
00:46:14,679 --> 00:46:20,079
Real Genius is genius, like it's funny and really smart,

910
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:24,159
like they're they're spouting science that is real. Martha Coolidge

911
00:46:24,199 --> 00:46:26,639
did months of research to try to be as accurate

912
00:46:26,639 --> 00:46:30,440
as she could about the lasers and the CIA operatives

913
00:46:30,639 --> 00:46:33,639
and how Caltech students operated in all of this stuff.

914
00:46:33,679 --> 00:46:37,159
But ultimately, very simply, I'm making my decision on the

915
00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:40,559
laugh meter, okay. And I watched these movies one right

916
00:46:40,599 --> 00:46:43,800
after the other. Watch Real Genius, then I watched Weird Science,

917
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:48,880
and the laugh meter for Weird Science was substantially higher

918
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,119
than for Real Genius. And so because the laugh meter

919
00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:54,039
has to win out, I gotta I gotta pick a

920
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:56,800
winner somehow, right and the other all respects. These are

921
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,360
head neck to neck, nose to nose had a head

922
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,079
awesome movies, But the one that wins the day for

923
00:47:04,119 --> 00:47:06,239
me is Weird Science because it's just funnier.

924
00:47:06,559 --> 00:47:10,519
Speaker 3: I can't really disagree with you like Chet's character every

925
00:47:10,559 --> 00:47:13,719
single time, and I've seen this movie one hundred times. Cut,

926
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,679
I mean just I just bust up laughing every time

927
00:47:16,679 --> 00:47:18,519
he's on the screen. You know, for me, it's almost

928
00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:21,480
the exact opposite what you said. So when I watch

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Weird Science, the absurdity takes me out of it a

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little bit. The poop monster, you know, is funny. It's

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all that is crazy, goofy funny stuff. You know, the

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dog on the ceiling, you know, the pink skies, all

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the absurdity of it. Is it fun?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Do I laugh all the time? Yes? I love it.

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Speaker 3: And it's a clearly a teenage boy fantasy. But for me,

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I enjoy real genius due to the cleverness and the

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smartness of it, which I know you do too, and

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it's just by a nose.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm walking out the.

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Speaker 3: Door, I've got one DVD I need to grab and

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I want to spend the weekend with it.

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Speaker 1: For me, it's real genius. I can't fault you. Yeah, well, guys,

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tell us what you think. Which movie do you pick?

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Is it the weird or is it the genius? Because

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that's basically what it seemed to come now to right

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. What do we got coming

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up next week?

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Speaker 3: Next week we have the Black Crows Shake Your money Maker?

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Speaker 1: Oh dude, I've dived into this story so hard. This

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story is move be worthy.

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Speaker 3: I really want them to make a movie out of

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just it's nuts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, talk about adversity, talk about confrontation. This is

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this story is full of them. I can't wait to

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talk about these guys.

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Speaker 3: Shake Your money Makers turning thirty five years old.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five years old, and we will be comparing.

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Speaker 3: That one to Tesla Great Radio Controversy.

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Speaker 1: Another fantastic episode. I feel like these guys will get

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along better than the Robinson brothers. Doude. Everybody gets along

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better than this. But I've got obviously a very special

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place in my heart which I will tell everybody about

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whenever we come to that episode for Tesla. So it's

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gonna be last. It's gonna be fun to see you guys.

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Then by guys,