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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where
Speaker 3: this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side, Sharing the
Speaker 3: Midnight view with me are the culture Cast Chris Statue.
Speaker 2: Prefer to go by Pete, Have you Seen My Dragon?
Speaker 3: And joining us al as always is the projection boost
Speaker 3: Mike White. We're taking a look at two episodes from
Speaker 3: season two. They are A New Lease on Life and
Speaker 3: Printer's Devil. A New Lease on Life season two, episode fifteen.
Speaker 3: It originally aired on January the twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3: Written by Harvey Jacobs and Michael McDowell, Harvey Jacobs See Again.
Speaker 3: This one is based on a story by Adam K. Jenkins.
Speaker 3: This one is directed by John Steer Sick and stars
Speaker 3: Mary Windsor, Robert Morothman, Ben Frank and Robert Sutton. This
Speaker 3: is a story about a man who has a new
Speaker 3: lise on live as he moves into an apartment building
Speaker 3: that is that's alive. What did you think about this one, Chris.
Speaker 2: I didn't think the building was going to be a
Speaker 2: drect but it is. Boy, what a weird conceit for
Speaker 2: an episode of this show.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: It's pretty obvious pretty early on what's going on, like,
Speaker 2: don't touch the walls, and then the one guy goes
Speaker 2: the radiation, gets into the walls and doesn't get out.
Speaker 2: It's like, look are you talking? And so epitstill kind
Speaker 2: of plays its hand a little too early. I like
Speaker 2: the idea. I actually think it's pretty interesting. Think you
Speaker 2: could actually take this idea and expound upon it, even
Speaker 2: make something more of it, because here it feels I
Speaker 2: don't know. Look, it's a twenty three minute episode of
Speaker 2: Tales with the dark Side, so they're making the most
Speaker 2: of what they have. I will say the Michael McDowell
Speaker 2: of it all feels like why the guy's getting fed
Speaker 2: into the monster at the end of the episode. I
Speaker 2: don't think Harvey Jacobs went that far, given what we've
Speaker 2: seen of his work it previously. I think it was
Speaker 2: a lot more fun than it had any right to be.
Speaker 2: And twenty three minutes went by pretty fast. And maybe
Speaker 2: this is comparative to the last two things we watched,
Speaker 2: which were really not great, so this is this is
Speaker 2: a little bit better than either of those. But I
Speaker 2: enjoyed it well enough. I mean, it's it just telegraphs
Speaker 2: where it's going way too ever, But you, Mike.
Speaker 4: I that whole telegraph too early. I think if we
Speaker 4: got a little bit more of his struggle and the
Speaker 4: whole idea of just how awful it it is to
Speaker 4: and that probably would have required at the one montage
Speaker 4: one knocking on doors, looking around at apartments, seeing the
Speaker 4: price tag, circling ads in the paper type of thing,
Speaker 4: going out and doing them and really making it so
Speaker 4: that he's desperate to find it, and he finds this
Speaker 4: amazing place, super low money in a month, he would
Speaker 4: be entirely grateful, and maybe he should be more grateful
Speaker 4: and then certain weird stuff that having the two guys
Speaker 4: at the drag in their back or the maintenance they are,
Speaker 4: that's interesting. They're like a little comedy. Seeing Marie Windsor,
Speaker 4: I so she probably one of my favitals. She just
Speaker 4: had that crazy catwoman type of look. And I don't
Speaker 4: mean like Tamala Harris catwoman, just the eyes and everything
Speaker 4: always had that of exotic or and I just would
Speaker 4: pick up and chew on little Mike Elijah Cook Junior
Speaker 4: and just spin him out again. I thought she was
Speaker 4: great at that. She doesn't really get a whole lot
Speaker 4: of chance that kind of thing in here, but she
Speaker 4: does really get to shine and I heard that. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I thought it was pretty close to being a good episode,
Speaker 4: just it could have gone a little bit farther too. Point. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's twenty three minutes, but I think they could have
Speaker 4: spaced it out a little bit differently, plotted this for
Speaker 4: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Mike, are you telling me you didn't understand why they
Speaker 2: just set it in the hotel and the room from
Speaker 2: that smoke detector episode so they could reuse the set
Speaker 2: and just put a little panel on the wall. It's
Speaker 2: cheaper that it's like, the cheapest episode of the show
Speaker 2: is what it feels like. I feel like we've been
Speaker 2: on this set before multiples.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we can't even make any marks on the world.
Speaker 2: They need it again by the end of the week.
Speaker 4: How about you, fatherlive, At.
Speaker 3: What point do you just sign that things are just
Speaker 3: more than weird?
Speaker 2: When the nails pushing itself out of the wall? Was
Speaker 2: that not moment enough for you? I would have left
Speaker 2: right then and there. I'm like, I'm out of here before.
Speaker 3: You allow yourself to be roped into two year leaves.
Speaker 3: I assume he saw the apartment more, but it does
Speaker 3: not seem that way because he's coming in for the
Speaker 3: first time and he's already signed the two year lease,
Speaker 3: which I understand at two hundred dollars. But did he
Speaker 3: not read the lease? Okay, let's back up. I just
Speaker 3: want to say, because one thousand percent mic, all they
Speaker 3: needed to do was show disheveled guy viewing a shitty
Speaker 3: apartment and it's out of his price range. He goes
Speaker 3: back to his car. It's clear he's been living in
Speaker 3: his car and reads in the paper two hundred dollars
Speaker 3: a month and off where we go and don't have
Speaker 3: the maintenance men be so fucking freaky's up front and
Speaker 3: have all this weird bullshit like just right in his face.
Speaker 3: There might as well be a sign saying don't live here.
Speaker 3: From the way everyone is acting. And this guy is no,
Speaker 3: he's no piece of work either. This is a man
Speaker 3: who says the words I had my mother had a
Speaker 3: special condicil in her will, leaving me that microwave of
Speaker 3: and at that point that is like.
Speaker 4: That's what was it? Like crazy as a soup sandwich.
Speaker 4: That's like that type of like I was expecting when
Speaker 4: he says the coddasle about the micro wor is this
Speaker 4: a Harlan Ellison episode?
Speaker 2: It's something I like his name Archie Fenton. Folks, Again,
Speaker 2: if it's not giving away that this episode has no
Speaker 2: idea in a lot of ways, it has no idea
Speaker 2: what it's doing with the character. It has a great setup,
Speaker 2: but the characters are not well thought out, especially our
Speaker 2: main character who is an idiot, like he should have
Speaker 2: just left the moment he put a hole in the
Speaker 2: wall and the nail came out, blood started shooting out
Speaker 2: of the wall. Break your lease and leave. That's what
Speaker 2: I'd be doing, not being eaten by the building.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's say you've put a nail on the wall
Speaker 3: and it's been ejected and icker has dripped out of it,
Speaker 3: and when the maintenance come, they're using hydrogen peroxide to
Speaker 3: close the wound that they're calling it, and then the
Speaker 3: wound disappears, and you're still like, you know what, it's
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars a month. I'm okay with this amount
Speaker 3: of weirdness. But when your neighbor is screaming no, as
Speaker 3: they're saying you're being evicted, and as you step into
Speaker 3: the hall where you can see the impression of someone
Speaker 3: being dragged away into the darkness, and then one of
Speaker 3: the maintenance men gets in your face and says it's
Speaker 3: all a dream, and then the building begins to shake.
Speaker 3: Then you leave anything.
Speaker 2: Five hundred and seventy five dollars, father Malone, that's how
Speaker 2: much it is in today's money. That's how much two
Speaker 2: hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 3: Okay, but we're assuming we're in a big city, right,
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that was New York or LA. But pretty
Speaker 3: good digs close to everything for Ritzier area for five
Speaker 3: mins that apartment, I don't know. I would walk out
Speaker 3: as soon as I saw the panel in the wall
Speaker 3: with the camera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rubbed the rubbed the panel.
Speaker 3: The panel. Yes, worse than the maintenance men. Is this
Speaker 3: homo erotic? Touched the flesh of the.
Speaker 2: It's not homo erotic. You're petting an animal. It's fucking weird,
Speaker 2: is what it is. This whole episode is weird, But
Speaker 2: I like the conceit of it. I like the conceit
Speaker 2: of it because it genuinely this could be like it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all have seen Monster House kind
Speaker 2: of like that in a way, but not as good
Speaker 2: and not nearly as well thought out or well written
Speaker 2: or even it's just the same idea that, like the
Speaker 2: house is sentient, into the building is sentient. I think
Speaker 2: you could really build this out into something a lot
Speaker 2: more interesting, kind of an actual idea.
Speaker 3: Speaking of that, Chris. A year or two after this
Speaker 3: episode aired, if You Went Too the it floated around
Speaker 3: in the magazine, but a Fangoria magazine had a feature
Speaker 3: called the Terror Teletype, which they would broadcast from the
Speaker 3: trades what horror movies were in production, and one that
Speaker 3: was listed for several years was a film called Apartment
Speaker 3: Living to be directed by George Romero about a man
Speaker 3: who moves into an apartment building that is a lie,
Speaker 3: which I assumed was inspired this episode, say I, and
Speaker 3: for years I dreamed that that movie would be released.
Speaker 3: That script's probably out there somewhere, even if it was
Speaker 3: not inspired by this episode. It is a potent idea,
Speaker 3: and somebody out there tried it, and why haven't we
Speaker 3: gone further with it?
Speaker 2: I think you could do it right now in the
Speaker 2: current climate of things, and it would be even more
Speaker 2: of a man Can you imagine given how fucked up
Speaker 2: the housing market is right now and how expensive everything
Speaker 2: is to be, Like just think two hundred dollars a
Speaker 2: month right now, two hundred dollars a month to live
Speaker 2: in a building like that were. Yeah, there's just some
Speaker 2: weird ass shit going on, But I wager that anybody
Speaker 2: listening to this show might be living in digs that
Speaker 2: are equally as weird and are paying more than and
Speaker 2: their building's not going to eat them. Everywhere anyone lives
Speaker 2: has its weird idiosyncrasies. I just don't think that most
Speaker 2: places people live spe I'm just not most people's places
Speaker 2: that they live aren't inside of an animal or inside
Speaker 2: of a giant dragon, apparently a literal dragon.
Speaker 4: I do electricity? How the water works?
Speaker 1: Way?
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it's like sake, It's not even water.
Speaker 2: Sake comes out of the goddamn spigot. What does that
Speaker 2: make sense? Is the dragon magical as well?
Speaker 3: It would have to be in order to form the
Speaker 3: shape of an apartment building?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how does that even happen?
Speaker 3: I think the effects guy must have had a ball
Speaker 3: here that the practical effects guy with lights exploding and
Speaker 3: faucets spraying and radiators blowing flames.
Speaker 2: And I guess the other thing I don't understand is
Speaker 2: how do these people come to work for the building?
Speaker 2: That's the real question, right.
Speaker 3: Where's the communication between Mary and the dragon? Maybe who
Speaker 3: knows telepathy? She dreams it a stage hand comes on
Speaker 3: and pulls the dragon and her into the dream and
Speaker 3: that they can have a conversation. What I want to
Speaker 3: know is is they're a gaping ma room on every
Speaker 3: floor or do some floors have to come down to
Speaker 3: the gaping ma room.
Speaker 2: It's like the ice yeah, oh no, at a hotel
Speaker 2: ice machines on three and seven for the ice machine
Speaker 2: or the vending machine. It's on three or seven, three
Speaker 2: or seven? Sorry you don't have ice on your enough
Speaker 2: money for ice machine on each lease prices? Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: I would assume only one floor has the gaping mad
Speaker 2: Does the dragon have multiple mouths?
Speaker 3: Could be, as it happened.
Speaker 2: That mouth leaves something to be desired to quote the Bible?
Speaker 2: What that mouth? Do we find out? A pop?
Speaker 3: I thought it was sufficiently creepy. I know that I'm
Speaker 3: reviewing this movie as a fifty one year old human being,
Speaker 3: but when I saw this episode, I was twelve, and
Speaker 3: it scared the shit out of me, and it worked
Speaker 3: like magic, because this is like a cartoon Rosemary's Baby. Basically,
Speaker 3: everyone's so odd and like you should would notice it
Speaker 3: from the get go, but as a child, they had
Speaker 3: no frame of reference other than oh, it's just weird people,
Speaker 3: I guess, and then oh, no, there's a mouth.
Speaker 2: And is this one woman cooking all this food all
Speaker 2: the time. You're telling me other people who live there
Speaker 2: aren't also feeding the dragon? Why does she have to
Speaker 2: cook so much?
Speaker 3: She has to she loves the dragon. Okay, that's extras
Speaker 3: treats for the dragon. She knows the dragon wants a turkey.
Speaker 3: Not everyone is giving their organic garbage in turkey form
Speaker 3: the apps.
Speaker 2: Are they living inside the dragon then, yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like that scene in the Empire Strikes Back
Speaker 4: when he shoots the floor and will play shakes and
Speaker 4: he finally realizes they're inside of her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the space work right, with a nice interior decoration
Speaker 3: though exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was a monstro the whale from Pinocchio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Geppetto had a good setup in there.
Speaker 4: I thought, yeah, exactly, listen to TV. I think I
Speaker 4: had that it'd be fine. And with this place you
Speaker 4: could because of probably the dragon conducts electric.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and don't Rady eat the dragon. I like how
Speaker 2: we're stuck on the improprieties of the episode not explaining
Speaker 2: the dragon logic enough.
Speaker 3: I liked it and I just went with it. I
Speaker 3: was like, eh, all right, yeah.
Speaker 2: It makes no because it makes no fucking sense, and
Speaker 2: the episode just goes the building is a dragon, moving on.
Speaker 2: It's okay, all right, fine, you just in this universe
Speaker 2: a building can be a dragon, and that's clearly what's
Speaker 2: going on. There's no question.
Speaker 3: You mentioned at the top the name of the building
Speaker 3: is the Saint George, the Slayer of Dragons. Ironically named.
Speaker 3: But I would also like to mention that when I
Speaker 3: was seventeen years old, I lived in a building called
Speaker 3: the Saint George on Revere Beach. Revere messages. It's a
Speaker 3: little weird to here years later that that thing that
Speaker 3: freaked me out so much was shared the name of
Speaker 3: a place I would eventually live in.
Speaker 2: But when you ate chicken legs in that place, did
Speaker 2: the building shake? No?
Speaker 3: It didn't. But what's weird in remembering is that every
Speaker 3: floor did have the trash compact or bin that you
Speaker 3: would throw stuff down into. And I forever, every time
Speaker 3: I threw something down, thought org garbage. Dragon's coming, all right,
Speaker 3: all our next episode is Printer's Devil. This is season two,
Speaker 3: episode sixteen. It aired originally on February the second, nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty six. Written by John Harrison from a short story
Speaker 3: by Robert Dulart, This one also was directed by John Harrison,
Speaker 3: starring Larry Minetti, Charles Knapp, Kate Charleston, and Catherine battisone
Speaker 3: somebody describe it.
Speaker 4: A desperate, frustrated writer and a tour is convinced by
Speaker 4: a shady, oversized produced animal sacrifice that becomes successful things
Speaker 4: don't go.
Speaker 3: Now what'd you think of it?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Junior is the main character and Alex. It's Alex that's
Speaker 4: the producer, right or the guy who's wanting the animal sacrifices. Yes, okay,
Speaker 4: because I really like that actor Alex Kellaway character Charles Knapp,
Speaker 4: love his voice, loves physicality. Wasn't he in? He was
Speaker 4: also in Tweet? But I want to say that he
Speaker 4: re quickly proxy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he.
Speaker 4: Wasn't in how Soccer Proxy? But it looks like he wasn't.
Speaker 4: Like he stopped at one died in me five, probably
Speaker 4: because of that bolting around. But my god, I love
Speaker 4: him and I love him voice. Did I like this episode?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Not real. This is another one of those you're caught
Speaker 4: by a contract. You don't know if I to follow
Speaker 4: it or if I get out of it. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just was like it needed more to it is
Speaker 4: what I felt like. Again, to quote Chris, this felt
Speaker 4: like a Blackout skit?
Speaker 3: Chris? Would you think master of Blackout Sketches?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I think John Harrison should stick to producing because he
Speaker 2: produced those two New Dune movies. I'm kidding, I joke.
Speaker 2: This is not his best work he has done a
Speaker 2: lot of great things, obviously, but this is not one
Speaker 2: of them. It's actually weird to be that he produced
Speaker 2: the two he was one of the EPs on the
Speaker 2: two most recent Dude movies. I know he directed the
Speaker 2: two thousands mini series, but to be involved with those
Speaker 2: movies I thought was surprising when I when I looked
Speaker 2: into that. But look, I think ultimately something like this
Speaker 2: kind of episode of the show, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: think we've had this weird issue this season where some
Speaker 2: of the episodes have felt like other shows, and I
Speaker 2: think that this is another one of them, and this
Speaker 2: just feels like a Twilight Zone eighty five thing, and
Speaker 2: it's a retread of things, like Mike said, a retread
Speaker 2: of things we've seen before. And maybe if we had
Speaker 2: not been watching all of these shows like this, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be a criticism we could level against an episode
Speaker 2: like this, because I don't think this episode's bad per se.
Speaker 2: I actually think this episode well shot, well acted. I
Speaker 2: think the twist at the end you see it coming
Speaker 2: from a mile away more or less. But I think
Speaker 2: the issue is because we've been watching all these anthology
Speaker 2: and we've been watching them, I mean, Father Malone you
Speaker 2: and I have been watching anthology shows together essentially since
Speaker 2: you and I met in.
Speaker 3: Like seven years.
Speaker 2: We are, yeah, like it's a lot, and we've watched
Speaker 2: a lot of anthology stuff in seven If we've watched
Speaker 2: anything more than anything else has been anthology stuff. And
Speaker 2: so I'm just used to the tricks at this point.
Speaker 2: I'm used to the things that they do and the
Speaker 2: directions that they go, and the kinds of stories that
Speaker 2: they tell. And this is yet another similar Like Mike said,
Speaker 2: guy makes a bad deal and has to stick to it.
Speaker 2: We've seen that it's just a printer this time as
Speaker 2: opposed to the devil or the devil or the devil.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of the times it's been the
Speaker 2: devil or like a demon, and this time around, I
Speaker 2: guess this guy is probably devil adjacent. He's doing animal sacrifices,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. I enjoyed it, but it did
Speaker 2: feel a little rote because again, just the we've been
Speaker 2: watching anthologies for so long. What about you bother?
Speaker 3: I fucking loved this episode. I thought you can instantly
Speaker 3: see John Harrison as a filmmaker and not a television director. Honestly,
Speaker 3: in comparison to the previous three episodes we watched, which
Speaker 3: felt very, very threadbare. Hey, let's put on a show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this it felt that it was lit correctly. It was
Speaker 3: you could though there were shot choices going on, and
Speaker 3: he was trying to tell a story. I recently have
Speaker 3: come around to the I guess I've always been appreciative
Speaker 3: of a prick of a protagonist, particularly on an anthology show,
Speaker 3: because Larry Minetti here is he really is a no
Speaker 3: talent attack. His big dream project is called Into the Void.
Speaker 3: It's about a young man's incestuous relationship with his sister
Speaker 3: and how he was abandoned by his alcoholic I guess
Speaker 3: they were both abandoned by their alcoholic father. Oh, and
Speaker 3: his best friend is murdered. That sounds like a real
Speaker 3: fun read. Nobody ever wanted to read that, and he
Speaker 3: was never going to get that published, and that was
Speaker 3: the only book he had in him because he was
Speaker 3: being mister Ortiz. Meeting the Devil is the best thing
Speaker 3: that could have happened. So I love how fucking cynical
Speaker 3: that one. And guys, here's something that I made me
Speaker 3: enjoy the episode because of my misunderstand a little bit
Speaker 3: more than y'all. When he gives him that first animal
Speaker 3: to tank home, I somehow did not put it together
Speaker 3: that he was going to have to sacrifice the animal.
Speaker 3: And as the animals were accumulating in his house, as
Speaker 3: he was gaining more and more success, and his now
Speaker 3: new wife, who is attracted to him because of his success,
Speaker 3: spell that this man is casting on him. As soon
Speaker 3: as we get to there's a young lion running around
Speaker 3: the house, and now a bear comes trundling in, and
Speaker 3: she's like, I can't take this, and she runs out.
Speaker 3: And I thought, this guy just gets to sit around
Speaker 3: this house and write all day. With all these animals,
Speaker 3: this looks like heaven. And then and then then I realized, oh,
Speaker 3: he has to kill all of these wonderful little critters again.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 3: Somehow my mistake delighted me more about the episode because
Speaker 3: it is just an okay episode. Yes, we have seen
Speaker 3: this one million thousand I did. I didn't necessarily see
Speaker 3: the twist coming. So when he says, yeah, well, stakes
Speaker 3: are gonna have to be a little higher this time,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh shit, I forgot how much I
Speaker 3: love telling from the Dark sign Because Twilight's on eighty
Speaker 3: five wasn't going to do that. Night Gallery wasn't even
Speaker 3: going to do that.
Speaker 2: No. That is the thing about this episode that is
Speaker 2: very tails from the dark Side is the ending of
Speaker 2: the episode. I think definitely goes where it needs to,
Speaker 2: and it stops. I mean, similarly to other episodes of
Speaker 2: this show. It stops just short of showing us what's
Speaker 2: about to happen. But we know. I mean, shit, he's
Speaker 2: holding that knife right next to you. I don't understand
Speaker 2: why she doesn't just wait, what but she's toast right
Speaker 2: then and there we're one second away from him. Just bye.
Speaker 2: We know he's done it to all these animals. I
Speaker 2: don't know what we would think would be stopping him.
Speaker 3: It is a long and lingering and loving shan of
Speaker 3: that blade slowly coming up. It's a pretty horrific way
Speaker 3: to say good night Sunday, folks, have a good right
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's why he keeps the animals there. I would
Speaker 4: have if it was me, I probably body him or
Speaker 4: have an area, yeah, or kill them and kill them
Speaker 4: the next animal. Like, he's got cages and stuff all
Speaker 4: around the house. I don't know how good that. And
Speaker 4: then I started it in the smell and yeah, right,
Speaker 4: that wasn't good. Yeah it's one. I thought it was
Speaker 4: a stuffed fox. No, that's a real fox. These are
Speaker 4: all real animals. Like yeah, I'm just but gosh, the
Speaker 4: Devil character, like I said, I just can't say enough
Speaker 4: nice things about him because he just seems funnest time,
Speaker 4: especially when he's giving people headaches and he's got that
Speaker 4: baby doll and he's squishing the head of the baby doll.
Speaker 4: And then his weird punk rock assistant girl who seems
Speaker 4: to be hanging around reading magazine holding baby dolls and stuff.
Speaker 4: I was just this is the fun of this.
Speaker 3: Comes Catherine Baistone is the punk rock assistant who, as
Speaker 3: you said, changes an outfit every shot. She appears in
Speaker 3: I believe eight episodes of Challeston the Dark Sign but
Speaker 3: as voices, So keep an ear out for any time
Speaker 3: you hear a voice on the phone, it'll probably be
Speaker 3: Catherine Banistone. And she went on to be a big
Speaker 3: voiceover artist, just like Karen and Seymour in the previous
Speaker 3: Oh nice, Okay, this is a deal with the Devil episode.
Speaker 3: You're right, Charles Nappy is fucking phenomenal here. That's something
Speaker 3: about that guy and that voice. And I knew him
Speaker 3: from Twilight Zone pretty much only. But as soon as
Speaker 3: he started talking, it's such a I don't know why
Speaker 3: he didn't do more voiceover work. It wasn't hired immediately.
Speaker 3: It's so rich. When Larry Minetti comes into to discuss
Speaker 3: his deep fucking dramatic novel, he has him basically he does.
Speaker 3: She's just estrating. It's like a he does not scientology
Speaker 3: test to hear he like makes him have the wired
Speaker 3: can and then it turns that on and then they says, well,
Speaker 3: it's determined, you're gonna get one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 3: a year. Here's the book. You gotta go right. So
Speaker 3: this is not only a deal with the Devil episode.
Speaker 3: This is a deal with l Ron Hubbard.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's on the stage or what.
Speaker 4: But Charles Knapp was working from the time of nineteen
Speaker 4: according to dimd which is never wrong, nineteen fifty, all
Speaker 4: the way up to near his death the last role
Speaker 4: here in the Dark Backward. He was only in thirty
Speaker 4: five roles, which just screened to me, because you're right,
Speaker 4: he's got that amazing voice. He just because it sounds
Speaker 4: raspy and hoarse, but there's so much emotion behind it,
Speaker 4: and he seems like, oh gosh, Fellas, it just seems
Speaker 4: like he's gonna say something like that. I'm like, this
Speaker 4: guy is great. Why yeah, why wasn't he a major
Speaker 4: cartoon a villain in Batman? You know, it's like him
Speaker 4: and Victor Buono. He could have been King Tut's brother.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Emperor whatever, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: He could have been Mark antonyl probably.
Speaker 3: But he play fades.
Speaker 4: Just tiny, tiny little roles in Chinatown. He's the bartender
Speaker 4: and dead runner. I mostly remember him from Dark Town
Speaker 4: Strutterer's one favorite films, where he's Officer Tubbens quldn name.
Speaker 3: So haha. Here's what I love about him. He's having
Speaker 3: a ball oh yeah in this performance, and he's doing
Speaker 3: such a good job that he makes the the casual
Speaker 3: use of magic in the episode one d acceptable just
Speaker 3: buy it right away because he believes it.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's fair. Yeah, it works, it works because he's
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I know he's the best. He's the best part of
Speaker 2: the episode. I think. Obviously we have seen plenty of
Speaker 2: these episodes before, but I don't think that diminishes. Good
Speaker 2: performances obvious, and to be fair, we've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of these. We saw a lot of these in Twilight
Speaker 2: Owe Lesson that was like a Twilight Zone eighty five toes.
Speaker 2: This show, it hasn't.
Speaker 3: I think we haven't a lot of those. We got
Speaker 3: three so far. We're in season two.
Speaker 2: This season alone, we've had three. No.
Speaker 3: No, No, in general, Oh, in.
Speaker 2: General, that's that's fine. Feels like we had him a
Speaker 2: lot in Twilight Zone.
Speaker 3: We're just getting the man good.
Speaker 2: Hey, by the end of this we'll be like, how
Speaker 2: many of we've seen it at this point? Too many?
Speaker 3: I never get tired of a deal with the double episode.
Speaker 2: I don't as long as it's done well, as long
Speaker 2: as it has a novel cook or something to say.
Speaker 2: If it's just a retread it it's like, we know
Speaker 2: where this gotta do something with it. And I think
Speaker 2: this one doesn't enough enough, doesn't have wrong glass?
Speaker 3: He would make everything better?
Speaker 2: Or who was the Dan Hadea? Did he play the devil?
Speaker 2: At one point? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, all right. On the next episode of Midnight Viewing,
Speaker 3: we'll be taking a look at the next two episodes
Speaker 3: of season two. Those are the Shrine and the Old
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