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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where
Speaker 1: this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing the
Speaker 1: Midnight view with me are the Culture Cast, Chris Statue
Speaker 1: he wasn't absent, Jay Landlord, and the projection booths. Mike White,
Speaker 1: Hello Detroit, you're on the air. Hello, Hello tonight. We
Speaker 1: are taking a look at two episodes from season one,
Speaker 1: though I guess everyone wants to talk about one in particular.
Speaker 1: Those are The Devil's Advocate and The Distant Signals. Now.
Speaker 1: The Devil's Advocate is from season two. It is episode seven,
Speaker 1: It originally aired on November tenth, nineteen eighty five. This
Speaker 1: was written by George A. Ramero, So watch yourselves, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: and it was directed by mister Mike Hornick. This one
Speaker 1: stars Jerry Stiller. It's the tale of a late night
Speaker 1: talk radio host who's bitterness and anger with humanity make
Speaker 1: him the perfect mouthpiece for hell. All right, who wants
Speaker 1: to go first? Have at it?
Speaker 3: Chris, Go ahead, ladies and gentlemen, Mine is Luther Mandrake
Speaker 3: And this is Infu Warphus Jesus Christ. This is I think,
Speaker 3: so far for me, probably the best thing seen in
Speaker 3: the show. Jerry Stiller is off the wall as one
Speaker 3: of the worst people we've seen on this show, if
Speaker 3: not the worst. Some of the things that he says
Speaker 3: are beyond the pale. I like that we finally have,
Speaker 3: by my approximation, the first good radio DJ bit on
Speaker 3: any of these anthology shows that really I think works.
Speaker 3: Is it a little on the nose what happens at
Speaker 3: the end with the mo haha, I'm the devil and
Speaker 3: Nevenman my best helper, Like, oh, Jesus fucking Christ show,
Speaker 3: no shit, that's what was going on. So it feels
Speaker 3: a little like the show thinks that we're dumb and
Speaker 3: obvious with a name like the Devil's Advocate. But I
Speaker 3: think Jerry Stiller is so good that I just enjoyed
Speaker 3: this episode I mentally and I couldn't help but thinking
Speaker 3: about all of the people that are like this now
Speaker 3: un ironically as opposed to this character being written. I
Speaker 3: guess ironically, I mean for a specific purpose to be
Speaker 3: an asshole who gets his come uppance, but stake lutheriper
Speaker 3: Mandre can put in any one of the Alex Jonesy
Speaker 3: and friends and any one of those dudes, and it's like, look,
Speaker 3: see this is what's gonna happen with them. In the end.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be on the old is the old switchboard
Speaker 3: in hell?
Speaker 2: How about you, Mike, I'm going to peel back to
Speaker 2: Burton a little bit here on MADI Viewing. When we
Speaker 2: record these episodes, we actually record them back to back.
Speaker 2: I won't say if this was the first one or
Speaker 2: the second one. You're gonna have to figure that out.
Speaker 2: But a few weeks ago I was telling you guys
Speaker 2: that of these four episodes we watched, I really liked
Speaker 2: three of them. This is the fourth. I did not
Speaker 2: like this episode whatsoever. I just you were talking about
Speaker 2: how George was dumbing it down for us. I didn't
Speaker 2: understand what the hell was going on as far as
Speaker 2: at the end. Okay, so I guess he's being tortured,
Speaker 2: but yet he's the devil's advocate. So is he promoting
Speaker 2: that like I don't understand, and that people are talking
Speaker 2: to him without a radio. He's now like a DJ,
Speaker 2: taking calls from all times in all centuries. I just
Speaker 2: I didn't understand how it goes. I thought that the
Speaker 2: makeup effects were pretty nice, especially the way that they
Speaker 2: build on him as they're going along to a point
Speaker 2: where I was like, oh, his face looks a little different,
Speaker 2: and I thought that was nice and subtle. But otherwise
Speaker 2: I just didn't jive with this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, near as I can figure, what has happened is
Speaker 1: this man who has spent the latter part of his
Speaker 1: life spreading hate amongst the populace, is now dead and
Speaker 1: has taken his place in hell as a voice in
Speaker 1: people's heads telling them that they're hopeless. So these people
Speaker 1: don't have radios. They're confused by the idea of radios.
Speaker 1: In some cases, they just hear a voice talking to
Speaker 1: them and they're talking back, So that part of it
Speaker 1: is really really good and actually really scary.
Speaker 2: Now that makes a lot more sense. That might make
Speaker 2: me reevaluate this episode. Thinking the whole voice inside their
Speaker 2: heads thing that I did not connect with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a lot of cheese going on here.
Speaker 1: You know, I sent you Fellows a link to what
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller, son of Jerry Stiller, seemed to think of
Speaker 1: this episode where he parodied it in on The Ben
Speaker 1: Stiller Show. This five minute like late night, low budget horror.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Chris, however, that Jerry Stiller is
Speaker 1: fucking going for it here and I love him. There's
Speaker 1: a scene where he's just reacting to a caller where
Speaker 1: he's just making fun of him by gyrating and like
Speaker 1: making faces and stuff. It's fuckings, it's fucking hilarious. Like
Speaker 1: it usually wouldn't work with most actors here, but he
Speaker 1: made it great.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, Jerry Stiller, he's gonna be Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: always swinging for the fences. I mean, this is him
Speaker 2: as George Costantz's dad at his most unhinged. I know
Speaker 2: it's not his line. While he does say it eventually,
Speaker 2: but while we were watching this episode, I was just
Speaker 2: like spreadity down throughout so much of it.
Speaker 1: This also reminded me of a Ninth Gallery episode, Flip
Speaker 1: Side of Satan with Artie Shaw or already but Artie
Speaker 1: Johnson from Yes.
Speaker 3: Think that's what kind of yeah, that's what this When
Speaker 3: I think of that episode, I think this is the
Speaker 3: better version of that episode.
Speaker 2: Of course, I was thinking, and I was curious as
Speaker 2: far as when talk radio was out compared to this,
Speaker 2: because it reminded me of that. And I know, I
Speaker 2: mean that was a weird shift in America when radio
Speaker 2: came back, and it came back as talk radio. I
Speaker 2: mean it never left, I know, but just this whole
Speaker 2: thing of like these evil DJs, and I think that's
Speaker 2: what Bogosian was kind of, you know, talking about in
Speaker 2: talk radio. But I mean this is well, I guess
Speaker 2: Imus was on the air, though not what he eventually
Speaker 2: became when he put on the c Span cameras or
Speaker 2: whatever that was. But I mean this is prime Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 2: I mean, my gosh, both of these episodes. So this
Speaker 2: week and last week I'm talking about us talking about
Speaker 2: my stepdad, my stepdad listening to fucking rustling ball all
Speaker 2: the time, which meant I had to listen to him.
Speaker 2: Drove me up a fucking wall, and he just got
Speaker 2: worse and worse as the years.
Speaker 3: Why not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Romero himself had a bit of a fascination with
Speaker 1: talk radio because it has been around forever and ever
Speaker 1: and ever. Yeah, it plays a big part of his
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six film Martin. Like, the lead character of
Speaker 1: Martin uses a talk radio show to call in and
Speaker 1: you know, spill it his feelings and it's actually really
Speaker 1: chilling at the end. Incidentally, that talk show host in
Speaker 1: Martin was played by Mike Gornick, who directed this episode.
Speaker 1: He's got a great Wow, he's got a really great
Speaker 1: radio voice. In fact, at the end of this episode,
Speaker 1: the voice of Satan telling Mandrake he was doing a
Speaker 1: great job is also Mike Garnick.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, he does have a great radio voice.
Speaker 2: It's been so long since I've seen Martin, but I
Speaker 2: remember loving it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's, no doubt Jeorge Ramiro's best movie. You know,
Speaker 1: not my favorite, but like, but you can tell it's
Speaker 1: obviously you know, it's best anyway, And yeah, I keep
Speaker 1: talking about it. Lately, and somehow I keep not watching it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do that later tonight.
Speaker 3: Just coming soon to a culture Cast episode near you
Speaker 3: in September.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's right. Okay, yeah, that's why you
Speaker 1: keep thinking.
Speaker 3: That's why you've never seen September.
Speaker 2: Find that lost cut that was being sold on ebed
Speaker 2: and then somebody bought it and they won't release it.
Speaker 1: Now, what's Yeah, I don't know what's up. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in the episode. But yeah, if
Speaker 1: said print exists, and I please need to see it
Speaker 1: before I die, for Christ's sake, somebody get the fuck
Speaker 1: on that, like like three hours, four something.
Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah, I think four hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay. Here's a couple of things that I thought
Speaker 1: about this episode. First of all, it's really interesting choice
Speaker 1: to be eating a bowl of pea soup while you're
Speaker 1: performing on a talk show that you're hungry, right, But soup,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, what else is going to eat? Apple? Carrots?
Speaker 3: Soap is very quiet if you know how to do
Speaker 3: it right.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, You've got.
Speaker 3: You put the whole spooning your mouth and you just
Speaker 3: turn it upside down. The soup falls under your tongue
Speaker 3: and you pull it out and there's no sound.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's the.
Speaker 2: You're right, you want him to be eating ruffles once
Speaker 2: you're scientifically accurate.
Speaker 1: Here, I want him to be eating soft tacos. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh all right, Man Drake is a prick, right, Like
Speaker 1: everyone who calls in no matter what, he just slices
Speaker 1: them down, right, which a couple things going on. His
Speaker 1: show is called the Devil's Advocate, right, So by the
Speaker 1: very nature of that title, he's going to be adversarial.
Speaker 1: So what are these people calling in without hope hoping
Speaker 1: to achieve He's literally doing his job by telling them
Speaker 1: that they're wrong. You know, at least on the Night
Speaker 1: Gallery there Ardie Johnson had an affair with like his
Speaker 1: station manager's wife and it ended up with a suicide
Speaker 1: or something like that. Right, Because here's this guy's crimes.
Speaker 1: He's being a dick to people, right, but he kind
Speaker 1: of has cut some legitimate beef. He rattles off a
Speaker 1: list of things that have happened him recently or you know,
Speaker 1: over the course of his life, where his mom died
Speaker 1: in a plane crash because the crew sold like like
Speaker 1: faulty lug nuts to them, and then his dad died
Speaker 1: on a union picket line, and then his wife is
Speaker 1: currently in a coma because of every yearesthetic snafu, and
Speaker 1: then his son was killed by a drunk driver. You
Speaker 1: know what, the fact that he's on his feet is
Speaker 1: pretty okay by me, and the fact that he's just
Speaker 1: being a dickhead on the radio doesn't mean he should
Speaker 1: go straight to hell out out there. I think this
Speaker 1: guy is he's doing okay, and he's.
Speaker 3: Not crawling on the ground begging for mercy.
Speaker 1: No, because this isn't you know, this isn't like talk radio.
Speaker 1: This isn't like Barry Champlain, who is just a miserable,
Speaker 1: fucking human being who you know, wants to harm other
Speaker 1: people like because he's so like dissatisfied with himself. Like so,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, maybe this is just a
Speaker 1: case of this being tells from the dark side, and
Speaker 1: sometimes this is what you get, motherfuckers. That's the world
Speaker 1: we live in. But you know, it was a little lopside.
Speaker 3: I mean again with something like the last episode that
Speaker 3: we did with Halloween candy and satanic panic or panic
Speaker 3: satanic piano. I mean the first episode is pretty mean,
Speaker 3: and then this episode's pretty mean. I mean, this is yeah,
Speaker 3: it does he deserve to become like Satan's ghoulish radio DJ.
Speaker 3: Probably not, but and it's also essentially implied. It's not
Speaker 3: essentially implied. It is more or less said outright that
Speaker 3: the devil is the one who did all of this
Speaker 3: shit to him to make him like this. So it's like,
Speaker 3: wait a second here, this isn't even you're not even
Speaker 3: playing fair. I mean, who expects the devil to play
Speaker 3: fair too?
Speaker 1: By the way, nobody's calling in with any real problems.
Speaker 1: Heady bullshit, right, so like who cares. It's not like
Speaker 1: people are calling in and going like I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. My child is dying, and he's like,
Speaker 1: fuck you and your child, Like I wytn't just smother him,
Speaker 1: mother pillow.
Speaker 3: It's not like that, right though. No, it's like you're
Speaker 3: a watchman. You just like to sit and watch people,
Speaker 3: like what the fuck is this guy's problem? Dude? I
Speaker 3: mean but again, like you, like you said father moment,
Speaker 3: like I understand what his problem is. This guy has
Speaker 3: had like every bad thing happened to him. Ever, is
Speaker 3: what it feels like like, this show's moral compass always
Speaker 3: points in a very strange direction, and rarely does it
Speaker 3: point the direction I would assume it's going to point.
Speaker 3: And this is one of those episodes where it's like, sure,
Speaker 3: he deserves to be damned to hell forever, You're right,
Speaker 3: all right, Sure, I'll follow that.
Speaker 1: This show has inherited a lot of the bitterness of
Speaker 1: the original Twilight, so they are totally the kind where
Speaker 1: that makes Burgess Meredith just for being a book where
Speaker 1: I break his glasses like that, that that spirit lives
Speaker 1: beating hard and strong hair and fails from the dark side.
Speaker 3: But that would but this show would go one step
Speaker 3: further and have Burgess Meredith be blinded.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he falls down and just blinds himself by accident.
Speaker 3: That's how this show would go, because this show pushes
Speaker 3: it just that little notch more, which I appreciate obviously.
Speaker 3: Like for me, this show pulls the trigger when it
Speaker 3: needs to and look, well, while Luther Mandrake doesn't maybe
Speaker 3: deserve to be damn to hell in the context of
Speaker 3: the story, this guy's kind of a piece of shit.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's maybe not the biggest piece of shit,
Speaker 3: and it turns out that the Devil was not playing fair.
Speaker 1: But when does it ever right?
Speaker 3: Exactly what I really want to Georgia.
Speaker 1: That's when what I really liked in the episode is
Speaker 1: it begins with Mandrake arriving and he's complaining. He's apologizing
Speaker 1: for being late and complaining for the reason, which is
Speaker 1: there was a dead guy outside his apartment, and it's
Speaker 1: him like in the end, Like I just thought that
Speaker 1: was like and nice, Yeah, but I also see all
Speaker 1: of the cheese that was involved in the episode with
Speaker 1: him just sort of railing against the problems of America
Speaker 1: and you know that switchboard, that glowing thing that ugh,
Speaker 1: that was not great, you know. And here I wrote
Speaker 1: in my notes to things, these makeup changes are not subtle.
Speaker 1: And then I also hear it, Ah wolf Man wolf
Speaker 1: Man Stiller baby, Yep, he was. He was gotten pretty
Speaker 1: wolfy pretty quickly. Like it's, like I said, not a
Speaker 1: subtle effect. But I don't know. Ultimately, I like this episode.
Speaker 3: I like that this show has spent a lot of
Speaker 3: time getting these like old school actors into like ugly makeup,
Speaker 3: like Jerry Stiller, Eddie Bracken, Like let's just get these
Speaker 3: like classic comedic actors and make them look gross and
Speaker 3: fucking weird, Like all right, sure, why not? Who cares?
Speaker 1: What I love is all these old school actors are game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh totally yeah. Fuck yah Chuck McCann talking to
Speaker 3: some aliens. The best one still, Frankly, that one will
Speaker 3: stick with me forever.
Speaker 2: As it should.
Speaker 3: Right, that was the.
Speaker 1: Point, all right? Moving on? Our next episode is Distant Signals.
Speaker 1: This is season two, episode eight. It aired originally on
Speaker 1: November the seventeenth, nineteen eighty five. Written by Ted Gershooni.
Speaker 1: Written by Ted Gershooni from a story by Andrew Wiener,
Speaker 1: directed by Bill Travis. This one's starring a trio of spooksters,
Speaker 1: Colchak and X Files and Millennium Darren McGavin and Twin
Speaker 1: Peaks is Lenny von Dollen and the Ghostbusters mayor David Margallies.
Speaker 1: This is about a mysterious businessman who reunites the creator
Speaker 1: and actor from a fifties detective series that was canceled
Speaker 1: mid season to film a new ending for an audience
Speaker 1: not from around here. What do you think of this one?
Speaker 3: Chris so Galaxy quis right, That's what this reminded me of.
Speaker 3: I mean one, I mean, yeah, yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 3: it's this. When I realized where this was going, I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, that's what this is. Huh.
Speaker 3: And look what's funny is on top of everything else,
Speaker 3: it's oddly prescient about legacy sequels and the return of
Speaker 3: like TV shows from twenty or thirty years ago. What
Speaker 3: can you let me? Wan Dolan literally from Twin Peaks.
Speaker 2: I think it was by the time the return.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, But I mean if he had been alive,
Speaker 3: he totally would have been in it, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean everybody else was literally Everett McGill showed back
Speaker 3: up and he hadn't done shit for what the lolling time.
Speaker 2: Missing an action. I remember David Lynch putting out a
Speaker 2: call at the same way. Know where ever McGill is
Speaker 2: he alive.
Speaker 3: But you know, with something like this, there's a lot
Speaker 3: going on here that feels very contemporary in a way
Speaker 3: that I was not expecting. But it does feel like
Speaker 3: other things that have come out since that are I mean,
Speaker 3: for me, Galaxy Quest is the top of the pile
Speaker 3: of these kinds of things for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 3: But actually really liked this and I think it was
Speaker 3: really good. In Luck Dade. We had to talk about
Speaker 3: Dearren McGavin. Mike, what's up with that? I know, so
Speaker 3: excited we go dear McGavin again just for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Didn't even realize it was him at first, and then
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, holy shit. As soon he started talking,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh wow, this is great. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: was just already tickled pink just to see Harold from
Speaker 2: Twin Peaks come back or whatever his character's name was
Speaker 2: in Electric Dreams. I mean, he plays that creepy alien
Speaker 2: so perfectly, and he always has that other world that
Speaker 2: they look with those like light blue eyes and the
Speaker 2: dark hair. I thought that he was perfect in that role.
Speaker 2: And I really liked just this whole thing. Yes, even
Speaker 2: though I'm a big fan of Galaxy Quest and I
Speaker 2: know this is coming much earlier, and I kind of
Speaker 2: want to track down the Andrew Weener Distance Signals story
Speaker 2: to read it and see how much that is, you know,
Speaker 2: how close it is to this is and how close
Speaker 2: it is to Galaxy Quest, because yeah, this just felt
Speaker 2: so much like that and I appreciated it though, and
Speaker 2: I'd like this whole idea of like, you know, nobody
Speaker 2: is ever going to see this other than the people
Speaker 2: on my home planet Sea Pouci.
Speaker 1: Out excellent comparison there, because this reminds me of an
Speaker 1: episode of Futurama called When Aliens Attack, where Aliens are
Speaker 1: going to destroy Earth unless they get the final episode
Speaker 1: of Single Female, which is a parody of Ali McBeal
Speaker 1: a character named mc neil. It's one of the best
Speaker 1: episodes of Futurama. It is this exact lot.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 3: Who would want to watch a show in black and white?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 3: Who would know a network would ever air such a thing?
Speaker 3: The funniest just like.
Speaker 2: The articles about the Ripley series that.
Speaker 1: Was just oh yeah, right, that put That did put
Speaker 1: off a lot of people. Actually, yeah, what's funny is
Speaker 1: that the Twin Peaks the Return thing like immediately sprang
Speaker 1: to mind. Thanks to Lenny von Dolan's involvement here, this
Speaker 1: in fact, could be a documentary of how that show
Speaker 1: got made. Twin Peaks yeps, you know, I could totally
Speaker 1: see they send some fucking total weirdo. We're just like,
Speaker 1: I've got gold bars everybody, you know.
Speaker 3: The people that I represent have lots more gold bars.
Speaker 1: Where that came from?
Speaker 3: As well. What did you say about gold Bars. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if it's a little.
Speaker 1: Weird that the show that they end up producing doesn't
Speaker 1: take place in the seventies, Like I know that they
Speaker 1: try and age everybody down and everything, but like if
Speaker 1: you're on that planet waiting for the next episode and
Speaker 1: suddenly you get this Darren McGavin, you'd be like, wait,
Speaker 1: what happened? Did they falter a time warp? Like? And
Speaker 1: I'm sure those questions are valid on that planet, like
Speaker 1: what happened? Like why?
Speaker 2: Well? And I imagine they have to be kind of
Speaker 2: speaking to Darren McGavin as Mike camer when you with him,
Speaker 2: you know, years before Colechak. I'm sure that they I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised as if I went back and watched
Speaker 2: Mike camera if it was kind of cripping from the
Speaker 2: dialogue and stuff, just very typical Gribby stuff. And I
Speaker 2: like that they finally solved the mystery. I thought that
Speaker 2: was kind of nice that we actually get to see it.
Speaker 2: I thought that they were going to keep that from us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought we did spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: at the end with the actual episode of the series
Speaker 1: a little too long, maybe because that it's not great.
Speaker 1: It is very cliche The long whilest Brother, And although
Speaker 1: I did enjoy McGavin pirouetting before he shot his brother,
Speaker 1: and then I also loved by the way, how fucking
Speaker 1: blaise Like he's like, I'm your long lost older brother,
Speaker 1: pirowett bang sayya, just like saunters off into the sunset.
Speaker 1: That's the end. I hope you enjoy that, Aliens, I.
Speaker 3: Got to see the end of the series of the
Speaker 3: historical documents.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, it's kind of a silly episode in
Speaker 1: some ways, but in other ways it feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: I love that it forces in this episode, and I
Speaker 1: think this is just true in general, where creators are
Speaker 1: forced to reevaluate their past work, the kind that they've
Speaker 1: shrugged off like that it's insignificant because it started that
Speaker 1: they did it in like an early portion of their life.
Speaker 1: But this might as well be called comic con circuit
Speaker 1: as far as an episode goes, because actors and creators
Speaker 1: are so dismissive of genre work for so long, and
Speaker 1: then they realized, like that's where the money is, but
Speaker 1: not only that, like that's where the genuine affection for
Speaker 1: them is. And I thought that like really came across
Speaker 1: in this episode, even with the bullshit psycho ending where
Speaker 1: McGavin wonders aloud if they were really aliens or not,
Speaker 1: It's like we already know, man. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: nice to see. It was nice to see the Empire
Speaker 1: State Building making a cameo in the background here, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that we needed that at the very end.
Speaker 3: I love that monologue at the end. It was so
Speaker 3: on the nose. He punched me in the face over
Speaker 3: and over again, just like, well, yeah, imagine, if you
Speaker 3: will they were aliens.
Speaker 2: It's so my body of coal check though you know,
Speaker 2: he would posit stuff like yeah, perhaps this is a
Speaker 2: you know, but it was so much happier than any
Speaker 2: of the cases Colechack was on.
Speaker 3: I'll pull a red letter media and say that it
Speaker 3: reminds me specifically of the end of the alien Autopsy
Speaker 3: video hosted by Jonathan Fraakes, where he goes, listen, if
Speaker 3: you will, if this was a real alien. It's like,
Speaker 3: where is this coming from, Darren McGavin. Oh, is this
Speaker 3: because he was given that pill? Is that one that's.
Speaker 1: In this bill? Because I hate in that next scene, no.
Speaker 3: Bots or I heard possibly if he wasn't alien, there
Speaker 3: was some black goo out there that might have helped him.
Speaker 3: You become a better human because of it's the Prometheus strain,
Speaker 3: I think is what it was called. I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe you guys have heard about that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: part of the life just drains from your face because
Speaker 3: I just refuse to acknowledge any of this.
Speaker 1: No, I'm exhaling. Well, uh, speaking of Gavin and like
Speaker 1: how good he looks here. It was great to see
Speaker 1: that shock of red hair again. I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: so used to seeing him from the eighties on where
Speaker 1: it was kind of a little more faded here, but
Speaker 1: here it's like whoa, yeah, that's that's an irishman right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wrote down what was in those pills because I
Speaker 1: want them. This is John Harrison directing the episode, so
Speaker 1: it's really cinematic. It's really well shot. Actually, on top
Speaker 1: of everything else, including the recreation of the of the
Speaker 1: fifties television series, the high marks all around the writing
Speaker 1: and the direction this episode and the acting like overorld
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know why we've hit such a
Speaker 1: fucking hot streak with Tails from the Dark Side lately.
Speaker 1: I don't want to look this fucking gift to us
Speaker 1: in the mouth or anything, but like second season about now,
Speaker 1: we'd be going, oh, I don't feel so good in
Speaker 1: any other series. So this is a bit heartening.
Speaker 3: It's a lot hardening. Yeah. No, I'm very glad that
Speaker 3: we are having good experiences with this show because I'm
Speaker 3: coming especially for you and I father alone where you know,
Speaker 3: the original version of this show, like you know, once
Speaker 3: we did Tales from the Crypt, it was like, we
Speaker 3: really like that show was just a slog in a
Speaker 3: lot of ways towards the end, and like we have
Speaker 3: never experienced that, the three of us, thankfully, but we
Speaker 3: got close with some of them mercifully.
Speaker 1: The series that we've been handling since Tails from the
Speaker 1: Crypt only run about three to four season eight seasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly that Tails from the Crypt is a beast
Speaker 1: of a series.
Speaker 3: You lucked out, Mike, He looked out by.
Speaker 1: Not having that you fucking did.
Speaker 3: Man, Hey, I did that show fucking twice. No, I
Speaker 3: really know, I'm the pun it. I'm the sucker for
Speaker 3: punishment is the reality on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just looking up distant signals the story, and
Speaker 2: I know father alone. I think I gave you a
Speaker 2: whole collection of twilight Zone magazine and something that I'm
Speaker 2: going to have to try to find those again because
Speaker 2: I think it was published initially in that, which is
Speaker 2: ironic since we're talking about twilight Zone nineteen eighty four
Speaker 2: in the May June episode or sorry issue, and then
Speaker 2: looks like it's also in the Tales from the Dark
Speaker 2: Side book that was edited by Tom Allen, so those
Speaker 2: are at least two places where you can get it.
Speaker 2: I was looking at a collection of his stories, Distant
Speaker 2: Signals and other stories, and that is cost prohibitive right
Speaker 2: now every place you look. So I had that going
Speaker 2: to start at thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: I had the book as a kid, that tell Us
Speaker 1: from the dark Side book, so I know I've read
Speaker 1: the short story, but I could not tell you what
Speaker 1: the differences are like at this point, I'm loath to
Speaker 1: think that I actually still have it and it's in
Speaker 1: storage right now, but it's actually a fucking distinct possibility
Speaker 1: because I can imagining the cover in my mind right now.
Speaker 3: But I made an impact. We're talking about the show
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four for a fucking reason, aren't we.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody else is talking about this show
Speaker 3: right now, so the fools, I like you guys have
Speaker 3: both said I've been enjoying this show more than I
Speaker 3: think I've enjoyed anything else we've talked about, because everything
Speaker 3: has been pretty good, And even the episodes of this
Speaker 3: show that have not been great, I think are still
Speaker 3: better than a lot of the middle of the road
Speaker 3: stuff we saw on a lot of the things we
Speaker 3: watched up to this point. I mean, this show, I
Speaker 3: think is just consistently good, too great. I mean, there
Speaker 3: have been a couple of clunkers, but a couple of
Speaker 3: clunkers is not much compared to clunker after clunker after
Speaker 3: a clunker, like Tails from the crypt Or. I mean,
Speaker 3: I want to say night and that wasn't Night Gallery,
Speaker 3: it was Twilet's one eighty five had some rough us
Speaker 3: towards the end of that show, some that are like,
Speaker 3: we don't even remember recording those episodes because they were
Speaker 3: so unbelievably bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mercifully, that's not going on here, hopefully. No, that's like, oh,
Speaker 1: knock on wood, I guess.
Speaker 3: Marrow Baby, Yeah, de Ramire, it's the Romero of it.
Speaker 1: All yeah, Well, speaking of episodes of this show, on
Speaker 1: the next episode of Midnight View, we'll be taking a
Speaker 1: look at the next two episodes of season two of
Speaker 1: Tales from the dark Side. Those are The Trouble with
Speaker 1: Mary Jane and ursa minor Midnight Viewing. The Horror Anthology
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Speaker 1: on and where can people find it? Chris Stasher.
Speaker 3: Culture Cast is the podcast that I do and can
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Speaker 3: other things that I do. But that's the weekly show
Speaker 3: that I do, and I do it once a week,
Speaker 3: and that's and I'm sticking to it, and I'm about
Speaker 3: to release episode six hundred and sixty six, Signed the Beast,
Speaker 3: so y, yeah, there you go. I'm not seven hundred yet,
Speaker 3: We're getting close. It'll take another, you know, year, but
Speaker 3: you know, congratulations to the man here with seven hundred episodes,
Speaker 3: because he's he's the one charting the course for the
Speaker 3: rest of us. But where you can find my stuff
Speaker 3: is Weirdingwaymedia dot com. What about you, Mike Waite, I got.
Speaker 2: No problem with Marya Jane. You know what I'm saying. Anybody, Yeah,
Speaker 2: as for me? Yeah, Also, we need calm where you
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Speaker 2: for one thing that Chris and I work on with
Speaker 2: our friend Richard shirt Adam that is ranking on bond
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Speaker 3: That name, boy, don't we yes?
Speaker 2: And how about you find them alone?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Same thing. Listen to midnine Viewing, Listen to my show
Speaker 1: Dark Destinations, Listen to HP show Night Mister Walton is
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Speaker 1: like Projection Booth and the Culture Cast, I'm a guest
Speaker 1: over there a bunch of things, so look look those
Speaker 1: up too. Anyway, Thank you all for joining us here
Speaker 1: at midnight viewing. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I have a dog looking my feet.
Speaker 3: We hear from that, I used it. End the episode.
Speaker 3: Stop st