Episode 37: The Hellgramite Method / Our Selena is Dying / The Call

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Weird Hi there, I'm Chris Stashu, I'm Mike White, and it's his father Malone, and we are the host of Dreams for Sale, a once a month look at the Twilight Zone nineteen eighty five. Yeah, it's a show. I mean, I don't know. I would say it's our favorite. It is the best reboot of the show.

But ladies and gentlemen, the third season of that show is doing everything it can to give us a reason not to say that it can't. It can't. Sully the earlier season stuff that's right, that's fair, that's fair. It cannot, it cannot undo, it cannot red con quality. However, on this episode, we are talking about three episodes of the third season, Episode seven, eight, and nine, The Helgramite Method, Our Selena is Dying and the Call Miley Judson and every man who was strayed from the path, slipped and fallen many times.

A man who seeks solace from his problems at the bottom of a glass, A good man at war with himself, slowly drowning in alcohol, swallow by swallow, pulled down by the insidious undertow of an endless ocean of booze, helpless to stop doing the one thing he does better than anything else, Drink. Lady. Helgramy Method. Aired November fifth, nineteen eighty eight. It is directed by Gilbert M.

Schilton, written by Retten, written by William Selby and its stars That's My Bush, Timothy Bottoms Boy, that is afraid that is a specific reference for only a certain age group of people, because I'm sure he's been in other better things. No, that's my Bush. No, No, oh, I know you said certain he's probably been in better things. Yes he has. He was in Apocalypse Now.

But his role in That's My Bush was he was top building that though. Oh yeah, yeah, he was good with Joseph Bottoms, by the way, totally different guy. Um if you're wondering why I was bringing up That's My Bush, because Timothy Bottoms does look a lot like George Bush in the right light. Yeah, I can do good Bush impersonation. Yeah.

Yeah, but he plays a struggling alcoholic who agrees to a unique treatment that will stop him from drinking and also may stop him from living. It was fun. You can an episode about alcoholics drinking worms be fun. It could be if the right person was directing it. Yeah.

I don't think we got that here, but uh, you know, as soon as it started, I just had a flash of Uh. There's a Stephen King short story called Quitters Incorporated, Thank You, which they which they had already adapted into the film Cat's Eye with James Woods and man. It is great known with stable genius James Woods, right, Yes, of course he was the name. By the way, Mike, we forgot on that culture Cast recording we were naming all the crazy right wing yoos. James Woods was the name we forgot, which James Woods is more upset about that than we are.

I guarantee you that he wants to king. Yeah, the King of the Nuts. We did, but we remember John Voight, yeah, and Robert Dobby. But yeah, I was totally thinking of Quitters Inc. As well, as well as a little bit Poltergeist too, like that scene, Yeah, Stephen drinks the tequila the worm, yeah, and then the worm ends up.

Yeah, so our friend Mark Begley, I actually know what you're talking about. Yeah, it is weird that it wouldn't. Can boltergeistupen a couple of years around this It was definitely around this time. Yeah, yeah, I think it came up before. Yeah, okay, okay, So because the first Boulter gets come out in like eighty three, so yeah, the next one was eighty five maybe, um, certainly earlier than nineteen eighty eight.

That's so uh, you know, a side of the fact that it immediately evoked this other better thing I was kind of into it for a while. Um, and I like Timothy Bottom somebody saying that, but I think he's terrible here, Like I didn't see any struggle in this guy at all. And then uh, also, you know, no one seeks the cure while they're still happy and goofy, which is kind of what we got here, Like he's kind of what do that do? Yeah, like a large you're not down on your luck. Your wife hasn't even left you yet, right, And that's kind of the problem with this episode.

This guy like doesn't hit bottom and seeks this out just sort of as a last resort. I mean, he mentions that he's tried before in the past, but he seems like an asshole to begin with, so I don't think he was trying too hard. And then you know, like I liked the idea that they put this parasite into you that craves the alcohol and if you drink it, it's going to get bigger and kill you, and if you stop, it's going to hurt you. Like I kind of I mean that's you know, that's any addiction, but it's handled so poorly here, Like you know, I don't know, like it didn't seem like there were any steaks, Like I never I never really believe that that wife was going to leave him, and you know, and the sort of central casting child that they had come in like oh you stick again, daddy, Like, oh my god, it was just so a child should have been aborted, I believe, Yeah, just like that other child and little boy.

Yes, you know what, this episode reminded me a little bit of Kentucky Rye. Yeah, where there you in that one. At least we were getting like the fucking con sequence of this. Right, here's what happens. If you drink, you die, You literally die.

I will say, what could have fixed this episode? I enjoyed this episode a little bit. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible. It would have been fun if this episode had given the audience the idea that maybe the worm wasn't real. Oh yeah, that could have been fun like that, right, Like, I felt like they had this opportunity and you can, like, when you watch the episode, I think it's probably around like the sixteen minute mark, which is six minutes before it ends, they had this moment where he's like, well, it's part of you.

Now, there's nothing you can do. About it, so you better figure it out. Like to me, I'm sitting there thinking, like, yo, this guy should just be fucking with alcoholics, just like, like I know that that's terrible, but this is also a fucking TV show, not real life. So like, if you're making the story of a guy fucking with alcoholics as it is, he should really fuck with them and be like at the end of the episode, be like, oh yeah, like that the fucking helgrim worm doesn't exist m dums like either that or a couple of things. I understand that the guy who gives him the worm he lost his daughter because of the family.

Yeah, maybe if Timothy Bottoms had been the cause of that, that would have been something and it'd be more of like a personal motivation maybe that. But at the same time, I do like how it is kind of being passed from person to person that he's then helping out this other guy. But at the same time, Okay, if the worm is real, how did this guy discover it? And like what where did this come from? Was there some sort of deal with the devil to get this worm or how was it?

How did it come into existence? How did they discover that this is going to be the thing to cure people of drunkenness. But yeah, it felt like there were a lot of missed opportunities with this one, and to your point, by them alone. I did just keep thinking about Quitters inc And I was just like, we did that one go and what about the fingers and what about the wife in the cage with the electricity? And I'm just, yeah, I'm just being constantly reminded of better stuff.

And in Quitters Incorporated, like you got the sense that he's like desperately trying not to do it and our audience tell us because I haven't read it in a while. Quitters Incorporated is a Stephen King short story about It's about a man that is addicted to smoking, if memory stairs right, and it's very much the same kind of idea, like desperate, desperate to stop smoking and ends up going to this mysterious corporation and they're like, hey, we can help you out. You just have to follow our program completely. And I don't remember all the ins and outs, but they basically end up like torturing his wife, put her in a room with like electricity on the floor, and she's there like dancing on this electrical grid and just like screaming, and it's like, oh, you smoked a cigarette again, this is what you get kind of thing.

And there's this like implicit threat that you know, he has a young daughter that they'll they'll you know, treat her poorly. Now, oh good if he does that, or and not only that, like so he has the sort of looming threat, but then he's actually being followed and they're like, you know, everywhere he looks, there's somebody like keeping up keeping tabs on him. And he thinks he's being like really furtive and secretive about attempting to smoke, but there's always someone around. So it's like nothing but tension the entire time. And you know, I mean, it's not fair to compare the two, but if you're gonna play in this fucking sandbox after that thing exists, then do something better.

And we didn't get it here. When he walked out the door at the bar at the end and the fucking credits come up, I came up. I was like wait, wait what I was waiting? No? Ups?

Good? Yeah, I mean I know I rail against the sort of uh, the writerly necessity here in the Twilight Zone, like, well, we gotta get a twist in there, but like this one needed the fucking twist there to have been something way too straightforward. Yeah, and on top of everything else, it did that like really cheesy, cheap thing of like cut to like a week later. Yeah, fuck you, fuck this bullshit trope. This is fucking lazy.

You have written yourself into a corner. A scream is not your way out. But that's all we're gonna get. That's that is all that is. It is a screams, right, It's like the same sort of sound over the for like twenty minutes and he's like, come on, man, he's doing his best impersonation of a cowboy.

So I forgot the finger thing. I just looked up the story, and the finger thing is that, um, if the main character strays from his goal, they threatened to cut off his wife's finger. And then the very last part of the story is he and his wife at a party and he shakes the guy the host wife's hand and realize that she's missing a finger. And so apparently King even went on the record to say that he was inspired a little bit by Roald Dolls, the Man from the South episode which was famously turned into a Alphaditchki Presents and then famously recycled by Tarantino in Four Rooms. No no, no, no, no, no, you don't understand Tarantino came up with it first.

He wrote the goddamn novel in nineteen o one that everybody else references. Okay, he traveled back in time and did it that way. Why do you hate him so much? You hain't good movies that elevate the craft and just make us all better film goers? Okay, Yeah, apparently there's a two thousand and seven Bollywood film which is also based on the same story, and now I'm very curious to see that.

I mean, this story is a cool idea, which is why Stephen k I was on borely the most story better than this. William Selby is not Stephen King. Yeah, I wanted to like it a lot more. Like you said, I was on board for it as well, and it was just like, okay, like Miney's pouring out all the liquor and stuff and then like smelling his hands and licking his hands, and then he's just like washing his hands. I'm like, yeah, okay, yeah, this is all right, but yeah, it just didn't necessarily go far enough, no, no, and it again.

Honestly, this could have been an hour long. Yeah no quick right? Oh my god, Well you want to talk about quick Wait until we get to the call brother. Then we're gonna talk about five minutes in the ring with me. Dude, that's all you're gonna get.

That's what it felt like. Oh my god. I have not come down on very many of these episodes for being too short. Most of the time, it's like, thank god, it's over, we're getting it out of the way, we're moving on to something else. This episode was way too short.

If they had given it time to breathe, I genuinely think that we could have had add some things like what Stephen King's short story talks about some sort of some sort of punishment. I mean, the punishment is just he's gonna die. That's not very creative, Like what stakes of those whether you're gonna yeah, I mean I that was the thing about Quitters Incorporated was, you know, he assumed that the threats were toward him, but it wasn't that. It was they were going to hurt everyone around him, which is what addiction is. You know, the great bugaboo with addiction is you're you're killing everyone in around you and not yourself.

So um, yeah, this is a This is a very interesting concept. I really wanted to like it. Ah. Well, do you think if they had focused on his family instead of him it would have been a better episode if they had written better characters for him to interact with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.

So let's talk about the next episode. Our Selena is Dying. Your attention is drawn to the residence of the Brockman Clan, an ancient mansion. It's paneled walls punished by darkness, a lightless, soundless place upon which a greater darkness, says fallan. The object of the death Watch, Selena Brockman, grand dam of the Menagerie, who lies in her bed in an inch by inch battle with death, trying somehow to reach a compromise instead of a capitulation.

So Our Selena is Dying air November twelfth, nineteen eighty eight. It stars Terry Garber, Jennifer Dale, and R. H. Thompson. It is directed by Bruce Pittman, with a teleplay by Jay Michael Straczynski, who has been doing great work on this show so far.

It's just fantastic, and it's actually adapted from a Rod Serling story, which means this is only one way to go, which is not well. This episode focuses on a doctor who becomes suspicious that a young woman is losing her youth to her aunt, who is the titular Selena, who is dying. This is a really bizarre episode. Did you say bad? Bizarre?

Ha? You know, sometimes we use other words to be it's it is. It is not good though, no, it is remarkably bad, like uh in all the ways. The previous episode had been kind of intriguing, so you yeah, Like I wanted to keep watching and see where they went here. It was pretty clear from the fucking get go what was going on, and it was just a slow grind to get there.

I too, like to rip off Dorian Gray. Well, this even felt like the at least one, if not two episodes of Cold Check the Nice Stalker that we watched. I think it reminded us of reminding me of the one with Kathy Lee Crosby. It was that her name, and then she was the succubus. Yeah, then like had the Eternal Youth, and then there was the Eternal Youth episode that was in the Cold Check reboot and it was like, okay, yeah, but we get it.

You need to stay young, and by you staying you make other people around you old or suffer. And this one is you make other people old so that you can be young. And it even reminded me a little bit of The Night Strangler, this whole thing where they go through the newspapers. You know, I'm thinking, like, you know, a little Wally Cox in the in the the the morgue of the newspaper with like oh yeah here, And then in eighteen forty four there was this general and then in this year there was this, which was again kind of almost a Victor Tombs type of thing. Yeah.

So it's like, but you know, like done better by a better show. Yeah, And I would be curious. I'd like to go back and see the Queen of the Nile episode that this was based on, because I think that would probably be a little bit better than this, so it certainly would look better. I think I've said this before in previous podcasts, but like once they moved to Canada, the previous seasons, whether or not the quality of the writing was good, it always felt like a little movie And now I feel like we're just watching some cop procedural from the mid eighties. It just it looks flat and uninteresting and the direction is just like it's so workman like.

It's actually an offense work like like, yeah, you can do the job and do it competently, and that should be the definition of workman like. This is just like there's no style to it whatsoever. It's just like, oh, we got two people talking, I'll cover it with a two shot and then two singles and moving on. Yeah, it is it's almost like soap opera type of ye film. That is.

Yeah, that is the best comparison that that anyone has said as about this episode that I've heard so far. And it is a soap opera. It feels like it like and you know, just sort of story wise here, So this old woman, she has this power that she can sort of suck your youth out of you, and then she becomes young. Why did she get to the age that she was at that she was so infirm that she needed a doctor? Wait, okay, you know you're logic out of this equation, then ask your question again.

Okay, no, it isn't a question. Never mind, don't question our logic here. It is just lazy, right, Yeah, the worst kind of speculative fiction. The well, this is the Twilight Zone, so you'll go with it, like, no, you still gotta give us something, don't you love how every intro for this season so far has been like, and it's happening in the Twilight Zone, so you know, uh huh whatever, whatever can happen. We don't even need narration for this.

Fuck it, just throw them into it now. They're like, I got to remind them up from where in the Twilight Zone then kind of reaffirm it again at the end. Yeah, And it is so different than how chilling the original narration, the broad Sterling narration would be, where you're just like especially when it was like the camera would just move over and they're Sterling standing there and you're like, oh shit, it's like things are about to get really real here. In this one, it's like, uh, she learned a lesson, gotta go like that's what it is like, Robin Ward, no fault of his own. They just like didn't give a fucking shit.

They're just like, you know what, you know what, Robin, why don't you watch the episode and you write like that's what it feels like that is what that is, how lazy, and when we get to the call it's even worse. But these, like the intro out narrations are just so bad that I'm getting to the point listening to them, or I don't even want to include them in the episodes anymore, because like normally I include them before we talk about it. It's like, oh, a little interesting segue, and I'm just like, what's the fucking point? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, look, I prefer Charles Aidman in the first two seasons, and he passed away, right, I mean, that's why they got a new narrator.

M But you know, I do like the new guy's voice, and I like how gentle it is. And if the stories were like as brutal as they should be, then that could be like a fun kind of irony to it, a little bit of a wink. Yeah, but they're they're not doing that. And I've noticed that every single episode we watched for this particular podcast, the opening intro like tells us everything we need to know, you know what I mean. It's just like it's so far afield from some of the earlier episodes where they're like, hey, here we are, check it out and now it's just like spoon feed us the fucking things that we need to know, so we won't ask too many questions along the way.

Imagine, if you will, a woman in bed who can suck the powers from everyone around her. Wouldn't that be fun? Welcome to the Twilight Zone. Been drawn to the residence of the Brockman Clan, an ancient man mansion. It's paneled, walls polished by darkness, a lightness, soundless, place upon which a greater darkness has fallen.

I mean it's almost up there with like it was a dark and stormy night, not quite that cliche night warehouse night exterior exter cut two exterior night warehouse, A man stands alone? Fuck you? And you know what's really sad, the saddest probably the biggest problem here. J Michael Strazinski is really good at writing comic books. Yeah, yeah, I liked Babbalan five.

Yeah, he's written some good stuff. Yeah, but yeah, this is this ain't it? No? No, this is not it times ten Like, I mean, you know, it's got to be daunting if somebody hands you, like, hey, here's the last outline Rod Sterling ever wrote. Make this good?

But this does rise to that, yeah, man, because you know what we saw in previous season's Rockney abandon He did Night of the Meek, which was a sterling episode and it fucking he was really I liked it better than the original, so it can be done. But I don't know, Well, brother Rockney was keeping the show on calm Waters when it was having problems, so yeah, his episodes were good. I mean, that's the kind of real sad thing about the show at this point, is there. It doesn't seem to be anybody in the control room with half of a brain in their head pulling the controls like well, we need to do this, and it's like, ah, slam it all to the ground. Who cares?

Yeah, I mean I gotta wonder, like, you know, clearly the show got canceled and then they're like, no, we're just gonna bring it back. And I'm sure there's a level of well, I'm just happy to keep working and I'm happy to keep working on the Twilight Zone, but they're not the I'm gonna have to listen to the studio, you know, so like, who knows how many fingers were in the pie here? They all stink, I know that much stinky fingers, folks, I don't know, I really I wonder what that Rod Sterling outline looked like. I wonder what Rod Sterling's initial idea for this episode was. Here, here's the here's the whole treatment.

Old women can suck powers out of people. That. I mean, what do you think, CBS are you sold? Yeah? Yes, mister Sterling's we can say a very special twilight Zone from Rod Serling himself like that.

I don't think I know that they did that. Whenever they've remade an episode, the advertising would be like, oh, a special recreation of the original Twilight Zone. Keep that in the back. Yeah, for the special customers. Oh god, you guys ready to talk about the final episode?

Kind of yeah? Could it be worse than this one? No? Actually, now, so let's talk about that episode. We're going to talk about the call Norman Blaine, whose greatest fear is that if he were to vanish from the earth tomorrow, no one would notice or mourn or question, and whose greatest sadness is the realization that he is probably right.

Sofa, coffee, table chair, and pet, solitary decorations, and a life noted chiefly for its isolation, point of origin, and point of destination for Norman Blaine, whose days and nights are routinely swallowed into unhappy silence. So The Call aired November nineteen, nineteen eighty. It is once again directed by Gilbert M. Shilton, is once again written by Jay Michael Spezinski. This time it is written by Jay Michael Spazinski, as opposed to teleplay by mister Spazzinski.

It does, however, star a fantastic actor fellow gentleman named William Sanderson. You may know him from such films as Let's Go Around the Table. I know him from The Rocketeer, Blade Round Her Baby, Oh Yeah, and a New Heart, which was not a movie but a TV show, And he was excellent in each of these things. And I believe on your podcast of Projection Booth, Mike, you have spoken with mister Sanderson. Yes, got him to talk about his career and talk about Blade Runner, and was such a nice man and was so appreciative of us talking to him, Like it was almost like, oh, you guys, nobody ever wants to talk to me about things.

So it's like, really shame, yeah, fucking shame. He seems like he seems like a genuinely nice guy. Super nice, and he was telling us all about his wife and how much he loves his wife, and just like you could tell he was like in New York City, was a little lonely, just wanted somebody to talk to, and he was just like, yeah, sure, I'll talk to you guys about Blade Runner. Yeah, let's let's do it. So that's the only thing is his performance in Blade Runner, Like without him, everyone is really cold and distant in that movie.

He's the actual human heart of that movie. Yes, his death is like it's it's like they don't show it or anything. They just kind of mention it. It's such a blow when you hear it. Yeah, yeah, really, I mean everybody else is acting like a robot, but he's the one that makes the robots and he's the only one that you know, he's making his friends.

You know, he's so lonely in that movie. It's just like, Okay, he plays lonely better than anybody that I know. It's the look. It's just his look. It's something about it's the way yeah, yeah, it's the way he holds his face.

And guess what we have in this episode, William Sanderson playing a man who's alone. Yeah, who dials a phone number in error and the person picks up. They have a conversation, and then he goes to work and he works with the biggest dickhead on the planet. Oh my god, isn't he go That guy is lucky that William Sanderson didn't walk over to the paper cutter, tear the blade off and just whack the dude over the head with I have five kids and I need quiet. You will have quiet permanently here momentarily.

The one time the guy wants to talk and it's just like, whoa, what are you doing? But William Sanderson's a phone call and they end up calling each other a couple of nights. William Sanderson, I guess is calling her. She's calling games. Yeah, it seems like after a while they're calling each other.

So he goes and looks for the phone number and it turns out done and it's a bronze statue in a museum. Nobody saw that coming because it literally makes no sense, makes no sense. So I gotta say with all that I liked this episode. I'm always in the twilight Zone. I enjoyed this episode.

I don't know. I'm a sucker for the lonely person finding love, just like Saucer of Loneliness, which is much more skillful obviously than this one. I mean, I like the idea William Sanders are finding companionship is always good and there are worse ways to spend twenty two minutes then with William Sanderson. Oh yeah, yeah, we already spent twenty two minutes with the folks of our Selina is dying. Oh right, yeah, man, Like this was a cooling bomb after the last one.

So again, I don't know if this is by comparison or whether the episode stands on its own, but ultimately I enjoyed this one. Yeah. I enjoyed this one as well. I didn't mind the twist of her being a statue, m I kind of, I guess I didn't necessarily see it coming, like when he went to her work and then you know, she calls him up and was like, hey, I saw you today, you know, looking for me, and I like, oh shit, she was a statue. Okay.

I mean, it wasn't like a major shocker, but I was like, okay, yeah, this works and doesn't make any sense, but I'm cool with it, and that he joins her forever. I was like, Okay, yeah, he really doesn't have anything else. It's not like that piece of shit coworkers gonna turn suddenly turn nice. Right. So the only thing that I think could have really put the episode over the top would be showing williams Anderson's replacement at work, who was a non stop chatterbox.

That would have been that would have been felt, That would have felt pretty good. I know, I liked the episode. I just when the episode ended, I believe I'm trying to remember what I said out loud verbata, but it was like, Oh, come the fuck on, episode, are you for real? That's how you're gonna end. It's just it's pretty cornball.

Oh yeah, will this lonely man who's now sitting on a bench forever and no one questions it. There's just this new thing in the in the museum that just looks like the guy who was there the day before, or maybe who knows. It was really hard to tell. I actually thought about that too, and I thought like, because that that curator woman's got to come and look and go, wait, what the fuck? But it actually made me happy because he put his hands on her, so it wasn't just like he was a statue sitting next to Early.

It's like like one statue, So it wasn't like they were going to remove him. I guess I was bringing more to the episode. I mean, that's I mean giving me. But and you know, look, as soon as I realized, you know, like you said, Mike, when you realize that it's the statue, right, of course, my brain starts reeling with thoughts of like, what did she just pick up the phone? Like is she wandering around at night?

Numbers telepathic? Yeah? Yeah, I mean I don't know the sort of the logical questions that came up with earlier episodes. I knew that this one made even less sense. But it's it was such a genial episode, and William Sanderson is so likable, but I'm willing to forgive the rest of that.

I mean, this episode pretty much survibes on William Sanderson's performance. Oh my god, if Timothy Bottoms had been in this role, yeah, I'd be saying past right now, yeah, and making as strange noises the entire time. You don't want that, don't you know? Hey, everybody, I'm a little bit of ronky. I think for me, I like this segment, but I think for me, this segment just kind of feels very samey.

It's just like, I mean, we've had a couple of these like lonely people looking for love episodes. Yeah, oh yeah, Now it's just a lonely man looking for love. He finds it. It just happens to be a inanimate object. And I guess I love with the nanimate objects all the time, just as my wife.

You're an inanimate fucking object. So did you guys catch the thing about the artist? Why the artist? I was trying to figure out if this was why the artist was stuck in the statue. Was she stuck in the statue because she killed herself?

I think so. I think that's some fucked up punishment. Man, Like I want a story about that character. The characters like I'm gonna fucking make in this art and I'm gonna fucking kill myself. Oh shit, I'm stuck in my statue now.

Like, but we got that, I know, right in this episode. Yeah? Sorry, you're right, we did. I mean, you know, they could have dramatized it. I suppose it is a visual medium.

Why yeah, ye is that? Fuck you? He was? Okay? Yeah, better than Arcelina is dying.

It felt more like one of the earlier seasons. Yeah, attempts at this kind of uh god, I don't want to it is cornball, but like it does seem to have more of a heart than that. You know, if you told me that this was the reboot of the original show's episode, not the last one, I would have believed you totally. Yes, this feels feels really old Twilight Zone. Yeah, which is which is why I'm kind of sitting here like, oh, this is kind of quaint, you know what I mean, Like I don't expect this from this show.

I expected from the original show. So maybe that's kind of where I'm coming from. It's still a good episode. I mean, like you guys have said, William Sanderson, he just does that hang dog better than anybody else does not hound dog. That's the other guy, right, Yeah, that was the ones Elvis.

Yeah, yeah, not the hang dog. The hound dog impaled on a guitar right back in time. Nonetheless, he killed Elvis, and then he became Elvis, and then he committed all the sameyre his bloody clothes. Yeah, and then he committed all the problems that Elvis did. Because the King would he did this I gotta I gotta follow it to the letter I got.

I don't want to improve Elvis his life. Yeah, I gotta trust that piece of shit Colonel Tom Bark. Yeah, he's not just trying to make money off of me. I swear, wouldn't that be the first thing you would do if you were Elvis is fire that motherfucker. I wouldn't kill him.

I would go out a gun and just shoot him. Who's gonna send Elvis to jail? Not Nixon? Not Nixon? Thats who I've seen that picture with them shaking hands.

I know the truth. Two movies based off Yeah, that's true. So on the next episode of Chronicles from the crypt oh, whoa, whoa? Not the show that we are on, Yeah, bringing it back for one night only to talk about Twilight Zone on the next I know it's just it cuts cuts deep to my core um. On the next episode of Dreams for said, we're gonna be talking about the Trance, Acts of Terror, acts acts, and twenty twenty vision.

I got on the twenty one vision. I was about to say, I'm living in a twenty twenty world. Yippee. Until then, where can people find you? Father Malone?

Are you still fighting internet trolls now, I cooled my jets on that. The people have just been ridiculous lately. But no, if you want to check anything that I do out, please head over to father Malone dot com. I have a podcast called Dark Destinations, which is like a half hour radio drama. Check me out on that.

And there's also a link to my YouTube channel where I've got a movie review show called You've Never Seen But Oh Stop? If people have seen those movies. Is there a temail? Yeah? Is there an email email address that they can send an email to you about.

Yes? Yeah, please don't harass Father Malone online, harass them in person. Yeah, I don't want to give them any more airtime than they deserve. So now you have to go ahead. Come on.

I had I had a guy who U He watched my gold Diggers of nineteen thirty three episode and his comment was, turn your microphone down, you idiot, I think. Which is which is at least like it all the way down to off? Yeah? Yeah, so I just I wrote back in all caps, thanks for watching, exclamation point, but like you know, I don't know that's moving on, Mike. Where can people find you?

You can find me over at the Projection Booth which is available at Projection Booth podcast dot com. And you can also find Chris and I are talking about ranking and Bass specials on the Ranking on Bass podcast, and Chris and I also talk about Barney Miller, which is available at the Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller, which is also a podcast that you should put in your ear holes. You should. And I like how you said Ranking on Bass Specials because we can't claim to be a Christmas podcast anymore beyond that, and then some you know, when you talk about ranking a bassas Lord of the Rings, you kind of lose the ability to say you're a holiday show anymore. But adays, no, I don't know, I'm trying.

They may have. I was just trying to help. As for me, you can find me on the internet at c stashu dot com. That's my link tree that goes to all the things that I work on. The other thing that I work on that Mike hasn't mentioned is the Culture Cast, which comes out once a week.

We talk about movies, Yeppie. Sometimes Father Alone's on there, sometimes Tomorrow there, sometimes other people are on there. Sometimes nobody's on there, and we don't do it? Who knows? Yeah, yeah, those miss tweeks Yeah right uh And and for this show, you can find us at twilight Zone eighty five dot com, twilight Zone eighty five on Twitter, and as always, big thanks to roxy Drive and Neutron Dreams for the music for the show.

And we'll catch on the next episode. I think that works. Are you still here listener? M