264: To Catch a Yeti with Spaghetti

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Our nuclear reactor pumping out one million kilowatts of power. to provide more cooling in the containment chamber. To your stations, we have. A movie meltdown. You know what? I will have some meatloaf.

Let's have some meatloaf. You want some? Yes! I knew you'd come. Hey, Mom!

The meatloaf! We want it now! What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian, and this week we'll be coming to you live via digital recording from the Old Spaghetti Factory here in Louisville as we bring you coverage from one of our signature events, the Yeti Spaghetti Show. So if you've been listening for a while, you'll remember our first Yeti Spaghetti live event and all the ridiculous glory that surrounded it.

But if you haven't heard it, it is still available at MovieMeltOn.com. Just go to the episodes link and then go back to November of 2012 and that's where you'll find the first Yeti Spaghetti episode. Now that time, the movie wasn't a question. Yeti, Giant of the 20th Century, is an amazing and completely ridiculous movie that also happened to be Italian, so it was a perfect tie-in for the spaghetti fest we were having. But going into this latest show, well, we had a new location, we were opening it up to a larger audience, so I wasn't really sure what movie.

To go with. Or more specifically... how bad a movie to go with. I mean, with the usual meltdown gang, I don't worry about it. I've had them sit through some pretty terrible movies in the past, so I know they can handle it. But with a wider audience, maybe everyone isn't as familiar with epically bad movies, so maybe they wouldn't be okay with going that deep into the depths of horrendous movies.

So I thought, okay, I'll let the audience decide. I'll come prepared with an option that's just sort of run-of-the-mill and watchable... And then the epic bad movie that I originally thought that we should show. I mean, there was one that first came to me that was almost equally as on the level of bad as Yeti, Giant of the 20th Century. And it was sort of an infamous film in the movie geek circle.

So I was like, all right, that was my first thought of what to go with. But maybe that won't work. So basically, I thought I would let them choose their own Yeti adventure and inadvertently seal their own fate or doom as the case may be. So that's the scenario. Now let's head over to the old spaghetti factory and see what happens with the live audience.

And yes, I'm purposely working in a little of that background noise so that you can hear some of the audience responses. Later we'll get rid of most of that, but I kind of left it open so you can get a little of the full effect of having the audience on hand. So. All right, let's head over there now. What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown's presentation of the Yeti Spaghetti Show.

I did want to say thank you to the Old Spaghetti Factory. They have let us come here and hang around and unleash our Yeti in the middle of this mess. So for tonight's show, we actually have a choice for you guys. If you'll notice, we hadn't billed the movie. It's mostly because I wasn't sure what you were up for.

So we have a mediocre bad movie or we have a painfully bad movie. So however you guys would like to go about it. We can take a vote here as to how painful you want this experience to be. Painful? Voting for epic bad?

Okay. Okay. If that's what you want. All right, so we're taking a vote. Mediocre bad film or epic bad?

It's painfully bad on the second option. Our table over here is voting for horrible, so we have... All right, if everyone's up for it, I wasn't sure what you guys were willing to put up with because it's painful. It's juvenile and slapsticky. If you're ready for it.

Alright. Epic bad? Is that your vote? Alright. Hurt is plenty.

Hurt is plenty, I believe is what Dave just said there. We'll check back with him later and see if he feels that he made the right choice. So in making their choice, what they signed on to watch was in fact To Catch a Yeti. Starring the fine acting skills of none other than Meatloaf, it is considered by many to be one of the worst films of all time. Now that's certainly arguable, but it's pretty bad.

So hopefully you two are equally as much of a glutton for punishment as our audience was, and you've already taken it upon yourself to watch the, um, film. If not, go seek it out. It's something you sort of have to experience all on your own. Oh yeah, and I found this great short film to kick things off, so here, I tell them a little about that as well. So it is a full show, which also includes a short film that may be better than anything else you'll have this evening.

I'm glad I came upon it, and it involves a popular superhero, an A-list special guest star, actually, and a yeti with a weird fetish, we'll say. So enjoy the short film, and you've chosen the horrible movie, so you can enjoy that. Good luck to you. Yes, it has all of those things. So I'll work in a few little clips in here during the break, but you really should see it for yourself.

So if you're interested, drop me a line on Facebook or an email form, and I'll send you the link. It's out there, and. It's pretty awesome. All right, with that, we'll take our break and experience some of the pre-movie attractions that we had on hand that night. And when we come back, the audience will have suffered through this week's feature, and we'll begin to get their reactions.

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Rhodey, starring Meatloaf as Travis W. Redfish. I'm gonna kill you, Rhodey! You hear me, Rhodey? That woman thinks I'm some guy named Rhodey.

Redfish can fix it. Get me two beers. And a hubcap. Redfish can fix anything. I need a Ford.

Why, he's the best roadie in the whole world. The bands make it rock, but the roadies make it roll. Roadie, starring Meatloaf, Art Carney, Hi, everybody. Khaki Hunter. I'm a groupie.

I'm on my way to New York City to become the greatest groupie that ever lived. Roadie, you got the right idea. I love outlaws. Blondie. Love is a burning thing.

Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper, she's one of Charlie's Angels. Get him. Rhodey, the ultimate rock and roll fantasy. He's a champion, the Ali of Rhodey's.

In a rock and roll car or a rock and roll bar, he's the closest thing there is to a rock and roll star. Strange and wondrous tale, baby. Strange and wondrous. Roadies the bands make it rock but the roadies make. It pro thank you very much and good night now here you are the best spaghetti in town.

Spider-Man Okay, true believers, what happens when a furry monster from the frozen north, an abominable snowman known to his friends as the Yeti, threatens a large metropolitan area? You're about to find out as Spidey meets the Yeti. It's a warm summer day and a young woman is about to refresh herself with a double scoop fudge ripple ice cream cone. When suddenly. Hey, you, come back here.

You just bent my cone. Spider-Man, who's been out jogging to keep in shape, appears on the scene. Oh, Spider-Man, am I glad to see you. Some big furry monster just came in. Here and sat on my double-spooped fudge ripple ice cream cone.

Dave, I do not get superheroes. Oh, my God, I don't get you. What don't you get? Tower bot here. Well, the meatbags were going to say that if you're a geek and like podcasts, then you could try Tower of Technobabble at www.toweroftechnobabble.com.

Then this started. Well, it's up to you. I'm gonna get my taser and put a stop to this. Towerbot out. Okay, monkeys.

It's nap time. Meanwhile.... In another part of the city, an off-duty policeman is about to enjoy a well-deserved snack. Ah, grape soda with plenty of ice. Just the way I like it.

Hey! Help! Help! Police! Police!

Help! That's me. Oh, Spider-Man. Boy, am I glad you're here. Listen, a big furry thing just.

Came along here, sat right on my grape soda. If I hadn't been off duty, why, I'd have arrested him for unlawful sitting. Oh, this is the night, it's a beautiful night, and we call it a well-known night. Hey kids, it's Brian. So, you're listening to this episode, and it sounds pretty good, right?

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They certainly did with us for the mic. So yeah, go to doo-wop.com and check it out. It should sound like the Yeti. It is the Yeti. And what other mischief is he up to?

Meanwhile... It's time for Tales from the Cryptid. It's Teddy Bear. What do you mean? Mom!

Dad! What is it? What happened? My present! It escaped!

What do you mean? The animal! It ran into your backpack! Wait a second. What are you talking about?

What animal? My present! The one you brought me! No. This is the present I brought you from Nepal.

No, it scared me. It was like a teddy bear. It went behind the chair. It's okay, honey. It's all right.

It didn't hurt you, did it? No. It ran into your backpack. Now we know who ate your pie. What are we.

Going to do? I mean, we can't just leave. It there behind the chair. I don't know. I mean, I've never seen anything like this.

Is it? What do I look like? Well, isn't there someone. We can call or something? Okay, we can't call somebody.

It's against the law. I could go to jail. Okay? And though I pleaded on my bed to not to walk out that. Door She packed her bags and.

Turned right away And she kept on telling me. She kept on telling me. She kept on telling me. I want you. I need you.

But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you. Now don't be sad. Don't be sad. Cause you have me. Alright, are you ready to break this.

Thing down? First, would you like to give your take on the movie? Best movie I've ever seen. I had a tear in my eye there at the end. Me too, but for a different reason.

I think I might have to own it. It's that good. Good is what you're saying. Good. I'd like to learn to ski on my feet.

You need giant Bigfoot feet. See if you can get that. Have you ever seen my feet? Do we want to go there, really? I thought we weren't supposed to tell that in front of Greg.

That would be Greg's word. That's my wife. Would you like to tell us what you think of the movie? I loved it. I wish we had more kids over here to watch that.

It took me back like when I was six. We're all very juvenile, if that helps. I mean, Yeah, exactly. 77, I heard. Yeah, with the kids.

And what was your name? Albert Laker. Awesome. All right, so we have a special guest, Dave from Tower of Technobabble. Dave, what do you think of this masterpiece?

There was a Tkechi Yeti-sized hole in my soul that is now filled. I feel final and complete. It's a special film. Now, is this pre-Fight Club or post-Fight Club meatloaf? 95, I believe.

So that's right before, maybe? Those mullets, I would have put it back in 87, 88, perhaps. I have it here. Let me make. Sure.

Trying to hold all this crap. I am just going by mullets. I mean, if it's shot in Canada, I know they're like eight years behind. I think there was a little Canadian action going on there. Yeah, I heard in a boat, I think.

1995, though. Wow. Well, they are like eight years behind us. You know, heroin. A boot eight years behind us.

A boot. So anyway, yes, I feel complete now. I feel that my time on Earth has been well spent and can now end. Please let it end? Is that what you're saying?

It's getting better now towards the end. I'm going back up the roller coaster now. There we go. Slallowing to your doom eventually. But for now, it's all going back up.

My favorite thing is, though, it has something in common with Star Trek The Next Generation in that the phrase, shut up, Wesley, was used twice. I guess they get that beforehand. They stole from Star Trek The Next Generation. Shut up, Wesley. Would you like to give your take on the film?

It was the most awesomely bad movie I have ever seen in my entire life. And you live with Dave, so. And I do live with Dave, so I have seen a lot of awesomely bad movies. It's not a facial hazard. This one takes the cake by a lot.

Fair warning, I was like, this is rough. You delivered on said promise of epically bad. The other one was just mediocre, so you guys, you made the tough call, but. But it was way better. To see this movie with a huge group of people, so, rather than just, you know, the two of us.

At home, yeah, you would have been stabbing your eyes out. What was the other one? I want to do the black box comparison. We should just save that for a future episode. That's true.

There's only so many Yeti movies, right? You've got to keep one in the can. Oddly enough, there's a lot. I have to say, I'm shocked at how many I've come across now. Are they all equally bad?

Kind of. That's kind of why I was like, we do have a really good amount, and a lot lately now that the wonderful Sci-Fi Channel has come along. Got it. Well, we'll have to stay tuned. Hang on.

You're a girl. What? What time frame would you put this movie in? I would say between 81 and 83. I was actually closer.

95. Oh, good lord. I should have known. Wow. You win.

If this was the Price is Right, I would have won because neither one of us went over. It's a good bid, then. It's been a slice of heaven. Or slice of something, anyway. Spaghetti?

Yes, it's been a slice of spaghetti. All right, well, I will free you back into the world. I'd chew your own leg off to escape if I were you, so... Thank you. For doing this.

It was awesome. Awesomely bad. The world is now a smaller, colder place. Much like my heart. All right!

Thank you for joining us tonight. Where did you find that monstrosity? Hell. All right. Do we want to get to the details of this mess?

In our usual fashion. It is time for our special edition of Yeti Spaghetti Show. And so we're doing out on the town these special tales from the cryptid version. We have so many subsections of monster movies I can't keep up at this point. The film is To Catch a Yeti.

The year is 1995. The director is Bob Keene. Yeah, everyone has said that so far. 95. Director Bob Keen.

The plot, according to IMDB, they don't have one. If that tells you something. So, whatever. Hunter searches for the elusive yeti. Ridiculousness ensues.

Spoiler alert! We don't want to ruin this for you, so go seek it out and find it yourself. Suckers. Alright, where would you like to begin? Bill, this is the first time you've been on the show.

You've Witness the wonder of this movie. What are your thoughts on it? Well, the space scenes were my favorite. Were you watching Critters 4? Wait a minute.

You know, I'm kind of speechless because for one thing, I thought it was a lot older than it was. And for another, I've never heard of this movie. Milos' acting is amazing. His one-liners are great. Yeah.

That was a very interesting mixed family. Part Asian, part another country. I don't know. Very entertaining. Who else has wonderful thoughts on this film?

I don't know anybody else. I don't officially know you. We can round out the rest of the introduction. Josh. I don't know you or you.

I'm Christian. You can't escape, Lucy. You have to at least tell us what you think before you go. I don't know. I'm sorry.

I'm just trying to sneak out because I have a long drive ahead of me. That's true. I do. Thank you for coming. And so much thinking to do about that film.

So much mulling over. Yeah, the next hour and 15 minutes in my car is going to be pretty heavy. You're welcome. I enjoyed how. The last half hour, it seemed always on the precipice of going really, really, really dark.

Like when all of a sudden Meat Loaf suggests that they take the guns into the house, like do a home invasion in the middle of the night, like arm to the teeth. It becomes Straw Dogs for a second. I was like, oh, this could be someplace really scary. And then when she went all sort of like, yeah, vigilante on them. And then, you know, he's threatening her parents.

He's inside the house with guns. They're about to asphyxiate. Yeah. It could have been. Really, really?

I mean, it's. Already bad, but it could have gone differently. My whole takeaway is I'm really concerned about the safety measures. I feel like inside their home, that's not fire code to have windows in the basement that don't open from the interior. I didn't really understand that either.

But they were alarmed because you saw the alarm company sticker. It wasn't back in the alarm. But yeah, I mean, she was able to climb. houses jump off roofs i mean she could do anything except open a window well and. I like the the about two minutes wasted of her dad walking her as she comes down the roof to get her off safely from the roof and put in the car because most filmmakers would sort of leave that scene out because it didn't really drive the plot. Anywhere And as someone in the audience exclaimed, they're like, it's okay, honey.

Daddy's here now. She just saved you. She just had an elaborate plan where she very smartly laid waste to her villain and rescued you two with the help of a Yeti, of course. And then she can't get off a roof by herself. I think the whole premise of the movie was basically that none of.

The parents all the way around had any right having children. I think that about a lot of people I see in the world. Lucy has escaped now, so goodbye, Lucy. She's back on the road already. How does this help us, Mr.

Grizzly? It helps this way. These two guys were climbing in Nepal, right? It's a small town, and there's bound to be a story. We find these guys, and we find that Yeti.

Dave Bristow. Mike Kelly. Officer Mike Kelly. You mean one of them's a cop? One of them's a cop.

Let's stay away from him. Dave Bristow, age 37, married. Wife's name is Kate. Daughter's name is Amy. Runs a camping goods store.

His daughter runs a camping goods store, Mr. Grizzly? Are you stupid? Yes? I just want to say I would do anything for Yeti, but I won't do that.

It had to be sad. Well, yeah, that's the thing. I was like, you just saved me from making that horrible, horrible. I feel bad because I would have thought that the whole movie would be peppered with him dropping lines from his songs, and not a single meatloaf song nor lyric was mentioned in the entire movie. You're thinking of an equally impressive movie, Spice World.

And then I'm glad that he finally explained what he had around his neck because I thought for sure that was a Bigfoot dick the entire time. Maybe this is his cover story, that whole rabbit's foot thing. But the entire time you kept seeing this furry thing around his neck and I thought for sure that was like a Bigfoot trophy. Just a whole other movie. Just a whole other movie.

Well, that is prequel material right there. Actually, there, I don't know about specifically Yeti, but there is definitely Bigfoot porn out there. So if you need that in particular, we can probably find that movie for you. So that could be like Bigfoot porn slash torture porn. This was torture porn, was it not?

I mean. Okay, well, let's just discuss the story as a whole. How many things do we feel they ripped off? I mean, everything feels like it was a piece of another movie crammed into this one. I feel like it's already a, not even low rent, it's like ghetto level of E.T. ripoff, right?

Short circuit. Hey, when was Fight Club? Because that was. 1999. So that was for.

I had to look that up. Oh, yeah, right. We're not supposed to talk about that. Are you in the club? Can't talk about it.

Let's go in the parking lot and take care of this. So are we comparing it to just because he was in there or because you feel it has a similar plot device involved? Do you think there really isn't a Yeti? No, because. And the girl was all just imagining this in her delusional little mind.

I was sort of waiting for, who was the guy from Dallas? I was waiting for him to wake up in the shower at the end of this. Bobby. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I don't know.

I feel like it's also, I mean, aside from the giant E.T. ripoff that it is, there's, like, it changes gears midway in. There's, like, the part in the middle where it becomes Frosty the Snowman. which is jumping on the train and taking him back to the North Pole or wherever it is so he doesn't get too warm. Is that not exactly just Frosty? What about the Michael Keaton Jack Frost movie? Which, of course, we're going to get to at some point on this show.

I kind of saw some Problem Child in there. with the kid, Wesley. Yeah. And then there was also a smidgen of Home Alone going on with her little rescue mission. Well, I sort of feel bad for Wesley because he basically was the punching dummy of the entire movie. I do like how much physical violence is just sort of wailed upon a relatively small child in this film.

Yeah, I think that, you know, child care services would probably have a problem with this movie. Although he was toting a shotgun at one point. Well, his parents shouldn't keep multiple guns in the trunk of. Every car because hundreds of people hated his dad. That's a pretty good reason.

That's why I have my arsenal. I mean, hundreds of people hate me for making them watch this movie. Or at least the roomful we had here. Well, it's also nice that his son is cognizant of how much of a bastard his dad is and how much everyone wants his dad dead. Didn't fall far from the tree.

I did hear the phrase walk easy for the first time in my life. I think we should introduce that one. The lips of meatloaf. Now, I was going with, you were doing Problem Child. I was thinking, in the first scene where we get to meet Wesley, like, yes, Very Veruca Salt.

Give it to me. I want it now. No, I totally saw that, too. Yeah. I kind of missed that whole part.

I need an Oompa Loompa. You had Veruca Salt. You also kind of had Mike TV. And you also had, what was his name? Agustuff.

Agustuff, yeah. You had all of those. They were all kind of rolled into one. Right. So would that make Meatloaf Willy Wonka?

Oh, God. Or Grandpa? I don't know. How about the fine effects we had in this movie? Well, again, I think the space scenes were incredible.

It is amazing that given. The budget of the movie that they were able to pull off easily Star Wars era special effects. Did I nod off in the middle of it? What movie were you guys watching? I mean, the special effects weren't as good as Spider-Man shooting his web and the electric company thing beforehand.

But they were on par. They were special. They were just special. Was that. Not the best thing about The Evening was that short film we found.

It is sad how much of my childhood came back and that, especially, you know, oh my God, that's Morgan Freeman. That's what I'm midway in. I'm like, this is terrible and awesome and oh my God, is that Morgan Freeman? Yeah, I can't, like. So much of my childhood came back when I saw that because I remember seeing that, you know, as a kid.

But it's just oddly fetishized. There's a whole lot of weird stuff out there. Thank you, Internet, for exposing us. But I'm sure sitting on cold things is somebody's thing out there. Especially when they disappear.

Maybe a Yeti. I wonder how much Sesame Street paid Marvel for the use of one of their prime comic book characters. I was more like, wondering how much, I mean, there's no budget to this movie. How much did they blow on music rights? Well, I was saying, because it ended with a Carpenter song, and now I'm going to show my ignorance of classic rock, but who did Amy?

Is that not like Allman Brothers? Yeah, I think so. Do you think that Meatloaf pulled some serious strings to get the rights to those songs? Because that probably blew... their whole budget right there. As we just found out last, you know, last time we were talking to an independent filmmaker and he wanted to use an Elton John song and it would have cost, you know, more than the movie just about.

I mean, that was where all the money went. So it's like, these were all, cause wasn't there a third one in there somewhere? There was one earlier on. There was an oldie song in there too. Yeah.

Yeah. So there, um, yeah. Like the run around. Yes. Nowhere to run to.

Yeah. So, I mean, there was at least three probably costly... I don't even know that they were the original versions, but still, you have to pay the money when you're using the song, so. I think they were legit original versions. Yeah.

Again, I can't think of where they got the money to do that. One sounded a little off. Maybe it's just the bad soundtrack on this. That was my initial thought when I first heard the first song. I was like, there's the budget right there.

Yeah. And they'll be loaf songs. Yeah. Well, that's just too easy. The first one, given it was Odie, I was surprised, but when they did Amy, I'm like, holy crap, where did.

They score the money? Yeah, those last two, you'd think that would kill most movies unless it's a huge studio film. Was like all the entire Allman Brothers family uses extras in the movie and they sort of got the song pro bono? They're secretly yetis. Was the creature made up of just scraps of random.

Because it was like an orangutan body. Was it you that asked me if that was the leftover puppet from Mac and Me? Yeah. But the end reminded me of Short Circuit. There was like this, I don't know.

That was one of the movies I meant to add. Isn't it like every one of those kids movies? Like at the end they have to send the animal back to space or the woods or wherever. Flipper goes to the ocean or something like that. I don't know.

They always kind of end like. That, right? Yeah. It was kind of like they spent all the budget on animating the animal's face because none of its movements were worth anything. I think they went dumpster diving at Jim Henson's workshop.

Like his face would have had expressions, but his arms and legs didn't. Move very good. Well, and you'd notice, again, this is, I guess to their credit, somewhat clever editing the fact that they knew the arms and legs don't move very well, so there's a lot of close-ups on that puppet. A lot of close-ups. And we forgot about the sexing scene when she found out.

Exactly. Again. I checked. Now which one were we talking about? At the beginning.

On the kitchen table. I think the mother referred to it as an it and the daughter goes, no, it's a he. I checked. I think he wiggled his toes after that, too. He made a suspicious noise right after that, too.

It was like... Oh, she checked. Thoroughly, apparently. I sort of felt bad when the daughter was in the room alone with the creature showing it the stuffed animals. I thought it might take another dark turn of.

Well, towards the end. Let me show you something. Towards the end, he was making some strange movements and sounds when she was like, what's wrong? And I'm like, nothing's wrong. He's having a good time by himself, apparently.

Is that a theme? I mean, of the two Yeti movies, there's now been two of them where we've had sound effects that kind of sound like there's another kind of scene going on. This is my room. Okay. Sit here.

Don't move. Let me take it off you. It's too hot. Let me show you my toys. What's the matter, Hank?

Is it the mannequins? Is it the snow? Hank? Or are you gonna be trouble? Let's get dressed, Hank.

And the Yeti seems a little overly excited about the female main character. I think you need to check and see if there's, like, not rated versions of both of these out, because I think it's just, like, scenes that are cut out that, you know, those scenes are leading into, like, other scenes. So I should find those and, like, link them all to you is what you're saying. I'm good. Thank you.

We all need to finish the movie. I'm good without them. By the way, that song was not the Allman Brothers. It was the Pure Prairie League. There you go.

Really? Yeah, I googled it. Interesting. Or maybe it comes cheaper than the Allman Brothers. It's spelled A-M-I-E.

I don't know if that makes a difference. I think I knew that part. Obviously, I was off on the band. I really like how this Yeti didn't look like Jesus, though. That was mostly in your head.

No. You were obsessed with Yeti Jesus last movie. It kind of looked more like a gremlin. A little bit, yeah. Than anything, and I was really worried that she wasn't supposed to feed him after midnight, but apparently that wasn't an issue.

It really resembled those critters, also. What I like how, at least twice in the movie, they go, that's not a yeti, it's not big enough. And so there's this whole subplot of this little creature having gigantic feet, therefore causing cryptozoologists throughout the world. To be mistaking... The shape of what a Yeti is because of these huge footprints.

I do have to give them credit. I mean, they have kind of kicked open a whole new door in the cryptozoology world. Which I thought was even more disturbing when she apparently checked out the Yeti's gender because. You know what they say. About big feet.

Big foot, big Yeti? Maybe that's why it was so easy for her to tell the gender of the Yeti. Oh, God. There are cut scenes. I don't think most children know how to tell the sex on a Yeti.

So apparently it was very obvious. Because if I, at the age of 10, would have found a Yeti, it wouldn't have been my first. Like, oh, is it a boy? Is it a girl? I don't know.

That wouldn't have been on my mind. I still go way back. If the feet analogy stands, it may have been hard to miss. I still go with the Pac-Man rule. Unless they have a bow, how can it be a girl?

It did not have a bow. Nature fails us yet again. Nature finds a way. What was that one real famous low-budget movie? Was it Trolls?

The one with the green stuff? Yeah, because the original Troll... Well, no, the original Trolls got... They take over that whole apartment. Yes, but the green one he's talking about that we watched the movie and documentary about.

It kind of had a little bit of that feel to it. I mean, it does seem like haphazardly slapped together. Just like even where they're at sometimes. Like, was that a real house? I guess maybe it was, but it looks so shoddy.

I'm like, it kind of looks like a bad set. It kind of looks like somebody's house that was like, they were like, hey, you can use my house. How about you guys film a movie here? And then my house will be famous. Which happens sometimes.

It just looked like one of those prefab deals. Yeah, I wonder which actor's house that was. That's what I'm saying, yeah. Director's cousin. And I sort of wonder where they got the cop car.

Director's uncle. This is how you make independent films. They stole it. Calling in favors. So you don't think they actually went to New York to film the New York scenes?

Okay, if this is New York, or Toronto, probably Toronto, why do they keep setting these things in Toronto? Well, when I looked it up on IMDb, it did say it was a Canadian film, and it was a TV movie. Yeah, I think it was Canadian, and I'm blaming you. Though they probably couldn't do anything else with it. I mean, there was part of it that.

Looked like Grand Central, but it wasn't all of Grand Central. That was faked. That was obviously green screen, and they had a couple people walk in front. Of them that completely stood out from the scene behind it. They had green screen.

I think it was downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky. I think that's. What it was. Pretty sure. Bowling Green, Canada.

They have one of those, I'm sure. Yeah. We're pretty sure it's Canadian. We're blaming Canada like we do. When I don't blame France, I blame Canada.

But no, okay, if they're in New York, and have some people here been to New York before? And quite often, do you kind of like, oh, I lose sight of somebody. Oh, wait, they're over there. I mean, in searching for someone in an entire city, how often did they go, oh, wait, there they are? Or Meatloaf would just come around a corner and grab her out of, like, the entire city of people he could have been looking for.

Well, I mean, that happens in Home Alone 2. Lost in New York. Well, actually, yeah, Home Alone 2, exactly. I meant also, but that works. In addition to.

In addition, as well as. But. Yeah, no, I've been with people in New York City and lost them, you know, and not found them until like a week later when we reconvened where we came from. So, right, face down, bleeding. It was all the little girl's fault because she kept going south.

So Meatloaf always knew where she was. Well, and I'm like, don't you want to go north? Isn't that the objective? Just basically, that's the whole idea. And you know what's south, right?

The train station. Is this code again? Wait a minute. And you know what's south? Those big feet at the end.

I thought that's where you were going. Oh, man. Well, it's nice to know that the Yeti wasn't just some strange genetic offshoot, a one-off of nature, that there is a whole family of them living in the himalayas. Speaking of which how did we not get to harry and the hendersons because it's exactly harry and the hendersons. When i'm like the the beginning song that was talking about hunting bigfoot and i'm like are we watching a yeti movie or are we.

Watching a sasquatch movie because the the song's talking about. Greg and I got into that argument online the other day because he kept trying to say that they were the same thing, and I'm of the opinion there's a split there. You know, you've got the wintery ones and the summer ones. I go by the fur, but, I mean, they screw that up all the time because last time, the movie, they pull him out of the Himalayas, but he's got brown fur, and according to you, he looks like Jesus, so. Again, they get it wrong in the movies all the time, but I'm going by this classic artwork we have for Movie Meltdown, where he's white and he's Yeti.

Well, we saw it, because it was actually here. That's true. We did have a live Yeti. Many of us posed with it. Check your Facebooks.

Now, at any point, did the $ 6 million man ever fight a Yeti, or was that just a Bigfoot? Just a Bigfoot. That was actually a robot. Spoiler alert! Built by the Atlanteans.

Yes, for those of you who are unfamiliar with a probably near 30-year-old TV show, spoiler alert, Bigfoot was a robot built by Atlanteans. Let me interject with. It was also a cool toy. An awesome toy. This Yeti's chest did not pop off at all.

There were no robotics inside. I was sad. I can't say that I wasn't anticipating that a mama yeti was going to show up and school the bad guys. That was actually like a monster. Explorers.

And I also kept waiting for Henry Rollins to make like a cameo. Because it seems like a bad movie he would be. The chase. All right. I don't think it stops there.

No, he's only made one bad move. I don't know. Josh, what is your take on it? My take? Well, actually, I did have this feeling that there was going to be a moment where it turned into this bigger creature, like if water hit it or something like gremlins.

I really, like, and just, like, maul everyone, but that would have actually... tied it together quite well. So, like, he would grow, his feet would stay the same, and he'd grow into the creature that was proportional to his feet. I can't expect that. You would catch up with his feet. That would actually probably have made a much better movie.

It would have. However, they wouldn't have been able to afford. The songs that they used because that would have completely blown the special effects budget. Life-size Yeti suits are hard to come by. I don't know why they didn't, like, put him on the American team for the Olympics, because he was quite the skier.

He could ski uphill. That's my favorite thing, is how they, like, the special effects on this Yeti would sort of jump around as to what they could afford to do. And I understand that. I may have a house full of puppets myself. And when I'm trying to film them, I'm like...

It's funny how, like, for a minute, they were... What was that thing when he was, like, jumping on the bed or whatever? Like, I. I'm not even sure what was going on there. It was wrong.

It was disturbing a little bit. I think that was part of his mating ritual. And the girl was completely unaware of what was going on. And again, we go back to creepy. I was just talking about the effect that they were using.

I'm not really sure what that was exactly. Like ghetto stop motion or some sort of computer-generated thing. I don't know what it was exactly, but it was a little disturbing. But then it would also, like, switch to, like, it's obviously, like, being puppeted at some points. It's very mechanical in the face.

And then other times it would just, when he, like, is on the skateboard and flops off like a puppet. It's the funniest thing in that movie. I'm sorry. The whole, I mean, how many times does he do the, I mean, we've got him skiing and sledding and then the skateboard scene through the city. And how do you top that skateboard scene?

Well, I must also say that Meatloaf as an intimidating character was awesome because, I mean, I would be scared. The way he would walk out in traffic and just, like, cars would stop. I was pretty impressed. I mean, that. Or he'd throw his partner down in the middle of the street in order to stop traffic.

In a better movie, that could actually be pretty entertaining, and, like, that could be turned into, like, an actual character thing, and they really just kind of touch on it here and there, and he always just kind of is grumpy, and, you know, I guess that makes him a badass, huh? Nobody wants to run over Meatloaf, too. That's messy. You don't want to do that. You don't want to run over Meatloaf.

Wesley probably had one of the best lines in the movie that actually was a genuine laugh to me. When Meatloaf goes, I didn't come here to get insulted by you. And Wesley goes, well, where do you go? That was a genuinely funny joke. I did actually laugh at that.

Again, I think I was like, I sat there going, that might be the only funny piece in this entire thing of a lot of terrible dialogue. That was a good joke. I mean, it's sort of like, wow, way to school me up there, Wesley. But the thing is, it was kind of like, it was delivered in such a way where you almost didn't catch it. You know?

The timing was off is the problem. When you're watching the movie, like, if you're not paying attention, you almost didn't catch it. But I was like, dang. Like, that was a really funny line. It would have been good.

But the camera was totally focused on something else. Whatever was going on. At the time. It switches to, like, a weird wide shot. Right.

And not, like. should have been a back and forth. Again, if we're trying to figure out where they steal it from. You would think it would be very Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Doesn't it feel like something during the Pee-Wee back and forth? I know you are, but what am I?

Yeah, it seems like... Well, I mean, he throws those lines out. Shouldn't it have been like you cut to a big close-up as he gets in his face? Where do you usually go? Like, that's the joke.

That's the timing on that joke. Well, and I think that apparently the writers didn't realize the gold that they had written right there. The one time. That the one time that they. Well, it's a million monkeys typing on typewriters.

I mean, they stumbled upon this comedy gold but didn't realize that. It was gold. Shakespearean gold. They thought that the joke was somewhere else in that scene. They're like, look at that stuff on the counter over there.

That's hilarious. You missed your one joke. Now, my question is, do they have, like, an expert. on, like, 80s style come in and make that 80s style? Or did they just find a group of people that were stuck in the 80s in 1995? Because that was one sweet mullet.

It's called Canada. The main guy, I thought it was Peter Bogdanovich with a mullet. Like, who is that actor anyway? I mean, he... Meatloaf was it, really.

And also, there were more Ford Tempos per... They had more screen time than any other car in that movie. Sponsored by Ford. And possibly Pepsi, based on the inside of the River Tree. It was dated.

Those were old Pepsi cans. Those were really old Pepsi cans. Who was that kid? I know I've seen him in something. This involves someone looking things up.

You know we're not supposed to do that. Holy crap. This just in. Mean Girls. Billy Madison.

Yep, Billy Madison. That's where I remember him from. Which one? The kid. Wesley.

Oh, no. The kid with the sole good line in the entire movie. Shut up, Wesley. Now, unfortunately, I mean, so the kid's filmography shows up as Mean Girls, Billy Madison, and To Catch a Yeti. So two out of three ain't bad.

Damn it. How many are we going to work in? Oh. This is a dead ringer for an episode. Thank you, good night.

Don't forget to tip your waiters and waitresses. You think that was the one good line, you're in trouble. Well, while we're making fun of Meatloaf, having Meatloaf, of all people, make fun of someone else's weight problem seems really. I don't know. I had problems with that.

I'm just like, really? You're going to make fun of this guy? What are you known for? I mean, the guy was probably already like, and I'm not, he was like a certified little person. And then they're just going to make fun of him for being fat?

The funny thing was, I don't think he was really fat. He was fat, yeah. He had a pillow. He was a bad Santa Claus belly. Yeah, he had an outfit on.

He wasn't even fat. He was probably a pregnant prosthetic. Yeah, I mean, you could see the corners of it in his pants. It was funny. He just had a big, big belly.

Yeah, and what about the awesome getting ready, gearing up montage at the beginning of the movie? I completely forgot about that, you know? See, the gloves go on. Shh, shh, shh. Wow.

But, yeah, I mean, they're, I guess, trying to be, like, really classy and not make fun of the most obvious thing, that he's not a very tall man, but, no, let's give him something to make fun of and then have Meatloaf make fun of him. Speaking of Meatloaf, when Eddie says he didn't like the Yeti, he knew he was an okay kid. I know you get that. And I'm the only. I'm sure somebody out there got it.

Lord help us. All right, what have we learned from this film? Oh, I know. We learned that yetis don't know how to wave goodbye because they're not human. Unless you touch them on an emotional level and then somehow they understand.

Wait, emotional level? Yeah. How did she touch. Him? Was I the only one that got it?

I thought that's where you're going with it, unless you touch him. And then he learns all kinds of human behavior. That's in the edited scenes that we didn't get to see. Damn it! Jeff's hoarding at his house.

Jeff has the cupcakes. I will be googling deleted scenes from To Catch a Yeti later on tonight. You and everyone listening to this podcast. Well, I thought it was going to be, like, a lighthearted thing, but I didn't realize it could be, like, such emotional scenes. Like, I felt myself on the verge of crying.

Quite a few times. Were you taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride by this film? Mm-hmm. What'd you say? Was it tour de force?

Yeah. Of emotions? No. No? Yeah.

I mean. You look like you're tearing up now just thinking about. It, though. It's rough. I mean.

He was getting too warm. The girls were getting too cold. There was a. Lot of problems with the atmosphere. Frosty.

I'd say the thing I really missed was when they didn't do a little travel overlay when they went from Nepal to New York or New York to Nepal to work. You see the map and you see the red line with. The plane going across it and maybe. I can't afford that music. That would have helped me understand.

There could have been a nice montage too at the end of all the memories they had together. That's what I was thinking. We needed a montage song. And Hank together. This girl is carrying around a Yeti throughout.

I don't know, half the continental United States and there's no picture evidence. No one bothers to take a picture of her. Not everybody had the cell phone. Well, but they had Polaroids or anything back then. One of my favorite scenes was that the airport security all had guns and one of them had an Uzi.

That really makes it feel like it's the 80s, doesn't it? Because everybody had an Uzi in the 80s. They just handed them out. I never got one. You've got it at home don't.

Lie but one i like how they they had no plan on getting the yeti through security like like you just walk through an entire airport it was. Pre-9-11 you could do whatever you wanted i. Mean that was again one of the bigger laps was he's like oh how are we gonna get it past security like they're in line waiting to go through the x-ray machine and wait a minute, security on an airplane. Huh. Like it just occurred to him.

Although it was sort of a genius idea to, I guess, have her pretend to be her stuffed animal. It's not like E.T. At all. But, again, I like that it's this giant. What kind of kid drags that on an airplane?

It's a weird stuffed animal. She should have. If it were a little later, it would have been one of those fancy backpacks that looks like an animal. She should have. Thrown it over his back.

You want one of those now, don't you? A Yeti backpack. It's going to sweep the nation. It could have been a Popple, had it been a few years earlier. I don't think the feet would have been the overdrive part.

I'm trying to take that somewhere now, and I don't want to. Well, and then wouldn't, I mean, having grown up in the city, I'm not familiar with what does a Yeti smell like? I mean, could you really carry a Yeti onto a plane and not have everyone complain? Especially with the giant feet. I mean.

She did hose him down a day or so earlier. He did eat a lot of pine cones. What was the thing with the pine cones? I mean, it showed up in their board game. Were they playing Life?

Was that the board game that it looked like they were playing? I thought Monopoly had the different pieces. I'm the dog, I'm the pine cone. Monopoly had the big... The big central spinny thing on the board, which is life.

That is life, yes. So were they using pine cones for money? And then what was the deal with at the end he gives the dad a pine cone? Well, that's what he was eating when Meatloaf found him. Yeah.

Oh, he was eating pine cones. That's what the pine cones were about. It's a touching moment. See, I imagined that the Yeti was eating an animal there. No, no, it was pine cones.

It was pine cones, because remember, he was a vegetarian. That was his thing. It was a vegetarian Yeti. That was another very important line in the movie. Right.

I figured the Yeti had just, like, slaughtered a deer or something, and it was sitting there eating it when they came upon it in the wooderness at. The very beginning. He did take it a little dark right from the beginning. Or maybe I just hoped that maybe he'd killed a local Sherpa or something, you know? Chupacabra?

Do we have cryptids crossover? Oh, we need to do that at some point. Also, for such a long movie, it jumped right in. There was no buildup or tension. All of a sudden, it's like, here's the thing.

Here's the hunter. Within two minutes. I thought it was going to be like a 50-minute movie. You did get that song that explained, you know, I mean, that whole montage at the beginning really filled us in. Yeah, they definitely didn't keep the look of the creature until like the last, you know, the second half of the movie.

It's like, boom, here you go. They forgot to steal that from E.T. Because you go a good ways in before you actually see him. But no, not in yeti i really. Enjoyed the opening scenes or how they use the screen tests as like the whole opening montage i mean that's exactly what it was because you could see the background behind the little person as he's like getting dressed the certified little person as he's like with the pillow in his pants and he's like getting dressed There's, like, a background that they used to use at Olin Mills.

And, you know, it was a total screen test, like, the whole time. And then they were just like, I think we're going to put this in the movie. We'll just save some money and not have to shoot that again. It came to the end, and they were like, we still don't have an intro. You, make up a song right now.

Right now. And then what do we got laying around from those test footage? Yeah. And also, Grease looks a lot like Kentucky. Yeah.

They had to be in Greece. They had silly straws. They were living high. Pineapples aren't an indigenous fruit to Greece. That's actually what gave it away.

No, the pineapple's actually what gave it away. It would have been great if Conrad Baines had been the butler. You were obsessed with Conrad Baines. I'm not sure why either. It's very odd.

Were you touched by Conrad Baines at some point? Is there something you want to share with the group? Not really. I do like when you mentioned the airport scene. I do like that this obviously was very pre-9-11 since they just go toting in guns.

I know he didn't get to the metal detector, but I'm pretty sure by now you wouldn't even make it to the parking lot with a shotgun strapped to your side of you. Oh, and also, flying back from Tibet to New York in a Cessna I don't think would happen. Because they took off, and where did they take off from? Their little plane. On the side of that mountain there.

That's all they need, right? And wouldn't a guy dressed in animal furs sort of, even at that time, kick off maybe an extra security check? Profiling, is that what you're saying? Exactly, you know, I mean. Security is biased to portly white dudes.

I mean, I know that the mountain man is an American symbol, but I don't think that gets you just a free pass through airport security. 95. How many animals made up that code? I think it was actually just a bunch of rabbit's feet that they took apart. It was all the animals.

I think it looks like they raided a craft store and just bought all the faux animal fur. And just, like, kind of pieced it together. Like, got a coat and just kind of, like, crazy glued it on there. And they were just like, that'll work. That looks like a bunch of hides.

Quick trip to Michael's and they were all set. Yeah, the wardrobing was amazing. Do you think they just glued it on the meatloaf? He just shows up and they just start gluing it on the meatloaf. He didn't go on tour until, like, 97 because he had to wait for most of that to fall off of him.

I can't go on tour now. Now, I don't... Where was... So, this was 95. When was his...

Come back. Yes, when was that album? I'm curious. To the Googles! Oh, the blue one?

Anything But Love 2. Well, that was in high school, so that was like 92. Okay, so after the success of that movie. That parlayed his fine film. Is Meatloaf Canadian?

I think so. I think he's American. So there was no, like, national pride in doing this Canadian-made movie? Like, no one could twist his arm and say... I think he lost a bet.

I was just thinking, he owed somebody a lot of money, and they're like, you're going to work it off, Meatloaf. I'm making a Yeti movie. I was just like, damn it. Or was this one of those things, like, you know how. Once famous actors start doing kids' movies because they have kids and they sort of want to be...

Like, Eddie Murphy does all those crappy kid movies because. So you're saying that Meatloaf had a Yeti and he really wanted to make a movie that would reach his pet Yeti? I was just thinking regular kids, but if you want to think that. I mean, he is Meatloaf. He might have had a Yeti.

Yeah. Maybe. That sounds as sane of an answer as anything with this movie. But he used his real name in Fight Club, so maybe this... was like, he's not going to use Meatloaf. Maybe this was like the nail right here.

He doesn't go by Meatloaf. Anymore after How to Catch a Yeti. He's like, I can't because I've done The Catch a Yeti, and I can't top that, so I need to take on another persona and build up my career from scratch. It was like his middle nickname and whatever, his full name, and it was Meatloaf in the middle. Wait, that didn't sound right.

You know what I mean. Neither of those movies live up to Spice World. Certified Meatloaf. There is some story about behind his nickname, isn't there? Surely there has to be.

There has to be. I mean, it's not like he just picked it out of the various... I'm going. To guess it has something to do with his weight. It almost had to.

I mean, seriously. I can blame Jim Stein. I mean, if you saw him back in the music days, he was real heavy. Yeah, that first video, he was big. Or like in the roadie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, one of the greatest all-time meatloaf-based movies you could ever see. That's a long list, buddy. I think they made the right call, though. I mean, the rest of the audience has wandered off.

But, you know, I think we definitely lived up to the epically bad... threat that i put out there when we were uh marketing this thing so how long was. That was that about two hours. It actually wasn't it just felt like i mean the whole thing even with the intro wasn't even an hour 40 so do you think. When it was broadcast on tv with commercials they broke it into like a two-night event or was this or was this a. One-night meatloaf mini-series yeah like.

Did they like catch the the thrilling part one of to catch a yeti on monday night With exciting conclusion next week. And part two is when the mother became more British all of a sudden. What was that? Like, did she? And what was with the girl at the sporting goods store?

What accent was that? It was French, man. French Canadian is my guess. It didn't matter because she was under the meatloaf spell. It's like they just, was the casting call to try to get as many people with differing accents in this movie?

Was there some kind of accent mingo card that they were playing with as they cast this movie? Bingo! We got the French girl as the. They did that just like any period movie. Nobody speaks English, like American English.

It's all like, you got all your little knights and stuff, and one of them has an Australian accent, one of them has an English accent. Or the movie's set in India, and everyone speaks with a British accent. Exactly. That makes it a classy film. Can we bring up the French maid really fast?

I was just going to go there. I was like, if only. We got to hear her talk more. I really wish she had been like that. And this is where the movie kind of referenced Clue.

Because you had Yvette as the maid, except she didn't have a French accent. She just got electrocuted by Wesley because he was wondering what's going to Friday night. And apparently it was the French maid. And he had a stick count going. Yeah.

And the vacuum was hooked up to the. Main circuit box. I was wondering that because when they started talking about the, well, this one was electrocuted, this one was blah, blah, blah. I sort of was like, I think the count that they mentioned matches with the count by the fuse box. And I'm like, that's actually pretty freaking genius.

That's more work than you would have expected, these people. Way to be on the job continuity person on this movie, you know, to keep everything in line. Well, and when the mother was talking about, like, oh, this one's been electrocuted, at first I thought it was the maid because of how crazy her hair was. What was that switch, too? Like, she seemed sort of normal that first scene with her, and then everyone after that, she got, like, weirder, and her hair got stranger.

Her hair got crazy. She was crazy. It was like, what's happening? I think the actress got more drunk. That's what I was just going to say.

Maybe everyone else. She was just, like, her drunken stupor just, like, you know, reached. Epic proportions as the movie went on, I think that's all it was. Again, everyone in this movie possibly was drunk. Although the little girl kind of held her own.

You had something to say before I went off the tirade? Oh, no, I was just talking about the circuit box just only turned off the vacuum cleaner. It was a huge switch. All the other electricity was just fine. Well, not to mention that they typically vacuum death machines.

When you have devices and you turn them off. just turning it back on doesn't make the device come back on sometimes, you know. And explode or whatever. Right. Because I would think that like Underwriters Laboratory or in Canada, the CE mark would have something about your device can't electrocute people when it suddenly gets power again. Public service announcement. goes along with this movie.

I don't think there's been a lot of vacuum electrocutions in history. I doubt that. I think that would be kind of rare. Well, I think there probably were before this, you know, before 1995, before they figured. That out that you shouldn't have devices electrocute people when they suddenly get power again.

So this is actually a PSA. I guess so. Well, I didn't have any problem with the movie. until, like, a certain inconsistency happened. Like, the kid was dressed like a Nazi, and then he put on his jacket, and then in the car, he had, like, a Mussolini outfit on. So how told did that happen?

So that lost her right there. Well, and we had someone schooled in karate. Oh, yeah. He did a good job protecting the girl, didn't he? Yeah.

I felt bad for the couple making out by the fountain. Oh, yeah. What about the girl that lost her ice cream cone? That was one of the tearing up moments. I was also a little creeped out by Meatloaf being like, little girl, little girl.

Well, I just like the fact that you can get a little girl to open the door and be like, let me in. Does that work? Is it like one out of ten times? She's like, oh, okay. Meatloaf comes to the door.

Yeah, you answer. No, really, two out of three. Damn it. Yes, Meat Loaf, come in and let's play PlayStation. I'm trying to put it in the accurate term.

I think the daughter was the best performer. She really was, actually. I mean, there were moments where I was convinced. She was one of the few people that could actually act in this movie, so kudos to you. Sorry, everyone else that watched this movie.

Not really. I'm not sorry at all. You lived it. Yeah, I know. She was a little bit.

That was me. I was the child actress. We already discussed that. Yes. All right, well, I think now we need to do a celebrity interview.

Yeah. How did you get the job, and it didn't involve touching a Yeti? It did involve touching a Yeti and touching meatloaf. Wow. That's how most jobs are gotten around meatloaf.

Most of my jobs have somehow been retained by touching meatloaf. Yeah. I'm disappointed now. Because when I found out that the story was about her, I thought it was a documentary. Yeah.

Wait, this wasn't? No, it was just an acting. Well, no, I mean, it was based on reality. That really did happen in Bowling Green in my childhood. Now memories are surfacing.

Yeah. It's real. I have photos at home to prove it. I don't think you're supposed to post those kind of photos. Otherwise, we would attach them to this episode.

Yeah, well. And even our episode has taken a dark turn. On that note, do we think we've hit everything in To Catch a Yeti? Do you feel it represents yetis in a proper light and hunters of yetis? Do you think there will be...

How is there not a bad reality show named To Catch a Yeti? Well, it is To Catch a Predator. That one's not... But there's like 14 Bigfoot ones out right now. How is there not.

So if you do that crossover, would it be like a yeti posing online as a 14-year-old girl? And then, you know. Well, and then maybe a real Yeti shows up to the house as interviewed by Chris Hansen. I would totally fall for that, yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

He's posing online. Or your genius thing of where an actual. I was always going to try to get on to catch a predator, and I was going to show up dressed like a predator. Like from the Arnold Schwarzenegger? And Chris Hansen, I was going to sit down, and he was going to be like, so.

So what are you doing here with that laser on your shoulder and a six-pack of wine coolers? Well, I was just going to talk with her. I mean, you know, we have things in common. I was just going to skin her alive and take her head and spine and take her to my spaceship. That was later, but first we were going to chat, you know.

The Predator, ladies and gentlemen. This is a special guest episode. All right, well, if nothing else, we would like to thank the Old Spaghetti Factory for letting us come in here and put this nonsense together. I mean, do you realize we took over this entire giant, like, hundred-plus-year-old building? It's a pretty classy operation, and we just showed to catch a yeti in the middle of it.

Well, it seemed like all the staff was coming out and getting pictures with the yeti. Because we're awesome. I mean, but still, I'm still shocked that we got to put this together. So a big thank you to them. And specifically to Crystal, who we've seen around here most of the night.

And she actually has been the person who was on board with this idea and was working with me to put it together. I'm not sure. We need to, I don't know. This might be her last night. We're sorry, Crystal.

And again, we do want to thank this wonderful equipment that you were just admiring, Bill. That's from the doo-wop shop. So we do want to thank them for putting this together with us as well. You couldn't have experienced the wonder of To Catch a Yeti without them. So was this brought to us by a letter or a word?

In tribute to the Sesame Street stuff? I was going to say, we should probably ask Morgan Freeman about that. Technically, I think it's Electra Company. Electra Company, yeah. See, as a kid, I don't remember a distinction between the two.

They just were the same thing to me as a kid. Oh, yeah. The Electric Company was actually more boring. Yeah. Except for the Spider-Man and the Kool Club.

Yeah. I've never seen the Electric Company. Yeah, I haven't either. Oh, really? See, three-two-cone contact.

That was the way to go. They had cool stuff. Well, that had the Bloodhound Gang. That's what I meant. Bloodhound Gang.

What did I say? Kool Club. What? Whatever. I'm detective shit.

What? At Sherlock Holmes, yes. Do we still need to introduce ourselves? Well, you said it was Bill's first time. I know.

See, I introduced him. Yeah, we didn't even realize we were going to be part of it. Of course you were. Of course you were. So, for the rest of them, introduce yourself.

I'm Jeff Schneider. And this is your first time on the show. How do you feel about it? Blessed. Blessed.

I like that. Hashtag meltdown blessed. Put that on all your tweets from here on out, people. And who else do we have? Hi, I'm Amy Childress.

And how have you enjoyed this wonderful experience? It's been the highlight of my year, definitely, thus far. 2014. To get to yeti. Hashtag sarcasm is how we need to, like, every comment that everyone said tonight until we sat down.

And most of those were just like, this is great. Does the Chinese calendar have a Yeti as an animal? Like, could this be 2014, the. Year of the Yeti? We can call it that.

The year of the meatloaf? Or is it something like, is this the year of the rat? Something boring like that? This is the year of the horse. Of the horse?

Man, screw regular animals. We need, like. Well, okay. The cryptology version of it. Like, you're the cockatrice, or, you know, you're the minotaur.

You're the minotaur. That's your new metal album. Yeah. Oh, Lord. Or any of the other Monster Manual monsters I could probably name off the top of my head.

I want you to hear the Kraken. My favorite? The Beholder. Since we're going down that road, I mean. Displacer beast.

I mean, I can do this. I can do this all night. Let's throw out the nerd cards on this table right here. Let me get my sack of dye. Hold on.

Year of the Zorn. I have that thing memorized. In front of me. It's so sad. I like the gibbering mouther.

That's my favorite. This is the year of the gelatinous cube. The rest of the table is distancing themselves. They're creeping out of the other side of the room. I'm going to use my.

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Stephanie, have you thoughts on this? Would you like to weigh in? I'm good. I'm not funny. This provides all the comedy you don't really have to you can phone it in when you have this do.

You sort of have like a real life identity that you don't want to get sullied by association with this i don't blame. You many a person has been like don't use my real. Name so we heard uh we heard uh Saturday night you were talking about Denny penises. Would you like to explain that to us? See, this is a new world we've entered into where people really do get fired from their job for being on a podcast because you say some pretty horrible and ridiculous things on a, in our case, weekly basis.

Then you're welcome to come back any time. All right. Yeah. Yeah. That i think i think we better pack up all this stuff there's a ton of stuff here in the middle of the old spaghetti factory so i think we better um load it up and do you want to work in a last reference.

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