268: Burdened with Glorious Purpose

Hi, my name's Jennifer Lawrence, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown. It's showtime. The following feature has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. It is intended for mature audiences, and parental discretion is advised. Our nuclear reactor pumping out one million.

Kilowatts of power. What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian. I am Misty. And we are coming to you live in a digital recording from the floor here at Wizard World Louisville.

Hells yes. All right, Misty, what's your take on this? I've seen only two Lokis today. Actually, in the past two days, I've seen only two Lokis, and I'm very disappointed with that, although the convention itself has been pretty damn rowdy. It is pretty awesome.

They did give me some free mints, so that's always a plus. I was kind of going for the hand sanitizer, but maybe I'll get that the next round. And you didn't make them explode like Jennifer Lawrence. I did not, not yet. The day is not over.

That's true. No, they seem explode-proof. They seem to have taken that into account. Oh, they watched her video like we did over and over and over again. I think so, because, yeah, I think it's even misty-proof at this point.

Oh, God. I can barely get a mint out. I can, like, ugh. It's been a pretty good turnout, but not as many as I would have expected. It's not like.

As far as costumes or people? Yeah, costumes. I mean, I like costumes. I guess a lot of them, I can't tell if they're in costumes, because, like, there's so many, like, Doctor Who cosplayers here that I'm like, oh, look at that girl in that little outfit. She could be a.

Companion person I don't know I. Did that earlier as they walked by I was like are you a doctor who oh no he's just a nerd it's a fine line really no offense we love nerds obviously but sometimes I'm like I'm not sure what you're going for is a half ass doctor. Who or are you just normally kind of a nerd okay they have a scarlet witch over there I'm kind of digging she didn't half ass it she did pretty good and the girl with the lightning bolt on her boobies I don't know who she is but she's got a lightning chest. That is a plus I can tell you hell yeah it is any girl with lightning boobs But yes. There has been a plethora of people.

I have not bought anything. I feel like I should, but I haven't. I will eventually. I'm usually just overwhelmed with stuff. There's just so much here.

There's quite a bit of stuff. Yeah, I can't even process. And when you're walking through stuff, you have to dodge Michael Rooker, and that's just a hassle right there. Yeah, yesterday, I. Don't know, was he even signing at that point?

He just randomly showed up walking around in here. He's got his sunglasses on, which normally I take points off indoors, but he's Michael Rooker. He had his kicks on, too. Don't forget about that. He had Adidas.

Yeah, that's his kicks right there. He had the old school white Adidas with the stripes going. He was hardcore. And, yeah, he just randomly runs up and, like. Were they Adidas or were they Puma?

I couldn't tell. I think they were Adidas. They had the stripes going. Did they? I have to get the phone out.

Hold on. He, uh... Yeah, he decides to go steal a piece of pizza. I don't know who he's back at. I'm assuming nobody would argue because he's Michael Rooker.

You don't fucking argue with Michael Rooker. That's right. He might just go crazy on your ass. He will out-crazy you. He will bust out the crazy all up on your ass.

So he steals a piece of pizza, and he's walking around with a coffee in one hand, a pizza in the other, sunglasses on, just eating the pizza, and just totally interacting. With the people. You're right. They are Adidas. Yeah, I'm telling you.

I know my old school shoes. They're not the kind with the toe, though, the shell toe. I want some roos. Do they still make kangaroos? I want to be able to hide shit in my shoes.

They were brought back into popularity a couple years ago. Man, that's where I keep my house key and shit. Hell yeah. Get your loose change to make a phone call in one of their phone booths. Well, that would have to be a hundred years ago when they still had pay phones because now children would just be confused if they saw one.

I walked around and looked at a I looked at some faces. I saw Dean Cain's. I saw asses, dude. You were taking pictures of people's asses. I was.

It brought it on because we were walking into the building after we got our passes or whatever. I walk by and there's that one douche nugget. I fucking hate that guy. I think we've made that perfectly clear in previous years. And I'm like, oh, it's that guy.

And with him is Shane and Lori. And Shane kind of looks over at me. I guess he's kind of used to that by now. I think he thought I was talking about him. And then I felt bad because we kind of were like, oh, we don't know where we're going.

We're just going to follow them. Because I figured they know where the fuck they're going. Anyway, so we're riding up the escalator behind Shane and Laurie. Laurie, Laurie. I called her the wrong name.

Yeah, we're going by character names because that's how we roll. Sarah Wayne Cayley's and. The Walking Dead, Shane and Laurie. Yeah, whatever. And I'm like, you know, watching the show...

They don't really show you it, but goddamn, that girl's got a good ass. I don't even care, dude. It's like small, but good. It's like. So we were trying to decide, because on the show, you're kind of like, eh, why are these guys fighting over her?

But then we saw her here, and we're like, oh, well, now we know. I get it now, dude. I totally get it. Totally get why you're willing to kill your best friend. Oh, that ass.

She's got a nice ass. It's small, but round. It's like... Firm? You could probably bounce a quarter off that shit.

That's not good. I mean, we can go over there and see if she'll let us try. I don't know. Security might be hauling us out. I might have some loose change.

I might have some pennies. I think that might be an insult. Anything less than a quarter I think is an insult. How many half dollars on you? There you go.

A Sacagawea. A Kennedy dollar. A Sacagawea. Hell yeah. That's gold.

That's really impressive. I'd spend a quarter on that ash. I'm sure she appreciates the sentiment. I'm not trying to be like me. That's a compliment for me.

Oh, it is. You're hardcore. You would call somebody out if they had a terrible ass. Hers is good. I took a picture of it on the escalator.

She's not kidding people. I'm not. I posted it on Facebook already. Oh, Lord. What other run-ins have we had this week?

I saw Dean Cain's face. I'm not sure what's going on there. Jason Momoa. I'm probably fucking that name up. I haven't even seen him yet.

He's over there. Yeah, he's over there. Good to know. I wonder why he didn't bring his wife, because that would probably have been a bigger draw. She was married to Lenny Kravitz, so you got that going.

Oh, my God, he's a good Thor. I want my picture with that guy. I want my picture with that Thor. He's going to take my picture with Thor. He's going to take my.

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All right, we're back. Oh, my God. Miss Day had to run off and take her picture in the middle of everything. I did. I was so excited.

Super excited. Oh, my God. She's all up the work. It was a Thor, and it was a good Thor. It was not a half-assed Thor.

That guy's hair might have actually been real. I think it was. I'm pretty sure it was. I think it was. His muscles I'm not so sure about, but he seemed kind of nice.

And there was like a whole bunch, like all the Avengers had assembled. It was pretty exciting. They assembled around you, and you took a photo. Yeah, Spider-Man kind of put his hand in front of my face. I'm not sure how I felt about that, but whatever.

He was trying to sling webs and whatnot. Keep his webs away. Nick Fury was staring off into space. I don't think he was... He was looking for danger.

Okay. Super excited. Oh, my God. I was excited. There needs to be more Lokis.

I'm so disappointed in the lack of Lokiness. What is wrong with people? But what's weird is you had me take the picture. You're like, here, take the picture. So I backed up trying to get everybody in.

I ran into an Elvis. I saw him. I've got my picture with him before. I was like, what's up with that? Why is Elvis just wandering around in the middle of my Thor picture?

Oh, my God. I might have to stop again. There is another Thor and Loki. Oh, my God. Hold on.

Stop. Oh, my God. Lady Loki and Thor. They seem pretty nice. The Lady Thor seems a little bit more chit-chatty than the Loki did.

Loki seems... Kind of, you know. Well, she's burdened by the helmet, you know. There's a lot of glorious purpose in that helmet. I am jealous of that helmet.

I wish I could have a helmet that awesome. I don't know why you're not building one right now. Because that would involve me doing stuff. I thought about it, like paper mache or something. Then I'm like, oh, that would involve, like, newspaper.

You're a slacker. I am a slacker. I could, like, buy one online. I could have Boyfriend make me one out of metal, but it would be really fucking heavy. He would, and it would.

It would be like 500 pounds. He could make me probably a pretty rowdy Thor helmet. He probably could. Now you just have to sit it on the shelf. A reinforced shelf.

Why didn't he just make you a hammer? Because it would be really heavy. Actually, we've discussed this before. Because you wouldn't be able to pick it up. No, the main problem was that it has the etching on it, and he couldn't do that.

Why not? I don't know. We had this discussion. It was totally. I'm sure you have.

You're both geeks. But he wouldn't be able to... He doesn't have the technique to be able to do the etching that's on it. Don't we know somebody that does metal etching? He probably does.

I don't know. I'm sure. He's giving me a fucking Sharpie. I'll write some shit on there. There you go.

Just don't get mixed up and write in Elvish or whatever. They have crazy writing too. I would write it in the wrong font. You can't mix it in your geek fonts. I would write it in like.

Some Hobbit nerd will call you i'll. Write it in jaws font or star trek font. Back to the future font that's a good one speaking of which thank god i love huey lewis and the power of love. I have not been playing it near as often as i would have hoped and or anticipated. We're sitting right on the other side and we're separated by a curtain so we're not really separated From the DeLorean.

Have you touched it yet? Don't get me wrong. That's freaking awesome. You can't prove I touched it or caressed it. But we have the DeLorean back to.

The future machine. If you give me a nickel, I will touch it. The tire. I don't need a nickel. But yeah, they've also got some sort of video running nonstop.

So we get the audio through the backside here. And I've heard Power of Love 487 times. And there's also videos. They do have most of the cast doing it. It's some sort of charity event for Parkinson's, which is awesome.

But yeah, they have most of the cast. So every once in a while, I'll hear like, Christopher Lloyd come through the backside there. Thank God I have not gotten sick of Power of Love yet. Because they're not playing it constantly. I've only heard it like five or six times today.

But if it were a sucky song, I would get tired of it by time, too. So thankfully, you know. At least it's not Katy Perry. Which they've been playing on the overhead at PA here. Semisonic.

You just need to roar. Come on. No. I will not. I mean, the actual convention's been pretty good, though.

I mean, they have, you know. Like I said, aside from people slacking on costumes, I mean, it is pretty big. You know. There's a lot of stuff going on. There is a lot of stuff.

Some of them kind of always operate. I mean, the only other Wizard Royals we've been to were. The ones in Chicago. As we mentioned it, now they're playing the song again. There you go.

Power of Love rocking out. Hell yeah. The DeLoreans moving. What's going on over there? These DeLoreans are rocking.

Anyway. But yeah, I don't know. The only other official Wizard World we've been to was the Chicago one, and that one's just huge because it's in Chicago. But They do seem like they're doing kind of the same things. Like they've got it kind of laid out as best they can.

See, Matt Smith must wear that hat because there's at least three people that have had, they're all totally different looking, but they're styled kind of like that hat. The cowboy hat? Kind of. Apparently Brian thinks that Matt Smith can only have one fucking accessory. He gets the bow tie.

That's his signature thing. No, he wants a fez and apparently a cowboy hat. You can have a flyer if you want. Do you mind if your daughter hears us say fuck a lot? Because Misty says fuck a lot.

I say all the bad words. I'm going to get hate mail. If they were a little younger, I usually would mention that. She's, I think she can handle it. Well, she just listens to the newer ones.

I won't be on there and there won't be quite as many profanity, profanity-laced rants. Well, that's the thing. That's why I don't worry about it because the people that do it a lot of the time now are the guests. And I'm like, I'm not telling people they can't. I'm like, it's the whole free speech thing.

I'm like, you know, I don't want to tell people they can and can't say whatever. So it's like, You can come on and talk however you normally talk. Several of the guests recently have gone in and they didn't even question. They didn't even ask if it was okay. They just kind of fired into it and was like, I don't flinch.

I hear it all the time. It doesn't bother me. So it's like, however you normally talk, I feel like you should be able to talk. I'm distracted. There's costumes.

A handful of banes going about. There are still a lot of banes. I would think by now that would have worn off a little bit. But there's a lot of banes. There's a Kaylee.

I think he's excited. I've never seen a Simon before. Holy poopsticks. What's Kaylee? That's not the way people usually go.

Usually you see a whole bunch of mouths. We've seen a shit ton of Janes. You know, that hat is apparently uber popular. Everybody seems to love the hat. That's a hat you can walk down the street.

And they don't know you're a geek. You can hide it. I forget how that saying goes. It's part of the show, but whatever. I should be geek enough to know, but I'm not.

You're going to get in trouble now with the Geek Squad. Power of love is a curious thing. Make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a heart, make it a little wider. More than a feeling, that's the power of love.

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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. So as I said, we've been to the Chicago Wizard World before, so they've. Got quite a few.

Since we're hanging out here. They've got a lot. They're like all over the country. That's what I was going to say. Since they're inviting us to hang around here, I thought we would go ahead and give the rundown.

That's the difference with this one is it's not just in one city. It's something they've done kind of everywhere now. They've sort of taken over. So you can go to wizardworld.com and find out where they are in the near future. The rundown of the upcoming ones.

St. Louis will be in April. Minneapolis in May. End of May into June is Atlanta. You've got Philadelphia after that, San Antonio, back to Chicago, Richmond.

So it's like. Anywhere in this general part of the country, you know, the United States. Are you stopping at Richmond because we've got more to go? Oh, there's plenty. That's what I'm saying.

Nashville, Austin, Ohio. I thought Ohio was just generalized. You know, that state. But anyway, yes, you can go to wizardworld.com and find out where the next show will. Be near you.

You should definitely go. Come hang out. That's what we're doing. I keep getting confused and thinking Christopher Lloyd's actually behind us. I'm like, where is Christopher Lloyd?

He's not over there. He might be hanging out behind you secretly. I have that shirt. Oh, my God. You've said that how many times today?

I don't know. At least four. Do you have that hoverboard? No. That guy's wearing a Loki Charms shirt.

It's Loki Charms. Get it? Loki Charms. I dropped my phone. Loki Charms.

Did you see it? It's adorable. I believe I've seen one. It may have been at your house. I don't know.

It might have been. I do have a lot of shirts, and they're all awesome. But, yes, definitely check out wizardworld.com for all of your wizard world type needs. Yeah, it does seem to confuse people. I told somebody this weekend I was coming here, and they were like, well, you know, wizards and stuff.

I'm like, it's not really. I mean, I'm not saying there aren't sometimes wizards there, but it's not kind of like a medieval themed event. I think I've seen one person wearing a wizard hat. But he was just walking around in a dorky hat. He wasn't even in a costume.

Probably. I've seen more pirates. Yeah. I mean, the most I've seen is the Doctor Who. I've seen more Fezzes today than I've seen in my entire fucking life.

Like, ever. Ever, ever. Fezzes. Apparently Fezzes are cool. I think they're making a comeback.

I don't know if they were ever actually there to make a comeback, but, you know. They're definitely breaking their way into the, I wouldn't say mainstream. I just realized Harley Quinn's not here today. The Geek Fringe. That's the power of love.

I'm telling you, you can't fight the Huey Lewis. It's the power of love. They're so awesome. You can edit that part out because I can't sing for shit. Oh no, that's going in.

I'm giving shit. I really don't care. I'll listen to this. That's the power of love. That's the power of love.

First time you feel it, it might make you sad. Popcorn, freshly popped and buttered. Mm-hmm. Look good? Sure, it looks good, and it tastes even better.

Get some now. All right, so I guess tell the people your name. I'm Kenneth Stevenson with Versa Studios Media, the film production company based in the Midwest, about to move to Aurora, Illinois, but right now based in. Louisville, Kentucky. And what is the film you guys have?

We're here representing the three. It's an extraterrestrial feature film. A lot of people have sort of asked me, can I compare it to stuff that's already out there? It's more of an abduction type film, psychological thriller. If you were to take Jacob's Ladder and sort of fuse it with Shyamalan's Signs, you'd get something pretty similar.

Interesting. So I guess what was your reason for getting into filmmaking? Were you always sort of interested in it? I was always really interested in film. Actually, the impetus that got me in was really E.T., which sounds really cliche nowadays.

Everybody's influenced by Spielberg. It's funny how much everything kind of falls back to the same handful of movies. Everybody will ask, it's almost always Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. It really was this touchstone of that time period, those set movies, like really back to the future since I'm listening to this all day long. Thank God.

I love that song. So, yeah, I mean, it really is like a handful of movies from that, like, Lucas Amblin kind of world. I mean, it's important because there's so many people now in the market that grew up with that stuff. Yeah. You really need to do your due diligence to get away.

I feel like even go back. to the stuff that inspired them. Otherwise, you're just recycling the same stuff, you know? I mean, there is a lot of stuff that came after that that felt like it was piecing it together. Even so much now that you see directors that are specifically mimicking it. Like, you look at, like, the Super 8.

And, like, it really, like, it felt like he was stealing pieces out of the old movie. He was doing it well, but, like, it's funny that, like, he even admits to the fact that, like, this is my Spielberg tribute, you know? Well, I mean, and, you know, Spielberg working, I think that was an Amblin film. Well, yeah, he was producer on it or executive or something. Like, Spielberg was involved.

But, you know, I have to admit, Abrams is one of, is a great, I'm a great fan of Abrams. Yeah. Even before he was announced that Star Trek and Star Wars... We're going to be sort of his new babies, to speak. But I have to say, for this film in particular, the three, my co-director, Andrew, who's not here with me right now, he's in Illinois.

Basically, we looked at, you know, E.T., Star Wars, that was the stuff we grew up on. It was our bread and butter. But how can we sort of go back? So we looked at films like They Live, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Both versions?

There's like four, but there's two kind of... The original or the 70s? It was more the latest installment. Yeah, there's like a 90s one, and then Cole Kidman, was she in one of those? I can't remember now.

There's at least four different versions of it. It's interesting. I didn't know there were more than two, but I need to go back and look at that myself. Yeah, there's one in the early 2000s, I think. It's like the Invasion, I think it was.

I think Abel Ferreira did one. Okay, cool. When we looked at it, we were like, you know... Everybody now and their mom is doing aliens from outer space. Oh, yeah.

I mean, even now, you know, Superman is being much more explored as an extraterrestrial from. And he was. He always was. Not necessarily in the right way, if you ask me. But they still made millions of dollars or whatever.

Age of Ultron, all these aliens now. Even so much of our folklore is coming from outer space and what's out there. We decided, why don't we kind of explore, take it back and say, what's already here? Which has been done. But we...

We really have enjoyed the kind of twisting the mythology, if you will, what aliens were. You know, our logo, the three refers to the three types of extraterrestrials that have been claimed exist and abduct people. So when we did our research, what we found was, you know, whether or not you actually believe in this stuff, the fear is pretty real. I mean, they really do claim that this stuff happens. So we said, you know, the reptilians, the insectoids, and the greys, most people... they relate to the grace.

Yeah. The signs. That's the cliche one at this point. Yeah, yeah. But we were excited.

We said, can we make a movie to combine all three of them and to make this sort of trinity of terror? That's interesting because, yeah, you don't get the other ones and I didn't realize how big the, I've recently been listening to another show that always goes into like the different types of like conspiracies and weird alien stuff that's going on and the reptoid thing that's going on of how much they control the society. The Illuminati. I didn't know that was all going on and they have underground massive areas where they're running everything that goes on in the country and I'm like, really? Alright.

I had no idea a lot of that stuff was going on. The conspiracy theorists with that, I think you're referring to the Nordics, the shapeshifter Illuminati. It's amazing to see the types of The people really do believe that, for example, George Bush was an alien. It would explain some of his ridiculous behavior. I'm not talking politically, just like when he'd fall down or dance or whatever he was doing.

He was always doing crazy nonsense. We're really excited because I'd love to give you the elevator pitch of what the story is. All right, go for it. Because right now we're in talks with Lou Temple from The Walking Dead. For those of...

I'm sure you remember, Lou, he played Axel. He was the prisoner that got shot by the governor. It doesn't turn out for most people on The Walking Dead well. You can't say, oh, the one that got killed real fast. Almost all of them.

Him and Rob Prago from Vampire Diaries, Army Wives. The elevator pitch is this. Brian LaRue is coming back from the war in Afghanistan. And he has. suffered a convoy ambush and took a shot to the head and is coming back with PTSD. So right now we're already setting up a psychological type film.

Guy obviously is trying to put his life back together with the help of his childhood friend Harrison Carton, who was his buddy in the war, and his love interest, Julie. The issue comes when his father, who he's trying to take care of back at the house, is being visited in the middle of the night by these things, and he's being taken. Of course, nobody believes Brian because of his condition, and they're already trying to take his father, Ralph, from him, who's in the latter forms of dementia. So the story really revolves around Brian trying to save his dad at all costs, and it's a different... It's not a gory film.

It's not a... If you're looking for that kind of gore and guts, this is more of a psychological thriller that really does deal with mental illness. And we're excited about that. That's cool. Because right now, I mean, that's a hot issue that is only going to continue to blow up.

Yeah. So really excited. Great locations. We're going to be filming at a commune in Summertown, Tennessee. Don't get sucked in.

No, we won't. We won't. This summer, we're shooting The Proof of Concept. We're about to release another Indiegogo campaign. We raised about $ 6, 000 in 25 days this past month.

Probably by the end of April, we need to raise another $ 13, 000. So the total budget is $ 150, 000. It's very, very possible. Very excited. And we love Louisville.

We look forward to bringing film to Louisville. We've got a lot of cool stuff going on, but we just need to get a good way to get it out to people. I'm trying to help do that, but people are fighting. We appreciate people like you and everything you do. There are talented people here.

We went around and I talked to a couple of investors here in town that And people that are really adamant about helping people. It's just I think we need to get to the point to make people understand Louisville has the tax incentives here. We have the beginnings of an infrastructure. Yes, New Orleans has it. Yes, the Carolinas in Ohio have it.

But look, we have a crazy city here that is willing to go out on a limb for its artists. We should embrace that. We definitely need to find a way to tap into that and use it. to the filmmaker's and artist's advantage. Absolutely. But we'll see how that goes.

Absolutely. Well, okay, the other thing we usually do, I'll throw it out there to you, we have art geek activities of what we've been doing or watching. So have you seen any good movies lately or any other activities not related to your crazy wizard world goings-on? Movies in general? Yeah.

I did this past week, I went to Baxter and I sat down with my wife and we watched Divergent. which was interesting. I hadn't read the books. I came in skeptical because I didn't really think the marketing plan was that. It just feels like here's another one of those books that they're turning into movies. They've been doing that ever since Twilight made money.

They're just like, we need another one. Hey, Hunger Games, we need another one. The Ender's Game, you name it. But do you know what I really find interesting, really tangent off all this, is my first feature film that was shot in Louisville was called Cherry Point. And it was a government dystopian film.

It came out probably about two years ago. And we premiered it in the exact theater in the same room that we watched Divergent in. We made that film for $ 30, 000. And watching the difference between an independent film and a studio-backed film was very surreal. It was incredible.

It was really neat. And I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by Divergent. I'm very excited to see how Chicago embraces indie film coming forward. But you can tell there was a lot of union influence on that film. It's a whole different world, really.

What little I've seen of both of them from that angle. It's just a different process, a different way that you go about each and every step. It's like 180 degrees from indie to super mainstream studio film. Speaking of that, what do you think about this Noah deal? Are you going to see Noah?

Aronofsky is very talented. Yeah. It's a weird angle for him. It seems like it's almost doing it so straight. I'm like, is he going for the Passion of the Christ crowd?

You know I really don't think so I don't think so but it's a weird choice for him if he's not super religious like that's so like yes it's just a story you can tell it but to me it is only going to appeal a lot to the super you know religious people so you're going to be working like twice as hard to pull in the skeptics which is going to be a lot of people out there I think that I think this I think he is a indie filmmaker they got a chance obviously with Black Swan everybody wanted to give him a chance everybody said look this kid could do something And they threw a bunch of money at him. But here's my thing. I don't think he ever intended to go into this and, you know, pull in both audiences, the secular and non.

Yeah. I look at and the wall I've been reading and I can't wait to see it, by the way. I'm not a radical. I'm not a conservative when it comes to. a radical conservative that is but I have to say that there's a there's apparently a ton of gray lines that he took liberties with that kind of pulling his roots from the fountain and that kind of stuff I'm very looking forward to seeing his interpretations because it looks more like a sci-fi really It does, and. It looks like, again, when you've got that much money, the visual effects look pretty impressive, so I would hope so at that level, but I just can't wait to see him pack some dinosaurs on that boat.

I really hope it's like a brontosaurus being shoved. In there at some point. Well, apparently there's some large rock demons, the Nephilim from. At least go. The far side route and have them standing on the edge of the shore there as the water is rising.

Was that today? Damn it. I forgot to write that on the calendar. I really kind of want that to go on. But other than that, movie-wise, you know, I do need to catch up.

There are a lot of things that I missed out on this past awards season that I'm interested in seeing. I very much am. I want to see American Hustle. I want to see what all the commotion is about, if it's worth it. Wolf on Wall Street, I'd like to.

I hear pretty good things about most of the stuff that ended up there. There wasn't anything people were like, oh, how did that get nominated? Most of it, even if everybody loved it, they all had pretty good. Stuff involved in them. I think it's a very positive time to be an indie film, but it's a very difficult time.

It's very oversaturated. You've got to stand out. But then again, I say that, and then I look at Lionsgate is right across from us right now promoting The Quiet Ones. Which I saw the poster they were giving away, and I'm not even sure what it is. Well, I can tell you what it is because I've seen...

Is it like those other trailers that we've seen? There's a trailer that came out a couple days ago, and I watched it. And I have to be really honest. It looks like another typical Weinstein production where you've got a demented or possessed girl in an old house... And we need to do everything we can to figure out what the hell is wrong with it.

Okay, I think I did see that trailer, and I didn't even... Again, I'm so numb to them now, I don't think I knew that was the title of it. Because I saw the poster today and went, what is that? And I think I've seen that trailer. And I went, oh, it's that new one of those.

So, yeah, you're right. It is just something they're doing now. And I guess you can't blame them, because how much money are those things? Like, every one of them still. Like, you'd think by now everybody would be sick of it.

But, like, the next one will come out and it'll break some new records. And I'm just like, that's... ridiculous like people were that easily duped it's. A little mind-boggling in the sense that you know I'm here with I've been to about three to four conventions this season with some close friends and promote look Thor's walking that's awesome don't tell Misty. She'll want to take a picture with her oh wait I think she already. Got that one but I see these guys they show up with these big distribution companies and I have nothing wrong with I mean film is film I love it all but man there's got to be hope for novel ideas out there because we've seen the same stuff You've got to hope that people want new stuff, man.

I mean, film just seems like it goes through that wave of what's popular, and you'll see a decade where you'll just kind of see them rehash that idea 10, 12 times, and then something new will take off, and something else will be different and a big hit, and they'll be like, oh, that's what we need to do. So I don't know. It seems like it goes through those cycles. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting you said that too. I mean, I feel like we're coming out of the zombie phase.

I hope we come out of the zombie phase. I hear enough people bitching about Walking Dead now that I assume that means we're on the way out. But that being said, I feel like we're now, The Walking Dead has opened up these opportunities for, for example, The Strain from Guillermo del Toro. We're about to see, I think that's a vampire show. But it's not like vampires we've seen before.

It's not sparkly. We're not going to go over the board. I think Doug Jones is part of that. Nice. So I think it's going to be really interesting to see.

Let's wear the vampire thing off. And then hopefully we go back to aliens or something. You know aliens have to come back around again. I hope so. Well, I guess tell people where to find you if they want to be involved in either helping you put the movie together or just interested to find out about it somewhere down the line.

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Very cool. Thanks for sitting in with us. Make a wrong one right. Power love that keeps you home at night. Don't take money.

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They're not going to like me promoting their item, are they? Actually, they have a pretty good sense of humor. Tweaked Audio is kind of awesome. There's not been quite as much geek cleavage. I can't even.

There was a little earlier, and I'm concerned. And this is a question I want to ask. Can cleavage look sickly? Like pale? I don't even know how to explain it.

Is it sad? Kind of. And there was a lot of it. But I was just like, are you okay? Does it look anemic?

I kind of feel like a trip to the emergency room or something. I'm like, are you okay? Something doesn't look right. Is there bleeding involved? No, it was just sad, and I don't get it, but.

People are looking at her stuff. Because you can't fight Jennifer Lawrence. You can't. She's all powerful. And adorable.

And messy with mints. If I ever saw Jennifer Lawrence, I would ask her for a mint just to see what her reaction would be. She'd probably go, huh? What's wrong with you? She'd be really nice.

She'd be like, oh, hold on. Let me get one for you. She probably would. And then they would explode. And I would be like, ha, ha, ha.

My evil plan worked. You are evil. You are evil. I'm sad that they put, like, a sheet around the General Lee, so you cannot get a good picture with it. It is impressive.

Like, as soon as I got here to set up the old table, I was just like, oh, my God. We're not just in the general vicinity of. We are directly across from the General Lee. The General Lee. Fucking A.

And I was so excited. I'm like, I can get a picture of my Bo Duke tattoo with the General Lee. But they have this curtain up that makes it kind of hard to do such a thing. You can have, like, a close-up. It'll just be him next to Orange.

Can I stand on the bar table? You can try. That would involve balance. Is your balance that good? I suck at that.

You are going to fall right on the flag. I have a boyfriend hold my ankles for me. My legs. You're going to fall right on the non-PC flag. I'm telling you, we could just like tawny contain that shit.

Would you please? Because I'd like to get a video of that. We will fire up the old YouTube channel. And then security will haul me out of here. They will, but it'll be worth having the video.

That 14-year-old security or volunteer... He's going to try to come flail at me. He probably will. What were they doing there? They're straightening their curves, their curves.

They're flattening their heads, flattening their limbs. Well, someday the mountain honey get them up along every wind. Making their way the only way they know how. That's just a little bit more. Than the Lord allowed.

They wouldn't change if they could. They're fighting the system like a two modern day Robin. Hood Hi, I'm Leah Thompson. You're listening to Movie Meltdown. So, it's been how?

It's been good. It's been good. It's been a good con. It's a good first Wizard World Louisville. Excited.

Hope it comes back next year. We are talking to Evan, who you will remember if you've been loitering around on the old Meltdown here, and you would have heard the graphic novels to movies episode. Yes, yes. So, yes, I'm here with the destination. This is our second con in two weeks, so we're a bit exhausted.

I think I've hit one every weekend, some event somewhere. So you're saying I shouldn't be talking at all? I'm surprised I can, actually. Last week I talked so much, and I'm used to not talking to anybody. So I'm just like, these intense weekends, I'm like, I can't handle all this conversation.

Yeah, you've got to ramp it up. I feel like I use car sales when my voice is gone. I'm exhausted. I just want to go home and sleep for days. But it's been fun.

It's been fun. You can't complain. I'm in my element. You know, it's a Comic-Con. This is a geek festival if ever there was one.

Yes, yes. You run into people like Jon Barenthal from Walking Dead. Stop by our booth. Just randomly looking at My Little Ponies. I saw him wander by on mine there.

He just sort of headed on through. But little did I know he liked My Little Ponies. Yeah, yeah. He stopped to take a peek. Then people recognized him and started trying to snap pictures and he bolted, which is a standard reaction from a. celebrities yeah I just had Sean Astin give me a he gave me like the finger point hey you know he gave me one.

Of those I was pretty happy. With that well goodies never say die so. My question is okay which pony was John leaning towards I don't know he was. Leaning down so we have him pinky pie I'm gonna say he might be a pinky pie person I think that's about right actually yeah based on his work he seemed pinky pie based on Laurie oh yeah yeah just zombie killing you want you have it easy he was a softie all along. That might very well be true.

Yeah. I've been trying to do the geek activities with other people. Have you seen any movies lately? You know, I'm trying to, no, yes, yes, sorry, take that back. I've been out of movies for so long, I don't know why, but Lego Movie actually went and saw it.

It's very heartwarming, very good message. I've heard good things. Yeah, I mean, it's one, I tell you, I really like the Toy Story and whatnot. I didn't feel as deeply involved as Toy Story because it's a trilogy, so to speak, as they do it nowadays, but yeah. But no, no, no, Lego Movie, go see it.

It's fun. It's a lighthearted film. I'm not going to say anything, but it's a very interesting ending, very good. I felt it grew up with its audience, so I liked it. It hit on many levels.

Guess who else we talked to. Who else? We also talked to Robert Hayes while we were here. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

He's kind of awesome. I kind of had a feeling he was going to be pretty cool, but I was shocked just how very personable and accessible he was. Everybody he talked to, he was really very cool with, and he was hugging people all the time. He was really cool, and I was. By the end there, actually, I didn't even ask.

He just went into a little personal fact, and it's kind of interesting. I have to say, finding out about his personal life was probably my favorite part of this. So let's go talk to Robert right now. We're here with Robert Hayes. I guess I usually kind of like to start at the beginning.

As a kid, were you interested in film or just as a performer? Boy, as a kid. My dad was in the Marine Corps and we, just like Marine families, get up at three or four in the morning, pack up the station wagon and There were four of us. I have a sister, so there were four of us. And we'd head across country.

I've been across country 15 times by car growing up. And a lot more since then, but just by car growing up. So, you know, your imagination. When you're driving for days and days, your imagination just kind of gets carried away. So I was always goofing around like that.

And then with accents, playing. So. When I stumbled into this, which was in college, because I was a transfer student and that was the only thing available was the acting class, beginning acting. So I took it just so I could get in the school. I had so much fun.

And I started crashing all the other theater set design, set construction and makeup and history of the theater and lighting design and screenwriting and playwriting and all of that stuff. And I just fell in love with it, which is what you have to do if you're going to be in this business. You have to be obsessed with it. And that's how it all kind of came about. I mean, at that point, we're kind of exploring everything.

Did you feel a little more drawn toward comedy? I was very shy growing up, and as is the case with shy people so often, especially when you're always, you know, every year and a half, two years, you're transferred to another school, another school, another... I mean, far away. It's not like you've got friends that are also going to that school. So being that shy, you wind up being the class clown.

And so that's kind of what happened. I kind of developed into a twisted goofball. Well, before we get to Airplane, that same year you did The Girl with the Gold Watch and Everything, which as a kid I found some sort of weird fascination with that. I still am fascinated with that one. I love that one because...

Just imagine having a watch that stopped time. I mean, please. That was great. To me, that was so great. How did that one come about for you?

Well, it was just, you know, they wanted to do that show. By that time, gosh, do. You remember what year that was? I think it was 80. I think it was right about the same.

Because then there was the sequel-ish kind of thing. So at that point, because... That's when Airplane was my first feature film, and I'd been doing television. But that is when I started having heat. So they would send me scripts and want me to do it, and that was one that they wanted me to do.

And Muriel Schreibman was the producer, and he was great fun. He was just delightful. And so that's how I wound up doing that with Pam Dauber. I was going to say Pam Dauber. She's so cute, and she was so sweet.

She was really, really terrific. All of America had a crush on her at that point. How could they not? Oh, my gosh. And Jill Ireland and Charles Bronson was on the set sometimes.

He was intimidating, but still, he was so nice. He was great. I really liked him a lot. So I had a great time with that. I hadn't really been thinking about that one, but that's sort of a... would fit in with this wouldn't it.

I mean and I've seen movies try to sort of take that plot before I've seen one or two since then that did it. Girl the Gold Watch and everything but then there. Was the Girl the Gold Watch Dynamite. Dynamite that's right I remember that one too I didn't even know I hadn't even heard of anything about that one I just know that I thought gosh this would make a great series I wish we could do this as a series and I think they tried to do that but they were doing it with somebody else they probably thought I was too expensive by then Nobody even asked me. Yeah, that point.

I was hurt. Well, then, I guess as you got Airplane, I mean, I guess at some point you just got the script. Did it read? Like, as you're reading it, do you get what became Airplane? Every page.

And I read it on an airplane flying to Minneapolis for an ABC event. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that every single page had... something that made me laugh out loud. Every minute, basically. And then we got back after that weekend, and then the following week is when I went in and I met with the guys and read for them and then did a screen test with Julie, and then they cast both of us, and so it was just great. That was like winning the lotto.

In this business, in my career, that was like the lotto for me. The lottery, yeah. And where did that, brand of comedy. I felt like it almost redefined comedy, and definitely for a whole generation. I feel like they sort of found their sense of humor in that movie.

Well, that was all Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrams. And they were born and raised in Milwaukee. They grew up together. And then they went to, even though they're a couple years age-wise, a couple years difference, but they then all went to Madison, to University of Wisconsin, there. And it was at Madison where they started doing these comedy little short videos and goofy things that became the seeds of what became Kentucky Fried Theater.

And then when they moved to L.A., they started the Kentucky Fried Theater, which became real, had a cult following. It was huge. And then they did Kentucky Fried Movie, and then their second one was Airplane. So I was that same kind of twisted, silly... guy, but they're the ones with the genius for it that knew how to write it, direct it, capture it, and edit it. I mean, they had the timing.

They're the ones. I mean, I think they're geniuses. I love them. And how many times a day does somebody quote things to you? It's so quotable.

It's almost every day. And then, in a minute, you have to go get on a plane. What do you worry every time you get on a plane? Oh, it used to be... Well, it's just fun, but it used to be, you know, as soon as I'd be walking up the gangway, and the stewardesses and the pilots...

And every once in a while the pilots would announce over the loudspeaker, you know, like, surely you can't be serious that we're going to be flying to... They would say a little something. Occasionally they would say, we have a special guest on the plane. They would say things, but mostly they would kind of keep my, you know, they would just say a little line or something as a little joke. Stay away from the fish.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, or something. But. They don't do that as much anymore, but they still do it. And a lot of times they know, but they don't say anything. I mean, I got in one and I thought, gee, this stewardess is kind of rude.

And then when I got off, she said, by the way, I loved airplane. And I realized what it was, was she was trying so hard to not... acknowledge me because she thought that would be rude that she was she was being kinda rude but she really wasn't it was just. The opposite I don't know how to deal with you being here exactly. Exactly so it's been really really fun you know. So and then do you have anything coming out you want to tell people about or what you've got going on.

I just did a cameo in a film and I told my son about it he said oh my god you gotta do it dad uh It's in Sharknado 2. Oh, wow. I mean, that took off so crazy. I play an airline pilot. Seems very fitting.

There you go. So that's the joke. The joke is the joke. Look for that one. So that'll be...

Well, they've got so much CGI and all to do that it may be... Someone said June, but then they said it might be next June because of all the CGI. Yeah. So. Anyway, that was great fun.

So we'll see. I've got some other things sort of in the works, but we'll see what comes to fruition. Is there a place to find you, a website or a Facebook or something? I've got roberthayes.com, and I do everything myself, which isn't anything. So I never keep things up.

I'm on Facebook. My son got me on Facebook, which I never wanted to be on. It's a blessing and a curse. Yeah, I go on it every once in a while, every few months or whatever. Years, every so, you know, so, but I just take care of my dog and watch my son plays music and yeah, yeah.

And my ex, my ex, Cherie Curry, was lead with the Runaways. And so she and I go and see, you know, him play. And then I take her to her gigs and she plays and our son plays in her band with her and So we just have a fun family deal. You guys have a good relationship? We have a wonderful relationship.

We're divorced now. We've been divorced for years now, but we're a very loving family, so it's nice. I saw she's starting to do these. I saw her listed for one in a couple months. I think.

She's been doing them with Lita Ford. Do they get along okay? Well, they used to have a kind of a well-known animosity, but they realized that... That was really a misunderstanding, and now they're very close. They're really good friends.

She sang on Lita's album recently, and Lita's singing on her album that they're still working on right now. And so it's fun. It's really, really fun. We saw Lita at a show, and some guy mentioned to her something about, mentioned Joan. Hey, I saw Joan, and she seemed to have a little attitude towards Joan still.

I guess. Do they all have her? Is Joan the outcast of the bunch? I don't really know. I don't, I don't, that's not in my, you know.

But I think Joan and her manager have the, they got the rights to everything, so they sort of exclude everybody else, I think. I don't know. I mean, that's just my impression. I don't know. It was funny, yeah.

It was weird. But, yeah, it's awesome that you guys still kind of hang out. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, she's sweet.

She'd love it. She would love it. Very cool. The next time if you see her at one of these, you've got to go up to her and say hello and tell her that we did an interview and that she ought to do one, too. All right.

Sounds good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you for talking with us today. Absolutely.

Thank you. In the heart of America, in a small rural community, occurred a crime which shocked the entire nation. A book about this crime by Truman Capote became a worldwide bestseller. Now, a motion picture brings this book to the screen. In Cold Blood.

An appalling and apparently senseless crime. Two apparently heartless young criminals. What is the reality behind the appearance? Richard Brooks, a director of great forcefulness, was determined to capture the reality with absolute honesty. Kansas City.

The film company moves here because it was from this bus terminal that the real Perry Smith made a crucial telephone call. The real Dick Hickok stopped at this gas station on the way to the fateful meeting with his partner. In this store, the killers bought the rope and tape with which they bound and gagged their victims. The relentless pursuit of authenticity leads cast and crew to the actual city streets, the sun-drenched desert highways, the rain-swept country roads, and the garish gambling towns where the real-life drama. Was played out.

Many of these same spectators and reporters were in the sullen crowd that saw the killers brought to this courthouse after their capture. In this courtroom, they were tried for murder, and seven of the jurors are the actual men who decided their fate. Actor John Forsythe portrays the agent who solved the crime. A remarkable lookalike for Alvin Dewey, the real life investigator. These are the real killers.

These are the. Actors who play their parts. So uncanny are the resemblances that they have said, sometimes we get the creepy feeling that we really are those guys. Robert Blake plays Perry Smith. Scott Wilson plays Richard Hickok.

The crime depicted in In Cold Blood took place inside this house. It is reenacted inside this house so that the motion picture itself becomes a terrifyingly true story of our generation, a generation both repelled and attracted by violence. And then we talked to one other person today. Yeah, yeah. Since you were talking about John, we also talked to Herschel himself.

Oh, really? That's the way most people will know him, as Herschel from The Walking Dead. But Scott Wilson, I guess, is the way, you know. Everybody's grandpa. It kind of was.

That's the thing. It's funny. As I watched him with everybody, he does have that presence about him. And then talking to him, he's very Herschel-like. He's very kind of soft-spoken, and he seems like he's very wise, but yet he still.

Kind of doesn't say a lot. Yeah, it was interesting talking to him, though. Made a few words but the words make make a sense and it's very deep it's very deep. Right yeah definitely and like I don't know he not even like I think the wisdom is so far within like cause sometimes I was kinda leading into stuff and he's just sorta like states the facts he's a man of few words as you said yeah I mean I figured he was probably sick to death of talking zombies and then I looked through his other like I kinda forgot in cold blood and like he's in in the heat of the night and like I mean he's in like classics you know like 60s and 70s he's just in this run of classic movies and just like okay let's talk about those like i was way more fascinated with that stuff i'm like everybody wants to talk about zombies now but yeah so yeah we're gonna go get some of the old school stuff with uh with scott so let's go there now.

Um you you were pretty well established by the. Time we even kind of see you on screen uh i was just kind of wondering how did you get into it did you start off with a lot of stage. Work i did i started out uh I hitchhiked from Georgia to California when I was 19. I started studying acting then. I did quite a few plays.

First play was The Importance of Being Earnest. Scenes from Long Voyage Home, Eugene O'Neill's Long Voyage Home. Did plays and workshops for about five and a half years and I got my first film interview which was In the Heat of the Night. That led to In Cold Blood and Ultimately, it's led to me being here right now. I mean, you're in the heat of the night doing a scene with Sidney Poitier.

I mean, what's that like? Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. What an awesome first film experience. And Norman Jewison was the director. Just an exceptional beginning.

I got very lucky on that. I mean, Poitier seemed like he was already well-established at that point, too. Was he like, Did you learn things from him, just being on set? Yes, you learn from him. He was a very kind man, too.

Just working with someone of his caliber is an education in itself. He's a very generous actor, so it was quite a wonderful experience. Well, and then In Cold Blood is an amazing film. I mean, at that point, were you already familiar with the book? No, I wasn't familiar with the book.

And as a matter of fact, Mr. Poitier asked me if I was up for the film. And he and Quincy Jones as well called the director, Richard Brooks, and told him that he should look at me. So I. Went in and met with Brooks.

And then, I mean, that was pretty heavy material. Were you kind of prepared for the road it took you down? I think I was totally prepared to work. I was ready to work in film. And it was, you know, it was a life-altering experience in terms of establishing me as an actor, a viable working actor.

So that was... I got very lucky in... You'd need a lot of luck to go along with some talent. And it was just such dark material. Were you prepared for how dark it got?

Well, I was to a degree. I didn't want the audience to like him. I didn't want to glorify him. I wanted the audience to dislike him. But I wanted them to know that he was a human being as well.

Well, I guess you found yourself in the middle of The Walking Dead then. Yes, I found myself here. Minutes? And it's been totally fun. Were you prepared for the whole wave of success that came with The Walking Dead?

No, I don't think you, you know, you never know. When you came in, it was just kind of hitting that peak, so I think it hit a whole new level once you got involved. It has escalated every season, I think. So it's been a great experience. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. All right, well, we will probably very soon be back in your store, so do you want to tell people where to find it? Yes, we're the destination. We're on Shelbyville Road. We're hidden behind, we're tucked behind Dee's Crafts on Ten Pin Lane.

So come by and check us out. We've got comics, games, collectibles, toys, artwork especially. Anything you want, we can get our hands on it. Yeah, I think I saw Brian over there working some of the artists. Oh, yeah.

That's what these cons are great about. We can pick up new artists. So if you're not able to make it out to a Comic-Con, then we can bring some awesome artists into our store so you can see them locally at all times. The destination. It's like a mini Comic-Con.

It is. That's the atmosphere we want to bring. And you occasionally let weirdos come in there and podcast. So we will be back there very soon recording some sort of show, I am sure. Only the weirdos can podcast.

Only the weirdos. No normals. If they were normal, they wouldn't be running a podcast. No, probably not. All right.

Thank you for talking to us. He couldn't. Figure out how to use it at first. I sanitized Herschel. Because I had the spray kind, and he took it, and he was like, hold out your hand.

Hold out your hand. Why do I got to hold out my hand? He tried to, like, shake it into his hand, and that's not how the sanitizer works. It's spray hand sanitizer. So I popped the cap, and I sprayed his hand for him.

And then I gave it to him, because I'm like, you might have to touch other people. So you might need more hand sanitizer. So there you go. You're all set. So I put it in his pocket.

He was pretty cool. He was pretty cool. Oh, yeah. He was cool. It was cool.

I sanitized him. Can he high-five you for that? I don't think so. That would involve touching me, and he'd just sanitize. Isn't he like the bro?

Like, I kind of like that. Hey. Sort of the bro hand. Oh, the General Lee's going to sleep. He's getting tucked in.

He's getting a little blanket. They're rolling a blanket over the General Lee. It's 99th time for the General Lee. He's sleepy. What?

Hey. Hey. Give them your breakdown of the convention. A lot of bow ties, a lot of fezzes. I don't know.

Not a lot of costumes other than that. No, not a lot of costumes. There weren't as many costumes as there was in Chicago, but I think a majority of it had to do with the weather. It was really rainy. Nasty and cold.

Yeah, I mean, who's going to get all dolled up in their costume and then trudge three blocks in the rain to get it ruined and then come in here I don't know, there were still some people that dressed up, so that was cool. I saw two and a half Lokis. I only counted one because it was the slacker Loki costume. It was like the suit with the scarf. Yeah, there were a couple slackers here.

Come on, if you're going to get in costume, go full nines. Don't just count a half. There was that Loki hoodie you saw. Yeah, the Loki. I'm not even counting that.

That's not even part of the half. Yeah. There were two chicks. What did you do with my card, my business card for Loki chick? Oh, there.

I did get a business card for the Lady Thor and Lady Loki. They are burned with glorious purpose. So, yeah, I'm going to be tagging myself in their photo. Burned or burdened? Burdened.

Oh, okay. Burned with glorious purpose. Seared. Seared. Medium well with purpose.

But, yeah, it's been a good day. I think so. I wore more comfortable shoes, so that was a good thing. Yeah, you weren't here most of the day. No, I was at a meeting, but that's okay.

But I'm just saying you haven't been here the entire day like we have. No, I haven't been here the entire day. I've been the last part of the day. But still, we've learned more about Parkinson's than I probably ever cared to know. Well, yes, that.

They keep running a Parkinson's infomercial behind them. Not really an infomercial. It's raising awareness for the disease. Michael J. Fox has got it, and apparently it's not good.

What? Parkinson's. It's not good. Yeah, it's not. Have you rambled on enough?

I think so. Talking about Parkinson's and how not awesome it is. I agree. It's not awesome at all. Feel free to donate to end Parkinson's.

Yeah, Parkinson's sucks. All right. I think we're wrapping this thing up. You want to tell them bye? Bye.

Bye. Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next week. Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.

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Power of the love. Mayor Goldie Wilson's making too much damn noise. This episode is a production of Movie Meltdown, produced and edited by the Auditude Studios, with the opening music performed by the Empires. For more on how to sponsor or support the show, email producer at moviemeltdown.com. Talk hard!