No Prayer Can Save Us from the Rollerboys

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I'm Brian. I'm Misty. And I'm Jay. You seem like you had to think about that way too long. It's been a long day.

Dramatic pause. And we're coming to you live via digital recording from the passion of awesomeness. Which is super, super duper messy right now because there was a shelf expansion building project and I've not fully recovered the replacing shit back to where it should be. If you're not following Misty on Instagram, where she's documenting these book buildings and the takeover of books to completely crush this house eventually. It's going to be the only thing to hold this shelf up.

Just stacks of books holding the roof up. It'll be the only thing that will totally support the frame of this house. Well, if anything, it'll shield us from the radiation from the oncoming apocalypse. Good times. So how's it going?

It's going. Same shit as last time, I think. Yeah, it hasn't been near as long this time. And we've accomplished even less, because I don't think we've watched anything. Aside from Boyfriend making me spend an evening watching what we've discussed off-podcast, the safety frog thing.

Clyde's safety frog. Which we've decided, because you found them on YouTube, doesn't just exist in your mind. Yeah. And may have been regional, and that's why nobody else around here knows what you're talking about. Yeah.

Well, I didn't realize, yeah, that and New Zoo Review. which is terrifying that i kind of like i remember the owl for some reason so maybe it got picked up on like public television and i saw just enough to go oh no this looks educational and i changed. The channel the uh clyde safety frog uh it was uh oh i had it up here and then i looked up sport billy. I was like Since we're on things that no one else remembers from childhood. It's called The Clyde Frog Show. It was a television program in the 1970s.

It was produced by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television. And it just had a frog puppet. And he just got hurt all the time. And he didn't follow the safety rules. So he wasn't much of a safety frog because he was always getting hurt or kidnapped.

He's showing you what not to do. Or getting set on fire or stuff like that. You can look it up on YouTube. It's kind of disturbing. It's a little bit just, the really weird part is the, like, dead time.

Yeah, there's a lot of dead time. When he just, like, turns and, like, looks at you for a second. Like, he's trying to remember his lines. Like, you know you're a puppet, right? You don't have to.

Remember your lines. But he just oddly stares at you at home. The acting's really bad. It's really bad. And it's just normal people trying to act.

What do you expect from a hand puppet from, like, Mississippi. In the fucking 70s? Public access, actually. I'm amazed that I remembered this because I was probably maybe two or three years old around the time when it came out. Apparently you were following his rules because you apparently get hurt a lot.

You wanted to be just like Clark. I do get hurt a lot. Wait, so this is how you do it, right? You set yourself on fire and then you fall off of stuff. Alright, this frog knows what he's talking about.

Have you gotten kidnapped yet? Uh, no. No, I haven't. You gotta be pretty stupid to go hitchhiking, kid. That was the loving way that he was treated.

I've probably come close to getting killed by a serial killer, though, but no, I haven't. By a serial killer named Clyde. Yeah, you know what? Damn it. You've gotta really be old school to get that reference.

Wow, okay. Brought it full circle. Yeah. That should have tipped you off when you moved in. Yeah, you know.

And he was a giant frog. It really should have tipped you off. Damn frogs. Well, I have to say, as you showed it to me, there's a scene at the beginning there where he's riding a bike, and I'm like, you're no Kermit, let me just tell you. I've seen Kermit ride a Schwinn.

Kermit's pretty damn good. Clyde... He just falls off shit. And gets in trouble. Good times or not.

It's such a weird show that, like, It was burned in my head. Like the theme song, the whole, what do you call it? The beginning of it. Intro. The intro, yeah.

The whole intro. That whole thing was burned in my head. It's been burned in my head for a long time, and I don't know why, you know, fucking 40-some years later, we were sitting here on the couch, and I'm like, Clyde Safety Frog. Oh, you got to see this. And you're like, do I need to get a dog?

Is it on YouTube? Holy shit, it's on YouTube. And I watched way more Clyde the Safety Frog than I'd ever thought I'd ever read it. We watched like probably all the episodes. They only last like five minutes.

And I think what it was is I think it came on. Like when they had filler in between stuff? Uh, it was one of those, I think it came on at the end, like towards the end of a show. Like you remember when they, uh, what was that show? Three, two, one contact where they used to have that, that, uh, ending.

They had the bloodhound gang, I think it was called. Yeah. And it was only like maybe at maybe a 10 minute little mystery or five minute mystery that they had to solve. It was kind of like that. I think it fell at the end of a TV show and just kind of, yeah.

Anybody remember the bloodhound gang? Not, not, not the, not the awesome band, not the band. Whatever. It was way more catchy. And, and they, they, they should have been like a novelty act that went away.

And then a few years later, well, finally, but like for a while, they're like, they kept coming back with another album. I'd be like, uh, these guys again. And then I'd hear the song and be like, damn, that's pretty good. Actually. I'm like, why, why, why can't I just write you guys off?

You're, you're, About as juvenile as. Well, their song with the roof is on fire. That came out when I was in, I think, high school because one of the guys I went to school with, his house literally did catch on fire, so he would go around singing that song all the time. You didn't taunt him with it? I assumed that's where this story was going.

He took it on his own. It became his song. Yeah, it was his theme song for the year. Yeah. The times were not had by him.

Yeah, all of these PBS shows are just very minimal in my childhood brain and or memories. Because, as I was telling you before, anything from a really early age, my brain immediately went, oh, this looks educational. Nope. I just knew to steer clear of anything that might teach me something. So everybody else that has warm, fuzzy feelings about Sesame Street and all of that stuff as a kid, and even Mr.

Rogers and stuff, I didn't dislike him. You better not be disrespecting Mr. Rogers in this household. I respect him now, but as a kid, I didn't watch him much because I was like, this looks like it's for kids. I'm obviously way too mature for this, and I would go watch Looney Tunes.

Again, I immediately went to something that was not in any way, shape, or form educational. which is also why to this day when I walk off a cliff, I'm assuming I'm not going anywhere until I look down. See, I grew up in an Asian household, so everything was educational. Damn it, you're going to learn whether you like it or not. Yeah, well, I wasn't really allowed to watch cartoons either, whereas my dad, he was American, but he hated cartoons. He hated anything fun.

Blasphemy. Anything dealing with cartoons or anything, I was not allowed to watch. So we were not allowed to watch that in the house. It was educational stuff all the time. Screw all that.

I was raised by the television. Yeah, I wasn't. I was raised by Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers. See, those are good.

Now, again, I respect both of them. I didn't see Bob Ross until I was older, I guess. Oh, no, I grew up on that shit. Yeah, but then, yeah, any of the educational stuff, like as a kid, I was just like, whatever, this is for kids. I don't think so.

I'm going to go watch something really smart like Gilligan's Island today. Hey, because Marianne was hot. Because Marianne was hot. Even as a kid, I knew. I did watch Gilligan's Island.

We watched TV shows. But you didn't watch the cartoon, though. Was there a Gilligan's Island cartoon? I'm pretty sure there was. Gilligan's Planet, definitely.

I don't remember if there was a regular island, but they definitely went to space when they got animated. No Scooby-Doo for you? I didn't watch Scooby-Doo until I got older. How did you know to not trust the man next door? I mean, because it's always who the bad guy is.

And the guy in the rubber mask. I don't know. But I mean, we watched like. But there was a guy next door who was in a rubber mask. I don't know.

You don't trust people. I watched Emergency and Starsky and Hutch. I did watch that. I thought the car was awesome. TJ Hooker and Wonder Woman and Batman.

There's a lot of Batman in my job. A lot of Batman. A lot of Wonder Woman. A lot of $ 6 million man. A lot of $ 6 million woman.

I had She-Ra on Thundercats. I guess I had the right era of cartoons. All the Leonard Nimoy In Search Of. Yeah, which girlfriend got me the entire set, but I haven't finished watching it. Yeah, Misty, you caught that wave of the after-school syndication version, because earlier we didn't have that.

Like they played older stuff, but even then it was mostly shows. Like I think that's when I watched like Batman and stuff was when I got home from school when I was really little. And it was like that next wave when they bought like the syndication rights and or they went immediately to syndication, I think, for like He-Man and G.I. Joe and She-Ra and Thundercats. Remember when Saturday mornings were awesome?

You can't even explain that to kids now. Because first of all, they wouldn't understand that you couldn't just watch cartoons whenever the hell you wanted. You wouldn't have entire networks playing nothing but cartoons 24-7. You'd have to backtrack so much to explain that. You only had so many hours of cartoons in the morning.

You had to watch what was actually just on. Like I was saying, as far as not being able to grow up in a household to watch cartoons, I would have to sneak downstairs and turn on the TV. And I don't know how many people remember the old tube TVs, like the vacuum tube TVs, so when you turned it on, it made a loud noise, like a little bit of a pop, and then you had the crackling, and the tubes would, they made kind of a hum as they warmed up, and. Yeah, and. And parents' ears were tuned to that sound.

Oh, they knew. They knew. I would get up, like, I'd try to get up and sneak down there, and they could hear it. I don't know. They could hear, you better not be down there watching cartoons.

I'm not. Educational stuff. Yeah. See, once again, didn't care. And was glad that I was, like, taking care of my own entertainment, because that meant they slept.

Because I would get up, like, because they started so damn early. But again, you only had that run... Of, like, Saturday morning cartoons rolling on for so long, one day, and that's it. And then it's wrestling. So, like, they'd start them at, like, 5.30 or 6, and I'd be like, all right, well, as soon as I can get up, I gotta drag myself down there and start watching cartoons.

Yeah. And Dukes of Hazzard. That's another one that was raised, though. And I remember. Yeah, I got to watch Dukes of Hazzard, because that was a live-action show.

Hell yeah, it was. There was a lot of action on there. Yeah, Dukes of Hazzard. Fucking A. A lot of jumps.

Mm-hmm. Boom. Yeehaws. Yeah. Being a kid was awesome.

For me. I don't think it kind of sucked for you. It kind of sucked for me. That's okay. I get to do all the shit I want to do now.

We can watch all the cartoons we want. Watch all the cartoons. I ate a lot of junk food. See, this is another one. Ride my bike wherever I want.

You couldn't even explain now. But again, we were saying there's only so many cartoons. But here was the thing. First of all, you remember when it would be a big deal because the new season was coming up. And so they'd like change up the lineup of what, because again, half those cartoons didn't last but a season most of the time because they were all like, super novelty.

It's like whatever weird person they'd sign for a deal or whatever was hot. Jason the Wheeled Warrior. Yeah, whatever was hot. Well, Gary Coleman's an angel cartoon. I'm like, no, that's a real thing.

He really was. He played an angel. And now he really is one. But, it all comes full circle. What was the Nintendo one?

It was like Kid video and something. Now that I did. I watched that a lot. I can't remember. There was a kid video but that one was super impressive because that one must have come a little closer into the full on 80s 80s because it also came with videos.

The animated part was the bulk of the show but at the end the band that was the four dorks that they based the drawings on had a music video and they actually had songs. And then I was. Maybe I'm thinking Captain N. Yeah, because that one was not Nintendo related. It was more music video.

Oh, okay. I was just thinking video. They were trying to tap into the music video geeks. And I think I was enough that I'm like, I like this band. So I was recording the songs on my open air tape recorder that I sat next to the TV.

Yeah, I'm super cool. But the, no, the thing that I was like, cause now I'll go back and find like ancient comic books that I had at the time. Yeah. Like the back page would be like the lineup for this coming fall. Look at the new lineup.

Of the cartoons. I don't know. When I was a kid, I never realized there were seasons of anything. It was. Yeah.

You don't know. You really don't at the time. I just remember it was like a big deal because they would switch out to new cartoons. So I didn't. probably fully understand why now I know it's like oh it was a new. Season and they axed all those old ones just new shit would be on and I'd be like where's my old stuff yeah where's the thing I like.

But I was gonna say the thing that was the most like they would do that they would do the comic book lineup and then they would do like one of at least one of the channels would do that like prime time show that would tell you what the new cartoons were going to be this season. It might have been ABC. One of them every year, like an 8 o'clock spot, they would clear out just to do the, here's the new cartoons for the season. And they would have special guest stars on because I just watched one of those on YouTube. I don't remember this.

Well, it had I think it actually must have had Anthony Daniels. Their special guests were R2 and 3PO. And they came on to introduce the new cartoons for the season or something. So yeah, I was like, I kind of forgot about those until I saw that clip. I was like, oh yeah, they did that every year.

But that was the thing. You had to pick out what you wanted to watch. Because guess what, kids? You didn't have a TiVo. You didn't have digital cable that you could take three things at once.

You didn't even have a VCR that you could change. You had to pick a thing. Cause all three networks, I said three, we had three channels and kind of a fourth one, but they didn't play anything good. Certainly not back that far. So yeah, you would have three options.

And then like, if two things that both sounded cool around the same time, you're screwed. You just had to pick one and, and lose out on the other one. And you never see it again. I hope you're happy. Yeah.

These are horror stories for you kids. I'm trying to remember if, uh, if Godzilla came on fairly regularly. Cause I remember as a kid, um, I watched a lot of Godzilla. Like the movies or the animated stuff? No, not animated.

Like live action. Yeah. See, that was 41, I think. They got like a deal or something like every Sunday, I feel like. So I watched a lot of Godzilla.

I watched a lot of Ultraman. Yep. And a lot of Kung Fu Theater. So that's earliest memories. I think, yeah, it was either Saturday or Sunday.

Yeah, they devoted. That's when 41 actually came in handy. They didn't have any of the first run stuff because they were a local before Fort Network was even a thing. They were just a local channel, but they did pick up the cool stuff like that, that now when I look back, I'm like, oh, those are my favorite things. Like all the stuff that was on network came and went and nobody cares.

But like now I think back, I'm like, oh yeah, I was watching Batman on that show or channel. I was watching Godzilla on that channel. Do they, do you remember them, uh, the gas stations having 3d glasses? Because Saturday night. Creature of the Black Lagoon, definitely.

They might have done more of them, but I bought some for the Creature one, yeah. Yeah, they would sell them at the gas station, and then that night you would watch. Of course, I think we had, I don't know if it was in black and white or it was in color. We had a black and white TV. Yeah, you wouldn't know the difference.

If you had a black and white TV, again, kids, Google it. I can't even begin to explain. It's like, wow, black and white TV. That was what my, yeah, we had it. The fact that we even had an extra TV, but eventually it ended up in my room, it was a glorious 13-inch, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah. Which is pretty big for a kid. Yeah, yeah. That's what my first TV was, was a 13-inch. It fell off a truck.

Did you push it off a truck? No, that's... But Dave told my mom it fell. That's how you got it. That's how I got it.

I question that on a lot of things I've ended up with over the years. And the antennas that you had to like sit and like. Oh, man. I had. Rabbit ears style.

Oh, I had stolen foil out of my mom's. Foil, clothes hangers, and. Did you ever get beat with those clothes hangers? Oh, dude. I've got beat with clothes hangers.

What have you got beaten with? I've got beat with a lot of stuff. Like clothes hangers, switches. Flip flops. Flip flops, wooden spoons, sticks, yardsticks.

My mom's favorite was yardsticks. Yardsticks and flip flops. I can imagine the sound of being whooped with a flip flop. I always had a flip flop. Well, she's always wearing flip flops, so she could take her flip flop off and beat you with it or throw it at you.

Always got a weapon handy. Good times. Yikes. Yeah, but I used, like, pie pans and foil and all kinds of stuff just so I could get a channel. I don't think ours was too bad.

I do remember we did have one of those separate ones you would buy separate that was like a weird little box that also had the big circle piece in the middle and two rabbit ears on each side. Yeah, I thought the rabbit ears were for your... what is it your vhf channels and then the circular one was for like. Your uhf channels probably i do feel like we had. One of those which what what uhf channels were there was it just 41 and 32 Yeah, it had to have been 41 or 32. Yeah, because one of them was, because I remember on the little one, you had like a separate knob.

It was like a big knob for the VHS. Yeah, it was a top dial that just went from like 0 to 12 or something like that. And then like 32 was on the other little knob. Little knob, yeah. It was like all the lower ones, and you could only get the two.

Or you could get. public access, or public educational TV. Which, again, I never watched. It was like 15, public entertainment. Or the big satellite dishes. Do you remember those?

I didn't have any, but my friends had them. I went into my grandma's house, and switching from one thing to another, you could hear the satellite. And it was like all the way across the yard. You remember how big my grandma's yard was, right? Yeah.

And you remember how big that satellite was, and you had to sit there, and you're like, We would watch it sit there and move. Like, all right, how long is this? Okay, there we go. Were you looking up in the air for the satellite? Mm-hmm.

We weren't very smart kids. Good times. This has been Reminiscing with Old People. Remember when you had to go rent a VHS player? Hardly ever.

Eventually, we just had one. But yeah, I don't think we bothered with it at all before that. We didn't. We did. Yeah.

We did. I think we just eventually got one, and then we rented movies all the damn time. Well, you know where the AutoZone is on Grant Line? Uh, yes. That's where there used to be a video store there, and you know the apartments?

Oh, yeah, yeah. We would have to walk down there, and we would rent the VHS. Oh, wow. Yeah, those things were heavy. Yeah, and it had like a built-in handle on it.

Because my mom would usually, she didn't drive that much. Yeah. So we'd have to walk down there from those apartments. It's where the AutoZone is because it used to be a fucking red giraffe or something. I don't know.

And you'd have to carry it back, lugging it, you know. I'd be responsible for the cassette tapes or the VHS tapes. What a crazy world. We just didn't. Yeah, we didn't have one.

I think my father won one through his work. And then I remember the first movie we watched was The Heavenly Kid. was the first movie we watched. And then I think the second movie we watched was cannonball run. I think I've told on here, but the earliest, like of the VHS era that I remember was the, uh, we didn't even have anything for, I think the first couple of years, but you remember my uncle Terry, he was like ahead of the curve. So he had, he got the video camera version, which came with two separate pieces, like to do the video, the video camera part was separate.

It was a smaller thing. that you wired up to this like over the shoulder squared off VHS with a top loader tape in it. I remember those. That you carried with you to shoot. And then it had a whole separate box that was like the same size that was like the channel setup that you put those two together and you could watch TV through it and you could play the tapes through it. So he had that for like a year or two before we ever got anything.

So yeah, it was so old school. It was top loading and a wired remote. I remember being super upset once that my mom would not let me rent fritz the cat that's i'm like it's a cartoon. Now have you pieced together yeah the thing is it's actually pretty good i watched it years later assuming it was just going to be nothing but like animals having sex which is the way they kick it off. I mean kitties like cats i don't mean like well yeah children porn kitty cats kitty cats.

And in fact that is how they kick off the movie it is kitty cats having sex but like once you get past that like there's a whole plot that i did not expect like it's pretty well put together as a movie the second one was different people involved and it gets. Like oh there was a second one yeah there's a second i don't know i never got. To watch the first one the first one's pretty good like i kind of like the plot of the first i think the second one like they're trying to get more political and it gets into like anti-war or something i don't remember really been a long damn time since i watched those even as a sort of adult but yeah i i just knew of them i don't think i ever paid attention to them that much as a kid but as i got older i was like obviously i need to watch this it's a dirty cartoon which again is very minimal like once you get past that there's random cat boobs somewhere along the way but for the most part it's like an actual story and like yeah.

Do you hear that people are actually legitimately upset that they desexualized the bunny was her name luna from the what's the basketball bugs bunny. Movie oh that space they're. Making a second one and people are all like upset that they desexualized a cartoon rabbit i'm like. Because she was hot come on now but seriously. People are like we want our sexy bunny i'm like what are you talking about are you.

I don't think you understand the levels of geekdom you're dealing with wow See, that is a very generational dividing movie. I never watched Space Jam. Anybody who grew up on Looney Tunes before that, that movie came out and. They hated it. It just goes against everything Looney Tunes ever.

And so I just assumed everybody hated it. And then I hit that next wave of kids and started working with people that were that age. And they were like, no, man, Space Jam's awesome. And I'm like, oh, shit. You were a little kid when that came out.

That was your Looney Tunes. so yeah that's one of those dividing lines that like if you grew up with it it's super cool and those are the kids now that are like yeah I want to see a new win but I'm just like the people even older than that are like. See I'm right in the middle I'm Tiny Toon Adventures which. Tiny Toons was fine though I was more Animaniacs but Tiny Toons had. Its good stuff well they were around the same. Time yeah they were the same time well Tiny yeah it's like Tiny Toons came first and I was kind of like Again, I'm like, it's almost too cutesy.

I don't know. But Animaniacs was just. Weird right off the bat. Animaniacs was good, and they threw out adult jokes. Left and right.

A little too adult sometimes. What? Because we won't have fingerprints. Ew. A little too adult sometimes.

Which is why they probably, when they tried to do it, they had to redo everything. Because you can't do hello nurse jokes anymore. Because it's creepy now. Which I'm like, they're making a new Beavis and Butthead movie. Yeah, I think we saw that online and both of us were like, yeah, this is probably going to be a terrible idea.

Axl Rose is guest starring on fucking Scooby-Doo. You sent me that clip and I was just like, on the one hand, am I jealous that he gets to be on Scooby-Doo? Yes, of course I am. On the other, what a weird pairing. Yeah.

Didn't he do a Looney Tunes song a couple years ago? Yeah. I think, again, you probably sent it over and went, what the fuck is this? And I was like, I don't know. I don't know.

He's like, I can make money. On just my image and to kids who have no idea who the hell I am. Yeah. Because what kid watching Scooby-Doo is going to know who the hell Axl Rose is? Yeah.

But yeah, their whole little... I remember their whole little. their intro gimme five handshake thing that they did rock and. Roll legend rock god axl rose or some shit like that. They did and i was just like fred how do you even know who he is it was like you're shaggy you're best 70 years old dude when you still wouldn't know who he is i don't know but it's very strange and how did they how are they hooked up with him like how was shaggy and scoob friends with him i don't weed i didn't watch the rest of the episode i don't get it but So weird. So have we actually watched anything to discuss for the podcast?

We did watch something. We started watching V again. And then. Still on the nostalgia train. Then we stopped.

Did I say I wanted to watch V? Yes, you did. Yeah, I wanted to watch V again. And I'm not going to argue with watching Mark Singer. And I don't remember why I wanted to watch V.

Because we never finished it the first time. Oh, yeah. We never finished it the first time. Oh, I was trying to explain it to a guy I work with. So.

How do you explain this to somebody who is? It's hard, especially. It's like everything we've said up till now in this episode. Okay, I'm working. This is how things are going now.

My coworker is about a little bit older than my kid. Yep. So that was the last job. Yeah. All day long.

I hung out with the cool thing is awesome. But I'm like, references were totally different. Well, this kid, I think his dad raised him. Right. Because he, like he, he, we were just talking one day and he goes, Hey, did you ever see the Transformers movie?

And I was like, uh, no. I hate that bullshit. And you're like, wait. Which one are you talking about? And he goes, you know, the 80s animated.

And I was like, dude, I saw that in the theater. Fuck yeah. Crazy talk. Yeah, yeah. We started talking about that.

I was like, how do you know? My dad made me watch it. We said, yeah, I love that part. And we were just talking about stuff. I love that part when they kill everybody.

Yeah, they do, don't they? I was like, I'd forgotten about that. I went back and watched it. I haven't watched it forever. That's it.

Okay, hey, I got something I'll watch. I'll watch the Transformers movie. I fucking forgot about that. Yeah, totally forgot about that. And they do, they kill everybody.

Like half of the characters. Yeah, and I remember as a kid, because it was for one of my buddy's birthday parties. It was me, him, one of our other friends in the neighborhood, his sister, and We went to Chuck E. Cheese for his birthday. Nice already.

All right. Fancy. Played a bunch of video games. Ate pizza. Got fat.

You know, like somebody probably threw up. I don't know. Crawled around in some giant cheese. Yeah. Crawled around the dirty ass mouse holes, you know.

I'm sure my buddy probably assaulted another kid because he was always beating. You looked at me. I had to punch you in the face. He was always beating the crap out of kids. But did he look at him crossways?

I don't know. It's reason enough. We went and saw the Transformers movie, but it was... Yeah, seriously, when you're a kid. They get murdered, man.

They murder everybody. I was like, what the fuck? It sounds like a cheerful birthday party. Yeah, I was like, holy shit, they just killed, you know. Not to mention.

These are my toys at home. I can't play with these now because they're dead. You're playing with their little corpses. Sorry, Optimus. I'm sorry.

But I went back and watched it and I was like, holy shit. I've never seen it. We need to watch it. I need to watch it, but not... not on YouTube and in sections. Cause I think it cut out a lot of stuff, but, uh.

They also say bad words. They do. I was never a big transformers person. I don't, I've never seen like an episode of. The animation on the movies in my brain.

Fucking awesome. Yeah. Uh, the animation of most stuff today. I mean, the show, they stepped it up a little bit more. Yeah.

They stepped it up for the movie. Yeah. But I forgot how well done the movie was. Hmm. And I was like, wow, I don't think there's anything else out right now animation-wise that's that good.

They don't put the time into animation like they used to. I mean, it's one that I haven't gone back to re-watch in what we're calling adulthood now. But I kind of remember it on cable because I didn't see it in the movie. Go back and watch it. So yeah, I feel like it's one of those I should revisit, but it also might be traumatic.

Yeah, Leonard Nimoy's in it. Orson Welles is in it. Orson Welles is in it. Yeah, Orson Welles. He's, what is he, Omnicron?

Yeah, he's like the big bad. Yeah. So just that whole, like that opening sequence where he's like this, he's a planet and he eats other planets. That happens in space. Just these huge fangs that grip this other planet.

You see all these little robotic people, you know, the aliens, and they're all getting, they're all getting slaughtered by this planet that's just ingesting them. And it goes through the whole thing where it's just like breaking them down. Yeah, it's kind of weird. Sounds depressing. It's not really a great birthday movie.

I mean, yeah, it's not fun for kids. But it was the 80s. So there wasn't such thing as like everything had like very life or death. I don't think there was anything like, hey, everything's going to be rainbows and sunshine. It was all like, hey, kids, you're going to get killed.

Well, it was all or nothing. It was, yeah, your Transformers are going to get killed. Or the Care Bears. Yeah. And they were pretty happy most of the time.

Yeah. Gloomy Bear, he's a little bit pissy. But other than that. That is my favorite. They were pretty happy all the time.

Oh, I went back and watched the G.I. Joe movie, too. I forgot about that. I haven't. Yeah.

I haven't even. I went back and watched some episodes a few years back. And they still, again, that was such an epic storyline in my brain. Yeah. And I don't, and again, like in my mind, like those series went on for like months.

Yeah. I think it was like four episode arc or something. Pretty much. But in my head it was like, it took up my whole summer. It was this wonderful, weird building of serpent bad guy.

That whole storyline was like the coolest thing ever. It was. And like, see, I collected comic books too. That was kind of my cartoons in the early years. I had a good amount of them at the time.

But mainly because I could sneak them. from my friend's house. I'm reading! Yeah, you know, they could. No TV noises. I'm learning with this book!

They had the whole, like, when they were doing that whole, you know, the Arise of Serpentor kind of thing, they covered the comic books too, and the comic book version was actually a lot better than the cartoon version. I think it was a little bit darker, but I remember watching them both at the same time, and maybe that's why it seemed like it took all summer, because, you know, yet the The other shows, they may have played, like, four episodes, but the comic books probably went on for, like, you got one a month. So then it went. On for four months. I think we always, like, just in your head, especially when you're a kid.

Well, everything lasts longer. Everything is a bigger, because, yeah, on an episode months ago, we were, like, having flashbacks of Battle of the Planets. But we were like, yeah, that one big storyline. And we went back and, like, found it on YouTube, and it's two parts. It was two episodes.

And somehow in our brains it was like the biggest thing ever. And I was just like, yeah, that's how kid brains work. Like everything's huge and it takes over your whole life. Yeah. Battle of the Planets.

I forgot about that. Such a great cartoon. That was another one that I think I had to go over to my friend Ty's house to watch. Yeah. So.

Well, on the animated front, I had one thing that I was going to get to specifically because I saw it the Just like the last couple of weeks. And I thought it specifically tied to you, Misty. On a show that I'm not really that big of a fan of. Because they keep making new animated primetime shows. And most of them, I just don't care.

And I don't... Some of them are fine, I guess. I don't know. Fox keeps cranking out a whole new lineup. And I just keep kind of having them on in the background while I'm doing other stuff.

And I'm just like, eh. Not really... Not going to make an effort to watch. One of which is Bless the Hearts. Never heard of it.

I mean, it's on after The Simpsons. Yes, The Simpsons is still on. Holy shit, are you serious? Oh, yeah. So, Simpsons is on, and then they play Bless the Hearts, which is another animated thing.

And it's, I don't know, it's two weirdo, backwoods, little town people. I don't care about them. Most of them. The only one that's kind of cool, the oldest daughter, well, the only daughter that the main character lady has is like the teenager... And she's super cool.

She's got kind of a Daria vibe, I'll say. She's the artsy kid that's too cool for all these dumb people. That are around her. I'd say Jane's more artsy. Well, both of them were kind of that same everybody else's stupid vibe.

So it's kind of that. So it's her and her friend that are like super artsy and too cool for everybody. But there's also the old grandma that's just crazy and annoying. But they decide in this last couple of episodes to start a podcast. And they're going to do a true crime podcast.

Because the grandma had like some connection to a story in this town, like from years ago where somebody got murdered. So like, I didn't pay much attention when that was going on. And I came back this last episode and I realized I was like, well, this is what's going to happen if Misty decides to start a true crime podcast. So grandma started coming up with all these stories about all these true crimes. And then everybody in the town was like pissed off at the, at the teenage girl and like yelling at her and throwing things at her where she went.

And she realized that all of the true crime was just her grandma making up stories about other people in the town that had pissed her off. And I was like, oh, well, here we go. My grandma would totally do that. So, like, anybody that, like, stole their boyfriend in high school, they, like, here's a whole story about how she murdered a guy and got rid of him in a bathtub. And, like, so she had one for everybody in the town eventually.

So the whole town hated her because she made up stories about him. I realize how many people today have stolen my ideas. Because as I listen to all my podcasts about 90s YA horror, like Fear Street and Christopher Pike books, do you not recall me saying in an episode in a hotel room with that comedian chick, whose name I don't remember, that I wanted to have a podcast where I talked about Fear Street books? And that was how long ago? Four, five years at least?

Oh, it was way longer than that, dude. You can't do that long. Huh? And? And they stole my idea.

Now there's a bajillion of them. But at the time when you said that, I don't think there was any. But you never did it. I didn't because nobody else would do it with me. Are you going to read a fair share of books?

I mean, I would have, but I wasn't going to read anything. You just have to tell me the book. There are several podcasts that are like that where it's like one person could have been me. All Beyond the Show is like a. Sounding board.

The Yes Man. I'll Be Your Hype Guy. That was way more than four years ago. You're the flavor flavor of this show. Oh yeah, we're going to read books.

That's bound to have been way more than four years ago. No, I just heard her on another show, so I was trying to. But yep, that was our episode with Jackie Cajun. How long ago was that? Way more than four years.

If you say so. I do say so. I don't think it was that long ago. I don't think it could be more than five. I don't know, it just seems like longer than that.

But yeah, everybody stole my idea. People, stop stealing our idea. I know, right? Or we need to cash in on these things. Well, you can only do one thing.

You can't do the podcast and have the super huge Instagram book collection at the same time. That's true. You do have quite an operation going on the Instagrams. Not really, because I only have like less than 200 followers. So, I mean...

But that whole, like again... geeky as I am and into my areas sometimes I see just a window and other geeks and I'm just like oh yeah I get it but that's not me because then like all the people that are following you some of them I'm like oh this person seems cool and I start going through their stuff and I'm just like whoa much like your room in there I'm like you guys going deep on these books so I'm like geeks finding other geeks out there and be like not my thing but I totally respect your dedication to the craft being a geek. Do we watch anything else? We're about to. I say we take a break and watch this week's movie. And it's gonna be awesome.

Oh, I hope so. There will be no shit talking about Corey, though. You don't even have to. You're gonna have so many other things to be distracted by. Yeah.

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I know it's hard to go out into the world, but I actually went into a place and I brought my goods up to the register and they went to ring me up and damned if it didn't say 666. Ooh. Fantastic. And the woman behind the counter went, Oh God. Like she, she kind of responded.

And I was like, nah, that seems about right. It's fine. So, it's obvious that we're in tune with the dark forces of the universe. Clearly. And, you know, one of those things is probably because we're always rolling 20-sided die.

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I'm checking out the Wikipedia page. I'm trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. You didn't know what was going on? No, because there's different stuff on the Wikipedia page. I mean, I kind of got an idea of what's going on.

As much as there is. It's very all over the place, but yeah, I get it. It's just. Amazing. Yeah.

When was this movie made? Again? 90s? 1990 is what they're crediting it. Because you've got these movies that always have that weird dystopian like they they all of them all of them that came out in the 90s they had like that weird kind of post-apocalyptic thing but it wasn't like nuclear war post-apocalyptic it was.

It was the real world that we're living in in right now it was it was it. Was either you know social economic collapse and everybody's just kind of living like vagabonds and shit like that you know. So again a good portion of the people in the country right yeah but i mean we were talking about this uh the other day we were talking about the movie um. One of the guys at work, we were both talking about Double Dragon. Remember Double Dragon that came out?

Mark Dacascos? I remember it happening. I remember nothing about it. I'm sure I watched it on cable. But you don't remember how everything was kind of the same way?

Kind of the same weird future? Super Mario Bros. Oh, that, definitely. Same thing. I love Super Mario Bros.

Weird fucking, like. And it's its own, well, it's at least an alternate universe, kind of. Definitely the Dino version is, but even the regular New York is kind of weird. It's kind of weird, yeah. The Dino universe is, like, totally post-apocalyptic, but yet just weird, regular shit, too.

But that's what they did, like, it kind of seemed like in the 90s, it was like, they had that, but then they threw in something weird, like, everybody's, like, there's an army, but they're all wearing rollerblades, you know? It's just like, what? I like even when there would be, like, a minor version that they'd throw in. The one that I always love when you, like, make up a new drug. Yeah.

There's, like, everything else more or less about Harley Davis and the Marvlo Man is, like, just kind of, like, it's the regular time that it was shot in. Like, everything's normal, except it's, like, Two years in the future when there's this new drug that now everybody's into. But like everything else about the world is totally normal. Yeah. But there's that little weird subculture that's almost like on the verge of post-apocalyptic.

Think about how weird it is now. So think of 2019 if they made a movie. Two years from now, in the future, when there's a virus and everybody has to wear masks and how weird is that? They made that movie. It was Contagion.

We just watched that. The one we just watched was It Comes at Night. Yeah. Which they shot in 2017. Just happened.

But yet the entire thing is. People are boarded up in their homes. Everybody's wearing gas masks. Everybody freaks out when they come in contact with anybody else. They're all worried about getting exposed and getting infected.

And I'm watching it now. I'm just like, They had no idea. It was only a couple years ago. They had no idea how accurate this would be. We're living this.

Minus the entire fall of civilization. But maybe they're just a little, give it a couple weeks. They were still early in the year. That's what I'm saying. That could all happen still.

So that was really weird watching that. Because it's just a couple years. It wasn't like 20, 30 years ago when they were making this crazy. I'm like, they didn't know how close they were to making that actual thing come true. future movies and telling yeah that's what sold me on this week's silver theater feature prayer of the roller boys. Can we just take a second to talk about how pretty cory haim was.

You're jumping the gun i don't. Even care you haven't even read the rest of this nonsense that doesn't cory haim the year. Of this pretty cory haim is 1990 the director is rick. King there was a director in this. There was And the plot, if you want to call it that.

According to IMDb, in a dystopian near-future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful, drug-dealing, rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end the rain. Wait, what is? In order to end the rain for good. That is oddly worded. As always, IMDb.

Spoiler alert, we're going to ruin this magical film and you should go watch it. Like ruin it? Okay, spoil it. We're going to spoil it. I mean, we can't ruin it any more than they did.

Spill grape juice on it. Totally ruin it. But it's awesome and the most awesome thing is we watched it on YouTube and it was free. Because my bootleg DVD looks like shit. You did have a bootleg DVD because it was Corey, but When we looked at it, the free streaming version looked even better.

Everybody's so spoiled on HD and shit like that. 5K. I'm like, dude, I don't care. It kind of reminds me of watching VHS movies. It gets to a point of, yeah, it's like I don't care about super high def, but there's a point where it's so degraded.

Because there was one I watched months ago on YouTube, and by the end I was like, I'm not even sure what's going on anymore. The picture looks so bad. So I was like, I might have to re-watch this for real. Thankfully, this one's not. This actually looked surprisingly good for an old movie.

And I'm guessing they didn't do like a Criterion edition of this where they restored it. They do have an official DVD version. There is an official. A DVD. Yeah, because I looked.

I was like, I'm assuming this hasn't made it to Blu-ray yet. No, I don't think so. So. If you remember, rollerblading in the 90s was so cool. so cool well okay maybe it wasn't. No it was that's the thing like i mean it was so cool i didn't even attempt it was but it was gonna fall down but.

Well i i you know i was heavy in the skateboard scene for a long time from mid 80s all the way up into the like late 90s and even at one point had got a set of rollerblades because i worked uh on campus and they wouldn't let me skateboard so but they would let me rollerblade. See i want to say what the fuck's up with that i don't know just hating on some skaters yeah well but rollerbladers are new and cool. Well rollerbladers yeah they didn't seem as i guess they didn't tear up stuff as much because all they did was just kind of jump off steps. You weren't grinding on things come on no we weren't. Grinding on things so But I tell you what, those things did hurt my ankles a lot.

Dude, seriously. They hurt my ankles. I never went rollerblading, but I went ice skating one time. I was in pain. You were there.

I'm trying to remember how much you fell down. Probably none because I was probably too close to the wall to actually hit the ice because I was too terrified that as soon as I hit that ice, somebody's going to run over my fingers. So wait, were you in a Final Destination movie? Dude, terrified. I like hugged the wall the entire time.

I think it was a rail. I told you about that, didn't I? I don't know. The guy I used to work with. I don't know.

He told me lots of things. He used to play ice hockey growing up. And he was, they were playing a tournament against another team. And it was, I guess it was another school. And one of the guys he knew was on the other team.

They both kind of had this beef between each other. But the guy knocked him down and stepped on his hand. With the ice skates. And it almost severed a couple of his fingers. Nightmares.

Even amongst hockey fighting, that's crossing a line, man. Yeah. You just throw your gloves down and punch him in the face, but that's crossing a line. Yeah, this kid tried to. So, yeah.

My roller blade tie-in. I didn't have them. I don't think I've ever put any on. But for months, I rode around with some of my car. What a weirdo.

They weren't mine. We did, again, back to the olden days of being an art geek, they used to do those, like, get-togethers, and people would, like, hang out and, like, paint shit. There was this girl. She'd been there quite a few times, but I don't think I even knew her name. And, like, at some point, like, she had come from, I don't know, rollerblading, I'm guessing, and she, like, brought those in with her, and then she left and left them there.

And normally it was like maybe a week or two would go by and we'd end up back there again and be like, all right, well, everybody else was already leaving. I'm like, I'll just take them, throw them in the car. I won't forget them that way. I'll just leave them there. She didn't come back for like six months.

She had no rollerblades to get anywhere. She drove her car there. So like for the longest time, they just sat like in the passenger side floor of my vehicle as I drove around. And I was like, one of these days, I'm going to have to give them back. I also just started referring to her as Blades.

She never had it. I don't remember what her name was. She's just Blades to this day. So I have no idea what happened to Blades. Eventually, she came back and I gave them to her.

I was like, you left these here like six months ago. Do you want these? You didn't have to wear rollerblades back in the 90s. You could just have them draped over your shoulder. That's how cool you would be.

Yeah. I partially blame hackers. For your dream life. For everything. For everything about your life.

Dude, I love Hackers. I can't lie. I love that. It's got a great soundtrack. It's got rollerblades.

You were rolling. Around being like. Angelina Jolie with the worst hair ever. I don't care. I said it.

A popular opinion. She looked awful in that movie. I'm not thrilled with a lot of short girl haircuts. Her hair was horrible. Yes.

But in the 90s, I really liked girls with short hair. And I don't know if that was just that time period. But I think just for that time, because you had the singer from the Cranberries. Yeah, Dolores, yeah. You had her.

There were a couple other girls that were starting to do that pixie haircut. And some of them can pull it off. Some could. That's what's weird. I don't know what the rule is.

But there's some that I'm like, she's wearing it okay. And then like 90% of other girls, I'm like, oh, no, that's. A bad idea. I think you have to have kind of an elfy little pixie face. That helps probably.

Do I look elfy enough? No, you don't. That's not really at all what I describe you as. I would look horrible with that. I would have a funny shaped head.

Misty doesn't look like a Keebler. But she does like cookies. I do. You're going to live in a tree eventually. It's a matter of time.

I didn't say that. Oh, Misty, she likes those cookies. I just said you live in a tree. But yeah, the amount of rollerblading that took place in this movie, which we did watch a movie. That's the whole movie.

Made my ankle hurt. I was just like, ugh. My ankles are sore just from watching this, because it's flashbacks from that one time I went ice skating. While we're on the rollerblading part, which is the good part of the movie. Synchronized rollerblading.

It is weird that there are scenes with them not wearing rollerblades, and then very shortly after they'll be wearing them. I never see them carrying the other footwear. They're never on rollerblades carrying some chucks. And the other way, they're never wearing their tennis shoes carrying the rollerblades. Yeah, there's a couple scenes.

They just magically appear when they need rollerblades. They were never wearing Chucks. I would have never noticed. There was a couple scenes where Corey had his rollerblades slung over his shoulder. In the beginning, like when it was part of that, like coming out of that scene.

But the other times, they would just magically switch out because they needed that to be the next scene. It's like, oh, you need to be wearing rollerblades now. Go put them on. He's wearing like Heelys. Blade Heels.

If only in 1990 we could have seen the future that is Heelys. Yeah. Good lord. Yeah, there's just so much weird stuff going on in this movie. That is my favorite part, is the dystopian future.

Now, granted, I'm a sucker for any dystopian future. Yeah. But I was suckered in. It made me remember this one because I recently watched Solar Babies. What the fuck is that?

That sounds awful. No, it's got your boy Lucas Haas in it. Give me a second. He was a lady in white. I was trying to think of some other things that he did.

It was right around that same time. He's still the little kid in that. It's got the previously mentioned Jamie Girtz that I keep trying to sell people and how cool she is. Everybody was like, Jamie who? Hey, Lost Boys.

See, that's what I said. I was like, have you not seen Lost Boys? Star, was that her name? Yeah, Star. Isn't it Jason Patrick in that too?

Maybe not. Maybe I'm delusional. It's got Peter DeLuise. Everybody's in that movie. Solar Baby?

Yeah. At the time, it was kind of a, I won't say big release, but it had enough backing to pull those people in and create a dystopian future, which is mostly desert. They should have given it a better name. Oh, no. It's stupid.

Even in there, they make fun of it because the bad guys have a team of rollerblading. They're just regular roller skates, but they have roller skating future sport people. And they're like, the Scorpions, because they're cool. And even they're like, why did you name yourself Roller for Solar Babies? That's dumb.

So it is a dumb name. It's awful. But it takes place in some past future world where it's just desert everywhere. And there's orphan kids living out in what is essentially a prison out in the middle of nowhere. And then kind of the most we get of a city is sort of like Barter Town in Thunderdome.

It's just sort of a ramshackle burning rubber to survive and trading shit. So it's even more dystopian. So I've watched them both now and I've decided this is the prequel. So this is the end of the 90s when everything started falling apart. And then you fast forward several generations and you get to Solar Babies.

They're just all hanging out at Santa Cruz and Venice Beach and stuff. Or Santa Monica. Santa Monica. Sorry, not Santa Cruz. Jesus.

Because I saw locations and I was like, oh, have we been there? I want to know. Yes, we've been there. Well, that's what, yeah, you were like, where did they film this? I was like, I think it's just regular old L.A.

And then they just shoved in some other crap. Most of it just seems like one nudge away from already in bad shape areas. They were just like, and here, put this mist on your head. And Yeah, you know, the homeless tents, I mean, yeah, it looks pretty much like it does in the movie. That's what I'm saying.

That's the disturbing part of this movie is how much of it has come true, even more so than it was in 1990. Yeah, I mean, we're not into the full-fledged race war yet. We got pretty damn close this past year. We don't have... you know and his little he's wearing rollerblades his little. Tv speech in front of the american flag about making america great again essentially i was like fuck did we not just get out of this it's it's got moments that i'm like this is a little disturbing now actually trying to save the country from you know those foreigners coming in and taking over i'm like oh jesus really like I'm just.

Trying to figure out, was there stuff that was cut from the movie? Because I was reading the Wikipedia plot summary, and there's stuff in the plot summary that I'm like... See, when I. Watched that first time, I was like, they're really kind of two-thirds of the way in before they get to the point of like, oh, and by the way, they're horrible racists. Like, in the beginning, it's sort of like, they got long coats and they synchronize rollerblades.

I couldn't figure it out. Like, they're just kind of like, he says, like, Corey keeps going, like, stay away from them. They're trouble. But, like, they never really elaborate for the first time. half of the movie. I just thought they were trouble because they were selling drugs.

Yeah. That's what I thought too. Then later they're drug pushers and it's like, all right, that's bad. We found out there were rival gangs. Yeah, which again is just gang war in LA.

Yeah, but then you start, I mean, you start picking up subtle hints because you notice all the guys in the roller boys are all white and all the people that they're attacking are usually Mexican, Asian, African American. That was kind of the mixture of, yeah, the gang seemed like they were a mixture of Asian and Mexican. So, I guess they joined together to fight off the weird white people. Yeah, I mean, when I watched it that first time, I was like, I was more, I noticed more of like, well, they're all freaking like sexist because you notice they're doing roller girls. And they're only recruiting the weird little boys.

Like they're not bringing in all of the kids for the next generation. Well, yeah, they're using them to push the drugs. I know. So they don't get caught. But they're still just like, we just want the boys.

We don't like girls or anyone else, by the way. but we're not going to get to that for like 45 minutes. Yeah. Then we'll let you know. Then they have camps that all the people are living in. Yeah.

They never really go into the camps. Well, again, that's why I think is this, that's the part of this I think is cool. It is dystopian, but like they don't spell out. It's all kind of in the background. Yeah.

And there's like no rhyme or reason to it because I'm like, some of it just looks like homeless camp prison, like, Everything is completely falling apart. And then they switch you over and it's like, okay, but there's a police station still that seems functional. Well, yeah, they've been defunded. But then they go to the hospital and I'm like, okay, so there's kind of a functional hospital. They just can't afford lighting.

It's a really dark hospital, but he's still hooked up to equipment that has power running to it. So I'm like, how much is falling apart and how much hasn't? Like, I don't get it. During part of it, You notice that his little brother's kind of like, you know, if we don't have money, or either Corey, I can't remember which one is there, talk about, you know, if we don't have money, we're going to end up in the camp. Yeah.

So I'm assuming that people that don't have money or that lost their houses and jobs, they're homeless, so they live in the camp. you know and again where we they. We're just not that organized yeah everybody makes their own ramshackle camp now instead of the government stepping in and be like look we're gonna lock you in a camp you're cool with that right yeah that's the next step the future that is 1990 though. Oh after the great crash i do again they're making their little commentaries because we're also coming out of Like the 80s is the decade of greed. Yes. The greed is good.

Wall Street, you know, that rule like ruled that whole decade. So now we get to 1990. The only way we can make a comment is be like, our parents were horrible. They were greedy. And because they were so greedy, our entire system collapsed.

Way to go. Yeah. It's the age of excess. Yeah. So I like that's kind of their little comeback as we enter into this new decade. the wonder that's going to be the 90s.

So what about the 90s? The 90s, like us as far as being parents, do kids look at us and go, I mean, they can't look at us and go, you guys are greedy, you can't crash the system. Or are they just like, you guys were slackers and you didn't fucking do anything except for start podcasts. Yes. But even that took you 25 years.

Yeah, really. You just sat around and didn't do anything for a long time. And got crappy jobs and didn't accumulate any money. Yeah. And now, look at you.

Yeah, really. Okay, that was just me. But there is a lot of that generation that is in a weird, different spot. That is the one thing I read online that I thought was pretty funny. They were like, Because everybody's always going by the whole generational thing.

And they're just like, the greatest generation and fighting the war and killing Nazis. And then you get to the millennials have got everything figured out because they're super cool. And they were like, the pandemic set in. And they were like, finally, the era for Gen Xers. Yeah.

Because you have to be isolated. Yeah. You just sit at home and watch your multimedia, which you've spent your entire life doing nothing. Like you're completely disconnected from everyone while the rest of the world is freaking out because they're not used to that. You've been doing that. since you were a teenager you're fine yeah so yeah i was like well yeah our weird angry but not that angry enough to do anything about it generation finally found our calling sitting in our house by ourselves watching dvds marathoning through shit yeah Not interacting with other humans.

That's what we were made to do. I've actually kind of done that more. I kind of got rid of, well, I didn't get rid of my social media stuff, but I've gotten to the point where I don't really check it hardly at all. I don't. I interact with you and occasionally one or two other people, but other than that, it's just, hey, here's the new episode.

That's the only thing I do with it is tell you guys, hey, I'm making this new episode. Here it is. Listen to it. I don't really go out and hang out with people. It's just hanging out with Misty.

Yep. I just make weird comments on her Instagram. I'm like, that is too many damn books. Go on somewhere. There ain't no such thing as too many damn books.

Yeah, you ought to take a tour of the library now. Do I need a card? Because that's what it is. I mean, I have a card for the state-run version. I joked about her coming up with a card catalog.

I know. I made a comment on Instagram about it. A Dewey Decimal system. I was like, I keep finding them in places, and I'm taking pictures of them. I'm going, Misty, you need this.

She's like, I need more shelves. Shut up. Yeah. Holy shit, my mind was just blown. What?

It's a guy, Gary Lee, in Sleepaway Camp. He's the other little kid. He's Paul. The other little kid. He's the one who's like.

Go back in time to when he's like 11 or whatever he was. He's like hitting on.... He's not the cousin. He's the other kid that's into her. Oh, yeah.

Okay. See, it's funny. He looked familiar. That's the thing. He was the one I sat there the whole time watching it going.

That first time through, I was just like, is that him? Because he was like half the stuff I watched repeatedly in the 80s was his stuff. There were so many times I watched Firstborn because it was just on cable all the time. I remember renting it on VHS and then it was on cable nonstop after that. So it's like I watched that so many times.

And then he's also in The Manhattan Project, which I thought, you know, there's a science nerd. Before it was cool to be a science nerd, he was, like, going to blow up, like, a good portion of the country. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that guy was super cool in the 80s.

And I still feel like he pulls off what he's doing in this movie. Like, as ridiculous as everything is going on, like, if it was a different actor, you'd really, like, the whole thing would be a joke. I think his performance is pretty solid. Like, I buy him as that crazy dude. Yeah.

I mean, I don't know about his rollerblading, and his shooting kind of sucks. But as a leader, like, I buy his craziness. Like, he kind of sells that performance. I think he did a good job. Yeah.

Well, there's a part on the Wikipedia that still doesn't make sense to me. It has a little breakdown, I guess a little part of the description. A heavily armed white supremacist conglomerate known as the Rollerboys fight for control of the decaying city. Their director is charismatic narcotics kingpin Gary Lee, a childhood neighbor of Griffin's, who was also rumored to be the great-grandson of Adolf Hitler. Is that mentioned or addressed in any way?

All of those other things are true, and they're mentioned in the movie. That last part is mentioned on the Wikipedia page. The Rollerboys carry out their mission of restoring Anglo-Americans' former greatness. through violent battles with other gangs, and through the distribution of Heaven Mist. Was it called Heaven Mist? Yeah, it was called Heaven Mist.

I thought it was just Mist. Because he was going to take him to Heaven. Yeah, I don't remember him saying it like that, but he does say he takes him to Heaven. They just call it The Mist. And they're all on The Mist.

Well, Heaven Mist is in quotation marks. Again, that was probably from the first draft. And then they were just like, we're just kind of on Mist. No, I think they said Heaven Mist in the beginning. Did they?

The very beginning part when they mention it. But then the rest of the movie, they just refer to it as The Mist. Back to the dystopian future part. I'm just glad that even in the dystopian future, they still have pizza delivery because I would be so worried about that. See, that's the thing.

I wasn't worried about The Mist. I was busy going, I want a pizza. Bring your chain-length covered van over and bring me some Pinky's Pizza, damn it. Pinky's Pizazz. I do like, I mean, again, it's still, that's what I think is so awesome about this is the normalcy of here's the pizzas, go make your deliveries in your Mad Max looking van covered in chain length and you hand him an automatic weapon.

You're like, here you go, now don't take any shit from anybody. Tell him if you need to, come back here with my money. It's such a weird mixture of total post-apocalyptic craziness and then regular run-of-the-mill stuff. It's insanity. So, did Corey do his own stunts?

So, I know you mentioned that as soon as it starts and we see him all rollerblading around. I remembered I'd gone back to look through the interesting facts on this movie. And there are lots of interesting facts. Not that many listed here. But in general, there's a lot of crazy bullshit going on.

But it does say Corey Haim did most of his own stunts in the film. That's what it says. That's how much they elaborated that one sentence. So, when you saw him skating, that was totally him. When you saw him doing that flying spinning thing, probably not him.

How about the thing where he jumped and grabbed his ankle and pulled and arched? Was that him too? Yeah. See, there were several times when he does that. when he jumps up and then you realize like from like your mind doing it, that probably seems super awesome. And if you would have landed wrong, it would have killed you.

But then to see it from the outside, you get like six inches of air and you're like, that kind of looked lame, dude. But that's rollerblading in general. That's not him. That's not really that hard. There's a reason why, there's a reason why all the skaters made fun of rollerbladers because it wasn't hard.

But they look so cool. Yeah, you know, I did a couple of those jumps and I was just like, this is stupid. Why am I doing this? You are hurting the feelings of so many roller boys out there. There ain't nobody out there rollerblading anymore.

We saw that chick just last weekend. I am not hurting her feelings. Maybe it was Blades. I wonder what happened. Were we in Columbus at this point?

Nobody cares about my opinion. She could have moved away. My opinion's trash. It's not like anybody listens anyways. Nobody cares.

Nobody listens to me. Yeah, so I switched to a BMX bike, and then I got hit by a car. That's what happened. I haven't had much luck with bicycles. Or blows to the head?

Every time I've been on a bicycle, I've gotten hit by either a car or a truck. Including the exercise bike in the kitchen. This explains so much. Fucking truck came out of nowhere. Right through the back door.

Just like Corey did. Yeah, I know. Ran that van right into a building. He saved that guy who was kind of an asshole. That guy's bullwinkle was an asshole the whole movie.

Thanks for saving me. God, that guy was a dick. I wish I would have let him in there to burn. That would have saved so much trouble in the long run. Really?

And then by the end, just to make fun of Bullwinkle some more, but when he's in the apartment, right when he's busting them for being cops, He's like, I saved your life. And he's like, who asked you, dude? I'm like, actually, you did. In the building when you were screaming, get me out of here. Get me out of here.

I was like, dumbass. It was you. Bullwinkle sucks. And he just opened the door. There was a door.

I know. I was just like, I'm not sure. And then I still, I said, as he did it, I was like, Corey, now get the van out of there and it won't catch on fire. You'll have busted up the back a little bit, but it wouldn't be trashed. Maybe it was wedged in there.

He didn't attempt to get it out. No, he just got out with Bullwinkle and then stood there and waited to get arrested. Hurry up and arrest me. How annoying was his kid brother, though? From the very first scene, as he came up, I was like, he's not going to get any better.

He's going to be a little sexist bastard, and he's going to be a junkie. I don't like that kid. I'm not like my dad! I don't like it. I don't like that kid.

He's annoying. Let's see. Where do we want to hit? We want to hit the Leonard, was it Leonard Maltin? Where am I getting that name from?

Oh, yeah. One of you have this. Surprisingly, like, higher than I thought. Leonard is not a fan of violence, so that's where it takes a turn at the end there, but I read it earlier. Go ahead.

What? He's not a horror movie fan in general, so you'll see when it gets to the end of it. Well, first of all, this is from the Wikipedia. The film was nominated for two Saturn Awards, Best Performance by a Younger Actor, Corey Haim, and Best Science Fiction. I mean, dystopian future, that's usually sidebar.

Kind of like Mad Max-ish. Movie historian Leonard Maltin gave the film 2.5 out of a possible four stars. And I quote, a provocative setting and some clever bits of dark comedy are weakened by needlessly excessive violence. Christopher, is it Collet? I don't know if I've ever heard it said.

I've just watched him and stuff since I grew up. The Gary Lee. Yeah, Gary Lee. As usual, projects enough magnetism for 10... but not even he can counteract a painfully predictable finale. See, I agree with pretty much all of that.

I don't have a problem with the violence that Leonard does, but otherwise, who saw us? Blade-off happen in this movie? Who saw the pole come out of nowhere where Corey could get that awesome kick in? Or that flying move where they both landed on their hips. And I was like, ow, hips!

Happens all the time in Rollerblading. He didn't get some air as he landed on his hip. I was like, oh. Dude, when you're an old man, if that happened, you would have had that hip replacement, dude. Like, no way you would have come out of that.

Well, Cory was young. He could just bounce back. Probably. 19, 20, gorgeous. It's okay.

Skinny as a stick. Do all the stupid stuff while you're young. Because when you get old, you get hurt getting out of bed. That's what I'm saying. Like, I just watched him fall on his hip.

I was like, dude. You would be screwed if you weren't 19 years old. I heard just seeing him do it. I know. Just watching him rollerblade, and I'm like, I don't even know if I can.

Do my ankles. Hurt your back and above the couch. So, I will definitely say they, if you want to consider whatever happened in this movie, but just casting-wise, they lucked out at just the right time if they're looking back going, man, we got Patricia Arquette in this movie. Like, you give it a couple years and she's in way bigger stuff. Like, there's no way in hell she would have done this movie just a few years in the future.

She would have been like, nope. No thanks. Because this was right before she kind of crossed over. And it had Mark Pellegrino! Whose name I probably just said wrong.

Everybody else would know. I'm pretty sure. Wasn't he Lucifer in Supernatural? Yeah. I don't know.

I gave up before the last 14 seasons. Dude, seriously. There have been so many seasons. We. We quit like three or four or ten seasons ago.

I don't know. I lost track. I was trying to see what the big crossover for her was. Yeah, what was it? Because to me, I'm thinking like true romance.

She was definitely like, okay, she's going to be huge. I mean, really, I remember Nightmare on Elm Street, Dream Warriors. Like, that's kind of that first thing that she's like, recognizably, okay, she's going to be a big star. But that was, so that's 87. But then she does a lot of other, like, smaller stuff but yeah you get to this movie she's in an episode of tales from the crypt that same year so this is a good year but yeah 93 is true romance and i'd say from that point on she's.

Hugely what was she in after true romance uh. She's in ed wood she's in holy matrimony was one of those i saw at the video store all the time i still barely maybe i. Watched her cable. Flirting with disaster then lost highways like 97 she's huge by then night watch stigmata bringing out the dead oh god little Nikki never mind so at that point it's all over but like she became like super huge in the 90s so the fact that they snagged her right before when you could still like sucker her into doing low budget stuff yep so good score guys. And Corey was good in this.

Yeah, when you said something about it, I was like, Corey comes out pretty good. Especially being lead, like most of the movie, you're just following him around. It hardly ever takes a shot away from him. So I think he comes out pretty good in this. I was like, if you're going to make fun of Corey, I don't think we can do it.

Because I can't. There's nothing to make fun of except he's just a skinny little kid. When they try to do the love scene, I'm like, oh man, he just looks like he's still looks so damn young. I know he said he's like 20, but he looks 16. He's so young.

Yeah, he's like 19, 20. Yeah, he's pretty young. But I will give you credit. You said you wanted a brush, but I'm like, there's few people that can make that hair work. He kind of does.

Even as ridiculous. As crazy as it is, the whole damn movie. Gary Lee's hair was perfection. Because he's evil. The drug guy.

He made a deal with Nazis and now. He's got perfect hair. But he's the head guy, so he can afford hair. Yeah, Bullwinkle looks stupid the whole time. He looks like he at least had a brush.

He had a brush. He did have a brush compared to Corey's wild craziness. He had like a bandana. Occasionally, he bandana'd. That one time, he put it all the way over.

He babooshed it into spots. That's what I'm going to do. No, you're not. I mean, my hair is already... This is pandemic hair.

Old man mafia hair. It's not. It's just gray. You can do a bandana and just wear it around and just spike it up. I am.

Totally. It's going to shave it all the way around, but just leave the top. Super cool. At this point, it might be an improvement, dude. Oh.

Either that or just grow the full mullet out. Speaking of getting somebody at just the right time, how the hell they scored nine-inch nails on the soundtrack, I don't know. Was there actually a soundtrack for this? I mean, they had that other song that kind of sounded like a band that I knew, but it's not that band. They were just trying to sound like that.

They had that one song that sounded a little bit like NXS. See, that's what I said. I was listening to it going, I know that's not Michael's voice, but it sounds like they're trying really hard to sound like NXS. Oh, yeah. I thought I heard some chili peppers in there, too.

Me, too. That was probably just them hanging around in the background. Yeah, probably. They probably had nothing else to do. They were under the bridge doing drugs and shit.

Literally. Let's see. Soundtrack. No, wait. Now we're still on her.

Soundtrack. Well, it's got eight songs listed. I've got a few soundtracks that short. You don't recognize anybody? Aside from Nine Inch Nails.

That's what I said. Listening to it, I didn't recognize any other big songs. Hell to Pay. Like hell, toupee, like a hair, like a wig. Yeah, hell, toupee.

Is that the name of the band? Yes. Nice. The name of the song is Pipe Dream. Of course.

Performed by hell, toupee. Hilarious. Turbo Negro has a song out called Hell, Toupee. There's a song that looks like it's some kind of, I could try to say it. Yeah.

Parven pour un fente da fonte. Yeah. That was when the other gang was hanging out. I was performed by Zelma Bodgson. I thought it was like 89 for Pretty Hate Machine.

So yeah, they got this right as that came out. Right before, just when the weirdo kids were listening to it in the basement club somewhere. They were like, yeah, we can still afford this. This will wipe out the rest of our music. Even then, they were like, this is all the money we got left.

Buy that song. At the time, Trent Reznor was like, here, just somebody, you're going to put my song in a movie? Hell yeah. Can I stand in the background? Yeah.

There's a couple of songs. I still like to do that. Written and performed by Steve Schiff, Mr. Nagatu, and Voice of Seth. Maybe that's just some of the instrumental shit.

I don't know. Skating music, you know. King Kong 5, written and performed by Mano Negra. I don't know. Plays at the Asian Gang Street Party.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. slow-mo the slow-mo skate by. Yeah skate by shooting where they're all synchronized skating and they're all wearing their they do kind of have a little bit of a a weird dress code it's well. I mean it is like you can see if they would have leaned into that more there could have been like their weird little like Nazi, let's all dress alike. Again, they never fully went there with it.

They were just like, these are our weird outfits. Pleats. I'm not down with the pleats. And they were way too high. I know your zoot suit pants you're supposed to wear high, but I don't care.

They look dorky on those guys. I didn't finish the soundtrack. There's one more song. Blown Away, performed by Swamp King. That plays during the montage showing Griffin and Bango's work day.

Sorry. Oh, Bango was working. He was doing chin-ups for a second at the drug lab. Yeah. That was before he drank the beer and threw it on the ground.

But he wasn't supposed to have it. Even though it was in the cooler. It was sitting in there. Whatever, dude. But no, on the all of them wearing those outfits, that was the other interesting fact that I'm like, they really bothered to put that in here?

So they're Okay, here we go. Here's what they put in the trivia section on IMDb. 78 black shirts were used in rotation for the Roller Boys uniforms due to how sweaty they became during filming. So all that synchronized rollerblading is sweaty business. Well, they were wearing trench coats, too, so what do you expect?

Yeah, they're sitting there in the sun on the beach in a trench coat and a black jacket or black shirt, sweating. We forgot. The most disturbing part of this movie. The thing that overwhelmed all of us. Which part?

Hold on. Watching him run up the stairs in Rollerblades. How do you fucking run up stairs in Rollerblades? I was like, wait, hold on. Corey, Corey, what are you doing?

It's kind of hard. You're not safe. It's kind of hard. I can't run up stairs with shoes on. I'm going to trip and hurt myself.

You go for wheels at the bottom of my feet and I'm going to die. Mm-hmm. That was the most impressive stunt of the whole damn movie. Running upstairs. Now that was before they got into the big file cabinet shove-off.

They was hiding in them file cabinets, boy. Why is there just like an airplane hangar with file cabinets in it? You know, just storing some stuff. Just random office supplies. Wouldn't you hate, you're like the intern and they're like, look, we got some stuff filed we need you to go get.

It's on the other side of town in an airplane hangar. Now go look under C and then come back and bring those back to me. My favorite is when they have warehouses that they have to use for scenes where they have stuff that's got to be in there, but you know it's an empty warehouse and they don't have a budget for a lot of stuff. So they just get a bunch of empty cardboard boxes and tape them up. And then, of course, they always get shoved over on the guy.

Yeah, crates and boxes. But, yeah, they can't afford the stuff in it, so it's just empty. So the guy gets crushed underneath the empty cardboard. He's like, ah! And it lands like an empty cardboard box.

And you're like, why are you yelling, dude? That weighs four ounces. Just act like he got crushed. The other thing on the, when he goes into heaven, when he goes into the... Trailer.

Trailer. The fancy, fancy trailer. Where was the bathroom? They're in there all goddamn day. Well, my thing is, again, okay, so what's his name?

Jerry Lee? Jimmy Lee? Yeah. Gary? Gary Lee.

Gary Lee's in charge of all of this, but he's put himself so much in charge that his hand is the only thing that will open that door. Where's the bathroom? He's got three shift changes. That means three times a day, every day, he has to drive back out there just to let some idiot out. And put some other idiot in there.

Yeah. And then you go home and, what, take a nap and come back eight hours later and do it? I'm like, that's just bad planning on your part, man. You gotta get some other. But then how did the bad guys get in?

How did the. They blew it up, didn't they? Yeah, they blew up the door. Oh, is that what happened? Yeah.

They blew it up and came running in. Yeah. Which, those two... Let me just. Let's stop.

For a minute. Those two cops, I feel like they were in a different movie. Yeah. The whole movie. From the very first time we see them, they start this weird delivery that I'm like, what... what are you guys doing?

Like nobody in this movie has been doing this thing that you're doing right now. And like every scene they're in, they still continue to do their weird back and forth. And it's just, their delivery is just different from everything else. It seems like a different cop movie. Yeah.

I'm just like, we're not doing this style of movie. Did you not see all the rollerblades and shit? We're like, yeah, those cops were not wearing rollerblades at any point. You're doing it wrong. They're like in some weird buddy cop.

Yeah. Cause there's that weird scene where they're listening in on the, On the sex scene. And they're making bets. They're making bets on whether or not he can go all the way. It's weird.

It's that weird comedy. It's a leftover scene from an 80s comedy that got crammed into this 90s dystopian movie. Yeah, it's like, what? Then they're the bad guys, too. They're also the bad guys.

They're a different level of bad guys. Yeah. And they were the ones that messed it all up from the get-go. Yeah. Pinky's van would have been fine if it wasn't for those two.

Yeah. What jerks. If they had done a better job, then fucking Bullwinkle would have died earlier. Yeah, really. We wouldn't have to look at his face though.

Not a big fan of Bullwinkle, were you? Nope. Don't like him. The real one, the animated one, love that guy. This one, he's a dick.

I don't like him. Has that guy done other things? I don't even feel like looking. I'm gonna look him up. You can look him up.

I'm gonna tell you how much I didn't understand the reference, and yet the entire time, for my own personal reasons, we had a guy that used to come in the video store that we always referred to as Ramrod. So I have no idea what his reasoning was for nicknaming him from the first time he sees him. He starts calling him Ramrod. He calls him Ramrod. Every time he sees him, he calls him that after that.

Don't know why. Ours at least had a reason. There was a guy that... Now I think he's weird. Well, at the time, weird old guy.

He's like my age now. And I'm also weird. So like, it's just me coming into the video store. And of course he was, we didn't think it was weird because we all watched old movies too. But he had a, he would special order Joel McRae movies.

He was into Joel McRae. Like his dad grew up like with him, took him to go see Joel McRae movies. So that was like his thing. But he at one point special ordered the movie Ramrod, which I'm guessing is a western starring Joel McRae. And from that point on, we referred to that guy as Ramrod.

So now every time I'm like, I wonder what happened to that guy. He was actually pretty cool. Even at the time, we liked him. We just called him Ramrod. He was just...

He didn't realize what he got himself into when he ordered that. Yeah. One of my co-workers, his nickname was Ramrod or Rammy. Rammy. He was.

He was a mortar man. He was a Marine. That's what he told us to call him. Let's call him Rammy or Ramrod. Yeah, I can see no important or notable movies or things that Dipshit was in.

He was in an episode of X-Files. He was in an episode of Nash Bridges. Space Above and Beyond. He seems like he's in a lot of one episodes. Hmm.

Yeah, because they all were like, this guy's a dick. Don't bring him back. Fucking China Beach. I never got to watch China Beach. Whenever it would come on, I'd never...

It was like, when the song would start, I knew it was bedtime, so I had to go to bed. I liked it at the time. And again, there were some really cool little things that they did that were sort of unconventional at the time. Now, I have not revisited it, but I really liked it when it came on originally. There was an interesting fact while we're going into other projects.

I was going to say this director, Rick King, he directed a decent amount of movies, but they're all kind of like, this is sort of a big one. Like there's a bunch of other ones that look like stuff that went straight to video. And I saw it sitting on the video store. There's a few of them. Like I recognize the box.

There's other ones that I'm just like, that is the most video store looking slapped together heads on a VHS cover I've ever seen. So he did a lot of these movies. I guess most notable right after Prayer of the Roller Boys, he did Kickboxer 3. Oh, hell yeah. The Art of War.

Yeah. But yeah, most of the other stuff, you wouldn't even know the name if I gave them to you. The one you would know, though, if you skip past his directing and go back to his writing credits. One, he did a couple of movies that you've never heard of. His third thing that he wrote, he story credit for Point Break.

Huh. I guess didn't full on write the screenplay because he's only listed his story. But he must have done a decent amount on that story because even got a story by credit for the remake that they did. So they still had to go back and credit him just from the concept. But yeah, other than that, most of these other things he wrote, never heard of.

But yet somehow Point Break got in there. That's a good movie. We should talk about that one for a while instead. Just sit and think about Point Break for a few minutes. I mean, Jiminy Christmas.

Lori Petty, she was another one who had short hair. Back in the day. She could pull it off. Not the rest of her attitude or anything else she's done, but she could pull off the hairstyle. I didn't care about her attitude back in the day.

It didn't matter. I kind of need to watch Tank Girl again. It's been a long time since I've seen it. I do need to revisit that. Again, I do like my a weird dystopian future that definitely is one it's.

Gonna yeah i was pretty proud of my uh david arquette reference in the middle i can't even well that's. The sad thing is i thought it exactly well because it's patricia and they're having their super deep scene as they're discussing the fact that in the movie she had an older brother and he was a roller boy and he got killed and he was bought into all the bullshit and died and got buried with his coat and blah blah whatever So as she's talking to Corey, she says, I love my brother. I wasn't proud of him. And we were all thinking it, but you actually said, nobody's proud of David Arkin. Damn.

Beat me to it. You want reconsidered? I'd like to buy more guns. We will see how you manage with these first. Hey, Mr.

Naboro. I'm told you're increasing your domestic investments substantially. Buying back America. Who'd want it? Again, just the weird stuff going on in the background that creates this messed up future that we're in.

What did it say in the paper? Germany buys Poland. It's making up for the old war times. It's like, well, we can't take you over, but we can buy you these days. But then if you listen to the radio when he's walking in that one time, It's talking about undocumented American workers getting busted going to Mexico to find jobs.

Yeah. I was like, again, let's talk about how weird it is that it pinpointed the future and is lampooning it at the same time. Yeah. Frighteningly accurate in its own weird, disturbing way. Japan was buying up Harvard.

They moved Harvard brick by brick to Japan. Maybe China, but. They bought all of the Ivy League schools. Yeah, they bought all the Ivy Leagues. They were starting on the Big Ten.

So, yeah, America was so dumb, we didn't have any colleges left. They made the comment, it was like, in the future, will there even be any colleges in America anymore? Not in America. We're too dumb. But you can go to Japan.

Go learn over there. Oh, the other future world, that GPS they had in Pinky's van. Yeah. It was not great, but again, we weren't really using those yet in 1990. He said the same thing every kid does when you handle a map now yeah what do you do with it how the hell.

Do you use this I'd like to say that all in all I enjoyed this movie aside from the imaginary pain that I feel in some of the scenes but yeah I. Liked it a lot. Just for the crazy future world, if nothing else. But then again, I think even most of the performances for what they're trying to do, I think our villain's really cool. I think Corey's as likable as he always is.

Patricia showed up. I don't know. She only has so much to do in this role. So was she sleeping with all the roller boys? That's kind of what I got to find from her.

She definitely was. pretending like she will again i think she's doing that same thing that every undercover cop does it's like okay i gotta go so far in that i look like i'm legit but at the same time i don't want to do this. So she says there's something she's like i've done things for this that i don't want to. Do so i'm sure she had to. Cross a line or two along the way but she still didn't seem thrilled with the fact that she was doing what she was doing. I don't know I thought it was enjoyable.

I mean, I wasn't on my phone, so. And I didn't fall asleep. There you go. High five. High five for me not falling asleep.

That was a shitty high five. There we go. Now, you did comment at the end there, they weren't wearing seatbelts. I was concerned for the safety. He wasn't even looking at the fucking road when he was- You know that?

Again, I said every movie, nobody looks at the fucking road. And they had like a can of crushed soda sitting on the dashboard, like not in a can, like- Not in like a cup holder. I'm like, that's going to be a sticky mess. Hanging precariously on the edge. Just waiting to fall.

It was just sitting on the dashboard, guys. It wasn't even like cup holder. Just sitting there. Corey, we're going to have to have a talk. You know how.

Sticky crushed soda is when it gets in the carpet? Because that doesn't come out. But I stand by this post-apocalyptic dystopian future where everything's falling apart. Fuck seatbelts. Dude.

The same reason none of those kids were wearing helmets. Because in the future, everything's falling apart. You don't wear helmets when you're rollerblading. That's how you spin out the herd. 90s, we didn't wear helmets.

Shit. I mean, when we rollerblade, even like, well, I mean, when we skateboard. But I mean, I don't think anybody, I didn't see anybody wear helmets. Even bicycles. Nowadays, you see everybody wearing helmets.

Hell, you see people walking around with fucking helmets on. You don't need a helmet. In this future. He didn't need to worry about sterilizing people. They're all just going to have head wounds.

Head injuries. I didn't need a helmet. Look at me. I turn out just fine. Okay.

You don't wear a helmet. Multiple traumatic brain injuries, but I'm good. But you might wear a tiny cowboy hat. You know, you were so jealous of her outfit. Don't pretend.

What was that? Fringe and extra fringe. A little pink plastic gun. But only if her rollerblades had been looking like cowboy boots. That would have been awesome.

That would have been so rowdy. I don't think they had enough budget in the cops room. They couldn't afford that. Things that go over your boots. Spats.

No, just like Halloween costumes. You don't really wear boots. You just wear this little thing that goes over your shoes. Were you dressed as Jesse last time? No, but there was so much fringe.

Jesse might have worn that. Jesse might have worn that. It was fringe on fringe on fringe. Oh, Lord. So, yeah, that's how we go out on this movie.

We're heading to Oregon. And do you think we need a sequel on this one? They set it up for a sequel. They definitely set it up for a sequel, because all the good guys go off and ride off into the sunset in their RV. And the bad guy tells that he makes a reference to the Pacific Northwest.

Pacific Northwest. That's where he wants to invest in, and that's where he's going to be. But it's like, dude, if you're in jail, then you shouldn't be allowed to have your little business guy in there, and you shouldn't be spray painting in your jail cell cell. But he likes to huff the fumes, man. I guess.

Alright, so sequel is what we're looking for, which I already said is kind of that other weapon. I think it's a little bit late for that one. I don't know. They keep pulling out some really old properties and doing sequels, so you never know. Prayer of the.

Rollerboys 2 colon, what's the colon going to be? Ramrod Returns. You know, son of Ramrod. Day of the Rope. Day of the Rope.

Day of the Rope. Day of the Rope. Day of the Rope. Put the little arm thing. Yeah, the arm salutes are kind of dumb.

I mean, the Heil Hitler's still old. We've all seen that one. That's boring these days. We need some sort of elbow action. It's the double fist.

That was like the elbow sex, but without the sex. They're just elbow masturbation. As he's driving by the random guys that are just doing the elbow things. But he's not even looking at them, so they're just kind of doing it. But they're doing their part.

They're supporting the heathens. Supporting the god-awful racist. I had fun. And our ankles hurt just watching. Who would they even cast in a sequel at this point?

Corey Feldman. Yeah, you know Feldman would show up. He'd want to be the new bad guy. I look like this now. Don't ask any questions.

I would say you'd try to go for the new good guy. He would think that, but he's not. He's got to avenge. In between the movies, something happened to Haim, and he has to avenge. Exactly.

He's going to do the exact same thing that happened to Big Wolf on campus. I have to avenge Haim! See, honestly, honestly. Corey, how did you get in here? Honestly, I didn't know that Haim wasn't in this movie, or that Feldman wasn't in this movie.

So, like, halfway through. The movie, I'm like, where's Feldman at? Where's Feldman at? When's he going to show up? Because, surprisingly enough, they can do movies without each other.

Thank God. For Haim's sake, they got to do a good amount of movies not together. But yet their best movies were together. Lost Boys is fucking awesome. Lost Boys is awesome.

License to Drive is at least doing its thing. Hey. Dream a Little Dream, I have not watched since the original time. I liked Dream a Little Dream. It's so Feldman-ish.

I don't remember it. I blocked out a good portion of it. I can't remember it. I need to watch it. I guess I could revisit it at some point.

We watched it, but I don't remember it. Yeah, because you didn't remember the girl doing the hot dance in the gym. Huh? Isn't that Meredith? That one song that I like.

Yeah, the one who's married to Patton Oswalt. Yeah. We talked to her, sort of. We were in her vicinity. That song is awesome.

And I don't care what anybody says. Did I put that on when we were still doing the soundtrack thing? We're still doing them now. You're just slacking off. No, I'm saying, did I put that in there?

What song is it? I don't think so. I thought I did. I don't know. We can go back and figure it out.

If not, we need to do another soundtrack episode anyway. You start working on your list. Ask me again and I'll fucking scream. I'm trying to look it up. Okay, well, I didn't know you were trying to look it up.

I can't remember the name of the song. I'm used to everybody just ignoring me, so. When do I ignore you? All the time. Oh, my God.

I want to punch you in the face. Domestic abuse is not okay, but you're making me question it. Oh, Lord. I'm finding the song. I have to go through the Liberty Mutual commercial first.

You're looking at the soundtrack. Oh, that song. Oh, that's Michael Damien, isn't it? It's David Essex. That's what I'm saying.

Around that time, Michael Damien did his cover of that. Oh. That they played to death. And it's the only reason I know who the fuck Michael Damien is. Because I think he's a soap actor.

I don't know that one. All I know is this one. At the time, I think that's all he did was a soap actor. And then he covered that song. Oh, you didn't see his sleeveless.

I can see sleeveless. It's a fucking amazing song. We should put that song in this episode. It has nothing to do with the movie. I don't care.

When we've got all these awesome songs from the soundtrack, we could do... I know, right? Like that one song. That one song almost sounds like an excess. Put one of Cory's songs on there.

Cory sings. Oh, no. Bust out his keyboard. Hey, no, he sings. He sings.

I've seen him with a keyboard. Hey, one of his songs isn't bad. Do you know which one it is? No. Because it keeps trying to tell me fucking Feldman.

Is this how you want to go out? Well, it could be the other one. Hold on. If you think the other one could be better, hold on. What?

Wow. No is my answer. Hold on, it gets better. I think this is the one you need to. Go out on because this fits the movie.

It is very 90s. It sounds so much like C & C Music Factory. Well, what else can we do but go out on this? It's been quite... a ride here. Thank you for going on this journey.

Welcome to the dystopian future that is. Prayer of the Rollerboys. Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next time. Same geek feed.

Thanks for listening. Bye. Poor bastards. I'm so tired. Ooh, yeah, just keep it coming like a madman.

You got me running. Feel the rhythm and feel the bass. Come on, move your. Body at a steady pace. No time.

To wait, because the night is young. I want to feel sweat drip on my tongue. You got the flavor, but now I'm stuck. I think I'm in love. I'm all shook up.

I want the night to stay. Do you like it? Like it? Do you like it like that? Do you like it?

Like it? Do you like. It like that? Come on, baby, get wet. Do you like it?

Do you like it like that? Do you like it? Do you like it like that? Do you like it? Come on, baby, get wet.

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