Episode 59 - Louie's Mother

Weird media him. Mister Walters, can see that guy with it now, he's an actor a phone. I'm a camp driver. I'm the only camp driver in his place. Good evening and welcome tonight, mister Walters a taxi podcast.

I'm HP your co host and with me as always is my co host, Father Malone. Father Malone? How are you this evening? Hi Morris? How are you?

No? No foreshadowing on the episode? I got nothing on this one. This one is really poor anyway. Spoiler alert.

So we're talking Taxi Season three, episode fourteen, Louis Mother, written by Catherine Green and directed by you know, it's James Borrows. Course it is sometimes sometimes. Did you ever did you ever watch that series The Comeback with Lisa Kudrou. I think I saw one episode. It was it was actually quite good.

I thought, I don't know why I didn't watch the rest of the series. Why did you like it? I loved it. This isn't recent. I watched it as it was playing out, and it's the best thing she's done, and I thought it to be really, really affecting.

And I only bring it up now because you know, she plays a former sitcom star who has just gotten off of some you know, terrible show that she no longer liked or something. But James Morrows is basically he's in the show. He's an actor in the show like he was her director previously. Her character fancy. I believe her name is.

Oh interesting. It was like on Bravo or something? Was it not? Or what was that? It was not on HBO?

Was it Hbo? Okay, I knew it was. It was a cable. It was quite profane, mm hmm. I remember it being one of those things that that all the critics loved it, but for some reason it just they didn't.

I don't know how many seasons it ran, but it wasn't super Uh, it didn't run for a long time. I don't think which is I think. It might have gone two seasons, but it is my understanding that it's coming back. Oh good. I think she's very funny in the right and the right part, So good for her.

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It really warms our hearts. So we open for this episode on b roll of Times Square during a bad rainstorm, there's a prominent sign for a store, Father Belon called Castro Convertibles. Did you notice this in this intro? I did, but I didn't know any research I did. Lucky for you.

Apparently, Castro Convertibles was a manufacturer of convertible sleeper sofas that started in New York City in nineteen thirty one. They grew to forty eight retail showrooms all up the East Coast. Eventually they were sold to Kraus's Sofa Factory in nineteen ninety three. It sounds like a phony name to me somehow. Kraus's Sofa Factory.

Yeah, it sounds like something that also went extinct in the nineteen fifties, But in ninety four are they still around? The final note on this. In twenty fourteen, the founder of Castro Convertibles, a fellow named Bernard Castro, was inducted into the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame. Father Malone, isn't that interesting the things you learn watching Taxi? Isn't it interesting that that organization exists?

Yes, totally fucking bizarre. You're right, thank you, Taxi. So anyway, we cut inside the garage where various cabbs are running in from the rain. They're using either umbrellas or some of them do the thing where they have open newspapers over their head. We'll see that in this and actually the following episode.

So look for that, Louis. They're shielding themselves from the rain. It's kind of a nice touch. Louis comes in. He is cheerful as can be.

Father alone. He's wearing like the full Gorton's Fishermen rain ensemble, the yellow slicker, the hat and the boots. And everything. He's thrilled with the pouring rain, because no one in the city walks when it rains. They all take the taxi.

He even leads the cabbys in this chant, which reminded me of The Dirty Dozen. You remember that scene in the Dirty Dozen where the Lee Marvin is using this mnemonic device to get them to remember the plan. I don't remember what it is, but it's really funny. I think this is. I think this is a callback to that.

Yeah, I hope it is. It seems like it is. So it's Dirty Dozen style. He says what happens when it showers, and then all the other cabs very listlessly say big bookings are ours? And what happens when it rains?

Monetary gains? Oh yeah, yeah, it's not even fun. I like that a lot, probably because it reminded me of Dirty Dozen. But monetary gains, I'm saying. The rhymes themselves are poor.

They're not inspiring. Yeah, but they weren't that good in dirt. He doesn't either, So I was fine with it. And well, they didn't exactly triumph overall, did they, But they did they won in the end. Yes, how many did they lose?

They lost all but two. I think how. Many more would they have not lost if they weren't wasting time on mnemonic devices when they should have been training in hand to hand combat. Look, I'm not gonna impugne the training methods of Lee Marvin and Dirty Dozen. I'm a Kelly's heroes man.

Sorry. Yeah, well Donald Sutherland was in that as well. Was he not? Never heard of it? He's so good a Dirty Dozen?

How could he not like him? There? He's my favorite thing in Dirty doesn't he is? He's one of my favorite things as well. So Louis goes into his cage and he makes a personal announcement.

He says, he put his mother in a rest home and he's going to be hosting a lavish party at his new bachelor pad, to which. None of you wasted. That's right, he's peacocking a little bit. Alex, for his part, can't believe Louis would celebrate putting his mother in a home. Well, I do like that, he says, none of you can.

Divers are invited, and then Laca strolls over, like what time should I be there? And it's nice to see Laca in any capacity because he, you know, he kind. Of comes, he goes, Yeah, we very rarely see Laca this season. We rarely. We will again, not to sort of get too ahead of ourselves, but we will.

Now we're on the verge of him meeting or reintroducing Simca, so we're where, you know, Laca is going to be more of a main character soon, but this is still that quasi reality where he just kind of comes and goes. Louis complains back to Alex. When Alex raises this objection, Louis says, it's not easy living with your mother. He says, she's always on your case about stuff like not using the doilies to clean beer off your chin. Lane asks Louis about the rest home that he put his mother in, and Louis responds, I don't know.

You got me like he doesn't you know he didn't do the research. And did cold hearted snake. Yeah, what a motherfucker. Seriously. Elaine asks if he even took her there, and Louise says he took her there, just not right to the door.

And then Tony, of all people, he's incredulous. He says, you didn't even check the place out, Louis, And maybe my favorite line of the whole episode, Louise says, what do I look like Mike Wallace? Which is a great line. It's a great line, Is it not Father Malone? It is absolutely Look, my name is Mike Wallace.

My name is Michael Wallace. Okay, I'm not actually father Bling, but listen, listen. This is the bane of my existence going up was Mike Wallace. Because in the seventies and eighties, if you saw my name written Michael Wallace, everyone said, oh the sixty minutes got oh, oh, sixty minutes, Oh like sixty minutes. Yes, no, not like sixty minutes.

What made it worse is he's actually from Massachusetts as well, and that listen. I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but when he died, I did think the name is mine. This was a time before things like not to make myself sound like an old man, which I am. But this was a time before the internet, so a show like sixty Minutes was really really big. There was not that.

We only had three or four networks at the time, and sixty Minutes was that anchor on Sunday evening and they used to do really they would interview politicians, they would have expose's on this that and the other thing. So Mike Wallace the journalist was super uber popular. So I can onlyine I never really thought about that father, alone about you growing up with this burden. But I guess there you go. I guess it was not easy growing up.

Shit, there are worst ways to grow up obviously. Oh sure, it was just obnoxious. It's a bit like Michael Bolton. There were a few people I can remember growing up with. I think we well, we were in school with, Like, wasn't there a John Carpenter at our school?

And John wesb Only we knew that that was hilarious. That's true, because you'd hear periodically, like John carton the. Office, like, oh my god, what has he done this time? He made another Halloween movie? Come on anyway, Louis says, what's the big deal, it's a rest home, and he punctuates this with this really super vulgar belch.

He just seems like such a dirt bag in this moment that Louis would be so callous towards his mother. So Louis hands out the cab assignments. But when Riager goes up, Louis kind of confides in Alex that he's invited to the party. Louis figures Alex is the only one in the garage who won't embarrass him in front of his friends. He makes a big show of telling Alex this is going to be a wild bash, and he tells Alex cryptically.

It's disgust. It is make sure, Alex, make sure you have no holes in your shorts, which makes me wonder what he had in mind, Like are they I don't know. I can't even venture to get. Look, facts are facts. The pants are coming off, is what he's saying.

Your pants will be removed at some point, and you don't want to be embarrassed with holes in your underpants? What's occurring next? Don't even want to know? Is this a DePalma circle jerk? One of the famous.

The mind reels, Father Malone scary well. Remember in earlier episodes we found out he was quite a pussy hound back in the Deuce, back on forty second Street, amongst the brothels. He would not only take customers to the brothels, but then he would join them within. So what I I agree with Alex, you have to accept this invitation just to see what's going to occur. But it's the last invitation you actually want to receive.

Exactly to your point, Alex, despite himself, he admits he's so tempted to go to the party. He likens it to the morbid curiosity that you experience when you see a car wreck and he just have to slow down to see what's up, or when you have a sore in your mouth and he just can't help putting your tongue up against it just so you can feel the pain. These are all the comparisons that Alex is making to accepting Louise's invitation, like he just has to know what's up, what's going on at this house of hers. We cut inside Louie's apartment. This is probably my favorite scene in the whole episode, by the way, Father Milan, we'll get into this.

Louis is doing a party pantomime with two cold slices of pizza in front of this couch full of weirdos that are watching him without expression. The couch of weirdos reminded me of the scene. Do you remember the scene in Animal House where Kroger and Dorfman go to the Omega Pledge party and because they're so nerdy and no wants to deal with them. They keep getting shunned over to this couch of nerds. It's this is Mohammed and jug Dish and here's Sydney and Clayton.

Do you remember that. That's one of my favorite little bits in this. I do remember that scene in Animal House and I do get the reference here. Yeah. Absolutely.

So there's three guys on this couch that are watching Louie do this little pantomime, and they're easily the best part of this whole scene. They're so weird. They're all different looking, and not once did they smile or betray any sort of emotion like they These guys were very well cast in this. They look like they're from American splendor. They look like something that sprung out of Harvey Pecarr's life.

You're absolutely right. These guys maybe collect old jazz B sides like Pacar. And you know what's funny about it, HB. While I was watching it, I thought, Louis clearly lives in Brooklyn. His house is in Brooklyn, right, and looking at these guys on the couch, I thought they're the same people living there today, except now they're rich and they have Instagram accounts.

Those are hipsters. Now they are. But but and now what was weird is now considered quirky and kind of fun. You know that you PLoP on any of those guys in Brooklyn right now and put a ukulelei in his hand, everyone's not going to bat an eyelash. One additional side note this is this is supposed to be the apartment that he's living in with his mother and the set.

Again, we always sing the praises of the art department. The set is itself is pretty perfect. I thought it's as a depiction of an old Italian mother's apartment. Right. Everything has a floral print on it, the walls, the couch, There's a ton of pictures and cameos all around it.

There's even an old piano off to the side that's piled high with records and sheet music. Did you think that the set was pretty good to father alone? I did. I just though it needed like a blurred out centerfold thumb tacked to a wall, because I think that's what Louie's instinct would be. As soon as his mother left that premise left the premises.

You're saying like he probably had that in this he. Would have personalized it for the party. Sure, yeah, sure it could be. But what we're gonna find out. I think there's a reason why he might not have jumped.

Usually my swords are in my bedroom, but I thought they'd look good over the couch, you know, stuff like her. The doorbell rings or buzzes, and eagerly Louis welcomes Alex in. Louis keeps trying to play up the party to Alex, but it's pretty clear that it's it's not the wild party that Louis sold Alex on. It's pretty, it's pretty, it's bombing, basically. He Louis introduces his friends to Alex.

Now the names of the friends. The first one is Lyle, who's kind of a younger guy and a weird leather jacket. There's Huey, who looks like he's blind. He has these sunglasses that make him look blind. And then in the end, this guy named Aytona Dave, who's this old guy with dyed hair and a mustache.

He kind of looks like those old Dorito's commercials when we were kids, Father Malone, do you remember that with the guy with the big, bushy Mario mustache. He kind of looked like him. I don't remember Avery Brooks. Is that his name? Avery Brooks absolutely had his own theater and I.

Can't believe I pulled that out of somewhere. Yeah, it's just this weird pasty. He's great, he's very good. I don't mean to say that that Avery Books is a weirdo. But the guy on the couch, Daytona Dave, Oh.

He is. He was definitely a fucking weird There's no question about. His whole career was based on like holding weirdo faces. So there's this, you know. So Louis goes to get Alex a beer, and then what follows is I timed this.

It's a solid fifteen seconds of wordless action as these three weirdos stare at Alex as he kind of fumbles in his chair. He's trying to figure out how to deal with the situation, and every time he tries to think to say something, the look on these guys faces kind of makes him decide not to say a word. It's just so weird these guys. I can't oversell this. You have to see it, just for these guys.

Louis comes back in and he's trying to pump up the party still for riager. Alex asks Louis, how did you guys all meet? And Louis tells the story that someone had a heart attack on the street and the four of them Daytona, Dave and these three guys and Louis were the last ones to leave the scene of this poor guy having a heart attack. They needed to be weirder and we needed more interaction with them. No, I love that you don't get a lot of interaction because that would destroy the mystery of it.

One of them should have been chatty. If you have a group of three, one of them is always chatty. I guess, I guess, And it probably should have been the guy Lyle, the guy with the leather, the youngest one. Larry, Darryl and Darryl. You know what I'm saying.

So there you go, There you go. Good call. After another uncomfortable moment or two, the three weirdos get up to leave. Lyle says they have another party, which draws a big laugh from the audience, and they all split. Louis protests that it's only seven thirty, but they've left.

As Louis makes a big show of cleaning up after the wild party, Alex, Alex gets into sort of psychiatrist mode here. He tends to do that with Louis. He's trying to break through the hard shell. He does it too much and it's unwarranted, and by this point, I don't know. I guess I would feel bad too if I went to somebody's party and you were the only one there, a side of three total freakazoids who have better things to do.

And that's really the last indignity here, is that these losers Louie's party is so bad that they found a better place for them to go than to continue to hang out with Louis. It's the pity, by the way that it creates my best for me, My favorite line in the episode, which is coming It's coming up. Alex asks if they're the only ones who showed up, and Louis admits he thought a few more people might show. He tries to cajole Riger with some music, but then Alex does the thing where he's like, you know, I think I got a head out to Louis. I'm pretty tired.

Louis rushes around now he's trying desperately to keep Riger from leaving, and finally Alex cuts to the chase and he says directly to Louis, you don't like to be alone? Do you? Who does? Well, maybe some people do, but obviously Louie's clearly having a tough time of it. And Louis protests that he's been waiting his whole life to be alone, so he, you know, he's not upset, but Alex keeps pressing him like a psychiatrist would.

He keeps maintaining to Louis that he misses his mother, and Louis finally admits that he thinks about her a lot, and all the stuff she left lying around. He picks up this shawl that was her shawl, and he kind of tenderly lays it across the piano. Even her shoes, he says. He picks up these little shoes, these these sort of I don't know how you describe them, but they're like boots, but they're. Tiny, tiny shoes for a tiny one, dolls like a dolls shoes.

Louis finally admits that he misses her. He says he wishes she were there, and he further goes on to confess to Alex that he lied. It wasn't his idea for his mother to leave it was hers. They had an argument, she burned his supper. There were some harsh words exchanged, and she left.

Starts with she burned my supper. Okay, continue, she burned his dinner. He called her a name, She called him a name, and he he hit her teeth and he's like, you hit. Her teeth, right, I forgot that part. My god, it got worse.

So and the next thing he knows that she she left, And in the midst of Louie's confession about this whole thing with his mother, he goes over to the piano and he starts to play the Mother song that we all know em for the many things she gave me, but he's playing it slightly off key, and they do this great thing where they cut over to riger and every time he hits a bum note, he does that thing. Where he kind of winces. I love that for some reason that amuses me every time they do it. Finally, and here's where the pity comes in. Alex takes pity and asks Louis if he wants to go to Mario's for a drink, and Louis says something to the effect of, well, you look, I'm not gonna go if.

You just want me to hang out with you and have a beer. That's one thing. But if this is for pity, then nothing doing. It's for pity. It's bang bang, it's what I love on.

Tax Alexi, Yeah, it's pity. Louis and Louie's like, all right, A beer is a beer, and they both head out and we fade the commercial. We fade back into the garage. It's another day or two later. Louis I disheveled.

Louis stumbles into the garage. He looks terrible. Elaine mentions this to Louie, who reacts angrily to being stared at. Alex asks Louis if he's okay, or and asks if he's been hanging out with his friends from the other night. But Louie informs Alex that Lyle shot Huey, but he says it's it's just an accident.

He just wounded him six times. Vaudeville, Vaudeville, Loca, and we hit another great little bit with Laca. Here. Loaca creeps in. He's late, and he's surprised that Louis doesn't bite his head off for being late.

We're getting still a little bits and pieces of the darkness of Laca. How fucking yeah, Like what what happened to Loaca? Man? Like New York sucked all the joy out of him at some point that, like deep in his soul now is just nothing but blackness. I never really thought about this until we started looking at these these episodes in a more sort of scholarly way, Father Blow, But it is pretty remarkable that hill Simca comes around.

Laka really goes to some very dark places. We've talked about this in the past, and this is maybe one of the darkest bits because he almost starts goading Louis. Basically, he confesses to Louis that he left early yesterday, but Louis is still so depressed that he doesn't even respond, and the old Louis would have probably docked him a week's pay and bitten his head off in front of everybody. But he's so hurt and wounded by his the loneliness about his mother that he he can't bring himself to do anything. But then Laca seizes upon that, and it becomes like a Dawn Rickles routine.

Father Alone, because he starts, he becomes emboldened, and then he starts making fun of Louis like, right. To his face, Hey, that suit is nice. I hope it comes it back into style. He just keeps going and going until finally Louis eventually tells him, Hey, I'll press your luck, Laka. So even he, even a wounded Louis, has his limits.

Alex tells the rest of the cabvis that Louis mother is the only real friend that he had, and Elaine suggests that they invite Louis over to play cards. Bobby, it should should be noted, is against it, but they all they overrule him and agree to ask Louis over. Alex asks him, and it's it seems to pull him out of his depression, at least for the moment. He does the thing where he gets so over the top excited about it. He's like, you know, Jeff's in the cage, Jeff, they asked me to play cards.

I'm going to go play cards with the guys. He becomes his character from One Flew Over Coucker's Nest pretty much. Yeah, that's actually that's a very good comparison here. I didn't think of it like that, but yeah, you're right. He he becomes this grinning fishies dude, look at the fishies.

Alex recommends to Louis that he not mentioned his mother at all, So gleefully, Louise, that's down to play cards, and he makes a big show, like I said to Jeff and everybody, that he's going to go play cards. They start to play, and Alex gets up to get some coffee. While the betting is preceding. This person bets and someone raises them and whatever, and it gets When he gets back, they're going to catch him up on the bedding, and Alex says, well, who raised Louie, meaning who raised the who raised Louie's bet? But Louie hears who raised Louie and he tearfully responds who raised Louis?

Ma raised Louie, And it's all over for Louie. He just starts weeping right there at the table. Right. It should be noted that when they invite him over, it's conditional, like you can come over as long as you don't mention your mother. Well, like I said, Alex says to him, you shouldn't mention your mother.

Let's let's keep it light. Him bursting into tears makes all the other caves but Reager leave the table kind of in disgust, and Alex tries to really talk some tough sense into Louie. Alex has seen him turn into a weak, ineffectual boob, and Alex is sick of it. He should just go get his mother if he wants her bet and Alex even kind of grabs Louis physically and takes him over to the side mirror of a cab. It makes Louis look at his reflection and he's He's like, is that you?

Is that you, Louie? And Louie is horrified by his own reflection. It kind of shocks him back into the old Louis, the old angry, confident Louis, which all of a sudden he takes back everything that's happened. He rebukes everything, the card game. He tells Laca he's going to dock him a week's pay, and he finally announces he's going to go get his mother.

As we fade in to the corridor of the rest home. The weirdest shot in the episode and and made me just think there has to be someplace on the Paramount lot with that. Oh yeay, And they went, oh, that's perfect. And it's weird because because the show is so two dimensional. Usually we're looking at it, you know, from only the one angle here worth looking straight down a fucking hallway as he's coming towards us, and it's clearly a real world hallway that they then match when he gets to the apartment door, because that's a set anyway.

I'm sorry, no, no, no, that's exactly what I was going to kind of get into it. It's a very institutional looking corridor, and they do this thing where the shot is coming from slightly lower then it's kind of shooting up towards the palma to kind of convey this idea that he's this small person walking through this giant hallway. It just seems like he's already made very small by being in this rest home trying to get his mother back. I thought it was an interesting directorial choice for the shot. Was Officer and a Gentleman.

Officer and a Gentleman was nineteen eighty two, right around this time. So that's that eighty two is after. This it slightly after yeah, I think it's like a year two. Okay, So then they're they're not paying homage or like surfing along a trend. They're just doing their own, No, it just happens to be weird and it.

Is very evocative. Louis gets to her door, but it's locked, so he just can't walk in. He starts pleading with her through the door for her to come home, to open the door, or he's going to break it down, and all the while his mother is speaking in Italian and voiceover through the door, so you don't see her yet, but you can hear her talking to him in Italian. He even starts to try to break the door down, unsuccessfully, and there's this great shot of there's these two old folks in like robes that are horrified at seeing this guy trying to break down the door, and I think he just kind of says, what do you you never seen someone trying to talk to them mother before? Get out of here.

So they leave. They talk through this argument essentially through the door. Louis essentially translating by responding to her words in English, which I like when they do that because it's kind of a nice. Did you translate what he called her? What did he call her?

I don't remember that part. Oh, I don't know, but because the joke is that she says, well, what did I call you? And then has she speaks for like thirty seconds and pure Italian, like you called me this, like it's endless, like there's no way you accidentally called me this time. But the punchline of that is she gives this long thing about what he called her, and he says it slipped out, like it's this insult that probably took thirty seconds to get. Out, right.

I know, I'm just saying, did you translate the attemption? No? No, No. What I'm saying is like I love when movies do this as shorthand to avoid doing things like putting subtitles, having some other means of explaining what they're saying. I've known people when I'm like growing up, like families that had native Polish speakers, and they the kids couldn't necessarily speak Polish that well, but they were always the ones who could like translate for their mom and dad, like at a bank or something.

It felt authentic, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. And it's also very efficient because you don't have, like I said, you don't have to use subtitles or have him speaking to her in Italian and have to deal with all that. He apologizes to her and Eventually he admits, very sweetly, how lonely he is without her. He promises to be nice to her, at least for a while, and she agrees. And then the door opens and you see his mother revealed.

It's actually Danny DeVito's actual mother, Julia DeVito. She comes out, She's got a briefcase in one hand, she's chained smoke in a butt. She's a little bit shorter than Danny DeVito, but man, she looks just in the face. She looks just like him. He's a dead ringer for his mother.

It's really sweet, adorable. And this is how tiny she is. You just said she's carrying a briefcase. That's a suitcase. Ma, I met the suitcase.

That's what I meant. Louis takes the cigarette out of her mouth, gives her this little kiss on the cheek, and with perfect timing, she blows. She exhales the smoke that she's had in her mouth and blows it right in his face and makes him cough. It's a great little. Moment, an image that has lived in my head for.

Forty years, or her blowing smoke in his face. Yeah. So when I think of Danny DeVito and if anyone mentions anything beyond his work, like they start mentioning his family, I will think about his mother blowing smoke in his face on taxi. I don't know that the scene would have worked quite as well if you didn't have that innate connection between a mother and a son. This is all very sweet.

And finally they walk out. It's a reverse shot down that same corridor we just talked about, and they're holding hands, and again it's hard not to be affected by that. It's knowing Louis is this irredeemable monster. To see him walking with his old Italian mother hand in hand very sweet. I thought it was sweet to see Danny DeVito and his mom together in this picture postcard now forever with him in that way.

I agree with you, it was very sweet. It is. So that's the end of the episode. Now we're going to talk yellow lights. What does light me?

Reminder, we score on a scale of one to five yellow lights. One is the worst taxi episode and five is the best. Follow alone? What do you give Louise's mother, As is our custom, we're going to throw it to you first. What do the yellow lights mean?

This one gets too yellow lights? Too yellow yellow You disliked it that much? Bored? I was bored. There were no laughs in this.

We've seen it before. We've seen the scenarios before where Louis is acting out but he's really uh, he's wounded in some way, and Alex has to figure that out and then kind of come up with a solution form. And then hooray and when we now have peeled back the layers of Louis de Palm and we know there's a real human underneath there, who cares we did it already. We probably did it with laughs. I can't remember the specific episode, but it had to be funnier than this one, because this one had a zero.

It's got it's got two yellow lights. By the way, one yellow light is only for Missus DaVita. Okay, well that's fair. And even though I'm slightly shocked he didn't score it a little higher, I'm not worlds away. I gave it three yellow lights for me.

Two of those yellow lights I can boil down to two things. One is Missus Davito, She's a gem. The other thing, I guess as a collective forwards. Really Lyle Huey Daytona Dave. Those three weirdos on the couch.

They make it for me. That scene is so bizarre to me, but yet somehow it feels real because I could very easily see Louis have in this corterie of odd balls that he pals around with that it's not clear what the connection really is, and they all seem so different, but they're all odd. That's to me, they're worth a yellow light because they're so unsettling in that scene. You're making me want to take a yellow light away because they weren't weird enough. Two yellow lil lights from Father Malone, three yellow lights from myself.

That's going to do it for this episode of night Mister Walters, Father Malone? Where can folks find you when you're not clocked into the garage? I do a show called Midnight Viewing. It's a horror anthology podcast, but we also look at well, pretty much anything we goddamn want to. It's on twice a week.

It's on Mondays and Fridays, Father Malone's Weekly round Up and the Horror Anthology Podcast, or any of the multiple fests where we examine that. That's a an anthological anthological way to look at things. We're looking at the anthology that is an entire person's career in some cases, like for instance, we're starting up Rick Moranis Fest. HP and I are doing it. HP does all the fests with me, except if it's horror, which case he bails so he won't be on the books of Blood one that's coming up.

Anyway, That's where you can find me. And actually I'm going to piggyback on that for myself. I you can find me. I'm host of the Noise Junkies music podcast. I am in the midst Wait wait wait HP, Okay, I.

Am in the midst of one such fest that Father Malone brought up. I'm in the midst of yaou yaoucha fest with Father Malone. We're covering the Predator film franchise. It's been a lot of fun, many movies I haven't seen, and really enjoying it. I'm also an occasional guest on the Culturecast with Christashu and last but not least, I have a bandcampsite hpmusicplace dot bandcamp dot com.

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