Free With Ads - Repo Man (1984)

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

This week we watched the perfect punk rock film that is not actually about music, the 1984 comedy Repo Man about a suburban white punk who just wanted a Pepsi, mom. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Sunset Blvd. -----Come see Matt do stand up at the Ice House in Pasadena on Weds October 1st!Watch Good Mythical Weekend every Saturday!Go to Emily's ETSY Store!See Jordan Morris at LA ComicCon Sept 26-28, tabling at JO7!

So this is free with ads. podcast that asked the question, why pay Disney plus $10 a month to watch a bunch of Mighty Ducks movies when you can go online for free and watch an Emilio Estevez movie that's equally inspirational if your aspirations are doing coke and stealing a bunch of cars? I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Repo Man, the punk rock cult classic that's the perfect movie for telling your stepdad to go fuck himself because he's not your real dad. With us, as always is the super producer, the he freak, Matt leave, hitting this with those angsty drops.

Yeah, let's go get sushi and not pay. Yeah. That'll show that sushi restaurant. Oh, my God. Before we talk about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Okay. Other free stop.

Thank you. This is a piece of news. It's a rumor at this point. It could be considered bad. I consider it bad news. This is a big buildup. This is a big, I know, I'm getting scared. I know.

This is from KT. Are you a mom getting divorced? Mom and I are, it doesn't mean we don't love both of you. Who gets custody of Matt? Here's the thing, no one. He's on his own. Oh, I wish I wasn't 40. Yeah, no one wanted custody.

You're just going to be out there in the world. We're going to throw use a bag of gorp. Gorp. Yeah. Grinola, onions, raisins, peanuts. Ew. What the fuck? I don't think it's unlaw.

I don't know what the other thing is. Anyway, this is KTLA.com, your source for local L.A. News. Universal Studios, the theme park here in L.A. where you can ride the movies. They have filed some patents that are suggesting

that they are thinking of closing down the Waterworld stunt show. No! Waterworld, a live sea war spectacular. No. Yes, that's the full name. This rumor has popped up a million times.

And you don't believe it. Fake news you're saying. Well, but they've just done it so much. It's like fucking shit or get off the pot. Like, just do it or don't do it. I'm just, it stresses me out. The boy who cried, I'm canceling the Waterworld show. I just love that the, this movie that no one knows anymore is still having a moment

at this part. And it's the best show. They need, the show rules. Yes. It's insane that they still have it. Waterworld, a movie which now no one remembers, but when they did remember it, it's, it's He was famous for being a shitty failure. And they still managed to create the most awesome stunt show imaginable.

People still go fucking nuts for in 20205. It's more successful than the movie. Yes. At this point, more people have seen that show than have seen the movie. I guarantee that that's true. It's better than the rides personally for me. It's like the thing I go to every time. It's the best thing in Universal Studios.

And yeah, there's something amazing about just like in 2025. there's a bunch of stoned 16-year-olds at Universal Studios watching this thing and having to sit through water world lore it's like the smokers they're after the Atolls it's like it's the deacon and the baroner and it's like what is it like who remembers any of them and there's zero children with back tattoos because it wasn't necessary right yes it's so weird to me

it's a small little moat no need for a map that show single-handedly has introduced people to the world of water. Yes. And probably in terms of water. And probably have made some people be like, I'm going to check that movie out and then be like, what is this bullshit?

Why is Dennis Hoffer, hopper shagging golf balls? Yeah. Why is everyone drinking their own piss? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true. How is it that if you have gills, you could go under the water,

make out with someone, and then they can breathe for a little bit? Yeah, well, they don't really explain a lot in that movie. I don't know. I need them too. I don't need them to. That movie single-handedly set back the climate change activist movement because it was like a great plot. You know, oh, global warming is going to melt the ice caps.

And then people saw that movie and said, this sucks. Let global warming happen. Yeah. They were like, finally, a reason to eat piss. They had to change the name from global warming to climate change just to avoid the whole water world thing. Any association with water world. So, you know, I don't want them to close it. No.

If they do have to re-scen it, here's my suggestion. Okay. Just use a super dramatic Oscar Bate movie like Carol or Tar. Yeah. And just keep the jet skis, you keep the fucking plane that explodes. Are those universal movies? I think Tar is. I think Tar is a focus feature.

Matt, can we check on that? If so, if Tar is a focus feature, we could. Well, in honor of this, if the show does go down, we're going to have to do Waterworld. Oh, yeah, sure. As an episode. I mean, I can't believe we haven't gotten to it already. Yeah, exactly. And as we'll put one of our laptops on a tiny boat, set it on fire and put it out into the water.

And then drink the piss. Yeah. A little biking funeral. Lydia, Lydia, you're being canceled. All your fans are at the gates. Get on the sea do. Get on the Getski, Lydia Tar. It is a focus feature.

Okay, so there you go. Universal owns. It could be the TAR stunt show. Call us. I'd see it. We have ideas. Well, yeah, let's talk about this week's movie, Repo Man. Emily, you were super hot to do this one.

Is this a favorite of yours? Have you seen it? Do you remember the first time you saw Repo Man? I do. In Nashville, Tennessee, we have a small historic movie theater called the Belcourt Theater. Oh, cool. Okay. Been around for a very long time.

Yes. Had so many fundraisers. just to keep it around. Sure, yes. It's one of those buildings that's always needing to be saved. Yes, exactly. But they've renovated it,

and now I hate it. Oh, no, lost its charm. Everything is, well, it's... They got rid of the water world, right? They got rid of the stinky, like, carpet and everything, which I did barf in that theater as a little girl when I saw the movie King Ralph, which... That's a fun little connection, though, Ralph.

I king Ralph, bar. During King Ralph. But, yeah, no, I love that theater, but I saw it, with friends in high school. Yeah, that's when you see this movie. There's a little, also there's a little bar. This I didn't go to after the movie, but later on, there's a bar called The Villager

that's right next to it. It is basically a closet, and it is a darts bar in Nashville, and it's been around forever, and they had a little jukebox situation, which has now been updated, I think, to a digital one, but the repo man soundtrack was an option. Amazing.

In there, which is fucking top to bottom, amazing music. Bangers. Bangers only. And I just, I've watched it multiple times. I love this movie. Yeah, people aren't the best people in this movie, but that's the vibe. No, it's an insane world.

It's an insane crazy world. Yeah, yeah. Matt, you reap a man? It's your first time? I had never seen it before. It was just one of those movies that existed for me as a cool movie to see at midnight in, you know, you see Santa Cruz, right? Yeah.

It was like, oh, we're all going to go see. repo man you know downtown and i just never got around to it and um man when i say how rare it is that a movie that has been pumped up this much still holds up yeah uh i couldn't believe how much i enjoyed it so cool ripo man rips the soundtrack is fucking awesome oh yeah it is mostly like it is mostly like 80s la hardcore punk it's very specific and i think built for jordan more Yeah, I totally love it. And I, yes, and I heard the soundtrack to this 50 times before I saw the movie. Yeah.

Before I even real, like, oh, this is from a movie. This isn't just like a... Have you never seen it before? I have seen it. But yeah, I think when I was a kid, like everyone's older brother who sold pills had this on cassette. If you were an older brother who sold pills, you had a cassette of this. And this is a popular cassette to get stuck in the deck, too. Yeah, for sure.

So, yeah, I had absolutely heard this soundtrack a million times before I even saw the movie in later. high school somewhere and yeah it fucking rips it's great and it's and it's like you know it's a great soundtrack for a minute it's just like the song selection is so good but also like it fits the story and it fits the characters there's so many like great soundtracks that are just like here are some songs this director likes or here are some songs that like the record company attached to the movie studio wanted them to push so it like doesn't make any sense right do we um i've always heard of the term needle drop and I always feel like that's just this cool reason to use a song and not necessarily

that the song is a part of the DNA so it's like deedledops fingering story sounds like a enemy from Kirby's Dreamland Diedledops suck up deedledops and get electricity powers someone's favorite Pokemon Dental Dops That's all I can say

Anyway, it feels like needle drops are sometimes a cop-out. They're not necessarily, which now I understand it because watching this, it's like, it's not, it's just so good. It's part of the DNA of the movie. I can't imagine the movie without the music. It's part of it. It's so good. It's so well-curried. And yet, I think these are probably just songs that the director liked, but it, like, happens to be just fucking perfect.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, let's talk about what happens in Repo Man, a movie with one of the greatest soundtracks of all. time. It starts out with some cops pulling over a guy who has one lens in his glasses. He's driving a Chevy Malibu, and the cop pulls him over, looks in the trunk, a bunch of shining gold light comes out of the trunk and the cop gets vaporized with a very cool slash bad special effects. Yeah. And he's just a bunch of a couple of, a pair of smoking boots. Yeah, the special effects are stylish. They are, yeah. I would say. So it's like, I don't think that CGI or

or practical effects that look perfectly realistic are necessarily good. Totally. I think if it's stylish and looks cool, that's better. I know. And like, you know, and this, like, being a punk rock movie, like, you know how, like, a punk rock band isn't that good at being a band?

Right. Like, this guy isn't great at making a movie. Like, the special effects aren't great. Like, but it, like, but what you're responding to is, like, the energy, the, like, enthusiasm, the passion. And, like, I think that's what this movie likes. And the vision, too, in a, like, uncompromising fashion because you're watching it and you're going like this is a clearly a satire it's clearly a comedy but everyone's playing it in dead serious like dead serious which is super funny yeah yeah i know and there's so many weird funny lines and but yeah everyone is like everything's life and death in the movie yeah well also it there's a little bit of it that feels like lynchian totally a little bit of it that feels tarantinoe in yes totally except for

it's not as long-winded as Tarantito. It's like little vignettes that are like, get in there, get out. Like, awesome. And then like, I mean, the like, you know, the trunk of this car is the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. 100%. Oh, yeah.

The couple who robs the liquor store who talks about their relationship. I mean, there's so much Pulp Fiction shit. And the one lens in the sunglasses reminds me of the... Lee Loan Stitch. No, the psychiatrist from Twin Peaks. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. But yeah, no, it's all of it just feels the characters and the actors are the best part of this and the music. It's those two things. Every single actor who has a scene just kills it. Yeah, there's so many like weird one line, one scene people who you just like always remember.

Let's say we'll forge ahead. So we can see the cop get vaporized. We go into a grocery store where Emilio Vesdevez, who is auto. That's where he's working. He's got a fucking earring. He's got a bad attitude. And a bow tie. little bowtie, his boss is yelling at him,

and something in the grocery store that's a great running gag in this movie is the products are all so generic. They're like white label with blue writing, and they just say what they are. So it's like cereal, beer, everyone drinks beer. Cocaine. Yeah, yeah.

I like that. They're committing to that bit of give me a beer or like give me a this, yeah. And yeah, later his, his repo man boss is like, let's go get a drink and they just get little cans that say drink on them. Yeah, I love when he comes home to his mom and dad and he eats from a can called food.

He does, yes, he just eats from a can that says food. Put it on a plate. You'll enjoy it more. Like this movie was kind of a trendsetter or, you know, if not a trendsetter, it kind of predicted a certain type of aesthetic, which was like, this reminds me if you've ever read No Label by Naomi Klein.

It's like the same thing, this idea of like consumerism and labels on everything and branding and all that stuff. So like the book, no label, it looks very similar. Like the cover of it looks like all of the cereal and the toilet paper and everything that, you know, the labels you see in this movie. Very cool. Is there something about when someone's eating from a tin can that it looks delicious? Oh, yeah. I don't know what it is. It's like when...

I'm always worried I would cut my mouth on the top. Well, you're doing a spoon with it, but like... Not me. You're just chugging it. Just fitting the whole can in my mouth. It's like when cowboys do the whole, the beans that you put right on the fire. Or in this case, it kind of looks like he's eating dog food. Straight dog food.

But I remember watching movies where people were eating cold, like, Chef Boyardee ravioli. That shit kind of slaps, by the way. Oh, yeah. I've never had an unheeded chef boy RD before. Yeah, it's kind of good. It's kind of good. But it has to be from the can. It has to be from the can.

It has to be from the can. It can't do it from that little plastic whatever thing that they warm up in the microwave. That's what sucks. You got to do it from the can, baby. From the can. So Otto gets fired at the grocery store, and then he goes out in the alley

with his fucking punk buddies who are just moshing to recorded music, no band. They're just listening to the circle jerks, moshing around. Hell yeah. They go to a house party later. He's like, a girlfriend is there,

and she hooks up with this guy who just got out of prison. So he's got no job. He's got no fucking girlfriend. Yep. And so, you know, life's bad. And then Harry's, Dean Stanton comes up to him.

A David Lynch guy, too. Yeah, a total David Lynch guy. Yeah, this is one of those, like, great, oh my God, I know that face, good and everything, character, weirdos. Yep. He asked him if he will, like, help him, like, take a car and follow him. He's like, my wife's in labor. It's, like, clearly a scam. We got to take her car away from this dangerous neighborhood.

So, yeah, so he, you know. For 20 bucks. For 20 bucks. So Emilio Estevez does it. He, like, gets in the car. It turns out it's like some dude's car. And they take it to the repo lot. And that's where he kind of like get introduced to the whole like repo man, weirdo family.

And they're great. And they're great. I know. They're all awesome. And then like they, um, so this is my favorite line in the movie here is like there's a dude whose car they just repossessed. And he says, are you going to give me my car or am I going to have to come down to your house and shove your dog's head in the toilet?

We do not. We don't love that. I know. First of all, a dog would love that. It's so weird. And there's so many great little. Don't threaten my dog with a good time. I know.

Anyway, they give Emilio Westeros a beer. He just fucking pours it on the floor. Because he's pissed that they tricked him into this. And being a repo man is kind of shameful because you're fucking people over it. Which, you know, to be fair. And I will say, if I could be a repo woman for only bad guys. Oh, yeah. Oh, like a Dexter.

Like a Dexter repo woman? I would do it because it's like the idea of this sounds really exciting. It does. It does sound. legalized stealings does sound fun. And they have to do little scams and stuff. I'd learn how to drive. I can drive.

You can. You can. You can't. One of these days, we should film something, get a dashboard camera. You know, like a Russian dashboard camera in case we die. Someone will make money out of it. But yeah, so you guys can experience me driving. I want you guys to be in the car with me.

So usually Russian dash cams. I will be putting a wig on a mannequin. They're usually facing out towards the road. I like this Russian dash cam is facing you driving as your passengers pass away. We'll get one going outside and one going inside so that we can really see the whole thing. The ultimate viral video. What you will experience is me driving very slow. That's the only thing you're going to experience.

I don't make sudden move, well, unless I get spooked. Right. Or bored. Or bored. It's going to jerk the wheel. I do a donut for no reason. Get spook like you're a horse. I'm like, oh, a.

farmer's market let's just No but on the break Flore it Flore it So he's like now a repo man He's in the weird family There is a guy There's like this kind of spacey

Like mechanic who like They said did too much acid He's got all these conspiracy theories He does not drive He says he doesn't drive It makes you less intelligent Yeah He's the emily

I enjoyed that I enjoyed that Of the movie Yeah the guy who's just kind of poking stuff In a barrel full of fire Yeah that's me I don't drive because I'm not stupid That was a really cool scene

And I remember watching it and going I remember there was something significant about this scene But maybe he's a character that you never see again And then it's like oh this weird scene Is setting up the ending to the movie Yeah totally I know it's got a lot of fun little like reveal Oh it's got a fun little reveal Yeah

The less of the like this movie like it's very episodic Like it doesn't nothing has a lot to do with anything else that's happening Which why not? I think it's some things, because that's how your day goes. Yeah, and I think that is like, you know, like, the generous read of this movie is that, like, it's what it's like to feel aimless, like, right? This guy that doesn't know what his life is and he's just like doing this insane stuff and everything is crazy. So, yeah, that is kind of, like, your life doesn't have a plot. It's just some weird shit happening.

Yeah. And, yeah, and then sometimes you fly away in a car. Yeah, so he, so, you know, he's kind of getting. getting like inundated with the repo men he goes home where he eats the can that says food and his fucking parents

they're smoking pot watching a televangelist Were they smoking pot? They're smoking joints I think It seemed like it I mean either that or they're smoking cigarettes I thought they were smoking cigarettes because they're talking about Jesus

and I don't know something about Jesus and pot Yeah I think maybe the idea is that like they got stoned and then got tricked into giving all their money to the televangelist I also think it's a statement

especially at this time For this generation, like Gen Xers, where they watch their hippie parents turn into like Christian conservatives. So I think that's kind of what that's saying. The Woodstock generation somehow turned into that. Yeah, exactly. And I think they're doing it in a ham-fisted, funny, satirical way where they're literally smoking weed and saying they gave all their money to some guy on TV. I was thinking about this about like, you know that saying that if you keep doing the same thing, over and over and want different results.

That's what insanity is. I think then some people who aren't super Christian decide to do that. Yeah. And then you're like, no, I think you should just be insane. Yeah. I think we should all just keep doing the same thing and expect a different results. Right. Just improve on it.

Occasionally you will get different results. Yeah, yeah. Working out. You're going to get, you're going to be able to lift more. Yeah, sometimes you'll throw your back out. Yeah, exactly. You know, just keep the free love going and just find the partner it works with. Some people are born Polly.

I think everyone's born Polly Matt. Now, let me tell you about ethical non-monogamy. There's a book. It's called The Ethical Slut. Kill me. Anyway. So he's riding around in the car with Harry Dean Stanton. They have these enemies, the Rodriguez brothers.

They do like a little donut race with them in the L.A. River. That's pretty cool. And afterwards, Emilio West was like, that's intense. And Harry Dean Stanton goes, Ripo Man's always intense. Let's get a drink. Great line.

I was stoked as soon as he said, let's get a drink. I'm like, God damn it, I want to be a repo woman. I know. There's a weird kind of sort of sequel to this I've never seen called Repo Chick. What? Came out in 2009. Yeah. Very hard to see.

I think it is, I think Universal does not like that it exists. Well, is it a Universal movie or was it somebody? No, it's not. And I think they got mad about that because I think Universal, this could be the stunt show. Oh, my God, Repo Man. The Stunt Show. It worse. Instead of a plane.

coming over the wall. It could be a Chevy Malibu. And it's glowing. And it can just have all your favorite lines. Yeah. It could be a Harry Dean Stanton or a guy playing him could just do a bunch of Coke. Yeah. Everyone would love that.

Tone flies away and does crimes. And we could make it look like a tiny racetrack, L.A. River situation. That would be great. Why not? Repo Man Stunt Show. Dog, Repo Chick looks like it slaps. I mean, I don't know, guys. And yeah, and Alex Coxwell will always say he's going to make another one.

And he's like, we're close. And then they never really have. It'll happen. If we can get our hands on repochick, we got to, we got to see it. If it's free with ads, you know we'll do it. I looked around a little bit for it and didn't see it. But yeah, if it ever pops up, please. Amazon Prime, but that's not free.

Not free. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what we can do. Help us, Zumo play. Yes, Zumo, what the hell? Buy Repo Chick for $40 and put it on there. We got Rosanna Arquette and that thing. Oh, is she?

Woo! Yeah, I got to watch this for sure. So he, so, you know, he's a repo man at this point. He picks up this kind of like, this kind of like kooky girl who the FBI, they're after her. And she has like, she's very cute. And she's dressed very cool. Her like kind of weird, like manic pixie dream girl stuff was very cute on her. Cool, like tomboy, scrappy girl.

I love a scrappy cool girl. She has a picture of the aliens that he says looks like hot dogs or something. Yeah, you never see. Yeah, I know. You don't really know where that picture came from. Again, like stuff doesn't really pay off in this, but like, yeah. I disagree. Okay.

But, yeah. Oh, no, no. I'm just some stuff kind of hangs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not meant to see it. You're not meant to see it. Yeah. Yeah.

And he, he drops her off. So she's like part of the UFO conspiracy group. Uh, their hideout is labeled UFO United Fruitcake outlet. Shut the fuck up. I did. I miss that one. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like clearly labeling it.

This is like a Simpsons gag where the FBI's van is flowers by Irene. Right. That is just a. copy of the United Fruitcake outlet joke from this movie they like randomly do it in the back of his car and that's when they where they learn that there's a

hit out for this Chevy Malibu 20,000 bucks everybody the repo men the Rodriguez brothers everybody's looking for this Chevy Malibu which what does inflation mean that would be today I wonder that would be like what a million dollars yeah yeah I know right

let's call $200,000 yeah yeah but I mean like it was exciting to hear that amount of money at all. Oh, sure, sure, sure. So, yeah, so then, like, this part of the movie is just that Chevy Malibu getting stolen by various people. The Rodriguez brothers have it for a while. The repo men have it for a while.

The random, like, punks from his party get it. They're all great. Hilarious. Yeah, they're all funny weirdos. One guy named Archie, and they're all, like, so they steal it for a little bit. Yeah, there's this, there's this, like, there's this great scene that turns into kind of like a not great scene in this. where you go, the repo men are always just doing something weird

when you see them. There's this part where they're drinking in the parking lot. They're singing jingle bells, and they're giving one guy a haircut. The conspiracy guy. Just a very funny little scene. You don't, nothing he's explained. This is kind of like the of its time thing.

They do this like runabout John Wayne that's a little slur-y. Oh, yeah. There's a, there's like, there's a millions of dead cop song called John Wayne was a Nazi that I'm like, maybe they're kind of sort of referencing that. They don't say Nazi in the movie. No, they're saying something else. Yeah.

So, yeah, this is the part where it's like, maybe you don't show this to a 13-year-old now. Right, right. But it's very of its time. Of course, yeah. It's a very hammy scene, which I love. Like, you know, when he says, you know, this thing, this homophobic thing about John Wayne,

everyone, simultaneously, they're all just like, no, he was. It was like very theatrical. And then one of the guys says A lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck Which is a very good lie Yeah, I mean, I kind of liked that And they were like, yeah, me too

Yeah, I know I think strangers I just like watching fucking Yeah I mean that's like being a woman who just likes big boobs Sure I love a lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck Why not?

So they So the FBI kind of gets a hold of auto. They go to this little bar. One of the waiters, good bar, one of the waiters is wearing a little black beret. I think it's the worst hat in the movie. The worst hat.

One of the FBI women is supposed to have a metal hand, but it's just like a Michael Jackson glove. Is that, is she FBI or is she like something else? Oh, I think they're supposed to be like men in black type. Oh, okay, yeah. But yeah. Part of me thought she was like an alien. FBI, but also an alien

Oh, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Either way, I love the metal hand. The metal hand's great. One of the, like, punks come into this bar, and one of them starts just licking her metal hands. Making out with it. Yeah.

And the band on stage is these guys in, like, dumb and dumber tucks is just playing acoustic guitars. That's kind of funny. Hell, yeah. Anyways, one of the punks opens up the trunk. He gets vaporized, and that's when, that's when auto gets, oh, that's, who gets the car at this point? Anyway, the car is changing hands a lot.

It is. But we know it makes you feel weird when you're driving it because it's hot as fuck. Right, it's hot in it. Probably whatever's in the trunk is radioactive. Right, which they do a whole thing about the guy who drives the car with the one iPad. The mad scientist.

Well, or he's maybe from another place or from the time machine because what is a spaceship but a time machine. But I, if you are part of the Nashville comedy scene lore, there's a man named David cloud, RIP, weirdest guy in the world, talks and looks exactly like this dude. And when I first started doing stand-up, there's this bar that's kind of, it was a biker bar at some point called Springwater Supper Club and Lounge, and there's no supper there and no

lounge, but he was there, the open mics that happened there was the first one. He, it was the first open mic I've ever seen and he was this old man and he just talked about a girl giving him a blowjob and he was like and I can feel her epiglottal flap and I'll never forget it I will never forget that moment and going I this is going to be a long road

this is going to be the longest road to get anywhere in comedy it's going to be a big learning curve this is hell exactly so it started with epiglottal flap and then it ends here with epiglottal flap yeah sure times of flat It's the snake eating its own tail.

Time is an epiglateral flap circle. Time is an epiglottal flap. The end is the beginning. That's the glottal flap circle. Oh, yeah. So the guy who was originally driving the car, the one lens guy, he's got the car now. And he talks about him like working on the neutron bomb. So yeah, we never really learn about this guy where he was from, but he's got a lot of weird.

He's like crazy and has a weird backstory. The punk's, the punk set of people, they, like, robbed the liquor store. And I like that the security guard from the grocery store is also there. I like that this world just has 10 people. It's like probably for budgetary reasons. But it keeps it simple. I know, yeah. It's like a cartoon, but with real people.

Yeah, it totally has cartoon logic. Dude, repo man, the cartoon would be fucking killer. Oh, I know. Adult Swim should do that. Yeah. Sounds like it already exists. Like you're just saying that makes me think it might. Right.

Yeah. Wow. So, yeah, there's just, like, big shootout. You know, the guy who, Otto's buddy who cheats with his girlfriend, he, like, tries to get back with her, like, as he's dying. Very funny. And again, I think that's, like, very little bit lifted for Pulp Fiction.

Wait, when did Pulp Fiction come out? This was 1984? Yeah, I think Pulp Fiction is 94, 93. Yeah, 93. So this was before Pulp Fiction. I think very, you know, Tarantino, loves an homage. Yeah, I also feel like Twin Peaks The Return.

There's a lot of things about this movie that remind me of the return in odd ways. Oh, interesting, yeah. Okay. Yeah, but I mean, like, David Lynch is like firing on all cylinders now, so this movie is definitely like in that school of movies. Yeah, yeah. And so his buddy's dying here,

and Emilio Westovess goes over to him, and the buddy, she's like, society, man. And Amelia Westovess says, you're just a white suburban punk like me. Yeah. I love that so much. It really, like, it really, to me, says this movie has its head on straight. A hundred percent.

It's so, it, like, it's not like, if you're too earnest about punk rock, it stops being fun. And it's also not the point. And also, like, so I love, like, there can be, there's, like, punk rock movies that are so serious. And they're, like, making it out to be this, like, you know. We're talking SLC punk. I know. I've never seen SLC punk. It's, I mean, it's, it's on free with ads, YouTube, a lot.

and the sequel, which I've never seen the sequel. I mean, it's not a bad movie, but it definitely does a lot of the kind of like, I don't know, making being part of a punk scene a little bit more cinematic than it was. Like the griminess of this scene that he's in. I mean, it's not about a movie about being in a punk scene, but like this is a lot more, as weird as it is. It's a lot more real and a lot more fun and also a lot more self-aware. Totally.

Yeah, but I, I really like that Emilio Estavis's character, like he really does have a nice little character like pivot and journey going on where he was just like kind of a nihilist and just nothing matters kind of thing. And now he's like, everything's not white and black. There's a bunch of gray in this shithole.

I'm going to kind of pivot my opinions about things as they come. Yeah, and he takes himself less seriously. Yeah, that line to me is perfect. It is. It's so great that it's there. It's the moment in the movie that made me realize, like, it was the perfect punk rock movie. Yeah. I was like, thank you for not making this, like, wow, wasn't it fucking grand?

These guys were raging against the machine and the fucking man took them down. It's like, ah, come on, we're just little weenards, you know. Yeah, everybody was kind of a piece of shit across the board to each other. And so it's just like a dog-eat-dog punk rock world. is essentially the suicidal tendency song institutionalized. Sure. Which is in this movie. Which is in this movie.

It is just someone yelling at their mom all I wanted is a Pepsi. Yes. Well, yeah, we're almost to the chilling climax of Repo Man, which we'll talk about right after this. We're back. We're back. It's free with ads. We're talking about the conclusion of Repo Man. So, like, things are just insane now. It's raining ice cubes.

It starts to rain ice cubes. We don't know why. They find the Malibu. Harry Dean Stanton has it at this point. and they try and so they kill Harry Dean Stanton and then all of the FBI and the men in black

and the robot hand lady and all just there's a huge the fucking budget of this movie for this scene is so crazy wait I don't know if they killed him they shot him did he not die and then he's down on the ground

smoking cigarettes and stuff with Emilio Estevez did he die in his arms you don't see him die oh maybe yeah maybe I'm wrong I mean they think he's gonna die that's like the yeah does anyone truly die in this movie

It feels a lot like, I don't know, Tom and Jerry style. Every time you see Harry Dean Stanton, you're like, is that guy dying? Is he dead? It's like, no, he'll be in movies for 40 more years. I know. Yeah. How was he old in this movie? I mean, yeah, he was the old man in this movie.

I got to tell you. He is the old man in like Justin Timberlake movies. The crazy thing is you are old way longer than you are young in life. It's what's nuts. And that's why people are like, you got old. It's like, bitch, you are old for most of it. Like, I don't know why everybody's so scared. Yeah.

Damn, that actually made me feel good. I never thought about that before. Yeah. You're right. You're old for most of your life. Yes. Oh, that makes you feel so good. Yeah.

It's really just, that's the common, that's the common setting for a human. Yeah. You're like, I think you've changed my life. Good. Put it on a plaque. All right. Put it on some mugs. Throw them on Etsy.

Don't pull your back. Brack. Pull your back out while you're doing it. So no one can get, like, this car, it's glowing green at this point no one can get in it. It's like people are getting on fire. But you know who can get in the car is the conspiracy

hippie guy from earlier who doesn't drive until now. Yeah, and it's like he touches, he's like giving it a little like, you know, feel in the car like ooh, nice car and nothing's doing anything to him and he gets in doesn't close the door when he gets in

which drives me fucking bananas. I don't know why. But then they're like you can't drive and he goes, what did he say? I can't remember, but it's like he can drive this car. Yeah, right, exactly. And then he motions for Emilio Estes. Oh, I love that. He beckons for Emilio Estevez to get in.

The girl he's like sleeping with from the UFO organization, so he goes to go in the car. She says, what about our relationship? And he just goes, fuck that. And that's the last line of the movie. And then he gets in the car and it flies away. And there's just a, you know, two minutes of the. worst special effects we've seen in any movie we've watched of this car flying

around L.A. And him going, whoa, this is intense. Yeah. Ripo Man's always intense. Which, honestly, if someone was like, what about our relationship, I'd be like, fuck that too. You'd be like, I'm going to fly around. I'm going to get in a space car. Come on. I know. I would have just been

like, I don't see how they're mutually exclusive. I know. I can just be in a space. You don't want me to get in a space car? Yeah. The fact that you even brought that up makes me think this is going to work out. Well, the thing is she wanted to get in that car. That was from the organization. It was her deal, but she was not beckoned. So sorry, girl, but like, yeah.

I know. And then, so yeah, I do like to imagine that his character from the Mighty Ducks is just this guy after he gets back in space. I guess I've got to teach these kids about hockey. It is so crazy seeing a young Emilio Estevez because I realize I've never seen him this young before. Oh, yeah.

He's so cute. He is so cute. I love it. Well, yeah, the movie's over, and we're kind of already talking. talking about it, so let's officially start the hunk watch. Yes. It's Hunk Watch.

You know, Emilio Estevez is obviously great. I think the taller of the Rodriguez brothers pretty hunky. There's two Rodriguez brothers. One's taller. Wait, which one is the other one? There's a shorter one who I think is also, it's also attractive in his own way. But, ooh, give me that tallie. So not only is he a...

I like the tallies. Not only is he a hunk, he's also the tallest guy? You know what? He is. I think that second Rodriguez is. There you go. Oh. Yes, but any other thoughts?

Yes, young Amelia Westavez. I mean, Harry Dean Stanton has a lot of swagger for me. Absolutely. Sure does. Let's get a drink. But ultimately, it's Amelia Westvess. That's fair. That's fair.

Yeah, a close second. I got to go with the lobotomized mad scientist. There's something that just excites me about him. Maybe it's the way he's talking about the neutron bomb. Yeah. Maybe it's the fact that he's only got one lens, but something about him just makes me go. And the fact that he's like,

everyone's so scared of radiation. They don't understand how radiation works. You could have hundreds of x-rays in a day and be fine. Meanwhile, he passes out behind the wheel of the car. You're just like, ah, it's like, yeah, there is, I just love that character. It's just so out of pocket. It's just so out of nowhere.

Yeah, where are those bit parts for us? I know. Like all three of us should be playing weird. I should be telling someone I'm going to put their dogs head in a toilet. 100%. Yeah, I should be passing out behind the wheel of a car with one contact lens in. We all three of us were born to be that guy from that thing. And the fact that we haven't made that yet.

We'll get there. You know, I really think that all three of us are in our late 40s. That's when it's going to happen. There's going to be some character stuff where they're like, we got to make sure they don't, they're not expensive. and they'll take the minimum pay check. And it can't be AI, there's new rules. AI is getting solved in between now and then. AI all fucking battle hats.

Yeah, so if you need a weirdo-townie to be in something, all three of us are available. I love it. That's what our hopes are. Time is an epiglottal flaps. Time is an epiglottal circle, battle glottledled. All right, we did the hunk watch. Now we're going to rank it on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials.

And by now, I mean when we come back. We're back. We're back. We're back. It's free with ads. We're going to rank Repo Man on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials. But first, we want to let you know that if you want to support the show and here are a bonus episodes, you go to Maximumfund.org slash join, kick in a little money. You get some bonus episodes. You get to keep the show coming.

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it on our Instagram. All right. Repo Man on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials. Matt, since you had never seen this movie, let's hear from you first. Nine out of ten. Wow. Yeah, yeah. It is almost a perfect movie. It's

just as irreverent as I like it to be. The music is just fire the whole time. agree with you completely, Emily, it's not just needle drops for the sake of like cool songs. It is woven into the DNA in a way that I feel like is, it's natural because it came out in 84. So like this music isn't to set a scene of like, oh, this is back in the 80s. It was of its time and so for that

I feel like it I don't know broke some crazy new ground there and yeah I mean the circle jerks in a movie totally

that's crazy it was probably crazy like none of these bands ever got that big no these were this was like yeah this was like total you know

obscure music I wonder if they were all on the same label like there was yeah I wonder I think with some movies they're all from the same label

and then there's like a package deal, but I don't care. I don't care. I guess, like, the most famous thing on the soundtrack, like, Iggy Pop does the theme song. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, and, like, that was, like, a get for them. For sure. Well, so was Emilio Estevez.

Yeah, that too. I mean, there was like stars in this movie. Yeah, yeah. And the music was a star. Yeah. But it just, it's, it's from start to finish, it's a really fun watch. Yeah. Yeah, I loved it. Yeah. Emily, what are you giving it? Oh, God, this is so hard.

I'm going to give it a tippy tin. Okay. Hey, here we go, here we go. I just, especially after watching Phantom of the Paradise. Sure. Oh, another music-based cult classic. God, damn. Just the, how refreshing it was to, I love the graphics and the visuals and the opening credits.

I love that neon green and red. I just think that this person had their own style and brand. I don't even know who it was who directed this. Alex Cox. And, yeah, directed a bunch of movies after this. Repo Chick, for instance. Sid Nancy is his other big one. Right.

So, yeah, like, you can kind of see how we got Sid and Nancy off this. Yeah, but this was just so fun. Yeah. But also, like, I don't know, gritty and dark at moments, but in a way that just, I don't know, there was a lot of fun, little fun stuff to it that the world building is cool. It feels like it could be a TV show easily. I want to watch it again and again and again.

Okay. Yeah, I also love this movie. I'm going to be kind of around you guys. I'm going to give it an eight. I think it is a like, if you're like into cult movies and you haven't seen this, fucking what are you doing? And I think we've definitely watched a couple movies like this in a row and it's like,

yeah, Phantom of the Paradise. Kind of fun to watch clips, not that fun to watch the movie. Frogtown, yeah, the clips are fun, but the movie's kind of creaky and makes you feel weird. But this is fun. This is like a cult movie that is still fun to watch. watch and yeah i all the stuff you guys said totally totally true yeah uh if you haven't seen this one do it um your inner 13 year old will thank you yeah um all right uh that's the that's the

description of the movie uh now we're gonna do everybody's favorite part uh the plug yeah matt you got anything let's do one hour of plugs oh yeah marathon of plugs uh i'm going check out an instagram post i did of my cat from 2024 i'll just let you know You know, they allow reposts now on Instagram, so please go through all of my photos. Repost, repost our photos, please. Repost, please. You should, if you're in Pasadena or the L.A. area, October 1st, that's a Wednesday, come out to the Ice House and see me and my wife, Francesca, do some stand-up comedy. All right.

Emily, you got anything? I'm going to say, please go to my Etsy store, phlegm gems. Okay. But I just want to apologize to everyone. who bought the last drop because I was delayed in getting things out, but the people who had to wait the longest got free bracelets. There you go. So if my shit is really late, you get free stuff, just so you know.

You either get it on time or you get free things. Win, win. But also, if you really need it on time, you can message me and tell me that it's very important. We love free stuff. Yeah. In fact, we love, yeah. But it's all free stuff. Exactly.

So, but the thing is it's, it. was especially, you know, I struggled this past, a lot of things are going on. So I appreciate your patience, but another drop is coming soon. Okay. And another fun thing to do for folks in the L.A. area, I am going to be at L.A. Comic-Con September 26th through 28.

I'm going to be at Artist Alley, J-O-10, or excuse me, J-O-7. You know how you remember that, Jack-Off 7. And on Saturday, I'm going to be doing a panel about comics at 1 p.m. Come by the table. get some books signed every day at my table I will have another pal with me another table pal selling books selling nicknacks it's going to be a ton of fun come see us at LA Comic-Con September 26th through 28th okay a little hey now's the part where we announced the next movie we're doing something special for next week's movie yeah watch a lot of free with ads movies

in fact all the movies are free with that what premise of the show yeah except next week we're watching a free not with ads movie. That's right. I'll back up a little bit. September, it's national Get Your Library Card Month. As fans of free stuff, we love a local library. Hey, fun fact, local libraries get their funding based on use. So when you use it, they are getting money.

Hey, Jordan, I'm not a big physical media guy, so I don't go to the library a lot. Libraries have digital things you can get, including streaming services, like Canopy and Hoopla, you go to these websites, you put in your library card, get to stream all kinds of free stuff without ads. You're streaming, the library's getting money, your community's getting something. Yeah, and you're getting to watch something cool. Yeah. And the selection is actually really good.

Yeah, the selection on Canopy and Hoopla is fucking great. It's a lot of overlap with the stuff we watch. There's like kind of classy stuff. There's just a fuck ton of Nicholas Cage movies and zombie movies. Really, really fun sites. So tune in next week. will be watching via Canopy Sunset Boulevard.