Free With Ads - Stripped To Kill 2: Live Girls

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

A listener found the movie that has been haunting Emily's dreams since she saw the box art as a child. And that movie is Stripped To Kill 2: Live Girls which is a movie about... idk man.Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Wolfman (1941)-----See Matt and wife Francesca Fiorentini do a live podcast The Bitchuation Room at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles on May 30th. Get your tickets now!Watch Emily, Jordan, and Matt every weekend on Good Mythical Weekend.Jordan will be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on June 7th and 8th. The address is 50 Carlton Street in Toronto! 

This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay for overpriced drinks at a strip club when you can go online for free and visit a strip club that's incredibly sexy if you're into chain link fences, loud wind noises, and giant perms. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Strip to Kill 2, the Roger Corbin produced psychological slasher with box art so striking, it's lived rent free

in my brain since the late 80s. With us as always is the super producer, the he freak, Matt Lieb, hitting us with those live nude drops. I don't know, man. That's it, That's it. That was my favorite line from the movie. Yeah. When you wandered on screen, looked right at the camera.

I said, I don't know, man. That sure was a movie. I would take you as the killer immediately. You're like, I think the guy that broke the fourth wall is the one who murdered everyone. Yeah, for sure. Might be him. Yeah, this is really exciting. To reset a little bit, we were able to track down the movie that Emily, so the box art

of this movie has been in your head. You didn't know what movie this was to. Yeah. Thought you had dreamed it as a kid and someone tracked it down. Matt and I both had movies and Matt's was found by our fabulous freebies, our fans, immediately. Yeah, almost instantly.

People just Googled, because I described it as it was a movie, it was box art where it was titties covered in ants and someone apparently Googled that and found it very easily Googleable It's a it's a wonder why I didn't do it Yeah, and then mine was a lot more difficult. So I assumed it didn't exist It was a woman who I thought was Bernadette Peters in my brain as a child a woman who I thought was Bernadette Peters in my brain as a child. Close enough. Well, yeah, but I saw this movie needed more show tunes, more Bernadette Peters

as show tunes. She should really know one saying any Sondheim in this movie. They certainly danced like they were in a Sondheim strip to kill three, sensical strip to kill three into the woods. Well, yes. So I remember the name of the grocery store, by the way. It was Compton's was the name of the grocery store that had a little rental video kiosk type thing in there. And I would always go look at this as a kid. I think it was early 90s actually, and stare at it, and then go home and think about it by myself. It's important to describe the box art here.

So it's one of the strippers from the movie, and she is being kind of like grasps from all sides by hands that are coming out of a wall. Yes, and the way I described it was it was like gray hands. Like I remembered this girl looked like Berta Peters and all these hands are grabbing at her from the walls. At first I thought, oh, this is maybe just labyrinth. Like I had a dream version of this.

But then, lo and behold, my lovely manager, Candy Crimbrink, someone emailed her about this. That's crazy. It's crazy that someone emailed your manager about it. And not us, yeah, exactly. James Devine is who emailed it. Thank you so much, James. Yeah, thank you, James. And of course you can reach Emily through her manager if you have any, just any correspondences that you want to share with Emily. Yeah. I should probably pay her now. I don't know.

She gets 10%. 10% of the clout that you get. Send her 10% of this movie.. Send her 10% of this movie. Clip out 10% of the movie. Send it to her. Yeah, so I found the poster and I can't, it's like so crazy to look at, like, because the version in my brain is slightly different than this, but by God we found it. It's 50 killed too. So thank you. Thank you to everybody who was hunting for movies, who was looking for the right one.

We had a few like red herrings, much like the mystery in this movie. But we finally found it and we fucking watched it and we're gonna talk about it. It is as of this recording, streaming free with ads. But before we talk about Strip to Kill 2, we wanted to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Other free stuff. All right. And this relates to our ongoing segment about celebrity vanity music projects. Emily, do you want to introduce this one? So I saw it and I honestly tried to listen to the music, couldn't do it. So I'd rather do it with you guys. This is Russell Crowe, baby. I did not know Russell Crowe was a musician.

Oh, sure. He's had many a celebrityity music project over the years. Well, I mean, he sang in Les Mis, and it was bad. Mm-hmm. He's also had, I think since his heyday, he's been in a band called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. What? I thought we were all going to try

and guess what the name was. In my mind, it was 20 Leagues under the grunt was what I remember. Is it 30? Around the world in 30 grunts. 20,000 leagues under the grunt. Under the grundle. What's under the grundle? The grundle is as far underneath as you can go.

Maybe that's the maybe that's Maybe that's the riddle. That is. That the band is. Okay, but this is, so is this, do you know, Emily, is this related to that band or is this a solo project? What are we about to listen to? I honestly don't know. I just saw him, his chunky face, singing.

And I wanted to listen to it with you. Okay, let's do you. I guess it's coming out soon. Yes. The latest Russell Crowe banger. The the the caption is this video is out now watch on vivo or YouTube duet with Zuccaro? I should probably know who that is and here it is. Did I say that I need you? Did I say that I want you? Oh, if I did then I'm a fool, you see No one knows this more than me Cause I come clean

Oh, okay, so you have to You really have to watch the video to really get the full crow experience. Yeah, what's going on here, Matt? Now we're not watching. You're watching. Yes. Describe the visuals that go along. Okay. So it is what I can only describe as Christian lighting. Kind of like that sun, that sunset lighting that people have where they stare into the sun and sing. That was very Christian rock, that what you just played. It kind of sounded Mark Knopfler-esque to me. Listen, this is the thing about Christian rock in general.

You don't know if you're listening to it or just some band from the 90s. Now, in this case, I don't know if it's Christian or not, but he is singing into the sky, Russell Crowe is, and then we see Zuccaro who looks like, well, he dresses like a young man, but he's very old. He's got one of those LA hats, you know what I'm talking about, flat brim. I don't know that I do, can you describe the LA hat? It's a fedora with a really flat, large brim. A lot of Santa Monica, Hollywood men and women wear them. They look like cool guy hats.

You ever see a cool guy hat? Never in my fucking life. I think I know what you're talking about. I think I can picture the hat. And he's got sort of, you know. It's like a hat you would wear to a winery, right? 100%, that's right. Okay, sorry, I was looking at it.

Oh, it is very Christian lighting. Yes, very Christian lighting. And you see his Zuccaro, whoever he is, playing the guitar. So someone's playing some music. I'm supposed to- So there's just two grunts. Is Zuccaro the other grunt here? I believe there's only two odd grunts now.

Okay, but can I say something? What happened to the other 28 grunts? Yes. They all died. Zuccaro just looks like Russell Crowe in a different wig? Yes, it looks like another crow. So this might be a, what was- Oh, Garth Brooks guy?

Garth Brooks, yes, what was Garth Brooks's alter ego? Chris Gaines. Chris Gaines. So Russell Crowe has a Chris Gaines named Zuccaro. Yes, he has a Sasha Fierce. He has a Chris Gaines. A Sasha Fierce. Yeah, it looks like it's just him in another wig or that it's John Goodman in a wig.

Yeah, it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell. It's sort of Elton John-y a little bit too. It's giving me Righteous Gemstones vibes. Absolutely. Maybe Russell Crowe was all the grunts. He could have been all the grunts. So he was all 30 odd feet of grunt.

This is like the movie Split, but with Russell Crowe. Or The Clumps. Yeah, this is The Clumps. The Clumps is what I was just thinking. This is sliding doors, but it's like sliding barge or something. I don't know. Well, yeah, if you wanna fuck or praise the Lord, apparently, check out Russell Crowe

and Zuccaro's new album. Yeah, I just wanna read a couple of comments. Oh, please, yes. Just the number one comment is- This is from their Instagram, correct? Yes, from their Instagram is, I can't tell if this is satire Which is great and then under that it says Russell Crowe dueting with the Wario version of Russell Crowe I'd your, Russell Crowe. They get it, dog. This is awesome.

All right. Pretty great. Look for that at your local Tower Records. Yes, Emily. Can we briefly mention that we don't usually mention where we see the stuff that we see because it's on multiple platforms often. That's right. But this is, I believe, the first time we've ever used Plex.

Yeah. Yes. I like Plex, guys. Plex has time we've ever used Plex. Yeah. Yes. It is. First Plex. I like Plex, guys. Plex has kind of a fun little stash of movies. I guess this is something that you usually use to store your personal media stash, but now they have a little free with ad service as everything is starting to do these days.

Yeah, Plex had a fun little stash of movies. If you're scrolling for something free, maybe check out Plex. Also, Plex, if Fun Little Stash of Movies. If you're scrolling for something free, maybe check out Plex. Also Plex if you're looking for somebody to sponsor. Advertise the fact that you exist as a streaming platform. We're three very nice people. Yes, pay us. There's nothing problematic about us yet.

No, don't listen to the rest of the episode. Yeah. Just assume that we just kind of talk nicely about the movie and people like us and no one talks about specific fingering stories. Aw man. Well yeah, speaking of fingering and getting fingered, let's talk about Strip to Kill 2. So I maybe want to preface this by just giving a little bit of information about the movie

from its Wikipedia, because I think context is important for this movie. I think it's everything. It's everything. Stop it. I think without it, the description of this movie is 15 minutes long. We need to know what it is, so please give us the context. This is a movie, it's produced by Roger Corman, who produced all sorts of low budget drive-in movies, doing it since the 50s. A legendary low budget movie dude. And he was

famous for using a location to shoot as many movies as possible in the time that he had it rented. So this was one of those. The director, Kat Shea, had just made a movie for him called Dance of the Damned, and apparently it had finished filming on Saturday, and Roger Corman asked Shea if she could come up with a movie by Monday because he still had the strip club joint for a few more days. Shea and her crew went in on Monday and shot topless dance footage for five days. She and partner Andy Rubin took three weeks off to write a film about it.

She later admitted, I didn't have a script, I was almost shooting it and making it up as I went along. No shit, says anyone who's ever seen this movie. Yeah. Yes, this is the most made it up while I went along movie I've ever seen. So all the, yeah, totally. Absolutely. That is totally the quality of it.

Like, and all the like stripping scenes you see are basically unrelated to the plot because they just filmed them in a couple of days and dropped them randomly into the movie. I would also say they're unrelated to stripping. Yep. Sure. Yeah. Like it's, I've never seen anyone strip like a, they're in the movie cats., I've never seen anyone strip like they're in the movie

Cats. I've never seen. This movie does have a cats-esque logic to it. At one point, one is actually dressed as a cat. But even before that, you're like, this movie is Cats. Even before The Catwoman. Well, yeah, let's talk about it. It kind of opens on a shot of hands, fingers.

Okay, now maybe we see why Emily likes this movie. Play that sting, Matt. Oh, fingering story. There you go, hands, fingers, constant symbols that the movie returns to for some reason. Yep. We see a very artsy striptease scene where a woman is stripping and she's also

being chased and pointed at by peasant women. The strip club is called Pear O'Gon. I noticed this is our third strip club movie. Yes it is. Where would you rather hang out? Pear O'Gon, cheetahs from Showgirls, or whatever the club is from Burlesque. Oh, oh. Burlesque, I suppose. I mean, just because I like the quality of strippers at Burlesque. I'm gonna go the Cheetahs. I'm gonna go that place. Yeah. That place seemed more fun to more. They have a buffet for sure at the cheetah. Oh, they got a buffet at Cheetahs.

Yeah. Perogon is a nightmare. He's a lynchian nightmare. I also don't you don't really see a lot of the patrons. Like you'll see one patron and a quarter. And it'll be the detective. Yeah. Yeah. Who is just there to.

Yeah. The tech. We'll we'll talk about this guy. He looks a lot like Chris Sarandon if you blur your eyes a little bit Oh, I don't know who Chris Sarandon is. He was Humbert ink in Princess bride my read on this guy this detective who becomes the love interest later. He Strikes me is like someone said Okay, we can't get Steve Gutenberg, get me someone Guten-bish. Guten-bish.

We don't need Gutenberg, just someone who has a Gutenberg-ish quality. Guten, good enough. Yeah, Guten, good enough. Guten enough for this movie, we're making up in five days. Guten enough for rock and roll. Guten enough.

If it's Guten enough for you, it's good enough for me. So we see this kind of strip nightmare scene. It kind of ends with women passing a razor blade between their mouths, attacking each other with mouth razor blades. This movie is occasionally really horrific, and it's all about... Yeah. The murder weapon in the movie is razor blades that come out of the mouth.

So that's really shocking. Cool, by the way. Yeah, no, absolutely. A very cool hook for a killer. We see this is all a dream. In the head of Shady, the main character Shady. Now, the sound in this movie is terrible. The sound is awful So every time people refer to the main character shady for half the movie. I thought her name was shitty

I thought they were just like is that her stage name shitty wake up shitty Name for sure Shitty That would be my stripper name for sure. Come to the stage, shitty. Put those dollars away, fellas. She sucks. In a couple years, she'll be saggy. Yeah, shitty got those shitty titties.

As a sound guy, this movie was a nightmare for me. I'm sure. Because all of the sudden, you would have room tone in one shot and then in the reverse shot, silence. And for me, that puts me out of it because you immediately are like, oh, did my audio go away? And then no, she starts talking again.

It's like a child made the movie, you know what I mean? Yeah, totally. And also the music at the strip club, I guess to give it a more nightmarish quality, always has this loud wind noise over it that sounds artificially inserted. Like there are certain points of the movie that have actual wind noise.

And maybe planes, cause they're filming at the airport. But yeah, it does seem like there's artificial wind noise. But the actual music of the strip club has has a quality. This is not the song playing in the strip club, but every song reminds me of this. Matt, would you play what the music reminded me of? Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling Toss salads and scrabble bags Every song, every song.

Imagine this was just... BOOM! Yeah, I knew what I got you, man. BOOM! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! So that to me... But I don't know what to do With those toss salads and scrabble bags

Maybe that's what they were... I was, listen, I was not in a strip club in the 80s. I was a child. I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrams. Maybe that's what they were playing. Listen, I was not in a strip club in the 80s. I was a child. Maybe that's what they were playing. I don't know. I would think that this movie looks a lot like the days of hair metal.

Sure. Yeah, totally. You'd think it would be a lot of like Hot for Teacher. Yeah, right. Exactly. Oh my god, we forgot about the strip club in Varsity Blues. Oh yeah, there you go. Four? Four strip clubs. We might have more. I'm going. We forgot about the strip club in varsity blues. Oh, yeah. There you go For we might have more I'm gonna need people in the comments. Yes, if you found this movie

You can certainly enumerate the times we have watched movie with strip club Go in the comments on our instagram and tell us how many strip clubs we've had in our movies because I bet there's more And if there's one in land before time, I don't want to know wait a minute I just remembered animated, uh Cool World definitely had a strip club. Holy shit! That's like a whole universe that's just a strip club. That's true, yes, yes. Yeah, the music that they're not playing

feels like you can, it feels like they could not afford Hot for Teacher. And they couldn't even afford a cover band doing a dummy version of Hot for Teacher, you know? It's just like a fucking saxophone. Yeah, you would get someone to write, feeling sexual for professor or something, you know? Yeah, right, yeah.

Feeling sexual. But then you have to pay for that. I like, all of this feels like, the only reason there isn't found footage in this is because they had the strip club for three extra days. You know what I mean? Like it's found sound is what the half of it is.

I got tits from a tooter. I got tits, tits, tits, tits, tooter. Tits tooter. It feels like the stripper should just be stripping to public domain songs like camp town races sing this song to da. That's right. Happy birthday dear. Well not happy birthday Matt, you have to pay for happy birthday.

Is that right? Yeah yeah. Happy birthday. Amazing taints, yeah. Happy birthday. That's a weird one. Amazing taints. How sweet the sound. Like a strip club that's all like, come see taints. Yeah. Just the taint.

Yeah, everything else is covered, but you can see right between. Oh, yeah. It's actually kind of hot. It's just guys in slacks with a little bit cut out of the middle. That's the area right between both of my favorite part. That's where I always split my pants too The taint split we all got it under the grunt

Okay, so there's this club under the grunts It's a bunch of like chain link fences and like weird jazz with wind noises over it. A lot of stairs too. And I'm like that's a little dangerous. I guess the stripper unions weren't helping out with this movie. I have a feeling this was a non-union film. Yeah, I want to go ahead and... Yeah, people...

The biggest budget of this movie was probably just like the mafia payouts they had to make. Oh yes, yes, exactly. Tell the health inspector not to come near the stairs for a couple weeks while we shoot the scenes. Anyway, so. $50,000 cocaine budget. Oh for sure.

So yeah, so Shady, she has like a crazy razor blade nightmare again, and it turns out one of the strippers from the club died, and she was killed with a razor blade. So kind of the movie is like leading you to believe that maybe like Shady is doing this in her sleep, and her dreams are kind of like predicting these murders. There's, there's, there's this, and this movie is funny sometimes

and I'm not sure when it means to be. There's a scene where all the strippers are like crying because someone died. I like thinking about them just going up on stage and like crying, like, oh, our friend died. We gotta work today. Maybe I hear the chains are calling, maybe a friend died, We got to work. Maybe I hear the trains are calling. Your friend died.

I'm so sorry. I'll toss your salad like the song says. My friend has left the building. Good night. Coming to the stage grief. So, yeah, so they're they're all crying. They they're like they kind of hang out in the alley a lot and shoot the shit with each other. Someone walks back and she's like, we got to get on stage.

The customers are suggesting we put in video games. I like the idea of a strip club with video games. 100%. Someone's like, get your tits out of my face. I'm trying to play joust. Yeah, get out of here. I got next on Tekken. So yeah, so they're, you know, the strippers are kind of like dying.

The Steve Gutenberg-ery guy, he's the cop. I don't know why he suspects Shady. He just suspects her immediately. And he kind of like comes to the club and like bothers her. There's a scene where he tries to tip her and change. I thought that was kind of funny. He just has this pocket. He's like a hilarious mess.

And again, I don't know how much of this comedy is intentional, but I did kind of think it was funny what a fucking mess this guy is and he's like paying her and change. They go to a, like he goes to question her. They go to this Tiki Bar hot dog restaurant. It looked fun. The Tiki Bar hot dog restaurant. It looked fun. The Tiki Bar hot dog restaurant, oh my God, take me there.

They just sit down on stools and there's drinks there and they start drinking them, fucking terrible idea. Like, oh, there's drinks. And they order hot dogs from this like, really obnoxious punk rock guy. I fucking love an 80s movie punk rocker. They're so mean. He's great.

He's really mean, he's got a bunch of drawn on tattoos. I think he's the tallest person in the movie. Oh. Tallest guy. So they like order hot dogs and then just drink these drinks that have been sitting there. And she's kind of explaining to him the dream she's having. She says, I dreamed about a razor blade. It was in a dream. Yeah, no shit. You just fucking said that He talks about his wife leaving him and she he took her coat he's like wearing her trench coat around

Yeah, what is that about? That was weird? Yeah, I get why she left you now You don't like have your own clothes like what's going on? Yeah, he is such a mess He talks about his plastic leg at one point. Yeah, not like it doesn't enter into the movie at all. He's like, I have a plastic. He doesn't show or he just says he has a plastic. Oh, yeah. He does tell the story of how he got it. And it's the most boring story. Oh, maybe it did get explained.

But yeah, easy to easy to tune out in this movie and also not hear what people are saying. Right. Yeah, he's explaining it because she's asking about his limp. And you keep thinking the limp is gonna enter into it somehow Right. Yes, doesn't it know kind of just they were like god this movie's runtime so far is 15 minutes Vamp right. Yeah, we're not gonna do a runtime. We're gonna do a scoot time We're gonna mosey to 80 minutes so this can come out in theaters. Yeah, we're gonna wobble to a wobble. We're gonna mosey to 80 minutes, so this can come out in theaters. This is more of a light jaunt.

Yeah. We have any issues, we'll put in more jitters. Yeah. She talks about her backstory. I totally forgot what it was, but there's a minute where she's holding a cat in one shot and she wasn't holding it in the previous one. Again, this movie makes you feel insane because it's like the logic of it.

It's just like it's not there. You're like, what's a dream? What's real? Where'd she get that cat? And they inexplicably just hit it off and then are attracted to each other because they're the main characters and they start making out and they start doing it in the alley. Okay, so they start making out and he's like, this guy's zero charisma.

He's like, it feels so damn good and she's just rubbing his shoulders. He's like, oh, it feels so damn good. I love it when you slowly rub my shoulders and don't really do anything. Oh, I love this. Give me a butterfly kiss. I know.

Shake my hand firmly. Oh, I love this. Give me a butterfly kiss. Shake my hand firmly. Oh, I feel so good. I got to say there was nothing sexy about this movie and there were more boobs in this movie than I've seen in a lot of the ones we've had before because we've had some movies with boobs in it. There's a lot of boobs in this movie. I felt no sex sexiness or no arousal in any way.

And I love boobs. Me too, I'm a big fan. And the sex scene just looked clunky and weird. And his pants are not, so they're like doing it in the alley. His pants are not down at all. I guess he maybe just took it out through the zipper, but his pants are like all the way up.

Jordan, I think about this all the time because there's so many sex scenes where they just do that and I'm like, are you just pinching it through the zipper? Like what the fuck is going on? I guess, yeah. I guess that's the logic. Some people, you know, this is my guess with other movies. I'm not sure what's going on with this one, but with other ones, it's like costs a whole

extra boatload of money to get a butt shot from an actor. Yeah, maybe. So they're like, nah, we can't show the butt. We're just assuming. But you could leave the underwear on, and then I would understand like pulling it over the top of the band of the underwear. Right, totally.

Like that all makes sense, but through the zipper, which who knows, maybe it's women's like yoga pants, because he's already got his wife's jacket. Maybe he's, I don't know, a rocket. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He has no zipper. Maybe he has a button fly.

We don't know what's going on. Yeah, yeah. And another just hilarious production thing, while they're doing it, rain starts coming down in gales, but only in one tiny place where they clearly had the rain machine. It's not over them.

It's not 10 feet away from where it's coming down. But there's this little tube of rain that immediately just hits the ground. It's like probably just like the leaking from someone's like window unit. Yeah. Or there's just like a P.A. is with super soakers just, you know, spraying downwards from the roof. Where do you think this was set? Oh, I guess maybe it's supposed to be LA. It's very much just like Scudstown.

Yeah, it's LA coded, because in the very few exterior shots you do get, you see like big palm tree. So I just assumed it was LA. We get a couple of like random stripping scenes. Again, they just filmed random stripping scenes and dropped them into the movie. They are bad. There's one where a woman's doing ballet and one another where a woman is eating fire. And if that sounds cool, it like is cooler on paper. It's like not actually that cool to watch. No one can really dance. Someone can eat fire, which is kind of cool, I guess.

Yeah, it feels like somebody's, like the Fringe Festival did a strip show. Yeah, sure. It's just like a one-woman show of stripping. And it's like, how did you ruin stripping? I don't know how you did it. Like, it's amazing. It's like a bunch of theater majors got together

and did what they, an approximation of what they think stripping is. Right, yeah, exactly. People have never been in a strip club. Yeah. Yeah, very, very weird. Which is like, not to say the actors themselves have never been. Like, the actors, I think, were just doing what they were told to do. I have a feeling the direction was just like,

no, no, no, stop doing actual stripping. Can we do it more arty? And people were like, all right, fine, no, no, stop doing actual stripping and can we do it more arty? And people were like, all right, fine, I'll put on a cat costume. Yeah. I think they wanted to like find a way to make it not porn. You know what I mean? So they were like, well, just make it more like dancerly. I mean, they technically succeeded at making it not porn because there were no dicks going in. But I will say, it's essentially porn. It's like a soft core, not in terms of like sexually, but the movie itself in terms of its plot.

The acting and everything, yeah. And the acting, it's like all of the scenes that you would, you know, skip in most porn movies. It is. To get to the porn part. But instead they're like, no, that's the whole movie, dog. You gotta watch it now, because it's on Plex. most porn movie. It is. To get to the porn part, but instead they're like, no, that's the whole movie, dog. You gotta watch it now, cause it's on Plex.

I bet there was a little, like, I bet the kind of, in their minds, the filmmakers were like, we're being Lynchian, right? Cause like, this is like the high, and I bet they're gonna be, we're gonna make this kind of dreamlike and weird and sinister. Yeah. And again, they made this in a week.

So it's like, that's probably what you get. And the people are doing these scenes once, I bet. I bet we are seeing the first and only takes of everything. 100%. So yeah, I think that is, I think, yeah, they were trying to make it like something other than just like a jackoff movie for drive-ins. But instead we got this weird thing

that you can't even jack off to. Right? Well, I'd also like to add. I mean, someone can. I'm sure someone has. Oh, I did. Oh, yeah, of course I did. I did, but that's just on principle.

Yeah. We don't like, this is a sequel, by the way. I did not watch the first movie. Nor do you need to. I think it doesn't have anything to do with this. I think it's the same director. I think she shot it the previous week. I read a little Wikipedia.

I think the plot of it is like an undercover cop that's a man going undercover as a female stripper anyway. Wow. See, that's kind of interesting. I think I'm more interested in that than woman thinks she's sleepwalking. And it makes it sound like this is that cop because he has his wife's clothes.

Oh, that's right. Oh yeah, maybe. Maybe there is a connection between the movies. Well, I'm gonna watch the first one on my own time and tell you anything about it. Oh yeah, please report back. Just keep it like a little secret in your brain. Like a little secret under my pillow.

Mwah. So the next stripper to die is someone named Mantra. There's kind of a funny scene after her death where one of the strippers finds out and gives a note to the strip club DJ who without reading it first just goes on mic and like says in his strip club DJ voice,, mantra has been found dead. Yeah, breaking news. Anyway, that's not funny. Yeah, I know.

I love the guy just reads whatever's put in front of him without thinking about it first. Yeah, I was almost in a like, I'm gonna, you know, just give the movie some credit, say that was an intentional joke. Yeah. And it was very funny. Yeah, I think there are a couple intentional jokes in this movie. Yeah, for sure.

That are like actually kind of funny. Yeah. But you know, the rest of it is nonsense. So that's, so we find that this strip club DJ, he's kind of the red herring, spoiler alert, he's not the killer. I thought the detective was the killer for a little bit because- He's so weird, I know.

They were all those little nuggets of information were like, okay, that's different, that's different, that'll probably come back later. I would have accepted all of those as the correct answer. I would have been fine with them. The ending is way more bananas and bananas as they they kind of see they the the cop like without a warrant breaks into the strip club DJ's apartment without a warrant yeah point out that was illegal what he did it was oh I'm not supporting it okay I don't

support what he did okay it's a different time you have right you wouldn't break into an apartment in a movie today. That's right, you wouldn't download a car. No. I'm sorry. So he breaks into the strip club DJ's apartment and he's obsessed with all the strippers. He has all their photos up.

He's got these flowers that are getting left at the crime scene. And also he has a taxidermied alligator head anyway. Cool. Yeah, it is kind of cool. Dude department rules. Fucking kitty shots, alligator heads. Oh yeah?

Back in the day when I worked at the- I remember you- The bone store. You worked at the bone store, that's right. Yeah, those sold like crazy, those gator heads. Yeah, I mean, I get it. They were expensive. They're pretty sick. It's like probably the star of the movie up until this point, I mean, I get it. They were expensive. They're pretty sick.

It's like probably the star of the movie up until this point. You're like, oh cool, something cool happened finally. Something cool, yeah, all the other, it felt very, did you guys do any regional theater? I know we were all like high school theater kids, but did you ever do a regional theater production? I did one, for one summer, I did a children's theater production

of the Schoolhouse Rock musical. Oh cool. So yeah, my big song was Conjunction Junction. Wow, what's your function? Yeah, hook it up, words and phrases and clauses. I cannot, I had to talk sing the whole thing. I was like, you know. That's fair.

But yeah, but I could, you know, I could sell it. I could sell it. I was only in theater. Much like Russell Crowe. Maybe my voice isn't great, but I sell it. You sell it and you have a beard and you got the Christian lighting. So that's all that matters.

I didn't do high school theater. I did like elementary school theater. So like for me, yeah, no, I don't know much about. What's regional like? So regional theater, I did a play that I auditioned. You go in the newspaper and look for auditions for things. And I found auditions for a original play called Endured. And it was about the children of the Civil War, like kids who were like,

yeah, what was going on with the kids of the Civil War. And I was I played this girl who sang to a tree. Um, I can't remember the song I sang, but it was like, oh my god, and it's like that, you know, keyboard music that sounds like it strings, but it's not Yeah, like synthesizer. Yeah, like like this movie. And the sets were like wobbly and you know like made out of like particle board which like this movie. And it's a tax scam. But yeah I would sing to the tree because my dead lover was never coming. My boyfriend went to war or something and he's never coming back and I was like I guess

the tree's my friend now and then my parents, the little napkins, they had cocktail napkins. My boyfriends are fighting for the Confederacy and our state's rights. Exactly. Exactly. But it's all about. I hope he defeats the evil union.

In this war of Northern aggression. But we didn't really say what side these kids were on. It was just about how hard it was to be the kids during the Civil War. So it's like a little girl saying like, my dad's dead. I'm sad. Like, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah, that's got to suck. But yeah, I had a giant fake tree that I would sing to.

But there was these little cocktail napkins that, you know, there were like concessions at a bar and sure. And it said, I endured, endured. Wow. Till napkins. And my dad was my dad was like, truer words have never been spoken. Hey, dad, stop roasting me. That was you get these printed. Yeah, it was pretty bad.

But we get it. You stop showing us your Grammy. But this movie had me. Yeah. Fuck you, dad. No, I'm kidding. But by the way, my dad loves to wear mythical merch like all the time. He wears it on stage. And he just texted me today to tell me he got stopped at the airport three times of people coming up saying,

hey, I love Mythical too. And he was like, I'm Emily's dad. And they all like, they took pictures with him and stuff. Oh, I love that. Mike Fleming, world's greatest dad. I've said it before, I'll say it again. He'll get on the podcast one day. Oh yeah, please, what movies Mike wanna watch?

We'll make him watch Strip to Kill 1. Yeah. Anything that's a western he'll probably like. Oh, okay. Or science fiction. Right. Love it. But yeah, this set just really took me back to, the set in this movie just took me back

to regional theater days and made me kind of miss regional theater a little bit. We should all audition for a little, let's go audition for a little theater out here in LA together. Should we all be in our town or something? Yeah, hell yeah, we'll do that. I wouldn't book it.

We'll go to Riverside or something. I just know I wouldn't book it. No, you can be. No, you'd book it. You'd be tall guy number one. You can be in the ensemble. I fall apart in all auditions. I can't handle them.

Okay, so. Yeah, Spiddler on the roof and Matt's just the roof. Yeah, I'm the roof. I'll be the fiddle. So believe it or not, we're almost at the end of the plot of this movie. We spent more time talking about regional theater and Russell Crowe's singing career. No, no, no.

I think it's telling because of just how little happens in this movie. Well, let's do this. Let's take a little break and we'll come back and reveal the thrilling and nonsensical conclusion to Strip to Kill after this. We're back, it's Free With Ads. We're talking about stripped to kill two live girls? Live girls, that's the subtitle. Live girls. Oh, all right.

How ironic considering that some of them turn out dead. Oh, shit. Oh my God, I didn't even think about that. That's crazy. What? Anyway, so. Topless girls, because of the razor blade, you cut them up top. Cuts the top, cuts the top, and all you have is the-

Cuts the top of their head off, and then they got no top. Yep. Yep. Movie's good. Yep. Yep. No complaints. Anyway, so it's very hilarious how the crime is figured out.

The cop takes one of the stripper's headshots. This is Shady's roommate. He takes her like headshot by the way They all have like eight by tens Like for the strip club very funny. I like how they all have Yeah, eight by tens. I guess maybe they used to audition with I don't know. Yeah, he feeds her eight by ten into a He feeds her 8x10 into a computer. Stop it. A computer. It's an advanced computer, and it's like a digital ID system, he says. I'm sure this was like fantasy technology at the time.

And it scans her headshot, and it shows us who she was before the headshot. But before it does that, it literally, literally turns into a grouping of zeros and ones. It turns into zeros and ones, and then turns into who it really is. So, here's the twist. Because binary, because binary. Yeah, exactly.

It's the matrix. That's how you know it's a computer. Yeah, computers speak in binary. They do one and zero on computer. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Smart. The killer is Shady's roommate, the other stripper. She is a serial killer prostitute who killed her pimp with a razor blade in her mouth.

Which is the coolest part of the movie. Yes, it fucking rules. It totally rules. This movie ends on a cool note. I think a lot rules. And this movie ends on kind of a cool note. And I think a lot of these, they're kind of just killing time to a cool ending. She freaks a little bit like that. So yeah, these movies have one or two cool things,

and then they just have to kill time. So yeah, this last thing is kind of spooky and cool. She's been kind of dosing Shady with a drug. And then I guess I don't really know how she's implanting the weird dream. She is somehow. And she's just having them because she's semi conscious and like witnessing like what's going on. And it's like so it's kind of an amalgamation of a dream and being awakened seeing it happen in a way. Okay, that's like a better explanation than the movie gives

I'll take that I'll take that is what's going on We kind of get this final dream. So when the gap yeah The eye gaps yeah, the movie makes perfect sense We get kind of one last dance sequence The the roommate has a fight with the cop and then Shady wakes up from her weird like drug haze finds the cops gun and kills her roommate and then embraces the cop her weird new boyfriend change paying women's jacket wearing boyfriend we talk about this for just a second because like there's a moment where the detective, cop guy, gets a phone call from his mom or something

saying she's worried about him because he's going to marry somebody named Shady. Oh, here's what I think that was. That's confusing. So I think that is the strip club DJ's answering machine. And I think what we're supposed to be getting from that is he is telling his mom that he's like marrying the strippers.

And when he's not. So I think that's supposed to like lead us into. Another red hair type thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, and that's Stripped to Kill 2. Live girls. Yup. Well, hey, we're gonna talk about what we thought about it, but first we got to do

the Hunk Watch. It's Hunk Watch. Again, this will be an interesting conversation because as we mentioned, nothing sexy happens in this movie about strip clubs. You know, I'll give some points to punk rock tiki bartender. I fucking love that guy. He's rad. Yeah, he's pretty cute, yeah.

Yeah, cool looking dude. His tattoos are all drawn on. Whatever, his attitude is fucking bad. And he yells at you. But you can just drink drinks that are sitting there apparently, and he doesn't care. He calls the cop a pig.

I was like, hell yeah. I love this. Good politics on this guy. Yeah, this guy's cool. A-cap random guy. Anybody else, any hunk thoughts about this guy any hunk thoughts about the detective on this one? Okay, like Chris Randon vibe I hope I'm saying that it's the guy who played Humperdinck in Princess Bride who? Who I go back and forth on Wesley and Humbert ink in that movie. So this is true. This was doing it for me

I did want to give a shout out This is not a hunk but like a great my favorite performance in the movie was the like female police officer for like the female detective. It's an older lady who works in the office and she was the funniest part of the whole movie. So cool. He, there's a moment where he's like the detective is also dreaming. There's a lot of dream sequences all around in this movie.

Everybody, half of the movie is not real life. It's not live. It's not live girls. It's asleep girls. It's dream girls, yes. Yeah, it's dream girls. It is a musical, Dream Girls, starring Sasha Fierce. Anyway, so he's having a dream,

trying to think of like who the killer is. And at one point he imagines her, the lady detective. And then she looks at him and goes, really? That's a stretch. Like in the dream. That's funny. Yeah. And they clearly did not have much of a costume for her.

She looks like she is about to go out gardening. But they just give her the gun holster. So she has on just like moms picking up the kids from soccer clothes, but with a gun holster over it. She's probably somebody's friend and they were like, yeah, totally. Get her in there. Most of this movie is probably cast by like who's within 20 feet of us. Yeah, sure.

She was driving the transpo van. She was doing the like craft services. And then she was just like, I'll be detective number two. Yeah, exactly. And she kind of crushes it. She is great. She's my favorite performance in the whole movie, for sure. Yeah. Again, I think there's some intentionally funny things in this movie. And she she's she's most of them. Yeah. Matt, any thoughts, hunks?

Box. Box. What are you talking about? The box art. Oh, yeah. you talking about the box art? Oh the box? Yeah Box is hunk of movie I think that boxes need to find some way to make a t-shirt of this for myself like just for you I know you can't sell it like it would be like you know it's somebody's intellectual property I'm not an emphasis on intellectual,, you know, it's somebody's intellectual property. I mean, not an emphasis on intellectual, but you know what I mean. It's property.

I have a feeling it's not owned by anyone who is currently not spending life in prison due to a Rico cake. You know what I mean? Like, whoever owns the rights to this is not with us anymore. They're not worried about it anymore. Yeah. It's like buried next to Jimmy Hoffa. The rights to this is not with us anymore. They're not worried about it? Yeah. It's buried next to Jimmy Hoffa.

The rights to this movie were probably traded for some plastic explosives. Yeah, exactly. Just a bag full of razor blades. That's right, yeah. You can stick them in your mouth. Yeah, don't worry about adding the, you can take that out of the line budget.

I got the razor blades, don't worry about it. I came to set with the blades already in my mouth. Yeah, yeah. I already got the blades in my mouth. I'm already bleeding. I'll play the pimp. Sure. Okay.

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Strip to Kill 2, by Live Girls. What's this movie called strip to kill I to find live girls I keep forgetting that literally everything in my notes is this is called stripper movie. Yes Yeah, yeah stripper hood of the traveling pants. I don't Put the two in the middle strip to kill you're right. That would have been so yeah to kill to yeah Yeah, kill to do to kill to dumb watch boobs in To kill. You're right. That would have been so much easier. To kill two. Yeah. To kill two. To kill two. Dumb. Watch boobs in film. Boobs, the movie.

Yeah. So, okay. Strip to kill two live girls. Yeah. Let's all maybe defend it a little bit as kind of a museum piece. Again, it's a very bad movie, a kind of a hilarious bad movie in places but also kind of just boring and weird. The director Kat Shea, I looked into her a little bit, she is a

fascinating character. She was an actor, she told Roger Corman she wanted to direct, he let her direct Strip to Kill One and then she just made like ten movies for him over the course of a month But she kind of went on to be a respected director. She Like had an exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art one of her movies one like a Sundance Jury Prize Wow, and she just directed like an inspirational dog movie on Netflix There's some like Christian dog movie that she directed. Yeah so she I don't know she's really really cool. I watched some YouTube videos about her. She's kind of just like a funny kooky French

character and yeah and really cool. I like a story about someone like starting out just making schlock and then kind of like rising above it or starting to be appreciated for that schlock. So yeah, I liked learning her story, Cat Shea, a fascinating character. And yeah, and I think this movie has like archival value. Just like, I can't believe this exists. And also- It's a primary source.

That's, you know, this is like an original document. You know, it all is. You're something cool. She has a bit of an acting career. She was in Psycho 3. She was in Psycho 3. She was in Psycho 3. So we've watched Psycho 2 maybe. That's right. Yeah. We've got to watch Psycho 3. Yeah, really, really fun character and yeah,

totally crazy that she like went from this movie to having like a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Very cool. So yeah, I'm going gonna give it like an interesting bad movie six, I think. Matt, how about you? Yeah, so you're grading it on quite a curve. Sure, yes. Which is totally fine, the grading doesn't matter. No, it sure doesn't. I'm grading it.

Somebody's like keeping a Wikipedia and they're screaming for some reason. Yeah, they're like, what the fuck? For me, I'm grading this based on my viewing pleasure. Sure, yes. Despite the fact that, yes, I agree, that I was interested in who directed it because I really liked the show, The Deuce.

And it kind of reminded me of the Maggie Gyllenhaal character in that where I was just like, is this like one of those cases where it was like Someone who was a sex worker who became a director because it feels like that because it's like the as Non-sexual to me as a lot of the like gratuitous titty shots were it did feel Like the women were not being treated Poorly on set like they were treated as if it was, this is of course me just projecting,

but it felt like they were being treated as a piece of art, not a piece of porn. Which, so I was interested in that and I would like to give it some credit for that. But based on the fact that it is quite literally one of the most boring movies I've ever seen in my life. I gotta give it a two. Slightly better than Thumbelina.

Whoa! I forgot you hated Thumbelina so much. I forgot about that. Emily, you get the final word. This movie is in your mind, Pallas. Now you've actually gotten to see it. What did you think? God, I wish it was as hot as my memories of the box were.

But what sucks is I sometimes give points to movies that are fun to have on in the background. I don't even think this is fun to have on in the background. I don't even think this is fun to have on in the background. I think this is kind of boring. The stripping scenes are like, it just, I don't know, it all looks like, are we doing like modern dance? Like, I don't know, it's just bad. I'm gonna give it a two as well.

There was some fun moments. I really love that actress who ends up being the killer and the way that she could flick the razor blade in and out of her mouth. Like she'd just flick it back into her mouth when she had to hide it. And I was like, that is the coolest part of this whole movie. Oh yeah, definitely.

I love it. Also before, I just wanna point something out. So our girl who directed this movie was also a part of a remake of Strip to Kill called Dance with Death that happened in 1992. It was a reworking of Strip to Kill featuring an early acting role for Lisa Kudrow. Okay. I know, I think Christina Applegate is in one of her movies playing a murderous prostitute. So an eye for talent an eye for talent Yes, totally

Well, that's it stripped to kill. We found it. We watched it. You can watch it, too If you want to yeah, let's talk about plugs anybody got anything Emily You want to I'm just gonna tell people to please watch the Good Mythical Morning YouTube channel on Saturdays. All three of us are in a cool little series called Good Mythical Weekend. It's all the cool kids, not those pesky hosts. Yeah, boo them. Who needs them? But it's us doing fun stuff, making fun jokes, and eating gross food.

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