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Episode Date: November 25, 2025

This week we are celebrating one of the strangest and most Canadian films ever made, a children's (?) film called The Peanut Butter Solution about a kid who loses all of his hair and takes bad advice from a wino's ghost.Tune in next week when our movie will be... Jim Henson's The Christmas Toy-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!If you are in California, Jordan will be here on these dates!Wed Dec 3rd - Merced Public Library 5pm - 7pmSaturday Dec 6th - Thousand Oaks Public Library 2pm - 3pmGet a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!

This is free with us, we're with us. the podcast that asked the question, why pay Disney plus 12 bucks a month for wholesome family-friendly films when you could go online for free and watch a wholesome family-friendly film with the baffling nightmare logic of a David Lynch movie. I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is the peanut butter solution, the 80s cable classic that sounds like it could also be the name of a jam band. You went to see with the smelliest person you ever dated. With us, as always, is the super producer, The He Freak, Matt Lieb, hitting us with those longs, slowing drops.

Get out of here and let a guy do what he's going to do. Don't ask me what that's from. Don't ask me what part he says that. One of the weirdest moments in children's television history. Yeah. A truly amazing. I hadn't seen this movie, guys, wild. I was not prepared.

You haven't? No. Not even aware of it. I had heard legends of it. And boy, what a. what a ride before we talk about this movie which is as of this recording

streaming free with ads we're going to be talking about something else we saw for free on the internet this week guys thank you there's a sting at some point I'll remember that as you guys know my homepage when I open up my internet

is bluegrass today.com I love to check it out bluegrasstay.com my favorite website and of course I was excited to that Bluegrass Today.com had posted the 26 Bluegrass Grammy nominees. And boy, howdy, what a treat. One of those nominees for their new album Outrun is the Steel Drivers, featuring Mike Fleming, most famous, of course,

for being mentioned on this podcast. A lot. By Emily, because it's her dad. Emily, your dad's nominee. Your dad has a Grammy, right? for being a bluegrass musician. Yes, he does. But it was their last nomination

and their win so far is from 2016. So this is 10 years after the fact. And I'm so stoked. This is really cool. And they had like a couple albums come out this year. They had a gospel album come out. Or no, no, that came out like a couple years ago, actually, tougher than nails.

But there's a couple of kind of gospely songs on Outrun, but yeah, I'm so excited. That means they finally are going to visit me, my family. Yeah, I was going to say, it does. It's been 10 years since Emily has seen her mother and father. They came and helped me move. Okay. Wow.

But that was when I moved into the apartment that I'm in now. So that was like 2021. Yeah, that was a minute ago. They don't really, they're not like, I don't want to, you know. I kind of get it. They never visited me in New York when I lived there either. Yeah, New York sucks even more. Are you, do you have like, are you going to get to have family time?

Are you going to get to take them around to the Walk of Fame and the Wax Museum? The La Brea Tar Pits? They would love the Tar Pits. You would love it. I don't think they're going to want to do that. I think that we're like a, we like to go out to eat and get cocktails and like, you know, that's kind of what we do. We can do that at the tarpits. You can do that at the tarpits.

Well, I don't know. You can sneak a tall boy into the tarpits. Yeah, it's B-Y-O-B. We will. B-Y-O-B is bring your own dinosaur bones. Yeah, so I know they're going to come out here. Last time, it was the year that I was, in 2016, I was just visiting L.A. to figure out if I was going to move here.

And so I was just here, and I got a dress from a little, like, thrift store. and went to the after party for their record company and I'm hoping I get to go to a before party and after party but my mom takes, you know, precedent. Oh, yeah. She's like, but she didn't want to go

to the before party or she just let me have a ticket to go. Would there be someone who might be at a Grammy party who you would be like, oh my God, I would freak out? I mean, there's probably a couple of people, but does someone come to mind? P. Diddy. P. Diddy? I would freak out

because like, shouldn't you be a gym? Jail? How did you get out? No, that was a joke. That was a joke. Kanye was. Oh, yeah. That's a good. Well, I honestly, the first thing that comes to mine is Chapel Rhone. I'd be like stoked. Oh, my God. I'd be stoked and then I'd want her to like. Mother, you would say, mother. I wouldn't, I wouldn't be too scared to talk to her, but I'd like, I don't know. I want to know what she smells like. Sure.

Smells like mother. Yeah. Smells like Mama. Yeah, that would be super cool. I feel like I just listen, or Billy, Islesherst thing? Isn't that so like lame? I'm so old. No, those are cool people. Those are the stars of today. I will say Allison Krauss and Union Station is also nominated in this category. So for the sake of the steel drivers, fuck you, Allison Krause. There are enemy now.

There are enemy now. But I would love love. Are you married to Elvis Costello? Maybe. I think so. Don't care. Is that who I'm thinking of? Who am I thinking of? Allison Krause, she won like album of the year with Robert Plant. They like did a like she's won plenty of times. Yeah, she's a big name. And also the steel drivers have one.

So it's not like they're losers in any stretch of the word. But I just, I would love to meet Alison Krauss. I think she's so cool. You know what I'd like to meet? Weird Al Yankovic. I would rule. Wouldn't that rule? I have met word out.

Yeah, I'm on his Christmas card list. Really? Are you on his Christmas card list? I was because towards the end of at midnight with, with Jordan and I were writing on at midnight. I kind of got lucky where I became his regular writer when he came to visit. And I was his writer again for the finale. And he had me give him my mailing address and email address.

Matt Bronger has the same. That was my old email, my old mailing address. So I haven't gotten one again. So there's somebody in your old department who's getting the Christmas card from wheel now and wondering why. I don't know why. I was paying for my. forwarding thing for a while that thing you do where it's just like

and I stopped paying for it so it's like how much is a yearly Weird Al Christmas card work? I don't know but I think I still get the emails but nicest man ever I think it'll happen for you Matt I think it will guys you guys you guys both met him I never met him

although I didn't get on the Christmas card list there's meeting him and then there's being on the so you know well done Weird Al has a favorite of the three of us. Boo. Well, good luck to the steel drivers. We're all rooting for you.

Fuck you to all those other bluegrass artists. My dad will kill me if he ever. I know that he's, I don't think he's ever listened to this podcast. I think my mom has, but I am going to ask him and I'm going to ask y'all if you're okay with that, but I'm going to ask him if he would maybe do a brother

we're out though with us at some point. Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, we'd love that. Because that really, is, like, the thing that brought bluegrass, like, kind of the attention. That's how I first heard of Alison Krause. Yeah, or Emmy Lou Harris or Julian Welch. So, yeah, it was like, I don't think people knew what bluegrass was.

It was like, country music is like, you know, you just kind of think of them the same thing. And then that movie came out, and people were like, oh, yeah, okay, this is, so it's a banjo. Yeah, it's like, okay. There's a whole other genre of country music that's not about tractors. Yeah, there's no percussion. It's about getting baptized. Yeah. Yep, exactly.

So, yeah, we'll see. I don't know if you'd want to do it, but I, and we would have to tamper. There'd be no fingering stories. No, of course. Unless we were talking. Fingering a banjo. Exactly. We could maybe, we could fit one in there and then people won't.

We can fit one in there. Oh, God. Oh, boy. I'm going to play this thing. You can fit one or two. Oh, my God. Sorry, you did it to yourself. Well, yes.

Good, good luck to Mike and the Steel Drivers. And go check out the album, please. Oh, yeah, it's called Outrun. And all of their music. Please check it all out. All right. Well, time to talk about the peanut butter solution. I'm sorry, talk about the peanut butter solution.

I'm sorry, I mispronounce that. Yes, I had never seen this movie. I had known it's kind of a legendary, crazy movie that, like, people our age grew up watching. But I never got wind of it. Emily, had you seen this movie about it? Oh, yeah. This was one of those. We had a Tower Records in Nashville.

So we had a blockbuster and everything, but blockbusters tended to have like the most current cool stuff. Right. And there was a rental section for movies in Tower. Oh, yeah. And so I think that my parents- It's where I rented Godzilla returns constantly. Well, yeah.

So I guess my parents were in music stores more than they were in, you know, video stores. So if my mom was there getting like a CD or something, she would just grab a couple of movies from there. And a lot of it was, Shelly Duvall's Fairytale Theater. We watched that a lot, a lot. And then she saw this movie, and I guess it was like recommended from another family.

Like you've got to show him this weird movie. My kids loved it. But really, it just became this myth-mythological thing that every kid was like, did your parents get you the peanut butter? solution it i hate it like we were all just like it scared the shit out of us like did you know did it read as crazy to you at the time like i wonder if you were eight and you were watching this if you're like this is insane i thought it was scary i didn't think of it as insane i think that logic

didn't matter you know as a kid to me didn't matter to anyone making this movie i think you really this movie has a logic all its own and you just have to go with it but it scared me a lot as a kid especially as a very vain girl who cares about her hair a lot. And a girl who wanted pubs more than anything. Oh, God! I forgot about that part. I can't wait to get to that. I don't think you have to be particularly vain to be really fearful of the idea of waking up with absolutely no hair. And especially the way it's played in this movie in which he has the very realistic reaction of bawling and crying on the couch.

And I was just like, what is this movie? Like, they're not playing it as like a gag or anything. They played it deadly serious. And well, he played it deadly serious and no one else in the movie played anything serious. That's right. It was so wild. It was two totally different movies from different acting style. Two.

Oh, yeah, you're right. Two? Try 12 or 13. My God. well yeah let's let's talk about it wait wait wait Matt did you see it no I had no idea what this was and the opening credits had me convinced oh it's a cartoon and then when it started and it was live action I was like pleasantly surprised that it was a live action you know kids movie I was like okay I can fuck with this and then very quickly I realized I was in some sort of fever dream and I wanted to escape but I felt like I was slowly drowning for yeah a lot of kids think that this is a dream and that they had, that it wasn't real. Yes, this is very... And I thought that for a very long time.

There's a few movies that did that. The kid gets killed in the house, and this is what he sees before he dies. Yes. I think this is one big metaphor for what happens when a mother leaves, and, like, everyone's lives go to shambles. Yeah. Well, yeah, so it starts out with a bunch of production company logos in French, and I'm like, ah, Canada. And this is, and yeah, I mean, it'll be obvious from this first time one person speaks. But yeah, you get a bunch of French up top.

This is Canadian. It starts out with Michael and his sister. They're two kids. His sister is wearing their mom's robe and talking about how mom is gone. It seems like maybe mom's dead for the first 20 minutes or so. She is just in Australia, right? In Australia, that's correct. her dad's estate

her dad is dead their grandfather is dead and she has to sell the house in Australia which you think is either code for oh no she died right or you think it's an elaborate plush that you're never going to

that they don't do anything with nothing happens with that house yeah it feels that like this is a deadbeat divorcee dad from the get-go but it's like is taking your mom went to go sell a house in Australia the human, female version of sending a dog

to live upstate. Oh, mom's on a farm. On a farm. If you've seen my neighbor Totoro recently, they don't have a mom in the house, but it's just like, she's resting. And then at the end, she comes back,

like basically exactly like this mom comes back. He just goes, hi guys. And then the credits roll. Like mom has one line. This is like the, who was the guy in Anaconda who was just asleep for the whole movie? Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to say this is like a reverse sixth sense where, you know, mom is alive the entire time.

Right. Yeah, because it was like they're so depressed that she's gone. Like all of them have lost their fucking minds. Little boy is not talking and not eating. The little girl looks like she's become the mom. Like she acts like she's a mom. I don't think she goes to school the entire movie. I don't know what the fuck. At one point, she's on a computer.

It looks like she's filing taxes. I was like, what is going on in this movie? So, yeah, so she's show the, you know, the sister's kind of playing mom. Dad is just hanging out in the attic looking disheveled. We learn later that he's a painter and he's working up there. But for the first couple of scenes, you just think he's squatting in his own house.

Or he's like a barbarian of his own house or something. He's just like in a secret room. He's the kid's prisoner. Yeah. What he's doing is he's, an artist and he's painting up there um but yeah we see some shots of dad looking just like a disheveled transient um he's from baby baby oh is he oh nice i didn't recognize anybody from this movie he's colonel tie or something from babylon five the um yeah he's like he's been in a ton of stuff but i

did not recognize him he's one of those guys who i guess it's just been old his whole life yeah he definitely seems a little little steve martinie in that way just always always about Well, it was about 55. I was weirded out about how much of a good actor I thought he was the entire movie. I don't know if that's just a me thing, but I was just like, this guy's great. Yeah, he, this movie is so, it's so strange. And I mean, I think, you know, I mentioned David Lynch in the opening. Something this movie also really remind me of is Tim Robbins and stuff.

It's like, I think you should leave and the chair company. And obviously that stuff is very David Lynch inspired, right? It's the crazy comedy version of David Lynch. But the way they use, like, non-actors in this is so strange. The guy who owns the paintbrush store just, like, haunts me, you know? Yes. It's all these just, like, local weirdos who seem like they've never acted before. It's the world of this movie is totally insane.

And when you kind of realize that this isn't just like a Disney movie, you can just kind of let the nightmare envelop you. But anyway. So their friend, Connie, comes over. Connie is a cool kid with a leather jacket and a fedora. Now, there's a lot of bad headwear in this movie. I think any time a fedora appears, that is the worst hat. I'm going to argue with you here. I think that...

You like the fedora. I like it better. Sorry. Emily, he played the stage. He's trigger-happy. He's getting too excited. I was sorry. I just knew there was a little bit.

another hat. I have an itchy stinger finger. Did you have a hat you liked less? The wig. Fuck. Matthew. I can't help it. What is your middle name? Lawrence. Okay, never mind. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful name.

Thank you. Matthew Lawrence is your name? Lawrence leave. Get down here. And my brother, Joey Lawrence leave. Oh my God. The wigs. The wigs are They're insane

Like the big long wig It's supposed to look crazy But like the minute we see the kid in the beginning That's a wig And then every other thing It's just like It has to wear so many wigs It looks

It's so many wigs Bet Middler at a Vegas residency Just so many wigs Constant wig changes Largest fucking green room ever Covered in wigs It's Rupal's drag race Just like

I contend that the fedora is worse, but we can agree to disagree on that. All right, fair. Connie wears a fedora and he loves grapes. He's always eaten the family's grapes. You know how every neighborhood had that kid that ate your grapes? Well, then you have Urkel who's got any cheese. Right.

Erkel love cheese and Connie loves grapes. Connie walked so that Erkel could run towards cheese. Yeah. So the kids. So the kids are obsessed with a spooky old house in their neighborhood, and apparently the old house caught fire, and the kids know that their work, and this is their words, a wino that lived there. And they like, it's where the wino is sleeping all winter. These kids just know where the local wino is in the whole time. It's so weird.

It's so strange. Like what an eight-year-old is obsessed with the labor and Wino? It's one of the strangest things. I was watching it going, maybe they don't know what that word means or maybe. Yeah, maybe they heard their parents say it. Yeah. Or maybe in Canada,

a Wino means something else. But then they later show, the first time I met that Wino, he was begging outside of a bank. I was like, no, I don't know I don't know why

They keep track of where they are It's where the whinoes are Where the whino things are Where the whino things are Yes Oh my God Jordan I've never seen you laugh so hard In my life

I know For some reason These kids can't speak into Winos Oh boy Okay so another I mean we can't sit here all night just talking about the weird things

happen second to second in this movie. But there's this thing that happens where Connie he's walking on the street and he's like, there's aunts and there's everyone's so Canadian. There's aunts and they're talking about ants. And then the little boy, Michael, I think is the main

boy. He's like, there's no aunts. He's like, there is aunts and one of them sees ants and one doesn't and it just moves on and it never comes back. What the fuck is that supposed to be? There's so many moments. There's so many moments in this where I just think, like, did they have a contractual obligation to hit 90 minutes? Because there's a scene at one point where, like, he's like, can I call mom?

Yeah, that's like right at the moment. I think when he gets his hair growing back finally or something. And rather than cut to the next scene, he goes, what's Australia's country code? Oh, it's one, one, two, six. Oh, yeah. And then they We didn't need that And I

It's so strange I was honestly curious about it And I was kind of glad he asked For some reason I just I don't know I don't know why They kept things in in this movie To it like the effect it had

Was making you think that it was sort Somehow either Not so much grounded in reality But in a way Sort of artistic Almost like a fly on the wall type film you know um the other thing that it's not very david lynchian is because they explained all of the dream logic every single thing and they would just say it as if it was well known like

you know if you close your eyes you can't hear a ghost right and you're like what look see and you'll and yes and you'll go into the painting and you'll transfer the fright yes we'll transfer the fright yeah that stuff is so... There's a lot of exposition like dumps that happen that are mostly useless and sometimes they have a good use but very rarely.

There's aunts here. There's no aunts. There are aunts. God, I don't know. This is why it started to feel insane. Every time anything like that happened, I said it's okay, it's French-Canadian. Right.

Just any... I mean, this movie is like, I know Google Translate was not around, but it seems like this was written in French and then Google translated nine different times and that's the script they used. It's so weird. It might be true, I don't know.

So they go to school where they have an evil painting teacher who hates imagination. He wants them to draw his dog. He's got a dog. Okay, and all the teachers in this talk like the Animaniac Psychiatrist. They're like,

Now draw the dog Draw the dog's beautiful muscles Look at the dog's musculature Draw the dog That is not a dog That it's a pig You must draw the dog's muscles The guy is so fucking horny

For his dog That he's making these kids draw And he'll He rips up their paintings If they're not good enough So I did watch a little documentary About this movie Oh okay

I need to watch one So I guess that You know the guy who created I think it's Tales for everyone is like the series of films. Yeah, this is part of some sort of like Twilight Zone for Kids Anthology in Texas. Well, yeah, something, well, it's so weird.

I don't know, but it's the guy who wrote this he like told, he made up stories for his kids. So this is literally a bedtime story. He made up for his kids. Yeah, this is a real stream of consciousness. It feels like it. Yeah, totally. But that family, it comes from like a line of Italian artists.

And so... Signore. Exactly. So, and then there's like a thing in the movie where everyone who has that accent is somehow related to each other. We find out towards the end. So it's like the accents, I was like, why do, why does the doctor have an accent? And then this guy has an accent and then an art dealer or somebody who's buying art. Yeah, they're all brothers, apparently.

Yes, which what the fuck was that about? Anyway, so, yes, that's supposed to be a, like, a tip of the hat to the family. lineage, supposedly. So there's like Easter eggs in here that only one family would fucking know. Like... I hate that there's lore. I fucking hate that there's lore. I know. I'm so sorry.

I just exist as a blip in my mind. So dad is, so dad's at home. He's working on a painting. The dad apparently sells his paintings for $6,000. It's like that fucking thing in Pride and Prejudice where

everyone just knows how much Mr. Darcy makes they're like dad sells his paintings for six thousand dollars and then an art dealer comes like i'll give you six thousand dollars for that and it's a painting of like the kids playing tennis and dad's got this wacko cartoon art style which does seem like he would be a famous painter in the 80s it's like Keith herring or something yeah all of the art is like by one artist is it that makes sense yeah um so yeah and the the guy who created uh tales for everyone like owns that painting. Okay.

Which is cool. But yeah, it does kind of have like a cartoony weird and they're really big too. Yeah, he makes his giant psychotic looking paintings. So while the dad is turning down $6,000 for this painting

of tennis, the kids go to the haunted house and Michael climbs up in the window through this like weird shoot and he sees something and he screams and his hair stands on end and then it all falls out later

but he passes out Connie brings him home in a wheelbarrow a shopping cart, sorry, a shopping cart he's unconscious and they don't take him to a hospital they just put a cloth on his head and a thermometer in his mouth

Yep Dad does not give a shit I've never seen his dad so not worried He spends most of this movie when he's not painting very strange paintings he is telling his son who is clearly going through hell

don't worry about it everything will be fine he says that most of the movie yeah and the son is kidnapped for two weeks yes the son is gone who knows what's happening to his fucking eight year old son the dad doesn't

care um so strange could you imagine this mom just being oblivious like I mean I've never left my kids home alone with my husband before but how bad could it say

How bad could it possibly be? A lovely time in Australia. Fucking nice surfing instructor. So they take him to a doctor who is, we learn as the brother of the fucking evil painting teacher. It doesn't, nothing, it doesn't matter. But he also talks like this. He's like, you have the harem, scare him. You have the harem scaram, where you get scared and your hair falls out.

And the kid's like, he's loony, which is like a little kid insult. but I think in Canada, it's like calling someone a cunt. It's like as bad. You're a loony, eh? Wait. Sorry to say it, but you're a loony. Jordan, wait, you guys are your cat dads. Yes.

How did you feel about them being angry? Because they blame his hair falling out on the family cat, like sleeping on his head, which is all I ever want. I want a cat to sleep on my head. And they like throw the cat. I hate that cat. The dad was like, I hate that cat. Yeah, they have no reason to hate that cat.

The cat was worried about him. Again, this was like, this is a French thing. Just in the same way that like, if you ask an Italian about cats, they'll be like, don't leave a cat alone in a room with a baby. It'll suck the breath right out of them. It's like that maybe they have some weird thing, you know, in French can in Montreal where they're like, oh, you know, cats are always stealing the hair off of your child's head or something. I was like, okay, fine.

Canadian witch legend. It took me far too long to just decide, okay, this movie exists in a completely insane reality and I just have to accept it. Yeah, exactly. Also, like, I would think that if French people were an animal, it would be a cat. So I don't know.

Yeah, you'd figure. It's weird. I want a Frenchman to sleep on my head. Yeah. I want a Frenchman to make biscuits on my tummy. Wee, we. Those Frenchmen, they always, they wind for food, even though you just fed them.

You just ate. I need more wine. Give you more wine, Mama. Mama. It is 6.30 a.m., but I need you to pour more wine in my bowl. There's already wine in there. Anyway,

so they glue a wig to his head, and he goes to the soccer game because he thinks it's fine, but a mean kid at the soccer game pulls off the wig and they like run around And all the kids run around, like, taunting him. And they have a bald chant ready that they all know.

It's like, baldy, baldie, has no hair. Don't call your mom. She doesn't care. Baldy, like, why do you know, why do you, why are you practicing a bald chant? And how do you know about his situation with his mother? It's insane. Yeah. So they chase him around doing this bald chant.

They'll be great. protesters later in life. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, if we can just channel that hatred of the bald. Yeah, into something good. You know, Black Lives Matter or something. I have a lot of anxiety at the, you know, I went to the No Kings protests,

and I'm the person that will keep going even though people have stopped the chanting. Oh, no, that's good. That's a good thing to be. But then I'm by myself, and then I just, oh, no, oh, yeah. But you just went to make fun of bald people, right? Yeah. Salty baldy two by four

Tick it through the ocean door Health care for all Alester balls It's like I get I bet kids were probably meaner in the 80s But like in a non-cartoon world That kid probably has leukemia Right exactly

Wouldn't you immediately assume Oh no He's he's dying Like the idea that everyone Just immediately burst into laugh And the fact that when he wakes up with no hair, his dad could not give less of a fuck. It's like all of this. I'm like, is he dying of cancer?

Because he went into a burning, it was a house that had just burnt down and killed the winos. Killed the winos burned to death. Winoes burned. And so I was like maybe, but no, that's not how cancer works. You don't get bald from the cancer. You get bald from the chemo. Well, there is that condition that like. Alopecia.

Alopecia. Yeah, yeah. I was like, maybe this is a movie about that. At this point, I was like, okay, so it's, I guess a movie about alopecia and about kind of like, I don't know. This is the prequel to powder? Yeah, I don't know. I was like, what is this movie about? At this point, I'm still not fully given up on the idea that it's about something.

Sure. Yeah, I feel so bad for you guys. Yes, that's a good way to go insane. So he's, so okay. So then the The ghost of the The ghost of the Wino I'm just like talking about it makes me feel

I want to punch myself So the ghost The ghost of the Wino And the Wino's Who Who we have not heard about She never met

Jordan's face is so red So the ghost Of the Wino comes to it I can't even describe the movie. Okay. And says that if you want to get your hair back, there's a recipe. You have to have really ripe bananas and flies.

Wait, he's got a girlfriend. He does have a girlfriend. Yeah, it's a wino and his girlfriend. Yes, who is sometimes very nice and sometimes very mean. And they're ghosts. They admit that they're ghosts. Yes. And they both died in the fire together, which is kind of like, I don't know.

Kind of beautiful. It's kind of romantic. It's kind of like the notebook in many ways. Yeah. They had their own little... Roe Weino and Juliet. Yes, sure. Yeah.

To be clear, the reason that this ghost is doing this is because at the very beginning of the movie, he saw the Wino in front of the bank and he gave him every dollar he had, which was a few cents in his pocket. Oh, that's right. Okay. So there is, it does...

There was a logic. At this point, there was a logic. And I was like, there's something going on in this movie that I can follow. But then the ghosts are stealing all their... groceries and like i don't know what because there's still there's still winos even in the afterlife

the afterlife is bleak the ghost get drunk on wine they were stealing cereal they like weren't even taking the water well it's to sell it so they could buy more wine yeah i mean they were just stripping the copper piping off the side of the house our vCR's god the ghost stole it sorry the wino you know the winos are burned and death

Ghost God Okay, so they give him this recipe And I guess the recipe includes peanut butter Which is where we get the title The peanut butter Skippy paid or no they Yeah, Skippy paid to have their peanut butter To have their logo removed from the film

This is a big deal movie Honestly, apparently it was like It's a big deal Yeah, I mean I I'll never forget it Remember it always And I will probably think, yeah I'll see Skippy.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, I can rub that on my head or poops. I'll remember it always. In the same way, I'll always remember putting down my dog, you know. I'm never getting out of this mind. This will be the thing you guys think of before you die. I have to feel like, this will be that you're like, oh, man, I'm going to have to steal cereal. Oh, yeah, okay. Well, I'll find a kid to haunt, a bald kid.

I'm on my deathbed, thinking about my wonderful, beautiful child. And right before I die, I'm going to be a kid. like, did he need to give Australia's country code before the cuts? Then I'll die. And why did the kid's pubs stop growing? Why did they stop? Because he yelled at them?

What? Yeah, I don't know. He's got to yell at those pubes. Well, so yeah, we're to the pub. We've been teasing the pubs. Yeah. So the kid, Michael, he rubs the gunk on his hair. It starts his hair growing like crazy.

But then Connie is like, I want to have some down there. And we see him take. the mixture into the bathroom and we kind of know he's going to rub it on his pubs he says as much. He does? He says. Yeah. He's like well so you know the kid the main character

goes what do you need it for? You already have hair and he goes no but and then there's a pause and he goes down there and then let a boy do get pubes no I yes I was incredibly excited. Okay you were excited I was not no I remember when I got my first my first one I was so excited

You got one at a time One at a time Now I'm up to 15 I feel like mine came in the way that my chin hairs are coming in It's like the fuzz is slowly Turning a different color Man that fuzz sure is getting thick

Listen I had to I got my makeup done Not too long ago And this lady just goes You know they have those little comb raisers. And I was like, what? She goes, you could probably because I guess my peach budges is getting a little thick. I don't know. Getting a little wily. Yeah, I guess. So the kids, his hair is just growing. He goes to school and just every time

they shoot him, he's in a longer wig. The amount of wigs and this is so crazy. The kids are like playing with his hair at school and it's like distracting everyone. And then Connie's pubes are growing out of his pants. Yes. We can see his pubs coming out through his pant legs. This child. And they like have a mind of their own.

They're like, you know, I don't know, like arms almost. It's really wild. Also, there's a scene that you're talking about right here where his hair keeps growing at school in which he explains exactly what's going on with the past maybe 30 minutes of the movie. which I feel like would have been so nice

that the movie had started right here. It's the scene in which he's about to be kicked out of class and he demands an education. I just, I played that, I got that clip and I just want to play it for everyone. For two weeks now, I've been bald. We did everything to get my hair back. Nothing worked.

At last, I tried this extremely dangerous mixture. At last. At last. I love at last. It's like he's writing an essay. This is just someone's really tortured logline. Yeah. Mixed.

It worked, but now my hair won't stop. My only chance is for this guy to keep on cutting. Please let me stay. I want to be educated. The kids clap. This guy is his friend Connie, who's been with us the entire movie. This guy is. to keep on cutting.

He's in the class. You could say his name. Yeah. Like he's your like haircutting servant? This guy. He's the second lead. Yeah. Honestly, he feels like the first lead in a lot of ways.

Yes, it's Connie's movie. In many. Connie's the hero. Connie like saves the day. Fadora or no, he is a hero. So he like runs out of class. In the wind, it's really windy. And the hair, like the wind is blowing his crazy.

long wig. He lays down on the ground and has a dream about dogs attacking him. And then we see a figure loom over him. And then we get the spinning newspaper talking about how kids in the neighborhood are being kidnapped. And then we see dad going insane. And this is the only time the dad seems to react emotionally to what's happening. The dad's like going insane, painting bald kids in his studio. So I guess the dad has this long dark night of the soul and then it's just fine with it. I would have liked it

if he had the big painting in the police station. And he's like, this is the kid. But imagine him with hair now. With hair. But hair that just keeps growing and growing. He's painting the hair on top of the painting. Unless this guy's cutting it. So Connie and

Connie and the sister don't care about finding Michael, but they want to cheer up dad, so they go to an art store to buy him a new paintbrush, and there's this special paintbrush that costs $20, and the guy in the paint

brush store is this insane non-actor, I guess. I think he's the tallest person in the movie. Oh. Tallest guy. And says he doesn't know the name of who's been delivering the paint brushes, but they do it in a red truck.

So does he just give them the paintbrushes? What does that mean? Yeah. Please take my paint brushes. How do you run your business, sir? Yeah. It's got to be in voices for this stuff. It's a cash business getting.

You get high pay cash with the paint brushes. Also, it's probably the worst paint brush I've ever seen. Like, it is so floppy and weird and unwieldy, but it does look soft. It looks like it's really a French tickler kind of thing. Sure, yes. Yes, it looks like it would. French Canadian tickler. French Canadian tickler.

Thank you very much. They have to tickle in both languages. And so, okay, so they find this red van. Connie gets in and leaves a sugar trail. And then the sister, because it's a movie in the 80s, kids got to jump on their bike and go do some bike racing. So she races after the van and this fucking awesome song starts playing. Matt, can we play a little bit of this song?

And it's the first music cue that's been in the whole movie. It's about a magic music. man. The singer, this song, Selim Dion. Yep. This movie has something in common with Titanic. And both that they're too long. But I think this is her first soundtrack, like, that she's done for a movie.

And she is a famous French-Canadian singer. But at this point, she was still pretty new, and she was still learning English. Yeah, and she's very much doing her Kate Bush thing here. which is like it's it's really good and you know hearing this song in this movie there was a little bit of like I don't know a stranger things type like it's possible that Stranger Things has seen that the Duffer brothers have seen this movie and were kind of

just because the voice that she was doing is very Kate Bushy and you know the age of the kids and whatnot but yeah it is the one part of this movie where I like for a second I felt like I wasn't having a stroke. And I was like, okay, good. A music montage, just like normal. We're all having a normal day now. Thank God.

I needed it. Yeah, a real normal day. Follow the sugar trail. So we're about to get to the third act of this movie, which is crazier than anything that's happened in the movie so far. We're going to talk about it when we come back. We're back. It's free with ads. We're talking about the peanut butter solution.

Okay. Wait, wait. Say that again. The peanut butter solution? Paynet. Say peanut. The penis butter solution. Oh, no, Jordan.

Say peanut again. Peanut. Am I saying it weird? You said peanut. Peanut. I don't have time to say peanut. I got to say peanut. Yeah.

Maybe it's just, you know, like an O-C thing. Okay, a peanut butter solution. Yeah, it's the bass player for 3-11. Peanut. My favorite bass player. Wow. My dad is a bass player. How dare you?

Listen, your dad's wonderful. He's not your favorite. We wish to look at the grannies, but he's no peanut. 3-11. That's right. No, your dad beats peanut any day, any day in the week. Oh, God, don't say beats and peanuts. Yeah, he beats a penis.

I'm so glad he doesn't listen to this podcast. Oh, boy. So, okay, here's what happened. The art teacher, the evil art teacher, who was fired, kidnapped Michael, has him in a stasis chamber of some sort where he's being, he's in a coma because of magical ice cream yogurt it's yogurt yogurt excuse me this is Canada they don't have

like good stuff everyone has yogurt for dessert yeah but a lot of people eating yoplay is in this I notice yeah um yo play a oh speaking of yoplay do you guys remember yoplay whips and yoplay custard yeah you don't throw those in the freezer you're having a good time oh my god do they still have those

I don't know I haven't I haven't checked I'm going to, I need, the Yoplai whips was like just the craziest invention ever and the custard was so decadent. I don't know why. I just got really hungry. Sorry, you guys. Delicious. This movie makes me feel stoned and I'm not stoned. It would put me into a hair coma.

So you could shit your pants and grow your hair. Shit your pants, grow your hair so that he has an army of kidnapped children in karate outfits. Yeah. Using Michael's hair to make magic paint brushes. And he uses the paint brush to paint these, like, kind of semi-animated paintings. Now, here's why I think this is a good movie about AI. Because we have Michael's dad who is doing these weird imperfect paintings. That's right.

But they are from the heart. They are... Using his imagination. Using his imagination. We have a teacher that hates imagination. He just wants efficiency. He just wants profit So I think this movie predicted A-I

What is this a dang documentary? Oh Idiocracy is a documentary Yeah Have you guys seen this black mirror? Oh my God Watch those and I'm like This is a dang documentary

I haven't heard about it What is it? I think it's a dang documentary It's more like a mirror into my life Yep Anyway So Connie

Connie tricks the art teacher by saying you're my dad which the art teacher wants to hear so he does this little jig for the kids and paints the haunted house where Michael got scared he's like paint the fright paint Michael's fright

and then the art teacher goes into the magic painting and then he gets the fright and comes out and now his hair grows but also that wasn't what made Michael's hair falls out his hair falls out and then he looks like

what's his face from Breaking Bad he does he looks a little Walter Whitey when he gets the he gets the fright he's I am the one who knocks and then steals your hair I am the one who paints I'm the one who paints I'm the one who knocks

I am the one who knocks I am the one who knocks So then Michael Ding dong Um Anyway So Breaking Bad

That's a good show Yeah Anyway So then Michael goes into the painting He faces his fear The thing that scared him Was the whinoes So he faces his fear

And then They guy he's bald now chases them around for a long time the adult he does they does chase him a long time this is very scary i could see if you were a kid watching this like yes like dark weird molester coated guy chasing you around a factory where he had you enslaved yeah yeah at least miss hanagan put some lipstick on or something you know like doll yourself up i mean any other story where you have a crazy molester guy chasing after children you at least have i don't know some sort of narrative that you could like cling to where you could go oh this person's chasing me

for whatever reason in this case would be like okay i have to start from the beginning so there were these winos who died in a fire and this guy his name is signor and he paints and a long story short my hair kept growing and he's harvesting it can you save me like none of this makes any sense I gotta tell you as somebody who runs a small business by myself the fact that he needed so many kids to just put hair into a stick

makes me go I could kidnap some kids yeah I could do like this would be very helpful I just need I just need someone to stuff envelopes like honestly while you yeah well you sleep in a hammock they all sleep in hammocks they all sleep in hammocks did you guys do that as kids ever did you try to sleep in a hammock

no I never have I would like to I love sitting in a hammock we never had two trees close together which i thought was a prerequisite they were too close or too far apart yeah i was like well this doesn't work we had like well the thing is my uh neighborhood kids it was like a constant prank that if someone was in a hammock you would run and flip the hammock over so they'd fall good prank out of the hammock so you could you couldn't sleep in a hammock i'd be too anxious well now i'm glad i'd never slept in a hammock so all the adults rush in at the end dad's doing like karate chop hands

and then they arrest the guy and then mom randomly comes back in a taxi and that's at another Celine Dion song plays and that's the end of the movie. I have that Celine Dion song too. Let's hear a little bit of it.

Let's hear a little bit of it before we do that. Children are like boats in the sea. Austin Torre. and break every stroke you roll I look at a turkey looking at that song I'm just

this is so haunting and sad yeah especially like in the background before the credits are rolling it's just a you know external shot of their house and that house to me creeps me everything about this movie is fucking creepy

everything about this movie is unsettling uncanny valley and like set me on edge throughout I'm really worried about the whino ghost like I think maybe this was their unfinished business maybe they got the guy caught and they can kind of move on to the next oh so they set this whole thing in motion they scared the kid in order for the hair to grow and then for the guy to like kidnap them did signore burn the house down with them in it oh I guess we never know who burned the house down maybe it was

signore you guys that makes the movie make a little bit of sense Some sense Like a tiny little bit of said Now this is very David Litchie Because that that means that signore is Bob Oh yeah Oh shit Okay

So that's that's the peanut butter solution Peanuts What is peanut? He's doing a He's doing this on purpose to piss me off I'm not I'm not that's how I say peanut butter I'm not

I'm not doing a bit I'm not goofing Just peanut Peanet Peanot butter Peanut butter Peanut butter Anyway

Hey We're going to rank the movie But first you know we got to do the Hunk Watch Oh It's Hunk Watch I feel like I know where this is going But just as a formality I'll ask everybody

Emily what are your thoughts Okay so yes the dad is cute But I watched That little documentary and it showed like the kids all grown up and Michael pretty hot grown up and I have his hair it's good he had it like slick back in a ponytail and it was like okay he's got a lot of hair and he was cute so I think adult Michael is doing it for me Matt any thoughts I honestly was not it's like I now have to think about it in retrospect

because throughout the movie there was no point where I said I'm watching this for free with ads and I need to come up with a senior freak, come on I now it's like if I have to because I don't want to give it a senior because I don't like him

I think he's bad he's clearly bad man I guess I'm giving it to Dr. Epstein His name is Dr. Epstein His name is Dr. Epstein Did you guys not notice? The hotel's sick boy she has to

hear him scare him His name was Dr. Epstein. He should release his files. Just release. I did not release my files. I do not know why you want to see my files so bad. If you just travel to party island periodically. Dr. Epstein didn't kill himself.

The hair of scaram thing reminds me of a, I think we need a new sting eventually, but it's a Fleming joke and, like, family joke. Because we have a lot of them. But my mom was talking about she had a friend who died her hair red, and it was, like, bad. It was really bad. And her and her other friends called her Harlot Oskara.

Oh, I like sad. Oh, that's a fun. That's fun. Slamming joke. Yeah. Also kind of a sick burn in a way. Yeah, it is. Jordan, who is yours?

Yeah, I'm going to give it to the dad. I kind of thought that's where we were going, but apparently everybody had some different hunks, and that's great. We like a variety of hunks. Yeah, I think Dad's great. Wonderful sweaters, a nice Canadian man. And I think they really, like, decorated

the house in this. Yes. You could tell it's like the house of an artsy parent because they clearly have taste, but it's a fucking mess. Yes. And I kind of like that about like kind of lifey artist adults. They have these like all this cool stuff

but it's like such a wreck. Oh yeah. I mean if you could see my apartment right now I would look insane. But like I had friends who had parents like this and I just like being like this is so cool and it always smelled like hair. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. And also that little

cot that he had up in his artist attic loft thing had like he lived there but he had the most beautiful like sheets and blanket it was like a pendleton blanket type thing it was like really cool so I think that's it's going to go in my bedroom list as a favorite bedroom okay

is the artist loft up there because I've always dreamed of having an artist loft which God I'm going to move so soon you guys it's going to happen I swear to God get that loft get that love girl get that get that parent visit. Get mom to come, help you move to aloft. Okay. Well, yeah, let's rank the peanut butter solution when we come back. We're back. It's free with ads.

We're going to rank the peanut butter solution on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials. But first, we want to remind you to go to maximum fun.org slash join. You kick in a little bit to keep the show going. You keep the network going. You get a buttload of bonus content. We're planning some fun stuff for the holidays. So make sure you join Max Fund to hear all our bonus stuff. Okay.

The peanut butter solution, one to ten. how do you rank this? I genuinely don't know. It's the most difficult one we've ever done. Emily, it's the one who's seen this the most. What do you think? I feel like it needs its own score system.

Yeah. I know. Like how many, one to ten pubs? Long child pews. Oh yeah, did we mention that that kid just yelled at the hair and it stopped but that we couldn't get the, he couldn't tell his friend you got to yell with conviction at your hair.

Oh my God. Anyway. I feel like it should have its own scoring somewhere. But, I mean, I'm glad I watched it again. It's fun to rewatch and remember how horrifying it is. I'm glad this movie exists. I'm going to give it a five. Okay.

No, very reasonable. Matt, what do you think? Gosh, not only does it need a new scoring? I mean, I truly am like, it's in some. aspects of 10 and some aspects of one. Yes. And also, I think it doesn't deserve a number. Also, is it a movie?

Right. I don't even know. Yeah. It might not be. What if there's a wash? There's like a scoring system that it's, it can't be a 10, it can't be a zero. It is just a peanut butter solution. It's like alpha and the omega.

It's like, it's everything and nothing at the same time. It's a wonderful, wonderful. I'm going to give it a Zen. A Zen. I think I will give this like a bad movie seven. I think it's really fun to watch. I think for this flavor, if this is something you're into, the like kind of wacko, like the wacko fever dream kids movie, Teen Witch is still the goat. Yes.

I think that you can't, you know, if you're having like bad movie night and you want to do something like this, Teen Witch, much more fun to watch. But this is its. own cookey little thing. It's its own genre. It is. So yeah, if you're like a, you know,

if you're like a bad movie head, if you're a sicko for this stuff, I think you should watch this. Yeah. I don't know if a kid would actually like it. Yeah, I think that'd be scared of it. Kids liked it,

but it's like, you can't, you can't, you can't, like, turn your brain off, but you should. Like, it's like for your own safety,

you should find a way. But you can't. You overthink the whole movie. It's a little bit stressful and exhausting all right that's the peanut butter solution we solved it

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I'm going to get back into therapy for no reason in particular. I want to plug our merch store. Maxfundstore.com slash merch. To this movie put you back to therapy?

Honestly, after this movie, I was just like, I think I need to talk with someone about this. What's my life? Yeah. So, what is it? It's maxfundstore.com.

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