God Awful Movies - 503: The Car

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

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Limited inventory available. There's been no indication that the car is demonic or supernatural or anything is strange about this, except hitting people with a car. Wade's like, I mean, that's only significant if we're in a movie called the car about a demonic car. So I guess we are then. Yeah. Not only is there no reason for you to share that information for me, there's no reason for me to care about it. But since we are in a movie called the car, that really matters. Thank you for sharing. Yeah. But this is the first hint that we get that it is a driverless car. And fun fact, this movie was actually used to train the AI in the driverless Teslas. This is what they used to tell us how to do that. Welcome back to Godawful Movies, where each week we watch another terrible movie so you don't have to.

I'm your host, T.Thendrite, and I'm joined by the Eli Bosnik. Eli, how's it going? Rrwaaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwaawrwa great impression of the entire movie just now. We also have a professional skeptic of polymaths, I think that's how they would say it, and the cohost of the No Rogan Experience podcast, among others, Michael Marshall. Marsh, welcome back. Oh, great to be here. I'm coming at you in a directly straight line. It's very threatening, and as long as you forget

that other directions exist, this is gonna be very scary. I'll just run straight forward. It's very threatening. And as long as you forget that other directions exist, this is going to be very scary for you. I'll just run straight forward as fast as I can. There's one dimension, right? Yeah. It's just the one. All right. Well, what are we talking about?

Marsh, what are we going to be breaking down today? We watched the car. So normally here, I'd be saying, it's the story of something. But it isn't. It is not. That'd be tricky right now.'s the story of something. But it isn't. It is not. Not the story. There isn't a story here. There is only a car.

And apparently it's an evil car. But if you're looking to find out the why and the how of that, you're in the wrong place. This isn't that kind of movie. This is the car. Yeah. I have on my notes here, kills people, doesn't like back sass, no graveyards. That's what I have about the entire contents of the movie. Yep, those are the rules.

And Eli, how bad was this movie? Well, if you love the killer cars of Maximum Overdrive, but that movie was all too realistic and grounded for you. You will love the car. All right. And is there anything you'd like to nominate this one for being the best at being the worst at? Yeah, I'm going to say the best worst escape from the bad guy. Because as I've alluded to, this is a car here. This is a car that's the bad guy. And throughout this movie, the

car is going to run people over. And the thing about cars is when they run people over, they do that by going forwards. Sometimes they do it by going backwards. And so if you're being chased by said car, or the said car is on the horizon coming at you, you can escape that by just not being in front of or behind it. All the other directions. All the other angles. There's a lot of other angles. Car's greatest weakness. I think there's only one point in this movie that they remember that other angles exist,

and the car has to be like, well, fuck. Hang on. It has to actually improvise how to hit somebody because it's no longer in front or behind them. And then they forget that. They accidentally expose the weakness of this car in several of the action scenes where someone's running, but they take like slightly too hard a curve and the car is like, well, I've lost you.

The arc of the movie that they eventually get to is the concept of like an arc that goes sideways. Sideways, yeah. Sideways. I was gonna go with Best Best Recommendation by Lee Seth Andrews. That's why we know about this movie and it is truly delightful despite all the bad things

we're gonna say. It's terrible, but it's also really, really fun. It's just that 70s thing of like, kinda like Marce said, they're just like, yeah, we made a movie, it's got a car, and go fuck yourself, I'm an artist. I'm done. I'm done.

And we hope you come see it, yes. You were supposed to stop me and say stop right there when I said it's got a car. Fuck you. It rules, and it's this pre-irony bet, right? Because everyone who's starting to do something bad now, like turns around halfway through and they're like, these people did it with their fucking heart. They made the car with their hearts and their souls and then they voted for Reagan and destroyed

the climate and the economy. But it didn't matter because they made the car with their heart. Yeah. This is real actor. Josh Brolin is in this. Or no, sorry. Not Josh Brolin. James Brolin. James Brolin, his father is in this. He's also a real actor though. Yeah, no, James Brolin is a real actor, but I confused James Brolin and Josh Brolin when I saw his name in the credits and I was like, this is going to be a very interesting film.

I'm going to go with Best Worst worst cops, okay? So I guess I never realized it before, but what's important for horror movies to like exist is that the cops are for some reason not involved. Because if the cops get involved then you need the cops to be incompetent and unable to handle things that we sort of societally and innately understand cops handle and understand. They don't do that. So from the first moment of this movie, law enforcement is baffled and I cannot emphasize this enough, emotionally undone by a car that runs people over.

90 minutes of the movie, they never have any idea what to do with. There is a car that is running people over. They sort of get as far as, well, we could just try asking it to stop. Well, we have tried that. Okay. But have we tried again? Because I think the third or fourth time we do ask it to stop. It might, that's what we've got. If we don't get past that, that's all we've got. If we don't get past that, that's all we've got. Can I add one more? Best Best Cat Poo. And we'll get to why that's a thing, but this movie uses that line. That's a line in the movie.

Better than any other movie. Yes! So there's a controversy about this, Heath. We'll get to it when we get to it. But you just stepped into a deep internet fight that goes back generations, my friend. Wow. A deep internet fight of cat poo? Mm-hmm, yes.

Wow, okay, well that is quite interesting. I'm gonna need a quick break to think about it, and then we'll be back to tell you all about the car. All right, guys, welcome to the first ever writer's room meeting for the car. Love it, lunch? Ooh, sushi? Oh, ever writers room meeting for The Car. Love it! Lunch? Ooh, sushi? Oh, totally, let's do some sushi.

Guys, we need more than the title. We gotta think of the whole movie. Oh, we did. Like, The Car. Yeah, it's The Car. Yeah. That's nothing though. What's it about? Um, it's about a car. Uh, not just any car. That's right, THE car. Right, not just any car. That's right.

The car. Right, right. The car. But what happens in the movie? Everything you imagine that happens in a movie called the car, man. That could be anything. Could it? Well, no.

Okay, no. Like, I guess it would have to have a car. Sorry, the car. Exactly. Okay. So what are we going to do when it's time to shoot? Just like tell the cast and crew it's called the car. You guys get it and they'll figure it out? I was thinking so, yeah.

Well, you know what? That'll work. I think that'll work. Oh, what about the cars? Wait for the sequel, Craig. Wait for the sequel, Craig. Wait for the sequel. OK, how tall is the average QED attendee? I feel like we just go with the average.

Oh, OK. But then you're just standing there, aren't you? Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Hey, guys. What are you doing? Oh, hello, Marsh. Keith and I are just getting ready for the final QED. Yeah, kind of a shopping list.

A shopping list? Why do you need a shopping list? Because we gotta save money. Watch our spending, Marsh. Yeah, budgets matter, especially now. Especially now. Right, well, why don't you just try Rocket Money? Oh, what's Rocket Money?

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And we're back. And we're going to start with a quote from Anton LeVay. Yes, history's goth kid. Who founded the Church of Satan. That guy. He said, Oh great brothers of the night, who rideth out upon the hot winds of hell, that guy, he said, Oh, great brothers of the night who ride it out upon the hot winds of hell, who dwelleth in the devil's lair, move and appear.

So the quote was basically like, Hey, bad boys, get to it. That is basically the cordia. And it's the let's go girls of Satanism. It absolutely is. Yeah. And just a reminder, the person they used to start their movie, Anton LeVe, lied about literally everything in his whole stupid life. Or did he?

He did. He did. He said he was in the San Francisco Philharmonic at age 15 as an oboe player. He was not. He said he was a psychic homicide detective, whatever that means, for the San Francisco Police Department, and he would catch murderers by, like, talking to the dead victims psychically. Yeah. He said he beat up tigers by zapping them with gamma waves from his brain. When he was a tiger wrangler at some point he said he secretly played Satan in Rosemary's baby I don't know why you would ever lie your way into an association with Roman Polanski but he did

it was cool at the time it was cool it was probably cool at the time whatever yeah he said he had affairs with Jane Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. Absolutely not. Sure didn't. This part I think is real. He made fuckbots with mannequins and then he put latex masks of his friends on the mannequins, which is terrifying. He also predicted AI fuckbots way back in the day.

So that guy. Who would have ever thought we would have fuckbots? Yeah. And we would want them as realistic as possible. Right. So anyway, that guy. Look like our friends apparently. The car now. We get the title card. That guy said things go on roads and this movie is about a thing that is evil that goes on roads. Yeah. Ergo. So. Quote. That's how we're starting the movie. And it's got a demon thing, so Church of Satan, something like that. We see a car driving ominously through the southwest. And this screen was so blank for so long, I checked twice if I had accidentally paused.

I did the like, oh, did I actually pause thing? And I was like, oh no, it's just a blank screen. And then I was like, maybe I paused while I was checking to see if it was a blank screen. Yeah, I'm exactly the same. But the only thing that showed me that it wasn't paused is the camera was very slightly shaking. Like it was being held by someone withdrawing from alcohol as they watch this kind of car approach. That's the only clue that this wasn't a still image. Yeah. It felt like they were going to do some like Wile E. Coyote stuff because we get that

Southwest shot for a while. I think they kind of do actually by the end. I was gonna say I will say I think I put this later in my notes But if you're watching along with us at home And I know that some people do if you picture the car being driven by the Roadrunner from Looney Tunes the entire movie not only is it way more fun, it actually tracks entirely. Like, beep track, everything makes audio. We get a lot of beep beep instead of beep beep. It's very similar. It's the only thing that the car says is beep beep, yeah.

Yeah. So from there, we see Peter and Susie, a couple, and they're biking together through this scene in the Southwest, and the evil car is following them. And we know it's an evil car car because the car sees in orange filter. Sepia, right, yeah. Sepia, whatever. It is so weird we get the car's eye view, not just a car's eye view, but the car's eye

view that we see in them chasing down these two cyclists. Also, the cyclists aren't cycling that fast. Okay, it's downhill, but they're still only cyclists. So this evil car has to be barely trying to catch up to them about how long it takes. So this car chase of the cyclist, the car is really holding back the whole time. Yeah, the film was probably shot at 22 miles an hour.

Yeah, so the death car comes up behind them and the car's honking at them like as a warning and like Mar said they're cyclists they're going kind of slow in a road and I was like okay I'm I'm kind of fine with these people getting killed if they don't like get out of the way after all this honking like they're just in the way now. The first scene of this movie could very well be two bicyclists who murder themselves by not pulling over when a car is directly behind them.

Yeah, right. But they don't pull over and the car pulls up next to Susie and knocks her over a cliff off the side. Yeah, otherwise the car waits until there's a very small wall there because the car doesn't want to have it too easy to knock her off the cliff. They need to go off like a bank shot off the cushion to like ricochet her off the cliff. Yeah. So Susie gets knocked and then the car gets behind Peter and we get this shot.

They're trying to like make it scary as fast as possible. And the shot is like a car right behind the back tire of this guy and it's like edging the back tire, like almost touching it and like edging the back tire like almost touching it and then not. And then almost touching it and then not. Hey man, I don't think that's what edging means. That can be edging. I felt edged.

I feel... Just the tip. It's rare that we tell on ourselves so openly on the air. Just the bumper to see how it feels. I don't know. How do you... It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So the car's approaching him like, you know when you're

putting like battery on your nipple, right? You're just really putting those clips on there. It's like that. I don't think that's how anyone uses the term edging. You know how that happens and then you get knocked off the side of a bridge also sexually? Yeah. That's what happens next.

Peter gets on a bridge and then... Gets permission to come. Yeah. And the demon car knocks Peter off the side of the bridge. Yes, it does. But this is Peter's fault because he's been chased by a demon car. And again, rather than just either pulling over or just swerving onto the opposite side of the road and putting the brakes on, the car will go right past because it can't respond as quickly. He thinks the best way to escape is onto a bridge where there's literally

nowhere else to go other than a 70 foot drop or something down on the floor underneath. It's Peter's fault that he got on the bridge. Just don't get on the bridge here. Do anything else other than get on the bridge. This is the first of so many times where it's just like, oh go sideways, sideways. I wanted to the camera to pan down to the stand by me kids and they were like, well that's not how you avoid something that's coming at you. Yeah. So they both get killed and we see one shoe on the side of the bridge or a little bit earlier. I think it was Susie's shoe,

just to show that somehow this knocked off one shoe as part of the murder. And one bike. The bike has lost one wheel. She has lost one shoe. It's very much a one constituent part left kind of accident. Is that what we're going on here? Yeah. So from there, we cut over to James Brolin. He's going to be our protagonist. He's Officer Wade in the movie, and he gets woken up with some nibbling by his lady friend named Lauren I wrote my notes. This is how women had to wake their husbands when they needed them to get a credit card And at this point Wade is he styled like the evil cowboy

Who's third in command of the bad guy gang who then sells them out to the other bad guy gang? That's right looks like throughout this entire thing He gets his own scene while the protagonist kills him, but it's not a long scene, and it's not at the end of the movie. The 70s was a confusing time, because everybody kind of looked like what Marsh said just now,

so that's what's happening there. He wakes up and he goes to brush his teeth, and he yells from the bathroom, hey, you can't brush your teeth without wiggling your ass. Yeah, you ever notice it's impossible to brush your teeth without wiggling your ass? Gentlemen, this is a phenomenon I have not experienced. Oh, I actually checked and it's kind of true for me actually.

What? Because it's just, like you're doing a body wiggle and like your ass is like right in the middle of the body and it just kind of has to wiggle a little bit. Why are you doing a body wiggle while you're brushing your tooth? I like to get into it. I was edging. Are you talking electric toothbrush or non-electric toothbrush? I think this is non-electric toothbrush because you're doing the manual brushing at that point. I think this is something that no longer happens because you've got electric toothbrush.

We just hold it on the tooth. Yeah, because we're using electric toothbrushes because it's 2020 fucking 5. Yeah, he was definitely not using an electric. I wish I had an out, but I was using an electric when I checked. Okay, well, you're just a weird... If we've learned anything on today's episode of God awful movies, it's that Heath is a pervert. Were you at the same time practicing your ventriloquism act? Because he seems to be, because while he's saying about how you can't brush your teeth without wiggling your ass, he's doing it with perfect diction despite having a mouthful

of toothpaste and toothbrush. And he continues having a conversation while brushing his teeth and his diction is perfect throughout. It's incredible. Okay. Well, I was and I'm glad that Marsh is reading my newsletter, Eli, and no, I never do. Well, it's working less of your edging practice. So they start fooling around when he comes back from the bathroom and we get kind of a crazy moment.

Lauren, during the fooling around the beginning part, she just grabs his dick and she says, that's a little move I learned from a fourth grader. And I was like, what the fuck is happening right now? So she needed a child to teach her how to grab someone's dick in order to stop them because he's fooling around he's like it's play fighting and then it starts to sort of edge on borderline sex crime like she's very not into it all of a sudden and then she grabs his cocks around but did she happen to be taught that by a child? She as a grown adult couldn't have figured out that there's a there's an exposed vulnerable spot right there. It needed a child's eyes to give her that information,

that intel. She needed the intel. Yeah. Right. She's a teacher at a junior high that includes this, apparently a fourth grade girl taught her this move. The girl would grab the boys' dicks and take their lunch money. But yeah, so she sneaks out because he's got two daughters in the house and she doesn't want to have like the awkward moment. No, but throughout this, she's being very loud about this whole thing.

She's almost like they're loudly play fighting. It's almost like they're about to loudly fuck. At a point, his daughters come and put their ears to the door, which again, is going to be just a load of therapy just waiting to happen when they do hear everything that's going on. But after all of that she says, well I just need to leave discreetly because I don't want your daughters to know that I'm here. Well, you've been shouting all sorts of weird things and involving yourself in like this weird loud play fight turned semi sex crime going on. I think they've heard that.

It would have been funny if one of the daughters was like, I'm the fourth grader taught you that. Karate, come on, get him. Yeah, I just, again, I don't understand grader taught you that. Karate. Come on, get him. Yeah. I just, I, again, I don't understand why it has to be a secret. It's never really explained what their relationship dynamic is because, and I can't emphasize this enough, everyone starts getting chased by an evil car and they get pretty distracted. That's a very good point. Yeah.

Also, his bedroom has a back door. So she leaves through the back door of his bedroom. Whose bedroom has a back door into a second corridor? I've never seen it before. James Brolin, that's him. All the people in a French farce. Yeah, exactly. You need two doors so you don't have to hide your mistress

at any given point so you can then get them confused as to what you were saying to which one of them. Dress them as the maid, yeah, exactly. My great grandma and Amelia Earhart had a situation like that with a back door like that. There you go, see, it's all coming together. So it does make sense. So anyway, she leaves and then we cut over to a guy playing a French horn on the side

of the road in Utah. Yeah, I wrote in my notes, this is what I picture Heath doing when he's not returning my text. Yeah, this is also where we meet a very strange character named Amos. He's an abusive husband and we find out right away he's yelling at his wife Bertha and then French horn guy tries to help defuse that and then Amos the abuser starts yelling at French horn guy. Yeah, and so he is abusive.

Now here's a quick question. Does the movie know that domestic violence is bad? Will it know that domestic violence is bad throughout the entire course of the movie know that domestic violence is bad? Will it will it know that domestic violence is bad throughout the entire course of the movie or will we forget that and start? Lording him as a hero in the back. He does become a hero in the needs to be way more clear What the movie's opinion is? Yeah, I feel like 11 minutes before the end of the movie They were like, okay, who are the named characters and they were like well the only named character That's not part of the movie right now is Amos the horrific wife abuser and they were like well the only named character that's not part of the movie right now is Amos the horrific wife abuser and they were like well he could be a part of the ending I guess right there's no reason who hasn't

occasional but yeah this is this is where we establish him as an abuser and again like like he said he gets confronted it occurred to me watching this how hard it is to confront an abuser in any situation, let alone when you're holding a French horn. It's just everything has that real silly twist to it when you're like, one second, let me put... Okay, I gotta fit it into the... Well, I have strong words with you about women's rights as soon as I can.

I need to empty it. It's got saliva in it. Don't let this in any way undermine the severity of this moment. But then I'm going to talk to you about domestic violence. Tough tough tough tough. Yeah. So Amos yells at him and he's like, leave now or I'm going to shove that French horn up your ass.

You'll be farting music for years. And then French horn guy's like farting music, that'd be fantastic. Strange moment. And he's like a wandering French horn minstrel guy? Yep, wandering French horn minstrel. A finstrel if you will. Okay, well, he's like, alright, I'll get out of here, sorry, sorry. And he's going to hitch a ride to somewhere else.

And he sees a car coming up the road. So far away. That's the other thing about this movie. Car chases often happen with like twisty rods, because then that's interesting. But none of the rods in this are twisty. They're pretty much all just completely flat, completely straight for as far as you can see. And so he's waiting for this car to arrive. We're going to find out it's the car.

But he has to wait so long that he basically has to filibuster its arrival, because it's just taking forever to get there. He vamps for a while and it goes badly. Right. Like because what he's supposed to do is like one or two lines. Right. Like, oh, there's going to be a hot babe in this car. Right.

But then because the car is still seven minutes of driving away, he's like, and she is going to like board games, not just two player board games. You know, like want to get people together. Oh, God. So far away. Also, here like want to get people together. Oh god, still so far away. Also, here's a list of my favorite board games. Oh thank god I'm getting hit by a car. Yeah. So, not surprisingly, it's the evil car. It flies up, almost runs him over, and he yells at the demon car. He yells, up yours with a splintered fiddle.

So that's a theme now, that's like a kink of the movie is objects in asses, musical objects. Yeah, now I will also say that this establishes the killing pattern, I think, for the car, which is the car kills people who yell at it? Yeah, it seems to respond to criticism and then it becomes a fight. And that's what happens here. The car hears, I guess, the yelling and stops and then goes back, runs the guy over and

then runs him over a couple more times and then flies off. Do you think it's spooked? Do you think that's what it is? The car is just misunderstood and that it's just like when you yell it, it kind of gets scared like when you get one, it kind of gets scared. Like when you get one of those little dogs that because they're so little, they have to be super aggressive in order to hold their own space. Do you think the car is that?

It's a chihuahua of demons. Don't worry. The car is more scared of you than you are of it. It's just, just relax. Just don't make eye contact with its lights or something. It's grill. I don't know. Project, project the good vibes. Project the good vibes. Go to its owner's house. They're like, oh, that's his chair and you're like, he's a car and it's like it's his chair

I do believe the movie wants some amount of Sympathy or empathy for the car character. I think that's true. I think it wants the movie wants it to be a little bit ambiguous Who's the good guy here the murder car or anybody else? Yeah. Oh, the people getting murdered, yeah. Right. So, he gets killed, French horn guy's dead, and then we cut over to Wade's daughters. That would be Lynn Marie and Deborah. And they're playing hopscotch before school in helmets that they're wearing.

Did he make them put a helmet on for the hopscotch? I thought, because I think they didn't. I think the helmets, because they're about to get on a motorbike. Yeah. But like, that wasn't clear. So he just says, make sure you've got your helmets on. And then we see them playing hopscotch.

And it just made it seem like he's a, like a wildly overprotective parent. One of these really fussy helicopter parents. I like the idea that it was just like a really violent feud of hopscotch between these two sisters that requires helmets. After your last concussion, we're doing helmets only hopscotch from now on. So now Wade gets a call on the radio from the police station. He drops the kids at school and now he's got to go check out the crime scene where dead

French horn guy is. Okay. He's got to go check out the crime scene where dead French horn guy is okay I have a thought about this next scene because without my theory I think this scene is fucking batshit and makes no sense right so here's here's what I'm gonna propose I think the performance of Amos in this next scene cuz spoiler podcast listener They're gonna talk to Amos about the accident that just happened with French horn guy And he's gonna be fucking nutty as shit. We'll talk about that in a second. Yes.

Here's my theory. My theory is Amos gives that performance so that we, the viewer, are supposed to suspect that he is the one in the car that killed the hitchhiker. Oh, and that's why the cops are kind of like asking questions angrily as if they suspect him? Yes. But that makes no sense. Because we saw the car arriving from a long way away. Also true. Abus went into his trailer and the car started arriving from the horizon.

That means, because I was very confused by this because I thought Amos must have phoned in this hit and run. He must have! Who else would have phoned it in? Yeah. But then he's covering for the car. Like he's in cahoots with the evil murder car yeah he's doing the i expected batman to show up and start hanging him over the

side of a roof or something like it's the classic like i don't know nothing kappa nothing i say nothing okay what if he summoned the car in like a headless horseman kind of style sure he dug up the car's steering wheel and then he has the steering wheel and he has to tell the car that the steering wheel is on by the guy with the French horn who wants to fart music and then the car comes for revenge. Okay. Yeah, this is the where's my toe situation. I guess that would track at this moment. So, solid theory. I'll tell you this, tracks more than the fucking movie.

It does. Everything tracks more than the movie. We're out here problem solving with Skeptical of the Year and Michael Marshall. That's what we're fucking doing. Right. So anyway, the cops ask him about the specifics of the car. He says, like, I didn't see the plate. I don't know.

All we learn really though is that he has a dynamite truck that's going to matter maybe later. They just start by telling us that for a second. At the very end of the movie. I didn't even pick that up. So later it was even more confusing as to why he came back in particular. I didn't even clock the fact that there was

a dynamite truck in. It's so clunky the way it happens. This scene literally starts with Amos being like, that's my dynamite truck for later maybe. That I own. Anyway, let's talk about what happened now. Yeah, on the side of the truck is just Chekhov's dynamite. It's just on the side of the truck.

Which again, meant the writers of this movie were like, how could we introduce a dynamite truck? I'll know. How about the owner of the dynamite truck is a vicious wife abuser? Vicious wife abuser. Excellent. Yeah. Yup. It's very strange.

So the cops are like, all right, we're going to put out an APB for some sort of murderous guy in a car. And then we cut over to the police station, and there's a cop on the phone. He starts the scene by saying, into the phone, I'm gonna track you down and shoot an arrow up your ass. So just another example of objects going in asses. It felt like way too much, way too fast. Interesting. Thank you for touching on the theme yeah English class we love it I should explain that this chief character Chas Chas yes Chas is his name but he is like he's not the police chief he's like the assistant police chief

rank is very confusing in this movie at one point a guy puts on a sheriff's badge and I was like I really need you not to do that I'm really having a hard time keeping track of your org chart as it is. But he is like an assistant to the head chief of the police station. Yes. He is a Native American or a First Nation people, depending on how he self defines. And the entire movie will spend every white character will racially abuse him for no reason the entire film.

It's ridiculous. Yeah, he's Navajo. He speaks for no reason the entire film. It's ridiculous. Yeah, he's Navajo. He speaks Navajo in the movie later. So he's assuming, yeah, at least speaks that language. But even the phone call that he's getting right now is racially abusive. We introduce him being racially abused over the phone by this unseen voice. And then he's immediately straight after that racially abused by the script writer who continues to do that throughout the process of the movie.

Yeah. Yeah. I think he just gets a morning phone call from the local racist being like, Hey, Chaz, it's Chris. He wants to call and yell some racism at you. And he's like, Oh, okay. Yeah, no, I got it. It is 2pm.

Yeah. Okay. Another strange thing going on in this scene is that Wade is getting changed into his police uniform in the middle of the office. Yeah. You see him like butting up his shirt and like tucking his shirt into really tight pants. No locker room, huh? Just getting it out there in the office.

Yeah. And again, we won't go into the details of it because it's actually really like sort of boring and strenuous. But what we watch happen in this scene that will happen a bunch through the rest of the movie is we'll watch these cops, or I'm going to say these actors who were written by a screenwriter Figure out how cops would look for a car

Painfully and because they're like, all right. Well guys, there's a car out there and we need to get it and they're like Well, what the what do we do? And he's like God great question. Um It's not one of you is it and they're like no and he's like fuck I'm out of idea Like I cannot explain and I will I will try not to because it would make a nine-hour episode of our podcast Every moment where they just have to figure out the most basic of police work What do police do about cars that are doing crime? So from there we cut over to the school where lauren teaches And she's running a band rehearsal outside in the yard of the school. Cheers.

She's conducting the brass section, but that's not a euphemism, just to be clear. No, no. And when they finish, she says, that was delicious. It was not. It was not. She's a liar. Yeah. So the principal, I'm assuming, comes over and is like, I need to speak with you, Lauren.

And the principal shows Lauren that a student drew like a pencil sketch of her naked, like standing next to a chalkboard. And the principal's mad because you're not supposed to be attractive to 13-year-old boys, apparently, is the scolding. Yeah. Well, she's like, do you think it's healthy for a 13 year old boy to imagine his teacher naked? And Lauren very reasonably says yes.

But also the pencil sketch is like good. It is really good. It's like a weird New Yorker cartoon. Like it's not. It's a little too good, yeah. It's not the nakedness that 13 year old boys in my humble experience are drawing. Can I say that?

No, it's deft. There's a deftness to the curves that really shows an artist's eye. There's some artistry to be encouraged there. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, but also the other sign that there's some artistry here is that he appears to have drawn it on a scroll because the headmistress has to unfurl it from a little kind of rolled up scroll. And it's massive. It's on such a large piece of paper. So I think she's mostly annoyed that they've used up the school supply of papyrus. Yeah. And they've got to go back and it's massive. It's on such a large piece of paper. So I think she's mostly annoyed that they've used up the school supply of papyrus.

Yeah. And they got to go back and get some more. It's a big format. It's a triptych. Yeah. And then we meet for a second Margie, I believe, which is another teacher and a friend of Lauren and Margie's like, you think you think principal ladies ever fucked before?

No, like, no, she's never fucked before. No, never fucked before no like now she's never So now Wade and Luke show up at the school in their cop car to inform them what's happening in the movie Well, yeah, all we learned from this moment is Luke one of the other cops being like I'm two years sober in case That matters later like the dynamite or whatever I don't know and then they get a radio call that they have to go check out the dead biker scene. Guys, there's more movie. This part is just summing up the rest of the movie. Okay, cool.

Well, now that we know Lucas sober. Yeah. So they drive away and they go to the scene where the bike people got killed and they see one shoe and a bike wheel. And we've got the station chief there who we haven't met before. And he's basically like, rassen, frassen, frassen over the dead girl, sort of annoyed about it. You can see he's like muttering to himself over her body. Yeah. And again, I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely decimated all the cops are

by any of the deaths in this film, right? The majority of this movie is cops like running to front center stage of camera and being like I didn't know people died I didn't know and us just being like hey are you gonna do a harm you know what it's you know what it was like it was like they told all the people playing cops in this movie that they were in the kid dies drama genre but didn't tell them they were going to include so many shots of the scary car. Right? It feels like rabbit hole. It's the performances of rabbit hole in Friday the 13th.

Yeah. And then we get, we get this long segment of like town gossip to kind of figure out who got killed here. They find out that Susie is the one who got killed. That's the body they have. And they know that because of is the one who got killed, that's the body they have. And they know that because of a heart-shaped locket. So apparently all the cops know who's got what lockets, I guess. Oh my god, other people's work drama of the movie. Right. We've got a very long backstory about Pete, the other cyclist. It's a very, very long

backstory about how he's troubled upbringing and this cop taking him under his wing. And it's starting to make me feel that this movie was a biography of Pete, the missing cyclist, after a while. Yeah, they go into a lot of detail here. We learned that Peter was in the Bible class that was run by Officer Luke. And I was like, that's fucking weird. Oh, no, it's Utah. It does make sense. Yeah, no, it does. For sure. And they all decide like, okay, well, we're clearly dealing with a serial killer in a car. That's the

plot now. Yeah. So guys, I checked the title of the movie. It's the car. So I think we can blame just one gray. Right. Singular. So Chief Everett, who we meet here too, he's the cop in charge. He's like, all right, shut down the county, seal off all the roads. They're doing roadblocks. And then we're back at the station and Wade is telling everyone how to set up roadblocks, like the details of that. It's also, he's doing that by handing the manila folders with their assignments in as well as how to do it.

And I don't think cops want to, especially when it comes to roadblocks, I don't think you get your assignment in a manila like folder that you have to open up. Yeah. That tells you how and where the roadblock goes. I really wanted it to just open up and we see like just a piece of paper that says block road with your car. So you want us to block road? Do you have a dossier that would explain the details? Oh, no, I'll get everyone a multi-page plan for that. And then we get this fucking bizarre scene. I'll try and go quick because it never matters to the movie.

OK, so you remember Abuser Guy from the beginning of the movie podcast listener? OK, now the chief of police in a completely straight face dramatic scene is trying to convince his wife to press charges and she refuses. That is the whole, it is a fucking SVU scene drops from the sky into the center of the motherfucking car. That's true, but you're missing one crucial detail that I think really elevates this scene is that while this is Bertha is the wife so that you got Everett sat down with Bertha, he's holding a hand, he's trying to sort of talk her through why it's so important

to make this step to protect yourself. Amos is stood behind them at the desk. An inch behind them, yes. He's right there the whole time, so maybe don't do this in front of her abusive husband. Maybe that's why she's so fucking reluctant to do anything. Licking a knife back and forth while she decides. Yeah.

And also Bertha is way more bruised since the last time we saw her. We didn't see her or Amos even coming into the police station. So we didn't see that happening. But she's way more bruised since we last saw her. And I just assumed that that's what happens when you go into an American police station. At some point. Yeah. They're getting bruised.

You stand up with those bruises. Such a strange fucking subplot. No reason to have it. Well,ot. No reason to have it. Well hopefully the spousal abuse won't be a red herring and then they're going to try to redeem that character. Hopefully that doesn't happen in the movie. We're going to take a quick break and then we'll be back with more The Car. It appears that whoever ran him down did it on purpose. Holy shit. What the fuck are we gonna do?

This is horrible. Right, yeah. We're gonna track this bastard down and we're gonna bring him down. How are we gonna do that? I have no idea what I'm doing. Okay, well, we're gonna set up roadblocks to stop him. I have no idea what that is. And what if he doesn't stop? What then?

Okay, guys, guys, guys, we're cops, okay? We've stopped people in cars. We don't want to stop before. We're doing that. Have we? I don't remember that. Okay, this might be a little harder than I thought it was going to be. It seemed simple.

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Whatever, man. And we're back. When we left off, Officer Luke was rattled from all the death in town, so he sneaks out to his secret stash of whiskey in the trunk of his car. And of course, he's two years sober and this is Utah so it's a big deal. Yeah. Have you ever been and like run accidentally into someone else's family drama? Right? Like you're talking and you're like oh it's like the movie Clowns and they're like oh and like you watch Everyone

Freeze but You and you have to be like oh that's what this movie is like. It's like walking into someone else's family drama, the horror movie. But also he's keeping his secret stash of booze in the boot of his police car, which seems like an incredibly stupid place to keep it because I imagine with a working car, you're going to be in and out of that trunk the entire day for all sorts of... Or you would be if you knew how to police in any way. Maybe it's actually a really secure place for your secret stash because none of the police have ever thought to look in the trunk of the police car.

Nope. Because that's where you keep the police things. Perhaps. Continuing to support my theory that this is everyone in the movies first day as a police officer. There's a prequel to this movie where everyone gets killed who was a cop and they do this townsfolk just sort of pick up their outfits And take them on very strange So now we're back inside the station and chief Everett reveals that he's especially Sympathetic to Bertha the domestic abuse victim because he went to high school with her and he says

She was my first. As in like sex? Is that what that meant? I assume sex. Yeah. But this makes, this was mind blowing to me because she's there like as she's walking out, she's walking out with a kid. We didn't know she had a kid. Her husband looks way too old to be having a kid as young as this is. But this is a film in the 70s, so I assume okay Bertha and the husband are about 30, and it's just people were a bit rough back then. Everybody went from 18 to 55 in the 70s. Everyone smoked their breakfast.

But then we found out that the chief went to school with Bertha, and the chief is very clearly in his late 60s. So if she is the same age as that chief, that child is a medical marvel. It's an absolute miracle. Yeah. That's true. When he said, uh, I went to high school with her, I wrote in my notes, as what? Her principal? And like, the chief, you know, maybe don't casually talk about how he once

fucked the domestic abuse victim you've just seen. It's maybe not great in the workplace. The movie definitely wants us to think that this is a moment of like fondness or tenderness, but it's like Terrifying and then there's just a pause and then it's basically so shots shots shots Very straight like actually he's like yes, so spousal abuse. That's like really really sad I hate this shots shots of the Shots of the club. He says shots at the club immediately after that. Yeah. I know we exaggerate for comedic effect podcast listener, but I promise that is exactly what happened. Yeah. We also see Wade looking at the giant topographical

like relief map, like the size of the entire wall of the police station that just shows like their area, their county and he's I guess looking for good spots for a murder car to hide out. For a demon car, yeah where a demon car might hide. Some of the flat bits, not the lumpy bits. He's trying to rule the lumpy bits out because cars won't like lumpy. Right. Then they cut over to just outside of the station and Amos the abuser is being abusive

to his wife and family some more at the car they're about to leave in. And then the murder car turns its lights on and slowly rolls ahead. It decides to attack at this moment. It runs towards Amos the abuser, but Amos like dives out of the way and Chief Everett who is outside now gets run over by the car.

And he's instantly dead as well, like instantly dead. The second he hits the ground he's dead. There's not a mark on him. He's completely, he seems fine. No missing shoes for this guy. Yeah. I can only assume it was the COVID vaccine that got him. He's one of these died sons. We'll see him in a meme somewhere. Exactly. So now Amos goes back in the station with Wade to describe what just happened. They're both yelling at each other.

He explains like, it's the same evil car. I'm sure of it. And again, I just have to clarify. Everybody in the room in this police station is clueless as to how to stop what they now believe to just be a guy in a car who runs people over. They're screaming and gnashing teeth. It reminds me of like those old scenes in the Bible after God would like throw a fireball at the Jews for the 11th time for worshipping ball or something. That's how

everyone is reacting to this double homicide at this point. There's ashes and sackcloth. Yeah. Exactly. Do you think the cars like cars as a concept this is only the 72 think cars as a concept Just made it to Utah and maybe that's why Anyone I told you those carriages were a bad idea Nobody needs to go that fast nobody we also learned that there was another witness to this particular Car murder an old Navajo lady. She saw it too. And she's explaining what she saw.

And officer Chaz is translating from the Navajo. He's translating some of it. OK, so here's what they're trying to do. They're setting up the dramatic effect of later. It's going to be revealed. There was nobody in the car.

That's her thing. Right. But what happens in the scene because they're trying to set that up is he goes, did you tell me what you just said? And Chas goes, most of it. And Wade has no follow up questions. He's like, well, as long as I got the majority of it. All right. Good talk. coming with the winds, according to Chaz's translation. And it's like the Anton LeVe quote, I guess, that's telling us that there is, in fact, some sort of wind-based demon at play. And it's like she causes it in the movie, because if you'll remember,

from this point up until now in the movie, the car has not been preceded by a wind, but it's like the car hears the old Navajo lady say that, and it's like, ah, shit. So from now on, there will be a wind right before the car shows up. Oh, this is perfect. I wanted a theme to my thing. I wanted like a little, you know, ominous thing that starts, so the dust kicks up a little bit. That's perfect. Beep beep. Yeah.

It's also great. We see some of the other police trying to figure out, as Eli was saying, at one point they get a phone call because they've put out to all the other nearby states and nearby kind of areas about, we need to look out for a black car. And they've heard that somebody reported that a black car has been seen somewhere in another state. So yeah, it's probably the same one. How many black cars are there? Black is quite a common color for cars, but they think this is a red hot lead, absolutely

red hot lead. Yeah. And once again, all of the cops are baffled. They're just like, what the fuck do we do now? Well, I have no idea. We're gonna have to have a team meeting to figure out what to do. Put a can of gas in the center of a big hoop

and then we yank it real fast. I don't know. That's good, let's pin in that until the meeting tomorrow. We'll figure it out, we'll figure it out. So they meet up the next day in the station and The plan is keep trying to catch the evil car way to give some a speech He's like, yeah, thanks for I don't know did what were cops do more cop stuff still cool And then Donna the dispatch officer gets a call and explains that the school

gets a call and explains that the school principal wants to do the rehearsal for the parade they're going to be having and Wade is worried because there's possibly a demon car about. Hey, I know that a car has killed three people and counting and we don't know where it is. Should we fill a road with innocent children? And Wade is like, tough, tough question. Can it be specifically innocent children being trained to walk in a very specific straight line in a uniform fashion? Yeah. So Wade tells Officer Tatelman that he's in charge of the parade rehearsal and he's got

to make sure they do it after 3.30. I don't know why the time of day would matter to the demon car but Wade's where he's got a day job yeah I also like that officer Tattleman is his name like a cop in Utah named Tattleman is fucking perfect yeah it's pretty good yeah and then Donna dispatch has a little bit more info she also speaks Navajo and she's like hey so it's good Chaz isn't here right now he was translating the other day and he he held something back that lady also said there was no driver in the car right and

again because there's been no indication that the car is demonic or supernatural or anything is strange about this except hitting hitting people with a car, Wade's like... I mean, that's only significant if we're in a movie called The Car, about a demonic car, so... I guess we are then. Yeah. Not only is there no reason for you to share that information for me, there's no reason for me to care about it,

but since we are in a movie called The Car, that really matters. Thank you for sharing. Yeah. But this is the first hint that we get that it is a driverless car. And fun fact, this movie was actually used to train the AI in the driverless Teslas. This is what they used to tell us how to do that. So from there, we cut to a cop lying on the hood of his cruiser. And I guess this is like the roadblock net that they set up. He's hoping to catch the demon car in a speed trap and pull him over.

So from there, Wade gets a radio from Donna Dispatch saying that they found Peter's body. He's the other biker. So Wade goes to check out that scene. And he sees the dead body and he looks up at the bridge and he's like, hmm, maybe this bridge is the one. Wait, is this movie called The Car of the Bridge? I need to know right now. Okay

And then he radios back to Donna and he's like, all right any news on the wire or whatever and she's like, nope Totally safe quiet. Nothing bad is happening. And I was like, okay Murder-cars gotta like levitate up right now and it almost does it almost I made a joke Well, we'll talk about it when it happens. I make a joke that comes true several points during this movie. It's phenomenal. So yeah, they just show the murder car. It kind of having a nice little afternoon sightseeing the Red Rocks. It might as well like cross out the chief on a giant photo with its tire or something. So from there, we cut over to Lauren and now she's leading the parade rehearsal with all the kids and it's crazy.

They seem to be practicing for the parade on a literal speedway track. Yeah. Arguably the worst place to do that if there is in fact a demonic murder car around. I had no idea what this was. I just I couldn't tell because this is such a grim little town I couldn't tell is that a field are they stomping in the desert? I just I do not understand America. I couldn't understand what how they would even have this But if the speedway track that makes slightly more sense. It's a speedway. They say speedway in a minute. Yeah. Yeah, okay now

Interestingly, this is what I picture when I picture Marsha's childhood, but the dirt is wetter So it's interesting that you don't identify. It's amazing. We had grass. We could afford grass growing up, actually. Should we stay on a speedway? Could we move to like Bowser's Castle or Rainbow Road maybe to stay safer from... Yeah.

So Officer Tattleman is there and then he gets a feeling that something's going wrong. And so we watch this guy climb up onto a tower that's next to the speedway. Like he's Roy Scheider looking for jaws in the water, like he climbs up on a lifeguard thing. And seriously, I was like, okay, come on. You gotta have like a tail fin slowly raised out of the dirt road.

Oh my God, yes. That's almost what happens. So close to what happens. Yeah, a big windstorm kicks up because, you know, the Navajo prophecy thing with the wind and the demon car. They remembered some of the things in their movie. Yeah, and the horses in the parade practice all kind of know that it's the wind of Satan,

and the cops are like, every shut up, shut up, do you hear that? And they hear a car horn in the distance. They do. Now, Heath, you mentioned there that the officer runs up a tower. So we do know there are structures beside the perfectly flat area that are built for cars. So where do we think that all of our protagonists will flee to when trying to escape the cops?

Right ahead! It's so good. Because they're like, yeah, everybody run, because they hear the horns and then they will flee to when trying to escape the crowd. Straight ahead! It's so good. Because they're like, yeah, everybody run, because they hear the horns and then they see the car coming in the distance. And they could run literally anywhere except... Absolutely anywhere. They could go into one of those towers.

The road, the speedway. But they all have a stampede down just the road. They run straight down the road and then, in the only moment where they change direction, they run into oncoming horses. They run straight down the road and then in the only moment where they change direction, they run into oncoming horses. There's one cowboy, this one who's dressed a bit like a cowboy who just runs straight across the path of some onrushing horses and gets trampled. It's all come up. You just don't buy your costume from the costume shop if you're not going to be able to in any way deal with the horses here. You know, you don't don't do that. Come on

So the demon car finally shows up enters the speedway They're running away They finally leave the speedway a little bit and then the demon car starts just doing Donuts for a second like I guess this is the equivalent of the evil laugh taunting moment for the demon car I think the car was surprised everyone stayed on the speedway. Right? I think the car was like, oh really? Just kind of ruining it for me.

That's too easy. Here I come. I hope you guys don't want to go anywhere else. Less flat surface. There's the tower right there for a few of you. How would I get you on the tower? I fell. I tripped.

I tripped. Do you think the demons got like a hunting kind of drive in it? Like you need to sort of like when you feed a cat, you need the cat to feel like it's achieved its food so it can sort of satisfy that hunting itch. If you just have the food there, it can be a bit bored and lackluster. Do you think the demon has the same thing that it doesn't get the thrill out of it if it's too easy for it? Yeah, that's what it felt like.

It felt like the donuts were like, come on, just do something. Like you got to do something here that's a little bit harder. Put the little mouse thing on top of it for a little. Yeah. And so this leads to, I'm going to say my favorite moment in the movie. They all run, finally, off the speedway. And Lauren guides them through a little gate that has nothing on either side of it. And they all pile through this tiny little gate very slowly.

There's like a two-foot stone wall around the side of it, but like, you know, people can go over that. And the reason the stone wall is there is because this is a graveyard. And the little stone wall is like, I guess, going to block the demon car, but also the fact that it's a graveyard is going to matter magically. Yeah. It's a graveyard that is about a 30 second run from the speedway track. Is that normally where those two units of your towns would be in relationship to one another? Yeah. NASCAR is pretty dangerous, Mark. I know you don't have it over there. It's just convenient to have the graveyard right next to the Speedway track.

It saves a lot of time with a number of crashes that happen. And then everyone gets to go watch a race right afterwards. It's good for the goose and it's good for the gander. But it also means that there's definitely going to be times when you're at a funeral and the priest is giving, you know, the sermon over the body and make the background all the time. And then there's a crash and they're like, all right, dig another one. Just do it right next to it.

It is challenging as a grieving mother of an infant to be like, yeehaw, because you have to yeehaw when the car goes by. I can understand. I can understand why it's confusing. So this, This will be... What I think is the strangest part of the movie. Right? Which is where Lauren and the car... And correct me if I'm wrong, gentlemen...

Will have a big yelly fight? They sure will. And it's because of the magic of the graveyard. That's what starts it. So the demon car sees them all run into the graveyard area. And then like zooms up next to it, but then stops because you know respect for the graveyard. For the dead. Rules.

For our troops. Respect for the troops and the dead, sure. And then we get this moment of a demon car just like shuffling back and forth on the edge of the graveyard. Like me as a kid when the ocean was a little too cold and the wave would come up and I'd be like Oh, and I'm back up. Yeah, it's great while Lauren yells at the car So again, do you mind role-playing this so the people can experience? I won't do it for as long as the movie does it because the movie does it for 11 minutes But I'll be the car you be Lauren and I just want everyone to sort of experience what this scene is like. Go ahead

Hey, demon car. Fuck. Yeah, but, beep, beep. You're a chicken. You're a chicken. What? Oh, you're beep. Are you doing donuts now? Again? Beep, beep. But for 11 minutes, podcast.

Truly, like there's no amount we could have stretched out that bit to convey to you. That is all that happens for 12 minutes of this movie. To a point where the car, because it doesn't go to the graveyard, it does a lap around the graveyard and then resumes the argument and she seems inconvenienced that it's back. She's like, oh, are you back again? My God, she says, and she seems annoyed that we're still, we're doing this. And they try and have a tense standoff where they sort of zoom in on her face, but it doesn't work when the other thing you're zooming in on is the fender of the car is just the front of a car. So it's doing like slow panning to her face.

Yeah, it's shot reverse shot. They're doing the Coen brothers shot reverse shot. Yeah. But half of the shots are a car. Right. So Lauren keeps roasting forever. She finally picks up a big branch and throws it at the car and the car gets mad about that and kind of smashes the side of the gate to this cemetery but still won't go in and that's when Margie the other teacher friend of Lauren's makes a run for it and Almost gets hit by the demon car she runs kind of out the back of the graveyard area and car zooms around the side and just misses her she makes it to

The cop car to radio for help and the car runs away around the side and just misses her, she makes it to the cop car to radio for help. And the car runs away. Right, yeah. Right. The car hears the sirens in the distance because the cops are finally coming because the radio call and the car bugs out. Yeah. And then we get one other teacher who decides to yell at...

This is the principal. Oh, this is the principal. That's right. The principal yells one final taunt at the team car as it's leaving. She yells cat poo. Yes. Now let's teach the controversy. Okay, what's the controversy? She definitely yells. I think we're all in agreement that she yells cat poo. Yeah, I rebound five times to be sure of that, but yes she does. Skeptics of the year Michael Marshall, my friends. So this's cat poo and yet the lying subtitles tell us that what she said is Tadpole. Oh, I didn't have the subtitles cuz I found it elsewhere on the internet But yes, according to the subtitles on Amazon Prime what she says is Tadpole

Why would she shout that? I don't fucking know. Okay, why would she yell cat poo? Yeah, that's not a good insult. But tadpole isn't even a bad thing to be necessarily. I mean, they're pretty good guys. They're little fellas. They become frogs. Who doesn't like frogs?

We all love frogs. At least cat poo is a bad thing. It's like it smells and stuff. Whereas tadpoles are fine. It is a bad thing. It's like right it smells and stuff. It's had poles. It's fine It's a weird one. So I mean like Lauren yelled you're a chicken earlier So like chickenship means scared but like cat shit doesn't mean you're scared. It does not that's just being like you have Toxoplasmosis maybe Or it's an odd moment or she yelled tadpole

She's the controversy The demon car, fuck you. Or, she yelled tadpole. We're not sure. Or she yelled tadpole. She's the controversy. Okay, well, the demon car bugged out, so the school is safe for now. And now we cut over to a different officer, Officer Ray, staking out one of the roads, and he sees the demon car,

and he radios in to the station. And again, to be clear, he radios in, guys, now that we're actually, I have no fucking idea what to do when this car gets here. And so we watched them be like, shoot him? And then he's like, with what? And they're like, you're gone, man, you brought a gun. And he's like, right, my car's not blocking the road.

Why wouldn't it be? This is a roadblock. Oh, should I get in my car? Shoot him. Again, all of this makes no sense why this cop is so unprepared for this moment. Now, to add to the confusion of the cop not knowing what's going on, this is where the movie will introduce that the demon car is bulletproof? Apparently so, yes. Which at least, at least helps. Because I wasn't sure whether cars were just harder to stop in the past, and that was therefore

scary. Maybe that was a thing that, oh yeah, there's no way to stop a car. Once a car's in motion, you can't stop a car. It's impossible. Yes. Like waking a sleepwalker or something. Not allowed to do that. It feels like a time travel film.

Yeah. It truly feels like they went back to the bronze Remember that really good Predator movie because they have to make one every 75 years Yeah, that takes place like among First Nations people and so it's them dealing with like this futuristic technology. It's really smart That's what this is but with a car. Yes Yeah, and they didn't go back that far, but they did go to Utah, which is effectively like going back I like going back to the Bronze Age, no, I agree. Also, this felt like another moment

where the Demon Car was like, all right, it's been a little too easy. I kind of want some sort of like real conflict with a challenge. So the Demon Car rides up to Ray, but then stops dead and is just like, all right, man, like, you going to do something? And Ray, finally, after getting enough instructions, he shoots twice and says he misses, but it's kind of like maybe it's a bulletproof scenario.

Well again, we won't learn that this is what happens every time someone shoots at the car until later in the film. So because this guy has spent the beginning of the scene going, what I do when car get here? I genuinely just assumed he missed. Yeah, every time they pulled a shotgun and stuff, I assumed they missed. Because we see quite a few different cops trying to take the car out, but pulling their gun and it doesn't stop the car and the car just drives past them

because they don't know what a fucking roadblock is the entire time. And this is one of the times when they are doing car chases that I realize it's just straight roads. It's not interesting. Where did he go? Where did he go? Well, you know, further along, but just a bit further. Angle your head slightly up. There he is. You're not going to lose him in any way. Look with your eyes. Yeah. But he even, you get into a car chase with the sheriff, or one of the guys who's the sheriff at this point, and the car nudges him so the sheriff's car is half off the cliff.

And then the evil car is just sort of gently nudging, like he's trying to win the argument rather than just kill him. Just like, come on. Yeah, this was fun. So yeah, the demon car gets shot at by Ray twice. It does nothing. And the demon car's like really just disappointed with the cops and like leaves kind of shaking its head just being like I'm gonna get on a Podcast to make fun of these cops. This is terrible. And then the car gets into a chase with the other cops and

Which guys is it Ray who finally catches up with him? Yeah, who's getting shoved off the the side of the cliff here? Yeah, yeah Yeah and when as soon as they shove him they Soon the car gently nudges him off the side of the cliff and tries to first of all persuade him to just leave the car off the side of the cliff of his own accord. There's a door right there, come on. And then when he doesn't do that, he nudges him off the cliff and you think, oh, he's

going to roll down the cliff in his car and it's going to be bashed around and that's going to kill him, but it's going to be that's how he dies. The second the car rolls over, bam, instant explodes. It's amazing. It's so funny, because it's like halfway rolling when the car's roof explodes. It's like they keep all their flammable goods in the roof of the car. Like the police lights are filled with kerosene. That's the only way they could make them work in the 70s.

Don't worry. I lined the top of my car with C4. We gotta stop keeping all the gasoline on that one side of the car. Yeah. It immediately touched the ground. The top. Yeah. And then again, because this movie makes perfect sense if the car is the roadrunner, after he explodes the car, we cut up to the car and the car goes, and then drives away!

Yeah. Little dust cloud as it goes. Yeah, absolutely. And is this also the bit where there's two cars, they've figured out that if you are one car driving at a car on a two-lane road, it does have somewhere to go. There is an option there if you can work the maths out. So they go, how about with two cars driving side by side, it's got nowhere to go now. Now, leave aside the fact it's fucking Utah.

It just goes slightly off-road for a moment. Everything is flat. And comes right back again. Yeah. But they don't know about that. Instead, the Demon Car takes out these two cop cars in the most amazing way I've ever seen in any car film. Oh my god. It decides to sort of jackknife itself sideways so it starts rolling end over end like side over side. An M Bison attack. Yeah. It's an M Bison attack. It does a barrel roll attack from

Street Fighter on these two cop cars. It's amazing. Which the cars, these two cars, instantly explode and the demon car emerges driving in a straight line again back along the road. Right. So again, the stakes of the movie have now just shifted drastically from car that kills people to immortal indestructible car that kills people. Yeah. Thus, destroying all the stakes of the movie until about 14 seconds before the credits roll. And then the car just rolls out of the barrel roll and keeps on going. Totally fine.

Totally fine. Unharmed. But then Wade is further down the road on his motorcycle and the demon car just stops right in front of Wade's motorcycle looking for some more you know better challenging conflict I guess. Right. He shoots the car, he misses twice again the movie does not clarify that he's bullet I mean at this point we were guessing it was bulletproof but he he shoots the car twice he misses and then he walks, this is supposed to be the moment of tension everybody

he walks over to the car he goes to open the door no handles. Well before he goes the door just to be the moment of tension everybody, he walks over to the car, he goes to open the door, no handles. Well before he goes to the door, just to be clear, this is the evil car, he approaches the evil car, directly in fucking front of it. Like walk slowly down the road. Exactly. You're approaching an evil devil's car, why do it from directly in front or the back, which I wrote down, are the only two options it has to hurt you, but no, it finds a surprise third way.

That's right. He goes to the edge where he tries to like get in and see the driver and the car again, gentlemen, I want you to correct me if I am interpreting this wrongly, punches him in the balls so hard with the door that he blacks out. But like, it's the softest little door push. Like that's what we see happen in the movie. Yes. Like the car might as well take out a leather glove and be like, slap, slap. We're in a fight now.

And he faints. Yeah. Yes. And he will be hospitalized as a result. Yes. Because none of these police officers have ever been involved in any conflict before. And the demon car revs the engine for a second as like a laughing, I did a good prank.

Ha ha. Rev rev. Like a mutley laugh, like you're talking about. So, looks like we've got a middle school type feud between a cop and a sentient prankster car. Stakes are heating up and we're going to need one more quick break. But first, let me give Act 3 the hard sell. Will Officer Wade have a stain on his shirt? Will the demon car make him look at the stain and then move

his hand up and hit him in the nose? Will Wade go for the handshake that's offered only to have the demon car slick back its hair? Ha ha! Find out the answer to these questions and more when we return for the vehicular conclusion of The Car. And he looks at me and he says, stop torturing me. Wow. And did you? Well, of course not. But I was taken aback, you know, by the directness.

Oh, I get it. I would be too. Hey guys. What up? What up? Chris, you're, um, you're a car. A car! Yep. Just got my request through. Demon car, baby. Chris, you're a car. A car, yep.

Just got my request through. Demon car, baby. Demon car. Right. Cool. Yeah. So what are you going to do? What?

What do you mean what am I going to do? I'm going to run people over, beat batman stuff? Right, sure. Is running people over as a demon... Demon car, yeah. ...car on brand? What? What do you mean? Well, it's just as demons, you know, a whole thing is turning people away from heaven, isn't it?

Right, and killing people as a demon car doesn't seem to do that. Yeah, yeah, and if you're not careful you might send people to heaven Okay, well you guys are obviously not getting it the demon car thing. I'm not saying it's not cool Oh, it's very cool. No no no this was something that was really exciting for me You guys knew that and then the minute I shared it you guys shat on it. Oh Come on Chris. No, that's not fair. I'm gonna go. You'll run people over which was my evil plan that I wanted to share with my friends and oh Chris Chris don't do this. I'm leaving. The brand has gotten weird since the 60s right? Yeah. Imagine the

other guys feel the same way. Right? Yeah, that's fair. Oh hey guys, it looks like you're enjoying a delicious and healthy meal from Hello Fresh. You broke my heart! You broke my heart! I hate you! Because with Hello Fresh, you will find my bloated corpse outside of your door. You know what? Never mind. Fuck you! And we're back. When we left off, Officer Wade got slightly shoved by a car door, and now he's getting examined by a doctor. I can only assume that the doctor, it's also his first day, because the doctor seems to think that he's seriously hurt when he's just been nudged by a car door. That's not going to hurt him.

Everybody in this entire movie is doing their job for the first time ever that day. And we're going to learn later that this Doctor is the one whose daughter died at the very beginning of the movie, right? Yeah. Which then makes the rest of the scene make sense, but because of how the time dimension works, we just think he's an awful doctor or like terrified of the camera. Like they found their friend Phil and they were like,

Phil, I know you have an anxiety attack every time there's a camera in the room. You want to be in the movie? And he was like, sure. Although the one thing we do know that the door attack did, it has hurt him significantly because it's knocked his speaking out of sync with his lip movements. So he needs to be kept in overnight until that resyncs back together. Right.

And to treat the small bruise that he has from getting slightly shoved. So the other cops show up now and they talk about the terrible thing that happened with the barrel roll attack during the game of chicken that killed some of the other officers. And he's trying to say that he shot the car and he shot the tires I mean we we saw him shoot he definitely missed because we could see the bullet hit the ground next to the tires so I thought I assumed he just missed the tires but Chas the Native American police officer is saying well you know it's just

bulletproof glass. What about the tires? Self-sealing tires. Oh yeah, those 1970s tires that you could just shoot with a gun and they'd still be fine. They just seal themselves right up in the air. They regenerate. Whatever. And the other detail they have that makes them think, oh, it's a weird spooky car. There were no handles on the doors. How did anyone get in? It's a fucking cyber trope. Nobody ever goes in and nobody ever comes out. At this point, Officer Luke names the five cops who died very slowly, one by one.

And Lauren is there too. She only gasps at two of the names, which I thought was offensive. I don't know how she decided which ones mattered to her. Was it the first two? Or was it just random? No, it wasn't the first two. It wasn't even like she ran out of steam on gasping. It was like one and four, yeah.

It's not like the bit in the Oscars where you see the immemorial and it's like, okay, I'm going to be clapping to begin with, but obviously it's the seventh dead person. I can't have the same enthusiasm for clapping seven in as I was for the first one. Yeah, like the chant at the protest that goes too long and just kind of fades sadly. Can I say something about the Oscars in memoriam while we're here and there are 27 seconds of this movie left?

It must be weird in the edit room when they pick who to show last, huh? When they're like, okay, well, we all know that Heath is the big one this year, right? We're all saving Heath for the end. Okay, cool. Where do we put a lighting designer that a lot of people do? I don't know why I had to get murdered in this. No, Heath, not Heath then, right? Oh, different one? Remember when Heath Ledger died and at the end everybody was like, oh, that's the one we were waiting for, baby! And then one more line.

And I'll just say those chants at a protest, you know, you don't want the Peter out. It's why it's important to stop the chant on your own terms. So you can do the chanting with a bang rather than just carrying on. And then there's less and less interest in the chant. And before you know it, you're going through the motions of the chant. But does anyone really want to come along to your protest anymore? Just saying we need the chant now more than ever. It's fine. Oh, I get it. Online chanting is dead. It's cool. Thanks for helping kill it.

Some of us chant for a living, but no, that's cool. You got to fucking chant about Joe Rogan. All right. So they're still figuring out the details of this bulletproof tire-regenerating demon car. And Lauren adds a very useful piece of information. She's like, hey, by the way, the magic of a graveyard seemed to be like super duper helpful and everybody completely ignores that. They keep going talking about the details of this car, like the handles and the license plate. They also point out how the details of this car, like the handles and the license plate.

They also point out how much wind and dust there was. And I think that's just your town, man. Like I've seen your town. It looks like a windy place with a lot of dust. Utah. Poor city planning. Okay. Well, Chaz gets assigned to drive Lauren back to Wade's house and Wade's going to stay in the hospital overnight. So Chaz and Lauren are driving back on a road but they make it. But they make it. But then the demon car peeks out from behind like a road bush massively for a second. Oh my god. Okay so here's the thing, right? He's, they're driving and he, they

pass by like where Chaz lives and Chaz is like, hey, do you mind if I leave you alone in your house and go check on my family? And she's like, oh, I mean, I guess as long as there isn't a demon car waiting for the opportunity to take off. Oh, I mean, abandon the one important task you've got in your job for the day. Yeah, no, sure. Just do that. That's absolutely fine.

Please go ahead and abandon that. Yeah. Right. So she starts to walk inside toward the house and then the wind kicks up and blows away the slip of paper that she had and it blows into the road. What's the paper? Because she does go retrieve it and it must be really important. What is that bit of paper? What was that bit of paper? We don't know. Oh, yeah. I thought there was a good answer.

We do not know. No, it's the script for the movie. Get eggs. Got it. I think it was another naked drawing that her kid at school had drawn. And it was one that captured her really well. And she's like, I'm keeping that one, actually. Yeah, I'm going to keep all of that. Right. But she doesn't get hit while she's in the road.

But we see the demon car pull out from its hiding spot in the road bush or whatever, so it's on the way. Lauren goes into the house. She locks the front door behind her in case the demon car wanted to break in, I guess. I don't know. At this point I was like, I mean, maybe you should bury a dead body inside the fence of the yard. You got a lot of them, yeah. Create a graveyard. Maybe you should like bury a dead body inside the fence of the yard Create a graveyard. I just want to point out for later in the movie that I did write in my notes here I really want her to open the door and the car is sitting on her couch with a loaded gun, okay? Something so close to that will happen later in the movie podcast this or I just I would like it verified that I wrote it As a joke in my notes at this point. She walks in, the demon car's facing the other way, is trying to do the spinny chair move,

but it's like an eight point turn. It's like a donut. Beep, beep, beep. Right, but the demon car's not there. It's on the way though. She calls Wade at this point just to be like, yeah, I made it home. And by the way, there's a big painting of Wade in the living room where she is. She's a painter? I think that's what reminded her to call him. She was like, oh, that's right. I did think

I needed to call you. Yes, it's such a large painting. And then while she's on the phone to him, she is just casually framed with the window of her living room in the background where we can see the road. But I'm sure that's nothing, because nothing's going to happen. She's indoors. She's indoors. Come on. Window might as well be shaped like a target. Right. And she even says on the phone, I can hear the car coming.

Then maybe turn around and look out of the window you're stood in front of. And she gets hit by the car. Well, not just hit by the car. The car flies through the window. Yes, exactly. It's the same shape as the window. It's perfect. Like a letter box for letters.

It's that for cars. And there's like a 9-11 side of the Pentagon car-shaped hole that's... Right, exactly. But there's no car pieces around. The car just goes straight through the house and out the other side. So we know the car is Jewish. The car just goes straight through the house and out the other side. So we know the car is Jewish. The car just goes straight through the house and out the other side. That is why Americans shouldn't make their houses out of wood.

Did they learn nothing from the three little pigs? Three little pigs? We haven't. We did not learn anything from that. Everybody knows that. But his portrait survived, so you know, thank God. There's not too many casualties. Yeah, the painting is perfectly fine, because they cut to Lauren's body getting taken away on a gurney and we see the painting

I wanted like the car to have I don't know defaced the painting like right beep beep Like the mustache was erased. You can't put a mustache on but you could like erase it off or something but no, it's fine and then we get I'm gonna say five minutes of Sad silence acted pretty well by all these cops who are sad. Yep And then we get, I'm gonna say, five minutes of sad silence, acted pretty well by all these cops who were sad. Yep, I wrote in my notes at this point, not gonna lie, the car has a lot more mournful silence in it than I thought it would in the film.

But then Luke finally has an idea. He's like, okay, hold on, I got it. I know why the demon car did not go into the cemetery. The ground was hallowed. So they've figured out that the magic of graveyards is going to be helpful and they will never use it. They'll never use it. Yes. I was going to say, is the magic of graveyards how they defeat the car?

Absolutely fucking not. At this moment, I was like, OK, you run out and you grab Lauren's body from the gurney and be like, we need this for a thing. Don't worry about it. Don't make it weird. Right. You put a little bit of dirt on the top and then you start riding the gurney at the car.

Back in, baby. Or you just bury a series of people around the car. Like when those self-driving cars could get like trapped by people doing assault circle because it thinks it's a white line. You do that with that with Ash with dead bodies. Ash or how you can throw baloney at a cyber truck and it'll stop. Exactly. Right. But the magical explanation here is that Lauren was the only one who

wasn't killed on a road and therefore she cursed the demon car in a bad way. And that connected the demon car magically to her so that the demon car in a bad way and that connected the demon car magically to her so that the demon car could kill her by ramping, flying through the house? Well, she insulted the car. Oh, okay. So again, this is the movie being like a little bit sympathetic to the demon car car? Yeah. Absolutely had it coming. Had a fair motivation. Okay. That's the one thing we learn about violence towards women in this movie is that it's fine if they had it come in or if you have other skills that are useful, we'll overlook it.

Yeah, those are the two things we'll find out. All right. Well, it's revenge time, but they're not going to use any of the magic thing they just figured out. They get the whole team together, they meet at the station to figure out a plan for killing a demon car. And we see, by by the way that Wade checked the Bible that he had in his desk for any clues on how to kill a demon car. Whether it's a Christian movie or not, yes. Okay. Does he use anything from that Bible to kill the car?

No, not at all, but Marsh, I agree this does get... I think this counts as a Mormon movie specifically. 100%. Here's why. So it's a police department in Utah already One they're sold racist towards Navajo people aka Lamanites Check three they fight against a demon car and there's the the subplot about alcoholism But they only show one little sip of whiskey in the dark in the entire movie exactly. Yeah, that's true That's true all coming together Christian film yeah, but this this scene opens with them being offered coffee

So how are we gonna square that circle with the Mormonism? Well, we don't see anyone say yes, that's true They also know they'll say no the coffee disgusting. What are you talking? Yeah? It's all coming together. We did this in the wrong month Oh and they also explain that Everett is a Methodist at one point, because he's the guy who was like, shots of whiskey, shots, shots of the club. And then later they're like, he's Methodist, by the way. We didn't cover it at the time because it's so fucking useless as a part of the scene,

but as me, immediately after he dies, a coroner comes and starts working out his funeral details, and that's why it's just so we could learn that he's a Methodist. And that's why he was willing to drink. That's the only reason they take a weird funeral admin detour. This is Mormon propaganda. Wow. The car. Mormon movie month starts early.

Noah can't get mad at us when he's back from AA. Yeah. So then after, I guess, looking for clues in the Bible about demon car murdering revenge Wade goes over to the giant map again and he looks at it and he's like, okay the only place for killing a demon car on this map is snap right here and he like hits it with his dedicated map stick pointer thing and then he says we've only got two hours to make this happen. Why? What's happening there? No idea.

No fucking idea. Why is there a ticking clock to this? He might as well say, gentlemen, I'd like some steaks to this film. We've got two hours. Okay, so now we need to possibly redeem the domestic abuser. So Officer Chaz unlocks Amos from the cell where he's being held for, assuming more domestic

abuse. I guess. Right? And they're like, Amos, we need you. And it's for the dynamite from earlier. He has a truck full of dynamite. Yeah, and he's like, God damn it, I'm in. For no reason, he's just like, yeah, let's do it.

Why are you getting help from the domestic? It could have just been a guy. It could have been anybody. It could have been a guy who did any other crime, and they could have had everything else be the same. The thing is, even if he had the truck full of dynamite, the police could just be saying, oh, I know that the guy we arrested has a truck full of dynamite.

I'm just going to go and commandeer that because of the murder car. There you go. Well, they have a plan involving dynamite. And then we cut to Wade. He's back home in his garage and he's doing something, I don't know, magical to his motorcycle. He, like, grabs a little thing off the tool wall and, like, clips it onto the side of the motorcycle. Mm-hmm. I didn't know what that was.

Was it, like, a magical item? Like a cross or something? It will not matter at all. Never matters. Never has any... I think it's a spark plug, but I genuinely don't know. Okay. No. Why would he put... Why would he be putting a spark? Again, I have no fucking idea. I want to be very clear. I have no... My brain was just going like...

You've heard that word before. Spark plug thing that goes in car. Okay. And it never comes back. It does not. It does not. And then we see the other cops, they're loading up dynamite into a truck to go to their spot that they've decided on. I laughed a lot at this moment. They're loading it up and just some rando officer who doesn't have a name yet, even rando officer Eli almost drops so much dynamite while they're loading it up like an infomercial.

It's the best. And abuser guy's like, be careful with that. It's dynamite. And everyone in the scene goes like, yeah, I mean we know. We know that dynamite is bad. You're an abuser. Okay. So podcast listener, if you'll remember, earlier in this comedy program, I told you, I want her to come inside the house and for the car to be sitting there with a gun that is now Almost exactly what's gonna happen away. Yes

Walks into the garage and the demon car is Sitting there waiting for him. It's not even sitting He's he's doing more tinkering or whatever and then he hears a noise and he's like Fuck demon cars right behind He's doing more tinkering or whatever, and then he hears a noise and he's like, fuck, the demon car's right behind me. Isn't it? The demon car is right behind me, isn't he? Would be an appropriate line for this film.

Yeah, and then Wade is sort of like acting very cautiously around it. And I wrote, quiet, its vision is based on movement. Because that's the bias that he definitely has. Yes! So he gets this big screwdriver, and we watch this, again,, we're going to stay it short so you don't have to be bored. He gets this big screwdriver and he's going to like try and lever his way out of the garage. Yeah, well the demon car locked them both inside the garage from the outside somehow. And he, every time he goes to lever the thing, the car like runs at him a little bit so he jumps back and then he goes forward and just like he runs back and goes forward

And he does it so long, but I thought the cars plan was trying killing with carbon monoxide poisoning Yeah, so he goes for the screwdriver thing The car lunges at him and then backs up again Cars like don't even think about it. Okay, I'm backing up again. And then he's like, whistle, whistle, whistle, whistle. Same thing! Carl lunges again! Three!

It's a three beat podcast listener. He does the exact same thing three times until the- I was weeping with laughter at this point. It was so good. I left really hard. Yeah. I did. I gotta admit, not all of this movie was fun to watch because it was mostly just dramatic Performances of cops who were very sad that their friends and family were dead

But this really brought me around to the car the the don't go for the gun. You're going for the gun I see you doing it stop. Don't do it again. I hear you wish you're saying whistle. You're not even whistling Yeah, but then like Mar said the car starts revving the engine and we see all the smoke coming out and I was like, oh, carbon monoxide kill, okay. But then the car starts blowing the horns and the sound of the horns is so loud that it breaks all the windows in the garage and the house, so it ruins the carbon monoxide plan. At which point my only thought was, is the car's plan to starve him out?

To just keep threatening him whenever he leaves? When he ever tries to move until he slowly starves to death or dehydrates or something? I don't know. Right. But now the windows are broken so Wade can dive through the window. He dives out and he jumps on his motorcycle and we get a chase scene. So Wade, he's actually luring the Demon car to their dynamite trap, right?

So it's kind of like he has to pretend it's a regular chase and make the Demon car think that's what's happening, but he has to eventually then get to the trap spot. Yeah, he calls, he's like, the car's hot on my tail, and they say, stall him. I wrote in my notes, how? 20 questions?

Just starts doing really big donut circles. Gets on the other side of a really big dining room table. Unless they meant stall him as in like use the clutch to make the engine cut out because you're changing key. Do you have an EMP? No. What? It's also really important to note that the people making this movie started to lose the

light at the beginning of this chase So much so that the end of this movie will be almost unseeable So we're also watching them run away from being able to see the movie Also, the movie got confused about how a chase scene would ever work and they go back and forth not knowing like Who's chasing who? So they're like you got a stall you got a stall and forth not knowing like who's chasing whom. So they're like, you got to stall, you got to stall. And then he's like, OK, no, no, no, never mind. I'm chasing the demon car now.

So I guess it's like a different scenario happening. And the demon car goes to attack the dynamite truck. And they are so lucky that it's not a police vehicle, because that would have exploded on contact. Like, obviously, yeah, of course. So at this moment, I was like, oh, OK, so they're planning to like They are so lucky that it's not a police vehicle because that would have exploded on contact like right So at this moment I was like, oh, okay So they're planning to like blow up the mother alien nest of demon cars and the demon car can tell so it's attacking the Dynamite truck, but then I was like, okay. No fuck me now. It's back to chasing Wade Yes, you got to pick a motivation. Like, what was the demon car

thinking throughout this? Not clear at all. Right. And to be clear, in case you're like confused or you think we're describing it badly, this is how the movie is cut, right? We're not watching the decision

making process of this car. We're just writing down like, okay, now it's chasing Wade, chasing the dynamite car and it's chasing Wade again. The movie is not a through line. We're not letting you know. The movie was writing that down because he's on the radio being like, okay, I think I'm chasing the demon car now I don't know what's happening. Yeah, and now I'm chasing the dynamite truck and the demon cars watching from a distance

I don't know what's happening. We all poked our head out of different doors in this long hallway Yeah, and then at one point in the chase Clearly Wade like I don't know talks to the demon car He's like hey demon car you want to stop and like square off and like you know Just menace each other for a second and they do and they just like stare at each other It's like okay, maybe I'm the only no he threw a fat kid when you're a fat kid And you're playing as a kid you would occasionally have to convince your friends to stop whatever running game you were doing so you could get your rest. That's what he and the car do here.

They both do like a, ta-da! Ta-da! Oh, wiretrap carousel delicious. They're going to be illegal in like 45 minutes, but God, I love them so much. What's your guys favorite movie? I think we should talk about it. What's your favorite movie? Yeah. So that happens. Who do you... what's your guys favorite movie I think we should talk about? What's your favorite movie?

Urgh! So that happens. I want to drink a Capri Sun so bad. What do you think... hey before Marsh tells us, what do you think Capri Sun was called in England? A Shashams Folly. We had Capri Sun. Bit of the old orange and yellow. We had Capri Sun. I mean it probably wasn't 89% chemicals like yours was.

It was probably small. No, you never sure. I was sure. It's called Capri Sun. It's not called like Juicy Bag or something. No, it's a Capri Sun. It's called Juicy Bag. Although I think we call it Capri Sun.

I think we just dressed it weird to Capri Sun. Yeah, you got your bag of sun. You got your bag of suck. Oh, Michael, don't you forget your bag of suck before you go to school. Don't be calling me to come round the Billy Band and give me your bag of suck. One day before I die, I will give you a northern accent that you can actually do. I'll actually lead you towards the north of England for an accent. Well, you have until QED.

Which part of England is Eli right now? That was very much like a bad cockney, S-U-E English, edges of the Thames kind of accent. Didn't even make sense. From about 300 years ago. Doesn't make sense. You make enough places in England. Right. So anyway, they square off for no reason.

I guess maybe Wade was tired for a second, had to catch his breath. Then they keep chasing. And then Wade finally realizes, okay, if I take my motorcycle up a kind of steep dirt hill area the car can't get up it so he does that yeah hills the natural enemy of the car yeah the natural enemy of cars and now it's time for the big finale right which we've spent the whole movie making fun of them for not knowing sideways and it turns out the car's downfall will be... One, two, three sideways. It will be.

So here's what happens. For some reason, his motorcycle goes away. Who fucking knows? This movie's impossible to follow. And so he, Wade, and Luke are standing at the edge of this cliff... filled with dynamite? Yeah, they've got the canyon laced with dynamite along the edges of the canyon. They're planning to collapse the canyon onto this single car. On top of the team of cars?

It's such an American cop solution. We'll blow up parts of the landscape to deal with this one car. We'll find this black housing district and lure the car inside. But they stand like on either edge. They stand right in front of the edge of the canyon and the car comes at them and they do a one, two, three, go sideways. The car drives over the edge of the cliff into the canyon and then they blow it up. And then the explosion, this is, this is a little bit of lore that I was very

interested in zero seconds before the end of the movie, the explosion turns into an evil fire, fire snake, demon dragon. Yeah. Yeah. But it was a demon was made. It was a fire demon killed by fire, which seems like a weird detail. Fire's the one thing it should be fire. There's an ice demon that came out. You'd be like, oh man, you got me fired.

This is all coming together. Yeah. And then literally, and I cannot, I'm not lying. Podcast listener, this is literally how the movie ends. The fireball turns into a fire dragon demon and sort of dissipates, and the main characters of the movie go like, huh? The fuck was that and then the movie is over. I really wanted pause and then so whiskey shots shots Seriously final line in the movie is it's over Wait says yeah, but then we hear a

carhorn Final line is it's over. That's the way it says. Yep. But then we hear a car horn. So final line is, it's over. Meh. Or is it? Or is it? Demon card is being like, fuck you guys. I was a snake demon fire thing. So they were very excited about the sequel that they set up for sure. I don't think it exists, right?

No. Not aware of it anyway. Okay, well we should make it. What's the subtitle for The Car 2? Okay, I'm going with The Car 2, The Train, okay, and then the tagline, This Time It's On Rails. I just want to really test how incapable people are of realizing they can run in anything other than a straight line, just them trying to outrun a train and not think that you're stepping one step further. Straight down the track. Yeah, exactly. A lot of people tell us our movie went off the rails.

This time it's on rails. They're all just those people in early cinema who were terrified of that film of a train because they thought the train was coming to get them. It's that in real life. Coming through them. Yeah. I like the idea of like a serial killer, you know, leaning into that too. Like they keep going with it like son of trans am or something like that.

There it is. Wheels above. I don't know. That's going to do it for the car, but. That's going to do it for the car. But that's not going to do it for the episode just yet because we found another terrible movie for next week. Eli, what's on deck? A man takes part in a series of troubling experiments with drug therapy in an apocalyptic

setting as he tries to get back home before it's too late. We'll be watching Nightcries. Fantastic. All right. With that to look forward to, we're gonna bring episode 503 to a merciful close. Big thanks to Marsh as always. And Marsh, are there any events coming up that you wanted to mention? Maybe you want to tell everyone at home? There absolutely is. That's gonna keep happening forever forever because we love it.

We've announced QED is happening on the 24th to 26th of October in Manchester. So you can check it out at QEDcon.org. And we have said that this is our last QED. We've been doing it 15 years, I think 13 events, something like in that kind of region. And we really want this one to be to take QED out with a bang, to sort of have the big sort of end of QED party that it kind of deserves from how much fun it's been for 15 years worth of us doing this. So yeah, go to QEDcon.org. This is your last ever chance to get tickets to QED.

So come along to the last ever one. Truly best conference ever. This is the last one. Don't fucking wait, everybody. It's going to be over. Yeah, this is the one. Yes, definitely,'t fucking wait everybody. It's going to be over. Yep. This is the one.

Yes, definitely. Definitely check it out. We hope to see there. Come on. And of course, a big thanks to our Patreon donors for all the generosity. If you'd like to help support the show, you can make a per episode donation at patreon.com slash god awful. That'll get you early access to an ad free version of every episode.

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From Marsha and Eli, I'm Heath. Promise to work hard, turn another chunk next week. Until then, we'll leave you with the Animal House clothes. The car demon's next vehicle was a cyber truck, so it broke down before it could actually harm anyone. The glue just came apart and all the panels flew off. Kyle Richards, who played little sister Debra, went on to become the longest running cast member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

What? The car three, the plane, had the subtitle, Boeing Boeing. No flavor. I was so sure when you said the plane you were doing a 9-11 thing. I'm glad you went the direction you went. Thank you. That's personal growth. Absolutely.

I'm tired of these snake demons on this motherfucking board. Right? Morgan, you can cut the fuck you part. I don't know if Rocket Money allows us to end their ads with fuck you. Yeah, I mean, you can do an entire ad about mass suicide, but don't swear. Yeah, exactly. We've gotten that note. That's a form email that we get from several

advertisers. OK. I love that. That's fucking great. Stopping there. Oh, no, not stopping there. Oh, yeah, we got the ads. I didn't stop. OK. Still rolling. Eli, double check that you're still rolling.

Yeah, it feels like I'm still rolling. Yeah, no, I see the red and I see the Zedcaster. Just look at the clock that's on your Zoom. Is it running still? Still clicking, still clicking away. It's a solid red. The red solid red still seeing seconds click away. The numbers are going up, not down.

That's a great question. But we all know how necessary this is. Right. This would be a moment for anyone who isn't me to get sassy. But yeah, it's like, hey, do you want to pee before we put on your whole outfit? And you're like, no. And then you're peeing. Buckles before juice. Yeah. The preceding podcast was a production of Puzzle and the Thunderstorm, LLC, copyright 2025, all rights reserved.