We Hate Movies - S15: WHM Mail Bag: October 2024

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

On the latest edition of WHM Mail Bag, the guys are plugging their upcoming end of year shows while reading letters about things like a guy taking and reusing a popcorn bucket he found in the garbage,... seeing a heroic Toronto International Film Festival volunteer absolutely school a rude French Canadian industry representative, a couple of pool guys accidentally pulling into Christopher Walken's driveway, and a father who used the terrifying film, Pumpkinhead, as a babysitter for his own children! Be sure to not miss the replay of our Scream 4 digital live show! The show and After Party Q&A are both available through November 6! Click through here to get your tickets now! Have a question for the guys, or want your story read on the air? Then write into the WHM Mail Bag: weallhatemovies@gmail.com! And don't miss us on the road as we close out the year in Seattle, Portland and Boston! Make the WHM Merch Store your one-stop shop for all your We Hate Movies merch-related needs! Including new Bus Movie, Night Vision & Too Old For This Shit designs!  Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Starting point is 00:00:16 Well, what's going on, everybody, everybody. Welcome to W.H.M. Mailbag for this much going on, everybody. Welcome to W.H.Mailbag for this Monday, October 21st. This is the October 24, WHM Mailbag. My name is Andrew Jubing. I'm going to welcome you all in here this evening. We got some folks in the chat here. Hello, E.B. James R. James Harris, Greg Buffuto, Marcent 12. I'm so Rachel, the Movie Club Movies, the Fox Bride over on our Twitch channel. What's up, everybody? I'm going to bring in my three buds here. We're going to read some letters. We're going to plug some some shows that you might not be aware of both virtual and in the flesh but first up let's bring in
Starting point is 00:01:22 my buds uh number one with a bullet mr stephen sadac wow no number four with a bullet four oh four four four four four so it's less exciting when two people no i should i did it too early i fucked it up that's all right you got that uh shirt open though you're looking pretty sexy this evening don't worry about it it's not out again here it might go down one more button if people in the chat wanted to go down one more button with it you know if you tip us well enough you know it's like cams
Starting point is 00:01:50 ching next up no secret of cam shows Mr. Eric Siska oh my god don't even tokens I've heard but yeah so four four bullets for Steve that's what I've learned
Starting point is 00:02:05 yes that's what it takes to take him out because you said number one with a bullet he said four so you shoot him four times that's right that's right that's right Speaking of shooting four times in one night, Mr. Chris Cabin. Salvatore. No, Salvatore, is there one blinking light or are they all solid? Help and his uncle fix the internet.
Starting point is 00:02:26 No, Salvatore just got, no, it has to be a solid blue light. The blinking white light doesn't matter. No, wait, oh, wait, it's working. Unplug it, plug it back in. Guys, I can hear you. Okay, hold on, hold on. Wait, hold on. What's going on?
Starting point is 00:02:42 God damn. Blow on the cartridge. Blow on the cartridge. But I got the Salvatore. Hello. There he is. I thought you were going to be tubing it. I really thought this is the end.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Every time this is what you think is going to happen is I'm going to be jerking my dick off here. Or just showing my dick off, I guess is what he was doing. More showing it. A late night show and anything can happen. True. That's true. That's true. That's true.
Starting point is 00:03:08 Yeah. So we have some letters that we are going to get to. but I think we would be remiss if we did not mention that it's Monday night, which means that just two nights from now, Wednesday night, you guys, we're going to be looking exactly like this, but on a different platform called moment, because we are talking scream four live on the internet, motherfucker. Look at this.
Starting point is 00:03:31 Love this art from our bud, Felipe Cerrero. Look at this fucking art. Oh, goodness gracious. But that's right. Wednesday night, 9 p.m. Eastern, we're going to be talking about this. movie and honestly let's let's be real right like the whole scream franchise more or less is going to be weaving in and out of the conversation we'll be talking a lot about it i think jerry o'connell
Starting point is 00:03:52 remember him yeah exactly we'll be having you baby yeah you got there's a rory colkin yeah oh that's true there's a reason jerry o'connell is now uh announcing the puppy bowl and his performance and scream too is part of it and he perish thank thank god for that the puppy's got him he's uh he's uh doing pretty all right with that star track lower decks money though oh yeah i forgot oh yeah he's a he's a main voice on that show um yeah but moment dot co slash we hate movies that's where you want to go to get them ticks for wednesday night uh we're also immediately following the program we're doing a whole other like after party Q&A it's like a whole other hour of answering questions uh probably doing like a little of this you know a little
Starting point is 00:04:40 yeah that's the dirty show that's the button comes down one we'll save it for then steve it all right let's make them pay for it okay yeah uh cool thing about that if you're a patreon subscriber at the eight dollar level or up you get that ticket absolutely free along with your show ticket purchase that's right i will tell you if you sell if we sell this moment that ceo show out i will get steve to do the vibrating egg we will we will have if this We will 100% get the vibran. All right, that's it. That's a promise.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Written in blood. I guess we'll see how that goes. That is the after party that is $5 extra unless you support us on Patreon, of course. Yes, of course. That's right. That's right. But yeah, I'm excited to talk about this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:24 No, there's no nudity. No. Okay. No, no. That would say our opinions will be naked and on display for you. That's right. Yes, naked opinions. There you ever see the episode of Law & Order SVU.
Starting point is 00:05:36 I believe it's Billy Porter. is playing a music teacher and he's being framed for molesting his students and someone puts a vibrating egg in his like music room and they're like, oh, music does just make Mr. Whatever. I don't know what that is. That's my lunch. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:05:53 I don't know. It might make a pretty interesting sound if you put it up against like electric guitar. Yeah, Tom Waits would make a fucking song with a vibrating egg. Tom Morello could do some good stuff with that. I'm sure he could. Oh, yeah, totally. He's just smacking it against the fucking side of the other. oh my god there was a local band when i was growing up that played our high school and stuff
Starting point is 00:06:13 and they've actually they would play like the guitar with a dildo it's oh terrible wow big cool moment for stage uh so possibly more stories like this later in the evening folks depending upon uh what these letters we're about to get up to but moment dot co slash we eight movies that's the first uh show we're going to tell you about this evening talk and scream for this wednesday night And by the way, one thing we did not mention, if you cannot make it Wednesday night, 14 day replay after the fact for both the Scream Show and that after party. So you got till, what's that? November the 6th to catch that replay.
Starting point is 00:06:49 You have to hang out live. So there you go. After Election Day, catch the replay. Yep. Goodbye, everyone. So considering this may be our last mailbag, Eric Siska. Yes. No, no.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Kick us off, Eric. with the first letter of the evening. Now, Chris, are these tantalizing tales of the macabre perhaps? Sure. That sounds great. I think that's a great way to say. This doesn't sound like it because the title is free popcorn. Hey, free popcorn.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Look, isn't that, doesn't that sound scary? Isn't that something what a scary person would offer you? Just don't think popcorn should be so cheap. You're better than that popcorn. It's true. Hey, guys, I'm a huge fan and I've been listening since I discovered you in undergrad in 2014. Oh! Ouch.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Thank you, though. My first episode was the B movie episode. I wanted to share with you a funny story to ask a question. When I was an undergrad, the M. Night Shyamalan movie Split came out. Okay. Yeah, myself and my three best friends at the time went to see it. Being as we really wanted to see the movie, but we were all broke college kids, we could only afford tickets. We couldn't even afford to buy stuff before the movie and sneakie.
Starting point is 00:08:03 it in. Okay. I've been there. No money, man. Oof. Yep. There should be like a universal basic income for kids to go to movies. I agree. Yeah, no, I totally think so. If you want to get them back in the theater, absolutely. Get them a free small popcorn and a small soda. You're ready to go. That's right. So this is where my best friend comes in. The theater was packed and we had to wait until a 1030 showing, but we were starving. We had we all had the scrounge together for the outrageous price of a large soda and with free refill
Starting point is 00:08:36 to split it amongst us. That's, I mean, that's good of you to be able to share like that, but also, I mean, even the fucking sodas, they're like, you put a mortgage out for those fucking things at this point. Oh, totally. Here's the question, though, is this you got the big soda and then you
Starting point is 00:08:54 asked for like four water cups, or is this, we're just sharing a straw. I think we're going to pass it around. It looks like a straw. Wow. Because we would attend to some of those people at the multiplex. Like, oh, can I get a large soda in fucking four water cups? And then they'd be like, because I just have these little kids. And then they just need a little bit of soda.
Starting point is 00:09:14 And then inevitably, fucking eight out of ten times, that same person comes back. There's a spill in the theater. And I'm like, oh, who caused that? Who do we think caused the spill in the theater, pour the huge soda into the teen you glass? But that, like, for a certain movie, I think that's okay. like if you're watching diehard with a vengeance and you're trying to like replicate the doing the puzzle while they're doing it on the screen interactive fun play with your concessions
Starting point is 00:09:42 only a little bit don't make a mess you knew Sydney I thought you knew how to put it into the small cup if I put that into Michael's cup we have exactly four gallons oh four gallons of soda look out yeah so the friend went to go get the soda at the concession stand is this a good time to explain that we well I guess it is probably yeah I guess we're explaining something right now if it's happening well we're not going to skip over it and come back to it later
Starting point is 00:10:11 so it's now we're doing it we used to play D&D together through a combination of his name and some events in D&D he has become known as the Moracle okay oh so like a moron oracle oh yeah that's a good one that's what I would assume
Starting point is 00:10:27 that's what I would assume that's what that sounds like By the way, a pretty easy assumption to make you play in D&D, what was waiting till 10.30 p.m. to see an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Right. My God. But by the way, like, it always blows my mind when people say they play D&D. I'm like now, like the last 10 years. Oh, no. It's people do it. The kids are doing it. It's huge, dude. Adults are doing it too. Yeah. Wow. Adults are doing it.
Starting point is 00:10:52 I could watch, is there somewhere I could watch Adults to do it? I mean, yes. Yeah. online the very many many places you know i always wanted to play but uh no one no one no one i knew played it at all i didn't i didn't understand how to play like i've never tried me neither you know kind of neat i don't know what the fuck i'm doing i'm sure you could get an invite these days eric if you put yourself out i'm sure somebody in the in the audience would love to d and d right i'm sure they would yeah yeah d and d double end billdo
Starting point is 00:11:20 ass to ass so he was trusted to always make good decisions for the group in and out of the world of D&D. So anyway, the Moracle returns with our large cherry Coke. Good order, by the... Nice. I like that. Yeah, but I have to say, is that like a, was that a group agreed upon
Starting point is 00:11:40 flavor? Because you can't just group, you know, share a soda and you're throwing cherry. This is the thing. This is the D&D dynamic out in the real world. These people are terrified to talk to people. It's like, I don't know. Should we talk to the... I don't want to talk to the concession guy. Send the moracle! Right? And the
Starting point is 00:11:56 Oracle rolls some dye and it's like, oh, it's a six. That means cherry Coke. Yeah. I looked at the book. Yeah, exactly. Honestly, I'll tell you right now, some days when I go to the movies, I wish I had to fucking moracle to go to the goddamn consent for me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Yes. So he returns, uh, I don't know, with a large refillable bucket of popcorn. Love that. Oh, wow. That means that's dinner for tomorrow. Exactly. He was honored as a hero and we celebrate, uh, whatever he did to pull this off. and we all start digging into the popcorn.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Okay. One of us had the misfortune of asking where he got this from. He told us that he's walking out. He saw the popcorn bucket sitting on the top of a mountain of garbage. No. Morrel you fucked up. This actually sounds kind of clever. Not bad.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Not bad, I got to say. I don't think they're going to eat the garbage. I think they're going to scam the system here. Put the system on trial. Okay. So, yeah, he poured it out and got a free refill. Oh, okay. So you got the garbage bucket, but popcorn has been refreshed.
Starting point is 00:13:02 It was still in the garden. I know, but this is like, these are poor kids. These are poor kids. This is Robin Hood stuff we're doing. I think I'd be into this. I'd be okay with it. Oh, yeah, yeah. If I was saving money, like I always had popcorn money and I'm blessed to have been in that
Starting point is 00:13:18 situation where I always had popcorn money to have. But if I didn't, I could see myself absolutely going trash hunting to make sure I could get free popcorn. We got popcorn bucks up. up the wazoo now. I did. I was also a popcorn millionaire. As someone who fucking just would dry run it at the movies
Starting point is 00:13:36 for years, like I was not a big concessions person for a really long time. Like, how bad do you need a snack at the movie? Well, it sounds like these people already even eating that there's not, you know what I mean? Or college students, they need their new team. Is that what's happening? This isn't just a snack situation. This is like one of your
Starting point is 00:13:55 of the three meals. Their meal. It's just going to be their meal. And also would not take a bucket from the trash can. And you got to keep in mind, these are D&D players. These are notorious snackers. Yes. A snack to no end during D&D.
Starting point is 00:14:09 That's just part of the game really is having snacking and having two really fancy IPAs. Sounds kind of nice. It's not bad. So we all sat in shock and horror. See, they were disgusting. We had devoured over half of the bucket. moracle now dropped this bombshell on it oh the morrigal a fool he should have kept it in she lied yeah less more more coal not the moron side of the orcs anyway i'm seeing i was given it by a stranger uh he can tell by our faces that we were not exactly excited about this and says i invented a new life hack he kind of did he's an inventor here another friend of mine answers your life hack is eating out of the trash indeed it isn't a life hack if homeless people are forced to do it
Starting point is 00:14:59 I mean I you don't they didn't have to work for it so it's kind of a nice yeah I'm sure they would love it I'm sure the homeless person would love to have that popcorn this is a crazy thing I just realized so this is we're talking about oh wait which what year did this movie come out split split 2014 okay because I just realized I was mistakenly thinking of lady in the water and I was like wasn't that in the early odds and we were saying life hack But split is 2016. So definitely, definitely appropriate to be saying life.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Oh, yeah, we're in there by now. I'm glad it wasn't an inaccuracy in this. No, no, no, no. Firmly within LifeHack usage years, yes. He quit eating the popcorn, but the, I guess he says he quit eating the popcorn, but the desperation of being a poor college kids sunk in for the rest of us, and we refilled the bucket at least three times. If you're doing it, you're doing it. Come on.
Starting point is 00:15:55 I would say every time you refill the bucket, it kind of gets cleaner, I guess. That's one way to look at it. There's popcorn particles that get pouring out of there. Yeah. And then you got to think about how often is the moracle washing his hands? How often are your friends? These are grubby bugger boys, perhaps? It's possible.
Starting point is 00:16:18 If one of them is called the moracle, he's a grubby bugger boy. But if you are going to give him that kind of, you know, that kind of title, I imagine he's the one who's not the booger boy. If anything, you know, Evan is the booger boy, the one who doesn't have a name at all. So my question for the esteemed panel is, do you have any theater life hacks, I guess like eating out of the garbage? Or have you ever experienced something similar to this with a group of friends at the movies? Thank you, again, for making my PhD studies. A little brag in here, too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Do we get portions of that? Can we call ourselves doctors now? I think that's how it works. Can I get the D? So peace out, much love, Heath from Gainesville, Florida. I had a little period when I was unemployed where I'd go to the movies during the day. But I wanted to have a meal at the movies. So what I would do is I'd go to Taco Bell and I would get the Cresidia, which is a thin object, you understand.
Starting point is 00:17:15 A soft taco, also thin object. And then you got, what, duct tape, taped it to your chest? in the inner pocket of a jacket you just saw that sucker in there inner pocket of a messenger bag that had a zipped so ladies looking at it
Starting point is 00:17:30 she's like all right you want to see what's in there go right ahead now I have my thin but also not thinning little lunch going on hidden inside of there I just think about that
Starting point is 00:17:41 waft of Taco Bell smell in her face I mean also wait a second though so you're going to like a regal like a non dinner theater and you're eating a Taco Bell
Starting point is 00:17:53 Casadia. You may as well have had that shit duct tape to your chest because you, my friend, are a fucking theater terrorist. Oh, come on, come on. Now all of a sudden, we hate Taco Bell. We're all, we're all like... It's not nearly as bad as McDonald's. McDonald's has the smell that lasts forever,
Starting point is 00:18:11 and I can't abide by that. I will say, though, waiting on a cassidia until the cheese gets nice and chunky and coagulated, definitely, and when you can hemorrhage the spicy sauce when you bite into it that's always the best way to do it for sure. But I just like that this turned on you, Stephen. I wish I had a gavel
Starting point is 00:18:28 and we could do a whole movie theater court here. Here I thought I was the moracle and now I'm not. I know, like I'm less delusical. I don't have... If it's a theater that doesn't have a hot food menu option, the introduction to hot food breaks
Starting point is 00:18:44 the expectation of what you are going to smell in the auditorium. But also here's the thing. And I mean, this was, again, I'm going at like 1130 noonish on a Tuesday almost no one was there all the time I always had I always had my invisible donut well around me I'm not
Starting point is 00:19:00 just sitting in the nut cramming ass in the middle of three people Andrew you more than anybody doesn't care about these people I mean come on you don't give me a break the four people who smelled that Taco Bell yeah who were watching Fantastic 4-2 at fucking yeah exactly
Starting point is 00:19:17 there's another layer to this theater etiquette though did you do like quick little soft bites or were you just like ha ha ha ha but again no it's a soft taco and the cassidia that these are silent bites were you I'm silent running at this point minding your business soft bites not like
Starting point is 00:19:32 yes Eric is Eric is like Gene Hackney in the conversation he's got like a thing up waiting to hear it no I mean I do appreciate the crunchless he had a chance he had a chance He's like saxophone in the second row.
Starting point is 00:19:53 I don't know how much longer I could keep this up. Yeah. He'd give us a cassidia if you had the taste. Oh, look at that poor man eating cassidia by himself. You know, I always think that's somebody's baby boy. That was somebody's baby boy once. Pull up, pull up the window too. He used to have parents who loved him.
Starting point is 00:20:13 And now he's just eating a cheesy gordita crunch. I mean, it's got to taste like absolutely terrible at this point. I mean, it's got to just be plain and chunky, and nobody wants that. That's my life. I had the guts to save my life hack. I don't have a food hack, but I will say in the old theater, the one that I worked at, though, that me and Andrew worked in, it was on the top level of a mall.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Like, you go down an escalator. Now, if you went in and your buddy went in, and you each had bought the ticket, you could take those stuff. and just drop them off the side of the upper deck and people downstairs could get him be like, hey, we just said, you know, we went out for a quick to get a smoke or something. Yeah, you'd be like, I had a smoke. I'm just running back in.
Starting point is 00:21:02 Here's my stub. Did that all the time. All the time with that one. That's the perfect crime. That was a good one. Here's one that I employ as often as possible. And it depends upon the theater layout. So it is, if you're going to utilize this theater hack, it's best to know.
Starting point is 00:21:19 be familiar with like the layout of the auditorium you're going into you know what i mean like have been there before case the joint back row i am breaking this dude out and having a great time no one's i've learned to love the back row uh for that especially the uh the the the lincoln square that fucking balcony dude the top of that balcony no one's fucking so i'm sorry i'm eating a talk I mean, I'm eating a Cazadea. We're doing hard drugs in front of eight-year-old for a Shazam, too. Hard drugs. What are you?
Starting point is 00:21:56 My fucking dare officer? Hard drugs. I have to ask Andrew, are these respectful little, little toots? Or are they crunchy? Are they crunchy? If it is crunchy, I don't know. But are you hooting and hollering on? Are you yelling at the movie?
Starting point is 00:22:11 Are you... No, why would I be yelling? Why am I yelling at the movie? You know, if you get it early enough, you could do a bump in the background with no one's going to bother you. You used to have to do a bump in the park. Some Bogota Booger Sugar. Look, I'm just saying it definitely
Starting point is 00:22:33 don't fucking smell as long. And I am the considerate. I blow it down towards the floor. I'm not pushing it up in front of the projector. And it's gone in two seconds. Not directly in the six-year-old. face, which is good. No, of course not. And yeah, if I'm going to fucking Mario brothers at 10 o'clock in the morning, of course I'm not doing that. And here's my life back, okay, for the theater, okay? Keep your head down. Don't get into trouble. Don't make
Starting point is 00:23:02 eye contact with anyone. No, it's not a good idea. No one at all. You just always head. Look at your shoes. Absolutely. That's my life fact. I don't know if I ever said this, but I do wish, and I want to breathe this into existence. Like, okay. We're all assigned seats these days. And, you know, especially like, you know, there's a nice map of the theater of where your seat's going to be, pick it. Nowhere in any of these maps do they have, this is the door to the theater. This is the entrance of the exit. It makes such a huge difference when you're picking where you're going. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:23:35 I totally agree. Entrance, like a little e box that I know where I'm coming in. You might be suggesting going into the theater and sitting down instead of picking out some weird map, something. someone made that has no relation to the actual layout of the theater. I would say you want us to put more money into theatrical distribution, do you? Well, that's an interesting argument. I want to say, does the Alamo app or maybe the IPEC app have that? It's not about the Alamo because I use the Alamo all the time, and that's what bothers me.
Starting point is 00:24:06 Did you mean classical Pac-Man layout? Exactly. That's not hard to do. Like, come on, it's easy as hell. It's a little E, a little E. Oh, yeah. Don't do the seats in the middle. that's where the ghosts go
Starting point is 00:24:17 when they look like you can even account for the ghosts because they're there they're absolutely there so we should plug the the first of three IRL shows we have we do um Steve because I think in like a little under a month we're getting on planes and going to the PNW we are a Pacific Northwest I'm really excited to go to Seattle
Starting point is 00:24:38 on November the 15th Washington Hall to talk about Harry and the Henderson's movie having out Washington quite some time that the Lithgow impression will be heavily involved. Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Flannel up the ass. Yes, and our first time in Seattle and,
Starting point is 00:24:54 you know, Vancouver and everyone in the surrounding areas, come on down. Come on down. We have no plans. No. If you're from like Yakima, you know, come on in. You can do that. Yeah, Walla Walla.
Starting point is 00:25:07 What are the bugs bunny towns are out there? Tacoma. Yeah, that's a funny one. All the ones that crusty said that were funny named. That's those are the ones we want. We want to get them all in there. Yes. Tell your friends. Bring your mom and dad. I want to meet them.
Starting point is 00:25:20 I'm excited for this Washington Hall, though, man. I was looking on the website. It's like this fucking, like old-ass historical situation. Love these kind of things. Infinitely better than comedy clubs. That's true. You will have more fun then because of that. And also, we'll get to desecrate a historical building with our nonsense. Eric does like the Marcus territory.
Starting point is 00:25:42 So every time we go into the green room, you don't, the corner. it's a little damp you don't know what it is it's a little damp and that's Eric's fault yeah and then the podcast that follows us we'll smell that and be like whoa okay you know what we'll do a little less less good exactly this is interesting in the chat Ryan Horn says I'll be excited to hear it in the summer
Starting point is 00:26:02 we'll keep your fucking fingers crossed now these are guaranteed you know you never know you never know who's gonna fuck up what we want them we want to bring them to you in the summer right you really do it makes have less to do later. But, you know, we're getting on a plane going there to do this. You should get on a plane
Starting point is 00:26:21 and go there and watch it. Exactly. Because you never know. You do never know. You never know. Chris Cabin, who should take the next letter? You should. This is a Toronto Film Festival one, so you should take this. Oh, there you go. Ooh, okay. And should mention, by the way, check out our coverage
Starting point is 00:26:37 of the fall festivals, Toronto and New York Film Festival here on this very YouTube channel. I was too much stuff in my face of Taco Bell but you guys had an excellent job. Steve is sitting at a funeral parlorate and eating Taco Bell. The most traumatic shit in the world's happening is smile too. Oh, this is great.
Starting point is 00:26:55 And you're like, Steve, whose funerals in it? You go, my own. Bag after bag. So also mentioned, I think, now that we're talking, OSL, OSL proper will return next Monday at noon right here on this very channel. So subscribe to the channel. Hit their notifications. By the way, like this.
Starting point is 00:27:15 this is very broadcast on YouTube, by the way. You better like it. But I think, yeah, next week we'll be talking, it'll be like right before Halloween. We're going to talk about like horror movies and shit. And probably that would be fun. That and that venom if we, if we'll see you get out to see it.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Not opening. Yeah. I might give it a chat. Yeah. We'll see how we go. I think it's going to be you, you dudes that have it on your, your vulture box office thing,
Starting point is 00:27:39 I think are very wise. Yeah. I think that's going to do some business. We'll see. Okay, here we go. That famous French-Canadian friendly Greetings WHM as a long-time listener and proud Patreon subscriber. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:27:52 I've always hoped I would one day have a movie theater experience wild enough to send in and add to your Mailbag's growing compendium of unbelievable tales of atrocious theater etiquette. Love this. Luckily, one bizarre screening at the 2023 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival finally provided me with the perfect story to share with you guys. A story of insolent and titled festival attendees. Oh, I know them. Being put in their place by festival volunteers who were pushed too damn far.
Starting point is 00:28:23 This is the letter version of the trailer before the trailer. And the guy's clearly a very good writer, so I'm happy to hear it. But it is funny how like, you will be stunned. What happens to you? Yeah, this is exciting. Okay. Parker, yeah, here we go. at the time I was working as a freelance film critic
Starting point is 00:28:45 for a few outlets and living in Toronto thrilled to attend my third TIF with press pass in hand I had the privilege of attending as many press and industry screenings as my busy work schedule would accommodate one such screening that I imprudently queued for was
Starting point is 00:29:03 Bill Scarsgaard's action comedy vehicle Boy Kills World Chris Cabin you loved that movie you said Yeah, oh, it's great. It sounded like you're doing an orgasm. Oh, yeah, that's what it was. Is that how much he loves that movie? Is that as annoying as it looks?
Starting point is 00:29:20 It's so much worse than it looks. It is so much. The guy actually, keep on going with this like because he does reveal something that I didn't know, and that makes it so much worse. Oh, awesome. All right, let's see. If you do not recall this hyperviolent agro ironically detached, LOL so random romp.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Correct. Just imagine all the worst aesthetic and comedic qualities of the Deadpool movies, but with the added benefit of carrying the continuously droning internal monologue of Scarsgaard's deaf mute character. I was unsurprised to see when the film was given a proper release. They replaced his narration with H. John Benjamin, an actual comedian and voice actor who could maybe salvage a joke or two from that abysmal script. So that's fascinating.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Bill Scarsgard did his own narration at first. I can somebody get me that because I want to be annoyed even more so can somebody find me this original cut where this because the age John Benjamin when you watch it it's like it hits you like a train
Starting point is 00:30:21 like what is that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're like what the fuck is he doing here? Why wouldn't it be his own monologue? Why is it like the voice of God or it's supposed to be him?
Starting point is 00:30:31 But I guess the idea it's supposed to be easy because you'll never hear him talk. So like the character is deaf and mute. Yeah, but like. it doesn't fit the face no I agree exactly you need to fit the face I'm sorry you got to fit that face yes it's got to be a skinnier voice for sure
Starting point is 00:30:48 that's what's like kind of brilliant about Archer is like that voice doesn't fit the Archer character design okay that's really friggin' interesting to so like people who saw that at TIF that year anyone who caught the screenings there caught that cut that's funny
Starting point is 00:31:04 luckily for me I did receive one sliver of entertainment from that screening and that came from what transpired in the front row around 10 minutes into the screening a disheveled cantankerous old gentleman older gentleman in an oversized raincoat
Starting point is 00:31:20 came storming into the theater I didn't know if this guy was at film form I thought he said he was at 10th where's the New York New York New York Act? No they're out there man they're out there oh wait here we go loudly ranting in French with a scrawny festival volunteer probably in his mid-20s calmly trailing and pleading with him While I only carry a high school education understanding of the language, it was fairly obvious by his wild gesticulating to the back rows of the theater.
Starting point is 00:31:46 He was upset the screening was full, and he wouldn't get to see Bill Scarsgaard perform Kung Fu Flips while reciting sub, well, that just happened, quips. For anybody who has never attended TIF, press and industry screenings operate on a first-come, first-served basis, and a press pass does not guarantee a ticket. clearly nobody informed this perturved francophone critic who is getting louder with each passing minute that you are expected to be punctual and line up well before the start of the screening in order to secure a seat
Starting point is 00:32:16 at this point every one of us sitting in the front row have turned away from whatever was transpiring on screen and we're fully focused on the real show oh nice yeah but i must see it i must see this piece of shit how many of like how many reviews got written that were like And then I missed a bunch of this because this old guy was fighting with people. The whole setup. I don't know what exactly was happening for the rest of the movie. But yeah, it was a hell of a show inside the theater.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Is this like sort of like that megalopolis thing where like the guy, like someone asks a question to the screen? So like there's a guy that comes and tries to kill the world. He tries to kick the screen. He's trying to fight the screen. That would be good. I would like that. They need to start. You know, I usually against this type of stuff.
Starting point is 00:33:05 but give those movie like film festival ushers need to have tasers on them yeah i'm sorry never spread at least oh i think knives i think give them knives i think that's the best because you really have to put them in their place sometimes right right get it a full butcher knife right let's see uh focus on the real show a blustering film critic being told there are no seats left he's making a scene and he will have to leave by an eternally patient french speaking volunteer members even started heckling the guy in the hopes he would leave and we could watch the movie in peace. Clearly defeated and with no other options, the French film critic started shuffling off. She just starts crying. Now I'm going to get fired. I had to write a review of this
Starting point is 00:33:54 movie Boy Kills World. It's coming out. We have to write a review of it. Shuffling off, but not before quietly muttering under his breath and directed at the poor volunteer in English, go fuck yourself. Of course. Okay, I kind of like this guy now. All this over this Bill Scarsgaard
Starting point is 00:34:17 movie, which is very funny. Now, I'm not sure if that curt remark was just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, but I saw something snap in that poor volunteer that day. No doubt, all the abuse from entitled festival goers built up
Starting point is 00:34:33 over the years was finally let loose in an awesome flood of emotion. This volunteer bolted after him, shouting at the top of his lungs. Excuse him why? Hey, excuse him why? Uh-huh. And chased him out into the lobby.
Starting point is 00:34:48 Knowing the TIF volunteers to normally exhibit the patience of a saint, absolutely true, by the way. Incredible. Just real miracle shit. Seeing one rushing through a theater motivated purely by indignant rage was something else.
Starting point is 00:35:04 All of us in the first, front row were left shocked for a moment before erupting in hearty laughter. Incidentally, the only laugh I had in the entire 111-minute runtime of that Boy Kills World screening. Yes, indeed. To date, I could only imagine the pathetic scuffle that critic and that volunteer got into in the lobby of the Scotia Bank Theater that was likely broken up immediately outshone any laboriously choreographed fight scenes in Boy Kills World in entertainment value. Any similar stories of wild senses of entitlement witnessed at film festivals.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Hope this was up to the standard of your usual theater stories. Keep up the great work and I hope to see you guys up north again after tragically finding myself too sick to attend yourself for live episode. Cheers. Chris in Toronto. Thank you, Chris.
Starting point is 00:35:53 Yeah. Thank you for the letter. We'll be back there at some point. That sounds like a really fun night you had. Yeah, I mean, you know, kind of so many that's not even like worth mentioning it's all exactly like that exact thing right people fighting there's one i remember at the one of the new york film festivals someone like had a a plastic bottle of water and they were having a little drink right before the lights were coming down and the bottle crinkled
Starting point is 00:36:19 in their hand and the guy next to me went better not happen during the movie wow you know what was it a big what what was it what was if what do you remember what i think it was something much it's kind of minor uh what was that uh it was thanks too it was something it's not that it was the frederick weissman that was sort of similar to that oh the couple yes oh what oh weird yeah yeah that guy meant serious business i guess yeah yeah this first fucking narrative endeavor i don't want to hear that shit from that better not happen during the movie that you know but sometimes you want to get a baseline with these fucking freaks you know what i mean but like I was there
Starting point is 00:37:04 I saw it all transpire I feel like having a little sip of water it should be fine it's not exactly duct taping Taco Bell to you but yeah it's like if as long as it's not a guy
Starting point is 00:37:15 who like is shoveling popcorn in his mouth going um damn damn it's probably going to be fine like you I don't a little crinkle of a fucking who cares
Starting point is 00:37:26 yeah you're in a movie theater to a certain degree you got to relax yeah there are people around you yeah I had a pretty egregious one at a TIF screening one time.
Starting point is 00:37:35 I believe it was for, and this is what kind of makes it funnier, that abysmal Jason Reitman, men, women, and children movie, and so we're watching the movie. It's a packed, like, multiplex theater, you know, Jason Reitman, big deal, so it's completely full. At the time. We're in the back.
Starting point is 00:37:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're in the back of the theater. This dude, like, in the row in front of us and then kind of to the left, just opens a huge laptop, like, while the movie's on. Hell yeah. And he's like tip-tapin, write in emails, looking at
Starting point is 00:38:10 shit. He's like reading fucking deadline. Yeah. So this person, like, behind our row is like, hey, can you close your laptop during the movie? And this dude freaked the fuck out after the first ask.
Starting point is 00:38:26 And it wasn't even rude. It was a totally like acceptable, could you please close your laptop? This dude turns around and he starts screaming, he's like yeah this is a press an industry screening press an industry it is a working screening I am working this is a time to work you are working
Starting point is 00:38:42 and I am working and he's like screaming about how it's like an industry screening that's awesome dude I was like how am I going to possibly learn how terrifying and dangerous the internet is from this movie
Starting point is 00:38:56 if this dude won't close his laptop but yeah he was like screaming from the jump as if he was like ready for Like, I know doing this is going to piss them off. That's just a misreading of what the situation is, though. Like, yes, your work, the work is there. That's the work right up there. Not exactly.
Starting point is 00:39:13 But down here. There's places in the lobby you can go to use your laptop. Yes. You know, it was an amazing freak out. No, yeah. I mean, I have the same story as everybody else where like somewhat like a phone flashes on for a second for somebody to check the time. And they ask like somebody is burning the screen down. which is like you know I've learned to kind of let some of that stuff go because people check the time I get that I do that too sure like yeah if you're actually typing on something yeah of course you should stop doing that checking the time is obnoxious to me only because like you've allotted yourself this time to go to the movies here's how long the movie's going to be and then add 25 minutes of it if you're out a multiplex and there's the time you're like going to get out and it's not going to be that time
Starting point is 00:40:02 until the movie's over with like i sat next to a woman during a p and i was like at one of our last ones at new york film festival and like every fucking two minutes she's checking her phone oh well yeah it's every two if it's like a risk it's obnoxious man it's like a wristwatch you're like sort of slightly looking down at yeah not doing the full not doing the full but like just slightly a little bit yeah it's like a it's like a it's one of your vapeats one of these little light. Oh yeah, no, but like a turning your phone on to to check the time was insane. Actually, the one time one of those things worked in a positive way was
Starting point is 00:40:38 last year, I forget the movie, it was a Netflix movie at New York Film Festival. The fucking ta-dan thing came on and it was dead silent and then someone who must have been a Netflix person or a PR person who worked for Netflix was like, yeah, and cheered and everybody booed that person. It was so flippin' funny. That is pretty funny.
Starting point is 00:41:05 Anyway. Yeah, so there you go. There's no film festival stuff. Two nights later, when we're in the Pacific Northwest, that's right. That would be 1117. We are talking the Goonies. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Going back to Mississippi Studios, Portland, Oregon. We love this place. We've played it a couple times. Far too long since we've been there. low ticket warning here folks very low ticket warning that's a fact jack um people want to they want to hear us talk about the guineas they really do yes they want the truffle shuffle talk it's been one of the premier disgusting shit boys of cinema will be discussed at length we'll have charts diagrams i mean it was the biggest gaggle of disgusting shit boys since
Starting point is 00:41:54 the little rascals it is i mean these kids they were disgusting really rough looking. Indeed. It's a disgusting ship by Home Run Derby. They're all there. We're going to have so much fun in Portland, Oregon, and we hope you join us. Hell yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:42:11 Like the scroll is telling you, all that ticket information, WHMpodcast.com, where you can go. We got a tour page there. Get that tick info. And don't forget about this in two days, Wednesday night, talking Scream 4. I'm excited to, any of you guys rewatched it yet
Starting point is 00:42:29 for Wednesday. I should again a few years ago and I remember liking it way more than I did on release so I'm excited to go back to it. I haven't done it yet for this but I'm very excited and remember folks you have until November 6th the day after election day to tune into that show. I haven't
Starting point is 00:42:45 seen it. I've only seen it once and I've only like it's because I was so burned down on Scream even the Scream is one of my favorite movies after scream three that even when Scream 4 came out I was like absolutely not. It had been 11 years and you were still burned out. Yes, I was like, no, I'm not in it. And then, like, a couple years later, I finally kind of was like, I'll do all the screams again.
Starting point is 00:43:03 And then that was that. Yeah. I mean, it might be my, my second favorite scream movie as like, it's either that or scream too. And ever, I'm like you, Steve, every time I watch that fucking movie, it goes down a bit. Like, yep. I don't know if it's just because of like a surprise of it. Number two. Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah. But I think for, I rewatched it relatively recently, like within the last year. And I remember liking it a lot more than the first time I was. saw it and it might be it might be number two now i rewatched part two over the weekend and man oh man you just there are no less than three scenes where two characters like or who could it be let's go to the suspects one more time i fucking know it's everyone in the movie it could be anyone in the movie and then you're going to lie and it's going to be fucking and jackie's a secret mother okay great great but don't you love hearing this brand new song by d'angelo and two fighters and this with this crackling soundtrack from today's hottest artists. It's got the eels on there.
Starting point is 00:44:03 Eos too, yeah. Big event soundtrack, man. It absolutely was. And you cannot get worse than fucking three. Man, that movie. Scooby-Doo comes with the Scream franchise. It's fucking ridiculous. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:44:18 Should I do this third one? Yeah, you do this one, Steve. The only cure for what I got is more pool supplies. Hello, we hate movies, guys. Hello. Hi, how are you? We're vamping while Steve does this. Yes, I started to listen to your podcast a few months ago after my co-worker recommended it and I became a fan of a Patreon supporter.
Starting point is 00:44:41 Thank you. That's cool. That's a great story. And please, if you like this show, tell your friends. You know what I mean? Sure. Please. Bug your relatives and your co-workers.
Starting point is 00:44:50 Yes. Just, you know what? Sign your mom and dad up. You know, don't tell what it is. Put it on their phone. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. I currently work in the United States Postal Service.
Starting point is 00:45:02 Thank you for your Postal Service. And I listen to podcasts all day while delivering. Now, I'm the type to laugh out. Now, I'm not the type to laugh out loud by myself very often. Not that I don't have a sense of humor normally, but I normally need to be around other people to laugh for it to be more than a chuckle. That is a thing. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:45:22 Like when you're by yourself, as opposed to like being next to a bunch of people, you're looking at it. Yeah, I mean, you feel that like, you know, it bounces back immediately and it, you know, I have been known to laugh loudly by myself, though, I will say. But when I heard the KleeGlar, Lars bit from the attack of the clones episode, I had to pull my mail truck over her because it's laughing that hard. I sent that episode to a bunch of my friends and bug the shit out of them until they listen to it. Again, this is a strategy that I like. Yep. Anyway, I started listening to the mailbag episodes and someone told me and someone told a story about a strange celebrity encounter and this story resurfaced in my brain and I felt it was worth sharing.
Starting point is 00:46:05 How cool is that? A mailbag episode from who knows how many years ago. Knock something loose in this person's noodle and now there's a new story to tell. The summer after my freshman year of college, my best friend and I got jobs as pool maintenance technicians, pool boys, in an affluent town in Connecticut. it. We would ride around all day getting high, cleaning pools, and I have to say it was a great summer. Summer jobs are great when you're just getting stoned all the time. I will say
Starting point is 00:46:31 that, like work it outside and just like being high. It's just great. I never knew it. We were always locked up in that multiplex. It was my only job. But one of the honest experiences of our lives came during the summer that I wanted to share with you. We were
Starting point is 00:46:46 doing our rounds and found ourselves at a small private road with only a few houses and no house numbers. We weren't sure which one was our next stop. We saw that one of the houses had a pool visible from the road. So we pulled in and began unloading our equipment, and I noticed someone standing in the bay window
Starting point is 00:47:03 so I turned to wave to see if they could indicate to us whether or not this is the correct house. Upon further examination, I realized the man standing in front of the window was Christopher Walker. Wow. Allegedly. It could just be an old man.
Starting point is 00:47:19 We don't. Good. Yes. Now, we're not the types to gawk at a celebrity or feel entitled to bother them simply for because we're fans but i'm not sure how i could fully describe how oddly disturbing the situation was without taking my eyes off the window i said to my friend dude is that is that christopher walkin he turned to the look and frozen i like i just said uh that's christopher walkin so high as fuck we stood there holding our equipment and had a staring contest with christopher walken I asked what's the name on the work order
Starting point is 00:47:55 and my friend said well it's not Christopher Walken I can tell you that I knew the thing to do would be to pack up our stuff and try another house but we were frozen on that spot almost like almost like if we didn't move then maybe he couldn't see us
Starting point is 00:48:12 like a Tyrannosaurus Rex it felt like much longer time than it actually was but I'd do be a good 45 seconds just staring at Christopher walking and not knowing what to do. That's a long time to directly stare at somebody.
Starting point is 00:48:28 45 seconds, that's an eternity. That's a good guy to look at, though. Oh, absolutely. Those pale blue eyes. I've never backed down from a staring contest. Then slowly Christopher Walken raised his hand very similarly to the night at the end of Last Crusade.
Starting point is 00:48:46 What are you bid farewell to Indiana Jones? I love it. and almost like raising your almost like raising your hands in school when you ask a question we then awkwardly mimicked his movement it's like the end of Donnie Darko by the way like goodbye Mary MacDonald
Starting point is 00:49:03 I'm sorry about your troubles burned out places burn out places um when we then awkwardly Happy birthday Sorry I'm sorry That's my neighbor
Starting point is 00:49:17 You got squished we then awkwardly mimicked this movement and continued to remain frozen in place. Eventually, Christopher Walken slowly turned around with his hands still in the air and he disappeared in the darkness of his home. Fucking love it. This is amazing.
Starting point is 00:49:35 A woman came outside and asked if she could help with anything. Mata, there's some goons outside. Take care of it. They're either here to clean the pool or kill me. shirtless dope heads on the front. And they'd have 20 minutes
Starting point is 00:49:56 with their hands up. A woman came outside and asked if she can help with anything. Some of the other words, we asked this in the correct house and she said no, the point of us in the right direction. Oh,
Starting point is 00:50:06 so we silently loaded our equipment back into the truck and we went to the correct house. We have had one of, we have had other encounters with other celebrities in our lives, but the reaction is, oh, it's that person. Weird.
Starting point is 00:50:18 We moved along. But it was something eerie about Christopher Walken appearing in a dark window staring at you. It's more akin to spotting and cryptic. I've never seen Bigfoot, and I imagine it would be very similar. Yeah. When we finished, we went back to our office and the boss asked how the day went. We said, it went fine, but our last stop, we went to the wrong house and we, she cut us off. And she said, you saw Christopher Walken, didn't you?
Starting point is 00:50:41 Oh, my God. We nodded and she informed us that this is, we're not the first to have this interaction. the matter is not discussed any further thank you for reading you give up your amazing work Bespin oh wow nice I love your cloud city I do man I really got to get like some kind of numbers on my house that says I don't need pool service this is getting ridiculous pools taken care of why do you need a service I just have the little robot that doodles around down there. I love that guy.
Starting point is 00:51:18 He's great. The little guy. That is terrifying though. And it's amazing. That button on the end of it, you saw Christopher Walkin. What an amazing little, oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:28 It's like you're seeing fucking long legs. He might have cast a spell on you. You can do it far away. It's powerful. Got to say, 1978, Christopher Walken in late 70s long legs. Pretty good movie.
Starting point is 00:51:41 Right. That's because let me in. This will be nice. Natalie Wood, it's your birthday. Oh, no. Someone's got their birthday on the 14th, Miss Natalie Wood. Oh, man, look it up. When was her birthday?
Starting point is 00:51:56 How fucked up would that be? Oh, that'd be, that'd be eerie. Maybe that'd be, I'm scared to look it up. Let's see. Is Robert Evans your father? Well, close enough. July 20th. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:08 Bullet dodged. But that'd be a cool movie, I think, honestly. That would be really cool. He likes to dance and stuff, you know. He does like, you could make that, like, that could be a really low budget shutter movie, but it was called like the Marionette. And it's like a gangly tall guy in a window. And he's just like, ha, ha, ha, you know.
Starting point is 00:52:32 Come on, you're telling me that Christopher Walken has never danced to T-Rex. Oh, absolutely. The man does. Come on now. He's a Mark Boland fan if I ever seen one. Yeah, I can't be Christopher Walker. not happen it's no no just like rando
Starting point is 00:52:49 running into's like that yeah but you can't be chris for walking I've told my Paul Giamatti's story which is the most eerie of the bunch what if I shoved him down the stairs nobody's so the cool thing is we are wrapping up
Starting point is 00:53:09 the in the flesh tour dates this December It's a Wednesday night, December 4th. We're going to Boston. At what is, by the way, because we were knocking them earlier. This is a good comedy club. It is a very good. We're not comedy club.
Starting point is 00:53:23 I love all the ones that invite us out, and I think they're great establishments. No, Laugh Boston is a legitimately good club. We've played there a couple of times already. We will be back there talking pretty woman. I plan on showing the Jason Alexander McDLT commercial, I think. Yes, yes. Get there early. Start the night off on the right note, you know.
Starting point is 00:53:43 need that pre-show. No, this is going to be fun. I don't think I've seen this movie in its entirety. Wow. Really? I think this is like a TV movie. Last time. Chunks here and there.
Starting point is 00:53:55 We went somewhere on tour. We're always going around. You've got to check our listings, right? So somewhere in some hotel room I watched it recently. And it was, you know, it was a hoot for numerous reasons. It was vile and very good performances. I think Julia Roberts is terrific in it. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:13 I love her. in this. It's like a Nora without any balls, basically. So, Steve, you finally saw that in Nora, huh? Oh, I loved it. What's your capsule review? You loved it. That's good. No, yeah. I think it's a really exciting. I'm still a little stuck on the ending and I don't want to talk about it here, but just sort of like, the last shot is like interesting. And I'm like, does it need to be interesting? Like, because I feel like the whole movie was it. Do you know what I mean? I mean, it almost feels unsure of itself to be like...
Starting point is 00:54:45 I feel like we could talk through it, but I don't want to spoil it to people. Anora, a very good film. Great movie. Great movie. Out now. Check it out. Yeah, go out and see it on big screen. It'll definitely, it was limited this weekend. It was on six screens.
Starting point is 00:55:00 Three here, three in L.A. It's going to expand. And, dude, it made like nine hundred some of thousand dollars on six screens. So it will be coming to a theater near you. It's a lot of Nora. I saw a lot of old people in my screening. You ladies are enjoying yourself tonight, huh? Maybe we need to find some young Russian boys.
Starting point is 00:55:22 I used to wave my ass around. Any walkouts? No, no, no walkouts. I got the little applause, too. Like, again, it's, it's a bit of a crowd pleaser, obviously. Because it would be so fucking funny. That's the thing that the trailer's going to show you. It's so fucking funny.
Starting point is 00:55:39 Tina, remember when you used to shake it like that? Remember that time we had to traverse Brooklyn looking for your ass? All right, we got one more. Oh, yeah, go ahead. One last, Australia Nora thought, she is called Annie, not unlike Anakin Skywalker is called Annie by Jar Jar Binks. Correct. Like, it's just sort of, just thinking about that.
Starting point is 00:56:03 I think you should get to the IMD Bean, add that to the trivia section for both. Phantom Menace and Anora. And trivia and movie connections. Yeah, it will shoot to the top, Steve. Yeah, but don't
Starting point is 00:56:21 neglect that movie connections. It's important not to do that. Okay, so we'll do the last one here. Lance Hendrickson, grieving father and last minute babysitter. Alleged. You got it's alleged, I guess. Hey, gang.
Starting point is 00:56:39 Long time listener, first time mailbag. I want to regale you with a story about how my mother was an overnight nurse and will leave my father in charge of us kids. Night nurse. Right, she was healing daredevil, right? Yeah, of course, she's very busy. Or being amused for Gregor Isaacs.
Starting point is 00:56:58 You don't know. Either or. Thank you for recognizing my night nurse singing, Chris Cabin. I appreciate that. I was the eldest seven at the time. my younger siblings just a couple years behind me. Anyhow, we
Starting point is 00:57:12 lived about a block away from my grandmother's house and one night my uncles were over at my grandmother's house visiting from out of town. They were staying there and my dad really wanted to go and catch up and have a few late night beers. Let's be honest, you wanted to have a few
Starting point is 00:57:28 late night beers. Yeah. All the other stuff could go on top of that. The beers are the foundation. Could have been catching up, could have been watching a broken TV. either or. Just drinking those beers. Reading, reading excerpts from Moby Dick, any kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:57:44 However, the problem was he was in charge of us kids. So his solution to this conundrum was to make us a big bowl of popcorn. Probably not free. He probably had to pay for that popcorn. He probably did, yeah. It's not from the garbage, so you got that
Starting point is 00:57:59 probably not. Probably from Orville, Redenbocker little can you got there. Conundrum and get us a bunch of cozy blankets and camp us out in front of the boob tube. Sure. He proceeded to turn all the lights off in the house. The only
Starting point is 00:58:15 light source was the glow from said TV. Nice. He then proceeded to pop in pumpkin head. This is sounding really great. Although I'm now reminded this person said they were seven years old. And they were the eldest. Was it three or two?
Starting point is 00:58:31 A couple kids. You were talking like five and four might be involved here. That's crazy. You know, at first I thought this was going towards you knew Lance Hendrickson and he watched you once, but no. Can you imagine him? Lance Hendrickson babysitting you? Holy
Starting point is 00:58:47 shit. Go to bed. Yeah, I'm gone. I'm good. I forgot how to use the bathroom. Do you know how to clean a shotgun? You would have to run out of the house like Michael Myers is there and start pounding on the neighbor's door. Totally, dude. I'd be running down the street to the McKenzie's
Starting point is 00:59:03 fucking Lance Hendrickson's my babysitter. in his mind it would have us so terrified that we wouldn't wander around the dark house and cause any mayhem while he was gone. This is great parents. Incredible. It's smart move. It's shaky logic at best, but I love it.
Starting point is 00:59:21 He's trying to skittimer and his kids. A little bit. A little bit. I got to say, yeah, that's about close enough. I'm going to use dark magic to get rid of all the doors in the house. That way you can't go anywhere. And no using the bathroom while I'm here. No, just keep looking at this here
Starting point is 00:59:36 happy telephone right here. It's a good look at this happy smile and telephone. No, I do want that toilet on the ceiling. Look, if your sister doesn't have her mouth anymore, that's normal. He was right. As I watched this movie huddled together in terror
Starting point is 00:59:54 with my younger siblings, we stayed frozen in front of the screen in sheer terror. That's a fucking Stan Winston's special effects, man. It is a gory, scary monster movie for a seven-year. like you know what I mean absolutely also not to mention child death
Starting point is 01:00:11 right yeah a kid that looks a lot like you dies in the beginning of it right mama daddy would you summon the pumpkin head to bring me back would you do that for me daddy am I going to be crushed to death
Starting point is 01:00:25 by an ATV driven by a drunk racist yeah if you leave the house he came back right as the credit started rolling incredible walked in the door and said yep right where i left you nice as we were all horribly terrified excellent so i guess in a weird way it did work however my mother was very concerned and puzzled when she's when she had nights off i why we were all having horrible nightmares yeah it's become one of my favorite childhood memories uh have you guys ever had a
Starting point is 01:01:06 a childhood trauma watch thanks for the laughs please come to Kansas maybe Robert S I said this for my we watched Robocop way too young That's a tough one
Starting point is 01:01:20 My brother had some weird nightmares And like literally Zombie guy No it was more like the The shooting Crucifixion elements of that movie Because he went to Catholic school the next day Like he was learned about the crucifixion
Starting point is 01:01:35 And he just kept thinking about Robocop. Well, that's because he's Jesus. It's the same story. It's incredible. Oh, that's incredible. I definitely saw Twin Peaks way too early, but I don't think I understood any of it.
Starting point is 01:01:50 It was just weird. I was like, oh, like, I remember the room where they're all like dancing and hanging out and it's like the weird guy on the ball and all that and Bob is there. Like stuff like that I remember and I remember definitely seeing when I was younger. but like I just was like oh that's goofy that's weird that's also a little a little sexy so it kind of eases out of the horse slightly but you uh you want to know it sounds stupid as hell like to think back on it but do you know a thing that freaked me the fuck out when I saw it for the first time and also I think adding to it was the vibe of I watched this thing and then immediately like I was like a babysitter's I watched this thing then got picked up and we went out into the street to get into the car and we went out into the car and
Starting point is 01:02:34 and it was a dark street where it had like just rained. The Michael Jackson thriller video in its entirety freaked the ever-loving shit out of me. And it was like fucking Vincent Price laughing with Michael Jackson's fucking eyes changing color. Well, your mother's here dragged out into the street. Just this wet October street, you know, like totally like moonlit. Yeah. I was shitting my pants, man. You felt an ancient evil coming.
Starting point is 01:03:04 from it. A deep evil. Mr. Price was going to start laughing at me. Michael Jackson, that's a scary one. I remember Moonwalker rather. That movie, you got Joe Pesci and spiders everywhere. And of course the guys with like motorcycle helmets
Starting point is 01:03:21 and trench coats that are after you. Scary movie. Also that didn't he do like a short film where he's like turning into a fucking rabbit shit? He turns into a car. He turns into a huge car. Yeah, that's in Moonwalker. But I think he had another project. Anyway, the guy It's terrified.
Starting point is 01:03:35 I do wonder, like, you know, watching Pumpkinhead and in its entirety. Yes. Is that scarier than being a kid? Because this happened to me. And walking by the room, you know, where someone's watching, who's nightmare in Elm Street, my brother was watching it. And I was just like, you just get it and like, just at the wrong angle and the whole room is red because, you know, everything is heightened because you're a little kid. You know you should be watching this fucking terrifying thing.
Starting point is 01:04:04 I know you have this with Hellraiser, right? Yes, yes. Yeah, my uncle was visiting and everyone was up late watching Hellraiser 3, actually, I think. Oh, wow, a good one. I walked down the stairs, dude, and it's like, it was like, that girl was nude and about to levitate. And I'm like, say, you know, I'm starting to figure things out here. And then they ripped her skin off. And I'm like, oh, fucking great.
Starting point is 01:04:28 And it sticks with you in a weird way. Like, that movie was never that scary. That movie could never be that scary. in that moment out of context it's very scary. It's Jim Callahan in the chat confirms he, Michael Jackson turns into a rabbit in an earlier segment of the Yes, he does. For the song, Speed Dean.
Starting point is 01:04:44 That's not a, that is not an unterrifying video in and of itself. I remember that now. It's like a weird claymation thing. Yes, he's like, yes. He's like the noid. Yes. Oh, yeah. It's a cool joke camillee because the nose is dickish, you know, like that kind of thing. That guy was trying to shove that everywhere. And as a kid, you have to escape this guy. You do. You do. You did.
Starting point is 01:05:04 have to escape this guy. Escape reality with us with these end of the year shows everybody. Of course, starting this Wednesday night, 9 p.m. Eastern, we're going to be live on the internet talking about the final film directed by the late great horror master himself, West Craven's Scream 4. This is at moment.com slash we hate movies. This is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to talk about the movie. It's a live episode. Then we're going to do a whole after-party Q&A
Starting point is 01:05:32 where we're answering questions from ticket hole. telling stories kind of just like this mailbag it's going to be more of this more goofing around folks 14 day replay if you cannot get it tomorrow night totally fine we get it to Wednesday but you got two whole weeks to check it out and then on the road IRL look at this debut
Starting point is 01:05:54 in Seattle Washington everybody at Washington Hall doing Harry and the Henderson's I think it's going to get emotional talking about that final scene man absolutely he's a beloved character we will be crying on command at the show please come out i would be bringing hankies for the boys i'll have them ready to go hairy hankies dude hanker chine that's uh november the 15th and then november the 17th it's a sunday night making our return to the uh very cool club mississippi studios we're
Starting point is 01:06:24 going to be talk of the guineas the pacific northwest is the ground zero for cinematic disgusting ship boys of the modern era uh these guys were they were the biggest disgusting shit boys since the little rascals. I said it before. Real troublemakers, these goonies. A nuclear shit bomb of disgusting boys. It's like Cold War terror like you've not seen before.
Starting point is 01:06:46 New shit boys on the block. It's these guys, the younger kids of the lost boys, uh, some more in there floating around. And Jason, disgusting shit boys. And Jason Alexander as, uh, the
Starting point is 01:06:59 disgusting shit boss in pretty woman. That's right. December the 4th. We're going to be in Laugh Boston. We love Boston. It's been a little bit. Hell yeah. I hate your basketball team, but I love your city. It's beautiful.
Starting point is 01:07:12 Oh, you know what? No, no, no. I love everything about you. I love your, every team you got. So come to the show. What a sim. Please. I love every sports squad you got. Tell me what you want to fuck.
Starting point is 01:07:27 Just same with Seattle and Portland. I'm loyal to you, the listener. Not to any local. regional thing. Sure. And just real quick, yes. So next Monday, noon o'clock Eastern, OSL returning proper. So updates that we would have given on OSL tomorrow, Land of the Dead as part of the
Starting point is 01:07:47 sputacular drops. That's going to be a lot of fun. Excited about this guy. A lot of Dennis Hopper impressions in there that made for a good app. And then Thursday on the Patreon, y'all, the season two finale of Melrose Place discussed at length, which was awesome to talk about. A lot of
Starting point is 01:08:07 bad chick crazy stuff there. And then just a little teaser for the week after that. The day before Halloween, the silent night, deadly night form and Terry comes out. Holy smokes. Philippa did a great job. Those bugs let you know exactly what you're about to watch. Right. And those masks.
Starting point is 01:08:23 My God, it was my first time seeing the movie and it was terrifying. So here my live reaction. That's right. And then, oh, it says here, then on Halloween we're going to be talking live to long legs here's a preview of the interview oh I know that's
Starting point is 01:08:41 that's not that's not funny I can't oh my god if you're not watching this on video on YouTube.com slash we ate movies you missed out on quite the sight game but that is going to do it we have gone beyond the top of the hour here thanks so much for tuning in again
Starting point is 01:08:58 WHM podcast.com click on that tour tab for ticketing information for all four of our upcoming final shows of the year. Thanks a lot for tuning in. Until next time, I have been, Andrew Jupin, Stephen Seda. Eric Sisko. Chris Cabin. Adios, folks. Have a good night. Bye-bye. I don't know.

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