Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast - Episode 35- Neon Maniacs (1986)

Episode Date: June 22, 2015

In this week's episode, we are joined by our friend Josh to discuss the 1986 cult classic "Neon Maniacs." This episode produces more questions than it does answers, such as...what is a Neon Maniac? Where did they come from? Why do they live near the ocean if water will kill them? What do they talk about during the day?... and so on, and so forth. Other important topics include: Benjamin Button disease, possible repercussions for disrespecting 80's movie punks and yet another glimpse into the world of ineptitude that is being a cop in a horror movie.  If you like Josh as much as we do, check out his podcast "The Ungodly Warlocks" and his blog http://lendmeyoursteelbearinghand.blogspot.com/ As always, you can find us on facebook.com/werewolfambulance, Instagram @werewolfambulance and Twitter @werebulance. Let us know what you thought of this movie! Did you think it was nutbar as well? What other movies would you like to see on Werewolf Ambulance?

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Weirwolf Ambulance. I'm Alan, and I'm here with my friends Katie. Hi Alan. And our friend Josh. Hello. Josh is calling in from Seattle. That's the West Coast. On the Internet. On the Internet.

Isn't that the home of the Internet? West Coast of the Internet. The internet town. The land of internet and coffee. I know how much you hate coffee, Josh. I hate it. I also hate rain too, which is stupid that I'm here. Yeah, not a good geographic choice.

You know who hates the rain as well? The Neon Maniacs. Whoa, great segue. I had that in my notes. It's weird that they live so close to the ocean, given that they hate the water. It was an odd, odd location for them to be. Everything about this god-dam movie was on. Like they live in a bridge over the water that will kill them.

Is it not damp in there? I have a lot of questions about this movie. So yes, Josh has brought us neon maniacs. We're going to do spoilers. I think you can spoil this. I'm not sure. It may already be spoiled. I don't know. But Josh brought us neon maniacs and Josh do you want to do a quick plot summary? Yeah I'll try to make it quick. This movie has been with me for probably 25 years. I first discovered it at a West Coast video as a kid.

Of course. And I have watched it so many times over the years and I'm completely obsessed with it. So yeah, let's jump in. It starts off with an excellent voiceover that says when the world is ruled by violence and the soul of mankind fades, the children's path shall be darkened by the shadows of the neon maniacs. Remember everything I hated about Candyman. I love it in this movie. It's so good. I'm happy to hear that because I was listening to the Candyman episode a little bit like, uh, is she going to totally hate this thing because it doesn't make any sense? Candyman is insanity thrust into a sane world where this is just insane the whole way through. There's no sense to it. But anyway, go. Yeah. This is like a mythical San Francisco.

Yeah. The introduction to find this iron door under the bridge, and there's a cow skull stuck in there with some awesome hand-painted trading cards. Why? Why? Why? Why, why? He's taken them out.

And I would be so stoked if I found these as well. I was just going to be to find this deck of cards. Like that's why you pick up the cattle skull. Yeah, there was this one time that I was walking down the street and there was a polaroid laying face down on the street and I was like, I could have picked this up. This could be like the fucking key to everything. This could be fucking. It answered, it asked more questions than answered. It did not change things.

Did you see his face? No, no, no, just a dick? No, just a dick. Just right there. Sticking it right to the back of a chair. Were they tight rungs? No? No.

And it wasn't that impressive of a dick either. Oh, man. I guess that's why a dick either. Oh man. Just, I guess that's why it was like, yeah, that's why you do it. Oh, I need a better. But it's like, I need a better dick for this picture. Did I get the first dick pick? Wow, that's sexed to you. It was like nature sexed me.

It's like nature sexed me. Oh, God. Alright, so the guy finds the book with all the pictures in it. Why? They never come back. Yeah, which is the first of many questions you're going to have about this movie that after watching it for 25 years you don't have answers for. The next one I have is why does it go to like a smooth jazz intro like you're at the dentist? The like opening sequence is so smooth. Oh, it's the incidental music from moon lighting. I I I I I I I I I the the the the the the the th, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the the the the the the the the the the the the th is, th, th, the first is, th, th, th, th, th, th is, th is, th is, th is, th is, th is, th is, th is, th is, th is, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the th, the the the the the the the the the the the the thi, the first is thi, the first is thi, the first is the first is the first is the first is the first is the first is the first is the first is the first is thi, thi, thi, from moonlighting, I think. It was just so like, chill. I was going to say, stain elsewhere, kind of Hill Street Blues kind of thing. Yeah, definitely.

I think they're all the same. Yeah. So the guy finds the book. Smooth jazz happens. Yeah, the guy finds these cards and is checking them out. And is stabbed. No, no, no, I'm sorry he gets hit with an axe. Yeah and that's the introduction that the maniacs. It's good. Yeah.

Some sweet bright red blood hits the cards. Then we get cut to a really long credit sequence with the smooth jazz music. Then we are introduced to one of the protagonists, a fella named Stephen who is out out jogging with his dog. He's kind of a low rent John Cusack in this movie. I like that guy though. Yeah, I know he's good. No, I like John Cusack. I just support a version. He's quick-witted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bologna. Bologna. Possible. Bossa bra, which I would love to be. So he has an encounter with popular kids. Who are all heard driving around. In a converse. the the their. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their. th. th. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.......................................... Yeah....... Yeah. Yeah..... Yeah... I. I. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah a conversion van, as you do, as a popular van. It's a cool van, though. It's a cool van.

It's a super cool. It's got the captain's chairs that swivel. Yeah. Sorry, go on, Judge. I'm sorry. Are you describing this movie truc? No, it's OK. Yeah, so they're driving a theory that I'll come back to with movie punks, but go on.

Okay. And they stop in front of the store. Stephen's dog gets away, runs up to the van, and we meet the other protagonist, the film Natalie, who's kind of, she's the popular girl who is a little more reserved. She doesn't seem to be as jerky as the other kids. She's a virgin, which they make a point of pointing out, amounts to nothing. Nothing at all. Yeah, and then we realize that Stephen sort of has this thing for Natalie. It might be a little bit both ways. Yeah, there's a good exchange when the jock dude comes out with beer. He calls him baloney man because we find out Stephen works at his father's deli. Italian store?

The Italian store delivery though, which is pretty rad. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, so that's that, that's the introduction of the first two protagonists. And then we meet the other protagonist who is so awesome. Paula. Paula. I love Paula. I love her so much. aged woman. She has that Benjamin Button disease. She is adorable. Mostly infecting her hair.

Yeah. They made her look young by putting a fucking alien's Nostromo hat on her sideways. Sideways. I'm a fucking kid. I got a fucking mortgage but I'm a plucking kid. But she's the best, she's just wearing like fucking Dracolo makeup and hanging out in her house. Yeah. Yeah, they pan around the room and we see that she's athe best, she's just wearing like fucking Dracula makeup and hanging out in her house. Yeah. They pan around the room and we see that she's a huge movie nerd. She loves, there's like an American werewolf in London poster, like a Dracula statue, a Gremlin's poster, a Blade Runner poster. So she's totally down. She's got masks around and we see that she has a video editing equipment.

She's just putting together some footage. Yeah, so that's the introduction of the big three protagonists of the film. And then it cuts to a pretty classic 80s teen sex party. You got firecrackers, you got booze. Motorcycle guy. I love the guy. I love the guy. Standing there lighting firecrackers and they. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. they. I. I. th. th. th. th. they. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's. That's. That's. That's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It's th. th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's thackers and throw them on the ground. Is that baloney man? I can't tell these fucking mullied white man apart. There was the moosehead t-shirt guy, which I was, I really wanted to get a moosehead t-shirt for that. And then there's, I have the note, denim couple, and then I have another note think they were all named Steve. Yeah, it's fine. They're all named Bologna Man.

Oh, the Bologna's. So yeah, they're hanging out. You know, we find out that Natalie is a virgin, you know, has no bearing on anything in the rest of the film. Although she's not a virgin by think they're just necking. No, I think there's one scene where they, they full consummate. What? I missed, that was not in my cusp. I had the note, did Natalie and Bologna man fuck after the battle of the bands?

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Like, what is Juce? What is he doing? What is his thing? His thing is that he later gets electrocuted, right? Yeah, he was prior named. He shoots the electricity into the turnstile to make it work when the one guy can't figure it out. When they're all train. He shocks the conductor on the subway. Okay, I'll accept this. To me, that's one of the things I love about this movie is just, there are so many

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that's the bulk of my nose. And Natalie also doesn't really seem to give a shit that they're chasing her. She's sunbathing. She's swimming. Sh swims the pool. Oh yeah, that's dangerous by the way. I don't know. Dangerous. Dangerous even when you don't have. Even without neon maniacs after you. Which I assume they are always after me. That was a cool scene though where she starts dreaming that it's raining blood. Yeah. That seems dope. Yeah. Before we get too far away from it earlier we see Paula. eating breakfast, she's eating a fucking bowl of C3 POs. Lost my mind when I saw that. That is in my notes as well. I'm very excited about that. So at some point Natalie goes to the police who are all from the 1940s and wearing like vests and

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. and Doc in the end. Because I've always wondered that about the movie. I'm like, why does he make this phone call at 3.30 in the morning to tell him a thing he's clearly going to tell him in the morning? At work, during work hours. So it was a pickup shot to make continuity. Why the fuck would they care about continuity? No. What in this universe? So she's chased around and Paula also, and here's the tale of Natalie's friends being killed,

so she kind of tracks down the neon maniacs herself and sees one of them. And they want nothing to do with her, Natalie and Stephen. They're like, this kid, yeah, it's so shitty. Be cool to Paula. Sorry she's a middle-aged woman who's very small. Benjamin Button. She sees one of the neon maniacs slip and fall into a funnel. He has a slip and fall. This is right after though. She yells oink, oink at a cop. And then he goes into a football stance and then reaches for his gun. Why? Why?

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Decapitate, I'm sorry, I'm just looking at the list here. Decapitator, I don't know. I guess he's just the guy who cuts off that girl's head. I guess. Oh, fuck. How did weener should have been when the head came off. That's a good question. That's a very good question. Was there a tinier samurai sword hooked up to the other samurai sword that took his weiner off?

I just don't know. I just don't know. I just don't know. I just don't know. Oh, man. I've always been really curious about the one that looks like sort of a grim reaper with like Halbert arms. I don't know if you caught him. I don't think I did. No, what is his name? You only really, I'm not sure I've never been able to figure out if he's slasher or if the

one at Paula kills at her house is slasher. Could he be young lover liver number two, actually. What about Stringbean? I'll make note of that. And one of them is a biker, right? He just has a chain. Yeah, he like grabs the kitty. He's like, punk biker. Punk biker. He gets an adjective. So after the hullabaloo at the high school,

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I just want to be sure. I just want to believe that there's supposed to be multiple scavengers. Well there were three people who played scavenger according to I-D-B-B. So yeah, so then there's a bright light and then we cut to the kids in the van. He gets up through the neck. Oh that's right. And then it ends with them with the kids in the car. You describe the last scene. Yeah, they's a their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the light. the light. the light. the light. the light. the light. the light. the light. their. their. their. their. their. their. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thes to Paul and says, kid, you still have your squirt gun? She says, yeah, and he says, keep it. This rain won't last forever. And then they just drive off, and that's how the movie ends. It's setting it up for the sequel. What? Someone was asleep at the wheel on this one. I think I feel like I sneezed or something and then I looked up in the credits. doesn't end. They just do they just not care about ending it? I don't know. I don't know.

No, they ended. That's one of the things that has kept me obsessed with this movie for so many years. It's it's so ineptly made that it sort of came full circle and became something just really, it's a joy to watch. You know, like I think everything they set out to do, they probably failed at, but still managed to succeed somewhere else entirely. I don't know if that's true because I think the monster design is really great. They looked awesome and the makeup effects were really good. That's true. My beef with that though is I feel like it was shot, I'm sure the quality of this movie, whatever transfers they're getting stuff from, is just, because everyone, watching it on Amazon, that like every

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which I think Alan, we saw been sent to hell, and for some reason they're coming back. I haven't figured that part out yet. Why do they live in the bridge? The scavengers are the hell demons, and they need the dead bodies, so they're sending these powerful warriors back out into the world to kill for them and collect the souls of teenagers? Do you think the end, he's kind of like the boss level. He's like the little midget dwarf dudes from Phantasm. Yeah. Fantasm. The scavengers at several points throughout this film, you see them stealing the bodies.

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the Dante's bakery truck will show up and the neon maniacs would come out and kill you. Why are they neon? The only neon in this movie is in the Outlaw Boys set behind them. The copy on BHS that I own for many years said neon because they only come out at night. Which doesn't actually explain it. No. Well, it's something. This was called Evil Dead Warriors too? That was the other title?

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That's not bad for a movie that could have been fucking abysmal. Yeah. It was really fun. Yeah. I also just it 30. Yeah. I'm going to look up how old Paula was when this movie was made. I couldn't find out any information about her. Oh really? Yeah, she dropped off the face of the earth after this movie. Oh, Donna Locke. She probably went into Dante's bakery truck.

Perhaps. I really liked the movie that she was filming. Yeah. What I referred to to to to to to to to I just kind of want to watch the movie those kids are making and not this movie anymore. Can I watch that? Yeah. There's 25 Donna Locks on LinkedIn, but I've dealt with any of them. Contact every one of the, we'll wait. Excuse me, are you Paula? From what I read, I think, maybe, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, this movie. She didn't want her kids to find out. She's not the software engineer at Oracle in the greater Denver area.

All right, I'm done. Done with Lincoln. Oh my God, you have so many notes. I really do. Parents went on a lot of long vacations without their kids in the 80s. No parents in this movie. Oh God, Paula's mom was such a bitch too. She really was. Paula was just like doing her thing and her mom wasn't into it. At the end of a write-up on the House of Self-Indulgence Block.

What? So he ends his little synopsis of the film with, but either way, you have to admire the director, Joseph Mangine. Managed to create an off-kilter. That's very ethnic the way you're saying it. Managed to create an off-kilter monster flick out of a loose assemblage of hallucinogenic afterthoughts and ideas pulled out of a goblin's ass.

That's pretty accurate. That is good. Yeah, it's nailed it. Yeah. Oh, can we talk about how scary the doctor the doctor the doctor the doctor the doctor yeah. Terrifying. I mean there were some legitimately scary moments in this movie the doctor is really scary. Again, I think the subway scene was just terrifying. Like to be on a moving subway and be trapped like the bus I had an issue with because why didn't the driver notice? He did he did he said you. He said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you said, th th th th th th th said, th thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. thi, thi, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th, th, th, th, th, th is, th. th is, thi, thi, thi, theeeeeeeeeeean, theean, thean, theeeean, theeeeeeean, theeeeeeean, theeee't smoke on her. That's right. All right, fair enough. Eady's movies are just all about how authority figures don't get you. If you can consider a bus driver an authority figure.

I think so. You have to, they tell you what to do. Exactly. I don't know. I just have a note that says, what is the deal with the deal, do you think? They sleep. Or they go back to whatever, they're probably going through the portal and going to different worlds and doing the same thing to other people. So they never sleep? Oh shit.

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It's like that thing when people are so ugly, they become attractive. This is the plot summary from IMDB. And to be fair, this was submitted by a user named Anonymous. A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal When they try to tell the authorities, no one believes them. That's the entire summation. What if that was the whole movie? We don't believe you. That's basically it though. That was basically the end credits. God, what a movie.

All right, I'm calling it. We're moving on to the ratings phase. Josh, do you want thinking, like, how do I come up with a rating for this? I would say I would give the movie that they tried to make, a five, but the movie that they actually made, a 10. Oh, nice. That's totally reasonable. I would go there.

I mean, I just deeply love this movie. It's such a weird personal thing for me. I don't know if it's just because my expectations were so low, but I loved it. Like I loved every minute of it. It was so silly. Like, I know I always come down on things that don't make any sense, but my problem is putting things that don't make sense in a world that makes sense, but this is just all fucking nonsense. I'll give an eight and a half. Whoa! That's awesome. to hear that. Yeah, I'll definitely watch it again, and if anybody asks me if they should watch it,

the answer is absolutely. I'm going to give this movie a nine. I'm going to split the difference. Wow. I'm currently looking at my phone. Nine is not the difference between eight and a half and ten. I'm just saying, you didn't give it as much as you could have gotten more. But nine and a quarter? Yeah, why not? It could be anything. Just like this movie, it can be anything.

Remember when we raided God Monster of Indian Flats is nothing? And Turkey? And Turkey? And Turkey? Well, this was better than that. Yeah. For sure. I'm trying to find the text that I sent to Josh watching the on on meanings for the first time, not for the podcast just to check it out and I have a new favorite movie.

Oh, nice. Holy shit, this is great. Nice. Yeah, and then he goes on to Lambast himself for not having shared it to me earlier. And then I sent him a picture of Paula. With your little dumb head on some where you suggest that she. th. Where you, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. this movie, I totally connected with her. I'm like, oh, that's kind of me. Like, I'm a weird kid that loves horror movies and like, she comes up with like horror movie troops to fight the neon maniacs. Yeah, she's like the female version of the kid from Monster Squad. Yeah, the Stephen King rules. Yeah, I really identified with her at 41.

Yeah, I should also clarify I haven't stopped identifying with her. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I'm so grateful to you, Josh, for bringing this movie in our lives. Thank you for showing this to us. This is not a movie I would have ever watched my own. Do you want to plug your podcast or? I used to do a podcast called the ungodly warlocks, but I think it's actually gone now.

It's not on the iTunes anymore? I think it's gone because I changed debit cards and forgot to update with Luce and I think the whole thing is gone. So I might try to get that back online. It's defunct. Stop doing it when to to to to to do to do to do to do try to get that back online. It's defunct. Stop doing it when I moved up to Seattle. It was with my friend Isaac Williams who is a filmmaker as well in Philadelphia. I might try to get that going again at some point. Oh you should. I also would like to plug. I'm starting a D&D blog. Oh, nice. I'm a big D&D nerd. I run a game for Alan online actually. Don't don't help me. th. I. I. I. I. I. th. th. th. I. I. th. th. I. th. I. th. I. I. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm a the. I'm a thi. thi. thi. thee. thi. thi. thee. thi. the. the. thi. Oh, that's right They know they also know that you and I play in a game together I mean like I'm gonna be launching this this blog

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I think it's perfect. I'm so excited you want to be one of the maniacs. So you can find us on Facebook, where were Wherewolf Ambulance, and thanks, and you can find us on Facebook, where we're Warewolf Ambulance. And thank you so much to everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone everyone to everyone to everyone to much to everyone who's been talking to us on there and getting excited about neon maniacs. I'm surprised by how many people are excited by neon maniacs. It should be. I just never had heard of it, and it's so, so excellent.

I'm so glad that you're to post neon maniac's world now. This is a new life for me. I'm opening a new chapter. I posted a picture of Justin Gray drew Neon Miniac's VHS box. When did he do that? I think a couple years ago. Oh, it's incredible. And it's gorgeous. Yeah, that was, yeah, a few years before I moved. Oh, wow. So, yeah. Yeah, that's really cool. If you haven't seen that, go to our Instagram and look at it, it's crazy. Justin is the, he did our logo as well. Yeah, Justin, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's. He's. He's. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I's, I's, I's. I's, I's. I's th. I'. I'. I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think. I think. I th. I th. I th. I th. I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I th. I think, I th. I I, I, I I, I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I think. I think. I. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think, th. I think. I think. I think. I think, th. I think. I dude. And I watched this movie with him in high school as well. Oh, that's right. You guys went to high school together. Yeah, we did. It's all coming together.

Yeah. What are we doing next week? It looks like? Well, let's see. Let's consult the calendar. Yeah. I watched it a lot back in like high school and loved it, but I haven't actually revisited it in many years. So I'm going to try to seek it out before. It's on Amazon.

You can get it for like three bucks. When Alan asked me if I wanted to do this podcast with him, I said as long as we can do wax work. Hopefully you guys like it. Yes. Hopefully it's not I'm out. It's now we recorded zombievers already. All right, well, yeah, thank you so much for, yeah. For being on here today Josh.

Thanks, this is awesome. Being... Thanks so much for having me. I love the podcast so much. Oh, geez. It's an honor to go on here. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of Wherewolf Ambulance. Bye. Bye.

Say bye Josh. Goodbye Josh. Which made me wonder if this movie is a part of the elsewhere verse, which I don't know if you guys are familiar with that, which I don't know if you guys are familiar with that, and maybe I shouldn't even get into it. I don't know what that is. The ending of the long-running television show, St. Elsewhere ended with an autistic boy looking at the hospital in a snow globe, and it turns out the whole thing was in his imagination.

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