Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast - Episode 559- When a Stranger Calls (1979)

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

In this week's episode, we are discussing what is regularly bandied about as a slasher classic: the 1979 film "When a Stranger Calls." Special topics for your consideration include: being a cute little baby koala, distinctive art, not letting women do their goddamn jobs, and fantastic mustaches. Want to hear us talk about another slasher classic? You could do worse than Episode 113- "Black Christmas." You can support us at patreon.com/werewolfambulance and listen to a ton of action movie episodes! This month's theme is sequels to "Bloodsport;" and we're doing "Lady Bloodfight" which I could not be more thrilled about. We also just started our second season of "Nice One, Mate!" which is FREE EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A PATRON. leave us a message at 412-407-7025 hang out with some cool listeners at https://discord.gg/DutFjx3cBD buy merch at www.teepublic.com/user/werewolfambulance the best place to reach us is at [e-mail] we're on Reddit at r/werewolfambulance sorta on Twitter @werebulance sorta on Instagram @werewolfambulance www.werewolfambulance.com if you feel you really must lodge a complaint with us, please do it on Facebook at facebook.com/werewolfambulance because we are probably not gonna see that, ever. If you liked this, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen! It helps others find us and allows us to continue to grow. Intro song is by Alex Van Luvie Outro song is A. Wallis- "EMT" Seriously, we have the best listeners, hands down.

I'm sorry, I gotta take a call real quick. Oh, you do? Yeah, I'm babysitting for the mandrakes. The mandrakes. And I just, hello? Yeah. Yeah. No, I, there's kit.

No. Hmm. I do look like a porcelain doll. You're correct. Gorgeous. Fucking her skin is incredible. It's so, like she. I,

so I was thinking about like the, the, the comparison between her and Jamie Lee Curtis and Halloween. Sure, because this is very much, hey, babysitters, baby skitters. Baby skitters. Baby skitters. Baby skitters. Baby skitters. Baby skitters. Baby skitters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Baby skitters. Baby skitters. It's a little scared. Baby skitters. It's a baby skitters. Will Marisha Harkatee be making her film Goalys a revival? I don't know, but I just saw that she was working with lawmakers on some bill that gets a backlog of rape kits tested in like every state. Yeah. That's very fucking good.

How does a backlog of rape kits not make you want to burn down every municipal building in America? Hey man, we're busy. Hey, man. This just isn't a priority. Hey, man. Oh, God, my skin wants to crawl out of my skin. But I...

Why is your skin in your skin? The dermis and epidermis. Yeah, exactly. Skin on skin. Skin on skin. Uh, you want skin on skin. can contact when you first meet yourself. That's how you bond.

Hello me. It's me again. We're very silly right now. Oh, I've had two beers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Might have been three. I took an Uber.

It's fine. I'm drinking coffee. At this time at night? Oh, I'm drinking a ginger sparkling water that Alan gave to me from Jeff Bezos's company Whole Foods and said, this is exotic. It's exotic. So we're doing the film when a stranger calls. Yes.

Starring one, Carol Kane. How is her nose so perfect? That's the part that gets me. They don't know. She's just a perfect, perfect person. What I was going to say is like, Jamie Lee Curtis is like a very beautiful woman. Sure. But she's got this like kind of like every like teenage girl Americana thing going on.

You'd see her in the mall. Yeah. And Carol Kane is just like this like exotic porcelain doll that walks in this house and you're like, first of a, the fuck did they do to your hair? Second of all. Why would they only perm the top? So I figured out what it is. Okay.

Her hair's super long and curly. Oh, it's tucked up, isn't it? It's all tucked up in. That's why it looks like shit. That's why she looks like a Conway Twitty from the back. She does look like a Conway Twitty from the back. She looks gorgeous in the end sequence. Oh my God.

I mean, you know how I am about a head of curly hair. You love big luxurious hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's also just so doe-eyed. Her eyes open so wide. Yeah, yeah. And they had that like super dark, like smoky eye thing going on as well. She looks great.

She wore so much makeup to babysit. exactly well she thought bobby might call on the rotary phone her friend's fucking bobby right we all can admit her friend's fucking bobby her friend is fucking bobby and she doesn't want to tell her because she doesn't want to fall out with her right right because you don't want to get her carol can't bad side no we saw what she can do in the office killer oh my god the office killer that was like episode 15 which was what two three years ago about that about that about that Oh, brother. My first note is,

Love Me Some Charles Durning. Tell me more about your love of Charles Durning. This is our second Durning, I believe. He was also in the Muppet movie. Right. Tutsy? Tracy? He's in Dark Night of the Scarecrow.

Wait, Dark Night of the Scarecrow. Was that the one with the silo that filled with corn? Yes. Who is he in that? He's the leader of the guys who are abusing and murder the mentally... God. It's... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Charles Durning.

But he's the good guy in this, so... Yeah. I mean, for a portion of the movie, I wasn't sure if he was a private investigator or, like, a journalist or a disgraced cop, or I just didn't know what he was doing. I didn't know what he was doing. He left the force to become a private investigator after the murders. Okay, so I think he had a conversation with Dr. Mandrakus.

Yes. That I full on miss. Okay. Okay. Also, I fucking lost my mind when I finally realized who Lieutenant Charlie Garber is. Is that very swarthy man? That's Ron O'Neill. That doesn't sound like a swarthy man.

I know. O'Neill. Because you're thinking Ryan O'Neill, and that's the least. No, I'm thinking of people who can't go out in the sun, you know. He, well, we did do a movie with him in it as well. He is in the original Red Dawn. Red Dawn. What the fuck is that?

Where the kids are the Cubans invade America, the Cubans and are Russians are made America. He's the leader of the Cubans in that. I've done this movie? Patrick Swayzee. No. We did not do that. No, 100%. What?

It's a harm? No, we did on the action movie podcast. Oh, that doesn't count. I forget those instantly. If I don't watch them, the day that we record them, they're gone for me. But most importantly, Ron O'Neill played Superfly. He is the titular Superfly in the movie. Superfly.

He's a very good looking with a hat on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just if I may make his suggestion to listeners. Sure. If you have never sat down and listened to the soundtrack to Superfly.

Oh, give yourself a break. Do yourself a fucking favor. It's so goddamn good. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Watch the movie too.

It's great, but the soundtrack is like unfuck withable. May I compliment something about this movie? Fantastic mustache game. Sure. Yeah. Good mustaches. Ron O'Neill could like just like the 25 cent mustache rides all day.

All day. Why don't need 25 cents? Why would I pay? No, it's 70s. Oh. What's the inflation on that? You're going to want to pay for that mustache ride. I'm going to owe him for this.

So we see a young woman walking to a house in the, in the dusk. Uh-huh. She gets there. We see hustle and bustle of a family or a couple going out to dinner, a couple of a doctor-law Dr. Lawyers. Dr. Lawyer, nice clothes, gonna go to dinner.

Yeah, yeah. Turtlenecks and suit jackets. A lot of turtlenex in this, too. Sure. I mean. How do you feel about a man in a turtleneck? If you can pull it off, it's a good fucking look.

But if you can't? It's a bad look. It's a bad look. Yeah, yeah. You could end up just looking like a roll on deodorant. Or an uncircumsticed penis. Is Dr. Mondarcus

pulling it off? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of good mustache. Great mustache. Yeah, great mustache. Yeah, great mustache. So this is the aforementioned Carol Kane getting to the house. Yeah.

One of the things that doctors are like, hey, fridge is fully stocked. We got low-fat yogurt. Yeah. Is he implying that she's fat or she has a yeast infection? Yes. Yes. What? What do you do with yeast infection of low-fat yogurt?

Yogurt. Oh, helps to balance your biome. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I thought maybe you were. People do. Oh, sure.

Along with garlic cloves. Oh, yeah, man. People will shove a garlic clove up anything. People will do the wildest shit. I, you know, I... People will do the wildest shit. I have stopped following mom groups on the internet, but they would always be like,

my baby is a fever. What do I do? And it's like, put onions in his socks. No, fucking get him Tylenol. I'm fucking true. That works.

Some psycho bitch. It's like a guy knew who had pinworms because he was playing in the dirt as an adult. And he's like, yeah, man, I just, you know, I just shove garlic up my ass.

And it's like, I don't. I think there's a simple pill you take for that. A simple pill. You just call the doctor and say, I have pinworms. But what if? If they, what if they like a little bit of flavor in their butthole?

You look in your bow and the pinworms are making spaghetti. You're like, fuck. Amandja. Manda. Hmm. I mean, if you just want to stick garlic up your ass, do your thing, don't make up the pinworms. Oh, I would never judge that. Yeah.

Welcome to garlic world. Put it in your ass. Put it in your... Chooch. Cheach. I don't like that, really. The chuch? Nah.

Sounds like the toch. He deserves better. He deserves chooch. He's a treasure of two continents. How do I get food show rich? How do I get wealthy enough? Because you don't know to be famous because half these dudes aren't even famous. They're just wealthy enough to like get their own food shows.

I don't know. I think you have to like come up through the ranks of cooking. Wait, the toch came up through cooking because... Well, no, he's an actor. That's how he got rich. And then he was like, yeah, I like the food. I'm from an Italy. From an Italy.

From my... My grandparents just all rolled over. But in unison, it was adorable. Yes, really cute. We're upsetting, because they've been dead a while. Lots of clacking. Oh, I'm sorry. Remember how Johnny Depp killed my grandmother?

Never forget. Never fucking forget. Welcome, new listener. That's going to confuse you. Yeah. If you need to know, ask the Discord. They'll tell you. Your phones used to be really loud.

So loud. Because you had to hear them in every room of your home. Exactly. And you had one. You had one maybe two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So we had one in our living room, one in the basement. Okay. Okay. We had one upstairs and the cordless downstairs that often just ended up upstairs. You had a cordless. Oh, yeah. I remember getting a touchpad phone. Oh, sure.

Wow. Yeah. You don't have to wait for it to go, kik, kik, kik, kik. My parents were odd early. adopters of a lot of technology. Really? That is shocking. Never seeming to. Like we had cable like super early. We had VCR

super early. Really? We had touchtone phones. Tartagnolous phones. Yeah. Cordless phones when it was like the like 13 inch antenna that you had to pull out of it. The first cordless phone my family got, I was in high school. So it had to have been 1997

or later. Yeah. Yeah. When did I? I don't even know. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Everybody, go get your kid a cordless phone.

They deserve it. See if they know how to use it. Yeah. Trying to text on it. Do you remember when you used to have to text by being like A, A, A, A, B, B, B, B. I do. Oh, man. Oh, we had it so hard.

So she's making phone calls. She's calling up her buddy. And she, I think, Nancy. Yeah. And she's like, Nancy. Have you talked to Bobby? Nancy's like, yes, I am fucking Bob. I mean, no, no, no, no.

Bobby did tell me that he wants to bone down, but I was like, no, I'm too good of friends with this lady. And she's like, give Bobby the phone number to where I am. And Nancy's like, fine. But she's also like, don't tell him I told you to do that. Yes, give him the phone number to where I'm babysitting. You like him as much as I do, but I deserve him because I'm Carol Kane. And I have this cute little upturn nose, but Nancy has a big ethnic nose.

So she does that. She starts working on homework and the phone rings. Nobody there. Nobody there. You remember prank calls? Do you remember dirty phone calls? Not dirty phone calls, well, prank calls, yes. Yeah, okay.

You make a dirty phone calls. No, I never did. But we definitely got a couple in my... Really? Tell me more. Just people like heavy, like people obviously jerking off on the phone. Why would, like... Oh, have you met dudes?

I just feel like... If I'm getting close and I had to dial a rotary, phone? Well, no, you, you, you, you dial then start. It's going to go away. It's going to be gone. You start once you've dialed. The excitement of dialing. Then you could just be chatting. Well, I mean, maybe I'm bad at this. I don't think you're not going for a long tug. It's a quick tug. It's a quick tug. I can't make a quick tug. I'm a woman. See? Tug it till it stinks. So, she gets a phone call, nobody's there. Right. works on her home works more

there's a protractor involved she must be very young because I don't recall using a protractor past like ninth grade yeah also she's 32 in this movie is she really um let's find out 1979 she was born in

1952 62 72 72 72 she's 27 years old you got it close enough Charles Durning is 56 and looks every one of those years Oh, and men, some. He is built like a koala.

I can't get over his cute little belly. I am so into his Bob Hoskins build. I was like, oh, man, I can't pull that up. Who's Bob Hoskins? Bob Hoskins? Frame Roger Rabbit. No. Long Good Friday.

British actor. No. Give him a good. You'll recognize him. I don't want to. I'm just going to think about slapping Charles Durning's belly as he makes jokes. I just want to slap his belly. I'm too long of limb to look like a koala bear.

You're just too tall. You're too tall. Yeah, yeah. He's nailing it, though. He's doing it. He's a little tiny koala. And when he runs, it's so cute. It's so cute.

Look at him go. He's going for the eucalyptus. He's just riddled with gonorrhea going after eucalyptus. What? Chihuahua bears. A koala! Yeah, yeah. Hey, do you know why koalas aren't actually bears?

Why? Because they don't have the qualifications. Fuck, that's good. Thank you so much. That's why I do a comedy podcast, baby. Is that an original? No. Phone rings again.

Yeah. And someone says, have you checked on the children? And she's like, nah, but who cares? Bobby. Why does she not think this is Dr. Mandrages? I don't know. That takes a little while for her to come to that conclusion. But for a scary setup, that's scary as hell, dog.

Oh, sure. Someone knows she's alone in the house with children who are sleeping. And then there's clattering in the house. Clatter, clatter, clattering. And there's more clattering. And she gets closer to the clattering. What is it? It's an ice machine. It's an ice machine.

And I was like, Mandracus is a 1979 ice machine. Look at you. Rich. This fucking 2026 and I don't even have an ice machine. I got my first ice machine in like 2022. Wow. Yeah, I'm up there. Yeah.

Yeah, no, you're wealthy. You don't have to brag about your ice machine wealth. Oh, my God. It's so fucking rich. Although in my new house, the house that I bought, there's an ice machine in the freezer. And I think maybe there's supposed to be a bin under it that like once it feels it stops. Wait, listen. Wait, Alan, I need you to come over and look at this because I looked out of the other day and realized I think I fucked up. I think there's meant to be a bin under it that once it fills,

maybe it stops filling. Yeah. That bin isn't there, so there's just a tray full of ice. There's probably 7,000 ice cubes. It's overflowing. And when I open the freezer, they all fall out. Am I doing this wrong? Don't put your glasses back on.

Please, when you take your glasses off, it makes me feel like I've done a bad job. You need to get some big, clear plastic bags, start bagging this shit and selling it at the liquor store. At the liquor store. Undercutting the liquor store prices. Just me in front of Liberty beer with Ziplog bags full of ice. I gotta bleep the name of the liquor store that's too close to you. That could be anywhere. It's true.

There's so many Liberty beers. Yeah. So I want to give Liberty Beer a little hype because their beer slushies are the best. Oh, all right, all right. I'm all liquor slushies. So she takes a popsicle out of the freezer and then commits. It's unwrapped. Unwrapped.

Oh, no, that's 70 style. That shit was open all the time. What the fuck? Yeah. How do you not get freezer burn? We were just past, because you ate them quickly. We were just past the apothecary giving you aspirin in a powder and a paper packet. All I'm saying is if it's sealed on three sides, it could be sealed on four.

Yeah, but then it's harder to get out. You got, you knowink it. Oh, my God. Turn your phone off when we record. This is episode 58012 or something. So the greatest crime is committed in this film. Not eating that fucking. delicious chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream popsicle.

It's probably low-fat. It's probably meh. It's still a fucking popsicle. A freezer burned low-fat ice cream? Thank you. You think I'm not going to eat that? I could think I could pass. I have shaved the ice off of popsicles before.

Like a fucking a rhyme, a hoary rhyme. A hoary on the outside. You said hoary. Thank you. Wow. It's a man who reads, babies. I'm a bit of a reader. Bit of a reader.

Bit of a reader. Bit of a reader. You guys read books. Good guy. Big reader. So she puts the pops. She gets a phone call. She puts the popsicle down in an ashtray.

An ashtray? A dish? I am unclear. And then that is the last. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a wrap on the popsicle. It will now be dying in the ashtray. But we have to watch it die. That's cruel.

And I was trying to think of what level of fear would prevent or would prevent my inner fat kid from being like, we'll just finish the fucking popsicle. we'll deal with the situation. Here's the thing. Like, some people, when they get anxious, they can't eat at all. Yeah. When I get anxious, I'm like, give me a bag of quarry and storitos. Oh, sure.

Yeah. There's no feel. I eat my feelings. That's why I look like this. I'm 90% feelings, baby. I know that. The other 10% is teeth and hair. That's why we're Pittsburgh's premier emo podcast.

Yeah. I'll give you something to cry about. Did you see that I threaten the Discord to give them something to cry about this week? I did. Some fucking bitching. Phone call says have you check the children. She's like, nah, no, bud. She's just too scared to check the children.

I feel like at that point, as the person who's responsible for these children that I've never met. Yeah? I'm going to, I, clearly, I was a babysitter for many, many years. Sure, clearly. Check the children. Even if the call, even if you aren't getting calls to check the children, you've got to look in just once to make sure they're not dead. because that's your responsibility. But mom did say, hey, the kids are just getting over cold, too.

If you cannot wake them, that would be fantastic. They were really hard to put down tonight. Yeah, but you've got to make sure they're not dead. Yeah, if we're giving that second definition for put down, that is going to happen. Who euthanizes a baby? Just because they have a cold, they'll get over it. But rather than finishing that popsicle, she's going to make herself a straight Jameson. She, it hasn't.

It has a poor, it has a poor spout on it. So like, Dr. Mondrakes is getting to it. She drinks a lot of Jameson, actually. A lot for her tiny frame. For a tiny, skinny teenage girl who is 27 years old. If I drink that much Jameson now as a 40-year-old woman, 40, 40-year-old woman. Sure. Yes.

I would be pissed. I'd be pissed drunk. I would be miserable. Yeah. Hate the taste of whiskey. It's disgusting. I like, I like, I just don't like Irish whiskey. So then we get a long shot of the phone.

A very long shot of the phone. And then it rings. Who is it? We don't know. It's the caller. It's the caller. It's a stranger. Yeah, yeah, who's calling?

So she calls the restaurant to see where the Androcas is are. Right, they left 40 minutes ago though. Yeah, yeah. And he's like, hold up. I'll just put down my, like, I'll just stop what I'm doing and find out. that's the way it used to be though. I guess so without cell phones, it kind of had to be.

Baby Sitter's called restaurants, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and here we are in a cell phone world. This movie never happens without cell phones. Sure. I mean, this movie never happens in a world where there are cell phones.

Yeah, I am curious how they handle that in the remake. Oh, right. There's like a 2006 version of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So she makes another call. She calls the Popo. Sergeant Sacker.

Yeah, yeah. She calls 911. They're like, isn't it a burn? She goes, yeah. No. Not exactly. And then they give her a 5-55 number, and I was like, damn, in 79, we were already at 5-55. I didn't realize that had been instituted so early.

Yeah. Because dummies couldn't not call the phone numbers they heard on the TV. I mean, poor everyone with 867-3-309 is their phone number. Sure. Probably to this day. Tommy two-tone. You fucking psycho. 555-309.

It just doesn't work as well. No. No, it's not gonna, it's not gonna work as well. The cop says, have you tried whistling into the phone to break his ear drums? And I'm like, is she like a kid playing stickball in the 20s in New York City that'd do that like fingers in the mouth whistle? What kind of advice is this? I don't. It's the kind of advice you give to people because you're constantly getting calls about dudes jerking off on the phone.

I guess you're right. He does say this happens all the time. Yeah, yeah. In this phone call, at least he doesn't tell her to calm down. It's true. He will later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He says, tug it till it rings.

Yep. That's what he says. And we were like, whoa. What? So she does my next, my next, the next thing she does is my favorite thing that she does in this movie. She gets off the phone with the cop. He's like, hey, man, just, you know, it's fine. Nothing's going to happen.

We got cops in the neighborhood. He's like, you're in a rich neighborhood and dudes are jerking in into phones. It's all good. Daily. Yeah. Yeah, many times. There's like a 99% chance they can't get any on you through the phone. Sure.

We don't know for sure how phones work yet, but. We've seen a couple Freddie movies, so maybe. He could come right through those holes there. Those are for his come. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I'm thinking of that CM Punk movie. So what she does is she just goes and sits like, I don't know, seven inches from the door and stares at it waiting for the mandracuses to get home.

In the dark. I don't think I would sit in the dark. I don't, I think I would turn on every fucking light in that house. Sure. I'd run up the mandracus's electric bill because back then it was nothing. Yeah, no, no, no. Burning coal like it's nothing. It's nothing.

Um, so she, this goes on for a while. She calls the cops again, tells them she thinks someone's outside watching her. But they are not. They are not. No. Sergeant Sacker's like, listen, lady. Did you try whistling? She's like, mm-mm, mm-mm.

Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. She now is sitting on the stairs. She's going to head upstairs and then the phone ring, so she just comes downstairs and sits. And she grabs a cane. There are so many canes in that. How many walking sticks does one man dracus need?

I mean, he's stick rich. He is stick rich. There's at least 12 in there. Yeah. There's a doghead. There's a duckhead. There's whatever the fuck she grabs. There's several that are just handles.

Yeah. Do you think I have a note that says she grabs a cane? A carol cane? Ugh. Help us all. Did you think that I said aloud, I think I might become a walking stick person. And then immediately it was like, no. I got a walkie stick.

Of course you do. You're a man of affect. You're wearing your chain? I meant to wear my chain tonight and I forgot. I'm not wearing my chain. Let's wear our chains next time. All right. Okay.

So we see the melted ice cream. Now she has a fire poker in the hand. I guess the walking stick was too much for her to wield. I mean, a fire poker is a much better weapon. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She gets another phone call. This time the caller and her now have a conversation because Sergeant Slacker has told her to keep him on the line so they can trace the phone call.

One minute. As if all the cops are doing tonight is waiting for this lady to get a fucking phone call in San Francisco. I mean, what? Is it San Francisco? I thought so. I think it's L.A. Oh, all right, maybe. Because when they show the city, it looks very like Midwest anywhere.

Yeah. But then I think there are Paul. I think it's LA. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I was trying to figure it out. I landed on San Francisco.

Well, just because the 70s. Well, just here to tell you that you're wrong. Okay. That's fine. No, if it was San Francisco,

they would have shown that real windy street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And a bridge. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Whatever that one that they drive across. Whatever the thing could be called. Yeah. Fuck you America. So she has this conversation with this dude and she lets it slip that the cops told her to keep him on the phone basically so they could trace the call. She's like,

how long have we. been talking, stranger. Love you. Tell me your social security number, but say it really slowly. Where'd you go to school? What's your accent? Let's be Cleveland. Let's go be girls.

So the cop call, because they were able to trace the phone call. Right. And what does the cop teller? The call is coming from inside the house. He says, get out. At no point does he say, go grab those kids. Those kids that you're responsible for? Fuck them.

It doesn't matter. They're already dead. No, but when the door opens upstairs, fucking terrifying. Tell me more. You just see the shadow of the door opening, the light coming out of the room upstairs.

It's a dude with the side part. Yeah, and then she opens the front door and there's this really great thing of where Charles Durning is just standing outside. How did he get there so quickly? He's not there. It's just like the way that they blended the scenes together.

Oh, right, right, right, right. I remember now. I remember being like, I see what you're trying to do. But I'm not sure that it's working. It freezes on him and then it starts back up and they're like... He's at Dr. Mondracus's house looking like a little tiny koala man. Yeah.

And they inform him that both the kids are dead, but the babysitter is still alive. Right. Though we don't see her at this point and the mandracuses are home. Right. This is the last we see of her for a while. Yes. Yes. Poor man dracases.

Jesus fuck. I can imagine. And they caught the guy. He was still upstairs when the cops got there. Just hanging out there covered in blood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. seven years later Charles Durning goes to a mansion It's the same house I think Is it the same house?

I don't fucking know Details I didn't even take notes I thought it was just I thought it was a much bigger house saying like Well you know Mandrax says Without having to raise two children

You were actually able to save a lot of money I would say that daycare is incredibly When I added up What I spent on daycare From Lucy between five months old And five years old It was like three times times my college education. I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's because I went to college in like the 70s.

Daycare's a scam is what we're telling you. That's what I'm saying. Oh, it was wonderful. She's so smart. Opt out of daycare. Just feed your kid. What a way? Just ivermectin. Just give them Ivermectin. Tried wife. Get a goat. Who knows? Is this Dr. Mandracus? It's Dr. Mandrakus? Okay. Okay. I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell. He, even though he still has a mustache and is wearing a turtleneck because so many men in this movie have a mustaches. and are wearing turtiles. Sure. It was of an era. Oh, sure.

Yeah. Yeah. So he's like, yeah, I'm going to get him for you, though. I'm going to get him. So I'm going to go to this mental hospital that he escaped from and yell at this woman. This woman who's just out here doing her fucking best. But in the world's defense, they were like, he's like, so electroshock treatment. And she's like, yeah, a few times.

He's like, says 35. She said, yeah, a few times. She goes, that's a standard protocol. He's not even what he's yelling at her for. He's yelling at her because it didn't work. And she's like, bro, this is my place. So she plays him a tape of Kurt, the killer. Kurt Duncan, who is an English merchant seaman, I think.

Seaman from a merchant. All right, CM Punk movie. Never forget the time we said jizz 300 times in an episode. Oh, man. And, yeah, you know, he's a little wacky. On this tape, a little wackadoo guy. Yeah, he's just kind of yelling. He's paranoid.

He's very upset. Sure, sure. So now we're with a new man, who we have to assume is Kurt. Yes. And he's at a, he's at a bar. Can I just tell you how much time I want to spend at Torchies? Torchies. I want to be Torchy.

Torchy. Torchy. Who is Torchy? Who is Torchy? I hope it's not that bartender who's a real piece of shit. Really stands up for women. He sucks. This woman's a regular.

Yeah. This is probably Kurt's first time here. Probably. And he's like, no, it's fine. Let him, let him just fucking, let him abuse her.

I feel like the guy who beats Kurt up was in like Terminator or Aliens movie or something. He has a very familiar face. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, Kurt's being like real gross to, uh,

Colleen do her, st aka Tracy. She is just being very explicit that she does not want to talk to him. She gets up and moves over a few seats. She tells him she has her own money. She tells him, get the fuck away from me. Yeah. And he just keeps being like, but...

And then he fucking touches her. Don't touch that. Don't touch Tracy. First of all, don't touch Tracy even if she invites it because she's going to bite you. Tracy is tough as nails. You know what I mean? There is a movie where Tracy just whips the shit out of this dude. I would have liked that a whole lot more than like,

the dude playing pool having to do it. Yeah. Yeah. But so the dude the dual dude playing pool intervenes. Because the bartender's like, it's fine. What if what that's your job? Your whole I it's probably not the worst thing he's seen at Torchies. Yeah. Torchise sign is so expressive. Big. I feel like there needs to be dancers or something more happening in there. Torchies was probably a happening spot at some point. I really love the flickering flame neon lights.

Yeah, I want those in my room. I'm entering my sleaze period. I can't wait until you enter your indie sleaze period and just start listening to like France Ferdinand and Interpol all the time. I loved Interpol the time they came out. I bought that record from Paul CDs in Bloomfield. Nice. From Paul, who was working the register at the time.

Nice. It was on his picks of the weeks. Yeah. Picks of the week. And he still sneered at it because that man sneered at everything. Hey, you got a brand. You got to keep going with it. I was like, it's on your Pigs of the week, Paul.

Picks for idiots, idiot. Dumb girl. Actually, come me saying that. I don't know if Paul was a misogynist. I don't think he was. I think he hated everyone equally. So I don't want anyone to get upset. So.

That place is a vape shop now. And in the defense of the man who does whoop Kurt Duncan's ass Kurt spits in the man's face Oh yeah, Kurt has everything that happens to him Everything has it coming to him Yeah, yeah, yeah And then he pours booze all over Kurt and drags his ass outside And I was like, yeah, that kind of rules

Oh, I thought he was pissing on him No, I think he's just pouring booze on him He probably had to pay for that Because that bartender's not giving away anything for free He of a beard, mustache, and turtle neck. I do like that when the bartender picks of the phone to call the cops, when he starts beating up, Kurt, he just grabs the phone and goes, who are you calling?

You're going to put that phone down now, dog. I was like, you could do that shit in the 70s. Yeah. So now we're at a funky party. It's funky party time. Funky party time. Yeah. We see the cop who was the one who informed Charles Durning about.

the murders. Yeah, Charlie. Charlie. A.k.a. Superfly. So swarthy. How is that man's name O'Neill? Ron O'Neill. I just can't get over that.

I don't mean to be racist. You know how I feel about the Irish. I also like that he was wearing a wig seven years earlier in the movies so that he would be balding by the time we meet him seven years later. Very much so. And he's, it's like his birthday party.

He's having a real good time. He's real drunk. Charlie's real drunk. He's having a great time. He's a lovely man. Man, lovely man. And Charles Dernie is like, hey, so Kirk got out of jail and I'm going to find him. So I need your help. And they go up to Charlie's newborn baby's room.

Don't go in there and talk in the baby's room. There's so many other places to talk. You don't go and talk in a baby room. You got to talk in the baby's room. Oh, God. He's also, is this where he's like, I'm going to kill him? No, that happens later. That happens in his office later.

Okay. where you realize that Charlie's a good fucking friend. Charlie would help you bury a body. Oh, yeah. Charlie's the guy you call. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we cut back to Tracy leaving Torchies. Yeah.

And she gets followed home by Kurt. Yeah. Nobody stops Kurt following her out, of course. No, because she's literally walking through a desolate, dystopian hellscape that is 1979 Los Angeles. Milwaukee? St. Louis. Obviously a part of a city that had a lot of money at one point.

Yeah. It's very, like, there's a lot of, like, really nice architecture. It's very art deco, yeah. Yeah. And she goes on this very long walk, gets to her building, goes into... Why is she not drinking at a bar closer to her house? She's wearing heels. I mean, Torches is the place to be, though.

Yeah. Yeah. You're just trying to get, like, fingered on a Thursday night. Go on Torches. Torches is finger on Thursdays. Tago Tuesdays, Ming her Thursdays. Bottomless Wednesdays. There you go.

So you figure bottomless Wednesdays and fingering would just go together, but for some reason. No, no, they have to have it on two separate days. Do you remember all the 31st Street Pub used to have underwear days? Underwear Wednesdays. Underwear Wednesdays. Every new business that moves in there when Missy and I drive by, I think they still got underwear Wednesdays. Yeah, it's like a boutique of women's clothing now. I think about how many cigarettes I smoked in that building.

My favorite 31st Street Pub memory is going to see Watain there and they had a CD of intro music. And the intro music stopped. They started playing their Scandahoovy and Black Metal. Yeah. And rattle and hum. But you two starts playing because they didn't turn off the fucking five dis changer at 31st Street Pub. What was that? Joel, was that his name, the owner of that place?

I think so. My favorite 31st Street Pub memory is when he screamed at my band that he stopped having Monday night shows because of us. Look, we couldn't go up against the steel. You know? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't our fault.

I thought you were just so fucking rambunctious that you just shut it down. We just did such a bad job promoting it. It's not your job. Your job is to play music. My job. So he follows her home. She gets into the most rickety elevator ever. And I was like, I don't care what floor I lived on.

I'm getting the fucking, I'm going to have a heart attack going up of goddamn steps. He follows her home. He follows her home. this movie, when you look into this movie in any way, it's like the first 23 minutes are the most tense. I found this scene so much more tense than the babysitter scene. So I saw this movie when I was a very wee young baby child. Sure. Way too young.

Way too young. And like I can see why my child brain was like, this is boring. The first 20 minutes are very exciting. Yeah. And then like the rest of this. And now as a 52 year old baby child, I'm like, the rest of this movie is fucking terrified. Well, not all of it. Not all of it, but there's like, it's, it's, I realize I have an old man's hard on for

70s, like cinema. Of course. But like, don't say old man's hard on in this show again, okay? That makes everybody upset, including me, most especially me. I just have a limp trying old man's heart on for this. Gross. Sufetch. Stop.

Why are you doing this specifically to me? I'm doing it to them too. No, they don't care the way I do. This scene where she is trying to placate a man who is clearly unwell, who has just gotten the shit kicked out of him and who she wants to leave her home but doesn't know what he's going to do brought out so much anxiety in me. And there's no way I would have clocked that as a kid, right? I would not have understood.

that at all. But I feel like modern day reviewers of this film should collect that. Sure. Like how scary it is to be somewhere in a confined space with a man that you don't know what he's going to do and you have to placate him. And I feel like modern day reviewers would still watch this and go, why did she, why did she talk to him? Why is she doing it?

She pities him and wants him gone. And she's also worried that he's going to kill her. He's worry. Yes, exactly. A fear that all women have to have all the fucking time. Right. Because of what you've done. Yeah.

Cool. Great. Yeah, thanks, world. We did it. Says the white man. We did it, world. And he's like just pressuring her to go out with him to have coffee and she's like, yeah, I don't. She's like, maybe later. That's the thing you say to men when you want them to leave you alone. Sure.

Yeah, no, another time for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And but I, the, the tensest I got was when he left, but he left the door open a crack. Because you know he's trying to come back. Yeah, I was like, oh no, he's going to bust back. in. He's going to bust back in. Oh, man. No good. No good. We see Charles Durning now. He's out there. He's action Dernie. He's out there on the streets. He's working the streets. He's a bit action. Yeah. Yeah. He's so cuddly though. He's hanging out. We see Kurt's hanging out with unhoused people. Yeah. I love this man. His friend. Oh yeah. I didn't realize he was going to be such a

big part of the movie, but he sure is. They're drinking ripple. Ripple. Ripple, a pear wine. And I was like, Missy, do they still make ripples? She's like, I don't know. And I was clickety, clickety, clackety, He looked it up. Stop making it in 1984. The year of my birth. Exactly. And I also didn't realize that Ripple was carbonated. Oh, it's lightly carbonated.

I assumed it was like Mad Dog 2020. No, no. It's a lightly carbonated bevy. Interesting. Like a lightly carbonated wine. Like a sparkly wine. Okay. That makes me want to get a bottle of Mad Dog 2020 and put it through a soda stream to make

it carbonated and see what happens. That's how you conjure the devil. Do not do that. I can only hope. I've been trying for years. And the pentagram in my basement is not working. Will you get the flavor that is the color and taste of Windex for the Mad Dog 2020? No, because I don't like blue as a flavor.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't tell me it's raspberry. Raspberries are not blue. No. I always liked, I think it was like, whoa, it was pink. It was like strawberry kiwi perhaps. Okay. I think they had a pinocalata as well.

What do you have had? I'm sure they still do. Sure. It's just that you're not wearing jinkos anymore to fit it into your back pocket. Remember fitting a bottle of mad dog into your jinkos? That was a Boones Farm girl. Were you a Boones Farm? No, I was a Mickey's dude.

Of course you were. Get that fucking bee tattooed on you. The bee just love me some house of pain. Okay, let's get, okay, for our werewolf family on tattoos, let's get the bee, the Mickey's B. But it's got the werewolf head. But it's got the werewolf head. And it just has a little word bubble that says,

We're all famines rules. Is that too many words? I have dumber tattoos. I don't. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Absolutely too. Bustin makes me feel good.

I'm looking at it right now. Yeah. I have a monkey taking a peach off a tree holding a straight razor, wearing a diaper tattooed on me. Look out for your friends, baby. Yeah. So. Nelly lyrics on my ass.

Do I? win with that. You might. Yeah. You might? Yeah. He sucks, Nelly. Yeah.

It's a bummer. It's a bummer. I fuck off a dye tattooed on my wrist. You still believe that, though. And still. Yeah. This is where I have a note freaking out that Charles is superfly. So this is where he goes to, he goes to, oh, he goes to Tracy.

Charles Durning does? Charles Durning does. Because through talking to the ripple guy, he figures. figures out that like where Kurt's been hanging out, goes to find Tracy, talks to her, explains to her what the murderers were. Yeah, poor Tracy. She just wanted to go to Torchies and do her crossword and smoke her six. And I, as a spinster, understand that wholeheartedly.

Like 20 minutes into your spinster life. I know, but I'm getting, embracing. I'm getting very comfortable. Plus, you know I do that New York Times crossword every day. I don't look at you. I've been feeling the midi. I've been fucking with the midi a lot. I try to get the mini in under 30 seconds.

And if I don't get an under 30, I feel bad about myself. And then the midi, I have to get an under 90. And if I don't get an under 90, I'm not about myself. Wow. Yeah, it's really, I've got to stop doing this to myself. Yeah. A jock out of remembering words. Those are really my two things, though, aren't they?

Being a jock and remembering words. So, like, he explains. And like, yeah, the, the, the, uh, forensics guys couldn't figure out what the murder weapon was until they realized he ripped the kids apart with his bare hands. Yes, they would have taken them six days to put them back together. So they just didn't. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Sometimes she's, like, you're not going to do an open casket with children who have been ripped limb from limb. Also, don't do an open casket ever. Have you ever been to a funeral and been like, wow, they look good? No. actually none of looks pretty good yeah I just want to say that too much mascara though she didn't wear that much mascara

sure she wasn't a whore shit I'm sorry Johnny Depp killed my grandmother go on so she agrees to help after getting all of this gruesome information yeah and then he goes to Charlie

and he's like hey Charlie I'm gonna kill this guy I'm gonna use my needles so is this a dart What does he have here? I think it just has like needles that can make like really small holes to kill somebody with like a like a miserable recorder where you shove it in the armpit to hit the heart like. What is he doing with these? He's just being a darning.

Because they don't work. Yeah. And also Charlie's like, you probably shouldn't but I got your back. But if you do, make it a good murder. Make it a good murder. Do it with your needles. Yeah. Because sometimes the law just isn't going to be on your side.

No, that's true. Sometimes we have to take vigilante justice. I don't really believe in vigilante justice. No. He always cracks me up that like superheroes are just vigilant, like Batman and shit. Yeah. Not your own fucking business, dude. Kids are supposed to look up to you, some rich guy who runs around solving crimes.

You know what I learned recently? Yeah. Maybe this isn't recent, but at least I remembered it recently, that Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's just a rich guy with toys? Yeah. That's stupid. Well, what's he doing out there?

Just being a rich guy with mommy and daddy issues Because his parents were killed And so he just goes around fighting people Yeah, it goes around stopping crimes He's just a bro He's just a dude in a bar 100% Yeah, yeah yeah

He's just a rich guy I mean it's the same thing with Tony Stark Iron Man Isn't that Elon Musk? Who? I saw a cyber truck recently That had a sticker on it That was like I bought this before I knew Elon was crazy

No you didn't because they didn't because they didn't come out until well after. You fucking asshole. That piece of shit has been crazy for decades. Oh, you bought it before you started paying attention to the fact that he was crazy or caring. I see, I see, I see. Or someone pushed back against it, dumb, dumb. You're still driving it around, aren't you?

Yeah. Driving into the river. Driving into the fucking river. That's how you show your dedication to the cause. Tracy's back to drinking. Kurt's stalking around. And then Charles Durning is a stalking him. There's a lot of stalking going on.

That's most of the second act. Yeah, there's an unhoused man jump scare on a set of steps. Yeah, I don't love that. It's of an era. All right. I do like that, like, this, like, her first walk home was like this long, meandering walk. And this now that she knows, like, the shit's going down, she's, like, hustling. She's hustling, yeah.

Yeah. Still wearing heels, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a high heel, too. Don't do that. Yeah, it's stiletto. Where your sneaks. when you're walking home from the bar.

Exactly. Well, sneaks in a, sneaks was a couple years later for the ladies when you get your working girls out there. Well, you weren't allowed to wear pants yet, right? Not unless you're a rotten horse. Sure. Because you don't want your...

You're right at side saddle so that you don't have to wear pants. It's true. It's true. It's true. So your vagina doesn't fall out. No, they don't want that to happen. That's why women couldn't run marathons. Did you know this? That women couldn't competitively run more than, I think, 5K

until something like 1974. Sure. Because they were sure that you were sure that, uteruses would fall out of bodies. Yeah, there's, there's a famous photo of, I can't remember. Catherine Switzer. Yeah, getting like pushed around by guys because she's running a fucking marathon. She was running the Boston Marathon.

And I think that was 1976 or 77. She probably couldn't even have a fucking credit card yet. And she signed up for it as Kay Switzer. Smart. And then she ran it in like under four hours. Catherine Switzer is a hero of mine. If you ever listen to her talk, she's incredible. I'd still be running that marathon.

Oh, my God, yeah. I'm never going to run a marathon, but I will love to listen to her. her talk. Yeah. No, I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, I love that you know her name. That's awesome. Thank you. Now, they all do too. Exactly. Because I taught you something today. Look at that. Look at that. Don't ever say we're not education. Don't ever say I'm stupid. We're off ambulance. We're off ambulance and edutainment podcast. Edgutainment. So, uh, don't worry. Kurt's already in the house. Oh, he's, how did he get there? He's just there. He's just there. He's just there. Because he gets into people's houses when they don't know about it.

Exactly. But she is not having it. And she starts. screaming. So action Dernan comes running in the house. He's running is generous. And Kurt busts out, but Charles Durning is still chasing him. Yeah. He's following him. He's running. He's running fast. Kurt is a very lithe man. Sure. Yeah. And I do like how disheveled he gets throughout the like possession of this movie. Mm-hmm. He died shortly after this, didn't he? Oh, did he? I think so. The actor. Yeah. Not not Kurt. Kurt. Yeah. No, he dies. in the movie. So action, yeah, action Durning is running all over the plate.

Kurt's out now. He loses Kurt. We see Kurt walking around. Kurt gets into a mission. He's going to spend the night there. Takes a shower, has a breakdown. As you do. Is this where he's just like shining the flashlight into random people's faces?

Yes. Once Charles Durning, because, so Kurt gets seen by the guy with the ripple from earlier. And that guy's like, hey man, there's a guy with, money. Let's go get that money. Then we can get that, that. He's getting a reward. What's it called? Joy juice or something. Something like that. Yeah. Joy juice. I think you're right. Yeah. And then he sees Charles Durning. He's like, oh, shit, man, that dude you're looking for. He's over at that mission. Yeah. So Charles Durning takes a flashlight and keeps shining in people's faces. Just unhoused people

trying to sleep. And he's very clumsy about it. So of course, Kurt wakes up. Yeah, of course. He's shining a fucking flashlight in a dark room. This is after, but that's after Kurt. It has had the naked remembering everything that he's done. Oh, yes. Where we see the actual, like, him covered in gore from the murders. Yes. I was like, that is very effective. It is very effective.

Yeah. Very upsetting. Yeah. But I even know this says, oh, wow. We see the aftermath of him killing the kids. Oh, wow. I love it. You're so academic about it.

Oh, wow. That's very interesting. I like that, oh, wow. I like to moderate a panel on this. Oh, wow. Oh, wow speaks of academic. Just the way you said it. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow. Interesting. This reminds me of something that Foucault said. You see, in Voltaire's work. Now, the way Proust approached this. So we get some more cat and mouse. They're running through the basement of the mission. Charles Darning running is just the cutest, funniest thing I've ever seen.

You just want to slap his belly. I don't know what it is. I just want to slap it. I assume. It's not hard. I just wanted to go, sure. It's just like a bowl full of jelly.

Just like a bowl full of jelly. He's throwing fucking darts at Kurt. This is so strange. Why is this his weapon of choice? Because you can't fire a gun. He's like a level one thief. Sure. Sure.

Yeah. Throwing like shitty daggers and missing. Also, quick aside, Charles Durning fought in the fucking battle of the bulge. Did he now? Yeah, he's like, he was there for like, uh, uh, D-Day. He fought in the battle of the bulge, got wounded, got a purple heart silver star, all that stuff. Jeez.

But it's just like, I love it. I love that this little koala bear man was out there fighting wars. And, and also starring in the Muppet movie the same year. So he's chasing, this rules. He's chasing fucking Kurt through this building. And Kurt's like banging on doors to get everybody to wake up. because he knows that he can like use human bodies to deflate the koala from coming after him. Yes.

And he runs, Kurt runs out a flight of steps and slams the doors behind him. When Charles Durning hits those fucking doors and the one just completely comes off the hinges. He wrecks it. He runs through it. It's so good. That's like, that was not planned. No. They were like one shot and done.

We do not need to do a retake. And also, we can't because we don't know how to fix it. We got to go. We broke that door. We got to go. We got to go. We got to fuck out of here. So Kurt is now fully snapping and he's saying things like no one can hear me, no one can see me, no one can touch me.

Yes. Yes. I don't exist. I wasn't born. That's very weird. Yeah. Yeah. It's very creepy.

Yeah. Who do we meet? Who do we meet now? Oh, it's Carol Kane. It's Carol Kane. It's Carol Cam. They let her hair out. Yeah.

Shake it out, baby. All that hair. All that hair. She just want to roll around in it, don't you? Yeah. I do. I do. I do. So, there's this whole back and forth. Her and her husband are going to go out to dinner.

He's got some special news. He needs to tell her. I thought this was Bobby. It's not Bobby. His name is Stephen. Well, maybe it was Bobby. Wouldn't that be a nice callback? Bobby's fucking Nancy. Bobby never called. Bobby's fucking Nancy. This movie's not called when a Bobby calls. No, no, no, no, no, no. Babysitter comes over. Yeah.

And earlier we saw Kurt pick up a piece of trash in the street. babysitter comes over and says, hey, I saw your photo in the newspaper. Bum, bum, pump, put the pieces together. Kurt picked up the newspaper that had her fucking photo in it. Why, though?

Why, Kurt? I don't know. Why leave her alive the first time? I think because she bolted at the same time the cops were coming in. It's the only thing I can assume. He had every opportunity to kill her, though. Sure, but he was playing a long game.

Long con. Too long. Too long. Too long. too long, frankly, but he fucked it up. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So we learned that the husband got a new job

when they're raised in a car. She's so proud of him. She's so proud. She's so sweet. This is Jill. They get a phone call. Mm-hmm. And so she has to go answer the phone at the restaurant.

Right, because this is still happening seven years later. Yeah. Still 1979. It's always 1970. It's always 1979. What does the phone call say? Why haven't you checked the children? Bum-b-b-b-b-and-and-and-and-and-and-and.

And what did she do? fucking freaks loses her goddamn mind how would you not how could you not kudos to stephen for being fucking supportive and not being like he does not tell her to calm down yeah he says we're going to handle this yeah we're going to handle this yeah yeah he does say on the phone stephen's a good husband yeah yeah he does say sorry for the hysterics to the babysitter was like stephen well he wants a babysitter to stay calm he needs a babysitter to stay calm that that teenager is in charge of your children exactly do you remember when we did a live show and my teenage babysitter locked herself out of the house with the baby in the house.

And I fucking freaked out on stage. You remember that? That was so fun and cool. So they get back to the house with the cops. Yeah. Sharon's fine. Everything's fine. The kids are fine.

Everybody's fine. Right. Her kids are cutest buttons. Cute as buttons. You can't kill the kids that cute. Only kill out-go kids. I really liked when the boy child is saying his prayers. Yeah, saying his prayers.

Sorry. I was like, well, did the devil take the word prayers from your brain? Yeah. That's right. I kiss the devil in the forearm. So, oh, that's your astrological sign.

He, he is saying his prayers and the, the, the girl child just keeps going, and me. And me? I love her. She's so good.

And he's like, and her. And her. And I was like, that's a really good way of like showing a brother, sister dynamic. I like that a lot. So Stephen's got a gun.

And he's like, I'll just put this gun right over here and I'll shoot anybody if they come in the house. I'm a really good job. I've got this. Cops are staking out the house. Carol's up wandering around. Carol. So she's in bed. She's in bed.

She thinks she hears his voice as the closet door starts to open. Oh, my God. She goes to shake Stephen. Yeah. Is it Stephen? It's Kurt. Oh, my God. So they have a tussle.

Yeah, yeah. And who's there? Who busting? Fucking action durning, busts in the house. Shoots this dude dead. Shoots him dead. Why was Kurt sleeping in the closet? Or Stephen sleeping in the closet?

I think he's unconscious or he's just ate too much at the restaurant. Oh, my tummy. So much escargo. I love escargo. I never had it. Oh, it's really good. Yeah. Yeah.

You wouldn't think, but you would think it's good. Yeah. I mean, I love sea bugs. I mean, shrimps is bugs. Exactly. Exactly, exactly. You don't eat seafood though, do you? Once in a blue moon.

You should come to the seven fishes this year. I think you're, you're going to come to Thanksgiving again? Maybe. So, Carol's crying, comforted by Durning, movie ends with a shot of outside of the house and Kurt's eyes superimposed over the house. Yeah, it reminded me of like every wedding photo of your aunt, you know, where it's like her as a bride and then like, you know what I mean? like those two photos.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like a high school graduation photos from this period. One is in profile. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So that's when a stranger calls. Can I be honest with you? I would love that for us.

I loved this. It was fucking great, wasn't it? It's a really great short story split in half by an episode of Colchak, the nightstock. Oh, and who doesn't want all of that? Who doesn't want all of that? I think the greatest trick that when a stranger calls has ever done is convincing everybody that it's not good after the first 20 minutes so that when you go and watch it, your expectations are super low.

Seriously, I genuinely thought that the scene of her in her apartment was so much more tense than the babysitter scene. For sure. And also, wow, scream? This movie crawled so you could run. Oh, for sure. Yeah, right? This movie crawled so Charles Dernan could run.

Well, it was so cute. He's a little koala. What are you going to rate this bitch? I'm going to give this a solid nine, Katie. I fucking loved it. Solid nine. Yeah, I'm going to get an eight. I don't think it's nine.

worthy for me, but I really enjoyed it. Gets in, gets out, would watch again. I love, like, this era of cinema. It's so grimy. We didn't even talk about how fucking grimy is. Oh, my God, it's so grimy. We've been talking to each other all day about how grimy it is, and we just didn't do it on the air.

We blew that gold. We blew that gold. So fucking grimy. Oh, it's so filthy. Filth City. America. Her apartment? Oh.

That green carpet? Oh. Did so well at just showing. showing poverty without belittling the people who were in the poverty, if that makes sense. It's very tactful in that way. You're so right about that. Yeah. Like you knew that Tracy was not doing well.

No. And you knew that that man was on house, but he was still full of joy. Yeah, yeah. But like they're still treated as human beings. So you feel like a lot of times like now we're just like, oh, you're a dumb hick. You don't have any money. Right. Yeah.

Also, she had art all over. There was so much art in this movie. Did you notice that on every wall in every building? There are tons of paintings. And I don't know what that was, I don't know what it was saying or meant to say. Or if it was just like the director's wife was a painter or something. I feel like that's just how shit was when I was growing up. There was just so much like people just bought like random art to hang up in their houses.

Why don't they do that anymore? Like pictures of like sailboats and shit. Like I don't know. I mean, I have a ton of art hanging up from it. Yeah. Guys get into art. Put some art up. What are we doing?

Go to art all night. and buy some art. Yeah. Yeah. Get friends that are artists that just keep giving you stuff and you hang it up around your house. Not bad. Yeah. That's it.

That's it for this movie. That's it for this movie. But it's not it for us. It's not it for this podcast. Oh my God. No, it's not the thing. We haven't done the thing. Katie, can we do something a little crazy?

Let's do something a little crazy. Can we stay in the 1970s for the next movie? I would love that. Can we go with inarguing? arguably a patron saint of the horror genre. Tell me who. One Vincent Price. He of the cookbooks.

Vincent Price has cookbook. Oh yeah, yeah. I didn't know that. He loved food. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He seemed like such a good man. Genuinely kind, dude. There's a band that I really like called Mommy Longlegs,

and one of their hit songs is called Weird Girl. And part of the chorus is I'd rather touch myself to a Vincent Price movie. Because I want to be a weird girl, weird girl. weird girl. They did a, what was it, this is your life for, I think, for Christopher Lee. And Vincent Price like flew over to England to be there for it. Yeah.

Because they were buds. They were buds. Because everybody was buds with him. He's episode of the Muppet show. I'm sorry, I keep talking about the Muppets today just because Charles Durning was in the Muppet movie. He's episode of the Muppet show. It's like the last episode of season one. Okay.

And it's like a spooky Halloween episode. And he is so fucking fantastic. against those puppets. You can tell he's having just such a great time. Yeah. Just by all accounts, genuinely kind to human being who just happened to be like six foot something and could pull off being intimidating in a film. And smoked like a fucking chimney.

And then when you watch something like Last Man on Earth and you're like, wait, you're the action guy? Wait. This fucking guy? Anyway, you want to do one of his movies? Yeah. What do we want to do? The one that you're better pronouncing than I am.

I already forget what it's called. And I'm not opening my notes up because I already locked. my phone. The abominable Mr. Febes. Isn't it Dr. Febes? Dr. Febs? Brian Febes? The Abominable Brian Febes. It's Dr. Febes. Or Dr. Fibbs. Oh, I assumed

it was Febes. Well, I guess we're going to find out because we're going to watch it. It's a horror comedy. I have never seen this movie, which is surprising to me. I had it on one of those DVD box sets of like 50 great classic horror films, but I never watched it. Yeah. Yeah. I watched a lot of his. His mute assistant is named Volnavia, which doesn't sound like Volva at all. No, this is going to be great.

Volnavia? Volnavia. This I like a lot. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Cool. Let's do it. Someone suggested this for us?

Yeah, yeah. A listener suggested that we do this. I think maybe on Reddit. But you know who you are. You don't need credit. No. Just for being on Reddit. Just being our friend.

Yeah. You're a friend. Thank you for being a friend. I don't know your name. Doesn't mean you're not our friend. You're just a friend we haven't met yet. You're a friend we haven't met yet. Yeah.

Probably never will because we're never doing another live show because the last time my fucking teenage babysitter locked yourself out with my child and texted me while we were on stage and I was like, I don't know what to do. It got handled. It got handled. And you have thanks to your lovely wife. It was handled. We can, uh, let's wait until your daughter is of babysitting age and then we'll do another life.

Yeah, when she can stay home by yourself. Yeah. No, when she can babysit. Oh, who's she going to babysit? I don't know. Well, that's, okay. The cats in the cradle and the silver spoon. Yeah, come back for that.

If you're a patron and you've become a patron recently, respond to your patron email. Let us know your shoutouts and all that stuff. Yeah, we're doing Lady Blood Fight this month. Yes. I'm very excited. Not Lady Blood Fight, but Lady Blood Fight. Lady Blood Fight. Have you watched the trailer for it yet?

I have not. I don't like to watch trailers because I feel like it takes me out. It looks atrocious. It's going to be good. These fucking monsters. How long is Lady Blood Fight? Three and a half hours. As I was saying to Missy before I watched one of Stranger Calls,

because I got done making dinner late last night. And I was like, you know what? So stoked I'm doing a movie from 1979 because that's going to be an hour to fucking half right there. Oh, I know. It's in and out. Oh, wow. I'm not seeing the, I'm seeing like the clip of the trailer.

Yeah. It looks shit. It looks like trash. How long is it? An hour 40. Oh. Not so bad. Not so bad.

Lady Blood Flight does what it is. Oh, yeah. Lady Blood Fight knows it's not getting an Oscar nod. So come back for the Vincent Price movie. Yeah. Sign up for Petron. Yeah. And you can get Lady Blood Flight plus like, I don't know, millions.

How many movies have we done? Millions. Millions? And we are on Nice One Mate Season 2. Yeah. Which all of those apparently are free on Patreon. So if you wouldn't get those, Patreon.com back slash Whirlfambulence, and you can listen to the entire first season of Nice One Mate, plus the first episode of season two.

Exactly. It's fantastic. I can't wait to get back to the second episode. Yeah. I'm tickled by this. Just put them out there for the kids. They're for the kids. For the kids.

I mean, you do have to get a subscription to Britbox to know what the fuck we're talking about. I think it might be on like Hoopla to. Oh, really? You can take it up from the library. Guys, watch Line of Duty and listen to our Nice One Mate podcast. It is my true passion now. This I'm doing is a side gig. You can think of Werewell Famil, this is my side piece.

Yeah, this is my fuck buddy. And I'm committed to Nice One Mate. I can't wait to see what happens next. Oh, my God, it's going to be so good. Despite having watched it like last year. I've watched it so many times. I can't even remember. Thank you for listening to another episode of Werewell Ambulance.

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