Ep. 91: "Little Shop of Horrors"

0:17 Thank you. Hey, y'all. It's me, Tara Strong, aka Miss Minutes for Bama Geeks. I hope you're ready to watch, and if you don't, I will have to prune you. Stay on your sacred timeline. And hello, hello.

0:58 Hey, y'all. Hello. What's up? We are the fam of geeks. And as soon as I said that, I think somebody just pulled into our yard. What? What? Yeah, I just saw lights like. OK, I don't know. Hi, we're live. Yeah, just going to go check this out. Can you see anybody out there? So this is how you've been using your your yard for a turnaround. Hey, we're sorry. I mean, as soon as we started this thing. Did somebody pull into the yard? It's like they pulled up like their headlights pulled right behind my car. Oh, okay.

1:39 All right. Come on back in. We're live. Yeah, go on. Get on back in here so we can do some going on. Hey, Shane. How are you, man? Welcome into this crazy. Huh? She dropped her headphones. Oh, geez. We're just a bucket of fun. We are. Like we used to say on television, it's live, baby. That's right. It's live. Anything can happen. I swear. It's like their lights just pull right into the... I can see through the door. Yeah. Okay.

2:19 Okay. All right. All right. So we're good. I'm Brock Parker. That's my wife, Jess. That was a special guest showing up. I didn't tell you about it. Of course, our dear brother, Kevin Gardner is down there. So three out of the four of us are here. Bo is on anniversary assignment. We did not want to deny his wife. the pleasure of his company tonight. I'm not risking the wrath of his wife. No way. Happy anniversary to the Beardens. Yeah, happy anniversary. Bo will be with us next time.

3:00 I'm sorry. This is throwing me completely off with the... Shane says, at least it's not the federal marshals like I saw at a McDonald's. I, well, now when we got home from Kevin's last night. Oh yeah. Yeah. The cops had somebody pulled over like right across the street from our house. Yeah. Like, like right, right in front of our door across the street, we pulled up for like, oh, that's not good. It didn't last long. Nah. I imagine the feds probably just wanted ice cream. And the McDonald's machine is always broken. So there you go. That's right, man. Honestly, you shouldn't be going to McDonald's for ice cream anyway.

3:42 That's my hot take. McDonald's has had some problems lately. Don't eat the salads. Or the onions. I never eat onions, so I'm not worried. Yeah, you're safe. I'm good. So what are we talking about tonight, guys? Oh, my gosh. We're talking about people pulling into your yard. Now, we're talking about a little thing. First of all, that we, the three of us and my daughter and a couple of other friends of ours, we got to do today. And that was we got to go to the Alabama Theater. You guys heard the episode yesterday. a few weeks ago with our good friend, Gary Jones, the house organist for the Alabama theater.

4:25 Today was the day that we got to go see the Phantom of the opera, the, uh, uh, silent movie. Uh, we got to do that today, the Alabama theater. And as we promised in the last episode, two weeks ago, I finally watched, um, a little shop of horrors, the nineteen eighty six musical version. I'd seen the original, uh, I've now seen the musical and we will discuss that in just a bit. And Shane says, at least you did not go in and get something to drink while and sipped on it while watching them. Well, I was peeking out the blinds. Yeah, honestly, we were looking out the blind at the police.

5:10 Well, since it's, since it's been a little while, I can mention this. I live in a, I think, I think I might've mentioned this in our member stream, but I live in a nice quiet neighborhood in the, in the town that I live in. And yeah, uh you know a lot of these folks like they mentioned we had a little halloween get together uh last night and we were kind of all together but um there there was a one particular house that's on my street that's a renter's house that's you know the folks own it but they rent it out and we've had some colorful characters that have lived there in the last little bit as do in most rental properties but yeah right and I try not to I try not to talk bad about rental folks I've rented before too it's just so you more often than not when you don't have the um the I don't know if the right word the burden of of knowing that it's your house and that you want to maintain it and want to be good with your neighbors Sometimes you can get colorful characters.

6:02 And we had some folks that were in there up until not too long ago that there was a domestic issue. And they literally called in the SWAT from my county. And so there was like a SWAT incident that happened on my street in my neighborhood a couple of months back. Which was a buzz in our particular area as well. So that was one that I've shared with a few folks. But yeah, so far as, you know, you get a nice quiet neighborhood and nothing ever happens.

6:43 And then all of a sudden the police show up and... Nothing brings the neighborhood together like the cops at somebody's house. So, yeah. And the neighbor who sat in his house and took video of it while it was happening. It has video that he shared with other neighbors. I don't know who that person could be. But, yeah. Anyway. I was sick of lens out the curtains. Yeah. You know, be like this with a little camera lens. Uh-huh. I'm seeing. Yes. Yeah. Yes. So, so the opera, what do you guys feel?

7:24 Yeah. Yeah, man. Uh, I tell you, uh, if you have not been to see the Phantom of the Opera at the Alabama theater, uh, next year, it will be on October. Uh, that was confirmed today. So, uh, there you go. You've got one year to put it on the, on your calendar, October, at the Alabama theater. Um, you you're in for a treat and next year will be the one hundredth anniversary of that movie. Yeah. Yeah. So we don't know if they're doing anything special. Gary would not tell us. Gary hinted at it though. He hinted, but he wouldn't give us details. He wants to keep us in suspense.

8:06 Gary has some good times today. He was in his element. It was great to be with him. If you get a chance to go to the Alabama Theater, especially with the upcoming holiday film series, which we will have him back on probably towards the end of November to talk about the holiday film series over at the Alabama. Some movies have already sold out for that. Die Hard will probably sell out. uh, uh, Christmas vacation is sold out. And what else? Elf. Elf. All the showings. Yes. Of Christmas vacation and Elf.

8:47 Cause they, they have, uh, they do try to do multiple showings of those because of that very reason. And now, you know, every showing is sold out. So if you wanted to try to catch those, which Elf was one we would do, you know, with the kids, you know, as the kind of the family get together, well, we're out of luck this year. So. But if you guys are okay with the words, most of us are going to be at Die Hard. So if you guys want to come and join us for Die Hard, they do still have tickets available for that. But that one was twelve tickets shy last year of selling out. It will sell out this year. Without a doubt. And that's awesome for the Alabama theater.

9:27 That's just one of our favorite venues in the entire city. And that is one of the showings that they open up all the bars. Yeah. On every level. Every level has its own dedicated bar that you can go to, and they have some of the coolest drinks. So if you want to come and enjoy the adult language, because it is a very adult language infested movie with adult themes, you can enjoy yourself an adult beverage along with it. And they have some of the nicest stuff. I think, Brock, you said last year you got like a – It was an alcoholic eggnog. I think it was. Don't know what you're talking about.

10:10 Yeah. You ain't out me, buddy. No, you just did. It's fine. Yeah, I did. I did. And it was good. Yes, it really was good. so yeah I have highly recommend um going and seeing die hard it's just with everybody's seen it it's the same as like everyone's seen elf and everyone's seen all these other movies but when you go and you see it with other people it's just especially die hard because everybody knows what's going to happen what's coming up the limo scenes uh you know the you know there's the scene of of him in the air conditioning ducting and all it's Yes. Is it? Really? Did you check online, Shane? He said, looks like Die Hard is sold out. Oh, wow.

10:51 Oh, my gosh. Really? Already? Seriously. I'm happy for them about that. I really am, if that is the case. And glad that I got tickets the day they went on sale. Hey, Seb. Good to have you, buddy. Wait, it's not only event calendar? Die Hard? Hang on. We're going to check in. I'm going to check into that. Yeah, I'd like to know that for sure. I'm not calling you a liar there, Shane, but that sounds kind of weird that it wouldn't be on the event calendar. It's one of their biggest movies. And Gary had told us in one of his previous live streams with us that when they first did Die Hard... You know, it was only like a third.

11:32 It was only sold out like a third of the seating. And they were trying to tell them, you know, okay, Shane found it. Okay, good. Thank you, Shane. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, they'd only sold out like a third of the seating. But after the fact, they noticed that, you know, they had doubled their bar tab. Yeah. people that were there and they were like yeah we can do this next year it'll be okay and now now who knows what that bar how high that bar tab is gone because a sellout yeah and close to a sellout yeah I'm glad they I know I donated a good bit last year so we're so so we're good there and it'll definitely be again this year so well today uh I had the alabama gulf breeze uh which was very nice non-alcoholic and then my daughter of course non-alcoholic because she's only eighteen and doesn't wouldn't has no desire for that anyway but um she uh she got the uh the shirley temple there and man those are so good what was in that what was in the alabama gulf breeze this was more like a it's supposed to be like a blue raspberry yeah type drink it was so good yeah it was really good I I nursed it the entire movie and my daughter's she she downed her shirley temple she's like well, why have already finished it?

12:52 You have it. You barely touched it. I'm like, cause this costs money, darling. There are no free refills. You just take a sip of it and go, that was twenty five cents. This is another twenty five cents. Daddy, daddy doesn't get paid for another couple of days. Daddy is having to be real careful because you want an iPad for Christmas. Um, So Brock and I have seen Phantom already before at the Alabama theater. So we knew, you know, we, we generally knew what to expect. So as speaking as someone who this was their first time to experience this, which is Kevin, um, you know, we, we, we have that love for that organ and the, and the sound of the organ and she's back at the Alabama theater and all her and all her glory.

13:43 Um, Kev, how did you feel about your first experience with Phantom at the Alabama Theater? Well, I will say, you know, talking about Big Bertha, you know, Jess thankfully got a lot of really good up-close pictures. And, you know, Gary had told us that, you know, while Big Bertha has always looked gorgeous to the audience, that you get up close to her, a lot of the problem was that she was starting to get some issues. But I can happily report that if you walk up and you get close to her now, she looks just as good. She's beautiful. So they've got her back and they've got her cover. Everything looks great. right as rain and she sounds beautiful. So that said, uh, you know, it's my first time seeing the actual movie itself, you know, and I haven't really, I can honestly say, I haven't really seen many silent films in my lifetime.

14:27 It's really just not much of a, uh, an opportunity to see them. And usually it's, I don't know, those kinds of those movies. If you watch a silent movie with a prerecorded organ or something with it, it just doesn't work as well as actually being there with the organ being played. Um, that said, the experience of this was, uh, It was amazing. It really was. I know that word's used a lot, but there really isn't another word that you can use to describe it. The movie itself started out kind of slow because I was kind of getting into the way that silent films work. Obviously, a lot of text on the screen. But then the funny thing about Gary is that when he does his intro...

15:08 He basically sets up who the villain is of the movie immediately, at least according to his opinion. And anybody that's familiar, even the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, which this is not. Stress that. He very much stresses it. But even if you know the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, the characters are the same. It's all the same characters. Some of them are gender bent a little bit in the Andrew Lloyd Webber version. But all the characters are the same. Christine Daae, you know, the phantom whose name is, what was his name? Eric. Eric. With a K. His name is Eric with a K, you know. I was like, okay, you're going to fall in love with Eric. We don't know what his last name is, but his name is Eric. Yeah.

15:50 But, you know, just a little bit different. But, you know, Gary is of the mind. And you can kind of see it in the film that when you follow along with it, that Christine Dyer is actually kind of like a, she's kind of like a villain character in it. Whereas in the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, she's kind of like the hapless damsel who just happens to fall in love with the guy. But then she is beguiled by the, the Phantom who, at least the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, half of him looks normal, but in this one, you know, the Phantom in the original, he is all butterface. Yeah. He is.

16:30 That poor guy's, um, you know, that poor guy's, he, he's, he's like sloth in the Goonies. He's, he's, he's pretty, he's pretty rough. And, you know, uh, but the, the same time, you know, when you have a silent film, um, all acting is over-exaggerated because they're making it for the fact that, the actors are making it for the fact that you're not gonna be able to hear them. But the whole deal was that Christine Daae throughout the whole thing was like, she was like, every time she saw the Phantom and I'm like, you get about like an hour into it and she's, she's interacted with the Phantom like three times now. And you're like, we get it. He's got a butter face.

17:11 We all see it. Just calm down. Okay. The audience isn't dumb. We know we can, we've seen his face by now. We know he looks bad. Okay. So, and then just kind of the way that she, the way that she acts, it was really easy to do what Gary wanted us to do, which was to boo her. And so, I mean, you guys know me, I participated in the booing and I led some of the booing as well, just to keep things going. So, but, but yeah, to get back at the movie as, as a whole, very, very good movie, very, very well paced. Once you get used to how a silent film kind of runs, I was kind of thrown off at the very beginning because there's a narrator that gives you the intro.

17:57 um to how the thing starts and that is right after gary has told us that all the sounds are going to be coming from the organ I'm like the organ can't talk so that's definitely the silent film well it it wasn't it wasn't anything from the film because it It was a Southern accent. Yeah. Yeah. So it was somebody, and you could tell that it was probably a handheld microphone somewhere in the theater. So they were just setting up. Yeah. Because the, the very first scene of the movie, uh, the, the guy, there's a guy that comes on screen, I guess like a, a theater keeper or something or opera keeper, opera housekeeper. Yeah. He comes out on the screen and you see him saying something, but then there's no words on the screen.

18:42 Mm-hmm. So somebody locally in the house at the Alabama Theater is probably just given a quick overview, but then that's the only vocalization throughout the entire thing. Well, and this was, you know, the silent movie was strictly taken from material from the book, from Gaston Leroux's book. So, you know, and then everything that followed afterwards, you know, was kind of its own iteration of that original story. So, yeah. I don't know this for sure, and I probably could find out because I've never read the novel. But to me, it sounded like an excerpt from the novel. It was a possibility. I think they were reading something like the opening introduction setting the scene that was from the novel.

19:26 That's what I think. I don't know that for sure. Well, listen up, y'all. Listen up, y'all. This is what's about to happen. This man's going to come out of the back here. We got this guy up front who's going to get scared. Because this guy's coming around the back, and he's going to come out, and this guy, we call him the Phantom. That might be a shadow. Who knows what that shadow is? I'm just going to go ahead and tell you guys, this guy's crazy. This guy's crazy. That was definitely, you know, to be a movie based in Paris, that was definitely a very Alabama accent coming out of the bowels of the opera house.

20:09 But then as soon as that gets passed, it settles down and we get into the actual silent film. And then the organist, of course, you know, the guest organist they had there. I'm totally spacing on his name. You guys may know it. I don't remember. Tom Helms. Tom Helms. Yeah, thank you. Guest organist. He's been doing this for forty plus years at this point. The guy is a pro. Forty-fifth year, I think. Yes, and he's been doing it for a very, very long time, and he keeps pace with the movie. I mean, you don't even need – it's so good, you get to the point where you're just watching it. You're like, this is good. It's like watching any other movie. Yeah. And that's the way they intended it. And one of the neat things I noticed this time that I didn't notice the first time we saw it there was, you know, when the Phantom is, you know, five cellars below playing his organ, you hear Tom really beefing up and the volume increases of Big Bertha.

21:06 But then when the Phantom stops playing the organ, he immediately drops back off. The volume goes down and the music changes. Yeah. Morgan music. I thought that was really nice. Today was the first time I noticed that. Well, and there was a, there was a scene in there where Christine Dye is in another room. Right. And then she's, and she can hear it and the volume is low. And then as soon as she opens the door, he cranks the volume up. Like, like, like she suddenly is hearing it full volume. That was a really nice touch. And, and, and I mean, honestly that I heard sounds that I didn't even know that the, the, the, the, the big Bertha can make coming from, you know, like it can make the sound of birds and, you know, they joke that, you know, it's the original birds from the nineteen twenties that are still there making the sounds.

21:46 Yeah. Yeah. Nineteen twenty seven pigeons. Yeah. And Shane said, at least it was not Robert England liking his version of Phantom of the Opera. I have told Robert England face to face that I liked his version. That's not bad. I was getting a free autograph. Well, yeah. Well, I was telling him that. You know, you're making conversations. Yeah. Just to backtrack slightly, and we're talking about, we're discussing Tom. So before the movie gets started, the theater does its own like little procession with the, you know, hooded figures coming down. A profession. Yeah, profession. Yeah. It's a professional procession. Yeah. So that starts before the movie.

22:27 They just come down the aisles of the theater, little spooks holding the candles and coming down. On one side, they're carrying a coffin down. So they all go to the stage, and then the coffin comes off to the side of the stage once they get there. And once it gets to the center of the stage, it opens up, and Tom comes out of the coffin to go to the organ. Yeah. And at the end of the movie, Tom gets back. So I told everybody, I said, well, that that's them putting Tom into storage for next year. You know, he's boxed up, you know, we're going to put him back in his little slot to bring him out next year. And Gary, Gary was actually telling us that Gary, couple of like in the early stages of them doing this and the, in the production and the show that Tom would actually be in the coffin that they were carrying down the aisle.

23:13 And it just got to the point where Tom's like, I'm too old to be doing this. So. That's a long time to be in a coffin. Yeah. So. He's not David Blaine. So there's the theater, you know, does it's, you know, little touches to add to the ambience and the environment. And it's like I said, this is, this is what this theater was built for. This is exactly why this theater was built and its purpose, the organ, the silent movies. And then of course, like we've said, the environment in itself was sitting in that theater and watching this movie. It just, it sets the tone. It's, it's something that you have to, you had to physically experience. Yeah. And, and we did post pictures this afternoon, uh, from that.

23:55 So if you want to check out the pictures and see what the inside of the Alabama theater looks like and see what this procession and everything looks like, uh, while the movie's happening, uh, just head over to at Bama geeks, Facebook, Twitter, uh, X, and then Instagram and all. And you can, you'll see those pictures. It's beautiful. Highly encourage you to visit the Alabama, especially during something like this. And if you have not, if you never saw the episode that we had of Gary talking about the movie and we go in a little more depth as far as the, the movie itself, go back a couple episodes and check that out. Cause yeah. A couple of live streams ago. Gary's a great guest and you know, we put him on and we just let him, let him go. So he has hit him talking about the movie itself and everything is, is well worth it.

24:36 So go back and check, look at that episode if you haven't. honestly there was nothing he said that I didn't pick up on um you know because I remembered a lot of the stuff that he had said and I noticed it in the movie and the movie it's it is not he's right it's not horror the movie is not horror he's like it's listed as horror because I guess that's the way it has to be listed it's not a horror movie in any way it really isn't I mean If anything, the most horrifying thing is seeing nineteen twenty five makeup on the Phantom. Yeah. Which was great. It was phenomenal, phenomenal makeup for the time. But it's like that's like really the most horrifying thing in it. And it's it's not even really as scary. I was with someone who really, really, really dislikes horror movies and she was fine.

25:20 She was like, okay, well, I mean, I was like, he's got kind of a butter face. And she was like, yeah, he really does. Poor guy. I kind of feel for him. I see why he does the full mask. We don't want anybody seeing that. It was a phenomenal movie. I mean, that will have a special place in my heart now. It's the same as the Andrew Lloyd Webber version has a special place in my heart because Obviously, with the silent film, you don't get the big musical scores that Andrew Lloyd Webber added to it when he did his version, which I really appreciate. Like the Masquerade song with Red Death and a lot of... That stuff is just classic with Andrew Lloyd Webber.

26:01 But it is, you know, the nineteen twenty five version is very special in this in the sense that it can almost give you the same level of experience without any vocals whatsoever. Yeah. Nothing. So, yeah, absolutely. That's tough. That's tough to do. It's very tough to do. Yeah. And if I would have thought about it, I would have. I've got an autographed picture of Michael Crawford, the original Phantom of the Opera from Andrew Lloyd Webber. Left it like that. Left it back in the other room. Anyway, the I was supposed to read the book in the tenth grade and I bought it to read and I never did because I knew the I knew the Andrew Lloyd Webber version so well back then that I thought I could pass my tests without it.

26:48 You didn't, did you? A little bit. The grades were not as stellar as I was hoping. Yeah. Because you know the teacher was thinking the same thing. They're like, they probably know the Android or whatever version, so I'm going to put questions on there that are only in the novelization. Yeah, and I didn't do well. But yeah, I didn't know his name was Eric until back in the mid-nineties, there was a PC game called Return of the Phantom. And it's one of the first video games on PC I ever owned. And this, like I said, this was probably in ninety three, ninety four, maybe.

27:30 And you can get it now on Steam, but it's called Return of the Phantom. And it's basically... Oh, Phantom shows back up in the opera house and it's kind of a point and click mystery game. It's really cool. And if you get the CD-ROM version or on Steam, on the Steam version, it actually has voices. Back when I first bought it, it was on the three and a half inch floppy disks that you could either get the floppy disks version or the CD-ROM version. I at the time didn't have a CD-ROM player, so I didn't get the vocalization until I bought it on Steam a couple of years ago and played it again. Dude, thank you for the recommendation on this. Yeah, you're welcome. I'm looking at it on Steam right now. This is legit. I'm going to get this. It's fun. It's fun, and it really just adds to the Phantom of the Opera.

28:13 It really does. Yeah. Give it a whirl. I'd love to hear what you think about it. Okay. Nice. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to check that out. Yeah. I'm always looking for new games, and I could definitely do that one and stream it and let people play along with me. Absolutely. So I wish we had a way to do your trivia game from last night. We need to do a trivia stream at some point. Oh my gosh. That would be amazing. That would be cool. Yeah. I literally have the trivia like sitting right next to me over here. Yeah. We had a, uh, we, we did a trivia game over at Kevin's house last night, Halloween trivia. And, uh, man, that was a lot of fun. Learned some interesting facts that I didn't know.

28:54 Yeah. Yeah, we learned some interesting facts that I didn't know either because I was just reading the questions and reading off the answers. So do we segue here going from an opera house of horrors to a little shop? Well, we certainly can. We certainly can. And before we head into that, if you're enjoying the stream, enjoying what we're talking about, hey, become a member. Patreon.com slash BamaGeeks or hit the join button below and help support the podcast. We would appreciate it. You don't have to, but just throwing that out there before we get into the meat and potatoes of...

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30:18 Hey, you know what? That Batman signal behind you is fading. Look, it's still got the bat, the AMC batteries in there. Okay. You guys are going to have to replace them now. Yeah. It started off strong in our Patreon and YouTube member only episode that we recorded before this. It was nice and bright. And it was like, you know what? That's not going to last. And it's dimming. Yeah. Batman is not going to go. It actually looks really cool now. Yeah. Don't touch it, Jess, because it'll get out of whack. Yeah. Maybe it'll die by the end of the show. So anyway, Jess, go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah. So as Brock mentioned earlier in the episode and in our previous episode, we learned that Brock had never viewed the nineteen eighty six version of Little Shop of Horrors.

31:07 He'd only seen the original. So we was. Yeah. Are you shouting out? Yeah. We just need to we just need to take this and like put it on a pedestal and another window and we can just say. Yeah. So, Brock, what did you think of the nineteen eighty six version of Little Shop of Horrors? The thing that caught my attention first and foremost was the music by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Yeah. And why is that, Brock? Because they wrote The Little Mermaid. The music to The Little Mermaid.

31:48 As soon as I saw that, I'm like, okay, you have my undivided attention now. I am here. I am fully active. I am an active listener. I am locked in. Could you tell it was them? As soon as I saw the name of the credits. Even knowing that, when you were listening to the music, could you tell it was them? No, and I'm ashamed of that because I did know some of the songs in the movie, but I didn't know they had written them. And thankfully, once they popped up on the screen, then I was like, oh my gosh. Well, they are the original composers of the off-Broadway version of Little Shop of Horrors.

32:31 So this is how kind of it all came together to put it on the screen and with their involvement in it and the music. Of course, this came out three years before Little Mermaid. So even if I watched it back then, I wouldn't have known. Yeah. I was hoping when we were sitting there, I was like, okay. I was like, I know he should be paying attention to the credits, but I can't wait to kind of see him catch that detail when it comes up on the screen. Yeah, and I have gotten to where I pay attention to credits a lot more these days, especially since we have been... blessed over the years to become friends with several people who work in movies, both actors and production people.

33:16 And so I always, you know, you know, growing up, you, you, you don't sit through the credits. You want to get out because the credits, their words, but these people work their tails off in order to, to make these movies and stuff for you. So at least even though they can't tell that I'm sitting there and watching it, I will always want to do my due diligence of watching the credits now. And it's fun to see people that I know. And, you know, golly, at the end of Ghostbusters Answer the Call, you know, we all had a big kick out of our buddy Ryan Dole from Yes Have Some podcast, Toy Anxiety in Gotham City Tonight.

33:58 ryan worked uh that's one of the movies that ryan's worked on we've seen ryan's name in in many credits uh since then but they they incorrectly gave him the last name of fanny p-h-a-n-I so it's a ryan dole fanny so just being able to see little things like that once in a while like and our friend steve vitale who uh is from atlanta and Does a lot of animation for Star Trek Lower Decks and all. A lot of people like that. Some other people that we know. So did Ryan change his professional name? We tried to get him. Everybody called him Fanny for the longest time. But no, he didn't.

34:42 Oh. Well, and in fact, on this, though, there's something I'd said that Alan Menken was angry that the composer of the original score, Miles Goodman, he was nominated. So it says that Alan Menken was angry that composer Miles Goodman was nominated for best original score for. comp for composing only eight minutes of incidental music while his own score that carried over from the stage version was not eligible because it was not original to the film so subsequently he made sure that he was able to compose every note for the little mermaid which won him an academy award there you go sir sounds like it all worked out in the end yeah yeah But yeah, the music in this is fantastic.

35:29 Um, and when I was, I was telling her when we were discussing the music of it, uh, back in the, uh, back in June, when I went up to New York and saw back to the future, uh, they were, they had just brought on to the off Broadway version of little shop up there, uh, Sarah Highland for modern family. She was starring in, I don't know. I would assume that she was Audrey. I would think so. Yeah. So yeah. Anyhow. So, Brock, you're the new one that I just saw. What is your favorite scene? Oh. We're not going to do, by the way, guys, we're not going to do a scene by scene of this. No, we're not. We're just tired. We just want to talk about the film a little bit.

36:13 You know, I think it's because I love both actors so much. That is Bill Murray, who did the Jack Nicholson role from the first film. The people who just... The crazy guy, Arthur Denton, I think was his name. Yeah. That... That really loved to go to the dentist, you know, and Steve Martin plays as Dennis, who he just thrives his Elvis character. He's a sadist. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he just thrives on putting people through pain and agony. And I loved it. But then you get Bill Murray in there kind of like the Jack Nicholson version.

36:53 Just, oh my gosh, I love this. You know, more. It's his arc villain. Yeah. Yeah. and and steve martin just absolutely hates him because I want to cause you pain and this guy is enjoying every minute of it so I I think that was how can you not love a scene with bill murray in the first place exactly so I yeah that that's probably some of my favorites so ice knights got it yep yeah he just posted in our chat about murray's character Yeah, Ice Knight, how are you? Thanks for joining in the chat. Yeah, Murray's character had a pain fetish. He did, and it was glorious. Well, I mean, it was so fun to see Bill Murray in his element, like full blast Bill Murray.

37:36 His rendition of Arthur in this movie reminded me a lot of his character in What About Bob? You know, just, oh my gosh, you know. Well, in true Bill Murray fashion, you know, the scene in the waiting room was filmed as scripted, but there was virtually no written dialogue when his character got into the dentist chair, except for, you know, ecstatic cries of pleasure. Over the course of the two days that he filmed, he kept, you know, riffing various ad libs, you know, which of course presented a challenge to the editor to assemble a coherent version of the scene. So in true You know, you people ought to know you give Bill Murray a script. You just might as well. Don't give him a script.

38:17 He's going to go off. It's not going to tell him what to do. And then he'll just do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And a warm hello to our dear friend Mitchell Brinkley in their Brinkley Studios. He said Murray came in for one scene and just ate it up. Yes, he did. Absolutely. And I mean, and they said that even at the time that he was kind of had put himself on acting hiatus at the time of the movies released and had almost retired from the industry because he was a little financially stable from the success of a movie called Ghostbusters. Yeah, that helped. Maybe you've heard of it. Um, and you know, he was, he was the first choice, Frank Oz's first choice to do the cameo as Arthur.

38:59 Um, and he said, and he would have cast Jack Murray. I mean, I'm sorry, Jack Nicholson in the role that he had, if Murray had declined. Um, so Jack had already done that role. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. You know, he had, uh, you know jack didn't want to do it so it was just all there was a lot of people that were kind of you know considered for this role but you know thankfully it worked out you know bill murray decided that he was going to take it so yeah and this is this is a bit off script here I just wanted to mention this but if you guys I mean the new movie that just came out smile to You know, the smile is a smile to Jack Nicholson's son is in this.

39:43 And, you know, yes, he's actually got I forget his name. I am so sorry. Ray. Ray. Yes. Ray Nicholson. That's the son Nicholson. And he and he does this whole scene where he comes up on a stage and he's smiling and it looks just like his freaking dad. It's so creepy. And the thing is, is he didn't, and I don't think that he realized that originally when he filmed it, but there's no way you can't see Jack Nicholson in this face. And he's like, yeah, me and dad just don't really talk about acting that much, but I'm kind of glad that people recognize him. But, you know, I think that, you know, if, if he's like, I just don't want to live in his shadow, which I think a lot of, a lot of actors that are the sons or daughters of, of prominent famous actors are like that so I just thought that just blew my mind I literally saw that scene I haven't even seen the movie and I saw that scene and it just like gave me chills because I was like And they did not only with just reprising that character that he had, but there, Jack does have a, there's a little tie in there also that Brock had told me he had heard about, about the dentist tools.

40:48 No, I didn't hear about. Oh, I thought you said you'd heard about it. I didn't hear about it. I recognize him. Thank you very much. Oh, my bad. I had an original thought. I appreciate it. everybody recognized sorry brock had an original thought I had an original thought recognize this my bad I recognized it all right in the dentist scene when he starts going through the tools that he's going to use on bill murray he pulls out this one tool that's kind of like a teardrop egg shape tool that's got the spikes on it and I'm and I was laying on the couch I'm like that's what they used on Jack Napier as he's becoming the Joker. That's what the doctor had on his table in Batman. I recognize that tool right off the bat.

41:30 Oh my God. That's where I recognize that from. Okay. Yep. I thought you, I'm sorry. I thought you had like read that somewhere. No, I have never made that connection. I should never question Brock and the capability, the knowledge that he has of Batman. The little details. Sorry. Could you imagine how much that would have connected had Bill Murray declined and they got Jack Nicholson to do that part? It would have been like, are you just in love with this tool or something? Yeah. Yeah. After he fell into the chemical vat and there, and they've got him before you even see his face, you see the tools and they're all bloody tools and everything else. And that tool is laying on that tray.

42:13 If it's not, then just, I've got a colorful imagination. No, no, no, no. I have like mental. Yes. Yeah. Both of those, that tool is, if it's not the exact same tool, It's a very good copy. It's very close. Because I don't know what that tool is used for. If it's used for ripping flesh and everything else, then I don't know. Honestly, as a kid, I had no idea it looked like it was a torture device. But as an adult, it looks like something a gynecologist would use, honestly. You know what I mean? Except for the chainsaw nubbins on it.

42:53 That was added. Thank you, Shane. That's what has been said about the tools. I reckon nobody told me that because I did no research on this movie before going into it. I just happened to recognize it because, you know, Brock's like Batman. Hold up. Wait, what? Exactly. And also, I didn't even realize this either, but this is actually the only film that Steve Martin and Bill Murray have appeared in together this whole time. And you've got all these other little connections with this actor was in this actor with this movie. And a lot of things got... Like John Candy, Steve Martin, they did Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

43:34 And Bill Murray and Rick Moranis was Ghostbusters. Steve Martin and Rick Moranis was in My Blue Heaven. John Candy and Rick Moranis was in Spaceballs. So there's a lot of little, you know, little casting connections at these people. But this was the first, this is the only film that have ever had Steve Martin and Bill Murray together. That tool reminded them of a slotted spoon with spikes. Uh-huh. Yeah. Absolutely. So that was Brock's favorite. So that's, that's your favorite film. I mean, your favorite scene of the film overall. Yeah. And it just ties into Jack Nicholson. Yeah. And in two different ways. Well, and I guess I'll be boring and repeat Brock here because that is literally my favorite scene from the film as well.

44:19 Cause I mean, I mean, honestly, that's like, I mean, that scene is, I mean, I have to go back and look through the time on it, but that seems almost like right dead center in the middle of film. Yeah, it's pretty much right in the middle before we get you. We're finishing the second act and we're getting into the third act of the film. And, you know, that's kind of like almost dead center in the middle. And sometimes if I just need a laugh, I will just pull up. I will pull up that film and just fast forward to that part. And we'll just watch that. Just watch that whole scene, because it's just just that whole scene together, even without Bill Murray, because, you know, he's not in the entire thing. That whole scene together when, you know, Seymour comes in. um that just that whole scene is just great yeah much and it's definitely the the the scene in the movie that I think is the most humorous and you know in the movie um to me my favorite scene in the movie has always been when audrey is singing somewhere that's green so I love that scene what I said, everyone was masochist.

45:26 Take some pain and come back for more. Yeah. Yeah. That's why you become a dentist, according to Dr. Scrovella's mother. You become a dentist. It's the perfect profession. Well, just the whole scene where it's like he's got the oversized tool and it's like this massive mouth and you're seeing through the back of it. Just the artistry behind that and the song, it's just like, I don't know why we don't get that anymore. The thing is, they've been talking for years about rebooting this film and doing a new version of it. I really hope they don't because there's nothing about that film that needs to be modernized.

46:10 Nothing needs to be redone. And I really, I honestly don't feel like I'm just being like, you know, making it as a generational comment because a lot of times when you're an older generation, you're like, all right, well, it doesn't need to be redone because this is what I grew up with. And it's not even that. There's nothing. about that movie that needs to be modernized. There's no reason to do a new version other than just a money grab like Hollywood likes to do. But I really hope, I know that they said Josh Gad for a little bit was attached to the new reboot, but then it just kind of comes up and down. So I'm kind of hoping that one just kind of dies and we just don't have to worry about it anymore.

46:51 Yeah. Yeah. And Shane says, what fun is this? Uh, they speed up all the Audrey two scenes and Rick had to do everything at a slower pace due to dubbing. Okay. All right. And he said, his only problem he's got with the movie is a little nitpicky things. Once you notice, I know that once you, that you notice, once you know the tricks of the trade. Yeah. I'm just going to say ignorance is bliss. I'm good with that. Absolutely. I don't think they could have gotten any perfect... The casting in this movie, I think, was spot on for everyone that was placed into their roles. I mean, Rick Moranis in the eighties, you just... I mean, the man...

47:36 he couldn't do no wrong. I'm sorry. He was all over the place. And I, I don't, I think they had the perfect choice for him in that role. And, you know, he's not a bad singer either. He's got a good little voice on him. So, um, I just enjoy, I enjoy every, how this movie was cast. And, and I think everybody played the roles. It had great pacing. There were, there were no slow moments in it really. Yeah. It was very, if anything, the movie was well-directed and well-edited. And that's one of the things I've always respected about the movie is that it never drags and everything seems to have its place. The only complaint that I've ever had about the movie is they changed the ending.

48:18 Um, it's not the original ending from the musical. It's, you know, the original ending is Audrey two gets distributed normally and then takes over the planet. And you can see that if you, if you're listening and you didn't know that, and it was, it comes as a surprising surprise to you, you can pull up, pull it up on YouTube. Just check out, you know, um, little shop of horrors, original ending, and it'll show you the original ending of what the film should have been. But then they changed the ending on the film. Um, Yeah. I said, I agree with Jess on the casting. How did the casting director do it? Yeah. Talent. I mean, you're also working with Frank Oz, you know, as the director. And Frank Oz knew all those folks. I'm sure it wasn't very difficult to get them.

49:00 And they were very active. All those were very active actors at the time. And Ellen Green, she was the only original cast member from the Broadway, from the off-Broadway show that made it onto the movie. Okay. Howard Ashman just loved her in that role. And couldn't see casting anyone else for it. And so she's the only original cast member that made it down to the movie. I was happy to see Tisha Campbell in it. Yeah, that was her. I believe that's her first credited role. Really? On film. Yeah. Always liked her. What was the Rock? Was that the show that she was in? Rock? No, no.

49:40 She was on Martin. Yeah, she was on Martin. Oh, okay. Oh, my bad. I'm thinking of a scene in rock where he's wearing a, uh, he's wearing a, like a baseball hat. Charles Dutton. Is that, is that his name? Yeah. He's wearing a baseball hat that says Tisha Campbell on it. That's what I'm thinking. I remember that one episode from the eighties, nineties, whatever, or the nineties. Yeah. Yeah. So, oh, all right. Mitchell says, I used to always fire up YouTube and sing Suddenly Seymour and Feed Me. Rick Moranis' harmonies were on point. They were. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's the thing. Like I had heard some of the music. I had heard some of the music from it.

50:21 I knew Suddenly Seymour. It was nice to finally put this into context of what these songs were. The music's so good. Yeah. Uh-oh, Shane's dropping some facts on us. What have we got? Uh-oh. Shane says Little Shop has another connection with the Batman, as it was filmed on the same soundstage, the double-oh-seven stage. You know what that means? They probably just found the props in a box on the soundstage. That's probably it. We need to use tools. Go look at that box. Yeah, we need tools. Yeah, but going back to the, going to back to Kevin's point about the original ending and watching kind of a, Jess and I went back and watched a history video on the movie and how the audience testing was just atrocious for that ending.

51:13 Cause they'd fallen so in love with Audrey and Seymour and then to have Seymour ultimately get eaten. Everybody was eaten pretty much. And then you had, you know, the, big green mothers from outer space everywhere well and and the original one you know seymour gets eaten in the original one um it then only yeah well you know what if you hadn't seen it by now anyway um and the off-broadway it's the same thing both audrey and seymour die and they they you know they go they take that original ending from the broadway show and you know the same thing audrey gets dispersed and distributed and the world take over and whatever but they it was said that nobody really had a hard time with the Broadway version of it with them dying because as in plays and things like that, you know, the actors come back out on stage and they get to take their final bow.

52:20 Yeah. The audience gets to see them take their final bow. Whereas in a movie they're dead. They don't, you don't, you don't get to see them and you don't get that visual of them. So that's Frank. That's a really good point. I never thought of that. Wow. Yeah. So that's what they were trying to, you know, this is, this is kind of how they were justifying how the people on the broad, you know, seeing it Broadway when it, when it was viewed there, didn't have a problem. That audience was fine with it, but it didn't translate over into film the way that it did. So, yeah, I mean, it was definitely a good move for them to do that for sure. It was smart. And, and I like the fact that the original ending is out there now. So at least you can watch, you can, you can see both.

53:04 And I was prepared for the end of this movie for Seymour to get eaten because in Roger Corman's original version, that's what happens. Yes. Everybody shows back up. It's kind of like their faces show up inside the flowers of Audrey. Yeah. which is really creepy. That was a very creepy ending. That's what I was expecting, but then Audrey says some colorful words and gets blown up. Pull it up, Brock. Ice Knight makes a really good point. Here we go. Let's see. Ice Knight says, yeah, I love the adorable ending with the pastel house, the subtlety of the plants in the garden.

53:44 Did you notice the plants in the garden? A little smile came on the face. Yeah, I like that too. The going back and watching the original ending, I do prefer the happier ending just because, I mean, it's awesome seeing all the giant Audrey's just take over the entire city and world and everything. But man, was that drawn out? That took a long time. I was like, I got kind of bored with it halfway through, honestly, but I appreciate the fact that they did include that just because I knew the, the black and white version of seeing the faces inside the flowers. Yeah.

54:24 And it was, you know, it kind of came out, you know, accidental because when the, you know, they were the least the nineteen ninety eight DVD. That's that is what had that original ending on and it was recalled. There were plans to reissue the film with a color version of the original ending. But since it had never been finalized and was only assembled for various work prints, the footage was deemed loss. So like in two thousand eleven, a small restoration team had tracked down referential production notes and, you know, the existing negatives where they were assembled, the extended cut.

55:06 Without the participation of the director of Frank Graz. And so who and Oz was he was actually elated that the footage had been restored and completed that he approved of it being called a director's cut, though, you know, this was a name only. But the edit was screened at the fiftieth annual New York Film Festival, September twenty ninth, twenty twelve, and issued on DVD and Blu-ray on October ninth. So fans have criticized the the finale's redundant footage and excess length. As well as the omission of Seymour's lengthy soliloquy.

55:49 So there was a song that was also tied into this, something called The Meek Shall Inherit. But they had to get Rick Moranis to actually sing it. Right. So it's like going back, you know, they didn't. There's bits of this that were lost along the way. So they had to kind of go back and piece all this together. So if you watch the original ending on YouTube, it only shows Seymour getting eaten and then the plants taking over like we've discussed. But it doesn't show... They've yet to produce the scene. There's a still shot that Brock and I saw of.

56:31 So when Audrey, when Seymour rescues Audrey from the plant in the movie, Audrey was supposed to be so mortally wounded that she died and she asked to be fed to the plant. So there's a little still shot showing Ellen Green laying in the plant and Rick Moran is standing right outside of it. But I don't think that they've ever been able to produce that scene. So we can see that. That is like so messed up. I would not want to see that as part of the movie. I'm injured. Feed me to the carnivorous plant that's going to kill us all. Yeah. And, you know, then it was, it was after he had actually fed her to Audrey in the movie that the gentleman shows up with the plan for Seymour to distribute, you know, we're going to put Audrey twos and all the stores will be all the households.

57:21 And that's where he's still Patrick Martin, which was Belushi's character. Yeah. Um, he, he wasn't the original Patrick Martin either. There was some other guys. So in the reshoot, uh, the guy, Jim Blusey got, uh, cast for that role. So, and then after he declined, you know, that guy's offers when he went back into the, to the shop and like I said, in the original ending, he gets eaten plants take over the world. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. It's just, it's very, it's interesting. And yeah, to see why, you know, the happier ending just, you know, speaks well because the movie is just with the music and you get to, you know, connect with these characters.

58:04 Yeah. It does make it tough to see them, you know, they don't, they don't succeed, you know, in defeating the plants. They, they get eaten. Then Audrey becomes a big kaiju. Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah. I did want to point out one other scene that, because, you know, it's been a little bit since I've seen it. I purposely did not go and watch it again because I wanted to, like, come in and remember the scenes that stand out to me. Yeah. And by the way, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. But the scene with John Candy as the radio announcer. Yeah. Yeah. That stands out to me still because it's got such a similarity like Good Morning Vietnam, like the way Robin Williams did that.

58:48 It's almost like it was an inspiration for one or the other. It just feels just like... And of course, a lot of radio announcers back then were super high... high energy, you know, crazy like that. Yeah. But just the way, I mean, John Candy was so versatile. He could do so much stuff and just, I don't know. I still miss John Candy like a lot. And when, every time I see him in a, in a role like that, it just, it always just, just, it makes me happy. It makes my heart hurt a little bit too, as well. Just knowing that, you know, The good thing about actors is that when they pass, you can always go back and watch movies and see them in their prime.

59:29 Same as him playing Barf in Spaceballs. You can go and see him. That was him in his prime as well. That whole scene of just introducing Audrey II to the world through radio was really freaking well done. Frank Osmond, he was in his element with this movie. And he wanted to originally cast John Candy as Mr. Mushnick, but John Candy turned it down. And he said that, you know, he asked that, you know, if he could be cast in a minor role. He didn't want a major part in the movie. So that's why we got the part of the DJ. I mean, that probably was good because he, I don't know.

1:00:10 I mean, John Candy was incredibly talented, but he might have actually overshadowed. a little bit, if he'd have played up to his level, he could have potentially overshadowed the other actors as well in that part. And Mr. Mushnik was, he was very well cast. Like you mentioned earlier, I think everybody in there was cast correctly. I mean, even just seeing John Candy in that minor role in that one section, it was just like, John Candy's in this. And that was like one of the most memorable scenes for me. I mean, you've got a lot of eighties star power packed into this movie. I mean, all the, everyone that, you know, all the, all the men that were cast in this, it's like I said, you just go back through the eighties and look at just their resume of movies at this point in time.

1:00:54 Oh, Chase is about to give me some credit. Here we go. Here we go. Chase says the dental tools were also used in the David Cronenberg movie dead ringers, which is about identical twin gynecologists. What did I just say? What did I just say? Thank you. Thank you for that. I'm so glad you're here, Chase. I knew, I knew something good was going to come. Thank you, Chase. I mentioned, I mentioned, if you weren't here earlier, I mentioned that that tool will like something a gynecologist would use. Yeah. It just was like, Oh my God. Oh, here's a, here's a tidbit.

1:01:37 Mean green mother from outer space, which was written for the film. It's the first Oscar nominated song to contain profanity. Mm-hmm. Really? Yeah. As a result, when the song was performed at the Oscar ceremony by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops, who was the voice of Audrey II, it was edited replacing the more risque lyrics with lyrics cut from the final film. But it doesn't say what the lyrics were. Yeah. And also, they had, talking about A.D. 's star power, I also had read at one point in time that Eddie Murphy had been considered for the voice of Audrey II. That would have worked too. Yeah, but Levi Stubbs, man, that voice is iconic.

1:02:18 Yeah. I love that. Yeah, I loved his voice in this. Honestly, that's the biggest thing I'm worried about. You know, if they decide they want to do a reboot of this, is that RG-II will never sound right. No. He'll never sound right. It's like, I don't care who they get. They could get an AI something to try to reproduce his voice or something. They will never get it right. And maybe that is a generational comment. Maybe I'm just like unwilling to accept another Audrey too, but I don't think that there's anybody alive that could probably pull that off as well as he did. Yeah, that voice is so good. I mean, this is a movie that, you know, it transcends time.

1:02:59 I mean, it is just as relevant today in twenty twenty four as it was in eighty six. I don't this movie doesn't it just does not have any age factor on it for me at all. I mean, the last time I went and watched it, that's why I made my comment earlier about it. There's no reason to reboot it because there's really. it's set in a specific time so there's no reason there really is no reason to reboot it because it's like if you rebooted it you would have to have modern actors set it in that time because that's when it takes place it's it's you know it's in a particular time period so unless they wanted to change it and modernize it and make it for a you know you know bring it to the you know, the current time, which I really, really hope they wouldn't do.

1:03:46 There's really no reason to reboot it. So if Hollywood, if you're listening, don't reboot the movie. We're fine with it. Plus an Audrey too. They'd probably CGI and everything else. Yeah. The practical effects. Yeah. Is this movie is another one that thrives on the great practical effects that were used at the time, the puppeteering, you know, Jim Hansen's people were involved and, with all this. Of course, Frank Oz. Yeah, Frank Oz. Yeah, I mean, it's... And Shane... Shane brings this up. Well, I think they tried to do something else with it. They made an animated series that died quickly. Yeah. Thirteen episodes. They did. They did. And it was called what? Little Audrey?

1:04:27 No, it was called Little Shop. Just Little Shop. Yeah. So it was Little Shop. I was thinking a little Louie for Louie Anderson. Her life with Louie. A very different series. It was Seymour and the entire shop gang along with Audrey, too. Now a nicer plant. Takes the fun out of it. Yeah. Well, it's the same as the Beetlejuice cartoon. Like I, it's significant when I sit down and we watch Beetlejuice for the first time. And then I just happened to, we watched the first Beetlejuice movie. Didn't watch the second one because it wasn't out on digital yet. And we watched the first Beetlejuice movie and then we watched the Beetlejuice cartoon. And you know, a lot of us grew up with the Beetlejuice cartoon because you just, you have fond memories of it, but if you've never watched it before, It is so different from the movie because they whitewash everything.

1:05:17 Beetlejuice is now kind of just a jokester, nice guy. The Dietzes are different. It's just different all across the board. And this show was like that as well. And being in the eighties, we try to market things towards kids. If you can afford this, it is on eBay. I'm going to bring this to the, to the stage here. There is a game, a Milton Bradley game called feed me. And there you go. If you can afford, you know, two hundred fifty bucks on eBay, you can be the proud owner of this game right here. So it's like a, it's like a lonely game of hungry, hungry hippo. Yeah.

1:05:58 So, yeah. Let's market a man-eating plant to kids as a game. There you go. I didn't know that was it. I mean, granted, I had Rambo action figures as a kid and never watched Rambo. I was just like, oh, cool. He's got a missile launcher. Oh, my gosh. If you watch Rambo First Blood, you're like, this is a freaking hard movie. Is it not? Oh, my God, that movie. Yeah. We actually did that not too long ago. Yeah. We watched the first Rambo movie for the first time for both of us. Yeah. About three or four weeks ago. Yeah. Oh man. We need to do an episode of talking about it. Great. That's a hard movie, but man, we need to, we should talk about that. Oh my gosh.

1:06:40 Brian Dennehy. What was it? It was Brian Dennehy. Yeah. Yeah. Man was just walking through town. He was just walking through town. That's all he was doing. I don't like your hair and I don't like that you got a patch. It wasn't hurting anybody. Different episode. Anyway. If you guys want to hear us talk about Rambo First Blood, then let us know. We would love to because that's... I don't, I don't want to talk about it because I didn't, and you know, we were just, that's just one of those things like we were talking about, you know, it's like, I just, sorry, I, it didn't hit my radar at that time as a, you know, being a little girl in the eighties, I didn't have any desire to see it, but you know, culturally, you know, who Rambo is.

1:07:24 I just never watched any of the movies. Well, and I will say one last thing about this. Okay. But I think that that movie hit the way it did was because a lot of the people at the time that had gone through Vietnam, you know, after Vietnam, people could actually relate to it because you either yourself were dealing with some issues from Vietnam or you knew a friend or a family member that you're watching it going, yeah, I could totally see Bob doing that. I could totally see Steven having that same problem if they had messed with him Like what? Just leave the guy alone. And I think that's why the movie hits hit so well. Yeah. Was you could relate to it. Yeah. Yeah. And Shane says they'll do a prequel thing or last voyage of the Demeter with our now with practical effects.

1:08:09 And I hope I didn't mispronounce that. You didn't try to reboot it. Now. I say it says I prefer living carnivorous plants. Yes. And they chased the odd eighties trend of taking R-rated movies and making cartoons like Rambo, Robocop, Toxic Avenger, Police Academy. It was a crazy time. They even made, you know, Nintendo games out of Robocop and Rambo and stuff like that, that were completely violent movies, but Nintendo wasn't going to allow, you know, that level of violence on their video games. But yet I love the Robocop NES game. Well, I mean, they did, you know, not to veer totally off the subject, but you know, you're talking about Freddy Krueger.

1:08:54 They started marketing Freddy Krueger to kids, you know? Oh, and I ate it up. I ate it up. Jaws as a Nintendo game. Yeah. Friday the thirteenth. Yeah. So I love them all. It's God jaws. You can speed run and, and, uh, and defeat that defeat jaws in that, in that game in like four or five minutes, uh, max. And I remember like, like slogging through that game. Cause you know, back in the day, we didn't have the internet. We'd had to figure that crap out on our own or call the NES hotline and ask them for, for, for tips on the game. But, and I did that. Oh, really? Oh, my gosh. But I want to know if it was as bad as the E.T. game.

1:09:35 I beat that E.T. game once. I legitimately beat it. I got so frustrated with trying to figure it out, I finally stayed up for a few hours and finally beat it one time, and I never played it again. I wish I still had a copy of it. I've still got my Atari. Especially now, considering I think they're worth good money now. Yeah. I'm sitting here and realizing too, you know, when this came out, so what? Nineteen eighty six. So I was. Go ahead. Shane said, yeah, the E.T. game was vague and a rush hot mess. I agree. It was the push to get it out for Christmas with the Atari to sell and all that. Jay says, not as bad as E.T.

1:10:18 If you haven't seen that documentary that was on Xbox, I think they released it a few years ago about the landfill and everything and how bad that game was. It was good. I'm going to be honest, totally random here. My fondest memory of E.T. is the fact that we got Reese's Pieces because of E.T. Heck yeah. That was the first time that that had appeared in any marketing or anything ever was in that movie. And then I remember being obsessed and I've loved Reese's pieces ever since. Absolutely. Well, I was glad that I could finally get Brock, you know, to have him see this, knowing that he had not seen this movie. And, you know, I started thinking about this movie is very endearing to me.

1:11:00 It holds a special place in my heart. But only to sit here as, you know, what, forty seven and realize that when I watched this in nineteen eighty six. You know, especially the whole tone of, you know, Audrey's relationship with Oren, you know, and what he was doing to her. And as a nine-year-old, I'm like, it really didn't, you know, now I'm just like, ooh, man, that was kind of some crazy stuff for me to be, you know, watching or taking in at that age. But it, you know... It's all this stuff. It's like much of the stuff we watched back in the eighties. And we go back and look at it now at this point in our life. We're like, wow, we watched that, you know what I mean?

1:11:42 And loved it. And loved it. Speaking of conflicted feelings, look at Ice Knight's comment. Yeah. Ice Knight said E.T. was a horror movie for me as a kid. Ugly alien. Yeah. When you see him get scared, he would go. Yeah. It's run off, and I was like, okay, that's just terrifying. Oh, but when he was sick and just like chalky white. Oh, you know what scared me more than anything? Yes, when he was chalky white, and then they cordoned him off, and then they sealed everything in, and then the guys in the suits, that scared the crap out of me as a kid. Absolutely. Well, heck, I mean. You know, we may be getting off on a little tangent here, but my gosh, when you think about it. Look, okay, let's just talk about things like the never-ending story, okay?

1:12:22 Or return to Oz. Don't do the scene. Don't talk about it. Don't you dare. Never Ending Story? Yeah. That's another one I've not seen. Are you guys hearing this? Are you guys hearing this in the chat? Brock has not had the ultimate childhood trauma. Brock, you have survived this time without the ultimate childhood trauma. There is nothing that is worse than that. Nothing. No. Oh my God, dude. He's not. And not that this is an eighties movie, but I'm going to also say this Brock has never seen the mist either. So if you know the mist, you know what I'm talking about too. Another trauma, but anyway, let's get back. Okay. Never ending story. Yeah. You, you've not experienced the ultimate childhood trauma, but the.

1:13:08 Chalky ETs. And now that's what a lot of people look like at dragon con on Sunday morning. And then Ice Knight says, OMG, never seen it. The trauma. Shane said he's seen worse. I don't know. I don't know, Shane. I would love to, I mean, granted they could obviously be for another time, but that, yeah, that, that childhood trauma was, oh my God. I mean, the fact that you can just, I can put up on Facebook. Oh, there's things chasing live stream reaction to Brock watching our tax. I command it. Okay. Oh my God. All right. Hey, I'll take in all these challenges.

1:13:49 Listen, Jess, what's some movies that you know I have not watched that I missed? I saw a lot of movies back in the eighties, but there are some key ones that people consider the key ones that I did not see for some reason. Okay. You have not watched the Goonies. I have not watched the Goonies. Are you freaking kidding me? He's never seen the Goonies. So when I say, when I was talking about the comparison of the character earlier that the Phantom looks like, you have no idea what I'm talking about. No, I do know. I've seen bits and pieces of it. I've never seen it all the way through. Yeah. And Ice Knight says The Mist, The Fog with Jamie Lee Curtis. Okay. I will watch Jamie Lee Curtis.

1:14:32 Yeah, he said he's never seen The Goonies. Okay, let me see. Big Trouble in Little China. You've not seen Big Trouble in Little China. You tried to get me to watch it one day. Are you freaking kidding me? I fell asleep, man. I was tired. Oh, my God. Hang on. Let's go through these. Change the Watership Down was my childhood trauma fuel. Big Tom. WTF. Exactly. I don't know what my parents were hiding me from. I don't know either. And Katie. I love you, Katie. She doesn't even know who I am anymore. Goonies was actually a reasonably wholesome movie. It really wasn't that bad. I have no idea why you never saw that.

1:15:14 I don't know. There was a part of me during that time that I don't know. It was like kind of a fantasy type movie. And I wasn't really into like fantasy. I mean, I've just recently gotten into Dungeons and Dragons. Well, that's true. So, okay. Well, let's see. Shane says Little Trouble is just a fun movie. I will watch it. I will stay awake the next time. Oh, my gosh. Ice Knight says Hellraiser, Screamers, Puppet Master. Saw Hellraiser. I've seen Puppet Master. Have not seen Screamers. Okay. I don't think I've seen screamers. So, okay. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

1:15:54 Oh, no. In Goonies. Oh, RV. It's called an ORV in Goonies. Off-road vehicle. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, and the whole thing with little shop is not a little, um, um, what a guy, what a little trouble. God, I almost said, yeah, a little trouble is, you know, it took place during our, the, the, the American cultural obsession with big rig drivers, um, You know, everybody's driving big rigs, and we, you know, you've got to be a big rig driver. And that was the whole main character is a big rig driver. So he's like, instead of driving or walking around, he's driving a big rig around everywhere in the movie, and it's hilarious. And Brock needs to know what's Jack Burton saying. You know what it's like.

1:16:35 Oh, my God. Anyway. Okay. I think I know what the Fox got to see this, but you seriously. Okay. Look, Jess. Yeah. Even if we can't do it on a live stream, you have got to record him watching never ending story in that scene. Okay. He can't just watch that scene. He has to watch all the way up to it for the emotional investment. I'm going to say, I think so as kids in the eighties, um, We were responsible for... Mostly responsible for what our parents would bring to us. Either, you know... I mean, HBO was just, you know, the main part of seeing a lot of movies into the house. But, of course, you know, VHS.

1:17:16 Like, my parents, you know, would rent movies and just, you know, they'd bring them to the house. Also, I was born... My parents are children of... Teenagers and children of the seventies. Brock's parents... Brock was raised by older parents. I was raised by my parents were born in the thirties. So I was raised by younger parents and I, I don't know. I think culturally, I think that has something maybe to do with that. Maybe. But I know your mom took you to the movies though. Mom and dad took me to the movies all the time. I credit them with my love of Star Trek because the very first movie I remember seeing in the theater was Star Trek promotion picture and Star Trek two.

1:17:59 That's what I remember seeing. And so that's why Star Trek is my first love out of anything. Batman and Star Trek, numero uno for me. Yes. Over the top. Okay, Chase. You've got to watch Over the Top. That movie's amazing. That is actually one of my classic favorites. I don't know. Look, Chase, I am so glad that you mentioned Over the Top because I was going to say something about it, but it's so divisive. I've had people that are like, okay, it's another big rig movie, and it's Sylvester Stallone. Definitely not at his best, but it's actually a reasonably wholesome movie. Okay. So Chase said Big Rig Marathon, Big Trouble, Over the Top, and Convoy. Obviously a lot more, but it's a good start.

1:18:41 And Shane says, would have thought Brock would have seen Big Trouble since they used the firehouse interior in it. I, until this year, had never saw They Live where they used the PKE meters as walkie-talkies. That's right. You just recently saw that too. I just saw They Live for the first time. Yeah. noah hey buddy hey noah uh has brock seen labyrinth hoping that's a yes I think that's going to be a no it's a no I'm telling you are you okay I wasn't who are you I was not into the fantasy genre movies back then okay I think yeah I think we've nailed down like a key component yeah I'm now into the fantasy movies I'm not even eighties I did more eighties horror than anything.

1:19:23 Eighties horror is where I landed with a lot of stuff. Can you guys shame the crap out of him? Please do. Have you seen Maximum Overdrive? Hang on. If you'd like to shame me for not seeing these, leave a like on the video. Yeah, there you go. Leave a like. Leave a like. That will shame me. I want to be shamed by you leaving a like. Shame all the way to the bank, baby. Watch them likes go up. Hit a like for my shame. Have you seen Maximum Overdrive? No. So you haven't seen the movie that has an entire ACDC soundtrack?

1:20:03 I didn't like ACDC back then. I love them now. I will watch it. You're giving me recommendations that we can talk about in the future. We have content for the next year now. So let's see. Mitchell says, yeah, my parents were in their thirties and letting me watch anything. If I got scared, I knew not to watch that stuff like that again. I think it's what scared me. Like with ghostbusters, the terror dog frightened the crap out of me as a kid, but I kept going back to it. And which is now. Yeah. Who knows what issues I have. That whole deal with what he just said right there. That's just like our generation and drinking from the water hose. It didn't matter. Your parents would just let you go wherever you wanted and they would just show you whatever films you wanted.

1:20:48 Shane said, I have not basked in the glory of David Bowie's codpiece. That's right. I have not. Noah is shocked. I agree. I agree. I'm ashamed by now realizing what I missed out on as a kid. I mean, look, Labyrinth is just fun. It is kooky, but it's fun and it's very, very well done. I mean, it's a Jim Henson overload. Yeah, and Noah says to me, Labyrinth is Jim Henson at his best. Noah, I one hundred percent agree with you. Yes, and he's talking about Maximum Overdrive. Okay. It changed it, plus the Marvel's Green Goblin's giant face on a semi-truck. Okay, so that's what that's from. I know what the goblin face on the truck is.

1:21:30 So that's for Maximum Overdrive. Okay, yeah. Okay, Chase says Killer Car Marathon. Christine, I love Christine. Christine's a great movie. Maximum Overdrive, The Car, and Duel. Okay. You have to see Maximum Overdrive. Of all of those, that is like You guys correct me if I'm wrong, but was it Maximum Overdrive, the one that Stephen King directed? I think it was that he directed Maximum Overdrive. Because he is literally in the beginning of the film. The first character you see is him at the very beginning of the film trying to get money out of an ATM, and the ATM calls him a a-hole. Like over and over again.

1:22:11 My bank does that to me every day. When are you getting paid and putting more money in it? There is another, I'm just, I cannot remember what it was, but we, we tapped into this thing with movies that Brock had not seen. Oh, it was, it was, it was Con Air. Yeah. Yeah. yeah well now but we established that brock that's the time he was in the air force so yeah he did miss a lot because he was in the air force during what ninety four ninety five ninety five I was I was in the air force from ninety four to ninety eight yeah so there's there's a lot of movies in that particular time frame that he missed out on because right of course deployment you have no excuse for the eighties okay It was just my will.

1:22:57 Now, I did watch The Dark Crystal when I was a kid. Okay. And I love The Dark Crystal. Okay. But for some reason, no other fantasy movies back then just really hit it for me. You would have been fine with Labyrinth, man. Labyrinth is in the same realm. Yeah. And Jane says they even found a prop here in Alabama and lost it in a clean baggage. Yeah, it's Hoggle. Hoggle's up there. Yeah, Hoggle's up there. ice knight yeah someone write these down please do I'll entertain you with my lack of knowledge for several things that everybody else has seen I'm gonna say guys of all the ones that we have here the one that he needs to watch first is never ending story okay he has to get that emotional trauma that we've all had to live with and have had to had to foster like I I posted someone at some point made a Halloween display and it's been a viral post that's gone around, um, this Halloween where someone did that scene that I'm not going to talk about.

1:23:50 Um, that has given us all the trauma. Yeah. And I was asking friends, I was like, you guys think I should do this thing? And Brock probably looked at it and had no idea what I was talking about. But, and people were like, no, dude, that's messed up. Do not do that scene because it's basically of the, you know, the horse and him trying to pull him out of the bog. Um, Yeah. We went like in a crazy direction, did we, from the original? Well, that's because I've never seen Little Shop, so it feeds directly into it, actually. Okay, so it's still related. Shane, I've been so lost in this. Shane says somebody was high as a kite when he directed it. Yeah, Stephen King. He's talking about Stephen King. He does not remember filming it.

1:24:31 Okay. Stephen King, high as a kite? What? Yeah. Mitchell says, drinking from the water hose was a luxury. The rubber cut, the rusty copper taste. My grandmother's house, we drank right from the spigot on the side of the house. Absolutely, we did. Got to turn it on for a couple of seconds, flush the spiders out of there, and then drink up, baby. And then don't hit it too hard or you're going to blow your teeth out. Yeah. I've never heard of this one either. Ice Knight says, okay, Night of the Comet. Okay. I don't know what that is. I saw Haley's Comet in the eighties. I don't remember that movie. I don't think I've seen that one. Okay. All right. So there's a, uh, chase says there's a lower budget remake of maximum overdrive called trucks like maximum drive better.

1:25:16 Okay. Uh, there's someone at dragon con that used the scene. Oh my God. No, we didn't. Yeah. Yes. That's what that is. Yes. Okay. All right. Yes. But, but Brock, you have to watch the whole movie so you can get the lead up to it and you can get emotionally invested in the characters. And then that happens and you're like, oh my God. Gotcha. Okay. No, it says Willow's another good fantasy film, but that hasn't been mentioned. Now we are dear friends with Robin Shelby, who was a troll in Willow. I've never seen Willow again, fantasy movie in the eighties. I'm telling you that was everybody keep hitting that like button. Yeah. Shame him. Shame him. Yes. So, uh, let's see. Oh, let's see.

1:25:56 God. Chase says night of the common is a masterpiece. All right. Has Brock even seen chopping mall? Yes. I've seen chopping mall and short circuit is one of my all time favorites. So yes. Yeah. Love short circuit. Man, I love this. This is great. I love this. Thanks, everybody. See, a natural segue, Jess. It's just a natural segue. Feed me, movies. Yeah. Awesome. Yes, we have content for at least half a year now. At least. Because we can just be like, In our next episode, what movie has Brock not seen this time?

1:26:36 And then we'll let him watch it, and then we'll talk about it just the same as we did this one. Exactly. So, hey, shame me with likes. Like this live stream. Like this video afterwards. Shame me with likes. Look, I'm going to go ahead a little bit and say, have you seen Short Circuit? Yes. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Thank goodness. Oh my God. Oh, sure. No, man. Short circuit. I've been looking at these. Some people have been making the Johnny five robots, you know, model kits and stuff like that. I've been wanting to put one together so badly. And I want a short circuit two version where he's got all the punk stuff on. Yeah. That's the one I have not seen in a long time, but short circuit, I we've seen recently to even shared it to my kids recently.

1:27:21 Huh? yeah chopping mall yeah chopping mall I have seen it's been a few years but I did see it but wow I hope you guys have been compiling a list because we've been sitting there talking I don't think neither me or jess have been compiling I am I'll have to go back and re-watch the live chat and everything else ice knight says yeah certain chakotay was in night of the comet so robert beltran was in night of the comet I'm assuming that's What you mean? Shane says, you're not going to be stupid like me and try to make a full size Johnny five. All right. All right. Chase, a short synopsis of night of the comet comet passes over evaporates. Ninety nine point nine percent of the population.

1:28:03 Our heroes are surviving teens. Oh, OK. Gotcha. All right. That was and it was nineteen eighty four. I actually this first time I've heard of it. So, OK. All right. All right. So see, we're getting some movies for the other members here. Oh, oh man. I've just seen the, the, the, uh, the film, the, the, uh, synopsis on IMDB of not the comet. So yeah, a comment wipes out most of life on earth, leaving two Valley girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists. Yeah. Of course, the Valley Girls. That's so eighties.

1:28:44 Can we just stop and take a moment and recognize the fact that Brock has seen Hide and Creep before he saw any of these movies? He's seen Hide and Creep before he saw any of these movies. And Llamageddon. And Llamageddon. Oh my gosh. Shane said, yeah, it was Robert Belcher tonight at the comic. Okay. He also says, has he seen Mandroid or Tammy and the T-Rex? No, I've never seen that. I've never heard of those. Either one of those. I'm afraid to ask about Tammy and the T-Rex.

1:29:27 I don't like that title. I don't like that title. That sounds like a spicy movie. It sounds like a really bad version of Land of the Lost. Oh, my God. We got a list now, guys. That's amazing. We'll have to get Brock exposed to these, and I'm going to say, Jesse, you have to film when he gets to that part and we watch Neverending Story. That is a great movie altogether. It has one of the best soundtracks ever. the music will just kind of get you going it's really really nice but it hits that spot in the middle and you're like oh my god I just it like really brings me down just thinking about it that had a profound effect on I think everybody that saw it if you were of a certain age that just had a profound effect on you yeah I'm going to write some of these down never ending stories first never ending story Big Trouble in Little China.

1:30:26 Yes. Well, let's go Maximum Overdrive after that. Okay. Yeah, Maximum Overdrive is a good one. I saw way too many comments on that tonight. That's a good palate cleanser because it's just nonstop ACDC. I love ACDC now. I couldn't stand them back in the day. My tastes have changed so much over the years. Little Trouble. Big Trouble in Little China. Yeah, Big Trouble. Little Trouble. Jesus. Just really, she did sit me down one night and really try to get me to watch that. And I tried and then I failed. It's a cult classic. It's one of those that it's ridiculous. The whole thing is just like out of the blue, crazy, ridiculous.

1:31:06 But as soon as you watch it and you finish it, you're like, okay, that was amazing. Who was also Kaja Gugu. High Science and Music by Lemal. Yeah. He was the singer with Kaja Gugu that did Too Shy. Kaja Gugu. Yeah. Too Shy, Shy. Yeah. Did you ever watch that VH-One show where they tried to reunite the bands? That was one of them. They tried to bring Kaja Gugu back together. And they did it for like one concert. Yeah. I don't think I ever saw that. They tried to do, I think also with Flock of Seagulls. They probably paid them a lot of money. It was during the time when Grand Theft Auto was, Vice City was really popular. And so the eighties music was really starting to hit again with the.

1:31:50 Yeah. With the. Okay. And Shane, Shane says Enforcers has Denise Crosby in it. Or Dennis. You mean Denise Crosby or Dennis? I don't know. Dennis Crosby. Denise Crosby, I've met. Denise Crosby? Denise Crosby, she was doing a panel one time at DragonCon, and Jonathan Frakes and all the other Star Trek guys were there, and they started bagging on her a little bit. She got mad and got up and left. Yep. I'm really happy I got my photo with her before then, because I think she left the entire con. I'm not sure. Yes. Katie says, yep, on VH-One. Uh-huh. Yep. Remaking, not remaking the band. It was...

1:32:30 Something about reuniting the, I forget what the, what it was called, but it was great. It was a lot of bands were like one hit wonders or something. They tried to get back together to, to come back. Yeah. Denise Crosby. Sorry. Well, if they get them back for one concert, it's probably because they, they paid them a boatload of money to do it. And then they were like, nah, we're going to go back and, uh, you know, disappear to obscurity again. Yeah. Bands Reunited. Bands Reunited. Okay. Yeah. Shane said it's also called Eliminators. It has time travel, ninjas, robots, and everything a kid could like. Well, and granted, I'm not insulting your guys' suggestions, but some of these are a little more obscure-ish. But Night of the Comet.

1:33:11 We've seen Night of the Comet pop up. Yeah. So, all right. Night of the Comet. What was the... Oh, heck. Okay. I'm scrolling back here through the comments really quickly. Willow. I've got to watch Willow, which, you know, we've had Robin Shelby on the podcast. Like I said, we're really good friends with her. She was the troll hanging from the bridge. And she, I don't know if she knows that I haven't seen Willow. And I'm very sorry. I hope she doesn't watch this, I guess. Yeah. I know that. I know she and Sean do. Yes. Labyrinth. Yes. Labyrinth. That's it. Labyrinth's the big one. I think you need to be that. That needs to be a little bit higher on the list because I think, I honestly think you would appreciate that one a lot, Brock. Okay. Especially David Bowie's cut piece.

1:33:54 You got to know the babe. It's very much there. The babe of the power. Yes. And the camera is all about showing it too. Did Mick Jagger like it? Well, I don't know. I never heard Mick's take on it. Well, you know that rumor back in the day. I know. Yeah. And Goonies. Goonies. There's been a couple of times where we thought we were going to sit down and watch Goonies and then we didn't. And especially since Sean Astin is going to be in Birmingham next year for Iron City. comic-con yeah oh my gosh yeah that would be a that would be a huge one to time um with you you know you watching it we can talk about that one as well so thank you guys for helping us with future episodes yeah I've got one two three four five six seven movies written down now that I need to watch and I will take any other suggestions like I said if if you want then you can leave a suggestion um Hey, face Bama geeks front porch.

1:34:51 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Join, uh, join us on, uh, Bama geeks front porch. Uh, that's our Facebook community. Join that group. And if you're not in there, drop these suggestions for us. Yeah. It's fine. Yeah. Go right ahead or hit us up on social media, anywhere at, at Bama geeks. Yeah. Um, You know what? We, we do have a discord channel. Uh, so if you join patrion, patrion.com slash Bama geeks, maybe we can all do a watch along of these movies together in discord where we won't get hit with copyright. You could do a live playing like a one second clip of it or something. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got a ice night here.

1:35:36 Oh, sorry. With the way we're going, next thing will be Brock never saw Troop Beverly Hills. I didn't. I think I could forgive him on that one, but you know. Was that Shelly Long? Yes. Yeah. Shelly Long. I did not see Troop Beverly Hills. I apologize. Chase says double feature suggestion, Goonies and the Monster Squad. Okay. Kevin has Kevin. I have seen Monster Squad. Yes. He's seen Monster Squad. When I was a kid. I think I was in fifth grade or something. I did see it. Kevin has not seen monster squad. Yeah, I have not. No. Yes. I actually, I'll be honest. I actually started watching it, um, last week and I just, um, it's not that it is nothing to do with the content or anything. I just haven't, I had to stop because I was watching it while I was working and I just got busy and I couldn't continue to watch it, but it does seem like a very interesting movie so far.

1:36:26 Um, I'm probably about, um, But I, I do intend to fit to finish it, but I can also do, I mean, I don't think it would be anywhere as, as, as interesting as Brock doing, um, reactions to these things, but I could definitely do reactions to that one as well. Cause I know there is, there is a particular thing about the werewolf or something that I'm supposed to now know once I watch it. So, yeah, I'm going to, I am going to watch it. And Shane said the OGS odd segue for him labyrinth is how he learned about judge dread comics. Okay. Okay. I didn't know that there was a tie or some kind of a relation to that, but well, I haven't seen it, so I knew I couldn't tell you. Okay.

1:37:07 Labyrinth is a very cool movie. It's very wholesome, and it is Jim Henson at its best. When Noah said that, I agree with that one hundred percent. Nothing demonstrates just how awesome Jim Henson and the Jim Henson Company were at making puppets and actually making them come alive like that movie. I mean, you think Dark Crystal was good? It doesn't even... it doesn't even really compare to, to labyrinth labyrinth. It's like a whole nother level. Okay. Shane said, look at the bookcase in the first part of the movie when Jared is introduced. Okay. Okay. I'll keep that in mind.

1:37:48 Yeah. I, you know, I, I, I remember as a kid seeing the cartoon version of Lord of the Rings, uh, and thought it was okay. And then, like I said, I saw the dark crystal and really liked it. Cause mom took me to see that one and, But yeah, I don't know what it was like now. I love fantasy movies. Like I said, I've just now gotten really started noticing Dungeons and Dragons a whole lot. And that's why I really want to get a local group where we can play in person. I know they got online options, but I really want to play in person with people. I've started buying the guidebooks and the manuals and stuff. And we've got a game table sitting right over here now that we can take off and roll die.

1:38:29 What are we going to do it, Brock? I'll come over. I don't know. The whole thing is keeping it going. You know my short-term memory is trash. So being able to keep things going is what I need. That's why you let Jess be the dungeon master. Yeah. She can do it. She's learning along with me. Yeah, I'm still learning and trying to grasp and learn and things like that. Yeah, so I was always a fan of science fiction, but fantasy is really where I did not clue into a lot of this stuff. I did watch quite a number of comedies and I loved horror movies in the eighties. Um, dad would always, you know, people would always, you know, record things off HBO or Showtime or something and put them on a VHS tape and dad would bring them home.

1:39:15 And yeah. Sometimes there are things on the tape I really shouldn't have watched. Were you watching unlabeled VHS tapes? No, they were labeled. You never do that, by the way. Yeah, don't watch unlabeled tapes. They were labeled. They were Dad's movies. They were not mine. I should have kept it that way. I was ruined at a young age. Yeah. All right. Okay. We fell completely off the train. Didn't we? Yes. It still ties in because I had never seen Little Shop.

1:39:55 Right. Right. So, oh my gosh, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Yes. We're going to definitely have content, guys. We really appreciate you. But I know it is getting on up there as well as time here. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, like I said, hit us up on social media at Bama Geeks. Join us on the Bama Geeks front porch, which is our Facebook community. And leave some suggestions in there. Again, join Patreon, five bucks a month. Maybe we can get that Discord channel of ours a little bit more active in watching these things. Or if you if you just want to join here on YouTube, we've got a ninety nine cent option and a five dollar option as well.

1:40:39 Hit the join button here on YouTube or leave a super chat. Super thanks after the stream is over. Whatever you'd like to do or just leave comments and we'll go back and we'll see the comments on this video afterwards. So I said, yeah, we we gave you avenues for content. Yes, you did. You guys gave me a lot. And the way work's been going lately, I've not had a whole lot of free time to sit down and just binge a lot of stuff. But Thanksgiving week, I'm off. I've got two weeks off around Christmas. I've got time coming up. Yeah. So I'm going to try to make it through this list. And As long as we don't watch it too late at night, we're just going to stay awake and keep me awake as well.

1:41:25 Yeah, definitely got to kind of start viewing that stuff before nine o'clock. Absolutely. We'll see if we can potentially, I can work with these guys and maybe we can get together and watch it all. And if I'm there, they're not going to fall asleep. It'll be fine. Shane said he brought to watch the Goonies music videos as well. Are we talking Cindy Lauper? Yes. He's talking. I believe he's talking about the Cindy Lauper one. Okay. You kind of know what's involved, you know, with the Cindy Lauper one, the little special guests in that video and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, you know, Bobby Brown on our own. He's got all those people to show up and Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters as well. Yeah. So. Well, guys. I think we're probably going to wrap it up tonight.

1:42:06 Yeah. Uh, we, we, thank you so much for, for hopping on here and, and being a part of this and, and for the feedback, this has been fun. I really had a good time tonight with this. It's always the best streams that when we have those, you know, that join us to interact, we always love the comments and the everything, the feedback that y'all give. So thank you so much for that. Yeah. We really appreciate it. Appreciate the, the live interaction and, um, we'll be back again in a couple of weeks. Like I said, probably towards the end of November, we'll talk to Gary Jones from the Alabama theater again and talk about the, uh, the upcoming sold out, uh, movies and the other movies that are still available for the holiday film series at the Alabama theater.

1:42:48 Um, in in birmingham and we'll we'll just get his take on a whole bunch of holiday movies we'll start getting into that before too much longer but um again we love you guys thank you so much for joining us this was an absolute blast and uh bo should be back with us next time and offer his opinions and chastising of of uh me not seeing certain things Oh, man, I can only imagine if Bo had heard some of these, he'd have been like, God, man, come on, dude. I don't even know. So we'll end it there. We'll be back again in a couple of weeks. Keep an eye on our social media at Bama Geeks Everywhere. And thank you guys so, so much for being here with us.

1:43:31 We love you so much. We appreciate everything. And for Kevin and Jess and for Bo, I'm Brock, and we'll catch you guys again very, very soon. Bye. Thank you.