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Astounding Tales of the Public Domain with
Father Malone. Enhanced audio performances from the
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Golden Age of science Fiction, featuring
tales by Brave Radberry, Miriam Alan d
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Ford, Robert E. Howard,
Paul Anderson, H. P. Lovecraft,
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and Moore. Hear it twice monthly
at weirding Way Media. Astounding Tales
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of the Public Domain with Father Malone, weirding Way Media, Redially pat Pignic,
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light and shad, Realism, surrealism, impressionism, end of a story,
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an interest in the dblall, a
good alinship toward the bisire. And
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this place is nothing if it isn't
bisarre. There's no admission, no one
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requirement of membership, only a strong
and a pighting belief in the part at
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the top of the stairs, or
the things that go bump in the night,
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the name of the place that you
would come in, your actually deventally
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out of the rank. There's the
night Gay. Welcome back art lovers to
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Midnight Viewing the Night Gallery podcast,
where we discussed Night Gallery, Rod Serlings
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follow up to The Twilight Zone.
I'm father alone in here with me in
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the gallery are the Colchack tapes.
Chris Dash You I'll think of something at
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some point, and also the coal
Jack tapes. Mike White, have you
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single little Boy? It's about five
foot five, very dark hair. I
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have, I have, I think
we all have. Anyway, we are
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here to discuss episode number season number
two, episode number ten, which aired
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on November the twenty fourth, nineteen
seventy one. The episode is split into
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two segments. Those are the Dark
Boy and keep in Touch. Will think
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of something now. Before we get
to that first segment, I've been highlighting
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talent behind the camera and in front
of the camera here on Night Gallery,
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and this one is no exceptional though. It's in front of the camera here
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and it's going to appear in this
next segment twice here it is right,
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that is single owl hooting. This
one was created by Thomas Valentino back in
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the nineteen thirties for his Valentino Sound
Effects Library for the Major Records label.
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It was eventually included in the Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House record
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from nineteen seventy eight, which is
an album I buy instinctively every time I
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see it. I have like five
copies of it. Here. The effect
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that you heard the single hooting owl
every Effects Library has their very creation on
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it. It's all the horned owl, interestingly enough, which is uh,
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the most sort of common owl liveler
ever kind of run into. Incidentally,
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this is a digression, but in
Boston growing up, we at the Museum
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of Science. They had an owl
named Spooky. It was on i think
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the second floor and kind of a
nocturnal section, and that owl hated me.
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Kids would like crowd around the plexiglass
cage and it would be fine with
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them, and it would see me
and it would just start screeching and staring
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wildly. Anyway, Single owl hooting, it knew something they did not.
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Yeah, there's something right about that, boy. The owls know. The
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owls the owls now are not what
they see. The owls are not what
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they seem fatom alone, that's right. The owls are still sleeping anyway,
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Uh, Single owl Hooting. We're
adding you to the Night Gallery Hall of
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Fame. All right. Anyway,
you're about to join a rush of students
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and the learning experience quite without the
president. The painting is called Dark Boy,
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and this particular repository is called the
Night Gallery. Our first segment is
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called the Dark Boy. This one
was written by Halsted Wells from a short
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story by August Derlett. His second
adaptation here on Night Gallery this season and
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directed by mister John Aston. This
is his third directorial segment on the Twilight
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Zone, A Twilight Zone Night Gallery. This one stars Elizabeth Hartman, Abigail
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Moore, and Michael Basilon. It's
the story of an old West teacher who
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has an unusual student, or maybe
she doesn't. Would you think of this
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one? Mike? Well, before
we even start to talk about that,
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you kind of gave me a little
bit of a segue there talking about the
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Twilight Zone. Did Serling screw up
somehow because they adyard his line of the
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night Gallery as he was introducing the
painting of the Dark Boy? Did you
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did you guys pick that
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up?
I did notice that? Yeah? Yeah,
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so bizarre did he say in the
Twilight Zone? And it was a
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lot smoke in the opening segment for
some reason in the in this thing?
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But yeah, ordinary was it?
I think his back is turned when he
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says night gallery eventually, right,
yeah, might be? Yeah, that
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was just bizarre. I was like, yeah, I hope you enjoyed this
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episode up, so what I think
of the Night Gallery? No? Yeah,
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go ahead? So what I thought
of this. I thought this had
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a lot of promise. I like
this whole idea of the teacher who has
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seventeen students but no, dear,
you're only supposed to have sixteen. And
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she's kind of getting gas lit by
these old biddies who just seemed like they
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would have been Samantha's relatives, but
I don't think either of them were.
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And I'm just like, okay,
yeah, that's cool, Okay, Right,
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Eventually we find out that this kid
died and that they're thinking, now,
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well, maybe we should move the
schoolhouse or rebuild the schoolhouse because he's
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going to be haunting these grounds.
But it is so weird the way that
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the information has told out to us, especially like what halfway three quarters of
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the way through this story where the
old farmer shows up, old as in
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like forty years old shows up,
and it's like, oh, here's my
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son. He can barely be in
class, you know, I use him
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for work on the farm, you
know, kids five fricking years old,
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and keep him away from ladders.
And I'm like, what a weird non
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sequitur. And so I guess our
main characters are real Sherlock Holmes because she
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figures out that the Dark Boy must
have been killed falling from a ladder.
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Yeah, it felt a little long
in the tooth. I thought there was
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a lot of promise here though.
That's that's my opinion anyway, how about
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you, Chris Well, you gotta
love the title first, This is great
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The Dark Boy just boy. It
really rolls off the tongue right into a
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you know, into a into a
into an area of where we just know
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where this is going. Immediately,
I'm joking, this episode is fine.
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It's fine, Like, it's inoffensive, and the story that it's telling is
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cutesye, and it's a little it's
a little melancholy, it's a little heart
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string pulley like. It's fine.
I just don't as an audience member sitting
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here watching this segment, I'm wondering
what the director and the screenwriter or the
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teleplay writer, because he gets based
on a short story. I'm wondering what
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they were hoping we would take away
from this. And I'm not sure by
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the end of it that even those
who lost can be found again. Maybe,
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but they spend two thirds of the
episode, like her, like Mike
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said, being like a Sherlock Holmes
trying to figure out what's going on.
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It's like, what what do you
mean, what's going on? Like it's
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pretty obvious what's going on here?
Like, I don't know, it was
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fine, it was okay. I
think my favorite thing about this show right
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now is we're in this weird spot
where it's like, on this week's episode,
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five people who you've never heard of, like Gael saunderguard Like, okay,
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fine, I don't know, Like
it's weird all of a sudden,
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Like the show for a while is
having like people who are very bigger names,
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and all of a sudden, it's
like a couple of people that are
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just like clearly mainstays of television at
the time, or part of Serling's troop
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of people that he normally works with. I mean, it's not a surprise
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that this episode is directed by John
Aston. He's been a he has been
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as part of as big a part
of this show as anybody has. Frankly,
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I think we're spending an entire season
with a lot of ghosts to the
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frontier, like gentle love stories in
both cases werewolves then just straight up ghosts
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here. I can't wait for our
vampire Old West story. This one is
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incredible. Is that a thing?
No? Okay, God, thank God
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to say, I'll just you know, I just won't be on that one.
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But just what you guys could do
that, you guys, it'll be
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fine. Oh and the yeah,
and the Sterling one that there was that
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was another Old West ghost one too, because we had we had the Phantom
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Farmhouse with the with the Old West
family that were a bunch of
werewolves.
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So yeah, oh boy. Yeah. This season of of of Nike Gallery
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is a is a pretty good document
of the hills outside Los Angeles and the
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changing of the seasons because it's much
more bottom now here than we got just
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a couple of weeks ago with big
surprise. You know, I'm echoing what
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both of you guys said because I
was very intrigued going into the episode,
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and I like those two gossipy women
that she's that that she has to deal
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with who are keeping secrets from her, and you know, I like the
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doling out of the clues and everything. But in the end, what did
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we get which is I'm not sure, but ultimately what we do get is
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this ghost is befriended by the new
school teacher, who is then befriended by
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her by the ghost's father who doesn't
have a wife, and they have a
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romance, and then together they coaxed
the child out of the schoolhouse too,
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I guess, to go home with
them. I don't know. I'm so
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glad that the trauma that this child
endured, that was so jarring that he
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can't find his way out of our
plane of existence, brought these two crazy
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kids together, you know. That's
what I took her way from the end,
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like this was supposed to be kind
of sweet, and I was just
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horrified by the entire affair. I
didn't get that they were becoming a couple.
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So congratulations to you. I just
did not pick up on that at
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all. Congratulations to you. I
mean, for serious, you definitely picked
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up something that I did not at
all. I think the episode wanted them
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to be a couple, but I
don't think it earned it remote. I
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mean, look, it's like the
same issue we're gonna have with the next
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segment. It's like, what the
fuck are you trying to earn here?
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Because none of this is earned.
It's very strange, like it's worse here
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than it is in the next episode, because really they're like there's no chemistry
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between either one of them at all. Michael Basilon doesn't look like he could
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be bothered. It's just he just
he's like, hey, my son,
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come back to me. I love
you. Please don't go away. And
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it's like turn in a performance,
Please don't just mumble through your lines.
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That's funny. In my notes,
I wrote, Michael Basilon not great the
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emotion excommented and on hands on plate, like but that scene is supposed to
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be their courting scene. As twisted
as that is, but like once she
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sees him in that sort of light
that she's kind of falls for him,
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and and then the end she takes
his hand to like lead the kid out
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of there. And the kid who
who doesn't even realize that he's dead.
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I guess it is trapped in this
schoolhouse, has no memory of his mother.
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Isn't he going to be confused by
this new relationship? I don't know.
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There are lots of questions that this
thing brings up that it's not interested
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in or remotely capable of answering.
But it but by the end of it,
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I guarantee you the showrunners thought they
had in a satisfying way, it's
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like far from it. Guys far
from it. Yeah, they thought they
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tied up everything in a nice bow. And really I was just horrified by
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the entire ideal, Like what are
the rules here for ghosts, Like,
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yeah, the broad sterling rules.
They don't know that they're alive, but
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they can go to the other side
as in heavens somehow. Did the other
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kids see him? Yeah, no, the kids don't, because that's a
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point in it where like on the
first day, she's talking to the child
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and all the kids kind of like
stare at her and then immediately like flooed
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away to go back home, and
then the old ladies later on in the
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episode say like, oh, well, we knew when the kids said that
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they saw you talking to nobody there. So the kid, the ghost I
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mean, is appearing just to her
like he knows. I don't know that
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there's no we all heard you talking
to a little boy, and that's how
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they all know you're fucking crazy.
Now what wait the fucking what? Like
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it's it's almost like there's two separate
ideas here at play, one where it's
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like we were having this character try
to figure out what's going on, and
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then the other part where it's like
this weird love story that does not work
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because it's not given enough time to
work. And I don't think it would
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have worked anyways, because they have
no there's no chemistry between the two of
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them, and Michael Basilon has no
charisma. So I don't know how Elizabeth
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Hartman could remotely find him attractive or
enticing because he seems so flat. It's
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like he's not even real. It's
like he's a character in a poorly written
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TV show. Right. The reason
why I called him the old man earlier
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is because even though he is a
younger man, he seems like the old,
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crotchety, firm hand, just like
a bunch of strangers coming to town.
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I don't trust anybody, but he
is the devil. He's not person,
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but he acts that way. Also, stay off ladders, keep everyone,
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Keep the kids off the ladders.
Get there's a kid off, if
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there's a ladder in this room,
getting him out. I'm just very superstitious.
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Yeah, first they want to teach
a CRT and now they want our
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kids on ladders. Why was a
child on a ladder is my question?
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But was doing on a ladder in
that one room schoolhouse? I just couldn't
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see it. We just couldn't see
it. It's like, what the fuck,
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it's like one It's like a box. It's a literal box. Yeah,
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hanging a drawing or something. Who
knows. Speaking of drawings, she's
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encouraging that one kid. He drew
a six legged horse. That drawing was
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terrible. The teachers are supposed to
be encouraging the youth of tomorrow, both
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alive and undead. Not these kids. They're all going to be dead.
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But by the next planting season.
I'm sorry to tell you, children,
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but we don't have enough food for
all of you, so we're taking half
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of you down to the orphanage.
It is the field out pay. We've
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had a severe case of choluma.
Sorry. The one other thing I noticed,
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at least in the copies of the
show that I'm watching, instead of
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fading the black for commercials, they've
been using the paintings. Yes, yeah,
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very effect very it's very jarring a
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it for the first couple times because
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like they did it, and I
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I again I must have caught it
immediately as opposed to like maybe looking away
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for a second, I was like, oh, is that is it over?
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I was like, oh, okay, no it's not. Or it's
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still going like it fooled me into
thinking it was over, and now I'm
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like, okay, now I get
it. I think it does work.
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I think it works better than just
fading out and fading back in. Eases
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you back into your into your spot
instead of just coming back from the latest
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bar axe ad, snap, crackle
and pop. Rod Sterling only smokes morrow
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Borough reds. They give you that
smooth flavor that's not Chesterfield. Oh really,
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I don't know what Rod Sterling smoke, but I'm sure the answer is
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out there. He seems like a
Chesterfield guy. I mean he does.
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Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
Was that Chesterfield really satisfies? Was that
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their slogan? Whatever it is,
it puts out a lot of smoke.
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It's assumed that most of you,
in moments of weakness or in spasms of
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compassion, that picked up a hitchhiker. The story behind this item here has
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to do with a man who stops
his car and invites a stranger in,
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and such a stranger the kind that
makes you wish you'd taking the buzzer stayed
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in bed. It's title keep in
Touch Will Think or Something. Our next
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segment is called keep in Touch Will
Think of Something. This was written and
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directed by Gene Kearney. He's an
autour now. This one stars Alex core
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Joanna Pettitt is their second appearance.
Last time. She was directed by John
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Aston actually and Richard O'Brien. No, not that one, rocky horror fans.
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I find this one kind of hard
to describe. It's a guy who
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like, here's a guy is dreaming
of a girl like keeps getting I uh,
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somebody helped me here somebody described as
the thing this was. This is
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one of the most bizarre segments of
television I've ever A guy dreams of a
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woman and then invents her stealing his
car, and then she actually exists,
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but it turns out she's hoping that
he murders her husband because she's been dreaming
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of him too, and so she
essentially
causes it to happen by the end
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of the segment, right, I
just summarizing. You don't even need to
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watch it. Does that sound interesting
to you? It wasn't interesting in the
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execution, so in explanation. It's
just about as bad. I was interested
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for a while. I was interested
when I had fucking concept of what anything
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that was going on, and then
when I realized that it wasn't interested,
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it wasn't interested in giving us anything
concrete, then it kind of fell apart.
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But as far as um on the
baffling meter, oh it's a ten,
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it's a real success in that way. Yeah. I'm glad Chris that
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you broke it down because I was
just like, what is happening in this
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because it starts off very interesting.
I was very intrigued by this whole idea
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of Alex McCord. Who, my
god, he talks a lot in this
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episode, and I kind of like
it, you know, I like his
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voice, and I just kept thinking
of him as what was he in Air
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Airwolf? Was he Hawk and Airwolf? I think it was. That's where
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I know him from. Yeah,
he didn't have the eye patch, so
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he was he was out of disguise. But yeah, he talks a lot
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and he comes in. He's just
like, hey, this woman is she's
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still in my car? Comes back? Oh, she's my car again.
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I'm like, okay, this is
really business? Are who is a strange
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woman that's stealing his car and then
you find out it's all a ruse.
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I'm like, okay, well that
was the most interesting part of the episode.
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I'm totally tuned out now. Yeah, and then what's the name of
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the name of the episode? Keep
in touch? Will think of something?
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I could think of that Mooring amsterdamn
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a title. You know. It's
like, yeah, what is this thing?
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I was hoping. I was hoping
we had just talk about are Wolf
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because as earns boarding nine and it. Can we just do that instead for
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five minutes and call it good?
This is like beyond unintelligible. I wait
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what By the end of this,
I was genuinely concerned for the people making
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this show that they were confused by
what they were doing too, Like,
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I don't think anyone making this episode
had any idea what the fuck they were
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doing, from Alex Cord to the
people who wrote it, to the people
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who filmed it. I mean,
like, when you're sitting on set and
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you read this, here's the thing. The people who were in and this
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read the script, and they read
it just like we watched it and or
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could read it what the fuck do
you think they were thinking, like,
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oh, this is really good.
No, it's fucking not. Like they
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got to speak to Jim Kearney,
who probably explained what his intention was,
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and then they went, oh,
okay, and then they went with the
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rest of us are less foundering because
he didn't deliver it to us, or
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they went okay, Jean walked away
and rolled their eyes and made a jerk
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off symbol like I don't know,
Like again, what could what could someone
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explain about this that this doesn't already
spend twenty minutes trying to explain that entire
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scene in the bar is beyond unintelligible, Like they're oh, I am,
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I imagined you and you imagined me, and well, it's like, what
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the fucking what? Like what are
the rules here? What is going on
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here? Who are you people?
You have a star on your hand and
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you don't have one now, so
let me stab you with these scissors.
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Yeah, it's you won't be able
to go on tour and you'll have to
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stay home with me. It's it's
like a twenty two minute segment, and
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it's like eleven minutes of one story
and eleven minutes of another story. It's
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it's about a guy who keeps getting
conked on the head by some sultry blonde
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and she keeps stealing his car.
And then it's a story about two people
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who have been dreaming of each other
and she's going to force to force his
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hand quite literally to kill her husband. Like, those are two good stories.
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I would have liked to have seen
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full potential, but that's not what
we got here. I will say that
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I really liked his leather pea coat. It was really good. No,
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yeah, yeah, man, I
mean he looks good. I mean Alex
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Cord looks good, he looks proper
nineteen seventy one. Well, he looks
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good. And the drawing of her
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oh wow, that's a great piece
of art, Like, and it's so
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funny because I don't think that that's
the art that starts this episode. Correct,
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No, it's not at all,
but probably probably Robert Wright did it.
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What I wrote about the police sketches
be on the lookout for a sultry
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blonde on the streets of say Francisco, Like, yeah, really gorgeous piece
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of artwork. Like, I mean, it's it's her obviously, but like
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I just thought that would be like
if they did a drawing of him from
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her, be like look out for
a man with long hair and a mustache
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in nineteen seventy one right away.
Yeah, they were very distinctive, and
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they were both married at the time. By the way, this is another
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night gallery sort of. Yeah,
they did that once before. It was
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really good. Remember the one with
the witches and the witch taking over the
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woman's body. Wasn't that Weren't those
two people married in real life as well?
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We're as well as imaging Coca and
King Donovan and the bricking him up
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us of a Manteado the merciful.
That's the best one a right as well?
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Yeah, that's the best, best
one over because it's like a minute,
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yeah, look this. You know
what's surprising. Rod Sterling's name isn't
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on this anywhere like this. This
is even worse than he has done.
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This is probably the worst thing we've
seen so far in terms of like being
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able to follow what's going along,
Like what's happening in the episode is hard
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to follow because the episode does not
seem like it understands the story it's trying
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to tell It feels like there's things
that the characters know that they're not telling
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us that we're never gonna find out. It's not worse than Tim Riley's bar.
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Yeah, there's no one's singing for
He's a jolly good fellow. Yeah.
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But at least I, at least
we all understood what that was trying
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to do. That is true.
At least I was like, I get,
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I get what the point is.
It's super saccharin and bullshit, but
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at
least you, at least you
nailed that this. I couldn't tell you
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what they're trying to What are they
trying to tell us? I mean,
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this is up there with the David
Carradine one that we talked about as far
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as nons. Oh, they're all
hanging out at this weird mushroom tree stand
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thing at the beginning, like wow, this will be cool, just kidding.
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This is like, oh, this
has an interesting ten minutes setup,
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and then eleven minutes of two people
just going I dreamt about you, and
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I dreamt about you interesting. Yeah, and John Aston dreamt about that lady
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in the house or whatever that one
or no, the late be dreamt about
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the knock at the door. That
was a John Aston directed episode that I'm
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thinking of and Joanna Pettit was so
yeah, Jesus, you know it's funny,
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like, just like logistically, they
the police haul her in based on
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the fact that a cop recognized her
from that sketch and they put her on
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a lineup, and at the end
when the police say to her basically like,
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you know you, he's obviously filing
false complaints. You can pursue a
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civil action against him. But it's
like they pulled her in based on a
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sketch. He didn't do any anybody. He came in and told him a
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couple of stories, and then they
went out and arrested her. She's got
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no civil case against this guy.
And then she just shows up at the
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bar, smiling and happy, ready
to spend time with him. It's like,
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why are you actively ending time with
this person who might be unwell?
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Yeah? Who brought who had me
dragged down to a police station and make
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me stand in a lineup? Yeah? Like I would be far away from
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this person, not engaging with them
any further, not happily going and sharing
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a drink with them. But again, then you have this secondary story of
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I guess she was dreaming about him, but wasn't as crazy as he is,
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to the point of, again,
he's nuts. He's fabricating a story
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to try to meet a woman that
he doesn't know if she exists or not.
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What is the mental stability of that
character. He's our main character and
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that's why we're following him. But
like, that's not something a Staine person
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does. She's been dreaming too,
see, but she hasn't been doing the
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crazy shit he has unless she Again, was she clubbing him over the head?
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No, I don't know. I
think so he should have been,
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though, right, that would have
been like that conversation would have been totally
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different, Like, you know,
look, I rescinded the police order for
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you, but like you gotta stop
talking me on that. What you want?
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You really want that bad? You
seem to have money. My nickname
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for you is little Bunny Foo foo
oh no op. And somehow these two
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segments deserve one another. They kind
of do. They're both They're both more
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or less unintelligible as to the overall
theme that both segments are trying to get
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us to understand, or that the
filmmakers trying to impress upon the audience I
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don't know what it is. And
the second one's even worse than the first
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one. First one's just very melancholy
and sacharin, but this one was just
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like, Okay, sure, whatever, whatever story you think you're telling,
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I bet you think you told it. But this one does have an excellent
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leather shirt that he's wearing at one
and that mustache can't be beat. No,
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no, which episode, which segments
better? You know what? You
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got me? There, you win. I'll let they both suck as that
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they both we lose. We are
the losers here by having to engage with
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this segment any longer than anyone else
has to. Kearney wins again. All
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right, we're going to play a
preview of the next episode and we'll be
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right back to wrap things up.
HP Lovecraft, known to the affecsionados of
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the occult demonology Witchcraft as a master
storyteller, is responsible for our first selection
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in this Museum of the frequently Morbid. Do you connoisseurs of the Black Arts,
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you will probably recognize it. It's
a painting that tells the story of
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a young artist who recruits his models
from odd places, and the models are
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very odd. Indeed, the painter's
name is assently is Pickman. The title
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is Pickman Model who all familiar?
I suppose with mediums and seances, a
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slightly curdling nocturnal event in which the
dead come back to visit through the good
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off is of a middleman or a
woman. It's a sport that lends itself
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to table tappings, some ghostly manifestations
that float transparently across the room, and
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a few distant supplical voices. This
painting offers a new side of the familiar
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seance because it tells what happens when
a seance is successful, but the appearing
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dead isn't the one expected offer to
you. Now on the Night Gallery,
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the Deer Departed, and now Night
Gallery is slightly distorted version of history,
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an act of chivalry that's right on
the next midnight viewing, we'll be taking
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a look at season two, episode
eleven that's broken into three segments, Pickman's
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Model, the Deer Departed, and
an act of Chivalry. Until next time?
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What are you working on? Where
can people find at Chris Stashu.
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You can find me at weirdingweightmedia dot
com where you can find this show and
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so many other shows that follow them
alone, I and Mike White all put
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together on a weekly, bi weekly
or monthly. As how about you,
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Mike stole my thunder, I'm gonna
say the same thing, the exact same
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I had all written out. I
think Chris stole my notes. He does
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that a lot. As for me, what they said, my audio content
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is can all be found over at
weird ingawaymedia dot com. Thank you all
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for joining us here at midnight viewing. The gallery is now closed.