Hardware (1990)

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Check us out at $2.00 LACV.com. Hey everybody, we're back with another listener. Submit it week here during listener's submit it month. And this week's pick is hardware.

And while I was on top of local recording, I was not on top of pulling up this email. But here it is. This one came from a listener and friend, Serena and her husband, Eric. As much as I would enjoy the discussion on atones, I feel like it's far too extreme for most.

I will say though, the VFX are excellent. Anyway, Eric and I together would like to suggest hardware from 1990. It's a post-apocalyptic cult classic sci-fi horror with a killer robot as its antagonist and stars a very young Dylan McDormand and directed by pre-island of Dr. Maroo, Richard Stanley with cameos from Lemmy and Iggy Pop.

There's no happy ending. It's also got a rad industrial metal soundtrack. Fun fact, it's part of the Judge Dred universe. We think it would make a great episode and we hope you consider our suggestion.

We love you guys and always look forward to new episodes every week, Serena. Thanks for the, thanks for the submission, the dual submission. Did you research the Judge Dred connection? Did anybody look into this?

I got that she said that and I did not. Okay. Did anybody? No, we will find out.

Kyle's on the case while I do the plot summary, I suppose. This was probably the easiest listener submitted one for me to pick because this had been on my long list. It was on my short list. And then things about Richard Stanley came to light and then it dropped onto my very, very long list.

Instead, and I felt like listener submitted gives us an excuse to kind of just discuss it despite the Richard Stanley of it all. Look, if we're going to, if we're going to for a split second separate the art from the artist, this is a fucking phenomenally made way. Oh, it's so good. It really is.

It really is. I only half watched this when we discussed it on Reddit or a club. And that's the only time I mean, I, I basically forgot everything about it. And my God, this would be so good.

And it's so frustrating that we can't really like give it its flowers because the guy who made it's a fucking prick. Yeah. And this is such a, they didn't, they clouded me a little bit during this watch, but ultimately this was my first watch and I, um, it really is fucking good. It's a good movie.

What clouded it for you that somehow Richard Stanley probably most identifies with the voyeuristic neighbor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Here's the highlights that we think we all know about We're gonna talk about. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll be back when we're talking about you know, telling local calmedras and surviving different aber parts, but not at all.

We're not really told where we can cut them. Uh, there is the cyberpunkness without being full blown neon. You know, it's like a, it's like it leans so much more post apocalyptic and cyberpunk, which I think that like, sometimes those, those genres are, thoseiter are the same way, but they also can also feel so vastly different. Like I don't ever think of like Mad Max, like, Fury Road as cyberpunk, but its awesome but it's also like, but if you throw it, if you throw it in the black and the black and white filter, it What are you guys saying about me?

I do. We love you. That's your part of our career. I mean, that guy, holy shit.

Holy shit. So I didn't take a whole lot of notes about this, but I definitely took a note about his tongue, because that man had the pervious tongue I've ever seen. I said, yeah. I said, the peeping tongue has the worst tongue ever.

Not since the Black Christmas, not since the 74th Black Christmas, like Frank Call was so like, oh, just like, I cringed and I curled and it was kind of gnarly. It's, yeah. It's something. I'm excited for us to talk about this.

I do want to give a shout out to another aspect of this movie real quick, something that I'm sure Kyle will also agree here. But this movie, in what it builds, like the world that it creates is a really, really fucking smart move for a low budget movie to like, explain why you have this limited location and limited cast, like literally making it so that the outside world is borderline poison to like build into 90% of the movie just taking place in a single apartment room is so smart on a bunch of smart. Yeah, I love it. Very, very creative and smart.

Anyway, big swing away. What do you got going down? Nice cold water bottle back in the future when water is all being used by AI. Holy shit, it's already being used by AI.

But I have from Revolution Brewery, I have Death's tar because, you know, I feel like a self repairing robot probably has some tar in his guts and he is a death. He's a bringer of death. He's a deathbringer. No doubt about that.

I went with False Hope's mass manipulation, which has sort of this Android E monster manipulating the minds of many, many of folk below them. So that felt very hard wear to me. And before you get into the rundown, Matt, I did find the Judge Dred comic that they got sued for. So I guess the film got sued by the publishers of 2018 magazine for plagiarizing shock SHOK exclamation point, which was a one off comic that was situated in the Judge Dred universe.

So and that is from, I found that source, which is at a fruit. But they have, you know, they have the, they have the comic on there. And so yeah, I guess that's what they were sued for, which I did not know. And now we do.

Thank you for the fun fact. All right. Well, diving in after a nomadic scavenger finds a buried robot in the wasteland, a former soldier named hard Mo backster buys the parts of the robot and sells everything else but the head of it to the local junk dealer, Alvey. Alvey starts to research the tech while Mo and his friend shades visit Mo's reclusive girlfriend Jill.

They get a ride from Lemmy who blasts motorhead in his futuristic taxi cap. I love how he's like, Hey, check out this band. I'm totally not the singer of it. But you know what?

Here's the thing. Richard Stanley may have predicted Uber because I'm sure we've all been in an Uber where guys like, Oh, dude, check out this rapper. He's really good. And it's like, and it's actually them.

You know, I had actually not had that happen. So, but I will try not have had that happen. But there is a 50 50 chance you've still heard a rap song you've never heard. And they made sure that the display screen was on so that if you were curious, you could follow them on.

So I have to just stop you real quick right here. You want to know how many times I've been in an Uber or a taxi in the last decade? I could probably count on one fucking hand. Yeah, I pretty low.

Mine's only for trips to and from an airport. So yeah, yeah, and your airports are usually out West near the near LA. Time we come at home from LA where it is definitively the Uber drivers music being played. Yeah.

Anyway, nine times out of 10 after checking shades and Mo with a Geiger counter, Jill allows Mo and shades into her apartment where Mo gives her the robotic head as a Christmas. Because it's a Christmas movie guys. We're watching that. We're watching the.

Yeah, we've really kind of backed ourselves into a corner this year with with with doing this so much. We've really. I think we got a great Christmas movie lined up. I don't know what it is yet, but we have.

Sure. We it's going to be really good. And last week I forgot to mention on air that last week was a Labor Day movie. Yeah.

So whoever hopefully hopefully I'll celebrate it accordingly with that Labor Day pick. She uses the head for one of her metal sculptures after shades leaves. Mo and Jill make passionate love while Jill's voyeuristic neighbor Lincoln watches. Jill and Mo begin to have an argument about the policies of this post apocalyptic wasteland, including Mo criticizing her art and Mo gets a call from Alvey who has learned that the robot is the mark 13 and that he should just that they should come to the shop immediately.

So one of the things I really like about this movie that they don't do a ton, but it definitely has a lot of elements of like Robocop and shock treatment is everyone. So while you'll just see like weird TV shows and commercials, I love the commercials. Well, it's great because it's not only giving you is not just it's world building in multiple really great ways. Yes, because it's like explaining to you like and for the good news.

There is no fucking good news. I love that line. I absolutely have to use that in the beginning of a neck about set because it's just it's so perfect. So there's that and then we have the.

Oh, I wrote it down. It was the Rudolph. I have the right now. Ran it.

Reno's radiation free reindeer stakes. I would like to answer is ladies like with reindeer heads. It's so absurd. So the it's very interesting how this movie is like very well done cyberpunk in my opinion.

Like I think that this this movie actually feels more like the Android's dream of electric sheep than then Blade Runner feels like doing Android's dream of electric sheep because it's like, you know, everybody's trying to get off world. The the earth is overpopulated and it's also toxic and there isn't much like everybody just lives in these these like kind of. Techno apart technologically supported apartments and really like that because I think that doing it's your electric sheep is a great story. I do also think that Blade Runner is a great movie.

I just don't think that they're the same story. It's kind of like talking about the shining book in the shining movie. You can like both and admit that the movie is a very horrible adaptation of that book. Yeah.

Yeah. But like if we want to think about this is kind of like a Philip K Dick story that is way more. Yeah. I mean, and just like the whole it's it's that like cheerful nihilism was really just does it for me.

It's so funny to me. I don't know why it just gets me going. I know that I saw something where Richard Stanley said that in his mind, a lot of this movie is also about authoritarianism and fascism. Oh, sure.

Yeah. And that he felt like that he felt like that he felt like there is something that you can sympathize with the Mark 13 because the Mark 13 doesn't know what it's doing beyond following the orders that it's been given. You know, like it's a it's a cog in a machine program to do a thing and he's like, this is how easily fascism takes over is when a bunch of people are just following orders. Thankfully, we haven't heard anyone use that.

They never heard of it. No one in the last six months has said that about doing something inhumane. Anyway, so before Mark before Mark goes to check on Alvey, he stops and grabs a Bible and looks up Mark 13 and sees verse 20, which says no flesh, I'll be spared. He becomes suspicious.

Do we do any like research to see if that actually is in the Bible? Where is that just that? That sounds like that would make sense. I'm going to throw out.

Yeah. What was it? Mark 13 Mark 13 verse 20. It says Mark 13 20 in a new and a new international version reads if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen, he has shortened.

Yeah, it sounds like something without flesh. I'll see if there's a difference. Yeah. Okay.

New King James version and unless the Lord had short in those days, no flesh would be saved. It's not what version you're reading. And I'm sure Richard Stanley went through plenty of versions to make sure that the Bible verse was used. Also not for nothing.

It's the future. So it could just be a new translation in the future. Why are we such Richard Stanley apologists today? Listen, we can talk about how well this movie is instilled into that dude's a monster.

It's big death scenes coming up any minute now. So, so, so Mo reads this verse. It becomes suspicious that the robot could be part of a government, a government plot to fix the human population through genocide. When he arrives at Alvis, he finds that Alvis is dead and he sees evidence that the robot is an experimental combat model that is able to repair itself.

Alvis was also able to find that its weakness is humidity. Meanwhile, we jump back to the apartment where this robot has managed to assemble itself. And I hope I'm not taking anyone's double feature, but it's a very hell raiser one type of this thing like that's nice. That's a good reference.

I did not see that when I was watching. It's pretty cool. Pull yourself together robot. He uses all of Jill's sculptures somewhat like Beetlejuice and then attempts to kill her, but she's able to trap it in a room.

But in doing so, she closes her blinds and voyeuristic neighbor. That's just not going to fucking fly. So he gets out of his bed and goes over there. He starts to make some sexual advances on air and then is murdered in probably the coolest moment.

I love his. Death is so extended and brutal and it's like his eyeballs are pulled out. Like a soul goes through him like it's just it's brutal. And if this is the only like real good on screen kill we get, they spared no expense on this kill.

It's fantastic. Jill hides in the fridge realizing that the cold of the fridge could protect her from the infrared vision of the robot. And this delays things long enough for Mo and Shades to arrive and distract the robot. And it appears that Jill has managed to destroy the robot.

But this bad boy can piece itself to back together as we already know. So he's still active. And in an ensuing melee, he kills Mo. Most of Jill's apartment security team and is trying to kill Shades and Jill.

But Jill's able to hack the robot CPU and learns of its weakness. So she lures the robot into the shower and short circuits it, finally deactivating it. And then as the morning rises, we hear the radio announcement that the Mark 13 has officially been approved by the government and will begin mass manufacturing shortly. The end.

The end. Truly the end. Man, this movie does it really does rip. And we want I mean, I watched the VHS rip of it.

It's easily streamable. There is a really solid. I had a deep blue release of it or a DVD release of it. I think is it synapse or separate or separate.

Yeah. Yeah. That's really and you know, the images online are the color. The color pops on those does not pop on the VHS rip.

They really do. But I really do. I remember watching this before I owned it for right at Hard Club and thinking it was fine, but very hard to like see and follow. But when that shit came out on DVD and like you said, the color really the color correction did a lot of heavy lifting.

Yeah. Yeah. Also because of the fact that this movie kind of has like a fourth of July Christmas in July. I mean, we're way in the wrong.

Well, because it's not American flag. He's got that across the head. The Blu-ray screenshots of the robot with the painted American flag shit. I actually had to like watch the movie before I did the images because I was like, there's no fucking way.

There's no fucking way that that's actually in the movie and looks that good. It's in the movie and looks like good. It's just the Blu-ray. The Blu-ray is what does it?

Yeah. And the worst thing about this movie has to be the fact that it's so well shot. The scenes, I mean, the pacing is awesome. The fucking cinematography is so good.

Yeah. The shot is really solid. Honestly, the worst thing about this movie is knowing who directed it. That's what I'm trying to fucking say.

Exactly. It's only a movie that sucks. And like, listen, it's always going to be the case. I mean, I still can't watch any of this guy's films anymore.

But before I knew the monster that I can't remember his name, but the guy who did powder and Jeepers creeper. Oh, that guy's a fucking monster. Yeah, that guy's a fucking monster. He's way more of a monster than even Richard Stanley.

Not that a monster's a monster's a monster, but I feel like child abuse is really its own tier. And that's one where I don't care if it's an anniversary. We're never going to fucking watch any of those movies or discuss any of those movies. But I remember before I knew that information when I watched Clownhouse for the first time, which was his debut movie, I'm like, holy fuck, this is well done.

That's too bad because you've really wanted to discuss Clownhouse before. I did. At one point, I was like ready to go. And then I did research on the director and was like, well, never watch this shit again.

No, no. Yeah. It sucks that sometimes the worst monsters are stupid talented. But that's actually, I think, unfortunately, that's the world period.

But there is this art world thing that happens where artists, maybe filmmakers, especially get in maybe this time period too, it's not always this, but just get to be able to hide behind a particular thing and be able to put so much energy and effort into this one thing that it gets written off, maybe their personalities or their traits or whatever get written off as being eccentric or being a particular type of person when in actuality, it's like that should never define. Those negative eccentricities shouldn't ever define you or how you relate to the world. But it also, and I don't know if you guys have experienced this, but I certainly experienced this word, then I become suspicious of people who do seem great, but I'm just like, oh, no, but like, you know, there's maybe like a handful of people where if I found out that they were a bad person, it would like literally kill me. Like it would be like, oh my God, no, not them.

But now it's like everybody else. Like they seem like a nice person, but if I found out they weren't, it wouldn't shock me because of like all of these different factors in the world and especially for artistic people that like make it a goal in life to become famous. Like there's always just that weirdness. But I don't know.

I'm going to say like, if you can shut your brain off from who directed the movie, this is a big rack of ends. Like it's a beautifully shot and made movie. And if that is like, if you just like, hey, nope, I don't ever want to watch a film from that guy, totally valid, totally support that as well. But yeah, this was great, great pick, Serena and Eric on this one, because man, as somebody whose friends with both of them, they could have heard us.

They could have heard of that. It's true. They threatened it briefly. It was right at the top.

So you're like, I can't make sure. I mean, like the thing is that they wanted us to watch a movie, like they didn't want us to not have fun. So yeah, well, also they wanted us to, they wanted to have fun and they also wanted us to pick something that they actually. So you knew we would pick it.

They're plan checkers. You know, maybe a little bit of chess. I don't know what the, what's between checkers and chess? Like that came out of your barrel where you have to jump the pegs on the boards.

Yeah, that's it. That's the one. That's the shit. This is the most Midwest shit you ever said.

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And as K7 would encourage, you gotta come baby come and join in on the fun of the One Hit Thunder podcast. So double feature time. Hey, I did the rating. So I guess I get to do this one.

I couldn't think of a movie specifically that I like love. But I thought of another what I think is a killer robot movie that has been on my rewatch to see if it would make a good episode of our movie night list for a long-ass time virus. Oh, yeah, dude. Is it virus?

Isn't that a... Or is that 2001? It's either, it's somewhere in the 99 to 2001 range, if I had a guess. So it's either an anniversary this year.

I was 99. Last year or we missed it. It's not my long list, too. Are we talking about that brief?

I feel like I picked it before 1999. I picked it before. I genuinely, I know I watched it once when I got the Blu-ray. And I didn't hate it, but I certainly didn't love it enough to be like, got to watch that again soon.

And now like years have passed. And I'm like, I think I need to rewatch this and see if it's going to let us do that horror movie night thing that we do so well. But how about the rest of you? Kyle?

I'm going Tokyo Gore Police. I can see that very sad. I can see that very sad. It just really matches.

And you get a little more chaotic and silly. But God, I love that movie. Did I ever tell you... Did I ever tell on this podcast the story of me showing Tokyo Gore Police and my family?

No. Do your family? Yeah. I show my parents, Clerks.

So I get it. The thing you don't realize until you're in the middle of watching it, like, oh, there's not anything for that. I don't think that Tokyo Gore Police can kind of like trojan horse itself into being a bad decision. I don't know.

I mean, I think for just a second, A, how much they curse in Clerks and B, how frankly they talk about blowjobs for most of the movie players. No, I get that. I think you're missing with a point here is that like yours is like an acceptable Oh, I kind of fucked up. Kyle's like, hey, mom and dad that's just Tokyo Gore police.

Maybe it's just because at this point, I know Kyle and young Kyle is the same person who made the announcement about being a Satanist in front of a school. It does. It just kind of fits into the middle school, early high school Kyle Bubbled to be so much that I'm like, of course. Of course.

Of course it did. Of course it did. I did. I was a we had we used to have these outdoor movie nights and there used to be two movies that we used to like aim for two movies.

If it falls on one, that's fine. But I don't remember what the A picture was, but somebody. Somebody that it was to be air. Yeah.

Somebody either let me or I forced my way into wanting to watch Tokyo where police on this big outdoor screen that we have and I started playing it. And everybody pretty much was finishing up their night and just going inside does not want to do that. They do not want to be outside except for my grandma Lois, which is my cousin. She stayed outside and walked you home.

Damn thing. She didn't even she never spoke about it. Never like, you know, never like talked about it after the fact with anybody. She just sat out there and watched that movie and I was like her and her and me just out there watching Tokyo where police it was looking crazy.

Was she laughing at the appropriate moments? So did she clearly just be nice? I do not know. I was sort of it was like one of those things where it's like it wasn't edge, Lordy with such purpose and intention to hurt.

But clearly I thought it was going to be like funny or or interesting and then I immediately was embarrassed that I even subjected anybody other than myself to this moment in time. And then they don't. But I did that. I played Black Christmas 74 for them before outside and I forgot about.

Yeah, I mean, I made some choices and they did not banish me. I think Tokyo Corpoise was the last one. I got to make some bad choices. Anyway, Scott, what is your double feature with this?

I feel like I did the wrong thing with death machine, but they have the same cloth. So our hand feels very similar. So I was just like, you know what? If you check death machine, I may have made hardware my double feature on that.

On that movie. You did. Yeah. That makes sense.

Yep. I'm on the other one. That's a good double feature. That's a good double feature.

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We got a hell of a conversation. That was a hell of a conversation. I did not expect that to be an hour long episode. And then in October, early October, you can catch at a bare minimum, Kyle and myself.

So waiting for if we know if Scott will be able to make this work because October is a pretty busy time for homeboy and his job. We'll be doing a commentary at the Skate or Die Festival in Philadelphia, more information on that movie to come. And now it's suggestion time, boys. And I'm going to do a very quick book and then a little bit of a deep dive into something else.

Very quick book, PES Guest, Jordan Morris, Solomon, Samuel Comic-Con. Got a copy of Youth Group Off of Him, finally sat down to really dive into it. It's fantastic. It's just a fun graphic novel.

We talked about it back when he was on the show doing the church, but just reiterating. Such a fun raid. But the thing that I want to really promote is an Apple TV show that I watched twice in one week, the first season. And I haven't watched the second season yet, but I got to the end of the first season watching it by myself and thought Barb's going to love this show.

So then I re-watched the entire first season with her a couple days later so that we can start season two this week. And it's a show called The After Party. Have either of you heard or seen the show? No.

So it is a murder mystery show. And it's starring Tiffany Haddish is the main star of it. But it also features a bunch of pseudo-famous people, including in the first season, Dave Franco is in it. Ben Schwartz from Parks and Recreation and a bunch of other shows.

Sam Richardson from I Think You Should Leave. Ike Barron Holtz, I think his house name is pronounced, from Blockers and the Mandy Project. But the concept is that Dave Franco is this famous pop star who's murdered at the After Party for their 15-year anniversary at his mansion. And Tiffany Haddish is the cop who has 24 hours to solve the case before a crooked cop from LA is going to show up.

And she doesn't trust that the crooked cop will actually do anything. He'll just kind of arrest the most likely suspect and not do his due diligence. So it's eight episodes. And each episode is a different person at the party's POV of what happened at the party that night.

But what I think is really, really cool is that their emotions and career and all these other things create different genres. So one character is hopelessly in love with his high school crush. So his entire story is told as if it was a romantic comedy. But Ben Schwartz is trying to be a musician.

So his has written a musical. Are they all directed by the same person? Do you know if they're all directed by the same person? They're all directed by the same person.

It's Chris Miller. It's Chris Miller. It's Chris Miller. It's Chris Miller.

And then they even bring in the animation crew from Clone High because one of the people's an artist. So it's a fully animated episode of her version of this story. It's really, really smart and creative and funny. And it has a good twist.

Barb was throwing out suspects left and right and was wrong at the end, which was an absolute delight to watch. No way. No way it was. I'm told that the second season, which was also the last season, is fine, but not as impressive as the first season.

But it's 10, 30 minute episodes. We'll fucking push through it anyway because I'm a completionist. But yeah, I really, really liked it. I want more people to watch it because it's great.

Nice. I watched, actually, it wasn't on this show that we talked about it. I watched Meet the Raisins, the TV special about the California Raisins from 1988. We briefly mentioned on the Patreon because I talked about how I picked Garfield's Nine Lives.

And then I suggested that we should do a week where we all just pick 45 minute TV specials. That's the pick for Patreon. Patreon.com. I said I'm in podcast.

Listen to a real story. I was just going to say you can really start to see the inner workings of horror movie night if you just try to Patreon. And I highly recommend it. And you can see how this rolled out in real time.

I did watch Meet the Raisins, which is a TV special, which is kind of like this is 1988. So this is pre-behind the music. But it is all about the history of the Raisins, the California Raisins for the uninitiated marketing advertisement, animated advertisement, claymation, done for the California Raisins like a growers association. This isn't for a fucking brand.

This is like gop milk level advertising here. But this is done in claymation with these Motown-ass raisins. And guess what? I heard it through the grapevine being there like a lot.

You know what to get hit, right? But they do this whole TV special that is going through their history. And not only is it done that way, but in the same way we were talking about hardware, they drop in these commercials and these puns that are all in the world of talking fruits and vegetables. And it is just a delight.

You can watch it on YouTube for free. It's the best quality that you're ever going to get it. That's not totally true, Kyle. That was that right.

There's a better quality because I bought that shit on DVD. Yeah, okay. Forgive me. There's a physical copy out there.

You have to buy the complete Raisins collection 2-disc DVD set of every California Raisin short and the 15 episodes of the animated Saturday morning cartoon. I fucking might, dude. I might. Like, meet the Raisins ruled.

I've rated it on Letterbox. It's awesome. The writing's really better. The writing's really fucking good.

Everything is fantastic. Anyway, the raisins is lovely. It's just a nice little snack, if you will. And I will.

Scott, what do I say? I don't know what the California Raisins. Because I did mention that you were on one hit thunder. Yes.

And on one hit thunder, you said that you are a listener of one hit thunder. I am. Which has given me a strange theory that I might be the reason why you watched Meet the Raisins. Did you watch?

It was because? It was because it was not. It was not. But it's fair.

And we are so often on the same wavelength. Because I did. On the episode of One Hit Thunder about surfing bird, I literally go into detail about the Meet the Raisin special and how they cover Papa Uma Malmaled. Dude, I've listened to that episode.

I've listened to every episode of One Hit Thunder. I've listened to that episode. And I was like, that was out long enough ago that that could have been like what incepted the idea into Kyle's head, which is why I was asking. No, it was, that's fair.

No, it was just Evan and I. It was, it was just Evan and I look, we had a specific style of thing that we wanted to watch and we just had to boil that down over the course of a couple hours, really. Like, we knew, like, we were like, you are staying over here tonight. We need to figure out what to watch.

I'm putting out, like, we're going to plant the seed now and just allow whatever, whatever to inform it. So we ended up there. You planted a seed in a vinyl raisins group. Oh my God, you guys have got it.

You got to shut the fuck up now. The second follow up is not as good as Meet the Raisins. No, of course. Of course.

I mean, all right. You're at the top of the mountain. It's only downhill from that point. You know, I'm so sick of your fucking asses right now.

What you did is you were like Scott always talks too much in the final part of the show. So I'm going to just annoy him. So he shuts up. I watch Mickey 17 with Mick Meghan.

It was so fucking weird. I really enjoyed it. I don't think I'll ever watch it again, though, but it's just, you know, Robert Pattinson playing like this goofy guy with a goofy voice. It's really great.

Like, it's very obvious what the point they're trying to make is and I love it. And you know, like we have Tony Collette being insane. We have, I mean, oh my God, who else is in this movie? It's fantastic.

I highly recommend it to anybody to watch. Very, very strange film. And yeah, so watch that. All right.

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