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Nerdy Up North Podcast - The Running Man

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Welcome to The Nerdy Podcast ran by Northern Nerds!! In this gripping episode of Nerdy Up North Podcast, we dive deep into the world of "The Running Man," the iconic 1982 novel by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) and its subsequent film adaptation starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Join us as we explore the chilling themes of survival, government control, and the dark side of entertainment in a dystopian society. We'll discuss the story's premise, where contestants must navigate a deadly game show that pits them against ruthless hunters, all while the world watches for entertainment. What does this narrative reveal about our own society's obsession with reality TV and the lengths people will go for fame and fortune? Our special guests include a film critic who will share insights on the adaptation process and a cultural historian who will connect the dots between the story's themes and contemporary issues like media manipulation and social inequality. Whether you're a longtime fan of the book and film or new to the story, this episode promises to provoke thought and spark conversation about the nature of freedom, the human spirit, and the consequences of a society obsessed with spectacle. Tune in for an engaging discussion that will leave you questioning the boundaries of entertainment and morality! Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review!

Welcome to The Nerdy Podcast ran by Northern Nerds!! In this gripping episode of Nerdy Up North Podcast, we dive deep into the world of "The Running Man," the iconic 1982 novel by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) and its subsequent film adaptation starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Join us as we explore the chilling themes of survival, government control, and the dark side of entertainment in a dystopian society. We'll discuss the story's premise, where contestants must navigate a deadly game show that pits them against ruthless hunters, all while the world watches for entertainment. What does this narrative reveal about our own society's obsession with reality TV and the lengths people will go for fame and fortune? Our special guests include a film critic who will share insights on the adaptation process and a cultural historian who will connect the dots between the story's themes and contemporary issues like media manipulation and social inequality. Whether you're a longtime fan of the book and film or new to the story, this episode promises to provoke thought and spark conversation about the nature of freedom, the human spirit, and the consequences of a society obsessed with spectacle. Tune in for an engaging discussion that will leave you questioning the boundaries of entertainment and morality! Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review!

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Well, live. Hi everyone. Welcome to the Nodio North Podcast. It's a Nodio Podcast hosted by another nerd.

I am Wani Housan. I am the other horse Paul for the time being. We are joined by the majestic motherfucker himself, the guy whose hair changes more than time and semi-changers underwear, which is quite often, shall we say. We are joined by Lee and as anyone did put the requests in the discord, we have put him very close or even inside Arnie's mouth.

Oh, it's the Santa for the moment. I'm good. I mean, it doesn't matter about the viewers being Chris have fun. That's all that matters.

I feel like me and Lee are almost good same hair colour. Yeah, me hair is changing every week. Every time I wash it a bit more of the colours, I fade it out. Underneath all this, it's full on orange ginger and it's ridiculous.

How often do you wash your hair like a few times a week? A few times. Is that once a day? Three times a day?

Probably once every other day. So we need to hair care by Lee. I knew episode went soon. Oh my god, that's most times I wash my hair.

Watch me once a week. Jesus. Yeah, we are scruff sucked off. I've got red hair.

I can't afford to be bloody washing it all the time. Hello to everyone in the chat. I hope you're having a lovely Sunday and ready for this movie because, say, it's something. I told you dare start that slander as we speak now.

But yes, my next episode of Monster's is a Strontanooka. I've got neighbouring to talk. I've got a classy up north. That's that's the thing.

Yes, I've told her classy. You've got to turn around your episode next week, on top drums. Yeah, I think this might be almost defensive episode so far and we have had to be far out. Yes, I've lived on it.

I did have to tell you it's off because Lee posted something to us that way. He was like, Paul, would this be okay going out? And he sent us a video. I was like, no, I hear the thing called it was.

Yes, we will not be mentioned. It wasn't that bad, but you try to get my YouTube channel shut down. No, it's pre-recorded. So I thought I'll see what I can get away with and just check before it goes out and Paul's went, no, no, no, no.

So it's okay. Yeah, I think it even sounds more offensive now that you've got the bleeps in though. That's scary. Yeah.

So either one after week or Tuesday for that little gem. Because today, we're doing the running man. Sorry, sorry. Sorry.

Okay. Okay. Bye. Well, I'll tell you what, before we get into deep shit, I'm going to do a disclaimer and then we're going to crack on into the running man.

Everything is good since days of opinions and opinions alone. If you like this video, please come join us on the Facebook page. You can join us on the early of North Discord or the comment section where we can have an open discussion about what we want to have. Anyone coming from us on?

There's our opinions are wrong because we can all agree to disagree in fandom. So it's going to be fun. Keep it kind and keep the toxic behavior out of her nerdism. Very well said.

So I noticed as well, if you're an avid listener, so I'll watch her of Monsters Up North, Sammy has changed it a title. Like, has she had a like a new year's mid-life crisis? Or now she's in charge of the YouTube channel. She's taken on all this different forms of different kind of ways now.

So what's with the change, Sammy? I just, for some reason, it just, I didn't want to continue with the Mistress of Terror companies. So I was like, but it sounds weird now that I'm not seeing it. Because I'm just like, I'm you're a host.

So it must be weird getting cold Mistress on and off camera to be fair. So let's have a little game, guys. Let's get the community involved. So if you're watching back now, we're going to give you a few days to come up with a few new names that Sammy can call herself in the Discord.

So if you post this in the Monsters section on the Nellium North Discord, let's see what Sammy's new name can be. So let's see what the reprobates and let's get Sammy to try and test them out either next week on the Nellium North podcast or on the next Monsters episode, which will be out next week. So let's let's go. Okay.

I'll do it. If you come up with a decent one, I'll use it. Something you want, just in my phone is deaf. I'm not going to disappoint you, but this one, even because I do have a couple of deaf things instead.

So too. Well, what I have though is the taglines and it kind of throwers when I looked at them, because I was like, eh, why that? The year of 2019 is obviously where this movie is set. This is the future.

This is the dystopian future is 2019. So the year is 2019. The finest man in America don't run for president. They run for their lives.

And welcome to America in 2019. When the best men do a run for president, they run for their lives. A game nobody survives, which Schwarzenegger has yet to play. The year 2019, the running man is a deadly game.

No one has ever survived, but Schwarzenegger is yet to play. And the last one is 2019, a game nobody survives. This might be the exception. Oh god, the really well-run out of like taglines.

That was from what this movie was. It's the same thing. Oh, they are brilliant. They're actually really good.

Yeah, run a man. 2019, not when it was released. Actually, it was released in 1980. Yeah, I was born.

Turn his camera off. It's not too bad. It's not like some of the young stallions that we have. I was going to say, 90, 97, 97 isn't even born yet.

So, saw, Lee, you are the king of the Arnold Swattling, a movie's the action, 80s guru, as we will net forever near you now. As soon as we wanted to do a bit of 80s trash, 80s makes it, I wouldn't say a trash, sorry. That's doing this in a service. A little bit of 80s action.

You were like, please, please. I'm not going to say to you, can I come on? So why do you love this movie so much, though? I watched this as a kid, like probably like seven-year-old, just reading the video covered for all the recorded VHS sets.

And this was one of them, and I watched this so many times as a kid. And it was one of the best films that I remember seeing as a child. Looking back now, it's like, this movie is so cheesy and ridiculous. But it just has everything that an action movie needs.

It's got all the cheesy one-liners. It's bright-colored, eighties spandex. All of the like, sort of, thug-looking people outside of the eighties' hairdos. And there's too many mustaches in the full of them.

No, definitely. I can't see the body of Ventura as a maze. We even get onnie with a mustache at one point, but it's just like a throwaway bit in a camera. He's got his little pony of trash.

Oh, just see the body of Ventura looks absolutely fantastic. But what I found funny when I was doing a little bit of reading on this is that they had to- this is the first time you'll ever see how big Jesse is compared to onnie, because in Predator, they used to make them act away from each other. So it looked like onnie was bigger than him. But in reality, Jesse towers over him.

Oh, 100%. I guess that was all wrestling day as well. I mean, Jesse's only a few inches taller than onnie, and that's the only thing that he's got over him for being bigger. No, not that tall.

So while we were doing Predator, had a competition with Jesse where the measure the biceps to see who would have the bigger one, and whoever lost had a buy, the other one, like an expensive bottle of champagne or whiskey or something like that. But onnie had already been in the wardrobe fitting thing, saying like, oh, who's got bigger arms? Me or Jesse? And they were like, oh, you're definitely bigger by three inches or something.

And he was like, when Jesse comes in, tell him he's a big villain. Mine. So then when he went in, he was like, oh, let's do this competition. He already knew we'd won.

We got a free polish champion. Apparently, they said they had a really good relationship, like, because this is like the third film together. So is this a commando as well? He was in it?

I'm still a commando. I can't remember. I can't remember. I definitely think it's throwing off from what I was reading.

Well, yeah, it's quite interesting to take on this movie. When I watch this back now, and like you do get a different vibe from it from when you watch it, as Lee said, as a young person, because you just remember like the excitement, violence and stuff. But like the element and like the throwaway lines or the kind of political state that this movie is setting is so talent. And I think it's quite interesting that we're picked to do this movie, especially with what happened in America.

That's kind of just through the Americans, like TikTok, like say one of the biggest like platforms for influences or social media was banned by America for a few hours. It's just been pulled back up. And again, like the premise of this movie is like the government and everything is not in power. It's the person who runs the TV station is the most power and has the most pull over everyone.

And with America now having one of the more biggest reality TV scumbags in charge now, again, it's like the 80s were telling us something. It's like America did not get the lesson up this film. These kind of films like this, this is very much in the same way of length as Robocock type thing. Yeah, absolutely.

100% right. It freaked me out when Richard Dossopix at the forehand. And I think I speak to the chief and commander of entertainment. It was just it was like so bizarre.

But this film was kind of ahead of its time in so many different ways as well, especially with AID picks. Because that, you know, in the 80s and 87 people laughing at this one, that would never be able to do something like that. We know now that that's not the case at all. I don't know.

There's a lot of scary coincidences in this movie and not just the movie in the book itself, because the book is a by Stephen King, but it was done under pseudonym Richard Batman in 1982 and nor the movie set in 2017, but the book was set in 2025. Yes. Lords is different to the book. The currently film in Remic based on the actual book version with Glen Powell and Josh Proulen, which I think was really good.

It's not set in a game. Someone goes in and says that they would like to participate in the running man and they get to travel anywhere in the world and they get given like $5,000 to do whatever they want. And for every day that you survive, you get like 50 grand or something. Yeah, I've got the plot.

So it describes very differently that he's kind of like Square on E and he's got a sick wife and he does decide to go into the running man for the contest that you were just mentioning. But in this one, he ends up like going back to Derry Man, because we all know that's where Stephen King normally ends up and his characters, but yeah, there's Stephen King bit. So it threw me a little bit because I was like, this is Stephen King, I know this is the Stephen King book. And then when I was watching it on Friday, I was like, oh, the fuck is Richard Batman?

Why do I know that name? And two, I was second guessing myself. I was like, he should have been like saying this wrong the whole time. So then I googled like obviously doing me notes for this.

And I was like, oh, no, there is Stephen King. He was very adamant that he wanted the Batman name kept in because he used in the book. He wanted to use in the film. So he kind of he didn't want to distinguish between the two and confuse people.

No, definitely. I mean, Stephen, like, he's me, but Stephen King is quite protective of certain things, especially the Richard Batman stuff. I don't think it was known for years that I was Stephen King until like, say he let out there. I could be wrong.

That's crazy. But yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting. I think we said in a previous episode when we mentioned like movies and like a running man, I said, this movie is perfect for a revamp, a remier because it is cheesy. It is put cheesy in a good way.

This is one of their movies now you could do now. It wouldn't be an improvement on the first one, but it would be still enjoyable. Like, I think that's where because I think a lot of people get worried about remakes in order to try to outdo the original. It's like, no, no, it's just telling a different story.

I think this would be quite an interesting take, especially with the amount of reality Stevie's shows we've got now. I think Black Mirror took the piss out of like that type of format as well for one of those episodes, which was quite interesting. This is less like the running man book and more like this film got sued or something for those in 1983 movie, like it was a Spanish movie or something called like The Prize Something, which was contestants have to go into an arena and face off against five stalkers and the would win like millions of dollars for surviving, but that was in 1983. I know, but the idea is not lost.

Like it's not groundbreaking idea. Like the Hunger Games look at... Squid games. Squid games and Ballerail, the idea of this kind of game is not, it's just how you tell it, how it comes across.

What I've found very interesting is the cast, especially one individual who I thought was fucking fantastic was Richard Dawson, who played Damian Killian. Yeah. Richard, if you guys don't know who Richard Dawson is, he was the host of the American version of Family Feud. When he did it from 1976, he is a family known name.

Like he is the nice man that everyone knows every house, every week and that and like the Americans loved him, but apparently according to people who work with him on Family Feud, the said you couldn't have wrote, and Damian Killian, any closer to the actual real Richard Dawson if they tried. Wow. Yeah. Said he was a nightmare.

But this is Richard Dawson's last movie. He went out on this and also the guy who played Ed Inamore. Yeah. You call me Deathly and there is a reason.

And Alan Van Litt died two months after filming this movie of a hard time. It's a proper shame because like, I'll be, I'll talk on my last thing that people remember me for, is trying to climb on top of a woman and then being electrocuted whilst wearing a pair of white boyfriends. I thought it was a name. I did think it was a nightmare.

But that is genuinely him saying that he was a trained opera singer as well. And that's what he was famous for. I was dying to get some Christmas lights out and wrap myself up in the mimp and put some cling film around me head with the man and be like, I thought I might get electrocuted if I'm plugged into the wall. No, no, no.

That was to be fair. Everyone's waiting in the beat, Brax, I've got a millennium falcon that will hang on me head at the moment. So I think it was a tune in to say when I'm going to die. So not long guys, it's not long.

And I want to try and get rid of me laptop as quickly as I can, because I forgot to have them plugged me charger in. The dance sequence by them, still ladies who look like they're not dancing to the music that is actually being played, was choreographed by none other than Paula Abdul. All right. Interesting.

Yes. Paula was there very well known in the years for choreography. The footage that showed the footage of the attack in the helicopters is actually from King Kong in 1976. To be honest, I think that's all mine.

Oh, no, I've got one more. One more. And it's that I'll wait. Oh, it's it's it impressed me because I generally didn't know that this was the person who it was meant to be.

I didn't know that that was Mick Fleetwood. Right. It wasn't until I did be known. I was looking at his face all the way through the movie going, why did he look familiar?

And then when I did be known Fleetwood back. Oh, okay. Yeah. I got a shop to I was like, Oh, what?

I had no idea that was Mick Fleetwood. But apparently, according to fans, do you think that Mick Fleetwood is actually playing himself? All right. Because his name is Mick in the film.

And he actually sees you're one of the cops who loved all my friends and burned my songs. Right. So they think that it's the real like big one is just playing in the future. I'm sure this down now.

There's a few wrestlers as well, isn't there? Because I mean, you need some big guys to like match up to on his size as well. What wrestlers? I only knew.

Jesse there. Professor Tanaka was a new wrestler as well. All right. Are you saying that?

That's zero. Yeah. Oh, what's the pun he does afterwards? No, no, no, please.

I wanted to actually get all of these little funds. Did you cast on his puns? One line is one line is yeah. That's that's kind of organisms.

That's right. And when it comes to alternative cast castes as well, we all know from the Superman episode that if he's watched it, if he didn't please go watch it, I am incredibly proud of that episode. And the Chris Reeves was once attached to this movie along with another person who I probably think would actually pull it off as well. I don't think I think we'd still be talking about this movie the same way if this actor had done it.

And it was Dolph Lundren. I just feel like we would have in the same conversation if Dolph was the main character and it wasn't Arnie. I don't think it would be held in as not to do Dolph Lundren down. I think this more star power and he gives more to his role.

I think the one line to be wasted on that. I think the film is so much to this movie at times as well. Because like, there's little bits that could have like wouldn't have worked if it wasn't Arnie in that chair. The bit where the take off the necklaces which was such a great premise which has been copied or could have been copied off other things.

And he's just sitting there and we're talking about like or like as they said, I mean sorry, sorry. You're basically you're a cop. You've stripped down. You've took away my music and stuff like that.

And he just lights up you, you're sick. You're going to like there's no cells and just like fuck you. Just take it off. Blow me head off if you don't get it.

Yeah, it's the necklace. It's battle royale, isn't it? I didn't have them on a battle royale. Yeah.

I love that film. I really want to watch it again. It did make me want to go watch the Hunger Games and battle royale because like I said, this concept of the game, you know, the game of killing the sport is not it's not lost on Puck culture. It's just how it's told is different.

Oh, that's it. So you can tell the story a million different ways and some ways will work. Some things I do think there's probably is a weird, sick, like part of humanity that likes to see people put in these types of situations that I watched a documentary today over the last two days that kind of inflamed that the Jerry Springer one on Netflix. I actually watched that after this.

Yeah, it kind of showcases like the bloodthirstiness and how what do you think of general public or people are humane and stuff. No, people just want to see bloodshed. People want to see violence. People want to see the worst in people.

Yeah, I watched that documentary. Would you watch the running man? If it was on the... No, I was actually going to ask you guys that very question.

Would you have watched it? Because for me, that is so messy. It's all over the players. It's like, it looks like a charity night.

You know, like where they've got people in one area and people over here and it's just, oh, it was thought, I wouldn't watch it. It was messy as anything. I don't know how it was such a long-standing short because they've said, as we call through the plot, well, the Kardashian's has like 15 seasons away. I would rather be in the dystopian future watching the running man.

I feel like there's a point to be coming though because they've said that only two people survived, what didn't survive, I've said two people survived the running man. Most people die in the first round. So it's not really a TV show when it's like going up against the bad guy killed and it's like, hey, he's died. Sponsor us please.

It's like, it's just 15 minute episode type thing. It's just live execution. It's like Starship Troopers does the same doesn't it? Where it's like, oh, this person's been caught robbing somewhere, see the execution live tonight?

The date? I think it's Starship Troopers. I think everyone, I think there isn't somewhere in the human psyche that there is that bloodthirst that sits amongst people. I don't be glad.

Like people would go to like public executions and stuff like that. It would be like, I literally, I've finished the Green Mile and I watched it in the movie straight afterwards. And yeah, they even, they have, in the boogie was describing how you would have about 30, 40 people coming to an execution. I think if you normalize something to the extent, and again, I'm going to say something that might trigger people.

So again, I do apologize. Like I said, this is me doing a trigger warning. Like I said, the rise in internet pornography over the last 10 years, well, 10 years, five years, how they had to look at banning violent porn, real porn, looking at like, say, anyone that kind of wasn't given the consent, like, the tendon that wasn't given consent. That kind of like, like, because it was, it was starting to desensitize people to the point where sexual assault was coming more regular, like these type of acts.

And again, so these were shown that you can be desensitized to a lot of like stuff because of what you watch. So if you think about watching the running man, at the first, it would mean, oh, this is shocking, but using as a tool for the government, and even said, the rather people watch TV that go into their voting booths, like in this movie, I'm sure to align in the movie, of course. And one of the guys that was arrested, I've got his name, the black guy coming from his name now, what was he called? Oh, I'm not gonna run down somewhere.

Love him. William Lothon, yeah. He was like, I think I'm gonna make a joke, okay, we're out to talk about don't teach homeless people the Constitution. So he was arrested because he was trying to teach people the Constitution.

So it's kind of like, this is such a dystopian and a state, like an anti state that's controlled, but you can understand how people get to that levels. If you show people like, like, forms of entertainment, just say, this is okay. Even though it's in your mind, your first time you watch it, we go, oh, this is not right. The second time you watch it, you're like, oh, the third time you're like, okay, I'm just gonna keep watching, because it's okay to watch this.

Like, where's the line of things? I'm quite glad that my brain is wired differently. Because I don't get desensitized. I get way too sensitive about certain videos to the point where I have to have certain words in social media to stop me from being able to see these certain videos because I can't physically take it.

So I'm like the complete opposite. Like, I just become incredibly more sensitive. It's in the dodo. I can't have the dodo on anything that can't pop up on anything because it takes me into a whirlwind of, I don't want to use the word depression because I've never suffered from depression, but kind of like it's sadness, a beyond sadness.

And I don't like it. And Lee looks like a man that's desensitized to a lot of you. If someone's taking some shit, haven't you? You can tell you've seen some shit in your time.

I don't know. I was like confused before when you were talking because I'm trying to still figure out what this pornography thing is that you speak of? I'm definitely desensitized. That's probably like the most innocent thing you've ever said.

What is the reason porn? What is the reason? If you saw the stuff that Chris sends me, you would realize why I'm desensitized. I've seen it.

I've seen about 2% of what Chris sends you. And I'm good at it. Like, I'm not like a proper sensitive soul that you know. You leaners out of everyone the stuff that I have on my phone.

So I'm not like a certain thing in this world that makes me very sensitive. Oh, I'd rather see some crime scene, porn was Lee. Oh yeah, sure. I had a whole pre-go.

It was a whole pre-go. It was a whole pre-go. It was a whole pre-go. Trad.

Right. So, which operation death now was coming. Not Ben, not Ben, Sammy's door for all the snow. Sorry, I said the league.

It's okay. How do you think they were arrested at the time? It's such an interesting premise. And how this plays out as well.

Because it's like a cross between a lot of different movies. Like a lot of different Arnie, like there's elements of like blood sports in this as well. Especially like the AI scene that you mentioned where Jesse, why Ben Shura and Arnie Fierceoff in like what's meant to be like a cage match to the death. And it's just the brutality.

I think the brutality of the 80s as well. When they do use like the sound effects and like things. When it comes to like the death scenes, not one of them is like a nice like like off the screen type thing where you can make your mind up. Like the first one, it comes up against sub zero.

Not only does he like choke on that, he chokes him out with barbed wire, which is just and the way it plays out is like you stand in there and he's kind of like in shock. And then he's like, this is handling a little split of blood, like because he's- Why is his fingers squirting? No, that's why I'm busy. I'm wondering whether like he's hands got caught in the barbed wire and he's fingers of game off or something.

But there's no squirting off his hands. It's like, what was that? It's like, and like my noms straight three, dream warrior style. It's like, he's fingers off.

He's more than his. He can't say dream warriors without singing the song. I'm sorry. That's fine.

But again, it is an arnie movie by the numbers. When it comes to it, it's like everything plays out. You can see from the start, who's gonna live, who's gonna die. Arnie gets the girl in the end, which again is hilarious.

But she plays an interesting part as well, I thought. She is so fucking annoying. I recognize that straight away. And I couldn't quite place it.

And I was talking to Antoine. I was saying, I mean, look at the team. I was like, is she from predator? And he went, no, you're getting your people mixed up.

Did you know that I was trying to mean that I was being racist about it? I was like, I really am not. Like she really does. And he went to completely different races.

I was like, oh, and then I went and Googled it. I was like, Antoine was predator too. You could have just said, she's being predator too. You dick.

And yeah, she annoyed. Not annoyed as about her. Some of her acting choices were choices. And especially when she's been given the court.

Yeah. I could honestly could have. If that was me trying to give someone a court and they're being fidgety. And they don't know where to look.

She's not looking at him. She's not actually looking at the camera. She's like looking just above it. It's so weird.

The choices she makes there. And what she feels. He's not run. I don't know when she gets out of the thing and she does the pewy run.

How would you run in that situation? Like if you were in. Would you be like, the Terminator? Like you're seeing bolts.

Like you're seeing bolts. That's the most jolly thing you ever said. I don't think I would last for a very long in like being type of situation. No, I'm dead.

Like in the first few seconds. And then the funny thing is, I probably end up doing something to myself in order to kill him. Like it wouldn't be anyone else doing it. Like I'm that stupid.

I would end up getting myself killed. That's okay. I think I get past the Professor Sub-Zero at least. You reckon?

Yeah. But I played, I thought you felt like 18 years or something like that. So I'm pretty good on the ice now. Probably people who are.

Okay. Okay. And he's a pro skater now. He wasn't that good.

I would have got him. So out of the store, as the world called, who was your favorite out of them? Because there was some interesting characters because you had Sub-Zero. You had Buzzsaw.

You had Dinamore. Highball. Highball. Highball.

Highball. And then you had Captain Freedom, which was Jesse the adventurer. But the styles of them, I thought Dinamore was probably the best one. I was probably the most kind of Buzzsaw.

Because like someone's running around with a titanium like chainsaw. Like could cut through anything with the gift I'm saying. It's the meaning he said that all I could think of was Randy Savage. But we're all really.

What about you, like what was your favorite? Oh, see, Jesse Ventura would be my favorite one. He wasn't. He didn't really do any stalking because of the AI thing.

So realistically, Buzzsaw. What was your Sammy? Time was Dinamore. Yeah, Dinamore.

Yeah, like the way it's singing lightball. He was just like, he was all over the place. Like it just was no consistency to him whatsoever. And I was like, oh, I'm here for this.

I like this. What was with his car man? It looked like, you know what, when Buzzsaw was in the design car. Do do do do do do.

It was like, all Miss Simpson had a designer car. Like he doesn't show up, but he had a base on the back to the future car. I heard he almost based his car. No.

That's his main making shit up. I was going to say, because he never designed shit. He just bought Tesla. He just bought the name Tesla.

And I was going to say, all the outfits that this talk was wore. And we just added as track suits with added as thing ripped off them. I didn't say that one. I didn't say that one.

Yeah, this talk has had them as well. They just entered them off so they could distinguish between. They obviously got a lot of clothes from added as. What did you think?

Again, I know we're jumping all over in this episode. Because can you really keep a consistent run with Riddaman? Yeah, just run on through. If you're at the start where we got the Ben Richards, like, almost like origin story, how he ended up in Gio and stuff like that.

All helicopter and how he was really feeling. The butcher's a big. Isn't that an actual serial killer? Possibly.

Could be now. Could be Lee's new nickname. The butcher of Ben Fields. I'm going to Google this.

Because I was meant to do this the other day. I'm sure I've heard that name before. But that ordinary sequence in the helicopter, I'm so stiff in it. Yeah.

There's civilians. That was the whole thing. And then the whole he's whole platoon kind of turned on him because he wouldn't be the order. It's like, is there only one guy with a little bit of balls or little bit of morals in the whole that type of situation.

They didn't seem close anyway. None of them was speaking to each other in the helicopter. It was very like, yeah, like Nazi regime kind of like, just silent to do your job. Don't think something.

Survive. Yeah. It's not a serial killer. Right.

It's just Ben Richards. Ben Richards. What was it? He mentioned he Google it in his Ben Richards.

Oh, he's not thinking of Dexter, the butcher of. Be a field butcher. Be a field butcher. Yeah.

Possibly. Might have. Yeah. Might be somewhere in the subconscious.

It's Sammy's new New, New, Cial Kill, and the only one that will show a debut in next year when she starts taking her victims, when people start disappearing randomly and to say, oh, where's this person gone? The butcher did it in Sammy's new. Do I have to wait till next year? Can this just not happen now?

The butcher, that is the Bryce butcher. Okay. The butcher, Bryce. Here we go.

My dad's a bigger. Who works in the butchers. The is my origin story. Yeah, the first half.

Jesus Christ. Um, we are. It's a weird movie. Like, the soundtrack was terrible.

Like, normally I'd love an 80 soundtrack but this one was hard. It was bad. It was bad. This one.

Oh, no. The end song was amazing. It's so good. I ended up leaving the credits on just to listen to it all the way through.

Oh, no. I thought the soundtrack, that was the one thing I took away from this soundtrack to me, isn't it? Oh, I mean, sorry. Sure.

No, different tears now. It wasn't up to the normal yet. He standard. But yeah, I think he mentioned it before.

The quips were brilliant. It's like any little thing. I only had a chance to do it a quip. I think one of them were the in the zone.

And Amber was kind of like complian, you know, we need to get away. I like, I really do go into Hawaii and he was like, we would have been there if you didn't mess up. It's like, whoa. It's like, I had the shirts ready.

It's so weird this movie at times, because it has elements to it. And it kind of just glosses over it. Some of the more horrific elements to it as well. It's like, Arnie gets into his brother's flats.

And the court doesn't change apparently, because the court just says to see him. And he's sitting there waiting for his brother to come home and like, Amber arrives and he's like, Oh, where's my brother? And it's just like, oh, the person who lived here before got taken away for re-education, I think you said. Yeah.

And that was the last you heard of it. It was like, four. Yeah. That's your brother.

You just accepted it. You're bothered about this. You just accepted it. He was like, OK, let me come to you instead.

One of the most horrific bits just was so unfasable in the whole movie of Chico from the prison, trying to run past the line of the prison. And it was like, oh, stop. It's not really yet. And then he said to just pops.

And it's like, Jesus Christ. That was good. I thought that's like, how the head pop and say. This is it's finest when it comes down to practicality, like in doing the practical effects.

And I love the set design as well, especially of the shore and the difference between the shore and the studio at the top as well. Like I just I think the set design on this was fantastic. The apartment that she was in was sort of it. It reminded me so much of the apartment from they live.

Like I was like, is this what 80s American apartments look like? Well, I know I was go back, but can we just spend a few moments admiring the fitness video that she put on? And just see the body venturer just telling him when to work out. But not just working out every sort of corner swing going, ah, then it's from there.

That was just absolutely coming. Like how we kind of embodied embrace because at this moment, you would like watching going because like the premise, you think, is this a horror? Is it an easy action? Yeah.

Is it a for our company? Where am I now? Like this is just a complete piece here. And that was absolutely just imagine that we are from an era, I don't know about Lee, but we definitely mean Paul from an era where we used to have a lot of them ex- like fitness people on our morning telly.

And me and one was Mr. Motivator, exactly. Mr. Motivator, my name's class.

Imagine having Jesse the body venturer as this character as your morning fitness wake up call. Like that would be fantastic. Like why are you in that world? It would be a lot better than what we got.

Like Mr. Motivator was too skinny. America had people like Richard Simmons, much at Simmons. Who's he teaching?

Oh, what a guy. Richard Simmons, what a guy. He was such a sweet little, oh, he was adorable. Apparently the nicest person in the world, by the way.

Yeah, but he got pissed on the camera on the Simpsons quite a lot. But yeah. But you know what? He had such an excellent sense of humor about it.

Didn't care. He didn't care. He used to be one of those people. You know what?

When they're on the maps, the Hollywood maps and the buses would go past. He would come out and like greet everyone and have like a little gift for them and that. He was just so grateful that he was actually on the map. Oh, Richard Simmons, what a guy.

Anyways, run a man. There is one of the TV show that I haven't mentioned yet. Because there's three shows mentioned in this whole movie. There's The Runan Man.

Jesse the Ventura's Fitness Show. And then there's Climin' for Dollars. Climin' for Dollars? That looks like one of the worst ones.

Did the Climin' for Dollars? Was the guy who was Climin'? Because he looked like the bad guy up commando? I don't know.

I wasn't really liking the attention of his face. He was like, oh my god, the books are gonna get him. I was like, I recognize I thought it would look like the kid. You know the guy who only puts a pipe to him.

And then obviously I'm sure it was him. I could be wrong. But it was just as he said, climbing that. Like the premise of this show is the higher you go up, the more times you get, but if you fall, you get ravaged by pit bulls.

That seems like one of the worst ones. Because it's not even like, prison is there anything that's been going in. It's just people had a desperate, like that desperate for money. The willing to die by being ripped apart by dogs.

Just to make a few quid. Maybe that's the dystopian one. That's the one wrong in Nadioth North. Right.

Because we're trying to embrace and talk about things. Like just have like say a conversation. Really, we have to go at these lengths. We maybe have to create a Nadioth North Hunger Games.

Like a non-games. So we might put some- Like a run one. Put some sausages in Lee's back pocket. And then sex all the Nadioth North Dogs after him.

Like you know- Have you seen the Nadioth North Dogs, man? None of them are going to do it. What can't happen? What can't happen?

He's sleeping after time. Bear. Bear would rip you off the road out. I've seen that dog before.

For a sausage he would come for you. Yeah. Bear would. Even it.

Nor would type in your face. Yeah, the Nadioth North Dogs. No, the cats would probably be a better choice. Because I would kill you.

Yeah, I'd have a room over here. I'd have a room over here. You'd have a big, big, some logo come after this. Tatch out.

It's dangerous you want to be very about. But attach some catnip or- Put some catnip in Lee's hair and just see what happens. Yeah, that would be quite entertaining. Why do we use Lee as a poor?

I'm struggling to do these things. He's the one at Bea in the Bathick. Really? What other things could we do?

Like if we're not getting chased by dogs. So we could see how long you can last in the North Sea. Like without getting hyperthermia or something like that. Apparently, Jake and the Chatter are saying that you're a little quiet compared to us two poor.

Sorry, there's just two goby people. That's fine. Do you know what? This is probably the most chatly I've ever heard Lee.

To the point where I don't think we're going to get to the end of the episode in Lee. List off a lot of shit that he's forgetting to say. I don't have that many notes. I've just brought the plot of the movie just so that I've got- I have lots of movies.

Yeah, I always do that. I always have the director in that. But on this one, I was like, do you know what? Let's just talk about this.

I wanted to get all me shag out the way within the movie that- I was out with the moon that this the mall cub from all rats got another job. The podge. Yeah, he played Richard Simmons' bodyguard. Shut up.

Oh, how did I not see that? What? What class? Who was bodyguard?

So Richard Simmons, he was- I'm sure he dawson. Richard Dawson. I can't help you go buy some steroids. Yes.

So good call. Yes. But what did you think of the end and though as well? Like, Arnie, I kind of joined in the resistance, which was always going to happen.

Because he was going- these kids can't do it themselves. He's not as a stunt. That needs some leadership. So he kind of helped some take over the studio.

And she remembers one of the longest chords that in the world that I would not have remembered. She must have had a good memory bless her. No, she was looking at 1774. Oh, that's not that I remember.

Wow. That was impressive. But yeah. And then by getting the demon character and put me in the tube, I think I don't know.

I think there should have been a better death than just to find him out the tube. Because to be fair, even if he got fired out, he would have survived. Do you know if you feel a bit rushed? Like, we're just in the game.

Now we're going to go and take over the whole studio and save the day kind of thing. Yeah. And break down this capitalist world that they've created on dictatorship. However, we had a look at that is in a matter of a few seconds.

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