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But we're back with another episode of our movie Night. This week we're talking about 1995's species as picked by Kyle and Kyle. I'm so excited because I can't even begin to explain how many 10 to 12 year old sleepovers this movie was watched. How do you think I picked this?
Boobs in action. This is such a Kyle pick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And actually, I can't remember if this was going to come out.
It was going to come out after I think the Patreon where it was also a Kyle pick that was kind of boob-rinsic here. But this movie also, I kind of forgot the scope and the scale of this movie too and how truly successful this was and how much other stuff came after it, not just the sequels, but the novelization and comic book series and all of these things stemmed from species. Well, this is also from this really weird time period where this is not some schlocky low-budget Roger Korman boob movie. You know what I mean?
This is like fucking Ben Kingsley. The stats cast is insane. This is a major studio, hard-or-scyfy, hard-action movie. It is from this very...
The only thing that makes sense to me is because hard-or-scyfy was not doing well in 1995. Horror in general was not doing great in 1995. It'd be another year until Scream comes out and kind of revives that genre. So the only thing I can point a finger to is coming off the heels of shit like Demolition Man and those Sylvester Stallone Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hard-R futuristic action movies where a studio would be willing to toss a couple of mil at this idea just to see what happens.
Listen, Natasha Headstridge was probably at the pinnacle of being an it girl when this was made. So I don't think this was such a hard... I don't think this was a difficult choice for the studio execs. They're like, I want to see your boobs for 20 minutes.
Let's make this movie. It's a... Okay, so I want to get this out first. I remember seeing this movie in 1996, I want to say, when it hit VHS.
And being like, it's not very good. It's not really a very good movie because I feel like... Well, I also was definitely not the... It's a funny movie because I feel like the demographic that really enjoyed it was not really the demographic that it was written for because it's like kind of procedural.
It's kind of... I don't even want to say procedural, but it's slower. The action is wild when it happens, but there's so much talking and grown-up shit. For a Swearcress entire character, I feel like the romantic lead is really...
I'm sorry, this is going to sound terrible. At the time, I found her very unattractive. I mean, it's hard to be attractive next to Natasha Henshoot, right? Because she's a very traditional standard of beauty.
But like, the other woman, I get it. She makes more sense for the ex-Navy Seal. What the hell is... Whatever.
Oh, yeah, she is a... Oh, who is Michael Madsen's character? Does he ever really say... Because I've never internalized...
He's a killer. They describe him at least in the wiki as a black ops mercenary. Sure, there we go. That's a Jason to whatever he actually is.
It's a sense for him to get together. I really don't enjoy watching Alfred Molino have sex. I'm not going to talk about that. I sure didn't enjoy it when I was 13 or 14 or whatever when I watched this movie the first time.
It's a weird brat pack of miscellaneous stuff. The ending is the action is really disappointing. Yeah, it's a really weird movie that is both. It's both could use 20 minutes trimmed from it, but also has enough plot holes that you're clearly cut the wrong things.
Because I don't know who these people are or why they're here. It's a really good movie. How does Wicker get involved? Like the MPF list do they have?
I think it works with the... Right. Right. Ultimately, what I realized is we're watching this movie and we'll dive into the plot summary.
But when I was watching this I didn't hate my time watching it. No, no, no. I was thinking the same thing Scott is I'm watching it and I'm like, I can't believe that just the promise of boobs and two really cool kill scenes motivated us to sit through all hour and 45 minutes of this movie. It feels a lot longer.
Honestly, it feels a lot longer than when I watched it when I was a kid and I were going to add a lesson. Wait, I did it. It kind of did it for me because there were moments where I'd be like, oh man, we're already at this part of the movie. That's moving pretty quickly.
And then this part of the movie is 30 minutes longer than I remember. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, it's a really weird... And clearly there's not a...
At least as far as I can tell there's not a different Cinemax cut or Showtime cut that we were looking for. You know, like this to me. I was like, why is this not on more sci-fi horror lists? Because I was like, especially some of the first scenes where we actually got some like monster action.
Like I was like, I got staked. I actually jumped at the train scene. The scene with the back. So good.
Yes, my back drop is... Yeah, it's so good. Off the couch. It's still great.
It's also one of the few practical effects in this movie. Well, there's that and then there's the science experiment scene which really does, in my opinion as an adult, those are the standouts. They're not remembered at all, but they are really the standouts now. I think you're downplaying a few of the other cool practicals that we'll get to eventually.
But yes, the... One of the notes... Oh, the Geiger stuff. Like the note that I wrote was, I always...
I thought that the alien version of Sil could have been way cooler looking than it is and it is because it's that 1995 CGI. Like if that was more of a practical looking thing, I think it would have been... But they made a practical. Like all the weird like telepathic scenes are with a practical.
And I mean, I'm sorry, it's Geiger. I've been saying H.R. Geiger for like 35 years. You don't have the rest of the fucking player to do it.
Yeah, right. Yeah. All right. So I just don't want anybody to come at me and give us a one-star rating because I mispronounced the name of a very famous artist.
I mean, Geiger, we hardly know. Well done. All right, Kyle, I think we've vamped enough. Kyle, I think you're ready to tell us about this.
I think it's time for a little something. Yeah. You know it. We are shifting our moment here.
And this is a cosmic shift. Nice. Happening from Lawson. Lawson's finest liquid cosmic shift IPA for species.
What about you, Scott? I have Cataba Island, another one. I have Hot Blonde, which is a Mango-Havenera blonde ale, which I am going to absolutely hate. But I just had to do it for the plot.
Yeah, I had to. I had to. Cheers to species. So surprisingly, not that bad.
Kyle, if you can get yourself one. Oh, that's good. Not as hot as I was expecting. Okay.
Boo. I forgot it was her introducing. But obviously, as you said, she has been an IT girl. Is there introducing her debut role?
We are following Ben Kingsley, Xavier Fitch. It leads a government team that has been using radio telescopes looking for extraterrestrials for 30 years and has now sort of locked in an extraterrestrial in their testing space. And this extraterrestrial is played by a young shell, Williams, who is, you know, we come to find out the age rate of this extraterrestrial is not the same age rate as a human life. So when Michelle Williams, uh, still as she as this creature is known as still escapes from the pod, they try to gas her.
They try to kill it. They're like, this is not going away. We need to we need to destroy this creature that we have, but still manages to bust through the glass of their containment and escape out into, uh, Los Angeles. I don't don't quite.
Well, I think I was first and I think they're out somewhere probably in like the desert because she gets on that train and murders a hobo. That's like in Arizona situation. It's every 51, bro. Yeah.
She's in the middle of the desert. Yeah, but like that, I had forgotten how good that that murder of the transient was. Mm hmm. Yeah.
And this all happens pretty quick. And this is why I thought, you know, what you were saying, Matt, about the pace of this thing. I was like, Oh, we're cruising. Like we get, we get young Michelle Williams on trying to have a huge like chase.
Um, Michelle Williams was on the train. She's eaten a bunch of food. Like she's, she's got some intelligence on how to get through this. She's a bad kid.
Like, that's not getting, you know, she's running away from home and she's stealing shit, but she's trying to do it for survival. And, um, she's leaving an abusive home. Kyle. Yeah.
And this is just from the wiki. I don't know if this is actually just like actually said in the movie, but she developed into a 12 year old in three months. So her development is crazy. Um, and she still has obviously like some sort of mind that is developing the same rate as her body.
It's, you know, those are, those are the same thing. So in while she's on the train, she feels like an evolution moment. And she turns herself into a cocoon and from the cocoon comes Natasha Hentridge. So now, uh, back at the base, we've assembled a top notch team, a crackerjack team of anthropologist Dr.
Stephen Arden. Stephen Arden is played by Alfred Molina. We have the empath played by Forest Whitaker. Michael Madsen plays our mercenary, uh, Mark Helleberger plays our, uh, not our anthropologist, our molecular biologist.
Um, and now we also have, uh, Ben Kingsley, who is leading the charge as Xavier Fitch as they try to track down where the hell Sill has gone off to. Um, so we go, it is, this is where it kind of gets procedural because we're trying to track down where Sill is and Sill has made it to Los Angeles and is trying to survive while also feeling the urge to mate. The force is strong with that one and she's just trying to figure out how to have a baby. Uh, I'm gonna find the 14 year old man.
Really, really stressful. Uh, so she has a couple encounters that don't work. Uh, did she kill, she kills somebody before the hot tub, right? Yes, there's a girl, she rips out that girl's spine.
That's what, so when we were saying that there's almost no practicals, man, that spine rip as a kid was one of the coolest things I've ever seen until immediately we jumped like 10 minutes into the future and then there's the tongue exploding out the back of the dude's skull. And then there's a really fucking iconic kill. He did a bit too. Oh boy, did he?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely coming. Yeah, we have an attempted essay that, uh, Sill forts by jamming a, a, a giger-esque, uh, tongue alien through the back of this dude's skull. And then yes, we do have a more, what is it, uh, when you try to mark your territory? It's territorial.
Uh, more territorial killing, uh, in the bathroom as Sill has a better idea of how to get a man just by her observing the clurb, uh, because she is, she is in this club. Uh, she is doing, she is doing the best that she can and she's getting away with it too because she's like, she just got lead into this club. No questions asked. She's observing and taking it and everything.
She's a dang sponge and she now gets to go home with this man who she killed the other court woman of, which is pretty good, pretty good killing this club. But at the same time, the, the, the whole crew has tracked her to Los Angeles now. Um, my one, my one really solid note was just asking like, could you imagine being an empath in this club? Like Forest Whitaker's brain must have just been like ready to explode.
Like he's sweating the whole time. Not just his brain, dude. No, everything. He's like, he's, he's probably my favorite character in the film.
He's great. Um, he is great. The level, the range that he's playing this, the severity in which he feels things. Uh, but sometimes like, would occur in everything I've ever seen him though.
Like he doesn't know half measures with that man. No, no, no. So the fact that he's in here with his, with his beanie who that he also uses as like a sweat rag, uh, just making sure that he understands everybody's, everybody's, everybody's feelings. Uh, and also doesn't feel like he helps the team with that though.
It just feels like it's like, like, everything that he tries to tell ends up being thwarted or he's too late in sharing his feelings. So I don't know, I don't know. Nobody's on the same page in this team, really. And we know this because Michael Madsen and Mark Helgaburger, you know, they start to spark some interest in each other.
Alfred Molina is just trying to get late at this club while they wait for more intel and in doing so he ends up, uh, getting into bed with a now brunettes or black haired. Uh, still she's changed her look. She knows that people are after her. She's got to change the game and she ends up sleeping with him being impregnated by Alfred Molina.
Even though, uh, he's like what, you know, for the Lakers trying to get into the other room where Madsen and Helgaburger have already done their business. It's just nobody is on the same page here. And that leads to, still gets away. Uh, and I have to chase her down after Molina's dad.
Uh, she ends up killing, she ends up going into the sewers and she, with her pregnant, like, Mr. Gonna have a sewer baby. This is, this is, this is, this is, I almost gave away a potential. If that's not your, if that's not your double feature, it is.
Uh, right. Yeah. Um, and this is where it gets kind of, it gets gross and gnarly in this sewer because now we have sill in full species is not looking human anymore. Uh, pregnant, about to give birth to the sewer baby.
Uh, ends up killing, um, fish, uh, before she gives birth. And then the baby that she gives birth to is also, is like, it eats a rat and then is also a child that's growing. This is where, like, the, the ending action is not all that exciting. And not as exciting as all the kills leading up to it.
I think is what we, we get from this because like, we're in the sewer, we get the baby birth, the baby looks like a seven year old kid just in goo. Um, but we do get some really fun stretchy arm stuff that the kid gets to do as, of course, the one going after the kid specifically. Uh, the mercenary, it doesn't, seemingly doesn't care. Uh, and, and Huggerberger's got a flamethrower.
Uh, and how does one flamethrower take out both of these monsters? Like, I don't, so I really don't believe that put him, uh, you know, blasting him with some, with flamethrower and then, and then falling into water is going to do anything. No, no. I, I somehow after all the attempts previously to burn and kill the thing, I don't understand how this one works, but I actually kind of liked the CTIs not great, but I do like the creature design of the child as it comes after, um, forest Whitaker, but he burns that baby up.
Uh, he ends up killing still and they think that everything is good in the sewers until we get a little rat who's not on a tentacle. How is that how it works? I don't think that's how it works. I don't.
This is where these are where the plot holes end up. But listen, we got two and three that came after this. Now I know that two does not follow that rat. Does that rat play into three at all?
No, I don't know. I don't know. I know that I've not. Well, Matt's got the Trilly three.
I don't, I don't, I only have this one. Oh, species two, uh, and that species. I do. There's a couple, there's a couple moments that I'll talk about again, but that would sort of the plot synopsis of the run through of species from 1995.
Happy 30 year. I remember just watching this on show time all the time. I do remember seeing enough of species two also because that has a male counterpart. Yes.
A male sport. I don't know if you remember that. The female. If you thought this was horny.
Like umbilical monster is it was absolutely, uh, just it shredded my mind as a child. So we'll discuss that eventually won't we? Species two I think is definitely up for grabs on this podcast. I think we could have a lot of fun with it.
I do not know about three. I really don't know. Um, but wow, species two, a bomb just thinking about it. I'm just looking.
It only grossed, uh, 30 million. It was a 35 million dollar movie and it made 19.2 with the box. Wow. So let's talk about with this one pulled off real quick.
Mm hmm. 35 million dollar budget made 113 million at the box. Wow. Not to mention all the, like the spin offs that I talked about at the top of this.
And I mean, the first thing that they say is that this movie was a hit because everybody wanted to toss a headshot nude. Like that is a huge selling point on this movie, which makes a lot more sense now watching it as an adult boy, an adult man who can, uh, can sort of take some of this stuff with a crayon of salt and just be like, Oh, that really was the selling point. Wasn't it? Like, okay.
But I had a fun watching this. This was a fun revisit for sure. I do have to highlight it is such a Hollywood move where it's like, all right, here is we're going to write you a check for, um, 35 million dollars to make this movie. Movie makes, would you say was a hundred and fifteen?
113. Oh my God. And they're like, all right, for the season, we're going to give you five million less and see what you can do with the even smaller budget. I think the sequel probably looks better because I think they, I wonder, I don't remember exactly, but I think they use more practical unless, or at least the CGI wasn't as egregious.
Cause I do remember, even as a child being like, I don't really love the CGI in this. Okay. I mean, I've, I've never seen the sequels. So, uh, two, I have to choose, I mean, I don't know.
I don't know if two is worth seeing. Well, but there's only one way to find out Kyle. I'll stay soon. Next year.
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And now you know. Was that enough references? Besides the one that I vaguely or almost directly mentioned here, I got a pretty good double feature. I have two, so I mean you go first obviously Kyle and then we'll go Scott and I'll see if either of you still won or both of my double feature.
There's one scene in species in which they are doing a molecular test or a genetic test in a lab in a controlled environment and that goes haywire, that starts to, that species starts to grow exponentially faster than Syl did and Ben Kingsley is holding off on pushing. And with this, these are good practicals too. Not different, but these are pretty solid like alien growth practicals that happen here. It was pretty unnerving but also it took too long.
But that scene reminded me a lot of Forbidden World. What Kyle? Sorry. But I think it'd be perfect.
That movie is also horny as hell. I think it'd be a perfect double feature. Yeah, it actually is the perfect double feature. So yeah, I agree completely.
Now, okay, so what would the, what would, what's the, oh the suckling, right? That's the one we were talking about the sewer baby. I'll pick the suckling because I mean I hate that movie, but I hate that movie. It's such a shit ass movie.
But you know what, we'll just do it. Listen, I'm going to just throw it out there guys. You both fucking fumbled the ball. I have two perfect double features.
I'm going to watch both of them in a crazy as triple feature. Okay. And we're going to go in order. So first I'm going to watch the movie that species is clearly inspired by life force.
Then I'm going to watch species. And then I'm going to watch the movie that I thought was a practically a rip off of species splice that came out in like two. Oh, that would be so horny and so gross. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Hey, all right. This is all pretty solid.
Yeah. I was literally where I needed a third double feature though. I'm like, oh, these motherfuckers are going to take splice and life force. I especially expect it's got to take life force.
I love when there's a movie that just does have a handful of great double features, even if the movie, it's even if the one, the eight pictures, not that great. You know, it's like, I love something that spawns thinking about other things. And those are all pretty good. And I hope that people who listen, you know, make up their own double features.
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Now Kyle, what have you watched, listened to, et cetera, that you want to talk about? I checked out, I know I've talked about the game on this show a couple times. And then when the trailer got dropped, we talked on Geekscape about the trailer release. I watched until dawn.
And it's one of those, I didn't hate it. And I'm a lover of that. I'm a lover of that game. I knew that it wasn't going to be anything like the game.
I sat on that and stood on that for enough time or didn't think about it at all, really, to then go in more blind to until dawn. It's a time loop movie. It's a time loop horror movie that involves characters decaying as the time loops that I think is kind of interesting. But it also is, it's just one of those things where I think because of how much we watch and because of my profession, sometimes watching the sausage get made is a little like, makes the end product a little nauseating.
So this is just so polished and like just, and not in a way that they like, you know, work 10 years on the script to make the script like, it's just visually, it is so like shiny and polished and I don't, it's just, it's unappetizing to me. But at the same time I enjoyed my watch because I don't watch stuff like that all the time. Like it felt like it almost wasn't made for a horror knowledgeable audience in some ways. There wasn't, you know, except when it was, except when there were nods to Carpenter and there were nods to Craven and there were these things that made sense but it just, but it felt like either studio or production wise, it just didn't, didn't click for me.
It's directed by the guy who did lights out and the Shazam movies. What? Who's name escapes me completely. He did both the Shazam movies and then that.
That's so weird. Yeah, so he did, he did lights out first and then he did something in between there. David F. Sandberg, he did Annabelle Creations and the two Shazam movies and then until dawn.
And you know, obviously in order, like, and then actually there was some of that stuff that like lights out, it just felt like he like got hired because he was the lights out guy. Because there was a few moments in until dawn where you're like, oh he's gonna do the lights out thing and then he doesn't do the lights out thing. And then it's just like, I don't know, I, I, my bar was pretty low and I don't not recommend it but it's just a different style of horror film that is different than your, you know, your A24s or your Neons or your, you know, indies that you catch that we talk highly of so often or your shutter originals or like whatever. It's not that, it's made by PlayStation Studios.
It's like watching an hour and a half long cut scene. I don't, you know, it's something. I don't know that. Anyway, that's until dawn.
Eventually I'll watch it and I'll report back. But Scott, how about you go next because I got a doozy of a story to end with. I found a copy and read the ruins, which they made a movie. And it's very funny to me because that book makes so, it's so much better than the movie and it makes sense why that movie kind of sucks because like the gravitas of the writing is such that you, it makes sense of why you're listening to these shitty 20 something, you're a college kids like go kind of crazy as they're about to get eaten by, you know, vines.
And it's written really well. It's a little too long in my opinion. It's like 400 pages. But I found it very interesting.
That's made me not pick it up at the bookstore enough times because I would just look at the sides of it. I'm like, I don't throw a buck and I couldn't turn it down. Yeah. And the guy who wrote it and his name is escaping me actually.
I'm going to check my Goodreads real quick. Scott Smith. Scott. Scott.
Scott. The ruins. Scott Smith. Yeah.
He's written two books. He read or he wrote a simple plan which was made into a movie by his famous movie. Yeah. And the ruins.
That's all he's done. 96, 2006, 2007, whatever it was like. There's literally like a decade between the two of them and that's all he's written and apparently they're both bangers. I'm not going to read a simple plan because I'm not really into the into that kind of like thriller kind of thing.
But the ruins was written so well. Kyle, I'd recommend if you find a copy for like a buck what do what I did which is you're going to be real good into paid into a like page 300 and then you're going to get a little tired of them arguing and you're just going to kind of like speed read to the gore and then you know what happens at the end. It's like, but it's very, it was an interesting. I actually really like the movie.
So I'm interested in. I always wonder if I would that first year of horror movie night is such an interesting year of us because we're definitely coming at horror movie night strictly with we're mostly going to hate these movies attitude a little bit and I wonder if we were back and rewatch. Yeah, like it's like were we like too harsh on some of those? Well, you're describing is not not you know, they are annoying, you know, 20 year old character.
They certainly are not that, you know. So I think that there is something to be said about that. But I also, you know, I just I'm more curious about the book because I feel like it would expand upon that even if it gets a little. It's the exact same beats like this is what I'll say is that I also got a little tired of it because I thought there was a little long wind it.
I like books that are three hundred pages or less. That's just because of my attention span. I've read too much Stephen King and I've talked about this before. The movie is like literally nice sweet spot.
But anyway, I also it follows the movie is actually a 100% true adaptation of the book, which is like impressive, right? But the reason what I'm saying is that like I don't like movies. I don't like media where I don't typically like media where the characters are all unlikable. Like, you know, they do dumb shit and in the book it clicked for me from what I remember from them because I only watch it once for this for the show and it does it every watch.
I remember being like, why are they making these decisions for one? And two, why are they so annoying? But the book makes it make sense. And there's all this characterization that actually fills in a lot of the gaps of why.
And they can't do that in a film. And so you just kind of have people doing weird stuff. And it's like it's almost like a plot hole because the plot is happening in their minds with their personal decisions. Like the part where the girl gives her boyfriend a hand job and then his like cum gets eaten by the vines, you know, in the night.
Like I thought that was the most ludicrous part of the movie because I'm like, everybody loves a hand job scene. No, I mean, nobody loves a hand job scene more than Stephen King, but apparently Scott Smith loved him too. It does his one nod to Stephen King because of the handshakes. I got it.
I haven't read a simple plan. So we'll see. In any case, it makes sense that all this bad shit is happening and the girl is like kind of drunk and she's sad and it's just something to like calm her because it's part of her personality. It makes sense in the book.
And I'm like, oh, oh, like it's a plot hole in the movie because I'm like, this is a dumb thing that makes no, it feels like it's just moving the plot forward in the movie. But in the book, there is a reason for every bad decision. That's why I'm getting it. I'm so sorry for being in the movie.
No, no, that's nice that that is a thing that exists in the book and not a because we talk about that in horror all the time where there's just like nobody has a reason to make the bad decision that they do, you know? So it's nice to have a little backstory there. Well, okay, very quick suggestion. The Looney Tunes film, The Day the Earth Blue Up is now on HBO Max.
If you grew up loving Looney Tunes, watch it. It's fucking fantastic. It's really, really good. Daffy Duck and Porky Pig joins forces to stop aliens.
It's everything you love about Looney Tunes is a kid. Anyway, you guys want to hear it? Is it a precursor to Space Jam? No, no, different aliens, different aliens.
It's like a zombie movie. They create a chewing gum that when you chew it, you turn into a mindless zombie alien slave situation and they have to stop people from chewing gum. Anyway, none of that's important. You guys want to hear a story about how I had to drive barbed to the Urgent Care?
Yes. Yeah, I do. So our friend for her birthday party was like, we're going to go to a rage room, which I was already like, I don't have enough rage for a rage room. But for those of you who aren't familiar with a rage room, it's literally what it sounds like.
It is a room where they give you a bunch of shit to throw against the walls and break for an old barber and I are in the second group and they put us in these hazmat suits. We have goggles and stuff, but we have just the thinnest pairs of gardening gloves I've ever seen in my entire life. And they take us into this room and they're like, pick a weapon from this box of weapons and it's like sledgehammers, baseball bats, a golf club. I took a golf club.
I was like, I'll just put a couple beer bottles down and swing the golf club at him and watch like the shards fly or whatever. That's about as rageful as I can get. But they had an old tube television and Barge took the sledgehammer and literally hit one big whack into it. Glass shatters.
We let someone else get a turn. She looks at me and goes, oh. There's a there's a hole in my glove. Oops.
And I was like, are you sure we should still be in here? And she goes, yeah, maybe it was just there. Like maybe it was just a bad glove. Well, then flash word is 30 seconds later and there is blood trailing barb everywhere.
She goes dripping out of her glove. So so I'm like, we need to get out of here. So I push her out the door. And as soon as they take off the glove, I can't see what's happening.
But the entire party and every employee goes, Oh, no. And then they running get the weakest first aid kit I've ever seen in my goddamn life. Like no butterfly stitches or band aids or anything, literally just like your run of the mill band aid and some gauze in this in this versus a kit. So thankfully there's enough people who have somewhat of a nursing background in this party that they're able to stop the bleeding.
And I can drive her to the urgent care. After last cut, right? It's a car to glass. Pretty sure it's a shard of glass cut.
Yeah, the worst. So we're taking her to the urgent care later on. We find out that one of the employees says, and I quote, I'm sorry, we're just some kids, like, because literally not a single person on staff was legally drinking H, which is a serious problem. So this is like, you are like not this.
You can't just hire the shit out of them. Yeah, you can't hire teenagers to run a room with glass and no like medical background. Anyway, so we take her to the urgent care. Thankfully, there is nobody at the surgeon care.
Like it is it is barren on this Sunday afternoon. That's good. But she's like having to sit down regularly because even with all like the, oh, wow. made turn to kids, like she's losing blood.
So they get her back there. It took two nurse practitioners to even somewhat determine how they are going to stitch things together because I'm going to try to explain this for the visual people. But the cut started on one end of her finger and ran completely across the grain of her fingernail around to the other side. Oh my God.
Yes. So they're like, we don't know how to stitch this with because your nail is right fucking there. So she's and the bleeding is just like not stopping. So she finally comes in.
She like, they're like, we're not also giving you a tetanus shot just for safety sake because you hit a TV with a sledgehammering God knows who TV like who knows what was in that two TV. So they start to stitch up as much as they can. And it is still just gushing blood even with the stitches in. So they're like, we have to put this foam in here to block it out.
We don't think you're going to have to go to the emergency room. Barb wanted me to say for the people listening, if you're training to be a nurse advice on things not to say to a patient is, well, I did the best I could do with that is the less like the nurse said to her before she goes up. What the fuck was the nurse also under drinking age? The nurses town run by children.
Nurse also was like, I have never seen a cut like this. Like Barb got in one end of a kind gash in her finger. She was trying to numb Barb's finger. She accidentally pushed the needle through the entirety of her finger.
Oh my God. No. The worst Sunday imaginable. But now she looks like she's got one giant index finger with all the bandages across it.
But she's doing good now. She's in good spirits. I mean, her finger hurts like a motherfucker. But yeah, have you seen if she'll put that in your butt or?
No, she's just switched up. After we're recording, we have to take off all the bandages to put fresh ones on. That's the first time we're going to get like a real look at it. So, yeah, dress the wound.
Yeah, no, super excited for that. I'm not someone who gets lightheaded easily. But yeah, so that's the thing. I didn't see a mapping like, whoa.
That was the joke, Barb. I said, what if you unwrap it and it's still bleeding? And she goes, we'll have to call the doctor. And I'm like, for you or for me when I pass, I'll find the truth.
Still been bleeding this old time. She goes, yeah, I'll probably have to call. But yeah, what I'm trying to say is the day the Earth blew up a Looney Tunes film, probably in my top 10 of this year, really give it a shot. I love Looney Tunes.
I love the movie. And we'll be back next week with another movie I love here on Horror Movie Night. What's up, everybody? This is Brian here to tell you about our podcast, Binge Town TV.
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