Stripped To Kill 2: Live Girls

This is Free with Ads, the the podcast that asked the question: why pay for overpriced drinks at a strip club when you can go online for free and visit a strip club that's incredibly sexy if you're into chain-link fences, loud wind noises, and giant perms?

I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is Strip to Kill 2, the Roger Corbin-produced psychological slasher with box art so striking it's lived rent-free in my brain since the late 80s.

With us as always is the super producer, the He Freak, Matt Lieb, hitting us with those live nude drops.

I don't know, man.

That's it.

That's it.

That was my favorite line from the movie.

When you wandered on screen, looked right at the camera.

I don't know, man.

That sure was a movie.

I would

immediately

be like, I think the guy that broke the fourth wall is the one who murdered everyone.

Yeah, for sure.

Might be him.

Yeah, this is really exciting.

To reset a little bit,

we were able to track down the movie

that Emily,

so the box art of this movie has been in your head.

You didn't know what movie this was to.

You thought you had

dreamed it as a kid.

And someone tracked it down.

Matt and I both had movies, and Matt's was like found by our fabulous freebies,

our fans, like immediately.

Yeah, almost instantly.

People just Googled, because I described it as it was a movie,

it was box art where it was titties covered in ants, and someone apparently Googled that and found it.

Very easily Google-ableable.

It's a wonder why I didn't do it.

Yeah, and then mine was a lot more difficult, so I assumed it didn't exist.

It was a woman who I thought was Bernadette Peters in my brain as a child.

Close enough.

Well, yeah, but I saw this.

This movie needed more show tunes, more Bernadette Peters-esque show tunes.

She should really.

No one sang any Sondheim in this movie.

They certainly danced like they were in a Sondheim.

Strip to Kill Three

Strip to Kill Three into the Woods.

Exactly.

Well, yeah, so I remember the name of the grocery store, by the way.

It was Compton's, was the name of the grocery store that had a little like rental video, like kiosk type thing in there.

And I would always go look at this as a kid, probably, I think it was early 90s actually, and stare at it and then go home and think about it by myself.

So it's important to describe the box art here.

So it's one of the strippers from the movie and she is being kind of like grasped from all sides by hands that are coming out of a wall.

Yes.

And the way I described it was it was like gray hands.

Like I remembered this girl looked like Berida Peters and all these hands are grabbing at her from the walls.

At first I thought, oh, this is maybe just labyrinth.

Like I had a dream version of this.

But then, lo and behold, my lovely manager, Candy Crimebrink, someone emailed her.

That's crazy.

It's crazy that someone emailed your manager about it.

And not us.

Yeah, exactly.

James Devine is who emailed it.

Thank you so much, James.

And of course, you can reach Emily through her manager if you have any

correspondences that you want to share with Emily.

Yeah.

I should probably pay her now.

I don't know.

She gets 10%.

10% of the clout.

Send her 10% of this movie.

Clip out 10% of the movie.

Send it to her.

Yeah, so she found the poster.

And I can't.

It's like so crazy to look at.

Like, because the version in my brain is slightly different than this, but by God, we found it.

You killed two.

So thank you.

Thank you to

everybody who was hunting for movies, who was looking for the right one.

We had a few red herrings, much like the mystery in this movie.

We finally found it and we fucking watched it and we're going to talk about it.

It is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads.

But before we talk about Strip to Kill 2, we wanted to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

This relates to our ongoing segment about celebrity vanity music projects.

Emily, do you want to introduce this one?

So

I saw it and I...

I honestly tried to listen to the music.

Couldn't do it.

So I'd rather do it with you guys.

This is Russell Crowe, baby.

I did not know Russell Crowe was a musician.

Oh, sure.

He's had many a celebrity vanity music project over here.

Well, I mean, he sang in Les Miz and it was bad.

He's also had,

I think, since his heyday, he's been in a band called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts.

What?

I thought we were all going to try and guess what the name was.

In my mind, it was

20 Leagues Under the Grunt, was what I remember.

Is it 30 Grunt?

Around the world and 30 grunts.

20,000 leagues under the grunt.

Under the grundle.

What's under the grundel?

The grundel is as far underneath as you can go.

Maybe that's the

riddle.

That is.

Okay, but this is, so is this, do you know, Emily, is this related to that band or is this a solo project?

What are we about to listen to?

I honestly don't know.

I just saw him, his chunky face, singing, and I wanted to listen to it with you.

I guess it's coming out soon.

Yes, listen to the latest Russell Crowe banger.

The caption is: this video is out now.

Watch on Vivo or YouTube.

Duet with Zucchero.

I should probably know who that is.

And here it is.

Did I say that I need

you?

Did I say that I want

you?

Or if I didn't, I'm a fool.

You see,

no one knows this more than me.

Cause I come clean.

Oh, okay.

So you have to

really have to watch the video to really get the full crow experience here.

Yeah, what's going on here, Matt?

Now, we're not watching.

You're watching.

Can you describe the visuals that go along with it?

Okay, so it is

what I can only describe as Christian lighting.

You know, kind of like that sun, that sunset lighting that people have where they stare into the sun and sing.

Shiny.

It was very Christian rock,

what you just played.

If you kind of sounded Mark Knopfler-esque to me.

Okay.

I mean, listen, this is the thing about Christian rock in general.

You don't know if you're listening to it or just some band from the 90s.

Now, in this case, I don't know if it's Christian or not, but he is singing into the sky.

Russell Crowe is and then we see Zuccharo who looks like

well, he dresses like a young man, but he's very old.

He's got one of those LA hats.

You know what I'm talking about?

I don't know that I do.

Can you describe the LA hat?

It's a fedora with a really flat, large brim.

A lot of Santa Monica Hollywood men and women wear them.

They look like cool guy hats.

You ever see a cool guy hat?

Maybe I've never in my fucking life.

I think I know what you're talking about.

I think I can picture the hat.

And he's got sort of.

It's like a hat you would wear to a winery, right?

100%.

That's right.

Okay, sorry.

I was looking at it.

Oh, it is very Christian lighting.

Yes, very Christian lighting.

And you see his Zuccharo, whoever he is, playing the guitar.

So someone's playing some music.

I'm just.

So there's just two grunts.

Zuccharo, the other grunt here.

I believe there's only two odd grunts.

Okay, but can I say something?

What happened to the other 28 grunts?

Yes.

They all died.

Zuccharo just looks like Russell Crowe in a different wig.

Yes.

It looks like another Crow.

So this might be a

Garth Brooks guy.

Garth Brooks, yes.

What was Garth Brooks' alternating name?

Chris Gaines.

So Russell Crowe has a Chris Gaines named Zuccharo.

Yes, he has a Sasha Fierce.

He has a Chris Gaines.

A Sasha Fierce.

Yeah, it looks like it's just him in another wig or that it's John Goodman in a wig.

Yeah, it's hard to tell.

It's hard to tell.

Sort of Elton Johnny a little bit, too.

He's giving me righteous gemstones vibes.

Maybe Russell Crowe was all the grunts.

He could have been all the grunts.

He was all 30 odd feet of grunt.

This is like the movie Split, but with Russell Crowe.

Or the Clumps.

Yeah.

The Clumps is what I was just thinking.

This is sliding doors, but it's like sliding bars or something.

Well, yeah,

if you want to fuck or praise the Lord, apparently,

check out Russell Crowe and Zucchero's new album.

Yeah, I just want to read a couple of comments.

Oh, please, yes.

Just

the number one comment is.

This is from their Instagram, correct?

Yes, from their Instagram is: I can't tell if this is satire, which is great.

And then under that, it says, Russell Crowe dueting with the Wario version of Russell Crowe.

Hide your gold, Russell Crow.

They get it, dog.

This is awesome.

Nice.

Look for

your local tower records.

Yes, Emily.

Can we briefly mention that we don't usually mention

where we see the stuff that we see because it's on multiple platforms often?

That's right.

But this is, I believe, the first time we've ever used Plex.

Yeah.

Yes.

It is.

First time we've got it.

I like Plex, guys.

Plex has kind of a fun little stash of movies.

I guess this is something that you usually use to store your personal media stash, but now they have a little free with ad service as everything is starting to do these days.

Yeah, Plex had a fun little stash of movies.

If you're scrolling for something free, maybe check out Plex.

Also, Plex, if you're looking for somebody to

advertise the fact that you exist as a streaming platform.

We're three very nice people.

There's nothing problematic about us yet.

Don't listen to the rest of the episode.

Just assume that we just kind of talk nicely about the movie and people like us and no one talks about specific fingering stories.

Well, yeah, speaking of fingering and getting fingered,

let's talk about Strip to Kill 2.

So I maybe want to preface this by

just like giving a little bit of information about the movie from its Wikipedia because I think like

context is important for this movie.

I think it's everything.

It's everything.

I think without it.

Stop it.

Without it, the description of this movie is 15 minutes long.

Yeah.

Right.

So we need to know what it is.

So please give us the context.

So this is a movie.

It's produced by Roger Corman, who like produced all sorts of like low-budget, you know, drive-in movies.

You know, doing it since the 50s.

You know, a legendary, low-budget movie dude.

And, you know, he was famous for like using a location to shoot as many movies as possible in the time that he had it rented.

So this was one of those.

The director Kat Shea

had just made a movie for him called Dance of the Damned.

And apparently it had finished filming on Saturday.

And Roger Corman had asked if

asked Shay if she could come up with a movie by Monday because he still had the strip club joint for a few more days.

Shea and her crew went in on Monday.

and shot topless dance footage for five days.

She and partner Andy Rubin took three weeks off to write a film about it.

She later admitted, I didn't have a script.

I was almost shooting it and making it up as I went along.

No shit, says anyone who's ever seen this movie.

Yeah.

Yes.

This is the most made-it-up while I went along movie I've ever seen.

So all the, yeah, totally, absolutely.

That is totally the quality of it.

Like, and all the stripping scenes you see are basically unrelated to the plot because they just film them in a couple of days and drop them randomly into the movie.

I would also say they're unrelated to stripping.

Yep.

Sure.

Yeah.

Like,

I've never seen anyone strip like they're in the movie Cats.

Like, I've never seen

it.

This movie does have a cats-esque logic to it.

At one point, one is actually dressed as a cat.

But even before that, you're like, this movie is cats.

Even before the cat woman.

Well, yeah, let's talk about it.

It kind of opens on a shot of hands, fingers.

Okay, now maybe we see why Emily likes this movie.

Play that sting, Matt.

Fingering story.

There you go.

Hands, fingers, constant symbols that the movie returns to for some reason.

Yep.

We see a very artsy strip tease scene where a woman is stripping and she's also being like chased and pointed at by like peasant women.

The strip club is called Pear Ogon, P-A-R-O-O Gone.

I noticed this is like our third strip club movie.

Yes, it is.

Where would you rather hang out?

Perogon, cheetahs from Showgirls, or whatever the club is from Burlesque.

Oh, oh, Burlesque, I suppose.

I mean,

just because I like the quality of strippers.

I'm going to go the Cheetahs.

I'm going to go that place.

That place seemed more fun to me.

They have a buffet for sure at the Cheetahs.

Oh, they got to have a buffet at Cheetahs.

Yeah, Parogon is a nightmare.

It's a Lynchian nightmare.

I also don't, you don't really see a lot of the patrons.

Like, you'll see one patron in a corner.

Yeah.

And it'll be the detective.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who is just there to, yeah, the detective, we'll talk about this guy later.

He looks a lot like Chris Sarandon, if you blur your eyes a little bit.

Oh, I don't know who Chris Sarandon is.

He was Humberdink in Princess Bride.

My read on this guy, this detective who becomes the love interest later, he strikes me as like someone said,

Okay, we can't get Steve Gutenberg.

Get me someone Gutenbish.

Gutenberg.

Gutenbish.

We don't need Gutenberg, just someone who has a Gutenberg-ish quality.

Guten good enough.

Yeah, Guten good enough.

Guten enough for Gutenberg for this movie.

We're making up in five days.

Good enough for rock and roll.

Good enough.

It's good enough for you.

It's good and

it's for me.

So we see this kind of like strip nightmare scene.

It kind of ends with women passing a razor blade between their mouths, like attacking each other with mouth razor blades.

This movie is like occasionally really horrific, and it's all about like

the murder weapon in the movie is like razor blades that come out of the mouth.

So that's like really shocking.

Cool, by the way.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

A very cool, like, a very cool like hook for a killer.

We see this is all a dream

in the head of Shady, the main character, Shady.

Now, the sound in this movie is terrible.

The sound is awful.

So, every time people refer to the main character Shady, for half the movie, I thought her name was Shitty.

I thought they were just, I'm like, is that her stage name?

It's Shitty.

Wake up, Shitty.

That would be my stripper name for sure.

I was like, Come to the stage, Shitty.

All right.

Put those dollars away, fellas.

She She sucks.

And in a couple of years, she'll be saggy.

Yeah.

Shitty got those shitty titties.

As a like sound guy, you know, this movie was a nightmare for me.

I'm sure.

Because all of the sudden, you know, you would have room tone in one shot and then in the reverse shot, silence.

And for me, that puts me out of it because you immediately are like, oh, did my audio go away?

And then, no, she starts talking again.

It just, it's like a child made the movie.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, totally.

And like, so, and also, the music of the strip club, I guess to give it a more nightmarish quality, always has this loud wind noise over it that sounds artificially inserted.

Like,

there are certain points of the movie that have actual wind noise

and maybe planes because they're filming at the airport.

But it does seem like there's artificial wind noise, but the actual music of the strip club has a quality.

This is not the song playing in the strip club, but every song reminds me of this.

Matt, would you play what the music reminded me of?

Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling.

Toss salads and scraps.

Every song,

every song,

imagine this was just confused.

So, that to me

Maybe that's what they were playing I was I listen I was not in a strip club in the 80s I was a child Maybe that's what they were playing.

I don't know I would think that this movie looks a lot like the days of hair metal

instead of think it would be a lot of like hot for teacher yeah right exactly oh my god we forgot about the strip club and varsity blues oh yeah there you go four four strips we might have more i'm gonna need people in the comments yes if you found this movie, you can certainly enumerate the times we have watched the movie with strip club.

Go in the comments on our Instagram and tell us how many strip clubs we've had in our movies because I bet there's more.

And if there's one in Land Before Time, I don't want to know.

Wait a minute.

I just remembered animated Cool World definitely had a strip club.

Holy shit.

That's like a whole universe that's just a strip club.

That's true.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, the music that they're not playing feels like you can, it feels like they could not afford Hot for Teacher.

And they couldn't even afford a cover band doing a dummy version of Hot for Teacher, you know?

It's just like a fucking sexy.

Yeah, you would say they would get someone to write Feeling Sexual for Professor or something.

Yeah, you know, right, yeah.

Feeling sexual.

But then you have to pay for that.

Like, all of this feels like the only reason there isn't found footage in this is because they had the strip club for three extra days.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's found sound is what they say.

I got tits from a tutor.

I got tits, tits, tits, tits, tutor.

It feels like the strippers should just be stripping to public domain songs like Camptown Races, sing this song, tutor.

Titties.

That's right.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday, Matt.

You have to pay for happy birthday.

Is that right?

Yeah, yeah.

Happy birthday.

Amazing taints.

Pass me

the sound.

Like a strip club that's all like come see taints.

Just the taint.

Yeah, everything else is covered, but you can see right between.

Oh, yeah.

Honestly, kind of hot.

It's just guys in slacks with a little bit cut out of the fiddle.

That's the area right between both of my favorite bars.

That's where I always split my pants, too.

Right on the grunts.

The chain split.

We all got it.

It's under the grunt.

It's okay.

So there's this strip club.

30 odd under the grunts.

I'm sorry.

It's a bunch of like chain link fences and like lighting guys.

Weird jazz with wind noises over it.

Yep.

A lot of stairs, too.

They're always.

And I'm like, that's a little dangerous.

I guess the stripper unions weren't helping out with this movie.

I have a feeling this was a non-union film.

Yeah, people, yeah, people, I probably the big the biggest budget of this movie was probably just like the mafia payouts they had to make.

Oh, yes, yes, exactly.

100.

Tell the tell the health inspector not to come near the stairs for a couple of weeks while we shoot the scenes.

Anyway, $50,000 cocaine budget.

Oh, for sure.

So, yeah, so

Shady, she has like a crazy Razorblade nightmare again, and it turns out one of the strippers from the club died.

And she was killed with a razor blade.

So, kind of the movie is like leading you to believe that maybe like Shady is doing this in her sleep, and her dreams are kind of like predicting these murders.

There's

a there's this, and this movie is funny sometimes, and I'm not sure when it means to be.

There's a scene where all the strippers are like crying because someone died.

I like thinking about them having just going up on stage and like crying.

Like, oh, oh, our friend died.

We got to work on that.

Maybe I hear the trains.

Oh, man.

Your friend died.

I'm so sorry.

Don't toss your salad like the song says.

My friend has left the building.

Good night.

Coming to the stage.

Grief.

So, yeah, so they're all crying.

They kind of hang out in the alley a lot and shoot the shit with each other.

Someone walks back and she's like, we got to get on stage.

The customers are suggesting we put in video games.

I like the idea of a strip club with video games.

100%.

It's like, get your tips out of my face.

I'm trying to play joust.

Get out of here.

I got next on Tekken.

So, yeah, so there, you know, the strippers are kind of like dying.

The Steve

Gutenberger-y guy, he's the cop.

I don't know why he suspects Shady.

He just suspects suspects her immediately.

And he kind of like comes to the club and like bothers her.

There's a scene where he tries to tip her in change.

I thought that was kind of funny.

He just has his pocket.

He's like a hilarious mess.

And again, I don't know how much of this comedy is intentional, but I did kind of think it was funny what a fucking mess this guy is.

And he's like paying her in change.

They go to a, like, he goes to question her.

They go to this.

Tiki Bar hot dog restaurant.

It looked fun.

The tiki bar hot dog restaurant.

Oh my god, take me there.

They just sit down on on stools and there's drinks there and they start drinking them.

Fucking terrible idea.

Like, ah, there's drinks.

And they order hot dogs from this like really obnoxious punk rock guy.

I fucking love an 80s movie punk rocker.

They're so mean.

He's really mean.

He's got a bunch of drawn-on tattoos.

I think he's the tallest person in the movie.

Oh.

Oh.

Tallest guy.

So they like order hot dogs and then just drink these drinks that have been sitting there.

And

she's kind of explaining to him the dream she's having.

She says, I dreamed about a razor blade.

It was in a dream.

Yeah, no shit.

You just fucking said that.

He talks about his wife leaving him, and he took her coat.

He's like wearing her trench coat around.

Yeah, what is that about?

That was weird.

Yeah.

I get why she left you now.

You don't like have your own clothes.

Like, what's going on?

Yeah.

He is such a mess.

He talks about his plastic leg at one point that does not, like, it doesn't enter into the movie at all.

He's like, I have a plastic.

He doesn't show her.

He just says he has a plastic.

Oh, yeah.

He does tell the story of how he got it, and it's the most boring story.

Oh, maybe it did get explained.

But yeah, easy to tune out in this movie and also not hear what people are saying.

Right.

Yeah, he's explaining it because she's asking about his limp.

And you keep thinking the limp is going to enter into it somehow.

Right, yes.

It doesn't.

It's kind of just

they were like, God, this movie's runtime so far is 15 minutes.

Can you guys just vamp?

Right.

Yeah, we're not going to do a run time.

We're We're going to do a scoot time.

Yeah, we're just going to watch it.

We're going to mosey to 80 minutes so this can come out in theaters.

This is more of a light jaunt

movie.

If we have any issues, we'll put in more titties.

Yeah.

She talks about her backstory.

I totally forgot what it was, but there's a minute where she's holding a cat in one shot and she wasn't holding it in the previous one.

Again, this movie makes you feel insane because

the logic of it.

It's just like, it's not there.

You're like, what's a dream?

What's real?

Where'd she get that cat?

And they inexplicably just

hit it off and then are attracted to each other because they're the main characters.

And they start like making out.

And they start doing it in the alley.

Okay, so they start making out.

And he's like, oh, he's,

this guy's zero charisma.

He's like,

it feels so damn good.

And she's just rubbing his shoulder.

Yeah.

He's like, oh, it feels so damn good.

I love it when you slowly rub my shoulders and don't really do anything.

Oh, I love this.

Give me a butterfly kiss.

Shake my hand firmly.

Oh, it feels so good.

I got to say there was nothing sexy about this movie, and there were more boobs in this movie than you've seen in a lot of the ones we've had before, because we've had some movies with boobs in it.

There's a lot of boobs in this movie.

Yeah.

I felt no

sexiness or no arousal.

It's weird.

Anyway, and I love boobs.

Me too.

I'm a big fan.

And the his sex scene just looks clunky.

And his pants are not.

So they're like doing it in the alley.

His pants are not down at all.

I guess he maybe just took it out through the zipper, but his pants are like all the way up.

Jordan, I think about this all the time because there's so many sex scenes where they just do that.

And I'm like, are you just pinching it through the zipper?

Like, what the heck?

I guess.

Yeah.

I guess that's the logic.

Some people, you know,

this is my guess with other movies.

I'm not sure what's going on with this one, but with other ones, it's like costs a whole extra boatload of money to get a butt shot from an actor.

Yeah, maybe they're like, nah, we can't show the butt.

We're just a shot.

You could leave the underwear on, and then I would understand like pulling it over the top of the band

with the underwear.

Like, that all makes sense, but the through the zipper, which

maybe it's women's, like, yoga pants, because he's already got his wife's jacket.

Maybe he's a good jacket.

Who knows?

Yeah, he has no zipper.

It's just maybe he has a buttonfly.

We don't know what's going on.

Hell yeah.

And another just hilarious production thing, while they're doing it, rain

starts coming down in gales, but only in one tiny place where they clearly had the rain machine.

It's not over them.

It's not.

10 feet away from where it's coming down, but there's this little tube of rain that immediately just hits the ground.

It's probably just like the leaking from someone's like window unit.

Yeah.

Or there's just like a PAs with with super soakers just, you know, spraying downwards from the roof.

Where do you think this was set?

Oh, Vegas.

Maybe it's supposed to be LA.

It's very much just like Scuds Town.

Yeah, it's LA coded because there's a, in the very few exterior shots you do get, you see like big palm trees.

So

you just assumed it was L.A.

Yeah.

We get a couple of like random stripping scenes.

Again, they just filmed random stripping scenes and dropped them into the movie.

They are bad.

There's one where a woman's doing ballet and another one where a woman is eating fire.

And if that sounds cool, it like is cooler on paper.

It's like not actually that cool to watch.

No one can really dance.

Someone can eat fire, which is kind of cool, I guess.

Yeah, it feels like somebody's like the fringe festival did a strip show.

Yeah, sure.

It's just like a one-woman show of stripping.

And so it's like, how did you ruin stripping?

I don't know how you did it.

Like, it's amazing it's weird it's like it's like a bunch of theater majors got together and did what they an approximation of what they think stripping is right yeah exactly people have never been in a strip club yeah um yeah very very weird which is like not to say the actors themselves have never been like the actors i think were just doing what they were told to do i have a feeling the direction was just like no no no stop doing actual stripping and can we do it more arty and people were like all right fine i'll put on a cat costume yeah i think they wanted to like find a way to make it not porn, you know what I mean?

So they were like, Well, just make it more like dancerly.

I mean, they technically succeeded at making it not porn because there were no dicks going in, but I will say, it's essentially porn, it's like a soft core,

not in terms of like sexually, but the movie itself in terms of its

acting and everything, yeah.

Acting, yeah, it's like all of the scenes that you would, you know, skip in most porn movies

to get to the porn part.

But instead, they're like, no, that's the whole movie, dog.

You got to watch it now because it's on Plex.

And

I bet there was a little like.

I bet kind of in their minds, the filmmakers were like, we're being lynchian, right?

Because like this is like the high.

And I bet they're going to be like, we're going to make this kind of dreamlike and weird and sinister.

And again, they made this in a week.

So it's like, that's probably what you get.

And people are doing these scenes once, I bet.

I bet we are seeing the first and only takes of everything.

100%.

So, yeah, I think that is, I think, yeah, they were trying to make it like something other than just like a jack-off movie for drive-ins.

But instead, we got this weird thing that you can't even jack off to.

Right.

Well, I'd also like to.

Someone can.

I'm sure someone has.

Oh, I did.

Oh, yeah, of course, I did.

I did, but that's just on principle.

Yeah.

We don't, like, this is a sequel, by the way.

I did not watch the first movie.

None of us did.

I

I think it doesn't have anything to do with this.

I think it's the same director.

I think she shot it the previous week.

I read a little Wikipedia.

I think the plot of it is like

an undercover cop that's a man going undercover as a female stripper.

Anyway,

that's kind of interesting.

I think I would

more interested in that than woman thinks she's sleeping.

And it makes it sound like this is that cop because he has his wife's clothes.

Oh, that's right.

Oh, yeah, maybe.

Maybe there is a connection between the movies.

Well, yeah.

I'm going to watch the first one on my own time and tell you.

Oh, yeah, please report back.

Just keep it like a little secret in your brain.

Little secret under my pillow.

So the next stripper to die is someone named Mantra.

So they, there's kind of a funny scene after her death where one of the strippers finds out and gives a note to the strip club DJ who without reading it first just goes on mic and like says in his strip club dj voice oh my god mantra has been found dead yeah breaking

club and he went that's not funny yeah

i know

i i love that guy just reads whatever's put in front of him without thinking about it first yeah i it was almost an like i i I'm gonna, you know, just to give the movie some credit, say that was an intentional joke.

Yeah.

And it was very funny.

Yeah, I think there are a couple intentional jokes in this movie.

Yeah, for sure.

That are like actually

kind of funny.

Yes.

But, you know, the rest of it is nonsense.

So

that's so we find that this strip club DJ, he's kind of the red herring.

Spoiler alert, he's not the killer.

I thought the detective was the killer for a little bit because it's so weird.

I know.

They were all those little nuggets of information were like, okay, that's different.

That's different.

That'll probably come back later.

Yeah.

And I would have accepted all of those as the correct correct answer.

I would have been fine with them.

Yeah.

The ending is Waymore Bananas.

And

they kind of say

the cop, like, without a warrant, breaks into the strip club DJ's apartment.

Without a warrant.

Yeah.

I just want to point out that was illegal what he did.

It was.

Oh, so I'm not supporting it.

Okay, I don't support what he did.

Okay.

This was a different time.

You ever did this?

You wouldn't break into an apartment in a movie today.

That's right.

You wouldn't download a car.

No.

So he breaks into the strip club DJ's apartment and he's obsessed with all the strippers.

He has all their photos up.

He's got these flowers that are getting left at the crime scene.

And also, he has a taxidermied alligator head anyway.

Cool.

Yeah, it is kind of cool.

Dude department rules.

Fucking shots.

Alligator heads.

Oh, yeah.

Back in the day when I worked at the

bone store.

You worked at the bone store.

That's right.

Yeah, those sold like crazy, those Gator heads.

Yeah, I mean, I get it.

They were expensive.

They're pretty sick.

It's like probably the star of the movie up until this point.

You're like, oh, cool.

Something cool happened.

Finally.

Something cool happened.

Yeah, I mean, the other, it felt very.

Did you guys do any regional theater?

I know we were all like high school theater kids, but did you ever do a regional theater production?

I did one for one summer.

I did a children's theater production of the

Schoolhouse Rock musical.

Oh, cool.

So, yeah, my big song was Conjunction Junction.

Oh, what's your function?

Yeah, hook it up words and phrases and clauses.

I cannot, I had to talk sing the whole thing.

I was like, you know, that's fair.

But yeah, but I could, you know, I could sell it.

I could sell it.

I was only much like Russell Crow.

Maybe my voice isn't great, but I sell it.

You sell it and you have a beard and you got the Christian lighting.

So that's

it.

I didn't do high school theater.

I did like elementary school theater.

So like for me, yeah, no, I don't know much about what's regional like so.

Regional theory, I did a play that I auditioned.

You go in the newspaper and look for auditions for things, and I found auditions for a original play called Endured, and it was about the children of the Civil War.

Like

kids who were like,

Yeah, what was going on with the kids of the Civil War.

And I was, I played this girl who sang to a tree.

I can't remember the song I sang, sang, but it was like, oh my God.

And it's like that, you know, keyboard music that sounds like it's strings, but it's not.

Like synthesizer.

Like, like this movie.

And the sets were like wobbly and, you know, like made out of

like particle board, much like this movie.

And that's a tech scam.

But yeah, I would sing to the tree because my dead lover was never coming.

My boyfriend went to war or something.

And he's never coming back.

And I was like, I guess the tree's my friend now.

And then my parents, the little napkins, they had cocktail napkins.

My boyfriends are fighting for the Confederacy and our states' rights.

Exactly.

I hope he defeats the evil Union in this war of northern aggression.

But we didn't really say what side these kids were on.

It was just about how hard it was to be the kids during the Civil War.

So it's like a little girl saying like, my dad's dead.

I'm sad.

Like, Like, you know, that kind of thing.

Yeah, that's kind of suck.

But yeah, I had a giant fake tree that I would sing to, but there was these little cocktail napkins that, you know, they had like concessions at a bar and stuff.

And it said, I endured, endured on the cocktail napkins.

And

my dad was like, truer words have never been spoken.

Dad, stop roasting me.

Dad, why'd you get these printed?

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

Are we kidding?

Stop showing us your Grammy.

But this movie had me.

Yeah, fuck you, Dad.

No, I'm kidding.

But

by the way, my dad loves to wear a mythical merch like all the time.

He wears it on stage.

And he just texted me today to tell me he got stopped at the airport three times

of people coming up saying, hey, I love Mythical 2.

And he was like, I'm Emily's dad.

And

they took pictures with him and stuff.

Oh, Mike Fleming, world's greatest dad.

I've said it before.

I'll say it again.

He'll get on the podcast.

I love it.

Oh, yeah, please.

What movies Mike want to watch?

We can watch Strip to Kill One.

Yeah.

He'll anything that's a Western, he'll probably like

or science fiction.

All right.

Love it.

But yeah, this set just really took me back to the set in this movie just took me back to regional theater days and made me kind of miss regional theater a little bit.

The good old theater.

We should all audition for a little, like, let's go audition for a little theater out here in LA together.

Should we all be in our town or something?

Yeah, hell yeah.

I wouldn't book it.

We'll go to Riverside or something.

I just know I wouldn't book it.

You can be in it.

You'd book it.

Tall guy.

You could be the

ensemble.

I fall apart.

I fall apart in all auditions.

I can't handle them.

Yeah, it's Fiddler on the Roof, and Matt's just the roof.

Yeah, I'm the roof.

I'll be the fiddle.

Believe it or not, we're almost at the end of the plot of this movie.

We've spent more time talking about regional theater and Russell Crowe's singing career.

No, no, no.

I think it's telling because of just how little happens in this movie.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, let's do this.

Let's take a little break and we'll come back and reveal the thrilling and nonsensical conclusion to Strip to Kill after this.

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live girls live girls that's live girls live girls oh all right how ironic considering that some of them turn out dead.

Oh, shit.

Oh, my God.

I didn't even think about that.

That's crazy.

What?

Anyway.

Toppless girls, because of the razor blade, you cut them up.

It cuts the top

of their head off, but now you got no top.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

Movie's good.

Yep.

Yep.

No, anyway.

So, so

it's very hilarious how the crime is figured out.

The cop takes one of the strippers' headshots.

This is Shady's roommate.

He takes her, like, headshot.

By the way, they all have like eight by tens

for the strip club.

Very funny.

I like how they all have, like,

yeah, eight by tens that I guess maybe they used to audition with.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Um, he feeds her eight by ten into a computer.

Yep.

Which

a computer.

It's a, it's an advanced computer

and it's like a digital ID system, he says.

I'm sure this was like fantasy technology at the time.

Yeah.

And it scans her headshot and it shows us who she was before the headshot.

But before it does that, it literally, literally turns into a grouping of zeros and ones.

It turns into zeros and ones and then turns into who it really is.

So here's the truth.

Because binary.

Because binary.

Yeah, exactly.

That's how you know it's a computer.

Yeah, computor.

They do one and zero on computor.

Smart.

So the killer is Shady's roommate, the other stripper.

She is a serial killer prostitute who killed her pimp with a razor blade in her mouth.

Which is the coolest part of the movie.

Yeah, it fucking rules.

It totally rules.

And this movie ends on kind of a cool note.

And I think a lot of these, they're kind of just like killing time to a cool ending.

She freaks a little bit like that, you know.

So yeah, these movies have like one or two cool things and then they just have to like kill time Yeah So yeah, this last thing is kind of like is kind of like spooky and cool She's been kind of dosing shady with like a drug and then I guess I don't really know how she's implanting the weird dream she is somehow and

I think she's just having them because she's semi-conscious and like witnessing like what's going on.

And it's like, so it's kind of an amalgamation of a dream and being awake and seeing it happen in a way.

Okay, that's like a better explanation than the movie gives.

I'll take that.

I'll take that as what's going on.

We kind of get this final dream.

I'll fill in the gaps.

Yeah.

The thigh gaps.

The movie makes perfect sense.

We get kind of one last dance sequence.

The roommate has a fight with the cop, and then Shady wakes up from her weird, like, drug haze, finds the cop's gun, and kills her roommate, and then embraces the cop, her weird

boyfriend.

change-paying women's jacket-wearing boyfriend.

We talk about this for just a second because, like, there's a moment where the detective, cop guy, gets a phone call from his mom or something saying she's worried about him because he's going to marry somebody named Shady.

Oh, here's what I think that was.

That's confusing.

So, I think that is the

strip club DJ's answering machine.

And I think what we're

the information we're supposed to be getting from that is he is telling his mom that he's like marrying the strippers.

Right.

Yeah.

And when he's not.

So I think that's supposed to like lead us.

Another red hair.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, and that's stripped to kill too.

Live girls.

Yep.

Well, hey, we're going to talk about what we thought about it, but first we got to do the hunk watch.

It's hunk watch.

Again, this will be an interesting conversation because, as we mentioned, nothing sexy happens in this movie about strip clubs.

You know,

I'll give some points to

punk rock Tiki bartender.

I fucking love that guy.

He's really cool.

Yeah, he's pretty cute.

Yeah, cool-looking dude.

His tattoos are all drawn on, but whatever.

His attitude is fucking bad.

And he yells at you, but you can just...

drink drinks that are sitting there apparently and he doesn't care.

He calls the cop a pig.

I was like, hell yeah.

I love this.

He's got good politics on this guy.

This guy's cool.

ACAB, random guy.

Anybody else any hunk thoughts?

I'm going for the detective on this one.

He's got a like Chris Randon vibe.

I hope I'm saying that.

It's the guy who played Humperdink in Princess Bride, who, ooh, I go back and forth on Wesley and Humperdink in that movie.

So

this was doing it for me.

I did want to give a shout out.

This is not a hunk, but like a great, my favorite performance in the movie was the like female.

police officer or like the female detective older it's an older lady who works in the campus and she was the funniest part of the whole movie.

So cool.

He, there's a moment where he's like, the detective is also dreaming.

There's a lot of dream sequences all around in this movie.

Everybody, half of the movie is not real life.

It's not live.

It's in.

It's not live girls.

It's a sleep girls.

It's dream girls.

Yeah, it's dream girls.

It is a musical.

Dream girls.

Yeah.

Starring Sasha Fear.

Anyway, so he's having a dream, try to think of like who the killer is.

And at one point, he imagines her, the

lady detective, and then she looks at him and goes, Really?

That's a stretch.

Like, in the garden.

That's funny.

Yeah.

And they

clearly did not have much of a costume for her.

She looks like she is about to go out gardening, but they just give her the gun holster.

So she has on just like moms picking up the kids from soccer clothes, but with a gun holster over it.

Yeah.

She's probably somebody's friend, and they were like, Yeah, totally.

Get her in there.

Most of this movie is

probably cast by like who's within 20 feet of us.

Yeah, sure.

She was driving the Transpo van.

Yes, 100.

She was doing the like craft services, and then she was just like, I'll be detective number two.

Yeah, exactly.

And she kind of crushes it.

She is great.

She's my favorite performance in the whole movie for sure.

Yeah, again, I think there's some intentionally funny things in this movie, and

she's most of them.

Yeah, Matt, any thoughts, hunks?

Box.

Box?

What are you talking about?

The box art.

Oh, the box.

Yeah.

The box is.

The box is hot.

Box is hunk of movie.

I think that I'm going to need to find some way to make a t-shirt of this for myself.

Just for you.

I mean, we can't sell it.

Like, it would be like, you know, it's somebody's intellectual property.

I have a feeling.

Not an emphasis on intellectual, but you know,

it's property.

I have a feeling it's not owned by anyone who is currently not spending life in prison due to a Rico case.

You know what I mean?

Whoever owns the rights to this is not with us.

They're not worried about you.

Yeah.

So buried next to Jimmy Hoffa.

The rights to this movie were probably traded for some plastic explosive.

Exactly.

Just a bag full of razor blades.

That's right.

You stick them in your mouth.

Yeah.

Don't worry about adding the...

You can take that out of

the line budget.

I got the razor blades.

Don't worry about it.

I came to set with the blades already in my mouth.

I already got the blades in my mouth.

I'm already bleeding.

I'll play the pimp.

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Okay, we are going to rank

what's this movie called?

Strip to kill two

live girls.

I keep forgetting that literally everything in my notes is this is called stripper movie.

Yes.

Yeah.

There's stripper hood of the traveling pants.

I don't know.

Also, they should have just put the two in the middle.

Strip two to two, you're right.

That would have been so stripped to kill two.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Kill two.

Strip two, kill two.

Dumb.

Watch boobs in film.

yeah, boobs, the movie, yeah.

So, okay, strip to kill to

live girls.

Um, yeah, let's, uh, let's, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll maybe defend it a little bit as kind of a museum piece.

Uh, again, it's a very bad movie, and kind of a hilarious bad movie in places, but also kind of just boring and weird.

Um, the director, Kat Shay, I looked into her a little bit, she is a fascinating character.

She was an actor, she told uh, Roger Corman she wanted to direct.

He let her direct Strip to Kill One, and then he just she just made like 10 movies for him over the course of a month.

But she kind of went on to be a respected director.

She

like had an exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art, one of her movies, won like a Sundance Jury Prize.

Wow.

And she just directed like an inspirational dog movie on Netflix.

There's some like Christian dog movie that she directed.

Yeah, so she, I don't know.

She's really, really cool.

I've watched some YouTube videos about her.

She's, she's, uh, she's kind of just like a funny, kooky, French character.

Uh, and yeah, and really cool.

I like a story about someone like starting out just making schlock and then kind of like rising above it or starting to be appreciated for that schlock.

So, yeah, I liked learning her story.

Cat Shay, a fascinating character.

And yeah, and I think this movie has like archival value.

Just like, I can't believe this exists.

Yeah,

it's a primary source.

That's, you know, this is like an original document.

You It sure is.

Here's something cool.

She had a bit of an acting career.

She was in Psycho 3.

She was in Psycho 3.

Oh, my God.

So we've watched Psycho 2.

Maybe.

Yeah.

We've got to watch Psycho 3.

Yeah, really, really fun character.

And yeah, totally crazy that she went from this movie to having a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Very cool.

So yeah, I'm going to give it an interesting bad movie six, I think.

Okay.

Matt, how about you?

Yeah, so you're grading it on quite a curve.

Sure, yes.

Which is totally fine.

The grading doesn't matter.

No, it sure doesn't.

I'm grading it.

Unless somebody's like keeping a Wikipedia and they're screaming for some reason.

Yeah, they're like, what the fuck?

For me, I'm grading this based on my viewing pleasure.

Sure, yes.

Despite the fact that, yes, I agree that I was interested in who directed it because I really liked the show The Deuce.

And

it kind of reminded me of the Maggie Gyllenhaal character in that, where I was just like, is this like one of those cases where it was like someone who was a sex worker who became a director?

Because it feels like that.

Because it's like the as non-sexual to me as a lot of the like gratuitous titty shots were, it did feel

like the women were not being treated poorly on set.

Like they were treated as if it was...

This is, of course, me just projecting, but it felt like they were being treated, um, treated as a piece of art, not a piece of porn.

Which, um, so I was interested in that, and I would like to give it some credit for that.

But based on the fact that it is quite literally one of the most boring movies I've ever seen in my life,

I got to give it a two.

Fanny Fanny.

Fairy fanny.

Slightly better than Thumbelina.

Whoa.

I forgot you hated Thumbelina so much.

I forgot about that.

Emily, you get the final word.

This movie is in your mind, Palace.

Now you've actually gotten to see it.

What did you think?

God, I wish it was as hot as

my memories of the box were.

But I did, like,

what sucks is, you know, I sometimes give points to movies that are fun to have on in the background.

I don't even think this is fun to have on in the background.

I think this is kind of boring.

The stripping scenes are like, it just, I don't know.

It all looks like, are we doing like modern dance?

Like, I don't know.

It's just bad.

I'm going to give it a two as well.

There were some fun moments.

I really love that actress who ends up being the killer and the way that she could flick the razor blade in and out of her mouth.

Like she just flick it back into her mouth when she had to hide it.

And I was like, that is the coolest part of this whole movie.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

I love it.

Also, before I just want to point something out.

So, our girl who, you know, directed this movie was also a part of a remake of Strip to Kill called

Dance with Death that happened in 1992.

It was a reworking of Strip to Kill featuring an early acting role for Lisa Kudro.

Okay.

I know, I think Christina Applegate is in one of her movies playing a murderous prostitute.

So, an eye.

An eye for talent, an eye for talent.

Yes, totally.

Well, that's it.

Strip to kill.

We found it.

We watched it.

You can watch it too if you want to.

Yeah.

Let's talk about plugs.

Anybody got anything, Emily, you want to talk about it?

I'm just going to tell people to please watch the Good Mythical Morning YouTube channel on Saturdays.

All three of us are in.

a cool little series called Good Mythical Weekend.

It's, you know, all the cool kids, not those pesky hosts.

Yeah.

But it's us doing fun stuff, making fun jokes and eating gross food.

So we'd love it if you would join us over there, but also, you know, join us here.

Yeah.

Yeah, here, there.

Just keep joining us.

That's all we ask.

Join us.

Yeah, good mythical weekend.

It's a total blast.

We think you should watch it.

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If you're a Canadian, come on out and see us at the Toronto Comics Art Festival, June 7th and 8th.

It is a free event, event and you can go to 50 Carlton Street.

That's where it is.

I hope to see y'all there.

Matt, got anything?

Yes, come to see me and my wife.

Do a live podcast, the Bituation Room Live.

That's going to be Friday, May 30th.

Do it.

Come out.

Buy tickets.

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