Repo Man (1984)

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I'm Jordan Morris, and I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is Repo Man, the punk rock cult classic that's the perfect movie for telling your stepdad to go fuck himself because he's not your real dad.

With us, as always, is the super producer, the he freak Matt Lieb, hitting us with those angsty drops.

Yeah, let's go get sushi and not pay.

Yeah,

that'll show that sushi restaurant.

Oh, my God.

Before we talk about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Okay.

Motherfree style.

This is a piece of news.

It's a rumor at this point.

It could be considered bad news.

I consider it bad news.

This one is a big build-up.

This is a big build-up.

I'm getting scared.

I know.

This is from KTL.

Are you and mom getting divorced?

Mom and I are.

It doesn't mean we don't love both of you.

Who gets custody of Matt?

Here's the thing.

No one.

He's on his own.

Oh, I wish I wasn't 40.

Yeah, no one wanted custody.

You're just going to be out there in the world.

We're going to throw you a bag of gorp.

Gorp.

Yeah.

Granola, onions, raisins, peanuts.

Ew.

What the fuck?

I don't think it's onions.

I don't know what the other thing is.

Anyway, this is ktla.com, your source for local LA news.

Okay.

Universal Studios, the theme park here in LA where you can ride the movies.

They have filed some patents that are suggesting that they are thinking of closing down

the Water World stunt show.

Water World, a live sea war spectacular.

No, there's no way

this rumor has popped up a million times.

You don't believe it.

Fake news.

Well, but they've just done it so much.

It's like, fucking shit or get off the pot.

Like, just do it or don't do it.

I'm just, it's.

The boy who cried, I'm canceling the Water World show.

I just love that

this movie that no one knows anymore is still having a moment at this part.

And it's the best show.

The show rules.

Yes.

It's insane that they still have it.

Water World, a movie which now no one remembers, but when they did remember it, it was famous for being a shitty failure.

And they still managed to create the most awesome stunt show imaginable.

Yeah, people still go fucking nuts for it.

It's more successful than the movie.

Yes, at this point, more people have seen that show than have seen the movie.

I guarantee that that's true.

It's better than the rides, personally, for me.

It's like the movie I go to every time.

It's the best thing in Universal Studios.

And yeah, and there's something amazing about just like in 2025, there's a bunch of stoned 16-year-olds at Universal Studios watching this thing and having to sit through water world lore.

It's like, the smokers, they're after the atolls.

It's like,

it's the deacon and the mariner.

And it's like, what is this?

Like, who remembers any of this?

And there's zero children with back tattoos because it wasn't necessary.

Right.

Yes.

It's so weird to see.

It's a small little moat.

No need for a map.

That show single-handedly has introduced people to the world of water.

Yes.

And

that probably introduced.

The world of water.

And probably have made some people be like, I'm going to check that movie out and then be like, what is this bullshit?

Why is Dennis

Hopper shagging golf balls?

Yeah.

Why is everyone drinking their own piss?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

How is it that if you have gills, you could go under the water, make out with someone, and then they can breathe for a little bit.

Yeah, well, they don't really explain a lot in that movie.

I don't need them to.

I don't need them to.

that movie single-handedly set back the climate change activist movement because it was like a great plot you know oh global warming is going to melt the ice caps and then people saw that movie and said this sucks let global warming happen yeah they're like finally a reason to eat piss they had to change the name from global warming to climate change just to avoid the whole

any association with water world

so you know i don't want them to close it no if they do have to reskin it here's my suggestion suggestion.

Okay.

Just use a super dramatic Oscar Bate movie like Carol or Tar.

And just keep the jet skis.

You keep the fucking plane that explodes.

Are those universal movies?

I think Tar is.

I think Tar is a focus feature.

If Matt can check on that.

So if Tar is a focus feature, we could.

Well, in honor of this, if...

If the show does go down, we're going to have to do Water World.

Oh, yeah, sure.

I know.

R.I.P.

I mean, I can't believe we haven't gotten to it already.

Yeah, exactly.

And as a, we'll put one of our laptops on a tiny boat, set it on fire, and put it out into

the water.

And drink the piss.

And then drink our own piss.

Yeah.

A little Viking funeral.

Lydia, Lydia, you're being canceled.

All your fans are at the gates.

Get on this.

Get on the sketchy, Lydia.

Tar?

It is a focus feature.

Okay, so there you go.

Universal owns tar.

It could be the tar stunt show.

Call us.

I'd see.

We have ideas.

Well, yeah, let's talk about

this week's movie, Repo Man.

Emily, you were super hot to do this one.

Is this a favorite of yours?

Have you seen it?

Do you remember the first time you saw Repo Man?

I do.

In Nashville, Tennessee, we have a small historic movie theater called the Bellcourt.

Oh, cool.

Okay.

Been around for a very long time.

Yes.

Had so many fundraisers to keep it around.

Sure, yes.

Because it's one of those buildings that's always needing to be saved.

Yes, exactly.

But they've renovated it and now I hate it.

There's like, oh no, lost its charm.

Everything is.

Well, it's.

They got rid of the water world.

They got rid of the stinky

carpet and everything, which I did barf in that theater as a little girl when I saw the movie King Ralph.

That's a fun, that's a fun little connection.

I King Ralphed during King Ralph.

But yeah, no, I love that theater, but I saw it with friends in high school.

Yeah.

and then

there's a little, also there's a little bar.

This I didn't go to after the movie, but later on, there's a bar called The Villager that's right next to it.

It is basically a closet, and it is a darts bar in Nashville, and it's been around forever.

And they had a little jukebox situation, which has now been updated, I think, to a digital one, but the Repo Man soundtrack was an option

in there, which is fucking top to bottom.

Amazing music.

Bangers.

Bangers only.

And I just watched it multiple times.

I love this movie.

Yeah, people aren't the best people in this movie, but that's the vibe.

No, it's an insane world, it's an insane, crazy world.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

Um, Matt, you repo man, it's your first time.

I had never seen it before, it was just one of those movies that existed for me as a cool movie to see at midnight in you know, UC Santa Cruz, right?

It was like, oh, we're all gonna go see Repo Man, you know, downtown, and I just never got around to to it.

And,

man,

when I say how rare it is that a movie that has been pumped up this much

still holds up,

I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it.

So good.

Repo Man rips.

The soundtrack is fucking awesome.

Oh, yeah.

It is mostly, like, it is mostly like...

80s LA hardcore punk.

It's very specific.

It's built for Jordan Morris.

Yeah, I totally love it.

Yes, and I heard the soundtrack to this 50 times before I saw the movie.

Yeah.

Before I even realized, like, oh, this is from a movie.

This isn't just like a have you never seen it before?

I have seen it.

But yeah, I think when I was a kid, like, everyone's...

older brother who sold pills had this on cassette.

If you were an older brother who sold pills, you had a cassette of this.

And this is a popular cassette to get stuck in the deck, too.

Yeah, for sure.

So yeah, I had absolutely heard this soundtrack a million times before I even saw the movie in late high school somewhere.

And yeah, it fucking rips.

It's great.

And it's, and it's like,

you know it's a great soundtrack for men it's just like the song selection is so good but also like it fits the story and it fits the characters there's so many like great soundtracks that are just like here are some songs this director likes or here are some songs that like the record company attached to the movie studio wanted them to push so it like doesn't make any sense right do we um i've always heard of the term needle drop and I always feel like that's just this cool reason to use a song and not necessarily that the song is a part of the DNA.

So it's like

Deedle Dops.

Deedle dots.

A fingering story.

Sounds like a

Kirby's Dreamland.

Deedle Dops.

Suck up Deedle Dops and get electricity powers.

Someone's favorite Pokemon.

Didle dops.

That's all I can say.

Anyway, it feels like needle drops are sometimes a cop-out.

They're not necessarily necessarily, which I now understand it because watching this, it's like it's not, it's just so good.

It's part of the DNA of the movie.

I can't imagine the movie without the music that's part of it.

It's so good.

It's so well curated.

And yeah, and I think these are probably just songs that the director liked, but it like happens to be just fucking perfect.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, let's talk about what happens in Repo Man, a movie with one of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

It starts out with some cops pulling over a guy who has one lens in his glasses.

He's driving a Chevy Malibu.

And the cop pulls him over, looks in the trunk, a bunch of shining gold light comes out of the trunk, and the cop gets vaporized with a very cool slash bad special effects.

Yeah.

God, he's just a bunch of couple of pairs of smoking boots.

Yeah, the special effects are stylish.

They are what I would say.

So it's like, I don't think that CGI or practical effects that look perfectly realistic are necessarily good.

Totally.

I think if it's stylish and looks cool, that's better.

Yeah.

I know.

And like, you know, and this, like, being a punk rock movie, like,

you know, how like a punk rock band isn't that good at being a band?

Right.

Like, this guy isn't great at making a movie.

Like, the special effects aren't great, like, but it, like, but what you're responding to is like the energy, the, like, enthusiasm, the passion.

And, like, I think that's what this movie lacks.

And the vision, too, in an uncompromising fashion because you're watching it and you're going, like, this is clearly a satire.

it's clear clearly a comedy but everyone's playing it in dead serious like dead serious which is super funny yeah yeah I know and there's so many weird funny lines and but yeah everyone is like everything's life and death in the movie

yeah well also it there's a little bit of it that feels like lynchian and

a little bit of it that feels Tarantino-ian yes totally except for it's not as long-winded as Tarantino I mean there's little vignettes that are like get in there get out like awesome.

And then, like, I mean, the, like, you know, the trunk of this car is the briefcase and pulp fiction.

100%.

Oh, yeah.

The couple who robs the liquor store who talks about their relationship.

I mean, there's so much pulp fiction shit.

And the one lens in the sunglasses reminds me of the

Lilo and Stitch.

No, the psychiatrist from Twin Peaks.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

But yeah, no, it's all of it just feels

the characters and the actors are the best part of this.

Yeah.

And the music.

It's those two things.

Every single actor who has a scene just kills it.

Yeah, there's so many like weird one-line, one-scene people who you just like always remember.

Yeah.

Let's forge ahead.

So we see the cop get vaporized.

We go into a grocery store where Emilio Estavez, who is auto, that's where he's working.

He's got a fucking earring.

He's got a bad attitude.

And a bow tie.

A little bow tie.

His boss is yelling at him.

And something in the grocery store that's a great running gag in this movie is the products are all so generic.

They're like white label with blue writing, and they just say what they are.

So it's like cereal.

Yeah, yeah.

Beer.

Everyone drinks beer.

Cocaine.

Yeah, yeah.

I like that.

They're committing to that bit of give me a beer or like, give me a this.

Yeah.

And yeah,

later his, uh, his, his repo man boss is like, let's go get a drink.

And they just get little cans that say drink on them.

Yeah, I love when he comes comes home to his mom and dad and he eats from a can called food.

He does, yes, he just eats from a can that says food.

So put it on a plate

and enjoy it more.

Yeah.

Like this movie was kind of a trendsetter, or, you know, if not a trendsetter, it like kind of predicted a certain type of aesthetic, which was like, this reminds me, if you've ever read No Label by Naomi Klein, it's like the same thing, this idea of like consumerism and labels on everything and branding and all that stuff.

So like the book No label, it looks very similar.

Like, the cover of it looks like all of the cereal and the toilet paper and everything that, you know, the labels you see in this movie.

Very cool.

Is there something about when someone's eating from a tin can that it looks delicious?

Oh, yeah.

I don't know what it is.

It's like when.

I'm always worried I would cut my mouth on that.

Well, you're doing a spoon with it, but like, not me.

Not you.

You're just chugging it.

Fitting the whole can in my mouth.

It's like what cowboys do the whole, the beans that they put right on the fire.

Or in this case, it kind of looks like he's eating dog food.

Straight dog food.

But I remember watching movies where people were eating cold, like Chef Boyard ravioli.

That shit kind of slaps, by the way.

Oh, yeah.

I've never had an unheated Chef Boy RD before.

Yeah, it's kind of good.

It's kind of good.

It's good, but it has to be from the can.

It has to be from the can.

Okay.

You cannot put it in.

You can't do it from that little plastic whatever thing that they warm up in the microwave.

That thing sucks.

You got to do it from the can, baby.

From the can.

So Otto gets fired at the grocery store, and then he goes out in the alley with his fucking punk buddies who are just moshing to recorded music.

No band.

They're just listening to the circle jerks, moshing around.

Hell yeah.

They go to a house party later.

He's like, girlfriend is there, and she hooks up with this guy who just got out of prison.

So he's got no job.

He's got no fucking girlfriend.

And so, you know, life's bad.

And then Harry Dean Stanton comes up to him.

A David Lynch guy.

Yeah.

A total David Lynch guy.

Yeah, this is one of those like great, oh my God, I know that face.

Good and everything character weirdos.

Yep.

He asked him if he will like help him like take a take a car and follow him.

He's like, my wife's in labor.

It's like clearly a single thing.

You got to take her car away from this dangerous neighborhood.

So yeah, so he

for 20 bucks.

So Emilio Estavez does it.

He like gets in the car.

It turns out it's like some dude's car.

And they take it to the repo lot.

And that's where you kind of like get introduced to the whole like repo man, weirdo family.

And they're great.

And they're great.

I know.

They're all awesome.

And then, like, they, um,

so this is my favorite line in the movie here: is like, there's a dude whose car they just repossessed, and he says, Are you going to give me my car, or am I going to have to come down to your house and shove your dog's head in the toilet?

We don't know.

Dogs love that.

I know.

First of all, a dog would love that.

It's so weird.

And there's so many great little dogs.

Don't threaten my dog with a good tongue.

I know.

Anyway, they give him a big Emilio Esto's a beer.

He just fucking pours it on the floor.

Because he's pissed that they tricked him into this.

And being a repo man is kind of shameful because you're fucking people over, which, you know, to be fair.

And I will say, if I could be a repo woman for only bad guys,

like a dexter.

Like a dexter,

I would do it.

Because it's like the idea of this sounds really exciting.

It does.

It does sound like legalized stealings does sound fun.

You have to do little scams and stuff.

I'd learn how to drive.

I can drive.

you can or can't, you just don't drive.

One of these days,

we should film something, get a dashboard camera, you know, like a Russian dashboard camera in case we die.

Someone will make money off of it, sure.

Um, but yeah, so that you guys could experience me driving.

I love I want you guys to be in the car with me.

So, usually, Russian desks

putting a wig on a mannequin,

they're usually facing out towards the road.

I like this Russian dash cam is facing you driving.

Yeah, we'll do passengers, passengers.

We'll get one going outside and one going inside so that we can really see the whole thing.

Viral video.

What you will experience is me driving very slow.

Sure.

That's the only thing you're going to experience.

I don't make sudden move.

Well, unless I get spooked.

Right.

Or bored.

Or bored.

It's going to jerk the wheel.

Yeah.

I do a donut for no reason.

You got spooked like you're a horse.

I'm like, ooh, a farmer's market.

Let's just snow.

Put on the brakes.

Floor it.

Floor it.

So he's like now a repo man.

He's in the weird family.

There is a guy.

There's like this kind of spacey like mechanic who like they said did too much acid.

He's got all these conspiracy theories.

He does not drive.

He says he doesn't drive.

It makes you less intelligent.

Yeah.

He's the MO.

I enjoyed that.

I enjoyed that.

Of the movie.

Yeah, the guy who's just kind of poking stuff in a barrel full of fire.

Yeah, talking about time travel.

That's me.

Being like, I don't drive because I'm not stupid.

That was a really cool scene.

And I remember like watching it and going, I remember there was something significant about this scene, but maybe he's a character that you never see again.

And then it's like, oh, this weird scene is setting up the ending together.

Yeah, totally.

I know.

It's got a lot of fun little like reveal.

It's got a fun little reveal.

Yeah.

The rest of them, like, a lot of this movie, like, it's very episodic.

Like, it doesn't have, nothing has a lot to do with anything else that's happening.

Which, why not?

I think some things, because that's how your day goes.

Yeah, and I think that is like, you know, like the generous read of this movie is that like, it's what it's like to feel aimless.

Like, right, this guy doesn't know what his life is, and he's just like doing this insane stuff, and everything is crazy.

So, yeah, that is kind of like your life doesn't have a plot.

It's just some weird shit happening.

Yeah.

And, yeah, and then sometimes you're interesting people in it.

Yeah, so he, so, you know, he's kind of getting,

like, inundated with the repo men.

He goes home where he eats the can that says food and his fucking parents, they're smoking pot, watching a television.

Are they smoking pots?

They're smoking joints, I think.

They seem like it.

I mean, either that or they're smoking cigarettes.

I thought they were smoking cigarettes because they're talking about Jesus and I don't know.

Something about Jesus and pot.

Yeah, I think maybe the idea is that they got

owned and then got tricked into giving all their money to the televangelists.

I also think it's a statement, especially at this time for this generation, like the Gen Xers, where they watched their hippie parents turn into

Christian conservatives.

So I think that's kind of what that's the the Woodstock generation

somehow turned into that.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think it's they're doing it in a ham-fisted, funny, satirical way where they're literally smoking weed and saying they gave all their money to some guy.

Do you know something?

I was thinking about this about like, you know that saying that if you keep doing the same thing over and over and want different results, that's what insanity is.

I think then some people who aren't super Christian decide to do that.

Yeah.

And then you're like, no, I think you should just be insane.

I I think we should all just keep doing the same thing and expect

improve on it.

Occasionally, you will get different results.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like working out.

You're going to be able to lift more.

Yeah, sometimes you'll throw your back out.

Yeah, exactly.

You know, just keep the free love going and just

find the partner it works with.

Some people are born poly.

I think everyone's born polymat.

Now, let me tell you about ethical non-monogamy.

There's a book.

It's called The Ethical Slut.

Kill me.

Anyway, so

he's riding around in the car with Harry Dean Stanton.

They have these enemies, the Rodriguez brothers.

They do like a little donut race with them in the L.A.

River.

That's pretty cool.

That was cool.

And afterwards, Amelia West is like, that's intense.

And Harry Dean Stanton goes, Repo Man's always intense.

Let's get a drink.

Great line reading.

I was stoked as soon as he said, Let's get a drink.

I'm like, God damn it, I want to be a Repo woman.

I know.

There's a weird kind of sort of sequel to this I've never seen called Repo Chick.

It came out in 2009.

What?

Very hard to see.

I think Universal does not like that it exists.

Well, is it a Universal movie or was it some?

No, it's not.

And I think they got mad about that because I think

Universal, this could be the stunt show.

Oh, my God.

Repo Channel.

Man, the stunt show.

Instead of a plane coming over the wall, it could be a Chevy Malibu.

And it's glowing.

And it could just have all your favorite lines.

It could be Harry Dean Stanton or a guy playing him could just do a bunch of Coke.

Everyone would love that.

Done flies away and make it look like a tiny racetrack LA River situation.

That would be great.

Why not?

Repo Man Stunt Show.

Dog, Repo Chick

looks like it slaps.

I mean, I don't know, guys.

And yeah, and Alex Cox will always say he's going to make another one.

And he's like, we're close.

And then it never really happened.

Maybe it'll happen.

If we can get our hands on Repo Chick,

we got to see it because it looks like free with ads.

Oh, we'll do it.

I was around a little bit for it and didn't see it.

But yeah, if it ever pops up.

Amazon Prime, but that's not free.

Not free.

So we'll see what happens.

We'll see what we can do.

Help us, Zumo, play.

Yes, Zumo, what that is.

Buy Repo Chick for $40 and put it on there.

We got Rosanna Arquette in that thing.

Oh, is she?

Woo!

Yeah, I got to watch this for sure.

So he,

so, you know, he's a repo man at this point.

He, he picks up this kind of like, this kind of like kooky girl who the FBI, they're after her.

And she has like

she's very cute.

And she's dressed very cool.

Her, like, kind of weird, like manic pixie dream girl stuff.

Cool, like tomboy, scrappy girl.

I love a scrappy cool girl.

Um, she has a picture of the aliens that he says looks like hot dogs or something.

Um, yeah, you never see.

Yeah, I know.

You never really know where that picture came from.

Again, like stuff doesn't really pay off in this, but like, yeah, I disagree.

Okay.

But, yeah.

Oh, no, no.

I'm just some stuff kind of hangs.

Yeah.

You're not meant to see it.

You're not meant to see it.

Yeah.

And he drops her off.

So she's like part of a UFO conspiracy group.

Their hideout is labeled UFO United Fruitcake Outlet.

Shut the fuck up.

Good gag.

I missed that one.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's like clearly labeling it.

This is like a Simpsons gag where the FBI's van is Flowers by Irene.

Right.

It's just a copy of the United Fruitcake Outlet joke from this movie.

They like randomly do it in the back of his car.

And that's where they learn that

there's a hit out for this Chevy Malibu.

$20,000.

bucks.

Everybody, the repo men, the Rodriguez brothers, everybody's looking for this Chevy Malibu.

What does inflation mean that would be today, I wonder?

That would be like, what, a million dollars?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, right?

Let's call it $200,000.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I mean, like, it was exciting to hear that amount of money at all.

Oh, sure, sure, sure.

So, yeah, so then this part of the movie is just that Chevy Malibu getting stolen by various people.

The Rodriguez brothers have it for a while.

The Repo men have it for a while.

The random, like, punks from his party get it.

They're all great.

Hilarious.

Yeah, they're all funny weirdos.

One guy named Archie, and they're all like, so they steal it for a little bit.

Yeah, there's this, there's this, like, there's this great scene that turns into kind of like a not great scene in this where you go, the repo men are always just doing something weird when you see them.

There's this part where they're drinking in the parking lot, they're singing jingle bells, and they're giving one guy a haircut, the conspiracy guy.

Just a very funny little scene.

Nothing needs to explain.

This is kind of like the of its time thing.

They do this like run about John Wayne that's a little slurry.

Yeah, sure.

There's a, there's like, there's a millions of dead cops song called John Wayne Was a Nazi that I'm like, maybe they're kind of sort of referencing that.

They don't say Nazi in the movie.

They're saying something else.

Yeah.

So yeah, this is the part where it's like, maybe you don't show this to a 13-year-old now.

Right, right.

But it's very of its time.

And of course, it is, it's a very

hammy scene, which I love.

Like, you know, when he says, you know, this thing, this homophobic thing about John Wayne,

everyone, if simultaneously,

they're all just like, no, he was.

It was very theatrical.

And then one of the guys says, a lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck.

Which is,

yeah, I mean, I kind of liked that.

And they were like, yeah, me too.

Yeah, I know.

Buddies, strangers.

I just like watching fucking.

Yeah.

I think it's beautiful.

That's like being a woman who just likes big boobs.

Sure.

Like, I love them.

A lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck.

Why not?

So the FBI kind of gets a hold of.

Otto.

They go to this little bar.

One of the waiters.

Good bar.

One of the waiters is wearing a little black beret.

I think it's the worst hat in the movie.

The worst hat.

One of the FBI women is supposed to have a metal hand, but it's just like a Michael Jackson glove.

Is she FBI, or is she like something else?

Oh, I think they're supposed to be like men in black type.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

But yeah.

Part of me thought she was like

an FBI, but also an alien

down there.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

Either way, I love the metal hand.

The metal hand's great.

One of the like punks come into this bar and one of them starts just licking her metal hand.

Faking out with it.

Yeah.

And the band on stage is these guys in like dumb and dumber tuxes just playing acoustic guitars.

It's kind of funny.

Hell yeah.

Anyways, one of the punks opens up the trunk.

He gets vaporized.

And that's when

auto gets.

Oh, that's.

Who gets the car at this point?

Anyway, the car is changing hands a lot.

The car is changing hands a lot.

Well, we know it makes you feel weird when you're driving it because it's hot as fuck.

Right, it's hot in it.

Probably whatever's in the trunk is radioactive, which they do a whole thing about

the guy who drives the car with the one eye patch.

The mad scientist.

Well, or he's an alien

from another place or from the time machine, because what is a spaceship but a time machine?

But

if you are part of the Nashville comedy scene lore, there's a man named Dave Cloud, R.I.P.

weirdest guy in the world.

talks and looks exactly like this dude.

And when I first started doing stand-up, there's this bar that's kind of, it was a biker bar at some point called Springwater Supper Club and Lounge.

And there's no supper there

and no lounge.

But

he was there.

The open mics that happened there was the first one.

He, it was the first open mic I've ever seen.

And he was this old man and he just talked about

a girl giving him a blowjob and he was like, and I could feel her epiglottal flap.

And I'll never forget it.

I will never forget that moment and going, I, this is going to be a long road.

This is going to be the longest road

to get anywhere in comedy

this is hell exactly so it started with epiglottal flap and then

it ends here with epiglottal flap yeah sure time's a flat circle the snake eating its own tail

time is a epiglottal flap

always an epiglottal flap the end is the beginning

yes

oh yeah so this the guy who was originally driving the car the one lens guy he's uh

he's he's got the car now and he he he talks about him like working on the neutron bomb so yeah we never really learn about this guy where he was from but he's got a lot of weird he's like crazy and has a weird backstory um the uh the punks the like punk set of people they like rob the liquor store and i like that the security guard from the grocery store is also there i like that this world just has 10 people

it's like probably for budgetary reasons they just like keeps it simple i know yeah it's like a cartoon but with real totally yeah it totally has cartoon logic Dude, Repo Man, the cartoon would be fucking funny.

Oh, I know.

Adult Swim should do that.

Yeah.

Sounds like it already exists.

Like you're just saying that makes me think it might.

Right.

Yeah.

Wow.

So yeah, there's this like big shootout.

You know, the guy who

Otto's buddy who cheats with his girlfriend, he like tries to get back with her like as he's dying.

Very funny.

And again, I think that's

very a little bit lifted for pulp fiction.

Wait, when did pulp fiction come out?

This was 1984.

Yeah, and Pulp Fiction is 94, 93.

So this was before Pulp Fiction.

Yeah, so I think very, you know.

Tarantino loves an homage.

Yeah, I also feel like Twin Peaks The Return, there's a lot of things about this movie that remind me of The Return

in odd ways.

Oh, interesting.

I don't know.

Okay.

Yeah, but I mean, like, David Lynch is like firing on all cylinders now, so this movie is definitely like in that, like...

school of movies.

Yeah, yeah.

And so his buddy's dying here, and Amelia Westavest goes over to him,

And the buddy's just like society man and Amelia Westeves says you're just a white suburban punk like me.

Yeah, I love that so much it really like it really to me says this movie has its head on stream 100%.

It's so it like it's not like if you're too earnest about punk rock it stops being yes and it's also not the point.

Yes.

And also like so I love like there can be there's like punk rock movies that are so serious and they're like making it out to be this like

you know.

We're talking slc punk i know i've never seen slc punk i mean it's it's on free with ads youtube a lot and the sequel which i've never seen the sequel i mean it's not a bad movie but it definitely does a lot of the kind of like uh i don't know making being part of a punk scene a little bit more cinematic than it was yeah like the the griminess of this scene that he's in i mean it's not about a movie about being in a punk scene but like this is a lot more

even as weird It's a lot more fun.

It's a lot more real and a lot more fun and also a lot more self-aware.

Totally.

Yeah, but I really like that Emilio Estevis'

character, like, he really does have a nice little character, like pivot and journey going on where he was just like

kind of a nihilist, just nothing matters kind of thing.

And now he's like, everything's not white and black.

There's a bunch of gray in this shithole.

I'm going to kind of pivot my opinions about things as they come.

Yeah, and he takes himself less seriously.

Yeah, that line to me is perfect.

It is.

It's so great that it's there.

It's the moment in the movie that made me realize it was the perfect punk rock movie.

Yes.

I was like, thank you for not making this like, wow, wasn't it fucking great?

Right.

These guys were raging against the machine and the fucking man took them down.

It's like, ah, come on, we're just little wieners.

Yeah, everybody was kind of a piece of shit across the board to each other.

And so it's just like a dog-eat-dog

world is essentially

the suicidal tendency song institutionalized.

Sure.

Which is in this movie.

Which is in this movie.

It is just someone yelling at their mom all I wanted is a peps.

I want to see a pep shit.

Well, yeah, we're almost to the chilling climax of Repo Man, which we'll talk about right after this.

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We're talking about the conclusion of Repo Man.

So, like, things are just insane now.

It's raining ice cubes.

It starts to rain ice cubes.

We don't know why.

They find the Malibu.

Harry Dean Stanton has it at this point.

And they try, and so they kill Harry Dean Stanton.

And then all of the FBI and the men in black and the robot hand lady and all just there's a huge, the fucking budget of this movie for this scene is so crazy.

Wait, I don't know if they killed him.

They shot him.

Did he not die?

And then he's down on the ground smoking cigarettes and stuff with Emilio Estevez.

Did he die in his arms?

You don't see him die.

Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe I'm wrong.

I mean, they think he's gonna die.

That's like,

yeah.

Does anyone truly die in this movie?

It feels a lot like, I don't know, Tommy Jerry style.

Every time you see Harry Dean Stanton, you're like, is that guy dying?

Is he dead?

Yeah.

It's like, no, he'll be in movies for 40 more years.

Crazy.

How was he old in this movie?

I mean, yeah, he was the old man in this movie.

I gotta say, he's the old man in like Justin Timberlake movies.

The crazy thing is, you are old way longer than you are young in life.

That's true.

It's what's nuts.

And that's why people are like, you got old.

It's like, bitch, you were old for most of it.

Like, I don't know why everybody's so scared.

Yeah.

Damn, that actually made me feel good.

I never thought about that before,

yeah.

You're right.

You're old for most of your life.

Yes.

Oh, that makes me feel so good.

Yeah, it's really just that's the common, that's the common setting for a human.

Yeah.

You're old.

you've changed my life

good put it on a plaque all right put it on some mugs throw them on etsy don't pull your bracket bracket pull your back out while you're doing it um so no one can get like this car it's glowing green at this point no one can get in it it's like people are getting on fire um but you know who can get in the car yeah is the conspiracy hippie guy from earlier who doesn't drive until now yeah and he it's like he touches, he's like giving it a little,

like, you know, feel in the car, like, ooh, nice car.

And it's nothing's doing anything to him.

And he gets in, doesn't close the door when he gets in, which drives me fucking bananas.

Right.

I don't know why.

But then they're like, you can't drive.

And he goes, what did he say?

I can't remember, but it's like, he could drive this car.

Yeah, right, exactly.

And then he motions for Amelia Estevez.

Oh, I love that.

He beckons for Amelia Estavez to get in.

The girl he's like sleeping with from the UFO organization.

So he goes to go in the car.

She says, says what about our relationship and he just goes fuck that

and that's the last line of the movie and then he gets in the car and it flies away and there's just a you know two minutes of the worst special effects we've seen in any movie we've watched of this car flying around la and him going whoa this is intense yeah

ripple man's always intense which honestly if someone was like what about our relationship i'd be like fuck that too

around.

I'm going to get in a space car.

Come on.

I know.

I would have just been like, I don't see how they're mutually exclusive.

I know.

I can just be in a space.

You don't want me to get in a space car?

Yeah.

The fact that you even brought that up makes me think this would have worked out.

Well, the thing is, she wanted to get in that car.

That was her deal.

She was from the organization.

It was her deal, but she was not beckoned.

So, sorry, girl, but like, yeah.

I know.

And then, so, yeah, I do like to imagine that his character from the Mighty Ducks is just this guy after he gets back from space.

I guess I I got to teach these kids about hockey.

It is so crazy seeing a young Emilio Estevez because I realized I'd never seen him this young before.

Oh, yeah.

He's so cute.

He's so cute.

Well, yeah, the movie's over, and we're kind of already talking about it.

So let's officially start the honk watch.

Yes.

It's honk watch.

You know, Emilio Estevez, obviously great.

I think the taller of the Rodriguez brothers, pretty hunky.

There's two Rodriguez brothers, one's taller.

Woody, wait, which one is the other one?

There's a shorter one who I think is also

attractive in his own way, but

give me that tallie.

So not only is he a tallies.

Not only is he a hunky, he's also the tallest guy.

You know what?

He is.

I think that second Rodriguez is.

There you go.

Yes, but any other thoughts?

Yes, young Emilio Estavez.

I mean, Harry Dean Stanton has a lot of swagger for me.

He sure does.

Sure, drink.

But ultimately, it's Emilio Estavez.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, a close second.

I got to go with the lobotomized mad scientist.

There's something that just excites me about him.

Maybe it's the way he's talking about the neutron bomb.

Yeah.

Maybe it's the fact that he's only got one lens, but something about him just makes me feel like the fact that he's like, everyone's so scared of radiation.

They don't understand how radiation works.

You could have hundreds of x-rays in a day and be fine.

Meanwhile, he passes out behind the wheel of the car.

You're just like,

it's like, yeah, there's, I just love that character.

It's just so out of pocket.

It's just so out of nowhere.

Where are those bit parts for us?

I know.

Like, all three of us should be playing weird.

I should be telling someone I'm going to put their dog's head in a toy.

100%.

Yeah, I should be passing out behind the wheel of a car with one contact lens at me.

We all three of us were born to be that guy from that thing.

And the fact that we haven't made that yet.

We'll get there.

You know, I really think think that all three of us are in our late 40s.

That's when it's going to happen.

There's going to be some character stuff where they're like, we got to make sure

they're not expensive.

Yeah.

And they'll take the minimum paycheck.

Yeah, yeah.

And it can't be AI.

There's new rules.

Yeah, there's new rules.

AI is getting solved in between now and then

the AI will fucking, you know, that'll happen.

Yeah, so if you need a weirdo townie to be in something, all three of us are available.

I love it.

That's what our hopes are.

Yep.

Time is an epiglottal flaptic.

Time is an epiglottal circle.

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Matt, since you had never seen this movie, let's hear from you first.

Nine out of ten.

Wow.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

It is, yeah, it's almost a perfect movie.

It just

is irreverent as I like it to be.

The music is just fire the whole time.

And I agree with you completely, Emily.

It's not just needle drops for the sake of like cool songs.

It is woven into the DNA in a way that I feel like is

it's natural because it came out in 84.

So like this music isn't to set a scene of like, oh, this is back in the 80s.

It was of its time.

And so for that, I feel like it,

I don't know, broke some crazy new ground there.

And yeah, I mean, the circle jerks in a movie?

Totally.

That's crazy.

It was probably crazy.

Like, none of these bands ever got that big.

No.

Like, these were, this was like, yeah, this was like total, you know, obscure music.

I wonder if they were all on the same label.

Like, there was,

I think, with some movies,

they're all from the same label.

And then there's like a package deal, but I don't care.

I don't care.

I guess like the most famous thing on the soundtrack, like Iggy Pop, is the theme song.

Right.

Yeah.

And yeah, and like that was like a get for them.

For sure.

So was Emilio Estevan.

Yeah, that too.

I mean, there was like stars in this movie.

Yeah, yeah.

And the music was a star, too.

Yeah.

But it just, it's, it's, from start to finish, it's a really fun watch.

And yeah, I loved it.

Yeah.

Emily, what are you giving it?

Oh, God, this is so hard.

I'm going to give it a tippy ten.

Okay, here we go.

Here we go.

I just, especially after watching Phantom of the Paradise.

Sure.

Oh, another music-based cult classic.

Sure.

Damn.

Just how refreshing it was to,

I love the graphics and the visuals and the opening credits.

I love that neon green and red.

I just think that this person had their own style and brand.

I don't even know who it was who directed this.

Felt Cox.

Oh.

And yeah, directed a bunch of movies after this.

Repo Chick, for instance.

Sid Nancy is his other big one.

So yeah, like you can kind of see how he got Sid Nancy off this.

Yeah, but this was just so

fun.

Yeah.

But also like, I don't know, gritty and dark at moments, but in a way that just, I don't know, there was a lot of fun, little fun stuff to it that if the world building is cool, it feels like it could be a TV show easily.

I want to watch it again and again and again.

Okay.

Yeah.

I also love this movie.

I'm going to be, I'm going to be kind of around you guys.

I'm going to give it an eight.

I think it is a like, if you're like into cult movies and you haven't seen this, fucking what are you doing?

And I think we've definitely watched a couple movies like this in a row, and it's like, yeah, Phantom of the Paradise.

It's kind of fun to watch clips.

Not that fun to watch.

Yeah, the clips are fun, but the movie's kind of creaky and makes you feel weird.

But this is fun.

This is like a cult movie that is still fun to watch.

And yeah, all the stuff you guys said, totally, totally true.

Yeah.

If you haven't seen this one, do it.

Your inner 13-year-old will thank you.

Yeah.

All right.

That's the description of the movie.

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Let's do one hour of plugs.

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Marathon of plugs.

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I'm going to say please go to my Etsy store, Phlegm Gems.

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Okay.

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I'm going to be at Artist Alley, uh, J-O-10, or excuse me, J-O-7.

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And

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It's going to be a ton of fun.

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Yeah, and the selection is actually really good.

Yeah, the selection on Canopy and Hoopla is fucking great.

It's a lot of overlap with the stuff we watch.

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