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It's a giant guitar.

It's here.

It's here.

We're under attack.

We saw Voyage of the Rock Aliens.

Let's dance tonight.

So you know what that means.

Now it's time for

how did this cremate?

We're gonna have a good time.

Celebrate some failure.

Not just be a hater.

Could you know you wonder?

How did this create?

Let's follow in the mediocrity of some bar art.

Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question, how

Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to How Did This Get Made?

I am Tall John Shearer and Boy O'Boy.

Sometimes I think I'm jaded that I've seen every type of bad film and then I get surprised.

And this is one of those movies.

Voyage of the Rock Aliens, colon, Let's Dance Tonight.

We have a lot to say about this movie.

I can't wait.

I can't wait to see

it.

I didn't either.

I'm just learning that for now.

I'm hearing literally.

I'm just learning that.

And it's only because you've said it twice that I realize it's a part of the title.

Oh, it is a part of the title.

And those are my two co-hosts.

Please welcome Jason Manzukis and June Diane Rayfield.

Wow.

I mean, wow.

Let me be clear.

Let me be clear.

We have been doing this podcast now for, is it 12 years coming up on 12 years or is it coming up over 11 years?

Over a decade, over a decade.

Maybe it's coming up on 11 years.

Anyway,

I have never heard of this movie.

Nope.

This wasn't on my rate.

This is from the era in which I was renting movies.

I was not aware of this movie.

And I'm here to say to both of you, this is

one of the best movies we've ever done.

Whoa, that's a big statement, Chief.

This is this movie.

I was

laughing

so I loved this movie

full stop.

I rewound this movie multiple times, and June caught me this morning playing the soundtrack on Spotify.

Oh, wow.

I am.

Oh, it's great.

Songs are great.

The movie is...

There's something actually quite freeing about there not being a plot, really.

You can't really, as hard as you look sometimes, you can't, you can't really.

You can't really get a grip on either a story,

a story, or there isn't, because the movie is mostly songs and music video style stuff.

Yeah.

Ish.

And I mean, it's ish.

Well, okay.

So you're right.

Because as soon as I'm like, as soon as I was like, oh, okay, it's a story about aliens like searching for rock and roll in this music.

Then it's like, no, no.

Oh, oh, no, no, no, no.

This is a story about two escaped psychopaths who are murdered.

People in this town.

Like there were so many, but Jason, I am with you.

Everything everything was working.

I really enjoyed it.

And actually, I think there were, and I know we'll get into it, there were certain things in this movie that were absolutely elevated, transcendent, interesting, and like

unexpected.

Okay, when the movie starts with

the Jermaine Jackson Piazza planet, not Earth.

It's a different planets song.

Yeah.

That I was like, I would happily live in that.

That world.

If they'd gone to that world, I would have been into it.

The Mad Max like world, like Mad Max and New Wave existing in a world together.

Now, here's what I'll say: just because it's probably going to be very hard for you to understand what we're talking about.

It is a movie in which multiple times I rewound because I was like, oh, I must have missed some connective tissue to get to this next scene.

No, I didn't.

I didn't.

It just really jumps.

And I guess if we want to just lay down the foundation,

it is about right ahead.

It is about a group of aliens who are looking for rock music that travel in a spaceship in the shape of a guitar, and they're trying to find rock music.

That is

dressed and look like new wave, like Devo style.

The Devo rip-off band.

Yeah, they

are.

That's what they are.

But just to stop there for a second,

at that premise at that movie that you're describing like i never understood why they wanted to find rock music

i didn't yeah like what what because they are actually end up being a band themselves so it's not like oh we don't know how to do this or we want it's not like we are discovering music no no like it's not like oh my god we're aliens and then we once heard this thing over the traffic waves and we you know through light light years, we heard this sound and we can't get enough of it.

It's actually like, no, they do it and better.

Well, here's the other thing about them.

They are searching the universe for music.

And that's how we get this amazing opening with Piazzadora and Jermaine Jackson.

Now, I will say, just so you understand that as we talk about this later on, that Piazzadora is not the same Piazza Dora.

That's in the rest of the film.

Yes.

Right.

So Piazzadora plays two.

I wasn't either.

I was like, I was confused, and I kept expecting, frankly, Jermaine Jackson to show up in me.

No, she did, did not.

She did not because their duet was incredible.

I don't want to play the music right now.

How have I danced to it this morning?

Like, I came into his office and I heard him playing it, and we straight up danced to the music.

Let's hear a little bit.

Let's hear a little bit of when the rain begins to fall.

That's my favorite song.

And when the rain begins to fall, I'll be the sunshine in your life.

You know that we can have it all, and everything will be all right.

Here's what I'll say about that song.

It's a banger.

It's great.

But

the way that they sing it is fantastic, but the on-screen chemistry between Jermaine and Piazzador is not there.

Like it is, they don't look like it's supposed to, I think, have an evocative nature of, like, almost like the end of Greece with like Sandy and have that kind of background.

That's what they're doing in the Earth version is very much a riff on Greece, you know, with the diner, and Frankie is kind of Danny Zucco.

And, you know, like, there's a whole kind of like the Earth stuff is Greece.

But this duet between her and Jermaine Jackson was the, it be it starts the movie and it starts the movie strong.

Even actually,

I would say the song that opens, like when the movie opens over credits, it's just already immediately great.

Oh, it is, it's like a straight up, it's as if you made

like a kid saw alien and was like, oh, I want to shoot this in my garage.

Like, like, it is a stat, like, it's this weird, very clunky, like, forbidden planet kind of robot.

This

so ignorant.

For me,

where I realized, like, this is going to be a really wonderful motion picture was when,

was when that alien robot that Paul's describing took out to call up the crew who'd been asleep for like thousands of years.

Took out a bunch of

motion figures who were each in two.

It opens up a refrigerator.

A refrigerator that looks like it has

that looks like it has leftovers in it.

Like it is a dirty old refrigerator.

A regular full refrigerator, but the entire crew is inside of it.

So who's using the refrigerator?

Well, I guess maybe when they are

rehydrated.

I mean, these, well, they clearly put the robot maybe put them in the fridge so they didn't exploil.

But I'll tell you this much.

This crew is bizarre because at one point they print out a paper version of

one of the members who blew up

and they pump him up.

I don't know what, I don't even know.

Are they just like balloons?

Are they balloons?

When the guy, when the guy,

first of all,

we should check the

best buy date on these guys because I think they might have spoiled a little bit in the fridge because they are weird times a million.

Yes, yes.

The pot is tricky to describe.

I would say the only true description of the pot happens by that robot that we're just talking about.

Take a listen.

Remember, observing physical properties and locating an intelligent life form are what we all came for.

Am I making myself clear?

It is mandatory that this exploratory mission of interplanetary observation be accomplished without interfering or obtrusively interfacing with the inhabitants of this planet.

What'd he say?

And one of the guys, like the lead guy, who I think is meant to be like the hunk of the new wave alienation.

Well, then they shouldn't have given him that haircut.

I agree.

They shouldn't have given him that haircut.

They should be like, I want him to be a hunk.

I love that.

They should have given him in the hair.

And honestly, that's my only note.

Yep.

They should have given him like the hunky

karate kid bad guy haircut.

Well, he he is a he is ABCD.

That's his name, Tom Nolan.

Oh, don't you mean Absid?

Oh, is it Absid?

Okay, because I thought ABCD, I thought that was his name.

Okay, Absid.

Okay, so, okay.

So, oh, that's how they pronounce it.

That's what Piazidora says.

She assumes

she reads, so Piazzadora, when she meets them on planet Earth, they have on their they have on their little suits like ABCT, EFG HI, like they all have letters.

And so she, it's actually not her, it's the other woman who's the mechanic.

Oh, who's the mechanic?

I could talk about her for about

five hours.

The journey that she goes on from

like hanging out with Piazzadora to the majority of the second half of the movie just helping the murderer fix his chainsaw in a static shot with tools she brought to the Cathillion House or whatever.

That was amazing.

It was amazing.

I was like, it was

incredible.

Because I was actually watching that sequence and I'm sorry that we're jumping all around, but it doesn't matter.

It really doesn't fucking matter.

It doesn't matter.

When the movie turned into a horror film,

but actually shot pretty well.

Like when she was running away from him and he was in behind her in the shadows with a chainsaw, I was like, oh fuck.

And then to have it turn around and have her like reassemble his chainsaw, it was such a

wonderful choice.

Oh, she's gonna have to

clean this.

Like, what?

And he's like, uh, never like, she's shaming him.

The status.

The status immediately shifts in the scene to where she's high status and he's low status.

But also another layer of what's happening, Jason, is that she is fixing his weapon, which she knows is, like we all know, is probably going to kill her.

So it's the craziest.

I've never seen anything like it.

I love this.

The final scene arcs with him putting down his chainsaw and they go off into the sunset.

Now, just so you know, this man that we were talking about.

If you've ever seen like the cover box for the hills have eyes, he is the bad guy from the hills have eyes.

A notoriously interesting-looking man.

Scary.

Scary man, interesting eyes.

Like, yeah.

And

so he, when we first meet him and the other psychopath who they're, he's wearing a straitjacket the entire movie because they've escaped from a mental institution.

Like, they don't speak until this one moment where this girl, who's kind of a tough girl, who can't really find a good guy and seems to be like, oh, just irritated by everyone and everything.

Like, she softens with this this complete, you know, psychopath.

They break out of a hospital for the criminally insane and they go to a gun store and buy all of like multiple carriages full of guns.

It's also just fucking funny.

There's jokes that are working all the time.

I was shocked.

I wanted to go to my favorite.

And I hate, you know how I feel about singing in movies, but I, this movie is better than Annette.

This movie right here is is better than Annette.

By the way,

I would put them on the same level as being as experimental.

Like this movie is as experimental as this movie.

And Nett wishes that it was as organic as this movie, that it felt as organic.

Well, just so you know,

not because

I don't want to reveal too much, but I'll say that this movie was written as a send-up of B-movies, and someone read it and they said, you know what?

This doesn't work.

We need to make it a musical.

And then they just shot in the musical numbers.

So this was a conceived script without any music.

Then they're like, we're going to make it a musical.

And then when I had bad test screenings, they're like, shit, we need to put more music in this.

So they put that.

Piazza Dora Jermaine Jackson song at the top because it was supposed to just be the end sequence.

So this movie is

just like

creatures.

So

initially, it was a movie movie.

a non-musical movie, then they added music and then they kept only the music and got rid of the plot because there is zero plot in this movie, really, genuinely.

Like, I mean, except that there's aliens, there's kind of a battle of the bands.

I just want to give like shouts to Ruth Gordon as the sheriff.

Okay, okay, okay.

Who is

doing this incredible?

No, no.

She is

from Harold and Maude.

She deserves it all.

She is the greatest.

Okay,

the scene where,

which is such an unnecessary scene, where she's in her sheriff's office and there's a dead body.

She says,

she picks up the guy's wallet and she's like, this is the hardest part.

The way she delivers this whole sequence, the hardest part of the work that I do.

And then

calls that widow.

I was, I was laughing hysterically.

She calls and she says, is Is this the widow?

The widow of John What's his face?

John What's his name?

And the person said the person basically you could tell says like no, I'm not a widow.

I'm not a widow.

And she says, Well, you are now.

He's dead.

By the way,

I understand.

It shouldn't be that.

She clearly doesn't do it.

She doesn't know enough to even lead with the right question.

But she, how did she fall out of her perch in the beginning?

Because she catches the alien ship on a telescope, a very high-powered telescope, because she's seeing people inside the phone.

She's creeping out.

She's like looking at people right through their windows.

Yeah, I thought she was looking.

Well, first I thought she was a man.

So it took me a second to even recognize who she was.

She was looking at

a guy like undressing, right?

Yeah.

So she's a peeping sheriff.

Yes.

She has so many layers.

Holy shit.

She is so.

Everybody in this movie is just, I don't know what they're doing.

They're just crushing.

This movie

has no business.

Everybody.

It's great.

It has no business working, especially for just the fact that it's no story and wall-to-wall songs.

And the songs also don't tell a story.

No, no, no, no.

These are.

Like, if you were to break down the lyrics of the song, nonsense.

They are legit bad.

They are bad characters that are

fantastic.

Yeah.

Like, here, I have, I have pulled up some lyrics here.

I mean, nature of the beast, I really want to get into.

But it is here.

Here's some of the lyrics.

Bangs.

Women's bangs are a character in this movie.

Like, June, i feel like i feel like you could talk about the hairstyles in this movie forever it was this movie is so agro

80s both in the sense of like embracing all of the new wave kind of uh rockabilly stuff that was also popular at the time well isn't new wave versus rockabilly because it's like well it was all that versus like um like the greasers like there was also like the 50s nostalgia too which was going on you know i didn't know that was a thing so that was a thing in the 80s the 50s nostalgia yeah yes okay so that was new for me i didn't understand that it was very hard to pinpoint anything in this film because in the beginning of the film when they are looking for music in the universe they find it three different times like one is like a ballroom dance like ew boring all right and all great and then they find that mad max world that i mean then there's one that's just like muppets right there one that's just like muppets or something something bizarre And then they find that Jermaine Jackson world, and there's no music there.

I'm like, ooh, this is good.

But it's basically like the precursor to a song.

Like they're looking for music, and that's the only world that doesn't have music.

And they're like, we like that music.

Before it even starts.

What?

They are on that TV screen looking for music in the world.

Are they watching that music, though, because they're trying to figure out if that's rock music?

And they decide no?

Well, but the first one, they're like, that's not rock music.

The second one, that's not rock rock music but then they watch oh they watch all of the the the duet well there's like about a 40 40 second not music it's just like it's just jermaine jackson like they hanging out with

rival gangs and motorcycles if there's no music there

let's keep this on like they don't even like jump

in all white dress and white motorcycles i mean like this and then piazzadora running through like what looked like an italian village just to get to jermaine jackson so that they can sing that.

I mean, like Jermaine Jackson

was incredible.

That okay.

Whoever, whoever, I mean, clearly Jermaine Jackson was in Italy and like, we need to shoot this part in Italy.

The rest of the movie, like, I don't know where they shot it.

But there is also, I want to talk to whoever scored the movie because someone definitely put up the volume level on Jermaine's snaps because his snaps are louder than any instrumentation or any song.

It's just like.

Like so incredibly aggressively loud over the music.

I was laughing at it.

It's also like two gangs are in a fight.

It's almost, I don't know if it's supposed to be like a Romeo and Juliet rig.

Yeah.

They're from different,

they fall in love, but they're from different gangs or whatever.

But when they fight, when they actually get to fight, all anybody knows how to do is front kicks.

It's like the gentlest fight ever.

It's so, there's like everything feels like

Every fight feels like it's dance choreography instead of fight choreography.

It feels like a music video and gymcada mix.

Yes, it's like it's weird.

And that's what this movie is like.

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I'm like, oh, it's tricky because I think the room is like the ultimate one.

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I was going to say Miami Connection felt, this felt like the discovery of Miami Connection.

I agree 1,000%.

But it's like this.

You can tell, like, there are moments of this movie that feel like a corporate retreat business video.

Like they're like, all right, we're all all going on a retreat and we're going to learn how to share, and we're also going to do a TikTok together.

Like, that level of like, there's like some sort of like,

they're all singing at the beach, and then Frankie comes up, and they're like, It's Frankie, and then Frankie goes, I decide who sings with the band around here.

I was like, oh, who's this guy?

Frankie's some sort of like

music bully who like decides he gets, I was like, well, he's

a gang member.

Oh, yeah.

I loved Frankie.

I thought, see, I thought he was great.

He was.

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I also like we're forgetting that there's another story.

There's the aliens looking for rock.

There's, you know, the escape.

The escaped convicts?

Convicts?

Yeah, psychology.

There's Ruth Gordon and her

deputy.

And then

there's also like

the toxicity of the land and what's happening.

Oh, my gosh, like

a

chemical

octopus.

They're like on Lake Erie.

They're on Lake Erie.

And Lake Erie

is,

it's like, do not hang out.

And this is why I'm saying, like, I don't even understand what sign of this is.

Lovecraftian

tentacle monster that lives in the water.

They're doing like

an anatomicello back at the beach kind of energy.

But on the beach, when you put a surfboard in the water, it disintegrates.

And you see a tentacle.

And it's like, and this water,

they are in a nuclear, there is something going on that they don't really address, although it comes into it.

Spielberg.

Was it Stielberg or Spielberg?

Spielberg.

It is Spielberg, isn't it?

Is it?

Oh, Spielberg is the guy.

Spielberg.

Spielberg is the town.

I thought Spielberg was the guy.

The town is called, I think, Spielberg.

Or is it Spielberg?

Well, I thought it was Lake Erie.

I think it may be Stielberg because.

Oh, man, this is interesting.

Here, I have a clip.

I have a clip where they

said it's Spielberg.

Yeah.

The town is Spielberg.

The town is.

Spiel.

Spielberg.

Is it the director?

Steven.

Spielberg.

That's what I said.

Spielberg.

Oh, not like the director.

No, like the director.

Well, it's a homonym.

It's spelled differently, but it sounds the same.

Okay.

So,

yeah.

I mean, that, and by the way, that was like, so, so here's the thing that I didn't understand about that.

But again, I was fascinated.

I couldn't take my eyes off of what was happening with that sort of like beach boy's energy over this toxic wasteland.

But

that tentacle, the first time we see it is the first time we're in Spielberg.

Yes.

Yes.

So does no one else see it at that point?

No.

And the guy, he notices his surfboard disintegrate.

Like everybody seems to know.

I think.

Well, there's enough warnings on that sign.

The beast sign basically is like no loitering, no sitting, no having fun.

It was a lot, you know, the sign went on.

Like, they clearly are these kids are like, wait, did you guys, did anybody ever address

like the horrors that are going on outside, like, like the monster in the lake?

Well, Piazzador has a monologue, which I thought she delivered beautifully to

the,

I liked her a lot, to the head alien,

hunk, quote unquote.

But she says that at one point they did, yes, Absid, they did try to like take care of the, you know,

the toxic water and all this stuff that was happening, but then

a chemical plant opened or something.

But it just seems like this is the way of life.

This movie is a better, better addresses climate change than Don't Look Up.

This movie really, I mean, the metaphor here is very clear.

And I honestly, you know, I walk away and I go, the climate change is a problem.

I mean, this is it.

It's affecting our kids.

It's affecting our kids.

And you know what?

When are we going to realize when this tentacle comes into our schools?

Is that when we're going to finally open our lives?

I want to talk about the tentacle because the tentacle is a big part of the end of the movie,

which is not a threat throughout any of the rest of the movie.

It's like introducing, it's like introducing King Kong or Godzilla in the last three minutes.

Yes, here's what the tentacle reminded me of.

Because so, so a lot of things are being resolved at the same time.

Like the, you know, the chainsaw murderer is now falling in love with the greaser girl, and Pizador is back with Frankie, and Frankie's going to include her in the band.

Like all, we're resolving so much.

But then, uh-oh, put the Panther back in the locker.

But then

oh my god

see oh my god this is what i took

out wait hold on

back to panther sorry

is that panther a cougar or whatever

when he when he puts a big cat a jungle cat into his school locker and closes the door i was like this movie has everything it really does so then but but when um just when we think like things are gonna be okay turns out that heidi high is being attacked by this

now really big yeah octopus creature but not even octopus june tentacle just tentacles

yeah you don't see a face you don't ever see a face but

like i'm watching this tentacle and they couldn't even it has no um how to describe it it's like you have to fall into it yes it looks like like one of my pregnancy pillows that i used to use that were just like that are soft And if they hate you, they would never attach or wrap around you.

There would be no way

they could hold you down.

Everyone falls into the tentacle and then is not held by it, but it's almost as if there is a gravitational pull that like they because the tentacle is not

even opening and closing like a small grip.

It's just like it kind of comes like a cane at like showtime at the Apollo.

Like we're going to pull you off the stage.

It's like that kind of level.

You can tell everybody's being directed.

Like pretend once it touches you, act as though you're stuck to it now.

Yes, and it's so crazy because it's also so slow.

Yes.

It's like there's no world in which you couldn't get out of this tentacle hole.

Holy shit.

You just simply, honestly, walk away.

And what does the tentacle do?

Because there's no mouth and it doesn't seem to be constricting you.

So like, what's the end game of the tentacle?

Just to like kind of hug you?

Yeah.

Touch you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It just wants to be part of the gang, I think.

And when they decide to kill it, or when it's defeated, it's defeated.

Like, this thing is giant.

It's over Heidi high.

It has multiple

school.

And our guy from the Hills Has Eyes, who has now had his chainsaw fixed and found love,

slices off a piece that seems to be

like six inches long.

I was going to say, like

very small.

Very small.

Very small.

It would be like cutting off like one knuckle of your your pinky.

Yeah.

I was going to say, like, after you've peeled a carrot or before, like, just cutting off the

perfect.

Yes.

Just a little, like, especially in contrast to how big it is.

That is what defeats it.

But when he does that, what happens is bubbles come out.

Yes.

Like a fucking bubble, like a bubblemaker water gun blower just is like blowing bubbles out of it.

And everybody's like, that's the thing is insane happen things happen throughout this movie.

like in the malt shop when the when absid the head of the alien guys sees piazidora for the first time smoke comes out of his neck and his body literally explodes he explodes and he explodes in such a way onto people his arm is on some arms head and by the way and everybody in the malt shop is like cool and by the way that head when they are traveling around with his head which is not a replica of his face it is a dump it is a mannequin head and by the way i know that these are not like we're not like attacking it.

It's just brilliant.

And I think maybe that's why he had to have that haircut because it matched the wig on the mannequin.

They're running around with this head around town and they have to get back to their phone booth, which clearly Bill and Ted stole, and to go back to their ship to then put all the pieces

in like a compactor that like then prints out a like a fruit roll-up of him or in different pieces and then they put the fruit roll up in another machine that then prints out another like a color form of him and then they just pump pump pump him up i mean that's it and then he's pump out

back then he's back in action you know they're ready to go back down so he can so they can do battle of the bands see i mean like

occasionally i mean everything was like every

what would happen is there would be like a song would happen every i would i'm gonna say every three minutes a new song would start regardless of what had happened in between like it didn't matter a new song like the song Justine, I don't know why that's there.

I don't know who that person is.

I don't know who Justine was.

I don't think she was, I don't think she was a character in the movie, but she's in that.

She's there for that.

Can I read some lyrics?

I forgot about this.

Please, Justine.

Justine, Justine, Justine.

You don't treat me right, Justine, Justine, Justine.

You don't treat me right.

You'd like to ball in the morning, stay out late at night.

Go into the barbershop.

Gonna have them do me up.

Gotta clean up for my little buttercup.

Justine, Justine,

Justine.

Yeah.

Mama's, papa's, sisters, brothers, uncles, crazy child.

Woohoo, Justine, Justine, Justine.

Like, I mean, this is the lyrics of this movie.

This is like, there's the majority of this song is just Justine.

It's incredible.

And that's the level that the movie is at.

Like, most of the songs are just repeated words or phrases over new wave, over terrific new wave music.

Yeah.

That's life.

That's life.

That's life.

That's life.

Oh, my God.

Finding an illusion, preserve the confusion always.

Craving control, searching for something to say, ignoring what matters for things that don't matter at all.

That's life.

That's life.

That's life.

Holy shit.

Now I found my little bit of heaven.

Holy shit.

Oh, wait a second.

The song in the bathroom where they are singing and it starts with underpants around ankles.

Yeah, it's

everyone's shitting and fitting.

It's a stagging shot over the feet at the bottom of all of the stalls in the girls' room at Heidi High.

Panties around every set of ankles except for one.

Somebody not wearing panties.

Did anybody notice the graffiti in the bathroom?

No.

There were two things that two spray-painted graffiti on the wall.

One said, Mustangs rule, comma, okay, question mark.

Mustangs rule, okay?

And then the other one was, it ain't my job.

That is just, that was spray painted on the wall of the girls' room.

Sorry.

Oh, Mike.

There are so many.

By the way, I also wanted to ask you what you thought.

There's clearly a scene in this movie that they shot at a local county fair where they're like on like a circular ride and then it also cuts to them playing like a video game like an old school like asteroids and I was like oh yeah yeah I'm like but they but I think it was revealed that they weren't at a fair.

It wasn't like that wasn't part of like the thing.

I think that was just like part of their ship.

I think they were trying to to get production value to be like, oh, this old Atari game is actually our ship controls.

I mean, by the way, their ship controls are recording studio.

Like they are straight up reel to reel and volume knobs.

That's how they, I mean, it's awesome.

It's so, it's Star Trek in a recording studio.

Like that's what their bridge is.

Oh my God.

It's so interesting because I know usually I have a hard time remembering all these movies, but I am, I'm genuinely like when you're describing that roller coaster scene or whatever that that attraction was i it sounds of course i remember it now but because the movie goes to places you could never expect you could never anticipate you could never come up with it's really hard for me to like i'm experiencing it anew right now because like i completely forgot about justine but of course i did because it was so separate

From the rest of the movie.

It's like we saw a million movies.

You were saying that there's no narrative.

It's just images.

Yeah.

And you can't think to yourself, well, what happened after the scene where they revealed blah, blah, blah, because it's just a fever dream

of

song segues.

It's, it's

more like watching MTV in the 80s than it did watching a movie.

I mean, the fact that Jermaine Jackson and Piazza Dora...

Well, first of all, the fact that Jermaine Jackson never comes back is odd.

And he's girl is like the first person in the film.

But the fact that Piazza Dora looks really no different

in both worlds and that she, I mean, I'm going to say that they didn't, that she's not the same person.

Like, it's bizarre.

That is also bizarre.

Like, wait, you, you don't even, you don't even go, oh, she looks like the girl in the video.

I mean, we talked about with gremlins at ad nauseum.

Like, like, why isn't anyone going like, isn't that the same girl from the video?

Or I guess they're just, I mean, there's only one, there's only three girls in the entire movie.

Like, it's hard to not

address the fact that we've already met this person on a different planet, but yet she's not.

that was needlessly confusing.

Just have a unicorn thing on her.

Yeah, like play both parts.

I was, that confused me because I was like, oh, did she go from that planet to Earth?

I didn't get that.

But

to this movie's...

To this movie's benefit, I didn't give a shit.

I didn't examine it at all.

It didn't,

it didn't bother me.

It didn't bump me.

I was like, please don't.

Like in my notes, I have, I don't know what's going on, but I'm loving.

Yes, exactly.

I don't know what.

I wrote, I have no idea what is happening, and yet I'm riveted.

I mean, this, can I just show you, like, I want to, like, and this is like a, this is like a perfect example, a perfect example of, like, what we're talking about.

Like, just, like, listen to this dialogue.

He dumped us like yesterday's garbage.

Yeah, well, yesterday's garbage can still kick up a stink.

That's right.

Right on.

He doesn't care about us.

Yeah, and the garbage man ain't gonna stop here anymore either.

You're drinking your bathwater.

Yeah, any garbage man tries to get his slimy hands on me is gonna get his friggin' teeth kicked.

That garbage man's name just happens to be Frankie.

So so so so wait weirdly Frankie seems to run the band, right?

But he's weirdly not the lead singer.

This blonde guy is, I think.

Right, yes.

Frankie, I think, is is putting it all together behind the scenes.

But Frankie is not the one.

Frankie is the one who comes in.

Frankie does sing his own songs.

Yes.

Like they are like solo songs.

But Frankie's also the one that, and I'm sorry if I'm mixing up characters, who is shirtless wearing a leather jacket,

but the jacket's a little bit too small for him.

So you're always seeing a little bit of belly.

Like you're seeing Midrift.

Like I've never

just seeing Midrift in a leather jacket, like that, it should just go down to meet the pants.

Like it was uncomfortable for me to see his little belly button sticking out when he's trying to be cool.

I can't express enough to you guys.

I'm like scrubbing through the movie looking for stuff.

And I'm like, it's the same four sets and it's the same characters.

They're just singing different nonsense songs.

And I'm even silently, I'm having, and then I just realized the song that is

now I've found my little bit of heaven is just the alien guy, Absid and Piazadora, singing in front of like a green screen that's just showing images of space.

And then, oh my God, he's basically like,

He's like, we can be together as soon as I remove, as soon as you get an emotionectomy or whatever, what's it called?

Radio ectomy.

Basically, that.

Like, we're going to remove your emotions.

And she goes, well, what about sex?

And he's like, well, don't worry about it.

And she's like, I'm out of here.

No, no.

He says, don't worry about it because we have sex.

Any, like, every day.

And she's like, what?

He's like, every Monday, every Tuesday.

I'll play it for you here.

But what about love?

There is no love on our planet.

Nor hatred.

You're kidding.

No, the operation takes it away.

But with all the emotion gone, how can we have.

You know.

Sex.

Ah.

That.

Don't worry.

On our planet, we have sex almost every night.

Almost Monday, almost Tuesday.

Maybe I don't have to have one if we're going just to visit.

It wouldn't be just for a visit.

No.

No.

You mean I'll never see Spielberg again?

Heidi High,

Frankie?

That's correct.

I felt like the aliens were then shown to be devoid of emotion and sexuality.

And so that's why she goes running back to Frankie because he's all about like jealousy and emotions and they have like a sexual chemistry, blah, blah, blah.

They're making out and et cetera.

But that the aliens didn't have that.

They were more like, which kind of the exploding alien guy supports this, maybe kind of robots or I don't know what's going on.

Or robots or robot-like.

But I think that's a good idea.

Because they also had to

invent a stimulator.

They had to invent a female stimulator, which was weird.

And then that went horribly wrong.

Yeah.

But basically they made everyone want to fuck him.

Yes.

Only men.

I forgot all about that, by the way.

I know.

But

he was already having sexual reactions.

Yes.

He wanted to be in love.

He's like, you love me?

Like, he was looking for love.

He was there looking for rock, but what he found was love.

That's the tagline.

Wait a second.

But here's the weird thing, though.

So he, I.

This misunderstanding between the two of them, like she, I thought also really wanted to be, yes, with him maybe, but more than that

in his band.

And she wants to end up going back to Frankie because he's also willing to, you know, he sees her perform.

Yes, he sees her perform at the Battle of the Band.

There's that moment where he goes, you can come back to my planet.

And she's like, oh, great.

And we can do marketing and have press and we'll do shows.

He's like, oh, wait, don't you want to come back for me?

And she's like, oh, yeah.

But she's got her eye on the bigger prize.

She's not here for a while.

She's career-oriented.

She's not careful.

Which is great.

I mean, again, a beautiful sentiment in an 80s movie to show a strong, you know, a woman.

This is like pre-frozen.

And

we're getting a day.

You know, this is, this isn't like a bad thing.

She's ready to let Earth go so she can go to some other planet to become a singing sensation.

Well, that, I guess, was my question for her.

It's like, well, to go to another planet to become a singing sensation, like, what is the, what is that, what is that world to you?

Like, what does that, what does that mean to her exactly?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

Nature of the Beast, Frankie's Solo.

Let's talk about this because Nature of the Beast is something that I need to study.

This movie should be studied like the Torah.

There should be like

a revision.

I do kind of want to watch it again.

And I want to also do a follow-up,

and maybe it's just a shorter version.

I would watch this again.

Or a longer version.

But it did take a while.

If we did this episode back to back, back, the mini episode back next week, Voyage Voyage of the Rock Aliens.

We're going back in.

Because I do think understanding it and then going back in and going, all right, now I think I see this.

I want to watch the whole opening sequence again.

Immediately.

I watched the whole opening sequence before we started.

Oh, you did.

I wanted to, but I didn't have the time.

So did you learn anything new?

No, I didn't.

I just wanted to, because I wanted to watch the Jermaine Jackson song again because I couldn't remember.

Only later did I start writing down the names of the songs.

So I wanted to go back and write that and get that one down.

But

there is, it starts so strong.

It's been, here's what I'll say.

It's been an incredibly long time, I feel like, since we watched a movie that I genuinely want to tell people to watch.

You know what I mean?

I want to proselytize for this movie because it's so good in the way in which we think movies are good.

Well, and this is like, this is, and

my issue with like a a movie like and uh Velocipaster and stuff like that is like it's trying so hard to be like this.

And when you see this, you're like, that's my, oh, I love it.

I, it is like,

you're right.

I just want everyone to watch it.

I'm listening to the soundtrack because it is like organically it is insane.

Other than the main alien's haircut, is I did want the sheriff to have her own musical number.

Yes,

she felt like she was heavily ADR'd or they didn't have sound on the days of she was working.

Sometimes she felt like Gordon was

near the end here.

I felt like

she felt a little wobbly to me.

I mean, but she did have a moment where she kisses this guy and you feel like you, you feel she gets all excited and they speed her up almost like she's in like an old like Benny Hill

episode.

Like it's, it is

happening.

Okay, I love the scene where she tells that woman, you know, her husband's dead, but why in

the future?

It's like strong, like we need to fight these aliens.

I mean, she's against the aliens.

She wants to get focus on that and also has to like deal with all the murders that are happening in town.

But the guy who comes in, who's dead,

he's holding a piece of fried chicken and then his hand

like moves to grab it under the...

under the blanket.

So what was going on there?

Oh, I don't remember that.

I don't remember this at all.

I don't remember.

I remember the deputy taking.

He was alive.

I remember the deputy taking the chicken and eating it, but I don't remember the man's hand movie.

No, that's interesting.

Yeah, that man was alive.

I'm going to be honest.

I maybe took more notes for this movie than I've ever taken in my entire life.

I'm going through my notes.

None of them make sense.

That's what I'm looking at right now.

I'm like, what does this mean?

My notes aren't jogging memories because this movie was...

Just insane.

I mean, like, there are things, like I said, like, I played that Garbage Man clip.

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Uh, like, you know, it's like.

They also turn the robot into a fire hydrant, which we didn't talk about, which is absolutely insane.

The robot fire hydrant is a beautiful idea for, it's also like that will fit in, but it clearly is a cumbersome at every level.

Um, Molly adds in here, uh,

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We also, I think, June, you got interrupted when you were talking about when the robot takes the crew out of the refrigerator and reanimates them or whatever, They go through like an action figure set of tubes, like a hamster tubes.

That is so funny to me.

And it's just, the movie is

so visually satisfying.

And that's what I loved about it, Jason.

Like that, that moment, that's where I was like, I'm all in because it's such a sort of low-budget choice that is insane.

But also inventive.

Very inventive.

Very interesting.

I'm like, I loved it.

Even the woman with the hairspray and all the stuff getting stuck on her and the arm getting stuck on her.

Like, all of that stuff I thought really

were.

I mean, they clearly have no money and they try to make the most of it and they do it in the best ways.

Like, when that fucking tractor trailer pulls up on the beach, it's like,

wait, now they have farm equipment?

Like, they just get a tractor trailer.

The steamroller.

Yeah, the steamroller.

Yeah.

Don't they run over two guys and flatten them too?

too?

Doesn't the sheriff get that?

Doesn't the sheriff run two people over with a steam roller?

No, I'm talking about the flattening.

No, I'm talking about the guys,

the band arrive on the beach like in like a big, like a big, like a farm truck.

Like they're all performing on the farm truck.

I'm like, what is this?

And they also, the way that they transport themselves, like one comes out of the urinal, like, like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They come out of bathroom stalls.

They teleport into bathroom stalls, except one guy's stuck in the urinal.

I wrote in the middle of the, in my notes, I have like,

you know, we were catching up at the crazies at the gun store.

Crazies set up at the high school dance.

And then I wrote, I don't know what to do.

Every scene needs full discussion.

I know, I know.

But there's choices.

Okay, so the other choice I absolutely loved.

And this movie, this director is patient because there is a sequence where one of the alien, because they're also, I think, coming, yes, to find rock music, but also go out and do these observations.

And so one of those observations about Earth is this one alien going to a mental institution.

He's trying to figure out how to get in.

The way they shot him standing there at the wall with the chainsaw, like

cutting out an outline of himself, right?

Well, yeah, it was.

It was basically around him.

It was like a doorway around him.

It falls back.

Yeah, it's a little bit more.

It's a cartoon level.

Yes, but it works.

There's a lot.

of everything works.

There's a lot of Looney Tunes level stuff in here that is really funny.

Like, I will say, like, the band being like

the alien band.

Sorry, I should be specific because there's

the alien band being aliens, they're perfectly cast as like they don't know what's going on.

They're just innocents in the world, right?

So even, so like they're when they're just wandering around looking and watching everything they're doing is, I think, very funny and very silly.

The whole sequence where they get to their diner and are sitting at the table.

Incredible.

Yes.

Even a scene which could be like not cool where they won't stop touching and smelling the hair of the mechanic girl.

I laughed.

So I was like, they will not stop smelling her hair.

But what I think is so great about that is the way that she plays it.

She's like, oh, like she, and that also like leads into like why she falls in love with this, uh, this criminally insane uh man.

Like, she's like, Oh, finally, someone I can actually relate to who's not like a super creep.

He's outwardly more of a creep than them, but internally, he's not, and that's what makes their love so real, and that's what I love about it.

Holy shit, it's really fucking funny, man.

Uh, I mean, he, uh, I want to like break it down in a way where we can just talk about the male persona.

So, at this one moment, Piazza Dora's boyfriend on earth, um, Frankie, Frankie, is

upset.

His girlfriend has run off with Absid.

And

now, what does he do?

He goes to his locker, which is

four times larger than a normal locker.

Well,

it is four lockers wide.

So he opens up this locker.

And first, my biggest laugh was just seeing the like almost a poster-sized image of Piazzadora.

It is a poster size image it is like it's a shrine it's a huge poster it takes up the entire wall of his of his door wall of his locker which is four lockers wide

also we've seen in this movie his picture on the bath on the on the wall of every female bathroom stall door yes right yes yes and so they are undeniably the the

the the beautiful people of this high of heidi heidi high right was that heidi high

Amazing.

And so then this song starts, and this is the song that, like, I was already in love with this movie, but this cemented it for me.

This song about the male persona, we'll play a clip here to listen.

This song is masterful.

I mean, truly, like, he is performing with a cougar or a jaguar.

Then there's women.

And that is really in the shot with him, too.

I was like, this is dangerous.

Oh, this whole movie is incredibly dangerous.

At one point, I read, Nick Kylie sent me some research, and the chainsaw was wired the wrong way.

So, like, what you do with a chainsaw in a movie is you flip the chain so it won't cut you.

They had forgotten to flip it, and the guy from the hills had eyes.

I was like, actually, I think it you got to flip that and they're like oh good call Thanks so like

so I don't know if safety was of the utmost concern because that Jaguar at a certain point also felt like they couldn't control him because he's just standing on top of like a heater or a radiator in an apartment and they just get like a shot of that too.

It seems like out of place in the whole rest of the song.

I was like, does this guy wrote, does the cougar live inside his locker?

Well, clearly at the end, I mean, or is he putting away his emotions?

His song takes the way the way these songs what's great is about what i like about these is that like the songs not they don't just exist in the space they are in right he can start his song nature of the beast but then it will like a music video it'll cut to like him in the forest with the jet with the cougar desert you know desert which you have not seen yeah this or that like it's like a music video in that sense because like the the songs are treated like short films almost like they don't just limit themselves to like okay it's just them standing here singing the song.

It's like, well, we can do whatever the fuck we want.

And they go for it.

And it's hilarious.

This song is insane.

Is this the only song he sings?

I believe so.

Except for the duet.

They sing a duet at the end, he and Piazadora.

But I think he's lip-syncing that one.

Or this one, but maybe he's lip-syncing both.

I don't know.

But there was something about it where I was like, it...

That song just felt pure.

That's the one that makes the most sense.

Yeah, nature.

You know, yeah, like, but now I think I'm committing emotional homicide.

Leaving you alone had to be the worst thing I could do.

Cause look at me now running around like a fool.

Yes, that's the nature of the beast keeping up the male persona.

That's the nature of the beast keeping up my status quota.

That's the nature of the beast who wants to give love and affection.

Oh, the nature of the beast doesn't want to end up alone.

Oh no, don't want to be alone.

Well, here's the interesting.

One of the reasons why I want to watch it again is because I want to like drill down on, on and I can't believe I'm going to say it but the bigger story like I know where I know it's going to be hard to find but I do I do think ultimately these alien men were able to teach the real life men the real life humans how to be more human right and like that's

okay Yeah, I think they were.

I think that was sort of the bigger story that they were,

even though they were completely, and that's kind of an interesting commentary.

Like they're complete, they don't have hearts.

They don't have

emotions.

They don't have emotions.

And they are actually able to teach them humanity.

Well, let me, let me, can I just piggyback on this and say

by acting like a fool, they show the cool kids.

that you don't have like you don't have to be cool you just have to be pure right and so like their performance and the way they interact whether it was like having that sex chip that made people attracted to them or having exploding in the diner like they are so unaware

themselves yes they're they're not embarrassed they're not shy

they're also inclusive like they're not about like making rules or this you know like they're like yes piazzadori you should sing with us you should you know like there is they're not they they're they're yes and in everything they're they just want to they're happy to be there happy they're not trying to yeah Exactly.

They're not trying to like impose anything the way that, like, I think Frankie is trying to like control everything and everything.

I'm in charge.

Get out of my way.

Like, and I think I decide who sings with the band,

which is crazy.

In this small town, that seems like it's there.

It doesn't seem like success in this small town is going to translate into a larger.

Well, Spielberg, the town that has like a toxic lake with a tentacle monster.

I mean, this is the town's got a lot going on.

There's a story about toxicity, the real sort of environmental environment.

A lot of toxicity.

Oh, yes.

Toxic masculinity.

I would, to your point, June, I would re-watch it just in like, I would watch it like 20 minutes at a time.

Like, I would just pop this on

and be like, oh, yeah, I'll watch three songs.

Just visually and musically, this movie is insane and so compelling.

I might argue that this movie is better served bite-size.

Like, you know, it is, it is.

Well, here's a quiet.

Please, God, I wish Quibi movie.

This would be a quibble.

This is a perfect movie to cut back into a Quibby movie.

This is a Quibby.

Now, June, you said before,

something about the director.

You said, wow, this director had tremendous restraint, tremendous patience, right?

You said that?

I did say that.

Would it surprise you that this director's first movie was a dirty, hairy movie?

He directed the Enforcement.

I think there was that Clint Eastwood reference.

Oh, I assumed that was also because Ruth Gordon was in, was it Every Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood?

Well, and by the way, he also directed that movie as well.

This guy is a legit, like, he directed the Enforcer.

I'm not surprised.

Every Which Way But Loose.

Then he directed

a movie with, which I remember just from a kid.

It's a Chuck Norris movie called Forced Vengeance.

I always remember it because it looks like he's breaking out of the VHS cover box.

Like his elbow is like cracking.

I remember that cover, but I've never seen it.

Yeah,

and

then

follows that up with Voyage of the Rock Aliens and never makes another movie again.

But he was coming off of two giant hits with Clint Eastwood.

a huge dirty hairy movie and a huge like comedy dirty hair like like yeah yeah yeah it like he's not like i mean a lot of times in these movies we talk about like oh well you know this is a guy he never directed anything oh he did this he did that um

Like, this guy is coming off of a successful run of two big movies.

Like,

what's fascinating about this movie is that it's got tons of characters, tons of songs, no story, no plot.

The only discernible kind of emotional story that you can track is the mechanic girl and the serial killer.

And the chainsaw serial killer.

That was the first time.

They are the only people who have a beginning, middle, and an end where they go through a change

where their lives are changed by each other.

Because how does it even really end?

They just, their ship is wrecked at the end, and then that's it.

Like, they, they just go home.

What do you mean?

Wait, sorry, what do you mean?

I'm trying to remember, like, how does it even end now?

Like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm even, like, the alien.

How does the movie end?

Yeah, like, they just go home.

I mean, I know that they defeat the alien, but like, their ship is kind of destroyed, but they go home, right?

The aliens?

I'm assuming so.

Yeah, I mean, it's not, it's not very, their, their story isn't even very, it's not like, and that's what we learned, and we're out of here.

It's like, the fact that

basically

the end of the movie is the Piazzadora Frankie duet.

Right.

And they're not on the movie.

Which is all on green screen.

Yeah.

Which is like, which has like, I'm just scrubbing through it right now.

It's green screen with like, behind them is like the sky or people on surf or on wind surfer.

Like, it's nuts.

And then

there's like a brief moment with the aliens and then their ship just leaves our solar system.

Before we get into second opinions, I want to talk about the scene when he admits that he's an alien.

I'm an alien.

That's okay.

There's lots of English bands.

What about Minuto?

We'll get you a good immigration lawyer and you'll have your green card and citizenship papers in no time.

No.

I mean,

I'm from another planet.

Wow.

But you know, I guess it's not surprising I'd fall for an alien.

Lois Lane fell for Superman.

There have been lots of mixed couples like that.

There's Faye Ray and King Kong.

The fact that she's like, oh, it's mixed couples are fine.

She's so open to Faye Ray and King Kong as a

legitimate couple.

As a romantic couple, like that's

they made it work.

They made it work.

They didn't make it work.

They were not in love.

Oh my gosh.

Well, she had her eye on the prize.

She was like,

yes, she was like, I've only been thinking in this like limited way of this earthly market for music.

Like there might be a whole other

thing.

I'm going to offer a different read on this movie, which is Piazadora has been traveling from planet to planet, trying to be the star.

Trying to be the lead singer, trying to be the star.

And on the Mad Max Jermaine Jackson planet, it's like there's too much violence.

The gangs can't get along.

And so she finally travels to Earth.

And Earth still has all of this kind of the men are fighting and the men won't let her sing or whatever.

And it takes these aliens to show the men of Earth that they should let Piazadora sing, let her sing.

And boom, she does and she's incredible.

So I think the movie is about her traveling from planet to planet, trying to find her spotlight or whatever, trying to find her moment.

Um, and this, and this is it.

I don't know.

I love that.

Look, it's happened again.

You know, we normally come to this part of the show and we say, you know, clearly we have an opinion, but there are people out there with a different opinion.

But honestly,

we are sharing the opinions here because we think this movie is genius.

It is now time for

a second opinion, which is truly just our opinions.

Hit the theme.

Second opinions,

All right.

These are five-star reviews called from Amazon.

97 reviews of this.

63% are five-stars, which we agree with.

And I'm going to say, we agree with these opinions.

This one by Kelly R is My Life is Now Divided into Before Votra, which is Voyager of the Rock Alien, and after Votra.

21st Century is the dreamiest, catchiest bop.

The B story romance of Allison LaPlaca's character, Diane, moved me to tears.

Ruth Gordon is in this movie rarely enough that every time you see her, you go, oh yeah, Ruth Gordon.

I don't know how I went four decades without this film in my life, but I stumbled upon it at last and I am so grateful.

Five stars.

And you know what?

I feel the same way.

This one from Teasley Nielsen Kirby says, I'm only partly finished and it's difficult to swallow all at once, but I love this movie so much.

A masterpiece of sorts sorts.

five stars.

It is.

I agree.

And again, like I'm scrubbing through and the fashions and the hairstyles are all perfect.

Like you can't like when people try and do 80s set movies now, they blow it.

This is it.

Well that's

this weird combination of like

new wavy kind of modern poppy colors, big bangs, like the big bangs going up and going down, that that whole situation.

But then also, 50s pompadours and all that bullshit.

Like, it's all represented.

What I'll say, too, is like, I know I said that thing, it's like a corporate retreat trying to make a TikTok, but there's something also about that that is so

dynamic as well.

Yes.

Now, June, here's what I'll say.

This is one that you may agree with or disagree with, but I'm going to throw it out there.

We've talked about it a lot.

Donna Lynn Gerhard wrote this.

This film ranks alongside Grease 2 as the greatest musical ever, five stars.

June, what do you think?

I disagree,

but I loved this movie.

But

Grease 2, like, thinking about your reading of this movie, Jason, I'm like, yeah, that would have been great, but she should have ended up with a solo career.

And

I maintain that, like,

I don't really think that.

Yeah, I just

think, yeah, it doesn't compare to Grease 2, but

we don't need to compare them.

Right.

And if I'm, I'll be honest, like, I would, I'm, I would be thrilled to show anybody this movie.

To show somebody Grease 2 would be great, but there is a way in which I almost feel like I'd have to show them Grease, you know, or something versus I feel like I could drop this on and people would just freak out.

Like, also, I think there's something wonderful about, and I don't know, maybe I'm just wrong, but it sounds like it was the same for you two.

I've never even heard of this.

This is not

thank you to our producer, Averil Halley, for finding this.

And she talked about this movie, and I've been putting it off a little bit because, oh, it sounds like a little bit like maybe it would, I was nervous that it would fall into that category of like, uh, okay.

But I always trust Averil.

And my gosh, I'm so happy that we got to it when we did.

I almost feel like it's a, it's a great palette cleanser to start our new year off with, you know, even after Shadow in the Clouds.

Because that movie also is bizarre and weird.

I'm sorry, you guys.

I'm just

jumping off of the Zoom.

Okay, bye.

And unfortunately, that was June.

She has to go.

She's talking to our pediatrician.

But yeah, no, this is a movie I want to see in a theater with a bunch of people.

It makes me excited.

Like, what we should do is.

Like, this is this.

I would want this to be like a how did this get made screening at the outset?

I'm going to, when we get a little bit past where we are in COVID, I'm going to talk to Alamo, and we are going to host this at Alamo draft time.

I feel like

an audience would fucking lose their minds over this.

It's so funny.

But it needs to be seen.

Yes.

This is the movie.

This is the movie.

I mean, this is it.

And it's like, and the fact that it's only on YouTube for free is.

Oh, no.

I rented it on Amazon.

Oh, no.

I watched it on Amazon.

Oh, wow.

Oh, okay, great.

I don't even think I had to rent it.

Okay, I was going to say, I watched it on YouTube.

I was like, it was great.

I watched it on Amazon.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

Oh, but that's why, oh, I see.

That's why, because mine only says Voyage of the Rock Aliens.

Okay, so when I saw it, it was the title said Voyage of the Rock Aliens.

And then with the colon, let's dance tonight.

There's so much.

I'm just, again, scrubbing through.

There are so many scenes we haven't talked about.

And I don't even know what happens.

We can just do another episode.

Let's do another episode.

Let's re-watch it and do another episode.

This almost should be our New Year's resolution.

resolution every year we watch this movie and just come back to it like what have we learned we've talked about doing that for our first episode we should do that for this uh

well this has been i mean yeah i'm changed uh we all are uh jason A lot of 100% recommend it.

A lot of press on this new role that you got.

I've known about this for a while, and I've forgotten to talk to you about it and to see people's reaction to this new role.

I want to maybe tell everybody what you have going on.

I believe you are talking about the fact that it has been announced that I will be playing the voice of Tommy Lee's penis in the

Pam and Tommy Lee Hulu series.

Yes.

That

Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg and Craig Gillespie and a bunch of great people are making.

And I didn't realize that that penis conversation that

you are voicing was in a book.

It's a real moment from Tommy Lee's memoir where he talks about how after he met Pam, he had to have like a talk to his penis.

He had to talk to his penis because he like and in the book, it's like a conversation with his dick about like, I think I'm in love.

And his dick is basically like being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, man.

Are you sure?

You know, it's, it's, I mean,

it's nuts.

It's pretty nuts.

I will say.

I am so excited to see this and meet the great cast.

And man, I like, I love these stories that are also completely reinventing what I thought was something I knew about, but then seeing it in a completely new way.

I'm in this brand new series that I really think is great.

Ed Holmes, our friend Ed Holmes and Randall Park, who you know from our

face-off episode,

he

They have created a show called True Story where they interview real people about things that have happened in their life and then they dramatize those stories.

And

Adam Pally and I are in one about a guy who snuck into the locker room of the Steelers after they won the Super Bowl and got on the bus to

the he didn't even have tickets to the Super Bowl.

Pally plays that guy.

I play the equipment manager.

They're great stories.

It's funny.

It's sweet.

And Ed and Randall interview and they got a great cast.

It's kind of like, if you like drunk history,

it I think has some similarities without being exactly that because it is these are the people telling their stories they're narrating

it's a first person telling the first person storytelling not like telling some other story yes and it's directed by uh the great jordan rubin uh who is also a friend of the show uh and and super fun and now if june was here uh i'm sure she would tell you to check out the jane club uh you know there's a bunch of great stuff going on there you could also be listening to the deep dive with her and jessica st.

Clair get it wherever podcasts are heard.

It's a great show, and I love listening to the two of them, even though I'm not allowed to.

So every now and then, people tell me, and then it sounds great, but I'm forbidden to listen to it.

And now let me just give a big thanks to our producer, Cody Fisher, our producer, Molly Reynolds, our engineer, Devin Bryant, our other movie-finding producer, Averill Halley.

Thank you for bringing this movie into our lives.

You forever changed us.

Once again, I don't know how you managed to do it, but you do it all the time.

Make sure you check out movie bitches on YouTube.

Nate Kylie, finding research on this movie, hard to do, and he did it.

And of course, July DI is making sure that this episode always sounds smooth and cool.

The art is provided by the great people that we have met on Instagram and Facebook.

That is Zach McAlis at the Ghost of Craig T.

Nelson on Instagram.

And of course, Kyle Waldron, who has made all of our Facebook and now our Instagram posts with all the...

quotes from the show.

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And we want to hear what you have to say.

So please give us a call at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K.

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And what you'll be doing is telling us what you thought about the movie.

But if you just want to to sit back, relax, and chat with me about your life, have a question for Cody or Molly or Devin, they'll also chime in.

We'll help you out in every mini episode.

And we will see you next week for a mini episode.

And I mean, I'm just already upset because I don't know how we're going to top this for our next movie, but I'm sure Avril will find a way.

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