#534: The 2022 TESD Halloween Spooktacular

Abbott and Costello, Frankenstein.

Yes.

Never saw it.

What the fuck?

Get out.

I would never want to see you invisible.

So I would just follow.

Every second till now has been wasted.

Tell them Steve Dave.

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Tell him Steve Dave, the Halloween edition Walt.

Is it that time of year already?

It's come around.

And I look around this table and I see you.

I see BQ.

Yes.

And I see an old school guest, one we haven't had in some time.

Friend who hasn't been on in God knows how long.

We did say friend, so make sure your guessing is going to reflect that.

How you doing?

Hello, everybody.

All right.

So how's Ming been doing?

What have you been up to?

I've been doing good.

Traveling the world, you know, running podcast studios, you know, trying to take over the world.

And,

yeah, just, you know, I miss you guys.

I miss you guys a lot.

Are you saying that as Ming Chen or are you saying that as a Chinese guy trying to take over the world?

Because

lately.

Yeah, maybe a little bit of both.

A little bit of both?

Yeah, you guys are safe, though.

You guys are safe.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've grandfathered in, man.

We were cool kids.

Oh, yeah.

I'll fucking serve you drinks at your palatial match.

Just let them know.

No one's got to put me against the wall.

Just know, I vouch for you guys.

I vouch for you guys.

You'll be fine.

Yeah, your life on the Instagram is fucking fascinating, man.

It looks like so much funny.

Are you having fun?

I'm having a lot of fun.

Good.

Yeah.

And you know, they say that a lot of times people's social media doesn't reflect their real lives.

I've hung out enough with Ming, been in enough cons with Ming.

That is a true reflection of the way he's living life.

Like, every time you see him with the hot chick, I'm like, that's true.

Anytime you see him, he looks a little bit red and wasted.

You're like, that's true.

definitely true yeah yeah giddham showed me a picture of you pouring like some alcohol into a glass

and i was like that dude needs an intervention his eyes are completely closed the fact that you let you chose this picture was enough of a concern there were no better phones yeah there was no better picture you look so wasted you're in the in the uh shared universe studio okay so you could have took another picture and it's just you by yourself and you're pouring a glass of alcohol okay your face is so pink your eyes are closed, and you're just like, I don't know what the caption was, but I was just like, wow, that is a bit concerning that he didn't think that he wanted to get a second photo to use in this post.

Right, he's like, this is good enough.

I mean, obviously, I was wasted, so why would I have been like, hey, this is good enough, I guess?

I think it goes back to what Brian was saying.

It's you're very authentic on it.

Like, he that's who he was in the moment.

Right.

He's not saying it's not dangerous.

Just who he was.

So that was the definition of of blotted, I guess.

Yeah, I could tell.

Okay.

Yeah, it's good to see you out there having fun, man.

It's been really fun so far.

But it all leads back to here.

I'm here.

I'm glad I made the cut.

I'm glad.

Well, there was no cut.

You walked in and we said, hey, you want to do this?

You just happened to show up, and we were like, hey, you got a couple hours because we're doing the Halloween episode.

We'd love to have you on.

Audio only, going back to the grassroots TSD.

I love it.

Well, thank you.

I'm very honored.

Hey, real quick, can I announce something, Brian?

Okay.

There is

a podcast that we did for somebody who's going up on Bandcamp,

and he took it pretty hard after Ian, and we put something together for him.

An all-new Sunday Jeff show.

Usually only available on Patreon, man.

Wow.

And now available on Bandcamp.

Now available on Bandcamp.

Everybody needs this episode.

Well, I mean, I don't want to, I mean, I hate to.

yeah they do what am i why am i gonna why am i gonna mince words yeah and and uh um going up you donate whatever you can it's a 99 cents minimum okay you know that's the minimum if you only have 99 cents that's fine if you don't even have 99 cents you know it's tough times we know it is so we understand if right now you can't swing it but it's up there it's called t e s d presents the all-new Sunday Jeff show Tim Aid.

Tim Aid.

Tim Aid.

There is a little dash between Tim and Aid.

I don't know if that needs to be in there or not.

But if you can't find it by typing in Tim and Aid, then put a dash in there.

But boy, if you had seen the pictures of his house, he lives in a one-story house, lost all the vehicles.

I saw the damage.

You got to search Tim Aid.

Yeah.

That's what you got to look for.

I saw the devastation.

The only thing I think that was saved was a Ming Chen pop figure.

Is that true?

I think it might have been.

Yeah.

Can you imagine that?

Like you're floating out of your house

clinging to a Ming Chen pop figure.

Yeah, it was above the waterline, apparently.

Can you imagine the irony of ironies?

It's like you look around everything you lost and you just see this one thing bathed in angelic light.

It would be so.

Hello, everybody.

Yeah, your wedding album gone.

Like, you know, cars, everything, your worldly possessions, but...

Ming Chen pop figure.

So

he needs your help.

Yeah, we're hoping that we can raise some funds for him so he can start the process of rebuilding.

And

like I said, 99 cents, and I think it's a pretty high-energy episode.

Can I mention, though,

you did submit an audio clip, but we didn't tack it on at the end because you didn't follow directions.

No, I didn't.

And it kind of was like rambling.

And were you drunk?

I was not drunk.

Okay.

I suspect everyone of being drunk.

And usually you're right.

Yeah.

But I asked you for a specific clip, and you sent back something that wasn't that clip, and it just talked about Michael Jordan's conspiracy theory of him being banned from the NBA for a year.

Yeah.

I totally.

You thought I wouldn't notice?

No,

I thought you would think, this is way better than what I asked for.

He's going to love it.

And I guess it wasn't.

You don't want me to reveal what I asked for?

Or you don't care about it?

No, no, go away, of course.

I asked for an ISO comics clip.

Right.

He couldn't get the band back together.

Couldn't get the band back together.

Statistically, I didn't want you to wait.

I know Tim needs to eat.

He needs money for food right away.

Well,

that would have broke the internet, though.

It's been over a year, right?

I don't think it would have broke the internet.

Tim Kardashian's ass and the reuniting of

the city.

Yeah, that's not, yeah, that's not breaking anything.

No, but you know what, though, but I do appreciate you sending the clip in.

But for the benefit, it was already over two hours.

And I just didn't think, you know,

you just talking about the same thing for 20 minutes.

13.

You didn't really cover any new ground.

No, I didn't.

So he was reading from Wikipedia.

Pretty much.

It sounded like it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But he tried, though.

And that's all that matters.

And, you know, the effort was there.

The effort's always there, but the

execution.

Execution.

Yeah.

You'll know better for next time.

Next hurricane, you're going to fucking have that shit.

Yeah.

I will.

I will.

So it's bandcamp.com.

Type in TimAid.

Type in

TSD presents.

And

check Check Bry's Twitter.

Check Ming's Twitter.

check Sunday Jeff's Twitter, and we should be

pimping that shit

when it's ready.

But I think it should be ready right now as this episode drops.

Yeah, it's a couple weeks out, so yeah, it should be ready, I would imagine.

So go there, 99 cents.

That's a sweet deal for like over two hours of content.

Right.

And we talked about the Brady Giselle thing.

And I would love to get your opinion on what's going on.

As a man who, you know, who

has been known to spread his time thin, would be fair, right?

Absolutely.

Who do you side with?

Are you Team Brady or Team Giselle in this whole I know you've taken a lot of flack?

I have?

You've been taking a lot of flack for some standards, yeah.

Really?

Why?

I saw that you were called a caveman.

Oh, really?

You know what?

If we were for cavemen, we wouldn't be here right now.

That's true.

If cavemen who people want today, they would have laid down and died.

You know what?

They say that about the greatest generation, too.

Like, if we had today's Gen Zers fighting in World War II, we'd be fucked.

Right.

We'd all be wearing swastikas around.

Exactly.

So, yeah, I'll take that caveman.

Yeah.

I'll wear that loincloth.

Well, I may be a caveman as well.

Really?

Side with Tom as well.

How come?

I think Giselle knew what she was getting to when she married him.

And

listen, it's not, you know,

he's not a janitor.

He's not, you know, driving a snowplow around.

The man's the greatest quarterback of all time.

Driving a snowplow.

The weirdest.

Snowplow driver.

Like, why are you coming at me?

Yeah.

it would be great of all time for you.

You would be very, very, if you were to decide which is El living the lifestyle you lead, it would be

hypocritical.

Hypocritical, hypocritical, for you to be like, you know, Tom's got to be home.

Sure.

That would be pretty hypocritical if I said that.

Yeah.

I could say that.

Now, you know how I went down.

Yes.

We're not going to reveal right here because we want people to go listen, but it was a heated debate.

Sunday Jeff was very heated, and Tom Milazowski and Ginam were very,

very heated.

And it got ugly at times.

And we had to put some hurt feelings aside to carry on with the show, but we did.

Wow.

And you can hear that all for 99 cents.

99 cents.

That's amazing.

How old are you doing?

48.

Is there a tinge of a midlife crisis in the middle of the crisis?

I had my midlife crisis when I was 26.

Oh, really?

You guys remember when I bought that convertible and I bought like pinball machines?

Sure, but that just sounds like a fun 26-year-old.

But like, I mean,

the.

I don't want want to.

I'm trying to get you to admit you're cheating on your wife.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

I mean, like, the, the,

frantic is the wrong word, but, like, the, the wide-ranging travels and experience

is he's got to get it all in.

Yeah, like, I can't turn it down, man.

I'm, I'm fucking 48.

It's not going to last forever.

I've always been like that.

Yeah.

I think as long as you guys known me.

So, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Definitely, though, like, when we first met, though, you were much more reserved.

And

like, now you're like, he's fucking Spuds McKenzie out there.

It has been, has been for a long time.

I feel like Spuds McKenzie.

He's starting to show and tear.

He's starting to show up.

I've got like a black eye.

You look perpetually drunk every time I see you.

Perpetually drunk.

Not right now, though.

Okay.

In the pictures, I mean.

Right.

Probably because you are, right?

Because you're a party.

Not drunk.

Tipsy, perhaps.

You know, maybe, you know, buzzed.

Pickled.

Sure, a little bit of pickled.

Sure.

Not drunk, though.

Pickled sounds better.

Not drunk, does it?

It sounds refined.

Sounds like an old-school rummy.

I think the last time

I was truly drunk was Frank Five Day.

We all went out afterwards.

We had a great time.

Q was buying shots for everybody.

It was nice.

And then

I got home.

I ubered home.

And my wife was like, Where's your car?

I'm like, can you give me a ride back to Red Hill?

I was going to buy a new one.

I have come out with my money.

Oh, wait.

No.

No, I don't.

Holy shit.

I need to get back on TV.

Yeah.

No, I had to get a ride home.

I couldn't.

I was in no condition to to drive home.

Wow.

This isn't concerning for a man.

No, I don't do it every day.

He's like, okay, all right.

What if, like, you know, there's a, you know, there's that line they say some people have, you know, where like you step over that line, you know, you're not the cute, you know, 40-something anymore.

Now you're in your 50s.

You're supposed to be, you know, a little bit more sophisticated.

Right, when's it going to stop?

I was celebrating Frank Five.

It was a daily celebration.

You know, a couple drinks.

A couple?

So many that you couldn't drive home.

Okay, maybe more than a couple.

Sure.

Yeah.

Nothing wrong with that, right?

Dude, I had like

14 Bud Lights yesterday.

I'm fucking shit.

Wow.

Okay.

Yeah.

Oh, you hungover?

Oh, I'm so hungover.

Oh, no.

Nah, it's going to be all right, though.

You're all right?

It's familiar territory.

Oh, yeah.

I haven't been this way in a long time, but like, I can operate through this.

He's another one out there rubbing elbows with the youngsters and shit at post-Malone Malone concerts and shit.

Yeah.

It's a Post Malone concert?

Yeah.

It was fucking awesome.

I know the name, but is Post Malone

a celebrity nickname for, like, is it like Ziggy Stardust was both?

No, no,

that's the name he goes by, Post Malone.

His real name is Austin Malone, but he goes by Post Malone.

And this is,

I would imagine, a rap star.

That's simplifying a little bit.

Simplifying a little bit.

That genre would be close enough, I think, for it.

Yeah.

And you went to the concert and had too many Bud Lights.

Is that because Post Malone was like the open tab?

Or

just were you drinking on Post Malone's time?

We played beer pong before we went on, and he's really good at it.

So

I got to get in touch with some of your handlers and be like, hey, he's got a big, important podcast tomorrow.

Strictly limit him to seven Bud Lights.

Cut it in half.

Cut it in half.

Throw-in-y is a serious alcohol problem, too.

I'm a post-Malone.

Like, I don't give a fuck.

Ping pong.

Don't listen to these guys.

That's pretty cool.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, it was, you know, it was fun.

It was a good night.

I had a good night.

I felt young.

Ming played beer pong with an extra from The Walking Dead.

What do you say to that?

That's pretty good.

Yeah, zombie number four from season two.

You felt young in the moment, though, but I don't know if you're feeling as young as

right now.

My body won't stop sweating.

Like, it's just pouring whatever's inside of me out.

It's not great.

Like, my nipples are wet.

It's disgusting.

It's like a greasy shame.

But there was something to like, like, um,

not, I got caught up.

I got caught up in the, in the youthful

exuberance.

Yeah, I did.

Are there, is there more than just

Budweiser there?

Is there other things like, you know, going on off to the side?

Yeah, I gotta tell you.

You're seeing that at peripheral vision.

You're seeing like, you know, other tricks and treats.

I gotta keep up.

BQ's gotta keep up.

Post, what are you doing over there?

I'll take some of that.

It was a very different green room from when I did Madison, when I went to the house.

Oh, really?

So it's a little bit more.

A little bit more of what it should be.

But like

in a good way.

Like, it's not going to be any fucking horrible stories coming out or anything like that.

It was just like a really fucking good time.

It was nice.

It was nice, but I'm very hung over it.

Yeah, the green room at Madison Square Garden really was like the anti-green room concept.

Kind of.

It was like me, Mary Beth, you, and then people coming in and out.

But it's like...

It's driving me crazy.

Yeah.

I feel like everybody get out of here.

Why wasn't I in the green room?

I know there must have been a reason.

I just don't remember why.

Tricks and treats probably were for you.

You don't want to see that.

Yeah, I was like.

I don't remember.

Yeah, I'm glad I wasn't, though, because, you know, there was nothing else to do.

It was just more stress for you, you know, to have another three people in here.

But yeah, so it was, it was, I saw how a green room should be done, you know?

I remember that Dave distinctively, not because of the cursing, not because of the cursing, but because I got some Boston market on the way up, and I paid for it later

during the concert, yeah, during the concert.

I never left my seat during a concert ever.

Nipples started sweating,

amongst many other things.

I was sweating.

Like, I was like, oh, I was like, please, God, please

train ride home.

Maybe that affected

your mood that night.

No, that's why you walked away being like, these guys

are filthy, filthy foulmasters.

Oh, well, that and the fact you promised that it was going to be clean, and then you immediately broke that promise.

Well, then you almost shaved your pants.

Anyway.

So Halloween, Bri.

Halloween, yeah.

Normally, I looked it up today.

Normally, I have the 10 most offensive Halloween costumes.

I looked at the list and I was like, this is a tradition I'm just going to break because it's the same goddamn list

every single year.

Nothing new has cracked the top 10?

Literally mirrored last year's, because I went and looked at last year's, mirrored last year's list.

And then there's some list that's like the 77 offensive costumes that you don't want to wear.

I was like, 77?

Like, how could that be?

But usually I go to Good Housekeeping.

And they have the top 10.

And it's always the same thing.

Don't like, don't be the guy that

is a terrorist, which I don't understand.

Like, why can't you, like, the picture was Osama bin Laden with a U.S.

missile through his head.

Yeah.

Oh, that's funny.

Why can't you do that?

It's a riot.

Yeah.

Everybody loves that kind of stuff.

So these slappers are sure.

If he walks in and you just crack up,

oh, well done.

Well done.

I still think you would still be like, holy shit.

I can't believe somebody wore that costume.

Even you would.

Yeah, I would be, I would, I would applaud it, but I would be like, wow, in today's day and age.

The initial response would not be applause.

It would be like, I can't fucking believe somebody wore that costume.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then admiration.

Yeah.

And then like, what a fucking like I should have done that.

If I wasn't neutered.

Yeah.

Fucking, stupid dumb Steve Dave.

I can't say a goddamn thing anymore.

So you don't have anything.

Well, I thought you wanted to talk about, I thought you were going to bring up some Troy Aikman coach.

Oh, you want to do that here?

Yeah.

Oh, I thought that's what you said.

That's why I shut it down.

Oh, no, no, no.

I just had it on my list for

whenever we talked.

But I was like, I was, again, old school.

Troy Aikman, like a real man, right?

Oh, fuck yeah.

Football player.

He's retired now.

He does color commentary.

Commentating on the ball.

Former Dallas Cowboy.

And I don't have the exact quote in front of me.

I'm not going to pull it up.

But basically, it was like a play had happened, and then he was like, okay, good.

Now we can take the dresses off and play real football or something like that, right?

No, a play had happened, and the referees called roughing on the

roughing penalty.

And he, after looking at the replay, was like, you know, this is ridiculous.

Like, we got to take the, we got to start stop taking the dresses off the players back there.

Right, okay.

And that

was enough to like have the,

like, Frankenstein's monster was like, you know, breathe a sigh of relief because the mob stopped chasing him and started going at Patroy Aikman because that apparently was too much to bear.

Too much.

But isn't that like

isn't that like

the hallmark of sports is to feminize your opponents and feminize.

It used to be.

Not anymore.

No.

I have to admit, though, that that has been taken out of the

lexicon of sports cycles.

You can't say that

your opposing team wears dresses.

You can't fight in hockey anymore.

You can't fight in hockey anymore?

No, well, that because of the fucking brutal CTE.

Yeah.

They're trying to

continue paying for it

for the rest of time.

So they had to, like, well, put your money where your mouth is.

You know, like, you have to eliminate fighting, though.

And they did, because they were just tired of paying out to all these players that inevitably were going to sue them.

But yeah, I felt bad for poor Troy because in that moment, I think he said something that he probably would not have said if he had

to rethink it, though, because I'm sure he didn't mean it in a derogatory way.

He just said something in an old school way.

Right.

Which would be derogatory.

Did he lose his job and everything, or he just had to deal with some problems?

No, he just had to deal with some, you know.

Yeah, I see both sides of that.

The finger wagging.

A lot of finger wagging in today's world.

I see both sides of it, too, but I felt bad for the poor guy because it's in the heat of the moment you just forget sometimes.

Did he just apologize?

He's like, sorry.

I'm sure he did.

I'm sure he had to.

I'm sure, you know, I may.

That probably made everybody calm down.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

They didn't want to destroy him.

But why can't you say that?

Why can't you say, like,

now we can take the dresses off?

Nobody is actually wearing dresses.

Everybody knows that, right?

Because also, someone in a dress

isn't supposed to be pummeled, isn't supposed to be, like, treated like a quarterback

in the grasp of a fucking 300-pound linebacker.

Tell my wife that.

Hey!

So it kind of like is an oxymoron.

Is that the way you say it?

Wow.

It's good.

It's good, yeah.

because it is like you know putting somebody in a dress

no matter who it is no matter what

whatever you want whoever's in that dress

they should and and

receive different treatment than a quarterback you know

trying to get tackled by a linebacker right

and i think that's also so you're saying if you see somebody in a dress regardless of their gender sex orientation do not tackle them well no they should be treated like somebody in a dress should be treated with

delicacy.

Yes.

Uh-oh.

Oh, see, now?

Oh,

you're worse than Aikman.

What am I digging a grave?

Yeah.

Why, really?

Troy, can we cut this out?

Not delicacy.

They should be treated with

equality.

Respect.

Equality.

Equality.

Equality.

That's the big word.

Equity.

Everybody.

Yes.

I don't even know what it fucking means, but that's what I want.

I'll fight for it.

Equality, then.

I'll fight for it.

There you go.

As a guy who was made to wear a dress on comic book men, yeah, I'll agree.

I'll have to agree with you.

So I'm right.

But poor Troy, I did feel bad for him.

And I thought, you know, it'd be nice for him to know that there were some old school guys who were

not so upset by that comment.

Right.

I think a lot of people probably were not upset by it.

Small minority, vocal minority.

Would we do that today if, let's say, Comic Book Men were still on the air and were like, hey, let's have the Fantastic Four Wedding?

I still think you can do it.

Still can do it.

I think so.

I think you can do it.

It's just still tried and true comedic routine of a dude in a dress cross dress yeah uncle milty flip wilson ming chen

titans of comedy you skipped some like it hot i went straight to mirror yeah the guy which they're making into a broadway a broadway show uh some like it hot so it's still

it's still viable it still puts fannies got to handle it maybe a little depth more delicately yeah

all right so i guess we're ready to uh get into halloween well should we introduce our very special guy?

We have another person at the table we have to introduce before we get into it.

There's a new guy.

We've been introduced.

We introduce more new people than fucking Stranger Things.

I've been watching Stranger Things Season 4.

Every time I turn around, there's a fucking new person.

Is it too confusing for you?

No, it's not too confusing.

It's too annoying.

It is a lot of people.

I have two more episodes to go than we can really talk about it on the show.

But holy shit.

I'm glad you're almost up to date.

I know you watch Stranger Things.

Sure, yeah.

It was one of the greatest.

I don't want to say achievements, but I was was so pleased that in this episode tonight, we're combining Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, what I consider the greatest monster movie ever made.

We're combining possibly all the 80s slasher monsters that you love, Q,

depended upon how you perform in the game tonight.

And I was able to sprinkle in a little stranger things, too.

Wow.

Oh, that's nice, man.

So, yeah.

So this is exciting, and I can't wait to see it.

But it couldn't have been done without the gentleman we're about to introduce.

And you say we have introduced a whole bunch of people.

I think it's Jimmy the Hairguy.

Is it Jimmy the Hairguy?

Nobody else for five years.

That's too many.

I don't like it.

Will you got to go?

All right, I'm out.

Will,

not Will Smith,

Will Rogers.

Another famous name, though.

I knew you always have a famous, another, and he was a cowboy, right?

Yeah, Will Rogers was the cowboy comedian from like 100 years ago.

He did lasso tricks.

I get that in school a lot.

It depends.

With people who are old enough to to know that, I get Will Rogers.

With anybody younger, I get Mr.

Rogers.

Those are the two.

Will Rogers was like, if you remember back in the day, they would, at the beginning of a movie, they would come by.

There would be like a little commercial for the Will Rogers Fund.

I'm not sure where the money went.

Yeah, yeah, and then they would come by and collect change and shit like that.

I would usually put popcorn in it.

Here you go.

Tell him to eat this.

So generous.

What a guy.

Now, Will has got a podcasting voice, doesn't he?

He does.

Thank you very much.

I've been podcasting for about a decade now, slightly less time than you guys.

Really?

Yeah, yeah.

And I know you have a lot of awards.

No, you said that on the show.

I do not have a single award.

He said that.

He said that.

He was talking about the Halloween show, and he was like, this guy, I've got, he's a professional.

He's got the skills.

He's got awards.

And I thought it was T.

Barnum over here.

Yeah, yeah.

I've I've been listening to the show long enough that I was like, oh, Walt is playing the long game already because I'm going to come in and everything's going to get flipped upside down.

And like, no, we're here to mess with you.

I thought you had awards.

I came in because I was recording stuff with them.

And I said to Walt, I was like, now I heard what you did.

I don't have any awards.

He goes, I thought you said you have awards.

I never, I never said that.

That's a get out.

Get out.

I never sold myself that way to you.

No.

But I've been, I'm a writer.

I've been writing for a good long time.

I've got a number of shows out there.

But you told me you had podcasts that were playing in theaters, though.

Yeah, that's also kind of true.

How do we get a theater?

That's what I'm saying.

Like you've had a podcast play in a motion picture theater or people have gone to sit and listen to a podcast in a theater.

Yes.

Not many people could say that.

Wait, live?

Or yeah, yeah.

I was with one of the first podcasts to debut at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Whoa.

Yeah.

We did, so I do, I do both, you know, like chat shows, like comedy chat shows.

Like this is like a morning talk show.

But I do like a show with my sister called Guide to the Unknown.

It's all about monsters and stuff.

And then I'm a writer, so I write fiction shows.

And so

I don't want to just be a name-drop heavy of what my shows are.

That's not really the point.

Yeah, do it.

So my first show was called Blackwood.

Actually, I referenced...

you guys in it.

The main villain is named Walter, and one of the main characters is named Brian, and it's kind of both of you.

It covers both of us.

Yeah, exactly.

Nice.

But so that first show did pretty well, and I was immediately working on another audio drama called Earthbreak with Jenny Slates, who's a comedian.

She was on Parks and Rack.

She's real funny.

She's great.

It's a one-woman show.

She's amazing.

But like, the big thing there was, I had this idea.

I was like, why don't I love storytelling?

I love movies.

I love fiction.

And obviously, we can all stand in a room together and record an audio drama, and I can just do sound effects after the fact.

I mean, we had a big, major studio, but

why couldn't we go on location and record a podcast like a movie and get the live sound the way that you might do with a film?

So we rented a place about an hour north of LA and Jenny Slade is running up and down these dirt roads with like a crowbar in a backpack.

It's a post-apocalyptic story.

And at one point she's digging a grave.

She's really digging in the ground a little bit.

She runs away from an alien, slams a door.

That's my rental car.

Anyway,

it was super fun and it got us into the Tribeca Film Festival.

So we had a a podcast.

And De Niro was in the theater watching it.

Oh, of course.

Yeah, of course, of course.

No, no, no.

I mean, sure.

You're listening to it, I mean.

Okay, if you sit down.

I'm taking listening.

Yes.

Wondering when the visuals are going to start.

Well, that was the crazy thing.

Not to get too in the weeds.

There were visuals.

I had to shoot a whole thing.

Because it's on a screen.

It's unusual.

So you have to have some sort of a video component, but it had to be sort of trance-like like and something that wouldn't take away from the audio because the audio is the big selling factor because it was you know so sort of uh uh uh gritty and real sounding but uh yeah it was it was a weird experience and you came in here one day uh-huh yeah you pitched the idea that of doing an audio yes drama drama or i don't know what you called it i know it's gone by like a million different names like the the industry podcasting itself is like still sort of like you can sort of just do as you please but more and more um you know, traditional historical film studios are getting into the game.

So audio drama, audio fiction is a lot of what it goes under.

But so I love Tell them Steve Dave.

I've been listening since the beginning, since before the beginning when you would do Smodcast with Kevin Smith.

And I,

you know, I listened to Fistful of Dollars, right?

The Sunday Jeff audio drama that you did.

Daclin did.

Yeah, Daclin served where you're serving tonight.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I always felt like

I just always felt like there was there's so much fun stuff you guys have like created.

Like I always think about the dangling saint.

I think about

the Christmas horror characters that you made.

I'm like, I think that was one of the original things that I had pitched.

The dangling saint was yours, right?

No, that was yours.

That was yours.

It was mine?

Yeah, I had the louse.

Oh, that's right.

He dripped shit on

everybody's presence.

Yeah, that was a good one.

It was great.

If you like Christmas too much, the dangling saint will show.

It'll drip shit all over your Christmas decoration.

Was that it?

That was what he did.

Yeah, I'm pure.

I can't believe that didn't catch on.

Well, that's what I'm going to say.

I've been trying to pitch this thing for years.

Yeah, so Will came in, and he's talking about pitching this idea for

Christmas.

And I was like, well, you know what?

I need something before Christmas.

How about something for Halloween?

And we're just sitting there bantering around ideas.

And I looked up at the picture behind you, Q on the wall, and it was the picture of Abraham Costello meet Frankenstein, which, of course, says Dracula and the Wolfman.

And you love that photo.

I tried to buy that from you with the stash, and you would not sell it to me, remember?

I don't remember you even trying to buy it, really.

Yeah, I was like, all right, go, I think I go.

I'll be hanging that, and you were like, ah, that, that's, you, you were like, I'll never say that.

Yeah, I love that.

I love that photo.

Um, Monster Bill gave me that.

I don't know if you know who Monster Bill is.

I know who Monster Bill is.

Yeah.

I don't know what ever happened to Monster Bill.

I'd love to have him come back on.

If somebody out there knows where Monster Bill is,

I really want to talk to that guy

you'll know him by his charisma

so tonight q i i am uh ready to begin what we're going to do tonight

to tell you i mean it's a mix of a radio play and a game

and it's going to combine tell him steve dave meets the monsters

real quick around the table

abbot and castell me frankenstein yes never saw it what the

get Get out.

If I had known, I wouldn't even ask you to study.

Really?

I never saw it.

How could you not be prompted by all that we've, the beloved we've given that movie to ever sit down and watch it?

What have you been doing?

Drinking.

We already covered it.

So you have no idea what it's about?

I mean, from other than what you've told me?

No.

So Count Dracula is tired of walking around with this fucking weakened,

like, man-brute.

Okay.

which is the Frankenstein monster.

He's tired of that brain that's in that shell.

And he wants to take Abbott Costello's brain and put it in the monster's body.

And that's the whole premise of the movie.

Okay.

But for our radio play, Dracula has come on, he has found out about the greatest pliable mind ever, 148 IQ.

Right.

And he wants it.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

Done.

Bri, what about you?

I mean, I know how many times have you seen this movie?

A lot.

A lot.

It still holds up.

I watched it not too long ago, and it's

you should watch it, man.

You should show it to your kids.

Wholesome fun, wouldn't you say?

It's just a warm, fuzzy blanket, man.

That's how I see it.

When I watch it, I'm just like, it just can't, I don't laugh at it.

I can't laugh at it anymore, but it definitely makes me smile, though, every time.

There's something about it that is so comforting, that is so appealing.

It's just the perfect amount of time, too.

You know, they weren't trying to pad it right like what we're doing right here right now

Will tell us more about yourself

All right, I got it I was born in the woods and Q I know you love the movie

I remember seeing it on Sunday mornings at 1130 They used to have a block on WPIX from 1130 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

They would show Abner Costello movies.

Yeah.

Most of the time it was those shitty Army movies Yeah, they're always in the army sisters.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My mother was the one who got me into Abner Costello.

I always got to thank her for that.

She loved them.

So I saw all their movies very early in life because my mother just thought they were the funniest fucking thing.

Yeah, that's the one thing that they were smart enough to eliminate in the Frankenstein movie was like no Andrew Sisters, no fucking singing.

Well, that was before they were

mega popular.

Like that was, they didn't have faith in Aben Costello.

So they're like, we know what they need, the fucking Andrew Sisters.

Like I think the Andrew Sisters were the star of the first movie.

Can you imagine it?

So, Will, what do we got to do first?

Yeah, first, let's play the intro here where everything goes down and sets up the rest of the adventure.

Okay.

This is the longest clip, though.

This is the longest clip.

Yeah, this sets the groundwork and everything.

Yeah, and then we're off.

So it's a four-minute clip.

So this is to immerse you, get you all immersed into

the world that we're about to visit.

Also, Q, I thought it was nice, too, that we're playing upon your connections to the night fair as well.

Oh,

thank you.

Yeah, I wasn't sure.

Have you been keeping up with your colleagues?

I do have something.

I do finally have the nail.

Remember, I told you the

Christ nail?

No, no, the serial killer, the sun,

the roll train, too.

I finally got it.

It's in my possession.

Why did I assume that it was a nail that was from the crucifixion?

Pretty famous nails.

I don't blame them.

Stigmata?

They go for a little bit more money than they.

Yeah, a little bit more.

There's only four of them.

three.

Three of them.

Yeah, let's check it out.

On a dark and stormy night, Giddem, Steve, Dave, and Sunday, Jeff work late at the Tell'em Steve Dave Town General Store, waiting on a delivery.

Hey, uh, anyone here?

I've got a delivery for uh BQ.

Two enormous crates that didn't fit in the elevator.

Giddem, answer the bell.

Coming!

Answer that phone.

Answer the bell.

Which do you want me to answer?

The phone or the bell?

Both of them.

Both of them.

Both of them.

TST Town, hold, please.

How are you stanking?

You got a delivery for me?

Yeah, I don't know.

It looks like a couple of coffins to me.

Sign here.

Alright, have a good day.

Coffins.

Get'em.

Phone.

Thanks for holding.

Do not open those crates.

Hello?

Hello?

Boy, you're awful silly to call me just to have your dog talk to me.

Behind Giddem, the lid slowly opens as Count Dracula rises from the crate.

Ah, 148.

I've heard tell that you possess a mind more pliable than any other.

I have need for such a brain.

Howdy, Mac.

How can I help you?

Say, what's going on here?

I was just telling your plump friend that his magnificent brain would fit nicely in Dr.

Frankenstein's creation.

Hey, look, I'm just here helping my friend Walt out because he was expecting a large delivery.

And he's on another vacation with Frank Five.

How many vacations doesn't make for those two at this point?

Everyone's on permanent friggin' holiday around here.

Enough.

Cease your moronic prattling.

Rise, creature, and secure the genius and the dunce.

The Frankenstein monster grotesquely rises to its feet.

Yes, monster.

He called you a dunce.

He must have heard your Sunday funnies.

Laugh it up, numb nuts.

It won't be so funny when they crack open that watermelon of yours and take out your brain and put it in that thing.

The monster easily subdues Gidam and Jeff.

Good.

We will take them back to my lab.

It's almost sunrise, and I must retreat to my coffin.

But come nightfall, I will remove this poorly, grotesque creature's beautifully enhanced brain and place it into your cranium.

Then you will become the perfect specimen.

Yes, Master.

Superhuman brute strength combined with the staggering IQ of 148.

Together, you and I shall take our rightful place as rulers of this planet, and no one can stop us.

Who can stop Count Dracula's diabolical plan?

Will Giddam's beautiful brain be housed eternally in the cranium of a hideous monster?

Why?

Didn't we realize Sunday Jeff would sound way too similar to Dracula?

These answers and more on the 2022 Tell'em Steve Dave Halloween Spooktacular.

TESD meets Frankenstein.

Starring Brian Johnson, Brian Quinn,

Walt Flanagan, Sunday Jeff, and Giddem Steve Dave.

I'm your humble narrator, Will Rogers.

I'm also your not-so-humble writer and editor.

Follow at the Myth Traveler on all social media.

Boys and ghouls, be sure to check the show notes for a full list of credits as well as additional visual materials.

Now,

take it away, Walt.

Wow.

It's too professional.

Yeah.

It's too good.

It's amazing.

Unfortunately, we didn't know you'd be sitting in Ming.

It's okay.

You're not going to get a credit.

Sorry.

Will say it now.

Oh, that's right.

And Ming Chen.

Thank you.

Thank you, Will Rogers.

You bet.

So you're going to go on a sort of horror adventure, a quest.

Giddam and Sunday have been taken, capture by Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.

They don't have long before Dracula rises from his coffin again and performs surgery on Giddam to place his brain in the monster's body.

It's the exact plot to have an Agostalmi Frankenstein with a twist.

This game unites two eras of monsters in all-out war.

If you're skilled enough, you, Bry, and Gidham.

I'm sorry, man.

Oh, hey,

hey.

You might be able to summon some of your favorite 80 slashers to fight back against the classic Universal Monsters.

Your skills in a variety of games will determine how well Giddem and Sunday protect themselves.

Play it just right, and who knows?

Maybe they'll get away with all their body parts intact.

Wow.

Stakes are high.

But what did you think?

We're off to a good start.

Oh my god, it's amazing.

I mean, I was totally like enraptured.

I was really like, it just sounded like I was listening to an audiobook.

Yeah, an audio.

Back in 1940s, there's no TV.

It was great.

The use of the music, the beta, the music was great.

Tell them where we got the music.

Walt found it.

There was a guy on YouTube who completely rebuilt.

all of the score from Abbott and Frank Costello and Frankenstein, which is like incredible.

And I reached out to him to ask if it would be okay if we used it because,

and I say it in there too, like check out the credits because I had to use a lot of audio out there that people have built with proper rights and everything.

But like the guy was amazing.

Gaetano Malaponte.

The whole score, the entire thing.

You just listen on YouTube.

Oh, yeah.

It's amazing.

If you're a fan of this movie, I'm sure you.

If you were listening, you would pick up on it.

Like, holy shit, we got the real music.

Yeah.

It was like, it's so, so cool.

Yeah.

And it's also nonsense at this but i recorded that when i probably could have been more considered the writer like i wrote a lot of this and then walt like redid a million of the lines to work in more references and stuff like that like for me just like creatively this has been like so much fun to work with walt on this thing so you couldn't do a quick edit and adds walt waltz

didn't have the time for that no

i was playing tonight

i didn't have time for that part

yeah it hasn't been released yet you can probably still no i'm busy

I'm afraid that's just impossible.

They always give credit to the original writer anyway.

It's very, very difficult.

It was in WGA arbitration, and they decided that I should get a film.

It's a story by Wolflang.

There you go.

Yeah.

So let's check out Giddem and Sunday Out Dungeon.

Ow, I hurt my widowhead.

What am I going to do with this kid?

Come on, Giddam.

We have to find a way out of here.

We don't have long.

Once the sun sets, Traco's going to steal my brain.

Get a hold of yourself.

Thanks, Jeff.

What's that sound?

What are those papers?

It's an envelope that came with the crates.

Let me take a look.

Those papers are in my hand.

Whoa.

Don't you want to live in a world where it's okay for two friends to smack each other in the face?

Like, don't you want to live in a world where, like, Sunday comes over and Ginem gets a little too excited and he has to calm him down by slapping him in the face?

I don't know, because eventually in that world, you're getting slapped.

You know what I mean?

Like, I don't want to.

I'll never get too excitable.

Especially knowing that there's a chance I get slapped.

Yeah, I'll bring my excitement level way down knowing there's a chance at any moment I could get slapped, right?

They almost always thank them, too.

Thank you for bringing me back to my senses.

So what piece of paper do you have, Bri?

I have the Wolfman's Curse.

Want to read it?

Oh, sure.

Lycanthropy, werewolfism, a disease of the mind in which human beings imagine they are wolfmen.

According to an old legend, which persists in certain localities, the victims actually assume the physical characteristics of the animal.

And then we have Dracula's legend.

I have Dracula's legend in front of me, and it reads, Count Dracula sleeps in this coffin, but rises every night at sunset.

Dracula can change himself at will into a vampire bat, flying about the countryside.

He keeps himself alive by drinking the blood of his victims.

Count Dracula must return to his coffin before sunrise, where he lies helpless during the day.

And finally, the Frankenstein monster.

Frankenstein's monster, a scientist named Frankenstein, made a monster by sewing together parts of old dead bodies.

He gave the monster eternal life by shooting it full of electricity.

Some people claim it is not dead even now, just dormant.

So these are the three that you're up against, and the games are about to begin.

Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the Wolfman, the Monster Trifecta.

That's what stands between us and escape?

What are we gonna do?

Suddenly, Dracula's disembodied voice echoes throughout the dungeon.

When night falls once more, when Footy, your intellect will be mine.

Mr.

Sunday, I understand you to be a great collector of artifacts.

Perhaps my collection rivals your own.

I wish to keep you as the crown jewel amongst my other trinkets.

The man who who has everything is all mine.

We don't have long.

It's so dark in here.

We need light.

Giddam's Zippo illuminates the dungeon, revealing that Giddem and Sunday are not Dracula's only captives.

Whoa, talk about collection.

Do you see this stuff, Giddam?

These are better sculpts than sideshow toys.

They look almost real.

I think they are real, Jeff.

Holy shit, this could be just what we need to fight back.

But wait, how do we open these locks?

I don't want to do the games.

I just want to listen to this.

Yeah, I know.

It's so good.

So before we get into what the goal is.

Wait, I just kind of get a clarification.

Because it sounded like what Dracula is saying is he's going to make Sunday Jeff his bride, one of his brides.

Like, is that what's going on?

Sounds like it.

Like, he's definitely going to fuck Sunday Jeff if he doesn't, if we don't save him, right?

I mean, if that adds a little bit more prerogative to your

little bit more incentive.

I don't know.

I think what Dracula has in his dungeon is he's collected a whole bunch of other monsters,

and they're in stasis tubes.

Right.

And if you can help Sunday and get him open these tubes, you can use these monsters as a diversion to get away.

And Sunday and Giddam can escape, and Giddam won't have his brain

surgically removed from his body.

But real quick, I was really shocked to how closely Sunday and Dracula sounded together.

In the moment when we were doing them that day, I was like, he sounds just like...

He's a genius.

I was like, he sounds just like Baylor Lugosi.

No one will ever think that Sunday talking right on top of Sunday when they have to talk to each other.

But it just sounded like Sunday doing a bad thing.

No, I think you're being too harsh.

Okay.

Definitely, people will realize

it's too difficult.

I actually think he's doing a good job as Dracula.

I think he did a great job.

Well, did you hear his other characters?

Oh, there's more.

I can't wait.

There's more.

Yeah, there's moments in here where I thought I was going to have to prod them and be like, no, come on, guys, I need more.

And they were just like, no, we're doing it again.

We're doing it again.

They would take three, four, 10 takes before getting it right.

Yes.

The attention to detail and the affection for the,

because Sunday loves this movie too, and it was a dream come true, he said, to play Bella Lugosi.

He was great.

He really was great.

Wasn't he?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, he is talented in the voice department.

All right.

So we've got this image here in front of you.

You've got three different figures in these stasis tubes labeled Michael, Fred, and Jason.

These are the three stasis tubes that you have an opportunity to open up and unlock the creature inside.

And will they help you fight back against Dracula?

Maybe.

But it depends on how well you do in three games.

So game one, we're going with Michael, right?

And it's an 80s slasher trivia.

Now, are we all on the same team?

Yeah, you're basically like, this is a mix between, I don't know, like maybe a Dungeons and Dragons.

I've never really played it necessarily.

But yeah, you guys are

collectively, you're a team playing on behalf of Sunday and get it.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Yeah, you guys are working together.

Yeah.

You have to get every question right, though, Q, to win.

Just me or is the team effort?

The team effort, but the whole team.

If you don't get the question right, you do not unlock, or maybe you do unlock one of the stasis tubes.

Oh, this is a lot of pressure.

I feel like we have 80 slasher, though.

We should.

I hope so.

Yeah, I would think so.

Between, because you love that shit, too, right?

I do, but not like the video, man.

All right.

Question one.

How many movies are there in the Halloween franchise?

Now, I need a clarification from Will.

Yes.

Now, this is correct.

This is this number that I've gotten.

Counting the current one.

Yes.

Okay.

All the brand new iterations.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You've counted it.

I've counted it personally.

I've run it by a tribunal, a panel.

We've got the number, yes.

Including Halloween ends, which for us technically comes out tomorrow as we record, but we're counting that.

Yeah, but it's been made, so

it's canon.

Correct.

So, and the two

of them are the only ones that are included.

Okay.

Yes.

So that would be five right there.

That's five right there.

And then how many regular movies was there?

Is this your favorite 80s slasher Ming, Michael?

No, no, Mary Marin Elm Street, definitely.

Freddy's part I am.

Yeah, yeah.

I personally would guess six.

That's a guess.

Well, could we try and run through it?

We got Halloween, Halloween 2.

Halloween 3, Return of Michael Myers.

H2O.

There's an H2O.

There's a Revenge of Michael Myers in there.

So we're five right there.

Wait, those are the okay, so those are the subtitles.

So you have.

I'm just trying, yeah.

Right, right.

So we got Halloween, Halloween 2, Halloween 3, Season of the Witch, Halloween 4, Return of Michael Myers, return to Michael Myers, Halloween 5,

revenge of Michael Myers, and then is there a 6?

This is an H2O.

H2O.

Remember, guys, Dracula could be fitting Sunday Jeff with a frilly gown if you get this wrong.

I hear you, but I don't want to get it wrong and then Michael Myers comes out after me.

And he's not even going to bite his neck before he fucks up.

Oh, shit.

While he's cognizant of what's going on,

he's going in.

Dry.

It's also question one.

I mean, if you mess up, maybe every question is a little tight.

Because if you get the first question wrong, it's over.

Wow.

So that's six we just did.

Six plus the five.

But I got to assume we forgot one.

So that would be 11.

So you think 12?

Or an even dozen.

Are you drunk, me?

No.

No.

Can you get drunk?

What you're doing is holding your head, closing your eyes.

Like, trending all those photos on Instagram.

You're getting pinker by the moment.

I have not drank anything today.

Which is the one with Buster Rhymes?

Trick-or-treat, motherfucker.

Right,

that is not H2O, right?

That's what I said.

I think that's the one cast H2O.

So I think the answer would be

12, then 12, 12.

That's counting halloween ends yeah three halloween three on that and then the two is five okay two zombies and then seven three twelve twelve yeah

do you want to want to go all through all the questions and then get let's lock in oh sure yeah we can do that yeah that's lock in their answers and it's 12.

okay 12.

okay okay second question What iconic mask does Michael Myers wear?

Who is it based upon?

William Shetton.

William Shetton.

I didn't even confer with his team.

Don't need to.

You don't need to.

You're good.

We trust him.

Yeah.

Well, you guys know that.

We all know that.

Yeah.

How many separate timelines are there in the movies?

This is a difficult one.

This is rough.

Because

they keep rebooting it and changing the rules.

This one ignores everything after part one.

Yeah, that's the thing.

Well, because she cuts his head off at the end of one, and then he's just back in the next one.

Was this one of your favorite franchises, Q?

I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it.

It's not your favorite, though.

I did like Nightmare Night Street more, and I really liked something about the schlockiness of Jason.

I always fucking loved.

And this isn't schlocky?

No, this would be less schlocky than Friday the 13th.

Because the first, like, Friday the 13th was always in that real - I guess after the first one was always kind of, I don't know.

They feel like the same character to me.

No, Jason was a supernatural zombie after a certain point.

You know what I mean?

And it's like he had the rotting and the maggots.

No, you would just.

common man would think that yeah there's something about the original Halloween where it's almost like it's like a work of art and then they get rough from there and that's kind of weird Friday the 13th is just fun to me yeah I don't I don't expect as much from Friday the 13th and I get it exactly at a certain point Halloween just feels a little sanctimony did they stop taking the TNA out of these movies

I certainly hope not.

The last Friday the 13th, there was a little TNA, but that was fucking 10 years ago at this point.

Happy to hear that they haven't been sanitized so much.

I think the last Halloween, though, though, like there haven't been in

David Gordon Greene or whatever his name is.

No nudity, right?

No nudity.

But there was in

Rob Zombies, though.

Yeah.

I don't know about the second one because I can't recall, but the first one definitely.

What about you, Mark?

Is it one of your favorite franchises?

Yeah, I like Halloween a lot.

More than Freddy, more than Leather, more than.

I mean, if I'm going.

I don't know.

If I'm going by the number of films I actually like, I guess it would be Halloween.

Whereas like Friday the 13th, I like the first two a lot.

And then the third one, I like it more from a nostalgic kind of point of view, like from the time

I went to see.

Do you guys need some help with this question?

Yeah, why don't we, we can be in Dungeons and Dragons, you have a dungeon master who sort of guides you.

Get some clues.

Well, I think that there were

two timelines in the main one

in the series before he rebooted it right right and then there's a reboot which is the third timeline and then halloween ends timelines four

right

i don't know what sort of questions we could ask i believe you're correct so you're going to go in a number no i don't know what we could ask the the dungeon masters i think anything other than how many timelines are there

anything that's anything ingenious that you could think of to get you where you need to go you could ask me i'll give you a hint i'll give you a hint i'm counting halloween 3 season of the witch as its own time.

Okay, because you saw her on the television the commercial for Halloween.

Oh, all right.

So then that puts us at five.

Okay.

All right.

Very well.

All right.

Locked in at five.

Okay.

I wasn't sure I was going to lock in, but the fact that he accepted it and locked him in,

sounds pretty good.

Okay, five.

Yeah, but that's what I think that's where we're at anyway.

Five.

What is young Michael Myers dressed as when he kills his first victim?

Clown, right?

Yeah.

Clown.

Clown.

Locked in.

Ming?

You agree?

I concur, yes.

What is the top-grossing film in the franchise?

I believe it was the first one, right?

I don't know.

You don't think this last one made a ton of money?

The Halloween kills.

Was Halloween Kills the first one?

Halloween Kills was the first one.

It was just called Halloween.

Is it Halloween children?

Are we talking adjusted for dollars, for dollars for modern box office?

Or it doesn't matter.

He came up with the answers.

Okay.

Throw me under the bus because i i don't remember

i i i don't remember what i did

i'm thinking you're just going pure numbers pure numbers yeah i mean then the first halloween movie then has that i mean the new halloween movie the first of the rebooted halloween has to have it because it's in modern dollars it was in modern money then yeah and it made it and it was such a big hit so that that's what my guess would be but i don't know what you guys think

I think if we're going inflation, it's the actual very first one.

If we're not adjusting for inflation, I think you're probably.

Yeah, because the second one got released on Peacock, too, and the first one didn't.

So

I'm going to say the new Halloween.

If you're going to say that, we're going to say that.

Yes.

Yes.

Team effort.

So

unless you get it wrong, then

you're just so pickled.

All you're doing is agreeing whenever they sign up.

I'm not pickled.

What's in that Seagram's can?

You need to ride home tonight?

No, I'll be fine.

Let's take his keys away.

That's it.

You're cut off.

Last question.

And this one I threw in there because I thought you guys should know this.

If you're really into this franchise, you should know it.

What was the original title of Halloween?

The working title?

Oh, fuck.

Oh, it's in there.

Hold on.

Wow.

I didn't think this was going to be.

No, this is great.

If they get it wrong now, it's not my fault.

The second I hear it, I'm going to be like, God damn, I'm stupid.

It's in there, but I won't remember.

Mang recounting.

I have no idea.

I have no idea.

Is it referenced in the movie?

Wait.

Was it the babysitter murders?

Was that it?

Is that ringing anything?

It's a guess.

It's something.

How can we get close-ish?

Let's talk about it.

Let's talk about it.

That's the final question.

Yeah, so I think that...

I mean, do you have anything better than it?

I don't have anything but that.

That's all I got.

I think it's locked in.

Okay.

All right.

So what can we reveal now?

Yeah, not too confident.

We may as well reveal it.

I think we got to discuss this first question.

Hold on, because I was going to say, we'll go back, we'll go from

in reverse order.

What was the original title of Halloween?

The Babysitter Murder.

Nice.

Nice.

Well done, Brian Johnson.

Nice.

All right.

We did it.

What is the top-grossing film in the franchise?

Halloween 2018.

You were right again.

Nice work.

All right.

Well, that was team.

We all worked through that one.

Well, Ming didn't do shit.

Come on.

I'm drunk.

Come on.

What is young Michael Myers dressed as when he kills his first victim?

A clown.

Right again.

Separate timelines.

How many are there?

Five.

And there are five.

You got it.

There are five, yes.

What iconic mask does Michael Myers wear?

You are right again.

Captain Kirk William Shatner.

How many movies are there in the Halloween franchise?

You guys said?

12.

12.

And there are 13.

There are 13.

There are 13 Halloween movies.

You did name them all over the course of thinking.

You did end up naming 13 movies, but the number you gave was 12.

And so, yeah?

Remember that scene in Accused?

Well, it's going to go down now as Dracula

goes over.

Oh, no.

On a pinball?

Your next college boy.

Well, here's the proving ground, right?

Wrong?

The game doesn't stop.

Here's what happens because you didn't nail it.

God damn it, Gen, we fucked up.

What kind of fucking idiot doesn't know Halloween movie trivia?

Shit, it's opening.

Do you think Michael Myers is gonna attack us?

Because we fucked up the questions?

Uh, I don't know, but I'm gonna stand behind you.

Do I make you honor, baby?

Yeah.

Oh shit, Michael.

We fucked up the questions, so instead of Michael Myers from Halloween, we got Mike Myers from Austin Powers.

And don't forget, Shrek.

Uh, any chance you can help us fight dracula chagadelic baby yeah

all right let's try the next stasis tube and this time don't it up

wow we got a mike myers card in front of us does this help us out at all he has joined your team to fight against dracula you could have had the shape of evil

well if i won you ended up with the love guru and this the last sunday to now stretch those vocal you know talents that he has he got to do michael myers what do you think of his michael myers

i mean no that's who I thought it was.

I thought it was Dracula again.

Did you guys really?

I mean, at no point ever did I was like, you know, Sunday, if they get it wrong, we're going to have Dracula rape you.

Never once that crossed my mind.

That's so funny.

That's the first thing you thought of.

Yeah.

Well, you said add him to, I thought of Dracula's bride.

So it was, he adds him to his collection.

Yeah.

Like the collector in Guardians of the Galaxy.

All right.

All right.

Keep him in a box.

Pristine.

Mint condition.

All right.

Game two.

You know what, though?

Even though we got that one wrong, guys, we only got it wrong by one, and I think we did really well in that.

Yeah.

And we're not paying the consequences.

No, we are right.

Actually, you guys did really good.

I didn't think you guys are going to any of those, right?

There was just so many,

except maybe the Kirk, the Captain Kirk one, because when you're sitting there in the moment trying to think, it's hard.

It's so easy when you got it right in front of you.

Sure.

Gee, thanks.

I mean, babe, all you're doing is squinting harder and harder at your question.

You think the harder you squint, that's just the way his eyes are.

Yeah, I missed you guys too.

I missed you guys too.

So, do we go into another clip or go right into the next game?

No, we go right into the next game.

That's the result of this game.

Right into another game.

I had another clip lined up.

If you had gotten all the questions right, you'll never hear it.

Oh, man.

Yeah,

that'll be lost media.

You paid me for it.

Okay, next game:

dyslexia.

Oh, no.

Halloween version.

And now you know what's at stake.

Get every clue right to win and open up the next stasis tube.

And here is the theme.

Every one of these movies is a horror movie.

It's a title of a horror movie.

So that right there eliminates so much of what you got to go through.

Okay.

Your Rolodex in your brain.

And Fred is on the line for this one.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay, but this is your dyslexia.

Yeah, you got to get them all right.

You ready, Ming?

Yeah, I guess.

vegetable woman

opposite of vegetables is a stone or a rock

i mean meat

well man man

right man

on the opposite so

wow if you're struggling with this

well the opposite of a vegetable

you would think so but meat man It's the name of a horror movie.

I'd also throw out there like pretty well-known harm.

There were a couple that I didn't know, I have to say.

Yeah, this is pretty well known.

This is pretty up there.

If you guys are struggling with this, you might as well all get

when you get it and you

when you figure out the name, you're gonna be like, oh, I've seen that movie.

Yeah,

the opposite of a vegetable.

Vegetable.

What, like, vegetables are good for you?

What's not good for you?

Oh, candy man.

Candy man.

Candy man.

Okay.

Okay.

I

get it.

I'm sitting there.

I'm like a dog.

I'm like, my cocks and shallow over.

As always, I'm overthinking it.

But no.

Shallow green.

Deep blue?

No.

Deep?

Shallow green.

Because what's the opposite of green?

I know.

Deep.

So I think of traffic lights, I think, deep red, but

it's a color.

What's the opposite of green?

You're telling me you've never seen the Dario Argento movie Deep Red?

No, I don't think so.

I don't even know that I heard of it.

Yeah, bro.

I got it.

You got it.

Yeah, all right.

Yeah, I'm smart.

Try to jump to everybody.

Italian horror.

Oh, I know, right?

Judging everybody else.

I didn't know that one.

Judging everybody else, too.

Come on.

That's one that I had never seen.

Planes haven't heels.

Planes?

Planes haven't heels.

Heels.

Whoa.

Now you're perked up.

Planes.

They're all boisterous now.

Yeah.

Heels have entered the game.

Yeah.

Hills have eyes.

Heels have eyes.

Heaven, feather.

Hell razor.

Hell razor.

All right.

Feather.

You know, it tickles you.

A razor.

Slice and dice you broke.

Oh, razor.

I thought you meant.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

Razor.

It's all

phonetics.

Oh, sure.

Sure.

Okay.

But

phonetics.

Polyester ass.

The opposite of polyester would be cotton.

Cotton.

Wait.

When the opposite of ass

is donkey ass or human body ass.

I can't give you that.

But what's the opposite of a donkey?

Either one could be the answer, though.

I thought we could ask the DMs.

I'm not even fucking out.

I wish I could tell you.

My hands are tied.

I'll say body part part then.

Okay.

Oh, Leatherface.

No, Leatherface.

Leatherface?

Oh, there you go.

All right.

Nice work, man.

Leather comes from an animal.

Polyester is man-made.

Yes.

Okay, Leatherface.

All of these are just also potential news power characters.

The polyester ass movie.

Polyester ass.

Patient.

Grunt.

Dr.

Giggles.

Yes.

All right.

Wars.

Wars?

With a, you know,

multiple wars.

Okay.

Plural.

Peace, pieces?

Pieces, correct.

Last one.

Breaking it up.

It's three words to make one word.

O,

nor, unblemished.

O, nor, unblemished.

What's the opposite of O?

X?

I.

All right, let's work with unblemished.

Scarred.

Scar.

Scar.

I just know there are people who listen to me be like, they're so fucking stupid.

Like, somebody got it.

At a certain point, Walt emailed me to ask.

He was like, what was this clue for?

What is this for?

I don't remember my own clues.

Oh, my God.

Oh, what is it?

O, Noor, unblemished.

Opposite of Noor is.

It's okay if you guys don't get it.

I mean, it's not like the game won't end.

We got it.

But then Fred won't come out of the tool.

We want to review it.

If you can't get it, you can't get it, though.

No, we can get it.

Yeah.

O,

nor, blemished.

I will say one of you.

I already got one of the opposites correct.

We'll speed this up.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll cut out.

Yeah, okay.

Don't let this in there.

Fucking watching Patreon.

Look, this is all Mink does.

He closes his eyes tighter.

And he's not even thinking.

He's just going, like, why the fuck did I say I would stay for this?

That's not true.

I want to get this.

We're so close.

Oh, no.

What's the opposite of?

Oh, I don't understand.

The opposite of O, you got already, Bri.

What are you doing?

I do.

What are you doing?

I don't want them to get it.

All right, all right, all right.

What did you say?

So I said X,

like hugs and kisses.

Oh.

Okay.

X.

And this is one word, or this is three different words.

There's three words that make up one word.

Okay.

Okay, X.

Oh, exorcist.

X or cyst.

Oh, yeah.

Completely correct.

What's the, wait, can you break that one down to me?

Sure.

O

is the opposite of X.

Sure.

Because if you hugs and kisses, O in TikTok, not TikTok.

TikTok.

TikTok.

Nor is the opposite of or.

Is it?

I looked it up.

Unblemished.

is what you would be if you didn't have a cyst.

Okay.

All right.

We got it.

That's a good one.

Great job.

Great job.

You dominated that move.

All right.

But it looks like he might

need a hand going home, though.

He's all

punched drunk and shit.

All right.

So the next day, his tube opens.

One, two, Freddy's coming for you.

Oh, no, Jeff.

Are we sure he's going to be on our side?

Three, four, better lock your door.

If he ever wants to see the outside of this castle again, he better be.

Five, six, grab a crucible fish.

Say we get out, though.

Then what?

Seven, eight, gonna stay up late.

We'll just have to worry about that if we make it out of here.

Nine, ten, never sleep again.

You hear us, Freddy?

If you don't want my foot up your ass, you better help us stop Dracula.

After all, we get save you from the stasis chamber.

Salivating at the thought of getting revenge on his captor, Freddy Krueger decides to team up.

Welcome to my side, bitch.

For now, once I tell Dracula, so long, sucker, all bets are off.

Okay, okay.

One stasis two left.

There you go.

Freddy Krueger, the dragon.

Freddy.

Freddy, Michael.

Freddy and Austin Powers.

It would have been a shame, though, if we have to hear.

I know I juiced it a bit, but I'm not sure.

Let's hear who would have came out of this stasis tube.

Let's get guesses.

If you got it wrong, what Fred was coming out of that stasis tube?

Fred, I mean, there's Fred Rogers, there's Fred Flintstone, there's, I mean, there's a lot of people.

Fred Hembecker.

Fred Hembecker?

Fred Hembecker.

Let's hear who it would have been.

Look, I fucking hate dyslexia, but even I could have gotten those.

You have to think unilaterally.

And it was all horror movie clues.

Just figure it out.

I know, I know.

At least we'll get Freddy Krueger, the dream demon.

Maybe he can even kill Dracula since he's still sleeping during the day.

Yeah, but thato!

Shit, wrong, Fred.

Rocula and Frankenstone trap me in here.

I'll help you chisel your way out.

Sure thing, Pebble Brain.

Don't give up.

We still have one more stasis tubed open.

Fred Flintstone.

All right.

Fred Flintstone.

All right.

In an alternate universe, he could have.

Fred Flintstone.

But yeah, I thought

Sunday's Fred Flintstone was pretty damn good, too.

This man is a man of so many talents with that voice.

He's like Mel Blank.

Yeah, he is the Mel Blank of TSD Town.

Yeah.

Without a doubt.

So we're on to game three, the last stasis tube.

And Jason is in there.

And the game is what's on the menu.

The trick-or-treat edition.

Got to get them all right.

And there's four rounds.

So out of these three things, Ming, only one of them have I ever sampled.

Okay,

skim milk,

pineapple juice, or ectocooler.

You know what Ectocooler is?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like green high C.

Yep.

And you can ask a question, too.

Each one of you can ask one question.

Hmm.

I know it's probably not skim milk.

Because I tried to foist 2% on him one time at my house.

No chance.

Yeah, he went to drink it.

He goes, that's not whole milk.

He put it down right away.

Okay, no dairy.

You can eliminate milk.

Yeah.

So it's down to ectocooler or pineapple juice.

Pineapple juice.

Now, it is said that pineapple juice makes a certain bodily fluid sweeter.

That's what I hear.

Maybe he wanted to have the sweetest in town, so he was guzzling pineapple juice.

Probably not.

Probably not.

Never heard him.

It wouldn't have worked anyway.

I wonder if

when he's working, somebody brought in some Ectocooler and he's like, Let me try this shit.

Yeah, that's scary, right?

So, yeah, I'll try that.

Or he, as I mean, when did that come out?

888.

So maybe as a kid, it's sugary.

Well, they keep releasing it every few years.

I mean, they'll do like revivals.

That's what I would lean towards.

Yeah.

It sounds crazy enough that

it might be true.

You guys are going with EctoCooler?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, locked in.

Okay.

Locked in.

I do nothing to lock this.

Okay.

Just reiterate.

A dandelion, a honeysuckle, or a spearmint leaf.

Fuck that.

There's only one of these I've eaten.

Where would you have eaten a dandelion?

Do you even know what a honeysuckle is?

I do.

Okay.

Yeah.

I do know what they are.

They grow on these bushes.

People would used to pull them, and their little piece of sap would like a drip, and kids would just let it drip into their mouths.

Yeah.

Sounds like something I was one of those kids.

And you could hold it.

Yeah.

You could hold it under your chin, and if it glows yellow, then that means you like honey.

Oh, I never heard that.

Yeah.

No.

Man.

A dandelion, a honeysuckle, or a spearmint leaf.

I don't see him eating a dandelion.

No.

You feel like anything could place on a dandelion.

Yeah.

Right.

Spearmint leaf or honeysuckle.

I think honeysuckles are probably more widely available

to us.

Like, where's Walk in a spearmint leaf as a kid?

Assuming you were a kid when he ate it.

Right.

I was a child.

Okay.

I'm going to say honeysuckles just because they were so

weird.

He just said that he made a joke about it that led me to believe that honeysuckle wasn't the end of it.

You think it wasn't?

That's the misdirection.

That's what everybody's listening for, the misdirection.

It's what they came for.

Well, you just, you didn't misdirect.

You just flat out said that you ate honeysuckle.

So it wouldn't be misdirection.

It would be a flat out lie.

Right.

So now the game is, are you lying?

Right.

Yeah, definitely.

So asking you questions is useless because you might lie.

And I don't know the answer.

So this is a one-in-three shot on this one.

You want to go on honeysuckle and bet that he was lying?

I think

my guess would be honeysuckle just because it's the most common, but

there's just no fucking way he ate a dandelion.

Which is why it's probably the one he ate.

Like as a kid?

Yeah, like maybe he was like three.

Yeah.

He's had three dandelions in New York.

One in his mouth.

That's what I was thinking.

I say dandelion, but

you think he ate a dandelion.

I'm going to go with dandelion as well.

He was a young lad

who found its way into his mouth, but

I don't know how or why, but.

It's a shot in the dark.

I don't know anything.

That's why it's the dandelion.

I think Mink's hypnotized again.

He's like, I like your hat.

Whatever you say, Q.

What's the final answer?

Because Will has to lock it in.

We'll go with dandelion if you guys think it's dandelion.

We do.

Okay.

Dandelion.

Locked.

Bologna, prosciutto, or turkey breast.

There's no way he's putting prosciutto on it.

No way.

You can't even pronounce it.

I know.

Bologna.

Bologna's a giant hot dog, basically a giant hot hot dog, right?

Would you have an eight, would you have never eaten?

Turkey breast sounds too obvious, though.

But it's plain enough that he would eat it.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would say turkey.

I'd lean towards turkey.

Okay.

Turkey.

Turkey breast.

It could be that misdirection.

It is.

He had to have eaten turkey breasts.

We know he ate turkey breast.

Yes.

Does that even count on like Thanksgiving?

Because these are all lunch meats, but does that.

Turkey breast is a lunch meat.

Yeah, but there's also turkey breast on it.

Like a turkey, yeah.

I was thinking lunch meat.

meat.

I was thinking of deli when I came up with these three.

Candy lips, Gatorade gum, or Twix.

Well, candy lips are not really eating.

He may have worn them around just to be a jokester.

Could have chewed it a little bit.

You got a little flavor.

They're like wax, aren't they?

Right, yeah, wax lips.

I don't really see them anymore.

Wax lips.

I haven't.

Like, I've seen candy cigarettes in stores, but I don't see anything.

I haven't seen those in a while.

Oh, they fall out of vogue.

all right twix wax lips twix I don't think I think Twix is too well it does like too exotic that's like Snickers though

and what was the second one

Gatorade gum Gatorade gum I don't think he ate Gatorade gum he doesn't chew gum

chewer are you a gum chewer yes oh are you on occasion I'll have gum

Gatorade gum was pretty tasty

was it I never had it it was pretty tasty it didn't last long but it was pretty tasty oh it's no longer around No, no, the flavor when you...

I don't, I haven't seen it in the future.

I haven't seen Gatorade gum in like 20 years.

But when you started chewing it, it was so delicious at first, and then it ran out of steam pretty quick.

Yeah.

Twixbar, Gatorade Gum, or what was the other one?

Sorry?

Wax lips.

Wax lips.

Candy lips.

Candy lips.

Candy lips.

Candy lips.

You don't eat candy lips.

Like, I mean, if he's eating dandelions, I guess he's also eating candy lips.

Twix is too obvious.

I might have to to go with the Gatorade gum.

I think so.

So weird.

It's such a weird poll.

It's a very specific poll.

Yes.

Very.

Yeah.

Which leads you to believe you're being misdirected somehow.

Ken.

He's very married to crunch bars.

Yeah.

And at once.

Like, I never saw, like, when we were doing Comic Book Men, I never saw, like, hey, can you get me a Twix?

No.

There's always crunch bars and shit.

Also, you could say he never once did I ask for Gatorade gum or candy lips.

That's true.

But if you ask for Twix alternatives,

like you said you saw him eating Snickers,

that means he ain't going

for Twix.

Right.

Right?

Come on, boys.

I think Wax Lips.

Wax lips.

I think.

Like as a kid?

Yeah.

All right,

I'll go with that.

All right.

Yeah.

Candy lips.

Candy lips.

Lock it in.

Consider it locked in.

Locked the lips.

All right.

The first one was skim milk, pineapple juice, or ecto cooler.

And you guys said.

Ectocooler.

That was correct.

All right.

How did that happen?

Peer pressure.

Really?

Yeah.

You know, there was a party at school.

That was the only thing there was to drink.

Other kids were doing it.

Chug, chug, chug.

I didn't like it.

Never had it again.

Okay.

Round two:

dandelion, honeysuckle, or spearmint leaf.

Okay.

I can't believe I've never told this story on TSD.

It is

just a soul-crushing story.

It is heartbreaking.

I was 12 years old, and there was a girl who lived in my street who was 16.

And the difference between a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl may as well be, what, a galaxy?

Yeah.

There's no comparison.

Right.

Barely the same species.

Yes.

Right.

But she used to wear these, she always used to wear corduroys.

And

I would follow her

around.

Okay.

She never spoke to me.

Had a decent remove.

She used to have her hair

winged, almost like Sue Storm.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's all I had as a curl.

You know, like, like the invisible girl.

I don't ever want to see you invisible.

So I would just follow her.

That's good.

Just follow her?

I would follow her.

I was just enamored with her.

And one day I was walking back from Katz's, which was a local confectionery,

probably buying some comics.

And she had a friend she would hang out with who was a dark-haired girl.

And they said for me to come over to where they were standing.

And I couldn't believe it.

They were like, they didn't even know my name, though.

They're like, hey, come here, come here, come here.

And they said, you want to do us a favor?

And I was like, sure.

And they were like, I want you to hide.

Stop following us.

I was like, I'll do anything, whatever you want.

And they're like, can you hide this penny on your body anywhere?

And then we're, and I guarantee you we can find it.

Oh, boy.

Whoa.

And I was like, see where this is going.

Anywhere?

And they're like, anywhere.

So, of course, where do you think I put it?

Down the front of your pants, I hope.

No, I wasn't that.

Damn.

In your shoe?

No, but right in my front pocket.

Yeah.

Because I figured they're like, if they're going to have to try to find it, and they're going to put their hands in my pocket yeah oh yeah

all right no i i understand the logic i just didn't think you would go there yeah

we're so rare at 12.

still

i still love a good pocket job

okay so i'm sitting there going like holy shit i cannot believe this and they're sitting there and they turn their back and i hide it i put it in my pocket they turn around and they go okay you've hidden it and they're like okay

And they pull out this dandelion and they're like, we're going to roll, we're going to like move this all over your body and it determine where that penny is, they said.

So they go from my foot down and they're like, they're moving the dandelion across my body, not touching my body with it.

And they go all the way up to the, and they're like, no, it's not there, it's not there.

And they get to my mouth.

I'm like, oh, you hit it in your mouth.

They go.

I go, no, I didn't.

And they go, open up your mouth to prove it.

And like a fucking, the most gullible fucking idiot.

Like with stars in his eyes, I fucking was like, close my eyes and open my mouth and they shove that dandelion up.

Oh, man.

No, it's not, is it, was it the yellow?

No, No, the one that you got a blow.

But the blow, yeah.

Oh my god.

So I got all that in my mouth.

Oh God.

And I'm spinning it out, gagging.

And they're laughing.

If I was Carrie, I would have fucking just annihilated them.

I would have ripped their bodies from piece to piece.

If only I had my period.

I would have destroyed their asses.

I would have done horrendous things to them.

That must have made you feel terrible.

Of course it did.

Yeah.

It's a repressed memory.

While thinking of this, I was like, holy shit.

I remembered that

because I had blocked it out.

I had to just walk away as they were laughing.

Like,

dude, I have a similar story.

If you want to feel okay.

But some girl called, her name was Andoul.

She called me over.

This is on

step.

Well, I was going to say the street name, but and she goes, Come here, come here.

I got to tell you something.

Like, come over.

And then she just fucking spit in my face.

Andoula.

And then she started laughing.

Then her friends across the street started laughing.

What do you do?

What do you do?

Tell the story to your friends decades later.

I didn't even feel like my first thought was like, spit back.

But you're like, well, she's a girl.

I can't.

Right.

Hence what we talked about earlier.

She's got a dress on.

You treat her like she's got a dress on.

Even if she was some fucking vile pig who spit in your face and deserved it.

Do you think they ever forgot her name?

Do you think these are the things that like keep them up at night?

Do you think they think of these things as

them?

And I did it to someone when I was a kid.

I think it would haunt me.

Wouldn't you?

Yeah.

It would.

If you developed any type of person who's a fucking decent person, I do think you would think about it.

But that scarred me for a long time.

So I fucking feel your pain.

It was brutal.

And like I said, I couldn't get them out of my mouth as I'm walking away trying to get all these weak things out of my mouth.

I mean, there's hundreds.

Yeah, there's a hundred of them.

There's hundreds of them.

But you guys got it right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

I don't know if this is a good time to plug my Instagram telemance, but if you want to, you can go there and find a video of Sage not falling for that exact trick.

That's an age-old trick.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good idea.

You want to take it to Sage?

I did it to Sage, yeah.

And she knew the dandelion?

With the dandelion.

I tried to put...

No, not a penny.

It's like you break off part of the stem.

Okay.

And you like hide this somewhere on your body.

Same exact theory.

Okay, right.

And

I was like, okay, I did the exact same thing.

And I was like, it's in your mouth.

And she was like, no, it's not.

And I was like, hold on,

let me see.

And she opens up and then closes her mouth really fast and runs away.

And I like, I chase her.

I have like the camera and I'm chasing her around trying to

put it in her mouth.

Smart kid.

You can't compare me to Sage.

I was in love.

I was like, this girl's going to put her hands in my pocket.

Right.

Yeah.

That's true.

You do become blind.

I don't think she was even going to do that, though.

I was like, I didn't even know.

Like, if she was going to put her hand in my pocket, I don't even know what I would have even done, though.

At 12.

Oh, God.

Maybe it's better how it worked out.

Yeah, we got a fun story.

Yeah.

I wonder what she's doing now, though.

I hope hope she's miserable.

She probably is.

If you're that type of person, yeah, no doubt.

But you know, but also, maybe you talk it up.

You know, maybe that was the only thing she ever did.

I don't hope she's miserable.

Yeah.

I hope she's doing fine.

And that's it.

And that's it.

That's locked in.

Yeah.

Locked in for his will.

Bologna, procio

or turkey breast.

And you guys said,

we should turkey breast.

You guys know me well.

You know, my mom fooled me into thinking that deli turkey was the same as the turkey that she slaved seven hours making.

She just tastes just the same.

And I was like, no, it's wet.

It tastes like it's wet.

That's nasty.

Don't ever feed this to me again.

You want a dandelion in your mouth, Ma?

So you guys are

three for three.

Okay, so number four.

Come on.

Candy lips, Gatorade gum or Twix.

This is the one I'm really like.

Yeah.

This was a crapshoot.

We got nowhere.

Yeah.

These guys locked in on.

Waxes.

It's a candy lips, but

man, he's all nervous.

So close.

Gum.

It's such a pull, you're right.

It is.

It's such a weird pull.

I'm shocked that, Brian, you didn't know this.

I have never, ever, and I think this is a duplicate answer from previous Halloween episodes.

Oh, really?

Trotted out this same one, and I've never eaten a Twix.

Never eaten a Twix.

I mean, I've eaten it Twix.

You have eaten a Twix.

I hate it.

That's the one.

That was.

God damn it.

Oh, it was Twix?

It was Twix.

Let's hear what happens.

I got shouted down.

What do you want from me?

God damn it.

How the hell did Walt never eat a Twix before?

Oh, wait.

Look, it's opening anyway.

I always like Freddy 13th.

Simple guy, walking through the woods with a machete, minding his own business.

That's my kind of movie.

Yeah, I'm sure you'll get along great.

Now, where the hell is he?

I can't see through all this smoke.

Is that smoke?

Smoke kind of skunky?

Niche Niches.

Oh shit, forget Jason 40heast.

We got Jay Without Silent Bob.

Smoke a witch, smoke a wish, doing a coat, drinking fiscal.

Well, say goodbye to my brain.

It was a nice snow in your brain.

Maybe he could be canopied.

While the monsters are occupied killing these guys, maybe we can escape.

Bonging!

you have too

um all right so you've got all of your uh that's it those are the three people that he got out of the tube so who do you get you got austin powers yes you got freddy krueger yes we have jay jay and you got jay muse all right so here we go night has finally fallen and i am restored I see my monster friend looks especially charged.

And of course, I have you under my control, Wolfman.

Wait, I sense our captives in the dungeon have summoned support.

No matter.

It is time to carve open 148's cranium.

So it's time to fight.

We've got the three original universal monsters.

You've got Dracula the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster.

And you got you guys, but more importantly, you've got the people that you unlocked.

So, because it's a fight, who do you want to send into battle?

Do we send in the strongest guy or send in the weakest guy?

Who's weaker?

Jay or Mike Myers?

Well,

I think if Jay got bit by Dracula, Dracula would get high.

It's true.

Do we want to fucking blow our load and throw Freddy out right away?

I think we should save him.

I think we should save him.

We should save him.

Yeah, let's send one guy to the slaughterhouse.

Let's send Muse a.

Muse.

Put him in there.

All right, you picked Muse or weekly.

I have faith in Muse.

Oh, you do?

I do.

I have faith in you.

All right, well, I hope he survives then.

Yo, baby, if you have your asshole licked by a fat man in an overcoat, how would that help in this situation?

Although, that could be the diversion we need.

The monster grabs Jay and lifts him high overhead

before bringing him down with a crash onto his knees.

Jay's bones snap,

Oh, I'm sure he'd be just fine with his spine snapped in two.

Snoochy Bucci's 148.

Marsa, that did nothing.

That is pulled from some.

It's pulled from a million places.

I thought I could get Jay screaming from just one place.

I had to get it from a million different places.

Yeah.

It's out there.

Yeah, People might, if they recognize it, I'll be impressed.

I'm sure somebody knows all those clips.

Yeah, so Jay didn't really put up much of a fight, though.

Didn't put up any fight.

Yeah, he was killed immediately.

You're already down one.

You got two left.

Yeah, but I don't think he would have survived at all, ever.

I mean, when I just throw Mike Myers and see what happens,

fuck, why not?

All right.

This is the first official appearance of Jay on Tell him Steve Dave, I think.

He's never been on?

I don't think he's ever been on a regular episode.

I think you're right.

Oh, wow.

It seems like an overview.

538 episodes.

Specials.

No Patreons.

No mirrors.

All right.

So you're putting in Mike Myers, comedian Mike Myers.

Might as well, I guess.

Yeah, alright.

Let's see if he can fare a little bit better.

Smashing, baby.

I love a bird who doesn't shave.

Yeah.

The wolf man howls and swipes.

Slashing Austin Powers' face and gnawing him to pieces.

Such terrible mojo.

My wolfman has been longing for a name.

What else have you got?

Wrong again.

No, we knew that.

We knew this was gonna happen.

All right.

Now we just gotta send in the guy, the man, right?

Yep, the man.

One on three, though.

Let's go.

Here we go.

Hey, Batboy.

How about I suck your blood, bitch?

Dream creature.

You're in my world now.

Dracula lifts his cape and transforms into a bat, sinking his fangs into Freddy Krueger's neck.

Drained of his blood, Freddy collapses as Dracula once again returns to his human form.

Ah, you taste a barbecue.

148.

Mr.

Sunday, are these really your saviors?

No, you're wrong again.

Wow.

You're not happy with that outcome, I can tell.

Well, we're not wrong, and there are no other options.

I mean, just for fun, do you want to.

No, no.

Okay.

But this is how I envisioned, like, if I really gave it a fair

thought process, I was like, how would Freddy and Dracula go down?

But he didn't even raise his gloves.

You didn't even fucking have a swipe in the bat.

He died faster than Jay.

Yeah.

That's how I see the 80s slasher monsters faring against the classic Universal Monsters.

Oh, so none of them would, no matter what we got.

So this was.

They would have all lost.

No, no, you're still going to be able to save Sunday and get them.

But this is an exercise to kind of show you that the monsters you covet and you admire so much are shit compared to the real deal monsters.

According to you,

you're the one who's according to our wrong answers.

I told them that they had to go down

with an area fight.

What's the corner?

I mean, we should have used Fred Flintstone for them.

Every second till now has been wasted.

It's going to get about to get really, really good in here as

this next

segment of the game is introduced.

Okay.

Because there's a now that you've lost your line of defense, or what happens.

Here we go.

But you say it like we're to blame.

Well,

if you had, you didn't have Michael Myers, the show.

Do you think if Michael Myers was out there, it would have been any fucking different?

I know for a fact it wouldn't have.

Literally nothing we could have done.

Literally nothing.

I got to show Q that his monster suck.

It was the original.

The second that we started talking and turned it into a game was what Paul was like, I know what we can do.

We can prove to Q.

But Hades monsters are worse.

They'll all die in two seconds.

Alright.

Alright.

Now it is just us, 148.

It is time for me to extract that beautiful, beautiful brain of yours.

Wolfman, creature, grab them.

You were foolish to think you could stop me.

I am impervious to anything you might do.

Wait a a minute, I just thought of something.

Dracula, the Wolfman, and Frankenstein's monster pause in their tracks, perhaps perplexed.

Walt's been bugging me to watch the new Stranger Things, and I finally did it.

In the show, they use music almost like a defense mechanism.

What if we did something like that?

We got nothing to lose, right?

You mean?

That's right.

It's time for a little Sunday night get'em taming.

Do you guys remember Get Em Tament?

I remember it being hated, right?

No, no.

That was Giddem Tration.

Oh, that's trash.

Oh, right, yes.

Gid Em Tainment was when Gidem would sing karaoke style to like nine-inch nails.

Yes.

So what we thought we'd do here is we would find the greatest duets ever recorded.

Sunday and Giddem would perform them.

And if you guys can guess the song and the performers, it'll go towards like killing a boss.

Okay.

okay.

Okay, you like you get this one right?

Okay, you've got Dracula at 80%.

You get this one right.

Oh, he's at 30%

if you get it right.

So you got to know your music and you got to know your artist.

Okay.

Great.

This is on UQ.

I don't know about that.

No, no, these are the most famous duets ever.

Brian, if you don't know some of these,

then you got to check out then.

Okay.

You got to kill yourself.

Done.

There's no way you know these.

You survived everything else.

But if you don't get this, it's over.

I don't mean check out literally.

I mean, that's it.

Okay, no more effort.

Hang it up.

Right.

Song one?

Song one.

Okay.

I got chills, they're multiplying.

And I'm losing control.

Cause the power you're supplying

is electrifying.

You better shape up.

Well, you better shape up.

Cause I need a man.

And my heart is set on you

You better shape up

You better understand

To my heart I must be true

Nothing left for me to do

You're the one that I want, the one that I want now

Honey, the one that I want, the one that I want now

Honey, the one that I want, the one that I want now

that I need,

oh

Wow.

Wow.

I'm still alive for the time being.

I know this one.

So who do we got?

Who's the artist?

It's John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John.

Song.

We got to get this right.

I believe it's one that I want.

One that I want.

Yeah.

I believe so.

I believe so.

I mean, the chorus.

Before time Q?

What?

Is this before your time?

Oh, this definitely is.

I'm familiar with Greece.

You're kind of looking at those two, like letting them take the lead here.

Well, I mean, we all knew who sung that one, so I was like, what difference?

But the name of the song, yeah, I think one that I want.

One that I want.

Yes.

Lock it in.

I think this is locking it in.

I would go to the judge.

Or you're the one that I want.

You're the one that I want.

I'll see that scene.

We got to be exact.

Yeah, we got to be exact.

We don't have a mini.

I know.

That's my question.

You're the one that I want.

You're the one that I want.

I got to be honest with you.

When I had this idea, I was like, I was going to make them sing these duets I thought for sure I would have to be like

and Sunday came with his daughter to record them that afternoon so his daughter has to watch it

he's like what is going on as he's singing all these old songs and he's singing them like

like he is he may as well be in the shower he is all in his face changes and he is like and he is like he is the performer good man it is stunning and it is awesome because i really thought i'd be like come on man i need more out of you right right but he went all in He's all in all the time.

They were both sitting on Sunday and Given.

They were singing

before we were recording.

And we'd have to wait for

exercises.

Yeah, they would just sing the songs together for a while.

Honey spray for their threads.

Kim did take a little, he was begrudging the fact that he would always play the female performer in the duet.

He was kind of getting annoyed at that as the songs went on, though.

Pump him in a dress.

As Troy Aikman would say.

All right, so you said you're the one that I want, and you are.

Let's see.

The wolf man, whimpering, hurls himself from a high window to escape the sound of Gidem and Sunday Jeff's angelic singing.

We did it!

That infernal pop, you love music.

They're getting away.

Get them!

Get them!

Get him!

Run!

One monster down.

Yeah, that's right.

Whoa.

Two left.

Worked.

Dracula and Frankenstein are left.

Okay, here is clip

two.

Mm-hmm.

There we go.

Ready, Jeff.

Yeah.

They say we're young and we don't know.

We won't find out until we grow.

Well, I don't know if that's all true.

Cause you got me and baby, I got you.

Babe,

I got you, babe.

I got you, babe.

They say our love won't pay the rent

before it's earned.

Our money's always spent.

I guess that's so.

We don't have a pot, but at least I'm sure of all the things we've got.

Babe,

I got you, babe.

I got you, babe.

I mean, Sonny and Cher, I've got you, babe.

There you go.

That's it.

All right, let's see.

The creature bellows in pain,

but doesn't miss a step.

It'll take more than that to knock him down for the count.

You were right, but that's one hit out of two it takes to knock down.

This is right.

Okay, okay.

Okay, we'll keep going.

Song three.

This one's gonna be a little bit more challenging.

Don't go breaking my heart.

I couldn't if I tried.

Ah, honey, if I get restless,

baby, you're not that kind.

Don't go breaking my heart.

You take the weight off of me.

Ah, honey, when you knocked on my door.

oh, I gave you my key.

Oh, go bring water to Elk and Tron and lose a little bit.

Call your wife.

I nobody knows it.

Oh, when I was down, I'll just tell you.

I was your clown.

I nobody knows it.

Does it start with a D

right from the start?

I gave you my heart.

Oh, oh.

I gave you my heart.

So don't go breaking my heart.

I won't go breaking your heart.

Don't go breaking my heart.

Kiki.

I will take Kiki.

And I'll take Kiki as the female performer.

Oh, shoot.

All right.

John, don't go breaking my heart.

Kiki.

That's hell.

Kiki D.

Tiki D.

Whoa.

Wow.

Good poll.

Johnson, nice.

Great.

At what cost?

I'm winded, boys.

I'm winded.

Now, can't you, when you're listening to these clips, and you people at home too, just envision both of them smiling from ear to ear,

their noses literally like two inches away from each other, and they are all in.

Yeah.

And they cannot be stopped.

They don't want to stop.

Did they do the whole song?

They didn't do the whole song.

I had to be like, okay, we got enough.

So they can be stopped.

They can be stopped.

But only because I was like, we're not going to play the whole thing.

Did you take video of this?

No.

Oh.

We had so many songs to do, too.

There are some that we didn't get to record that I'm like heartbroken about.

But then when I was editing, I was like, thank God.

But I knew you guys wouldn't get them.

There's a song called You're Sex and Me by Kip Winger and Fiona.

Yeah, and it's so suggestive.

So those two singing it?

Yeah, so those two singing it.

I was like, I can't do that to Sunday with his daughter here.

We wouldn't have got that anyway.

It made me laugh.

I'd never heard it before.

Walt sent it to me.

I almost died.

I just thought it was too obscure.

I had to stay with

the most mainstream of songs for you guys.

Okay.

See what happens.

Let's see.

The beautiful singing startles the monster.

He claws at his ears as he collapses to the ground.

There you go.

The monster is done.

Wow.

Boys.

No more Wolfman, no more creature.

But there's fucking the big boys.

The big boy.

Big points of darkness.

Dracula's going to take three hits to put down as well.

Three songs to finish off the King of the Vampires.

Let's go with the next clip.

Baby, when I met you, there was a peace unknown.

I set out to get you with a fine-tooth comb.

I was soft inside.

There was something going on.

I figured you had to know this.

Yes.

You do something to me that I can't explain.

Hold me closer and I feel no pain.

That's the beat of my heart.

They are flagging a bit.

We got something going on.

Tender love is blind.

It requires a dedication.

All this love we feel needs no conversation.

We ride it together, uh-huh.

Making love with each other, uh-huh.

Islands in the stream, that is what we are.

No one in between.

How can we be wrong?

Sail away with me

to another world

and we rely on each other, uh-huh,

from one lover to another,

uh-huh.

Now, people said after they heard Giddem do his rendition of Closer,

it forever changed the song.

Whenever they heard the song, they would only hear Giddam doing his rendition.

Do you think we're gonna do that tonight to some of these songs?

Uh, not that song.

I felt like that, they

really, that was they didn't give it their all on that one.

I feel

or they did, yeah,

he was a little perturbed at that.

He's not happy with that.

There was talking

the rest of the songs.

There was something like that Greece song.

They were really fair.

It's a song he had never heard before.

That explains it.

There was something off.

The timing was way off.

Those guys.

It's a very strange timing, Giddam.

Sunday told me.

He said it's not like a lot of other songs.

He said, you have to be almost.

You got to be used to singing it.

You just can't come in cold and nail it.

I mean, he's not Kenny Rogers.

I mean, I think I say he is, but.

Really?

I mean, he's not.

If I'm going to be honest, it was Gedim who was really dragging us on that one.

Let's see what happens.

You guys, I think they look like he rated a Kenny Rogers.

In the stream, yep, lock it in.

Count Dracula recoils in horror as the songbirds' voices burn like sunlight,

but he's far from defeated.

All right, the first hit was good.

Hey, hit him.

Hit one.

Yep, two more to go.

All I know

is the way I feel

when it's real

to keep it up alive.

The road is long.

There are mountains

in our way.

But we climb

a step every day.

Love lifts us up where we belong

Where the eagles cry

on a mountain high

Love lift us up where we belong

Far from the world below

up where the clear winds blow

got Got the song?

Bing?

Love Lift Us Where We Belong.

Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt?

I would not lock that in.

Okay.

I was not locked that in.

None of those.

Not even the song title.

Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong?

No, no.

No, Up Where We Belong?

No.

Right.

It's not called...

Oh.

I don't remember.

I don't remember either.

I don't have this one.

Up

where?

Up Where We Belong.

Yes.

Good, guys.

Good.

Okay.

Can't wait to go home and play with Mary Beth.

You will not believe how hard work was tonight.

Triple my lunch bucket.

Blue-collar man.

Yeah.

I'm a working man, one.

This is Linda Ronstein.

No, no, it's a dude.

You said two females.

You drunk?

No, I said Aaron Neville.

Oh, Aaron Neville.

You drunk?

No, no.

I said Aaron was Aaron's name.

No, Aaron Neville wasn't Aaron Neville.

One of the singers had,

may have had epilepsy.

I don't know if I'm right about that, though.

Thanks.

He would have weird gyrations on stage.

Hmm.

His last name sounds like a dick.

Holy fuck.

Yeah, this is a tough one.

I don't know this one.

This is a famous singer.

Last name sounds like a dick.

Yeah.

Another name for a dick.

Another name for a dog.

a breed of dog.

I didn't think you get this wrong.

We may have to like cheat cheat right in front of the listeners' ears.

All right.

I'm all right with that.

A dog?

A dick dog?

Cocker.

Joe Cocker?

That's right, Joe Cocker.

Who's the female then?

What kind of animal is she like?

It's not an animal.

Her name.

Joe Cocker.

She's on the block.

Some would say she's on the block.

Jenny?

Well, what's the long name for that?

Jennifer.

Okay, yeah, but her name isn't Lopez.

Last name is.

Heed this.

Heed this blank.

Warning?

Yes!

Jennifer Warning?

No, Jennifer Warrens, but we'll take it.

After you walked us through it, thanks, pal, for that one.

Not normally this helpful.

Jennifer Warrens.

I got a lot of clips here still.

But will it work?

Dracula briefly collapses, allowing Gidiman Sunday Jeff to run.

But not knowing where to go, they find themselves in an operating theater.

A bat flies in through the window, transforming back into the Count.

Hurt, but not yet defeated.

Ah, Mr.

Sunday and 148.

How kind of you to drop in?

We are all prepped for the surgery.

Jeff!

This is it.

Do a die time.

One last song to finish this Bat Queen.

This is it, guys.

It comes down to this song.

It's definitely one that you would have been a teenager for.

Everybody in the room.

Late teens for you, Brian, mid-teens, mid-teens for you, Q.

Yeah.

All right.

And he may have been, I don't know, maybe nine or ten.

No, he's.

Yeah, I'm older than.

Oh, you are?

Yeah.

Q, yeah.

How old did you think you was?

I don't know.

Yeah, because you're nine years older than me.

Yeah.

You're 45?

46.

He just said he's 48.

Oh, that's 48.

I'm 48.

I'm 48.

I'm 46.

Yeah, so you're 98.

All right.

All right.

Roll it.

Easy lover.

She'll get a hold on you, believe it.

Like no other.

Before you know it, she'll be on your knees.

She's an easy lover.

She'll take your heart, but you won't feel it.

She's like no other.

And I'm just trying to make you see.

She's the kind of girl you dream of.

Dream of keeping hold of.

You better forget it.

You'll never get it.

She will play around and leave you.

Leave you and deceive you.

Better forget it.

Oh, you'll regret it.

You know, you never changed her, so we'll leave it.

Leave it.

Get up quick.

Seeing is believing.

It's the only way

you'll ever know.

She's an easy lover.

She'll get a hold on you.

Believe it.

like no other.

Before you know it, you'll be on your knees.

All right.

Easy lover, Phil Collins.

Who's the other?

Who's the other one, though?

Phil Collins.

And it's a female?

No.

No, it's a male.

This is a huge song.

Phillips?

Yes.

He was an Earth, Wind, and Fire.

If that helps.

It does help.

Not

tremendously.

Not bad.

Yeah.

Bailey?

Yes.

Oh,

shit.

Google that on your phone right now.

I saw you with the phone.

So we'll go to the phone.

Very sly.

Bailey.

I promise.

I wouldn't.

Joe Collins.

Easy lover.

Wow.

For the kill shot.

That takes us right to the ending.

That's the last hit.

Here we go.

Wow.

All right.

Grand finale.

You truly thought the 2022 plot device from a streaming television show could stop Dracula, the greatest movie monster of all time?

My musical score didn't rely on nostalgic 40-year-old pop songs.

My score was a symphony performed by an orchestra.

You truly are a simpleton.

Your assembled slashes were hopeless to defeat my monsters.

Our dark universe finally approaches once your surgery is complete.

Count Dracula fires up the bone saw and gets to work on Giddam's skull.

The hours drag on until finally, the surgery is complete.

Yes, yes, awaken, my friend.

You look worse for wear, but I hazard a guess you're stronger than ever.

In both body and mind.

Yes, master.

All right.

Well, that's enough for me.

Where do you think you're going?

What?

You got the voice brain.

I'm done.

I got work in the morning.

I can't just sit around playing bullshit games.

I have an actual job to do.

I can't sit around all day playing ping-pong like some people.

Very well.

Be gone with you.

148 and I shall plot the end of the world.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good luck with that.

148, share with me your knowledge.

Yes, master.

Hey, hey, I like these platform boots.

These remind me of those boots I bought at Walmart.

Walmart.

As Giddam shares his vast knowledge, the days become weeks.

You know, I know a guy at the flea market who sells cameras.

He never stops the blathering.

Actually, speaking of the flea market, did I tell you about that time I picked up a Civil War-era razor?

Ha!

The sun, it rises.

Master, do we have a washer and dryer here in the castle?

Today is Thursday, and Thursday is my laundry night.

Count Dracula throws open the large doors of his castle, finally embracing daylight.

Sweet, sweet sunlight, release me from this nightmare.

Master?

Master?

Oh, where'd he go?

Anyway, I was thinking, it'll take a lot of natty-daddy to get this body drunk.

Do you mind turning into a bat and flying me to the store?

And if we can, I want to drop by the general store and check in on Walt, too.

I miss him.

I think you'll like him.

He's a big fan.

Master.

Master?

Are you even listening?

Happy Halloween, Steve Dave.

Wow, man.

Amazing.

Amazing.

That was a lot of fun.

Amazing.

Kid, I gotta tell you, I mean, the voice acting is pretty good, dude.

Yeah.

Like,

that was impressive all around, man.

What an all-star you are, dude.

I say it all the time.

That's crazy.

I've learned from the best.

What, to sing like that?

Impressions, you know, improvisation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

Great job.

Amazing.

Thanks.

Amazing.

Louise.

So at the end, Dracula does lose.

He walks into the sun.

Yeah, so that's some kind of win.

I don't know.

The whole thing is really Walt's

opinions filtered because he hates the 80s guys.

Then he makes Sunday, Jeff, and Giddem sing, and then he kills himself because he's exposed to Giddem for too long.

So do you sometimes feel that you'd walk out into the.

You want to walk into the metaphorical sunlight?

On occasion, but I haven't felt that way in quite some time now.

But, you know, that's every relationship.

You know,

I feel that.

I'm sure he has wanted to walk into the sunlight a few times,

you know, dealing with me as well.

So

it would be totally unfair to think it's a one-sided

suicide fucking

out that we're looking for.

And you snuck in a nice healthy dose of dyslexia.

Well done.

Well done.

The game that everybody loves.

Well, when I like when Will came in and said that he could pull this off, I was like, we need something worthy of his talents and his skills to create this audio play.

And for me, there's nothing better than that fucking Abina Gustelby-Frankenstein.

Yeah.

I mean,

it is so damn perfect.

And now we have our version of it, you know,

on wax.

I have to say it was the easiest sell of all time.

I was asking Walton and he goes, okay, sure.

So

you want to do it?

And he goes, yeah, I mean, it sounds like fun.

It sounds like you could do it.

So,

yeah, all right, go for it.

And all of a sudden, I was just working on it.

How many times do you have to watch the movie?

Oh, man.

I've seen this movie, I mean, a thousand times.

My dad introduced me to Abbott in Costello when I was a kid.

So

I'm plenty familiar with it.

I watched it probably maybe two, three times for this.

Well, you're able to use the music perfectly, though, like at certain, at the points where the music cues

from the original score.

You know, well done.

Oh, it was.

It was professionally done, dude.

That was great.

I mean, that was, I don't even see how anybody could have done a better job.

It was really fun.

It was a lot of fun to do.

And, you know, a decent amount of work, but like good fun.

I will say, when I was editing the karaoke songs, my wife asked me if I could go to the basement to work on it.

You got to keep it down.

Oh, a poster.

A poster.

Oh, wow, man.

How cool is that?

They made a poster for the Telmescuve Dave of Halloween, and it's a take on the Abbott Gaselami Frankenstein.

Oh, it's so fucking good.

It's got our faces.

No Ming.

So you know he's going to be.

I'll tell you what, though, I made cards of

you guys knowing that, you know, I would run into you.

And I don't know.

I had a good time making some of these visual things that nobody can see, really.

I mean, if we can, I want to get them in the show notes if that's possible.

I did make a Ming.

I just didn't kick it because I didn't have any reason to think that I'd run into you.

But I do have a Ming card.

The squealer.

Get him, Steve Dave.

Yeah, I got these little collectors as if they were little trading cards.

The most normal Walt Vladigan.

The Teflon.

Oh, look at that.

Look at me.

Flexing.

The impractical Brian Quinn.

Nice map of Staten Island.

No.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It is.

It's just, you know, all distorted.

Fuck, man.

This is some work went into this.

It was a good time.

I really had a lot of fun working on this.

And again, I was shocked that Walt went for it as quickly as you did, Iis.

Oh, man.

I need ideas for you.

I don't know what else we're going to do.

Yeah, I'm really.

Yeah, how are you at Christmas?

Christmas is coming, and we need ideas.

Let's talk.

Dangling Saint.

But I know that he also, you know, you mentioned that you're like, if you would want to do more of these, right?

I would love to do more.

Response is what I hope it will be.

Sure.

Yeah.

I'm okay.

I'd love to do another one.

You know, some special occasions.

Yeah, this is pretty fucking, this is great.

You say the word.

I'm easy enough if you're an I'm in.

I'm so entertained.

Yeah, like you just want to keep listening to this.

Yeah, can we listen to the ones that we didn't, that we didn't get to hear?

Well, so there's a trick to that, too.

It is all mapped out.

What do you want to to hear i've got uh yeah how do we unlock those michael myers and jason coming out you want to unlock all right let's unlock uh michael myers then

so uh the slasher michael myers the slasher michael myers

as if we got it right if only you had here we go

holy shit get him we did it we got them all right but wait what if what if he comes out and attacks us nobody could like put a collar on to control you really think he's gonna waste his time on us when he could

oh look he's coming.

Uh

how you stanking!

The hulking psychopathic serial killer, with knife raised in hand, stares at Giddam and Sunday in an almost quizzical fashion.

Don't try anything funny, you mute bastard.

Help us stop Dracula, and you can go do whatever you want to help us teens.

Michael Myers slowly lowers his knife and almost imperceptibly nods his head.

We did it.

He's on our side.

All right.

Who else can we get to join us?

And then, if you had sent him.

Hold on, can I just pull a curtain back?

Yeah, yeah.

Did you guys pick up on the narrative of Giddam being frightened or concerned that whatever was going to come out of the tube would not be on, quote-unquote, our side?

Yes.

You did?

Yeah.

I picked up on that.

Okay.

I don't know if you picked up on it.

The very first meeting we had.

That's where I ended up scripting it in.

it was a long conversation

i don't know if you picked up on my anger i did that's why i was in here

because

we had this writer's room meeting and i asked get him to sit in with and i go just give me any thoughts about what's going on see if i'm missing anything i said because i want to i'm going to change a whole bunch of stuff and i also want to know like if anything i'm missing something because it's audio only and there's going to be a lot of things that need to be filled in for somebody who isn't doesn't have visuals.

This motherfucker, the only thing he offered like, a mental patient, was like, well,

what if the monsters come out?

How are you going to control them?

I go, well, it doesn't matter.

Practical shit.

Yeah, it doesn't matter.

It won't matter.

I go, because you just want the monsters out to be a diversion so you can get away.

He goes, yeah, but they'll just kill us.

And he stuck to it as if his life depended upon it, right?

I was so fucking angry.

I don't know if you've realized.

I don't know if you did tension.

It was just because I was just like, because then we would go on to another monster and he would say the same fucking thing.

I was very concerned coming in because, you know, I don't know.

Sometimes you listen to something and you love it and you get involved and then, I don't know.

I don't want to be.

It's not real?

No, it's not that.

I don't want to disrupt what you guys do.

So I was in the room just trying to chat and be polite and everything.

And so I handled the debate with Giddam, but then I looked over and noticed that Walt was like sitting back with his head in his hands.

And I was like, oh,

I think maybe I'm participating.

I think this may be a me problem too.

So I stopped engaging in it with Giddam.

I was like, I think I got to pick a side between these guys.

I'm going Team Walt.

You ain't the only one 48 in the room.

Yeah, I was so fucking just like, but you stop focusing on something that doesn't need to be covered.

You unleash these monsters and you let havoc reign and then you get out.

That's all you got to do.

You don't need a narrative or you don't need to explain why the monsters now aren't attacking you.

But he could not see the forest through the trees.

And boy, like, well, you say, like, do we look

to walk out into the sunlight?

That was a day where I could have walked out into the sunlight.

So, when you say it's been a while, you mean three weeks ago?

That was a while back, yeah, August.

Okay, three months for a while.

Uh-huh.

Um, uh, I think I scripted that in that night.

I was like, all right, get him's gonna constantly talk about how are we gonna control Michael Myers.

No, you want to hear you heard Fred.

Do you want to hear Michael Myers die?

Yeah,

what happens if you send him into battle?

I mean, I mean, who knows?

Maybe he'll fight and win.

Who knows?

Michael Myers steps into battle, butcher knife in hand.

The wolfman howls and swipes, slashing off Michael's mask and gnawing his body to pieces in an instant.

Ah, my wolfman has no choice but to do my bidding.

I see he's ripping your Michael Myers to pieces with his claws and fangs.

Good luck coming back from that.

Boogeyman.

Is that Bella?

The content.

Is that Bella right now?

It sounds like he's chatting.

He's acting.

Oh, yeah.

Like, he's actually acting.

If there was an Emmy for a podcasting,

maybe there is, right?

Can you submit Sunday Jeff for this?

Me?

Probably.

I don't have the awards.

I don't know where you submit them.

Maybe I'd have one if I knew what I was doing.

Well, I thought you worked in the field of like audio dramas.

I do, but there's no centralized.

You've been podcasting.

There's no board.

There's no.

There are a million different boards.

There are a million different organizations that do, you know, awards, ceremonies.

Imagine if Sunday brings home the hardware for this performance.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Honestly, maybe, maybe we should try to submit for some.

I don't know.

I'll look into that.

Why do not?

I'm realizing more and more it does mean it would be me.

I guess, yes, boss, I'll look into it.

You want to parlay this into another project?

You're right.

I mean, yes, yes, yes.

I'll Google it tonight.

So we heard, we played it before, Fred Flintstone.

What if you'd gotten him?

What if you sent Fred Flintstone into battle?

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, but Debbie, do your worst, Pep Brain.

Why, hello, Dundum.

Dracula lunges forward and sinks his fangs deep into Fred Flintstone's neck.

Please tell me this is not all you have to defend yourself.

He was deliciously aged, but weak.

Everybody dies.

That wasn't very Flintstone-centric, that Yaba Debba, do your worst.

Yeah, that was it.

I'll take it back.

I just saw your you right here.

It was fire.

I stayed up all night.

Calm down.

Calm down.

Magnum opus.

Dracula says he's deliciously aged.

Get it.

I get it.

Yeah, I thought maybe something like boulder or stone.

Well, I will say, I wrote in,

when you get Fred Flintstone, he says, Rockula and Frankenstone.

Yeah, that was a nice touch.

That was that.

Oh, I gave you props on that in the room.

I looked it up.

Dracula and Frankenstein were on the Flintstones, and so those were

their their versions of everything, rock or something.

I really appreciated that.

There's an 80-year-old out there who's like, I remember all.

You know what?

There's been a lot of chatter amongst the listener base.

I got to come to ask you guys.

They feel the steering of the content has been into places that are decrepit and old.

Nobody knows the things we're talking about.

Welcome to the world of 50-year-old guys.

Yeah.

Russell.

russells yeah don't you think we're gonna talk about tick tock and shit i don't know but like i'm seeing so much of it i'm like you know do we have to

you know we'll still keep you on well but do we have to hire a 20 something

to come in and like sit in with us and pod with us and maybe help steer the conversation certain ways i think the audience should look at it as an opportunity to expand their horizons and learn a little bit more about the history of entertainment a little bit.

Why don't they do their fucking research?

But they get mad because I shit on it all, like the stuff that they like and I just say the minds.

Yeah, you do.

I mean, you should just

stuff.

I like too for now.

It's been.

Welcome to the show.

We've been doing this since when, 2010?

TSD?

Well, nine, but 2009.

I don't think we've ever gone as far deep and obscure as we are going lately, man.

Like, all the Halloween content is like, with this being...

the jewel crown of the Halloween release being a fucking 1954 film and being like, you know, people will love it.

Everybody loves Abbott and Costello, Meet Frankenstein.

It's the reason why I was so lofty.

And I was like, everybody loves Kiss.

Let's do a Kiss Pod.

And everybody hates it.

Right.

But yet we continue to do it.

So fuck you.

My original draft, this was a deliberate sequel to Abbott and Costello.

It would like follow, there was like a character in it who's descended from, and we tone back all that kind of stuff.

I think even if you don't know Abbott and Costello, Meet Frankenstein, it's get him in Sunday on a little adventure.

Right.

I assume that that will.

I hope.

I

help overcome people who have no

reference to this stuff, that the 148 and the Sunday Jeff stuff will help alleviate that.

But, man,

I wonder, though, if I'm getting too laser-focused on shit that people are like,

I'm the only person that like, I'm telling you.

You've seen it?

I've seen it.

No way, man.

Okay.

We've been talking about this movie.

I know you love it too, so that's why I was a little bit, I felt a little safe in going with it.

But we talked about it.

They've had enough time to do the prep work.

Right.

And I know you liked it too, so I wasn't worried that you wouldn't come with an affection for this movie that

would help you appreciate it even more what's going on with the music and the nods to everything else.

And the stranger things, too.

Like, I love that, you know, you were able to make a comment, Terry, even on something I like.

Yeah.

Like, you know, like, Jacula didn't need fucking pop songs.

Fucking had an orchestra.

Perform, you know.

I did notice the

slam on the music.

I do also just love the image of them singing Easy Lover in Dracula's Castle.

If you think about it for even a second, that is funny.

Don't you want to live in this world where these guys are doing this or living in this world?

I mean, we do live in that world.

Yeah, we do.

I just want to live in a world where they are actually like, those are the characters that I deal with on a day-to-day basis.

They just break into a duet at a moment's notice.

They did.

You offer them.

I have the other tracks here.

The second that we pulled them up, get them, just started singing.

Do you have any other tracks to play?

I think Jason, right?

Jason.

Jason was the other one.

Yep.

So, if you were to win, Jason.

Ah, here we go.

You think it'll be back over his head, Jason?

Or hockey mask, Jason?

I just hope it's not skinny little kid, Jason.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's okay.

It's okay.

We're friends, Jason.

Friends.

I don't know how long we could control this one, get him.

Yeah, Jeff.

That's exactly what I was afraid of.

I don't know who he's doing there.

No, because, well, honestly, so here, if you were to send Jason into battle, that's the one scripted bit that I don't have.

Because at a certain point, Walt said, don't even record it.

Because I want muse to come out.

I also got caught lying.

Okay.

It wasn't Twix.

But I had to make it.

So wait, what was it?

What was it?

It was the

lips.

We were right.

We were right.

I had to lie and tell you guys the entire.

I just feel like I don't care.

Then I screwed up because in the thing, Sunday goes, Walt never had a Twix.

So I'm like, did I misunderstand or something?

Yeah,

you had to make sure that the game stayed on the table.

No, no, I don't care.

I feel better.

We were right.

You were right.

That's all I care about.

We were pretty good on all

most of the animals.

If you overlook all the times, I had to tell you all the names and talk about your lips.

Sure, sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

But wax lips, I thought those were not edible.

I thought those were just what they were.

I think you were allowed to eat them, but

I don't, as I recall.

There was no sweetness to it.

It was like eating a candle.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

So I just assumed it wasn't edible or wasn't meant to be.

I like how I got shamed for not knowing Twix even though.

Yeah.

I was playing.

I thought you knew me.

Fuck you.

I was trying to make it believable.

Then I stumbled even in the lie.

And I'm sure people caught it even in the lie.

I don't know.

For the show, though, I had to lie.

Yeah, I had to do what you got to do.

And plus, I was just like, it's just going to be so funny.

There's no way you thought Jason Hughes was coming out of it.

I was trying to think of who.

That was great, guys.

What awesome.

Yeah, that was really fun.

Thank you, Will.

Yeah, well, nice.

Job well done.

Thank you.

I take back everything I said about you, Will.

Only the one time.

Only the one time.

So, what are you guys doing for Halloween, Ming?

I don't know yet.

I don't have any plans yet.

You're home for Halloween?

I might be home.

Yeah, I might actually be home.

I know for you for Halloween.

Yeah,

I know.

Maybe I'll dress up.

Take the kids.

I'm sure they won't recognize you at home anyway.

Yeah, right.

You had to know that was coming home.

Let's turned up on a team?

Home run.

You knocked it out of the park.

What about you, Cube?

Halloween plans?

Yeah, I think I'm going to go into Manhattan, go to the Halloween parade.

Really?

Yeah, you know, I love it.

I do love it.

I haven't gone in a few years.

That's where the Benny's go, though, right?

The rookies, the weekend Warriors.

Sometimes you just got to dive in, you know, and

celebrate the good times.

Yeah,

even what happened last night is not enough to swear you off a little bit.

Listen, when I see zombies approaching me, at least I'll know that they're not asking me for money this time.

It'd be fun.

I bet in terms of your hangover,

oh, well, I don't have to, you know, I don't have to, I don't have to drink.

But you're gonna.

A little bit.

A little bit.

Yeah, but it'll be fun.

I think I'm gonna do, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hit the parade up.

Just the right amount, though.

Just the right amount.

Perfect amount.

Perfect social lubrication.

I'll be wearing my mask, so I don't have to, you know what I mean?

I could just go about my business.

Have you practiced changing your gait up?

Because people probably might recognize you from your gait.

Well, that's what the alcohol is for.

All right.

Any plans, Brian?

Probably take Sage trick-or-treat, and that's about it.

You know, I wish I could still do that.

You can?

You want to take her?

You know,

you forget how cool it was to take your kids trick-or-treat when they haven't done it in so long.

Yeah, there's nobody ringing doorbells for me this week.

I don't know.

When's this dropping again?

24th?

23rd?

23rd.

I'm supposed to get it to do on the 22nd.

22nd, yeah, so it can come out the 23rd.

That's my birthday.

Well, it's birthday, yeah.

So if you didn't like it, just keep your mouth shut.

Write something complimentary anyway.

Right.

All right.

That's it.

Well, what are you doing?

Just hanging out?

I'm not doing anything.

On my birthday, I'm going whale watching.

Whale watching?

What?

Yeah.

Where are you going?

Where?

On a boat out of Atlantic Highlands and just going whale watching.

That's how my wife's always wanted to do it.

It's going to be great.

Yeah, I hope so.

I think I like whale watching.

If you don't see a whale, though, can you say it was a good experience?

There's no guarantee, no guarantee,

even if they're, I mean, what's the guarantee?

If you don't get to see one, you can come back for free.

Yeah, that's what I heard.

Okay, they could offer the guarantee.

Most people were not coming back.

Okay, I think you have to go into it being like, I'm going to take a nice boat ride.

And if I see a whale, yep, exactly.

It's it's uh pudding.

What's that?

It's pudding.

It's pudding.

No, it's a pudding on top or a cherry on top.

Cherry on top, yeah.

Not pudding on top.

Fuck it.

It's pudding on top, baby.

All right.

Well, that's it for Halloween 2022.

Ming, thanks for being here.

Absolutely.

So glad you wandered in.

It's a rumor that you might be coming to Hazlitt.

Is that true, or you don't want to talk about that?

No,

I mean, it's a rumor.

Might be opening up a satellite office in the plaza

right next door to us.

Could be neighbors.

Airport Plaza?

Could be neighbors.

Stay tuned.

Hijinks.

You think the con life is crazy.

Yeah.

Maybe you spend a week here with me too.

That's right.

I can't wait.

I can't wait.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.