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160 DISCO BLOODBATH BOOGIE FEVER!

February 24, 2022 Strange Aeons Radio Season 4 Episode 159
Strange Aeons Radio
160 DISCO BLOODBATH BOOGIE FEVER!
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160 DISCO BLOODBATH BOOGIE FEVER! A little different episode as the gang dons their tightest white pants and dances their way into straight disco movies from the late 70s! Also discussed: Texas Chainsaw, All of Us are Dead and Critical Role.

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I'm sorry, did I break your concentration somewhere between science and superstition such sigh to show you strange aeons. Welcome strange aeons radio. That's Eric over there. That's finesse over there. Hello, I'm Kelly. i If you are a regular listener of the show, you know that last week I teased that Danny Willeford Oh, had said that when I go get the mail, I should make sure to dress up. very cryptic, right. Yeah. Well, this came in the mail. Okay, Halloween cards. Okay, the dress apart makes a little bit of sense now. Oh, the Halloween card in February does not exactly make a ton of sense. I am lost it, he makes sure to even date, fifth, February 2020. All right. And just a really nice, long note. I really love this guy. He he just talks a little bit about stuff. He basically loves writing letters. And I think he's trying to goad me into writing letter and I'm like, Nope, not gonna happen, but I will talk about it on the air. One of my favorites, he says, I fed a seagull yesterday. I told him about your own feathered friends. The bird was unimpressed. I think it's avian pride talking. Oh, then he finishes central to this card's premise Happy Halloween. Give Eric and Vanessa the side eye for me. Thank you. Firstly received side by side i in the house. I like that he knows that. That is probably the look that I'm generally giving both of you. Well, yeah, talking about your movies. So yeah, I mean, I don't know I don't look up at YouTube. Because I don't want to see that look of either boredom or disappointment. Usually just a mere attempt. I don't want to know. I also hang hung out with Carlos Zamora last night, and we had an absolute blast. And I just wanted to mention publicly this guy's generosity is ridiculous. And he has been such a good friend to the show and to us. Yeah. And I just wanted to give him a plug. You know, that CZ media. His podcast has got some really interesting Seattle based guests. But he also does like, builds websites for companies and his photography is spectacular. I think I told you, he gave me his photo book, which is really really cool. If you guys haven't looked through it. I will let you do that. And just had a great time. Guess what? Why not hungover this morning. I am shocked as I was a little shocked myself. Because you probably out with him enough times now that your your incredible talents even is growing? Well, we went to a live taping of the Adam Carolla show. Oh, then we hung out at his place afterwards. And instead of my usual three or four bottles, ah, I stopped at one bottle. I'm so yeah, so proud of you. I was heated not. And I was just I was given him aside, I the whole time go, I'm really gonna keep freaking. In fact, at one point, he poured himself another glass and looked at me and said, I'm not gonna pour you a glass because you're driving. All right. He's just going to have a good time. Where did this newfound sense of responsibility come from? Yeah, he did. He did mention it to me. I also have to say a big thank you to Carlos for helping me with something that I can't talk about on air. But I am I appreciate it very much. Let me fill in the blank. No, not not anything like that. As if you did, gentlemen. He's a gentleman. Um, but yes, we did work about how drunk he was going to get you and it seems like he you know, he didn't go overboard. The best part about my friendship with Carlos is we have an absolutely fantastic time. Well worship fish, and apparently when we're sober. That's got to give that a try. This is a you know, it's a real friendship. Yes. Yeah, I hung out with him, too. All right. Take back everything I said. Two to three timing faster. I've seen his work. He's dividing and separating. slowly taking over all of strange aeons. I know that he is a judge for the crypto con Film Festival and he he confided in me. Eric says I'm overly critical. And I was like, that sounds right. You are overly critical. Right. All right. They gotta judge i You see, that's kind of the point. Right? But that's good. Yes. It'll unless you've submitted your film for this year's festival, because now we have an overly critical judge looking at you. So don't worry, it all balances out. I know. I saw a bunch of shit. And I'm going to talk about something. I'm going to guess you both saw. Let's see. Texas Chainsaw on Oh, yes. I was on my list. He did not watch it. He had missing much. That was the funny thing is, um, yeah, my partner was like, we should check this out. Everyone says is really good. And I looked at my Facebook feed, and I was like, everybody hates like to know. Yeah. But everyone he's talking. I don't know. I'm guessing maybe, you know, like, sponsored sites or something? I think a lot of the people he works with are much younger. Oh, okay. I thought there were some fun moments. Oh, yeah. I thought it was incredibly uneven. I wasn't sure what they were trying to say. It seemed like it was anti gun. And then at the end, it seemed like, well, the way that you handle this is with a big fucking gun. I actually read just this morning, an interview with the director. And he was talking about his he's from Hungary, I believe. And he was saying that coming here to America and seeing the way we look at things was really interesting. And his idea he wanted to put in the movie though, he wanted to talk about all these kinds of ideas, but not give you any answers. The whole idea is like, these aren't black and white issues. These are really gray. There's all kinds of weird shit. But let's see what happens if I throw them all in a movie and I wish had been a better movie for it. Well, I don't have a problem with that. I'm not sure that the six Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel is the place. Yeah, exactly. Experiment with these kinds of ideas. I'm not sure that's your crowd. Yeah. Ironically, though, I think the stuff he did the best was the other half of that. It's some of the most insane over the top kills that you've seen in Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, for sure. I did get the feeling that they were. I mean, I loved the ending, which obviously opens it up for another movie. And it did feel very much like a he was like, Well, okay, I guess I don't have to worry about a rating, right? If I'm going right to nothing, like I said, good point. So let's just throw gallons of blood at the screen. And the first kill I was like, Holy shit, this is gonna be different. Because the first movie you know, is legendary for having no blood. Right? as violent as it is. There's really no blood this movie does not have and it truly probably was the first film to have a massacre. So I mean, you guys are really making it sound good, though. It's a I would say it's mostly entertaining. Yeah, but it is also quite stupid. Sure. And super uneven. Like I said, with with whatever message I was supposed to. It's great that you you want to say you know, not black and white and all that stuff. But most of the time a movie has some kind of through line. Yes. That you're like, Oh, I get it. This guy's Ultra liberal, this guy's ultra conservative, whatever is going on. Right there is something and I found Oh, I guess much like all of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre of very few people to root for. Because the kids annoyed the fuck out of me. And then the older people annoyed the fuck out of me also, and movies where it requires somebody to do something extremely stupid at a moment where everything could have been stopped. That really, really bothers. And this was just like, Okay, well, this movie could have been finished right here. Yeah. So I I don't know. I didn't love it. But I loved the ending. That it started rolling. The weirdest criticism I've seen I've seen it a few times. Is that Well, God, oafish got to be in his 70s now so how can you do this one guy compared him to fighting like it was the raid. I'm going I don't know what movie you watch. But he doesn't do any fighting like the raid. It's it's another face. I mean, come on. This isn't sad freaking documentary. I mean, the first film is a goddamn horror legend. It is your masterpiece. The second film should have made you realize that from now on, everything else is off the chain. Because that second movie actually I like Texas to allow that. But it's batshit crazy. Especially the second half with Dennis Hopper and all that crazy shit. Yeah. So it's kind of like well, you take any Texas Chainsaw Massacre, except for the first one seriously? You're missing the point. You know? Yeah, they decided you know, they're doing the Halloween thing. So it's a it's a legacy sequel, because that's kind of hip now. But every movie has been a sequel to the first one they there's zero continuity between any of them The movies. If they all just pretend the first one happened, and now you're watching this one, there's not even any of the same actors, I guess until this one, right? Oh, yeah, I don't know. That was a big sawed off thumbs down for me. I would say if you're if you're a slasher fan and you're in it just for the violence, there's enough to keep you entertained. But other than that is like, Okay, well, I watched it. It was it was. It aggravated me less than the most recent Halloween, for sure. Well, that's good to know. At least I'm probably going to check it out regardless, just cuz everyone's talking about it. But that's how we roll. Yeah. Um, well, I saw the end of something that I'm sure you both saw the end of. Peacemaker. Oh, Peacemaker. Yep. Not what, what? What's your watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This is your timeout choices. Yes. This is people who I'm talking about watching with your loved one. Okay. Timelines get skewed. Ridiculous. I didn't she didn't watch Texas trains. I wanted to watch Peacemaker. And no, I watched that. I watched Texas Chainsaw while she was working or something at night. Well, that's what I mean. Because she wants a watchmaker. You have to wait. Yes. Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Well, I won't give anything away other than the series is so solid. It's a satisfying last thing I thought would happen with a James Gunn series finale was me to get teary eyed, right. In general, just such good storytelling like even when you have ridiculous characters that should be super unlikable. Each one of them which you just We're rooting for them and so excited and I don't know I loved it. Also a huge surprise in that they released one episode and then the next day they were like, Screw it. Here's the finale. Go enjoy. is gonna notice. I noticed that tonight even watch. I'm going to show up all of us. Did I wait a week without knowing that? Possibly? Yeah. Cuz I watched a Thursday. Yep. Thursdays when they magically randomly released the next one. I think Wednesday was the one before. Oh, yeah. Fuck. I don't know. How long have I been sleeping? Down? Have you actually watched the final one? Did you miss an episode? I yeah, I loved it. I will say that. I absolutely loved it. Yeah, I'm surprised because I hated the character in Suicide Squad, too. And I really did not like Peacemaker and was like, I don't want to spend, you know, 810 episodes with this piece of crap. No, I have great faith. And honestly, John Cena now and Oh, yeah. James Gunn just is I don't see if DC has any foresight for the for a change. Maybe he gave him an overarching thing. Look at Marvin go, well, they created this whole thing that took, what 15 years or whatever it was like, let's get this guy who can put together a storyline of not only a obscure figure from the movies, but an insanely obscure guy from the comic books. Yeah. And create an incredible show. Out of that. Maybe just maybe you might do some really cool with Batman or Superman. I would only say to that. We said let's give Jon Favreau the entire Star Wars thing. He can do no wrong and then he shout out the book of Boba Fett. So I would say, look, great job James Gunn. I'm going to support you until we find out that you said something horrible that or people hated you onset or something like that. Because we always find out something bad about the people we love. And you already want that. Yeah, I was gonna say we weren't. That wasn't that wasn't anything big. That was joking stuff. We're gonna find out he's got swastikas or something. I think by this point, they must have already like sent in the Disney team to either SWAT through his home like break open his cushions and heal from a hurting look. The line is changing on what you're allowed to say. Proactively. So he'll have said something that was fine. That is no longer fine in five years and he will be out. Just I'm just saying don't fall in love with this guy. You should know better by now. But now I know. My heart has to remain open for something I must find joy in the world somehow. I can't just be cold and assume everyone's gonna turn into fucking Joss Whedon am and look at how happy I am. Oh god, you're a joy. Yes, I love I love when I get around. I'm texts from you. I don't immediately go oh god, what's it gonna say? Anyways, are you Eric? I think I'm saw something that I'm pretty sure Ah, maybe Vanessa might have seen or heard of critical roles the legend of Vox Mokena I actually have not been following up with them critical role but I know vaguely what it is, you know, critical role is critical role is a group of people four or five years ago started playing d&d on YouTube, and became insanely popular doing. They had, they've got, well, they now have a cartoon based on their campaigns. And it's fan tastic Oh, interesting. Oh, god damn good. You can see where a d&d thing was set up. Of course, there's also characters that character classes I'm not entirely certain new there are because I stopped playing somewhere around version two or three. It feels the most there's been a lot of things put together tried to be a d&d, inspire book or movie, whatever this one succeeds. Mom d&d means dungeons. Not not anything else. And it is. It is adult oriented, full of swearing and weird sex things from The Hobbit guy who is probably ever sorry, not a holiday. It's probably halfling. In the end, halfling bard who sings and sleeps with whoever he wants to. The it's the main talent was put together by people that do the Batman animated stuff. I mean, it's massive. Wow. talent behind it. And it's entertaining as all hell. Wow. I'm, you know, I never would have thought that that kind of storytelling would take off in the way it has. But between that and then I know the guys who did my brother, my brother and me. They also had a d&d podcast that got turned into a graphic novel series, and they go like on tour, and like, do like a d&d session in front of a live audience and people just freakin love it. Yeah, they do that too. I've seen photos of them at like, Emerald City kind of place with packed if you went to the giant room of Emerald City, packed it with people. That's how many people were sitting there watching these seven or eight people play d&d. Okay, so explain to me what makes it so watchable. It's just so funny. Oh, it's funny and fly. It's great. And just incredibly good writing great story, great characters. These are characters these people have played for like four or five years. So the depth of character and walks in with is impressive. It's just really, really well done. And it's it's actual Dungeons and Dragons. So this is a licensed that. I don't think so. Oh, I'm not sure where the licensing comes in. I don't remember them specifically talking about that. I see. Not in the show. Um, it's just a card. It's just it's not like they're playing the game. And then you go see what happens. The shows a show. If you knew nothing about critical role. You could watch the show and go, this is fun fantasy weirdness. So you're not hearing the Dungeon Master. Tell them what's happening. And they're not like rolling and going. Let's see whether or not I make it through the site. Exactly. Okay. Interesting. What's that on? Amazon Prime? Oh, I have that. Fun, man. I don't know. But it's new fantasy. So that's true. But it's also a cartoon myself getting a little more lenient with cartoons. So animation by the wonderful studio with a strange name. titmouse Oh, I love titmouse because that's a all the horrible Adult Swim cartoons I love who's good Billy's and all that. So you get a little more of the sensibilities of where this guy comes from. Okay, I like it. I will check that out. Something I am only about halfway through and I had been putting off Oh, decided to start watching and now I'm just like, fuck, why did I schedule a podcast for today? All of us are dead. Hi. I have not seen this. I know what you're talking about. But it's another Korean zombie series. Oh my gosh, nothing I was interested in. Yeah, no, I heard. I think Rebecca McKendree was like, Is anybody watching this because this is legitimately scary. This is someone that they've got an AdWords a bunch of students inside a classroom. It is a zombie outbreak, and it's focused in the high school that these kids are trying to survive and meanwhile, it's spreading out to the city and everything like that. But the story focuses on these kids Kids were trying to get out of their school. Wow. And it is legit terrifying. It's super intense. And I guess I don't know what I was thinking because they're always there zombie movies are super intense and scary. And this has that creepy shit where their backs are bending and they're cracking as they're starting to change and everything. There's just something the the Korean zombies scare me more than any zombies. Oh man, that sounds incredible. So I'm five minutes Netflix. Yeah, I've episodes in. And it's great. And it must be made for Korean Netflix because it's not a I mean, it's super gory. There's a ton of swearing, all of that stuff. So it's not a Korean television show. Oh. Oh, really, really good, though. Nice. Huh? Wait, so it's a film? No, but I mean, it must be made for Korean Netflix. Oh, like, aired somewhere. Okay, got it. Right. Um, well, I just to piggyback off of that, I watched the last episode of the silent Sea, which is another Korean joyous thing like you were loving it when you're talking about it. Still don't? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I made it through it. It has some cool ideas in there. I think the CGI is actually really good. And like that sets, the props, everything like that. But the storytelling is pretty bad. There's a lot of like, explaining to the audience things and like, oh, man, like this entire station is flooding, for example, we have to run there is a tidal wave behind us. And then like somebody will get injured or whatever, and they'll just bend down and be like, we love you, man. Like everybody like has their turn with them. And I'm like, there's a flood of the chip on the moon. Where's the water coming from? That's that's the whole question of this entire library. Nevermind. Yeah, but just bring up a spoiler. No, not a spoiler at all? No, you find out immediately it takes place in a world in which Earth has basically run out of water. And the government has given like tokens for people to get set amounts of water all the time. And then there's something on the moon that people have to have a secret mission to go and get tap the moon water on them. But isn't it great? I mean, so you didn't love this? But not how cool is it that Netflix has become so big that they're porting over from Germany Netflix series, or Korea or China and a lot China? But how, how lucky are we that we're getting all this? I think they're getting, you know, our American series over there, um, anything that there is rights that they can get. I know for my friends in England and Ireland that they there is some stuff they are not getting, but then they get some stuff we don't get to like like, arguably because HBO didn't have a thing with Studio Ghibli. Okay. Yeah. So, but it is kind of funny because I was just talking about this yesterday, I was doing a catch up with a friend I haven't talked to in about two years, because I was hanging out with him at PAX. And I was talking about all this incredible Korean TV that I'm going through on Netflix and how I fucking love it. And he actually stopped me. He's like, you can stop pandering. I mean, I know I'm Asian and you're trying to I was like, I'm not pandering to you. It's fucking good. He's like Ching. She was not good. I was like, half of it was good. Which one? Shang Qi Marvel. He's right. Thank you as half of it was. Yeah, but yeah, I was just like, No, genuinely like the globalization and I talked to him about how you know, it all started with dark, I think. Surely. I don't know if that's true. But started but yeah, that was a big, big, yeah, proponent of Netflix being like, hey, if we have something with subtitles, and it's German, and everyone will watch it and love it for some reason that we don't fully understand. And the other disappears, people watching the show, apparently no. past season one. I made it through season two, almost understanding what was happening. I mean, he's seen until recently that would have been handled this way. Oh, this was a big hit in Korea. We will now remake it as an American. Yeah, I feel like we're not seeing that as much as we're just you know, here. And when it is happening, it's almost embarrassing. It's like really why like, why are you guys for making us it came out like last year that reason? Yeah. Speaking of confusing, weird shows, I was starting the second I think the second episode are raised by wolves. Arrows. I'm done with this show. I don't give a shit about these people. They they started off in such a different environment and now boom, it's like the when Battlestar Galactica jumped like 30 years ago. on that planet, it's all shitty. Can we see how they got here? And this is still like, Okay, so now she's a teacher. So as I said, let's talk about this. You didn't finish the first. No, I did not. But I do kinda remember how that last episode ended. I thought I did, but maybe they, they fly their ship through the planet through it. And then there's all this weird shit happens. And then that snake thing becomes like this gigantic snake thing. And I was like, surely this is a metaphor for the Garden of Eden or something like that. And then when this season starts, and I don't know if you've gotten to the point that snake thing is around a lot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they found the snake skin and then all that other shit. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, this wasn't a metaphor. No, I'm really lost. Guys. Yeah. I watched the third episode. I thought it got better if that's any consolation, but I'm with you. It's a tough series to like, yeah. I really wanted to because I thought the first season was ended a little weird, but damn, Louis. Oh, good for so long. And I'm like, Well, I kind of want to see the continuing story of these folks. But now I need to learn this whole new world and they are they fitting in? She's no longer a warrior. But it was also one of those things where I thought at the beginning of this new season, I was like, Oh, how many years in the future? Must we be? And nope, we're right there at the end of the last episode, I guess. Yours planet seems to have been Terra formed without telling the rest of us that sounds really weird. It's confusing. Yeah. We it's so confusing that I need to take a break from my mind. Yeah, because when we come back, he will not need our mind. We will it will not be a confusing episode at all need our dance and feet are gonna need a dance of fate We will be right back. We have returned Eric, this is your solid far out and right on pick. But could you please explain what happened between what you did last week? And what we're actually doing? Yes, this originally kind of started out as just somewhat disco in it, whatever you want to do. And then through discussions over the last week, we decided you know what? Let's make it a full disco movie. Let's clear everything up and say what you mean when you say we decided let's clear that up guys. What happened? Was it that maybe I didn't look at my phone for a few hours. When I look back, it was full disco because I think that's what happened. That's exactly what happened. That Eric and I had a 40 message long task that you were part of except you did not look at the end of it. We had agreed that yes, it should be a full disco movie genre. The worst part is when you guys do that, I scroll back to the start of the conversation and then I put in responses as I read because I don't want to miss anything. And so I didn't in real time I'm going oh yeah, I thought was a cool thing. Oh yeah, you guys are talking about this. That's cool. And then wait a minute what? So I begrudgingly agreed Are you fully in the camp of discuss sex? Um, no, not necessarily. It's just like, overall I don't love I don't necessarily love dancing films or musicals like I don't watch a lot no comedies. I know I'm the worst you hate life I do. Except when it's being destroyed and I love it. When life means something they can't all be Moon fall Vanessa. I know. I know why. Anyways, yeah, so yes, the My immediate thought and part of the reason I wanted like, Screw it let's just go for it is I wanted to talk about a movie that the soundtrack sat in the my car for 20 plus years probably wow and CD cassette, and now of course, on the iTunes and that is from the village people movie from 1980. Can't stop the music It's the musical extravaganza that launches the 80s it's killing cars can't stop them using once you see it you'll know why you can't stop that glamour say you can't stop the excitement you catch the dancing you can't stop the lectern magic magic magic like most of all you can stop can't stop can't stop the story take the plane China's revelry Perahia try in vain if nobody can crawl Sam costarring Tammy Grimes Jun Walker rushing out to the state of Maryland SoCal and a special appearance by the Ritchie family once it begins, you can stop the music a new musical sounds a bat composed and produced by Chuck Borelli watch for the exciting new Pinnacle Pulkovo an EMI filled from AFD Original Soundtrack records this movie is not good. However. It is. It is awesome as well. It's both can't stop the music came out in 1980 The Rotten Tomato score has from critics. A seven. Generous from the audience a 37 Whoa. Catch this. The budget was 20 million. Oh my god. That's insane. This was a huge push of a movie had the village people you had Steve Gutenberg biggest Olympic star of the time. I'm talking about Bruce Jenner. Yeah. Bruce Jenner at the time. Yeah, and box office of $2 million crashed and burned. This was directed by Nancy Walker, who came from TV shows Rhoda Merrick Tyler Moore, Alice. She also acted in 41 episodes of Roe rota The Love Boat. True Colors written by Woodward brown Woodward who wrote Greece and Greece live the recent TV version. He was given credit. I don't know if he actually wrote also Alan Carr who will grease and produce five and Margaret specials and 61 Academy Awards. Oh my god. And you all know the high quality of entertainment the stage skits have on the awards. Lord, the stars, the village people who are Ray Simpson is the policeman David Hodo who's a construction worker, Felipe rose, who's the Indian, Randy Jones, the cowboy, Glenn Hughes, the leather man and Alex Briley. The GI I'm gonna guess this is not Judas Priest Glen hurt his Deep Purple's when he's you may have to explain to some of our listeners exactly who the village people are before you complete this, including me. I mean, I know the music and I know what they look like when they do stuff. Well, this movie is basically In a healthy village people came together in not very realistic terms. Okay. But the village people were a group of what did I say six or seven guys who came together in the mid 70s. They were sort of put together as a group by a producer, a writer of disco songs. And they performed in these characters, various versions of the characters as they got bigger and they would get more elaborate with their costuming and stuff, but they were huge. You know, some of their movies, you know, YMCA you probably know macho man. And you probably know, in the Navy, there's plenty of their songs you've heard and are still played today. And they've actually near as I can tell, never stopped touring. Wow, they have two or three tours this year. Oh, my God already booked really well. gigs, not tours, but two or three live shows that they've already put out for later this year. It cannot be the original members. Some of them I think it's actually I think it's most of them. The Cowboys, the one that's changed the most he's been, I think, three different people. But I enjoyed the village people a lot, but I didn't read their stuff like maybe I should read a bio on them. And like I did with priest and Iron Maiden and all those throw the village people in there. Why bother when you've got this movie? To explain how they came in early? Yes. Anyways, the starring beyond the village pupil, you've got Valley per line, you know, from Superman one and two, Lenny Slaughterhouse Five, a whole bunch of stuff. Caitlin slash Bruce Jenner been in 159 episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. You know, there aren't a lot of shows that I'm proud of. I've never watched any of I'm cool that I've never seen a single episode of any Kardashian right there. And seven episodes the chips. Oh, as like a recurring character. I think he was himself. And it's gonna say as himself, he was himself seven times. Probably. I mean, he was a huge star from the Olympics. And you know, we these boxes and all that shit. Yeah. This is the only film he really did. He did like bit parts and things afterwards, but he never landed a lead role again, which surprises no one that has seen the film. And Steve Gutenberg star of short circuit, Three Men and a Baby police academy movies, has four films in production and 103 credits. He has four films in production right now here. Yep. Really, this makes me happy. It's a great line from a Simpsons. The song that the when he was joining the cult, and their line is we made Steve Gutenberg a star. So are we may who made but anyway, so this film opens in the 70s of course, so it's in a music store. Because that's where Steve Greenberg works. But he doesn't want to work there because he's got his first big gig to DJ at a disco to play his music. So he tells the man to screw off and quits right there and roller skates out of the store. Oh my god. And then there's the opening credits of Gutenberg rollerskating down New York streets and get Valley Valerie shows up at one point is interacting. She's apparently the supermodel of the time who has just left modeling. So she's looking for her new thing to do. Which apparently is you know, help put together a disco band. every girl's dream. Right. So that is an excellent opening. Listen to the sound of the city now. Oh, I know the songs so well. People. The and this is full of great 70 Scrap like bad split screens, multiple three screens going on. He's dancing with his little handheld transistor radio held up to his ear. Nice. And yeah, top tier acting is seen throughout the entire film without a doubt. He's got a strange relationship with Valerie and that he was a cow sitter, who just stayed. Yeah, they're just friends. They're absolutely friends. No, no romantic involvement. It's like, okay, she even has a line later on where Jenner loses his shit about her living with another guy. She's like, this is the 80s you're gonna see a lot of things you've never seen before. She's right about that. It's a very happy group of people. The first village people the guy to show up as the Indian he's kind of like her neighbor or something and just sneaks into her house and says hey, how you doing? Like, hang out for a while New York's very friendly city. But not sure that was true in 1879. I know I was gonna say this seven days. This has been a full picture for me. I can see why they started with him as acting is top notch. And they the first music that Next music thing is Samantha, which is a song that the guy who's living with her that isn't romantically involved wrote about her being incredibly hot. Okay, because Valerie's character's name is Samantha. The the song is sung by David London, who changed his name for the thing to Fergie. Fredrickson, because he didn't want to ruin his rock reputation as the lead singer of todos isolation album. Oh, that's interesting. I didn't know that. So there's a B story that goes through we're after Valerie's quitting. Her modeling. Her agent desperately wants her back and has this great milk campaign. This is actually foreshadowing. Oh, it leads to something in the movie. Oh, no, it's sponsored by Baskin Robbins and Dr. Pepper. See, there's one point where Valerie is walking down the street and they're trying to put together their band. And she just walks down the street and runs into I think it's construction guy. The god she runs in like three or four of the village people just wandering through the street go, Hey, you want to audition to join our band? I assume the construction guys like on a site or something wearing his hard hat and he's actually pro singer. Oh, Emmys in his outfit. He's in the full construction outfit singing a different song. If not Village People. Okay. Yeah, shoot a music video. Wow, this strange choice of all the people in there. He was the lead singer, right? No, the cop was generally the lead singer. And occasionally they would switch off but the guy was the policeman was the man always liked his voice. I gotta say. Yeah. Cool. manly voice. Yep. And so and while she's meeting everybody, she's walking around with an ice cream cone that continually changes flavors. Like I don't know if that's because she was tired of it or Baskin Robbins. We want to make sure people see we have different colors in our ice cream. Because there are 31 flavors for April. And then then the third construction guys. Son called I love you to death where he's doing a music video with women draping all over him. Which you know if you know the village people's type look a bunch of confirmed bachelor's, Vanessa? Yes, yes. No girl was gonna chain them down. 70s bets. Man manly men above love the idea of a relationship. And gender enters the movie now and immediately gets robbed by a little old lady and a guy on a moped. Very weird. How short are his shorts in this scene? This is he's wearing his full suit because he's still the tax guy. He's still the the straight and narrow follows the book guy. And he's not going to be later. But oh yes, he does change I remember. And heavy, heavy, heavy, great humor of we need to delay the agent, getting to the tryouts her milk agent to get into the tryouts of the Village People trying his first song. So she has to get stuck in a phone booth. gets her fingernails stuck in the rotary dial. And then the doors lock. And she It looks like she's there by light change like ours. Oh my god. So it's like, wow, okay. That's That's good. Right. And yeah, the movie is also full of all kinds of casual races. What 1980 That doesn't sound right. But Indian guy, Native American. This character called Indian is he actually? I'm assuming so I have no idea how they're all guys. No, no, I mean, like a white guy playing. I'm not sure Native American via skin tone. I don't know his nationality. Okay. Just curious. So you've got great lines like this housework is like bad sex every time I do it. I swear I'll never do again until the next time company comes kind of like that. Samantha's replacable tacky. Let's see the intro to the COP is a little weird because they bring him in and he's actually a police officer in the movie. So Bruce is trying to get him to take his agenda is trying to get him to take his statement about being mugged. And he's trying to sing it's clumsy. And so they come together they sing magic night. In the back this time. I think it was three so far. The construction guy the Indian and the cop are not for the cowboy. They are I believe at that point. And they so they're still waiting for leather man and the GI pardon editions. And Steve Guttenberg cannot dance. At least generous, aware he could not dance. I just sort of stand there and kind of move slightly to the beat. But Gutenberg was trying. Oh, no, it's it's rough man. Oh, no. Jenner leaves because he has very uncomfortable because of the, the strange characters of these Village People. Oh, really? Yeah. Valerie is kind of the lead in this movie. She's the one who's trying to get the bands together and trying to do all this stuff. So she really does a lot of the she's in most of the movie. The auditions are I want to know how what the ad they wrote for the audition was, is that auditioning for two more singers? And any act you can imagine shows up for this thing? Juggling fires. A guy who sing some weird song and then tears off most of his clothes. And Blackie Lawless. What are like there's some big metal guy standing up on that big butt metal guy standing on a desk breakage of gun that looks like Blackie Lawless, I looked it up and it was it was actually like he would be a big metal dude he yes six six or so New York Dolls and then he was also was prevalent in that area and then wasps so he fit that Look how funny. So that audition leads to the leather man shows up for that one in the GI does as well. The leather guy sings a Oh, Danny Boy makes his audition which is good, but like your brother's version is better. Isn't going on? Kelly's brothers definitely better saying this dude. But he's got a great tone in his voice so that's why he's good McGrew. I see. The so that is they're all together I believe by now. Links a GI is also enters the scene at this point. These details are not important. I forgot there was a military guy. Okay. Is he like a sailor? No, he said he is usually in fatigues. cranes. Oh, except for when they go for their crazy colored outfits. pinks, blues. The YMCA segment of this fell. Oh my holy shit. Like when I was a village people fan as a kid. The concept of gay people wasn't anything I knew about. You know, it's not nowadays where everything's on the internet. You can learn about whatever you want to learn about. The YMCA is gay erotic got all the guys all the guys super, super tiny, tight shorts. Often no shirts, they walk through the locker room. And all the guys are basically not wearing any clothes. You know, I got some little bit of stuff on Valerie leading the way with her macho woman t shirt. Young man, you can set yourself free. And then this is keep in mind this is a PG movie. So they're they're mostly dancing, you know? But then there's the shower scene. There's probably a dozen big buff dudes completely nude. Oh, and you know, they are completely nude. Like, ah, no, you can show that in a big movie. It's a good 1213 second scene. It's not very long, but there's some dancing dancing seconds was how you're going to follow that 12 or 13 There could be and then Valerie's in a hot tub. bouncing up and down with no shirt on. She was Miss test Parker in the Superman movies, right? Yes. Yeah. Gonna have to watch this movie. So somehow this is a PG film. Like, Oh, all right. Maybe the booth and Pa was just like, Oh, I'll sleep there for a second movie still on eg rollerskating obviously kids movie Oh, lots of slow motion to in the tiny little shorts as they danced jacker out. It's it's it's quite the representation of the movie. It is a good video for that song. She is single handedly set gay rights back 50 years, probably. followed immediately by the song liberation. It's time for liberation right now. Liberation. It's time for liberation. Right now right now right now. V and then the strangest song in the movie. This is a throwback to the milk ad. They're trying to figure out how they can be big. How can we get ourselves out there? They do a milk Milk commercial to the song milkshake. Wow, do the shake baby. Do the milkshake the milkshake. Do the shake. vanilla chocolate berry keep reading lyrics I'm not reading I know these lyric balloting lyrics I don't think I've ever seen you this happy I know it is actually close back on my MCA so and then they traveled to San Francisco for their big break. I'll just leave that there. The opener for their show is a group called the Richie family American vocal group based out of Philadelphia that had several hits in the disco here I looked them up and they didn't I didn't listen to the songs for sure but they did have at least one number one hit Wow one upping Judas Priest for their final performance. Not one but two guys drive in on motorcycles Nice nice. The cop and the leather guy motorcycle and the construction guy comes in on a large driving one more this is obviously a true live performance of village people done for the movie okay, because they're an elaborate costumes they're in their peak have we got a lot of money to spend or costumes or matching what we wore but they're now incredibly sparkly and colorful. And then they pull back and see the audience you see a whole bunch of people wearing hard hats and hats and all this stuff gone. Okay, this is this is a YMCA performance for real. And the final song of course is you can't stop the music. Nobody can stop the music. I'll stop for Vanessa just here to notes and trivia. Why because talking about what happens in this movie is pointless. The film this film along with Zana do was watched by John Wilson and a 99 cent double bill and upon which the ending he created the Golden Raspberry Awards. Well. That's beautiful Santa do and can't stop. The music created the Razzies Wow. In 1981 the first ever Golden Raspberry Award for Worst movie and worst script. Sure, although it is listed in some revenue with a big company but big list of the most entertaining crappy movies. You can watch this is on that list. Oh there must 100 most enjoyable bad movies. And the official Razzies Movie Guide so he gave it the worst movie but then called it this is actually pretty friggin entertaining. The lead the director Nancy Walker and Valerie who remember I said was kind of the lead of the movie. Yeah. Did not get along to such an extent that somebody else had to direct the scene she was in. Wow. So Director of Photography Bill Butler directed the scenes that she was directly in which is like almost all of them. Oh my god. So that that's been a pain in the ass. Lucia location shooting in New York was somewhat complicated by gay activists protesting mistakenly thinking they're protesting cruising. Oh, which was being shot in the same time. Oh my God. And so they quickly realized and went to the right Okay. Guys on rollerskates Come on. The lead was originally offered to Olivia didn't John who turned it down to do and Dan dodged that bullet, huh? Baskin Robbins put out a flavor of the month to tie in with a movie called can't stop the nuts. Ah. Sounds classy. Yeah. So like I said, they're all over the movie. But the milkshake song and dance sequence took two weeks of rehearsal, five days of shooting and 57 camera positions. And the the final film was they had over 2000 people there which may be realized. It's probably just a concert that they filmed that the slaveholder explains the characters recreated in the 70s to depict stereotypes of gay fantasies of the time and the village of the group is refers to Greenwich Village. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Yeah. And on July 12th 1979, there is the famous Disco Demolition night where I think I know the biggest one I believe was in Chicago, at our cubs gamers where they literally broke and burned 1000s of disco albums on the field. Got a little out of hand. happened less than two weeks before principal photography of this started that's like, you guys are starting to film a disco movie. Yeah, $2 million at the box office might be kind of impressive. Now ABC for the TV screening edited 21 minutes out of the movie and including the entire I love you to death number to fit the time slot for its 84 premiere on television. I'm sure nobody noticed anything. story saying this makes as much sense as the theatrical version. My big question is, um, so the guy who was living with the girl who's crushing on the girl, and had written the song about hers, Gutenberg did he get the girl in the end? Oh, no, they spent the whole no Jenner and her because the emotional relationship Oh, and including though friendzone like he became a roommate there's really no as for whoever wrote the song I don't think read the movie. They just say hey, write a song for this name, Samantha. Because it doesn't coincide with anything that happens and there is not even a hint or a moment between either of those characters to imply that there was ever any interest between the two of them. Okay, but she does end up with Jana. Okay, does later on he mows up quite a bit in super super tight shorts and a half shirt Yes. shirt and like Daisy Dukes just long enough if they were any shorter the head of his cock would be oh, oh see the movie you could have seen i It's true. Oh entertaining look you selected this immediately. There was no way I was gonna see this. Oh, yeah. off the table really? Did. He was like I'm doing this. Oh, okay. It's not like any of us lobbying for that movie. All yours all yours. Oh, you want to bring the room down a little bit now? Oh my god. I feel awful. really awful about it. Well, okay, um, look, I haven't seen pretty much any disco movies at all. The Disco movies I have seen include prom night and terror train because there are scenes of disco. elongated scenes of disco on uncomfortable it's a scam so I was like you know what I have not seen Saturday Night Fever good Malay two twice this race today and dance this at the disco dance my dream girl dance dance is very good. He's the best amen He's great. He's the King out there. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever convention on it she got the wrong partner of course. You can dance dance together that's it we could just dance together nothing more nothing. To kill last forever it's it's a short lived kind of thing. But I'm getting old and you know I feel like you know so. What does that mean? I can't feel that way but that is. Coming from Paramount Pictures. I've heard of that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was great. When I was like, you know what if I'm going to do this thing with you guys, I should at least see the most popular famous disco movie of all time. Yeah, thanks to that. So this came out in 1977. It's got a rotten tomato score of 82% from critics and 71%. From audience so pretty pretty beloved. The budget was less than yours, Eric. It was 3.5 million. The box office was much more than yours, Eric. It was 237 million. How it did freaky, freaky good. It was directed by John Batum. He has 66 credits, including WarGames short circuit Bird on a Wire and 1979. Dracula starring Frank, long, long jela venturella. Thank you. And currently he's back to directing a lot of TV stuff. So nine episodes of supernatural and all that kind of stuff. Written by Nick Cohn, which was actually it was based on the the article tribal rights of the new Saturday nights. And he had written it for the New York Magazine. He was actually a UK Rock journalist who was nude in New York City and on its 20th anniversary, he had admitted it was a fiction. And a completely made up the entire article. Oh, is that true? Yeah. I didn't know that. I knew everything else. Yeah. And he said he felt like the editor should know because of how outlandish the story was, that he was bullshitting, but at that point, they were just used to pushing stuff out anytime. It was a good story. So it got published. The screenplay was by Norman Wexler, who did Serpico Saturday Night Fever, obviously staying alive and raw deal. He was bipolar and was suffering from depression. And in 1972, he was arrested by the FBI for saying he was planning on shooting the then President Nixon. He's an accomplished playwright and script doctor. This movie is starring. I'm just going to mention kind of the two main three main stars in this because there's a lot of people he has a lot of friends. This main character, John Travolta as Tony. He's been in 86 things. I know him as Danny and the devils rain, or Nolan and Carrie, he's in some Olivia Newton John music videos and played himself in Boston. tortious TV special, big hit phenomenon followed right up by Michael eventually landed Battlefield Earth and most recently did another music video for Pitbull, three to tango, and he did a Capital One Christmas ad. So John Travolta and Karen, obviously, you guys know who he is? You don't know. look him up. Karen Lynn cornea Stephanie. She's been in 42 things including all my children. And then she did this film and then nothing until the 90s. Even though she was the lead and became very, very famous after. Since then she's taken a small role probably every five or six years. Recently, she played an old lady and Clifford the Big Red Dog. And Martin shaker, I recognized he plays the priest brother in this. He's been in 36 things, but I know him from the children as the lead in that. It's very exciting. I believe I've talked about on the show before. Yeah, yeah. And the only other kind of name that I think is worth talking about Donna Pesco as a net. She's kind of the girl who has a crush on the guy who does not have a crush back on her. She's been in 45 things including 36 episodes of Angie. She spent The Love Boat out of this world. She was in 96 episodes, and she was the mom on Even Stevens. recently. She has a recurring role in The Flash. There are a lot of a lot of people on this. In fact, this was the first film for quite a few people, including Fran Drescher. You also see in here Sam copula, Robert Costanza, Adrian King Paul Pope, and and and Helen Travolta, are both in this movie as kind of fun kind of walk on rolls, which is the story. Cool. Okay, you guys talked about how happy movies were. And I've only I watched the trailer. It seemed extremely happy. I mean, it was dark in color. Tony Manero is a 19 year old Italian American from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He lives with his parents grandmother and younger sister and works at a small hardware store. On the weekends Tony goes to 2001 Odyssey a local discotheque where he can escape the mundanity of his job and low class status in his life. There he is the king of the dance floor where women love him and men want to be in. Tony has four close Italian American friends from the neighborhood Joey Double J. Gus and Bobby See, they frequently drive around together and pretend to jump off bridges. A fringe member of the friend group is a net and neighborhood girl who is infatuated with Tony. However, he's not into her, he Niven a little and he pushes her off and makes fun of her all the time. It's actually kind of like uncomfortable. Tony is looking for a way to climb out of his life in his status, and he sees there's a chance to win $500 in a dance contest, which is coming up, he agrees to dance with a net, who has danced with and contests before. However, she wants way more. And he quickly gets sick of her, including when they're having sex. And she says that she's not on birth control. And he's like, you're trying to trap me into having a baby with you. Yeah, I was like, Oh, wow. Okay. I mean, it's okay to have sex with people. You're not that into them. I just want to make that very clear, because this film really makes that clear. For him, Stephanie arrives on the street on the scene, Stephanie shows up at the Odyssey. She's the best dancer he's ever seen. When a terrible song comes on, he goes to complain about it to the DJ, who kind of nods over to Stephanie and says she's dancing to it. And he realizes she can dance to anything. Tony follows Stephanie and asked her to dance with him. She She really looks down at him. Even though she's from the same neighborhood. She's doing her best to also climb the ladder and gather the neighborhood especially can she's working for a talent agency. And she just talks all the time of all these famous people she's hanging out with and how stupid and immature Tony is. But Tony does not let up. And he sees through her defenses and says it's all an act to her face. It turns out that they're both kind of weird. And they get along pretty well in between insulting each other. She agrees to dance with him and they start practicing. So Tony has to tell a net, who breaks down and is furious and ends up later doing a lot of drugs. Meanwhile, Tony's perfect Catholic priests brother comes home. He announces he's leaving the priesthood in his family is super embarrassed and ashamed, as he is the pride and joy of this, you know, low class family. And also because Tony is supposed to be the screw up. So Tony's like, Oh, hey, I'm not the worst out of this whole family. And he tells Tony that he felt pressured into this life and that is why Tony needs to follow his talent and keep on dancing. What if Tony's friends is beat up by a gang and ends up in the hospital so his friends are determined to get revenge. He says it was by a Puerto Rican game. gang called the barracudas. Another friend gets a girl pregnant and is hoping she'll get an abortion. Otherwise, he has to marry her and he doesn't really like her. It all comes to a head as pressure stresses, hopes and dreams of Tony and his friends and family become dashed. Tony still thinks he can rise above it until the dance contest. Three teams compete seems like a very small amount. Starting with a black team whose they are so fucking good. This like a couple they're so good. I was like, You guys are not gonna win against this couple. But apparently, nobody thinks they're good and like blew them off. And I was like, Okay, well, they were actually very good. But all right. And then Tony and Stephanie dance, and it's really weird. It's probably the worst dancing in the whole film, frankly. And they keep going into slomo. And there's, let's say a light, you know, blurs and I don't know, and then they make out and I'm like, you can't just be making out dance contests. This is not a good part of the act. He really slowed though. Like they stopped dancing to kiss. I'm like, this is really gonna lose your points, guys. And then after them a Puerto Rican couple dance. And Tony realizes that they are significantly better than him and Stephanie and the whole time he's like, no, they're better. They're better. And his friends say some racial slurs about them. And then he gets a prize. They win, which you know, in most movies is a good thing. But for Tony, he's pissed because he realizes that they're pandering and that they're just gonna do the safe thing and give it to the white couple. So he gives the prize to the Puerto Ricans and storms out. Um, yeah. Oh, Stephanie follows and I guess he tries to rape her. That's fun. Then she leaves and does not get raped, so it's good. Then he's in a car with a net and his male friends and they do rape her. I gang style is very fun except for time. He does not he just tells her she is getting what she deserves. Yeah, really solid work there. She then tries to kill herself, but she doesn't succeed but someone else does. Because everyone's depressed and their lives suck. And finally Tony finds himself on a train to downtown. He apologizes to Stephanie she asks if they can be friends and he says he'll try. So that's that movie. Um, it is it is a pretty depressing movie. looking bleak rises seven amazing music you know what? Okay, the bad things let's do bad and then go because usually I do opposite and I want to end on a slightly higher note. The bad the attempted rape, not fun. gangbang really uncomfortable. racial slurs everywhere all the way through this constant racial slurs. Really gross. Final dance as I said sucked and the desperate girl who is obsessed with him. In fact, every girl's obsessed with him in a really embarrassing weird way. John Travolta man you watched him drop down that street Karen that can't paint he sir shirted walk down the street and take his sweet time getting back to his job. The good the Bee Gees music is very fun. It definitely is like the heart and soul of this entire thing. Tribbles, Travolta's dancing, especially when he's like Screw you girls, and he pushes them off, because he's like, you're not a good enough dancer, I'm just gonna dance by myself. He's incredible. He's such a good dancer, like, does not have a double doing it. So, so good. Um, the clothes are interesting, I'd say 5050 between fun and horrible. He has a shirt he really wants to buy at the beginning. This is blue shirt, and he wants to put a down payment on it and everything and then he wears it later. And it has like a triangle that seethrough over his belly button. And I'm like, This is gross. Stupid. That's why the women like I apparently he's really shown off that whole verism helical cord, this duck as if Anyway, whatever. I guess that's hot for someone. I'm really diverse characters that are super well fleshed fleshed out. The social discussion of class rising out of situations is really really interesting. Everyone's kind of dealing with it from a different angle, which I thought was very, very cool. And the ending I actually didn't mind because he's it doesn't end with a making out. It doesn't end with him getting the girl it ends with him saying, Okay, I'm going to try to be like a better person and not try to just get in your pants. Ah, so yeah, um, trivia. There's actually a fair amount of trivia on this. Um, shockingly, absolutely. Shockingly for one of the most popular films of the time. taglines include catch it. Fever. That makes sense. That's it. Where do you go when the record is over? Don't understand how that works. John Travolta if you're not sure you know him. Now after Saturday Night Fever you'll say you always did. clunky guys. Kiss fuck Ellen is pretty clunky. It's really bad. There's another very similar one to that one, which is obviously also clunky. The best one is definitely his Tony Mineiro. King of the Disco's. Every guy wants to dance like him. Every girl wants to be with him. That's probably the best one they've got going for them. I think they came up with that after it came out. This was an AR there was an AR version of this film when it went out on release. And while it was in theaters, they turned it into a PG by cutting six minutes out because the album for it took off so hard that they decided they need to release it to a larger audience is pretty incredible. The wild it's crazy. According to Travolta, the Beegees weren't involved in the film from the start. He was originally dancing to Stevie Wonder and Bob Skaggs Wow, John Travolta ran two miles a day and danced for three hours daily to get get into this shape for the film. He ended up dropping about 20 pounds. He'd worked really really hard on the You should be dancing sequence and threatened to quit the film when the studio suggested it should be shot and close up instead of full body. He complained about some of the cuts of non showing off full body dancing to the director in post production, who agreed and told him Yeah, go ahead and sit with the editor and make sure it's cut correctly, which he did. Holy shit. Wow. Pretty great. John Travolta used to sit two suits in the climax of this film. He had to switch suits between takes because one would become heavily soaked in sweat and had to be dried out while he was wearing the other one for subsequent takes. This one was one of the first films do you study him? They had to put out fake call sheets and issued like false information about where they were shooting and when because Travolta was gaining so many fans that crowds would form outside of shooting sites. This is because he was popular from the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. Most of it had to be shot really good like somebody who probably hasn't watched it episode have never ever seen. It would have been horrified at the words sweat hogs. There you go. Yeah, that's gross. You sound a lot like the principal and welcome back. Kotter. Say that you know that pigs down spiring don't know what that has to do. All right. And she wants realism it makes for groups of people. Just saying. What does it mean? Is that a derogatory slur? Hey, listen up. You knows. Robert Holmes. I don't I don't like this shit out at the NASA. Oh, sit on the chair. My hands. You're supposed to sit on it. For guys sitting on their dick. What does it mean? So don't wait. Please continue. And this is the kind of sad thing but really touching and I felt like my heart grew three sizes for John Travolta. The filming had to be briefly halted when Travolta's girlfriend Diana heyland died of cancer. She actually died in his arms. Yeah, post humanist Lee she won and received an Emmy for her performance with him in the boy in the plastic bubble. TRAVOLTA actually accepted the award on her behalf. So she was the one who had encouraged him to take this role. The filming was almost interrupted when a local mafia group tried to extort protection money from the crew. In fact, the nightclub where the film was shot was hit with a small fireball. And also a group of Hasidic Jews, who were against the crew filming in their neighborhood neighborhood tried to disrupt filming and even tried to turn over one of the cars that was being used in the production. Wow. Yeah. John Travolta thought that this was a nostalgia slash retro spoof movie about the disco craze. He and his friends were pretty sure that it went from 74 to 76. And it was over. So he was even more surprised when this movie came out and literally reignited the craze, starting it all over again. Karen Lynn Gorny spoke up about her lack of film roles. She plays Stephanie after this movie, they didn't know what to do with me. I was ahead of my time, and they didn't know where to put me after this film. She became a dance teacher at Jojos dance factory in New York City. She had a rich music career, she did some painting. And it's really really weird to see pictures of her now on the internet because she is like a little old lady, and it's really bizarre. The white polyester suit worn by John Travolta sold at auction for $145,000 and it was purchased by movie critic Jean Cisco. Cisco often said that this was his favorite film, and that he'd watched it 17 times, the soundtrack sold over 20 million copies. And it's the top selling album in history until topped by thriller six years later. And last but not least, John Travolta is now bald. I also did not know until I was on the internet. That's my movie. I on ironically love the BGS. And I was listening to an interview with John Batum. I think he also directed Karate Kid. Sounds sounds right. And they were asking him questions about getting the Beegees involved. And he got a tape from them with like three songs on it. And then he was like, Oh my God, these guys have to do the soundtrack for this film. So he got the the entire soundtrack and he sent that in and he was telling the you know, whoever this was universal or whatever, you guys have a soundtrack with three number one hits on it. I guarantee you you need to do this. And then we're like, kinda fighting him on it. He said, You know what? I was wrong. We had five number one. That's it. Yeah, that was an insanely. I love the beach. Oh, one thing I'll point out that this was the iconic nature of this film. Yeah. That there is a dance move from this movie that everyone knows. Anyone who's ever seen anybody goofily dance, or anybody dance in a sporting event? They've all done it. They might be 90, they might be nine. They all do it. On the poster. Yeah. And almost nobody knows. I'm pretty sure the nine year old hadn't seen the movie yet. Now it's seeped. It was so huge. Yeah, that it became part of our culture. You know, it's crazy about that poster. that came out of a totally random, they've been shooting like the whole day and they were getting like just photo stills for, you know, shipping it around and posters and whatever. But they were like, Hey, John, is there anything else you want to try out here before we call it a day? And he just threw like five or six different like images down and that was one of them. And later when the poster came out, he was like, I am. I did not expect them to go with that at all. It was just such a random thing he decided to do. Before you begin, I did important research I should have done beforehand. The Felipe Rose who plays the Indian in village people claims Lakota or no descendant but he's also a time says he has a patchy or he does have a Puerto Rican mother. So who knows? Okay, I'm glad I was able to fully answer the question. I appreciate it a lot. Actually. That was something very wonderful. Very that's what I am Mata just perked up ears here. I'm 164 Cherokee. Everybody's 164. No, it hurt. Kansas. Can't say it in it. It doesn't mean anything. So in that text thread that you were not a part of Vanessa, Eric and I kept going back forth. And I was like, I know exactly what movie I'm going to do. In fact, I watched it while I was sick for the first time. And then I watched it again. I liked it so much. And that is Thank God it's Friday. Hello, you're on the air. Hello. Hello. Am I on? You're on? What would you like to talk about? What everybody's talking about? Thank God it's Friday Thank God it's a movie that shows how a man can be a match out for action tonight 34 And you're 37 Since you're drunk I'll take advantage of you to look like a monkey and run the elevator not one or the other you come here looking for some extra wants you to get me guy is a freak How do I know heavy polyester? well. 1978 budget of $2.2 million box office of $7.3 million The Rotten Tomatoes critics have it at 30% and the audience has it a 37% This is one of those movies that the people involved went on to much better things Like this was directed by Robert Klain, who directed one other movie The second Weekend at Bernie's film, but he is more better known as the writer of European vacation, both of which Weekend at Bernie's movies, and the man with one red shoe a lot of a lot of comedies from the 80s. It was written by him and arm Yan Bernstein, who is better known as a producer now and he produced Zack Snyder's done to the dead children a man let's go to prison is the executive producer on the castle TV series. This has a cast of 1000s I'm just gonna list a couple of them. Jeff Goldblum 139 credits including Earth girls are easy vibes Transylvania six 5000 and is a goddamn national treasure. I think we can all agree. Damn right. Mark Lowe now who just did tons and tons of 70s and 80s television and Andrea Howard who was in the nude bomb pink motel and policewoman such a fault. Cool, is also stars Donna Summers down a summer sorry, the Commodores Oh to stay Valerie Landsberg Terri Nunn, who would go on to become the singer of the band Berlin. And a very very young Debra Winger. This is her first film. So this this movie starts off with the Columbia Pictures logo, the woman holding the torch and everything only it's animated. So as a music star, she says it's pretty fucking great times ahead. Yeah. What is she holding? She hold my flag, I think I don't know. So this is one of those a night in the life movies. It's got a cast, that's just you know, of 1000s and they all start circling each other and then they end up you know, kind of interacting with each other. So I'll just kind of give you the basics here. Jeff Goldblum is the owner of the zoo. Which is this. This really cool discotheque in. Not sure where they're supposed to be LA I think. First of all, Vanessa, I know you've never seen this. Eric, have you seen this? I'm pretty sure I saw it. But like we're talking not too long after it came out. So it's been a while. Okay. Okay. So, Jeff Goldblum is one of the main characters. He is not a good person. He's a complete womanizer, he pulls in to the parking spot at the zoo in his brand new red Porsche with the license plate that says big one on it. And then proceeds to cover the Porsche with a car cover. Oh, there you go. That's a lot about a man ad. Ad then there is a long running gag throughout the movie. So then, let's see His disc jockey is a guy named Bobby speedy who is his storyline is he is broadcasting his very first live show from the club and it's going out live on a radio station. So he's got to do good and he has promised the radio station that he's got the Commodores coming, play live at this place. Franny and Jeanie are two highschool friends who want to win the zoo's dance contest. And the big thing Eric, you're gonna love this though. We have to get in there because with that money, we can buy tickets to the KISS concert. That's what we're here with this again. This is 78 Oh, sir. So they just go here? Yeah, they've been doing the dynasty album, which had I was made for loving you on it. Carlin Ken are two best friends who frequent the zoo. Carl is the the nerdy friend who's who's got he's he's got the big thick glasses and everything. But he thinks he's cool. He knows how to how to talk to women and everything right? And then Ken is the nice guy who dresses pretty normal. And what he really wants is to meet a nice girl and actually have a relationship. Dave and Sue who are the mark Lowe now and Andrea Howard. It listed there kind of the main story. They are a young married couple they're celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary and after. After dinner, they see a line across the way at the zoo and she's like, Let's go dancing. Let's do something and he's very you know, it's already 10 o'clock. We should go home. Meanwhile, he's given her a gigantic pepper grinder as a gift to look this up as the fifth anniversary would or something better. Oh. And then Nicole Sims who is Donna Summer. She is an aspiring disco singer hoping to make her debut at the zoo but she has no plan on how to do this. So anyway. Malcolm Floyd Who is my favorite character in this? He is the roadie for the Commodores. And he is trying to get their instruments to them in time he's driving a big van full of their instruments, the Commodores are gonna show up. And they don't have any instruments. Right? So yeah, so sue insists that her husband take that's that sarcastic character, right? So soon says that her husband take her to the disco. And he's like, Oh, God, it's so they get in line, everybody starts showing up the same time getting into this big line. And we're hearing their stories and everything. And when when they get to the when they get to the door, they are let in. And the guy says, like, five bucks or something. And her husband's response to this is for what? Oh my god, it's a $5 door. He's like, Oh my God, you know, so he's got to shell out 10 bucks now so that he and his wife can have a good time on their fifth anniversary. You fucking asshole. We all hate you already. Yeah, you don't wanna spend 10 bucks, right? Ah, which makes what happens next. You're, it's you're conflicted on who to root for because Jeff Goldblum comes in. And it is clear that he and his DJ have a long running bet. There. The DJ has this awesome DJ setup above the room. And then the zoo, which is this really cool place. I mean, I wish this place existed just so we can go hang out in this got a ton of rooms and a ton of floors. And you can see what's going on in every floor from every other floor. But Jeff Goldblum. Let's see the DJ puts up on his glass door, a $50 bill. And Jeff Goldblum looks at him and puts up three $50 bills and you realize, oh, they've got a bet going right. So the DJ puts up his two other $50 bills, then he grabs a spotlight. And he jams the spotlight on sue the woman who's wanting to get in here with her with her husband. And you realize, oh, okay, so they have a deal that Jeff Goldblum can hit and pick up any chick in the place, right? So this is gold blimps thing. But you're like, Well, now, who do I root for her husband is a massive prick. You kind of want to get her away from him. But he also is just doing this and you find out he does this to everybody. Because throughout the movie, women are coming up to him and going, Hey, I think I left my sweater at your place and all this stuff. So meanwhile, Franny and Jenny the high school girls, they tried to get in with bad fake IDs, which is hilarious because the door guys like this says you're 25 She's like, yep. And he looks at the other goes, this says you're 37 She goes that good Midwestern water, I guess. And then they tried to pay with a with a jar of change. Oh my God, he's like, Get out of here. So they convince somebody to help them get in through the bathroom. Window. And, and that's how they make it right. Nicole who's done a summer she is repeatedly trained to get into the DJ booth to get the DJ to play her single except we never see her with anything that is her single. So she's not like holding a tape or anything like this. This all becomes important later when she of course gets her moment to sing. But I just want you to know he doesn't have any of her music. Okay, okay. Okay, the Commodores. a roadie his his story is he is repeated. He's flying. He's racing to get there in time, right. He is repeatedly getting stopped by cops, who then want to see what's in the back, who then see all these instruments with the Commodores logo on them. And they think that he's stolen him and every time he gets stuff, he has to pull out all the instruments, set them up and play him that he is the roadie for the Commodores. It is hilarious. It is my favorite but so Floyd finally makes it to the club in time for the Commodores to play but before they go on there, they're late the the instruments haven't shown up and everything and Donna Summer convinces this guy you know, I can't remember exactly how he does how she does it. She's he's not gonna let her on but she she gets up and she starts singing the song last dance, you know, this last dance for romance and I. So she just gets up and starts singing it aka Pella. And he's like, oh, okay, you want your big chance. Here you go like, you know, kind of spider and he starts playing that record. Oh, and I'm like, Well, what Wait a second. Is this supposed to be hearse? Her single? But it's already? I don't know. Anyway, she she starts singing the song with the music and of course what do you think happens the place goes apeshit everybody's like who is this chick? And and so she shows off she gets a huge round of applause and by then the Commodores music instruments have shown up, they're able to go on and they start, you know, grooving and having oh my god, I fucking love the Commodores by the way, guys. So it's so funny because there's Lionel Richie, there's all the Commodores there and everything, but they're listed in the credits as the Commodores. So Flowey makes it gets their instruments and everything. Jeff Goldblum has been hitting on this guy's wife, and he's kind of stolen her away. And he's like, there's a part of the club that sells jewelry, and he gets this really nice piece of jewelry for her. And he's, he's like, you know, we, we should go back to my place. And she's like, No, no, I can't do that. But she has left her husband, and he's had his own misadventure with this chick who slipped them and Mickey, and he's now wearing, he's the guy wearing his tie around his head like a headband. And the place is called the zoo because it's got a jungle theme. So at one point, you see him swinging across the rafter with a Tarzan yell and, and all of this shit, and she's horribly embarrassed. So it looks like she's going to go home with Jeff Goldblum. But of course, the husband shows up after he's come down from his his trip. And I'm like, What kind of bullshit pill did you take? That only gives you a 90 minute trip? It's pretty bad. really sucky, small amount. And so he he, oh, well, let me tell you the story of Jeff Goldblum his car through this whole thing. Everybody. Everybody bumps into his car with their own cars as their parking. But his car is under a cover. Right? So they are they're all like, Fuck it, you know, so they just drive off. So his car has been hit repeatedly over the course of that night. And he's taking this guy's wife out to it. And the guy then says, you know, hey, I've had enough of you. And he he slams his hand down on golems car and it just falls apart. It goes live is now like, my baby all this stuff. So they go off together. She still got her. Her pepper grinder. Gonna go grind? Right, right. And so, of course Frannie the gal who we wanted to win the dance contest does win the dance contest. And she and she, she had actually gotten a guy who was there with his regular dance partner and locked her in a stairwell that she couldn't get out of. And that guy was like, where's my dance partner? And she's like, I don't know, but I could dance. So they win the dance contest. And as they leave her friend, she says, now we can get tickets to see kiss and and she says, kiss that's kids stuff. Where's the next dance contest? So they're, the three of them are going to rush off to the next discotheque for a 1am dance contest. Wow, this movie is so much fun. Look, it is not. It is not high intelligence. Humor is very broad. Not not no racism. Wow, that's zero races rain. Every everybody is absolutely equal in this dance club. There's some bullshit with there's another storyline of a guy who gets set up on a blind date. And he's short and annoying. And she's very tall. And he then takes it out on her. You know, I can't be with somebody like you and all this stuff. And she she finally you know, cries and makes him feel bad and they decide they can work it out. And I was like, Oh, I wanted this guy to get kicked in the nuts. Actually she does. She does punch him and that's when he realizes, Oh, this is the check for me. Well, this relationship is not gonna go well. No, but the music is great. Everybody's having a good time. Goldblum? I forgot that he was handsome. So you know, way back when he was young. Yeah, we just looks like a kindly old man. But he was actually you know, quite a handsome figure. I just loved everything about this movie. way more fun than your movie Vanessa. Um, it's so funny. I feel like we shotgun the spectrum. Absolute like Hobby makes sense. Silly. Mind depressing as fuck good dancing. And Eric whatever the hell you want. Even know. Damn right. So I do have a little bit of trivia here. The name of the disco or the movie is set was the zoo, but the nightclub use for the zoo was asked shows on 333, South La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. The club was demolished during the 80s and a low men's dress store was built in its place that sucks the real place Oscars disco head for dance floors and was famous for being a labyrinth. Wow. Yeah. So I mean, everything that's set up there, there's like a video game room. You know, every floor has its own bar and all this stuff and you see them wandering through everything but then it's got this everything's like on these circular tears that look down onto the dance floor far below it. It's like wow, how cool is that? That's great. Ah, the movies original 1978 first issue soundtrack album was a three record set. Whoa, that's weird. But listen to this 233 And a third LP So your regular 12 inch records and 112 inch single. Wow, yeah. Hmm. So it's like well, you know what, and I'm guessing that would have been last dance which was a gigantic, gigantic it. In fact, the film has garnered reputation from a number of sources, including from film critic and historian Leonard Moulton, as perhaps being the worst ever movie to win an Oscar which one for Best song. Oh, Song by Donna Summer. This disco movie featuring Debra Winger followed the most iconic of disco pictures Saturday Night Fever, which starred John Travolta, Winger and Travolta would later start together in Urban Cowboy. Wow, another trendy dance movie. Yeah, I wonder. Here's a weird, weird, weird sub called film. People looking to do something to go to see kiss. To get three films that do that. They were big dance. And I guess expensive. dance contest 78 probably cost 12 bucks to go a little bit more than a cost to get into do the dance. But they want 250 bucks a split with the dude. So fly there. Geez. Here's what I'm hoping, Eric, I really appreciated this. I'm not sure that I appreciated it more than Vanessa. Possibly more than any of our listeners. But I would like to hear from our listeners to see if this is something that they're okay with. If we kind of break away from the genre, and we just start talking about other genres. You know, like, maybe maybe a Valentine's Day movie doesn't have to be a horror love story. Maybe we can actually do a romantic comedy or something. And if that's not what you want to hear, I absolutely want to know that too. Sure. Yeah, let us know. We probably will go along with it. But we'll also probably blip out occasionally anyway. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely looking forward to disco movies. Part two. Yeah, a fun one. I mean, you're probably had the most popular music by far. Yeah. But yeah, I remember watching Star night favorite gone. If I want to watch this one again. But I love the music. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'd say I don't think I need to revisit. But I'm glad I ticked it off my bucket list. That means let's say let's thank everybody for liking, sharing posts, value for value all of that. Like I gave us a nice tip for a while and a nice oh, did your mother. My mom did again. Stop it, mom. We're fine. It's great. Good. fit up. My mom feels bad enough that she's got to give us money. So if you could just work it out with her that you're taking care of her and that'd be great. I think it's great. Because last week my mom gave money. So my mom probably heard that was like, oh, yeah, well, that's exactly. Vanessa, I think it's your pick for the next it is, um, shockingly, I think I'm going to go ahead and take us back into the world of genre. musicals, films. No, I, so I'm just Yeah, pretend this didn't happen. And you're good to vote no. Outside of horror genre film. show movies just Yeah, exactly. I don't have to find it. I don't want to spend $4 guys. So right your senator um, I'm going to go with houses that are not what they appear. So this can be you know, having weird stories like House of Leaves where a house is really changing inside and it feels like the house has a life of its own. You have? Yeah, I kind of wanna hopefully stay away from like, just a haunted house because that's like really just obvious. Yeah, just weird. Houses houses where something really fucking weird is going on with the house. I love it. Okay, so we're doing that next week Micah, I know that you made a request for something so we'll make that my next pick. Yeah, after this. How's that sound guys? Sounds great. Okay, we will be back in one week and we're talking about houses that are more than they seem. Strange aeons radio was artisanal quality podcasting, handcrafted and called natural ingredients, and edited to perfection by Eric Margaret. Our blistering theme song is strange aeons part one by the ban nightshade and use the permission find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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