The Faculty (1998) — The 90s Alien Horror You Forgot About
High school was already a nightmare — then the teachers got possessed. In this episode of Retro Life 4 You, we’re heading back to 1998 for a deep dive into The Faculty, the sci-fi horror flick that turned teen angst into alien terror. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn) and written by Kevin Williamson (Scream), this cult classic mixed body-snatching paranoia with late-90s cool — complete with an all-star cast that included Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, and even Usher.
We’ll dig into the film’s wild pre-production story, from its forgotten early-’90s script to its post-Scream reinvention, plus behind-the-scenes trivia, on-set stories, and how this underrated gem captured the attitude of a generation. Whether you loved it on VHS or missed it in theaters, this one’s a blast of nostalgia, alien slime, and 90s rock.
So grab your caffeine pills, stay out of the locker room, and whatever you do — don’t drink the water. Class is in session at Herrington High… and we’ve got front row seats.
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Transcript
Foreign.
Speaker B:Welcome back to Retro Life for you, the podcast that digs deep into the movies that defined our generation.
Speaker B: Today, we're heading back to: Speaker B:The teachers are acting strange, the football coach has gone full drill sergeant from hell, and the nurse looks like she just hasn't slept in weeks.
Speaker B:Students are disappearing, attitudes are changing, and it's not because of finals.
Speaker B:It's because the faculty isn't human anymore.
Speaker B:From the director.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker B:No, go ahead.
Speaker A:Welcome to Retro Live for you, of course.
Speaker A:I'm gonna interrupt Chris and ruin the intro I was just gonna add.
Speaker A:And the nerdy hot teacher.
Speaker B:The nerdy hot teacher.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I had Tasha watching it with me.
Speaker A:I was like.
Speaker A:I said, look at that baby.
Speaker A:I'm in love with.
Speaker A:With Famky Jansen.
Speaker A:I've always been.
Speaker A:I said, look, they tried to ugly her up and made her the nerdy teacher, and they just couldn't do it.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker B:I was stopping.
Speaker B:Think.
Speaker B:What do you mean by the nerdy hot teacher?
Speaker B:The nerdy hot teacher who?
Speaker B:Oh, FY Janson.
Speaker B:Okay, yes, I knew that.
Speaker B:I knew that.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker A:Back to the intro.
Speaker B:And yes, leave it to Travis to once again, every week, jack up the intro like he always does.
Speaker B:Thanks a lot, Travis.
Speaker B:Now I've lost my place.
Speaker B:I don't know where I was.
Speaker B:I just don't know if I can continue this week.
Speaker A:I got.
Speaker A:The teachers are acting strange.
Speaker A:The football coaches go for.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I've already read that.
Speaker B:You're reading what I've already read, Sir, Listen, listen.
Speaker A:Heartbeat sound mixed with alien screecher whisper.
Speaker A:Where?
Speaker B:Where are you looking?
Speaker A:I'm making it more entertaining.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker B:From the director from Dusk Till dawn and the writer who redefines 90s horror with Scream comes a sci fi teen nightmare that asked the questions, what if your teachers really were from another planet?
Speaker A:Yeah, and what I was reading.
Speaker B:Leave it at that.
Speaker A:Yeah, and what I was reading was production notes in case we.
Speaker A:We're talking about, you know, up in our game and stuff.
Speaker A:Those are production notes in case we were to add sound effects because.
Speaker A:Welcome to the kickoff show of our Halloween extravaganza.
Speaker A:All month long, we're doing scary movies again.
Speaker B:See, Travis just doesn't understand the order of things here.
Speaker B:He doesn't understand that you go to the intro before you hit the production notes.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:But, well, you're not supposed to read the production notes out loud either.
Speaker B:ADHD squirrel.
Speaker A:Don't read the dots, Dale.
Speaker B:We're already, we're already off the rails, man.
Speaker B:Marty, where you at?
Speaker B:We need you, man.
Speaker B:Where you at?
Speaker A:Marty, save us pre production notes.
Speaker B:You know we're not even gonna go there right now.
Speaker A:Marty.
Speaker B: Kenobi the faculty from: Speaker B:Very good pick.
Speaker B:I remember this movie when I first saw it.
Speaker B:Saw it to theaters.
Speaker B:Travis see theaters or on a rental.
Speaker A:Honestly, I don't remember my first wife and I were dating at the time.
Speaker A:It's very possible that I could have seen this in a theater.
Speaker A:I may have seen this in a theater, but I don't recall.
Speaker A:And I've seen it six, eight times, so I really don't, I don't really don't remember the first, my first watch of it.
Speaker A:I do remember I loved it and I always have and I enjoyed re watching it for the show today and star studded and so good.
Speaker A:And I was laughing and cutting up and having fun with it too because I was making fun of Jordana Brewster being in the Fast and Furious because she don't like so my wife doesn't like scary movies at all.
Speaker A:So I almost tricked her into watching it because she watched, she watched a lot of it.
Speaker A:But you know the opening scene, which I think is great.
Speaker A:So anyway, Lilith from Cheers, she's like.
Speaker A:I said, baby, you know who that is.
Speaker A:And she's like, oh, I know her.
Speaker A:I do know her.
Speaker A:And she's trying to remember.
Speaker A:And I said her name's Lilith.
Speaker A:And she's like, okay, I remember that.
Speaker A:I said remember the show and Cheers, she said, oh yeah, Fraser's girlfriend.
Speaker A:I said, yeah.
Speaker A:And he's.
Speaker A:And then Coach, she goes, well, I know him.
Speaker A:That's the bad guy from the Terminator.
Speaker A:And I was like, yes, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker A:But anyway, everybody, you know how to opening credits to the movie is pretty good.
Speaker A:It kind of shows you.
Speaker A:Everybody right there in the beginning.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I was like, there's, there's Baggins.
Speaker A:We hate.
Speaker B:Hobbits.
Speaker A:Oh man.
Speaker B:Oh, I was gonna say that this kind of reminds me of.
Speaker B:And I, I don't mean the movie reminds me of this other movie, but the casting reminds me of casting in the Outsiders, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Stars and, and yeah, and they were young.
Speaker A:They were young.
Speaker A:I mean most of them, it's fairly early in their careers.
Speaker A:Not the great, you know, I mean not like Salma Hayek and you know, we had some, we had some heavy hitters in there.
Speaker A:Robert Patrick.
Speaker B:Well, you had to have some.
Speaker A:Usher was already Huge.
Speaker A:He's been singing since he was 12.
Speaker A:And that gum.
Speaker A:John Stewart.
Speaker A:He was already big on the Daily show.
Speaker B:But here we go with Josh Hartnett, Elijah woods or Dana Brewster.
Speaker A:Clea Duvall and Shooter McGavin.
Speaker B:Shooter McGavin.
Speaker A:Shooter.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:But yeah, I feel what you're saying though.
Speaker A:Yeah, these were a lot of young stars, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like that people.
Speaker B:Hold on, hold up.
Speaker B:For those that don't know who Shooter McGavin is, who is what his name is.
Speaker B:It's Christopher McDonald, so.
Speaker A:Oh, my bad.
Speaker A:If you don't know who Shooter but Gavin is, you need to go watch some Happy Gilmore, right?
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:After you listen to the show.
Speaker B:Believe that jacket belongs to Mr. Gilmore.
Speaker A:But yeah, it's.
Speaker A:It's a fun.
Speaker A:This is a fun one, man.
Speaker A:That's a fun one.
Speaker A:Well, let's get into it.
Speaker A:Just tell them what it's about, I guess.
Speaker A:Or did we already really.
Speaker B:No, we have not really told exactly what it's about, but that's a pretty easy thing.
Speaker B:Thing to do.
Speaker B:I would believe so.
Speaker B:The movie itself.
Speaker B:Let's see.
Speaker B:Students.
Speaker B:Well, yeah, we kind of told what it's about in a sense.
Speaker A:My wife.
Speaker A:Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker A:Well, we'll keep going.
Speaker A:Like we're going.
Speaker A:I feel like we're being entertaining for.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I felt kind of being a little entertaining here, the way we're going about it.
Speaker A:The chaos is fun.
Speaker A:But my wife.
Speaker B:But we still told them what it's about though, already.
Speaker B:We said the teachers are changing, they're going crazy.
Speaker B:Let's just add one more thing to it before we get another.
Speaker B:It's basically.
Speaker B:You've got a parasitic.
Speaker A:Aquatic life form.
Speaker B:A parasitic aquatic life format is taking over the teachers bodies and basically living off that host.
Speaker B:So this is kind of like a cross between Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I guess and what was the other movie they mentioned, which Stokely?
Speaker A:It wasn't movies, it was books.
Speaker B:Books.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:Because Stokely was reading the books and I do not recall if you.
Speaker A:If one of AD moments.
Speaker A:If we hadn't been talking about it, I could have repeated it.
Speaker B:Squirrel.
Speaker A:Squirrel.
Speaker A:But yeah, it actually came before Invasion of the Body Snatchers and she said an invasion the body statues was actually a ripoff of that book.
Speaker B:Right, but.
Speaker B:And the first compared parasites.
Speaker B:Not.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Not pods.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:So my wife compared it to something else too, which I thought was actually really awesome because she originally thought Stokey Stokely was from this movie.
Speaker A:And I feel like, she was kind of spot on with the.
Speaker A:With the analogy or the comparison.
Speaker A:It's kind of like almost like if Breakfast Club was a horror movie.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:She originally thought Stokely was the girl from Breakfast Club, which I could see that.
Speaker A:I guess.
Speaker B:Let me guess.
Speaker B:Me guess.
Speaker B:She thought she was Ali Sheedy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:There me again.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:I didn't have to correct her, but she said, no, she's not old enough then, is she?
Speaker A:And I said, no, no, not quite.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:She would have been playing with her teachers in this movie.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Well, let's go ahead and just kind of jump into the cast a little bit.
Speaker B:We kind of gave you a brief synopsis of the movie.
Speaker B:You know, parasitic aquatic life forms taking over the teachers bodies.
Speaker B:They're trying to assimilate the whole town, if you will to.
Speaker A:And we've dropped a few names, but we hadn't really told you who they were.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So, I mean, we'll.
Speaker B:We'll go into a few of them here a little.
Speaker B:Little more in depth, I guess.
Speaker B:We'll just at least give you some names and some previous things that they've done.
Speaker B:But you want to go kind of.
Speaker A:In order of how we gonna kind of go kind of top down or gonna try to go from.
Speaker B:They're all.
Speaker A:They're all, I think, I feel like, of equal fame.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You're on IMDb with me, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Let's go ahead and start from the top.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Jordan, International Movie Database.
Speaker A:We'll give them a plug.
Speaker A:They don't pay us any money.
Speaker A:It'd be awesome if it did, so.
Speaker B:It'd be nice.
Speaker B:They were 100 correct all the time too, was it not?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But I'm gonna tell you what.
Speaker A:They are the most consistent, consistently correct.
Speaker B:That they are.
Speaker B:That they are Ms. Jordana Brewster, which we know being as a Fast and Furious fame.
Speaker A:She wasn't Letty.
Speaker A:She was.
Speaker A:Lady was a girlfriend.
Speaker B:She was Tom's sister Mia.
Speaker A:She was mia.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So best known for Fast and Fun.
Speaker B:She's been in other things as well.
Speaker B:But I mean, yeah, we're trying to think of the main thing we've seen her from.
Speaker B:I would say Fast and the Furious would be the main thing that we would talk about.
Speaker A:And I would think.
Speaker A:I think that this is the first thing I remember her from where I knew that's where I saw her.
Speaker B:Do you know she's also in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker B:The Beginning, I think it's called.
Speaker A:Yes, but that was well after this movie.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:I'M just talking about things that she's been in since I met what she's known for today at least.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:This is.
Speaker B:We were talking about how this kind of set off a lot of their careers delays or at least some of them.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:And she was in the new.
Speaker A:The remake of Dallas.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You watched the TV show Chuck?
Speaker A:A little bit here and there.
Speaker B:She was in about four or five episodes of Chuck.
Speaker B:I forget which season it was.
Speaker B:Dr. Jill Roberts.
Speaker A:Oh, she was in.
Speaker A:She was also in.
Speaker A:She Was Maureen and Lethal, the Lethal Weapon TV series, which I thought was really good.
Speaker B:See, I never got into that.
Speaker B:Never watched it.
Speaker A:I thought it was really good, but I haven't finished it.
Speaker A:To where.
Speaker A:Sean Clark.
Speaker A:Is that his name?
Speaker A:Stifler?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Sean William Scott.
Speaker A:I hadn't seen it to where he comes in yet.
Speaker A:I got off of it.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But yeah, I like.
Speaker A:I like that show.
Speaker B:Now.
Speaker B:Before her Fast and Furious fame, she was pretty much well known in soap operas.
Speaker B:As the World Turns.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:She did 118 episodes of as the World Turns.
Speaker B:She played Nikki Munson, Danny Munson and Nikki Graves.
Speaker B:It says now I know nothing about that soap opera.
Speaker B:Never watched it in my life.
Speaker A:We, as we discussed.
Speaker A:I think it was last episode.
Speaker A:We were.
Speaker A:We were a.
Speaker A:Days of Our Lives in Another World.
Speaker A:Children.
Speaker B:Yeah, we were NBC soap operas.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's funny too, because I don't.
Speaker A:I know a lot of people who know those are.
Speaker A:But it's my.
Speaker A:It's mostly girls.
Speaker A:Most of the guys that I know.
Speaker A:Mama's watched like General Hospital and All My Children and all.
Speaker A:And some other one and.
Speaker B:Let me correct myself.
Speaker B:Let me correct myself real quick.
Speaker B:The faculty was in 98 as the world Turn started.
Speaker B:Well, no, I'm recorrecting.
Speaker B: to: Speaker B:So she was actually doing this as she did the faculty.
Speaker B:Yeah, she's kind of doing the soap opera.
Speaker A:Yeah, she grew up on there.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She was.
Speaker A:She started out as a kid and.
Speaker B:The only other movie I really remember her from was Dibs.
Speaker B:You remember dibs?
Speaker A:I don't know if I saw that one.
Speaker B:D, E, B, S, D, period.
Speaker B:E. It stands for something.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't think I've seen that.
Speaker B:I've seen it.
Speaker A:I will watch that.
Speaker A:That's a Spy Girl movie, isn't it?
Speaker B:Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker B:Definitely.
Speaker A:Oh, that looks hilarious.
Speaker A:Fighting hotties with.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:See who else?
Speaker A:With her plaid skirted school girls are groomed by a secret government agent to become the Newest members of a national elite defense group called Dibs.
Speaker A:Sarah Foster, Jordana Brewster.
Speaker A:Devin Aoki.
Speaker A:Oh, I. I know her.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Jill Richie and Megan.
Speaker B:Good.
Speaker A:Yeah, basically.
Speaker A:Oh, Michael Clark.
Speaker A:Duncan was in there.
Speaker A:It's Mr. Phipps.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker B:I've seen it like, I've seen it once.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's a decent watch.
Speaker A:I mean, I might have to check it out.
Speaker B:I wouldn't brag about it, but in.
Speaker A:This movie, she's basically the.
Speaker A:The lit.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:Which.
Speaker A:This was a weird combination for me because.
Speaker A:So she was the head cheerleader and she was head of a school paper.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker A:Those two things don't go together because when she.
Speaker A:Don't When.
Speaker A:So my man was so.
Speaker A:All right, so let's get into this one and so let's.
Speaker A:Hang on.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So we're going to tie these two together instead of going in order because of what I'm about to say.
Speaker A:So Sean Hatosi.
Speaker A:I don't remember anything else I've seen him in.
Speaker A:I don't know him by looking.
Speaker A:Yes, I do.
Speaker A:He plays a military guy in something that was huge.
Speaker A:Who is he?
Speaker A:Who is this guy anyway?
Speaker A:He plays Stan.
Speaker B:Okay, so it wasn't Southland you're thinking of.
Speaker B:That's something else.
Speaker A:I believe I remember him from the Lazarus Project.
Speaker A:Alpha Dog is Alpha Dog.
Speaker A:I remember him from.
Speaker A:Okay, yeah, I remember him from Alpha Dog for sure.
Speaker A:And he was Mitch in John Q, which is.
Speaker A:If y' all haven't seen John Q.
Speaker B:That was good.
Speaker A:Look, you need.
Speaker A:You need a good cry.
Speaker A:Go watch John Q.
Speaker A:Everybody needs good cry, man.
Speaker B:John Q was a good movie.
Speaker A:John Q's good movie, boy.
Speaker A:But yeah, definitely remember from Alpha Dog.
Speaker A:That's an underrated movie you should go watch.
Speaker A:We're not going to be covering it until next.
Speaker A: Till: Speaker A:But Lazarus Project, John Madala in Public Enemies.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:He was in Bad Lieutenant.
Speaker A:So, yeah, he's been in.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I remember from some stuff.
Speaker A:Longmire.
Speaker A:I think that was a TV show, wasn't it?
Speaker B:That was a TV series.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Fear the Walking Dead.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:He's done quite a bit of television.
Speaker A:Yeah, he does a lot of tv.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So he's a star quarterback and Jordana Booster is the star or the head.
Speaker A:The cheer captain.
Speaker A:So he decides he's gonna quit the football team because the coaches, like, they said, a coach from hell.
Speaker A:He's on his tail all the time and he's like, man, he told.
Speaker A:He told A story in there where he's like, you know, he wants to be a regular guy because he worked really hard and he got a D on a test and they gave him.
Speaker B:I worked hard for that D.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:He said, he said they gave him an A.
Speaker A:They bumped him up to an A because, you know, his arm deserves an A.
Speaker A:And he's like, I worked really hard.
Speaker A:That was my D. I deserve a D. Like, I earned that, dude.
Speaker A:But the, the story, the gist of it was he wanted to be normal.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He just wanted to be treated for him.
Speaker A:Well, when he started telling her that, she basically was like, okay, well, then I guess we're breaking up because the start, the head.
Speaker A:What was it she said that the captain of the cheer team and dates the stars suit the star quarterback.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's how the society works.
Speaker A:That's our social standing.
Speaker A:So she basically just taught him well, if that's.
Speaker A:That's what you're doing, I ain't got time for you.
Speaker B:But yeah.
Speaker B:She's also the head of the school paper, which is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Which is totally opposite of that.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And she wanted nothing to do with Mr. Frodo Baggins at all, did she?
Speaker B:Mr. Elijah Wood, who was helping with that at paper as well.
Speaker B:Although he was trying to make compliments to her.
Speaker A:I don't know though, because when he did, when they were in there and he told her she could be really cool when she.
Speaker A:When she wasn't being a class grade A. Yeah.
Speaker A:She was like, are you flirting with me?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:He said, maybe, but not right now.
Speaker B:But then it's like at the end of the movie, they flip flop, right?
Speaker B:She ends up, you know, all about being with the little hobbit.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But was it still superficial because he became a superstar.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:You know, makes you wonder.
Speaker B:Makes you wonder.
Speaker A:And then we got so Stokely.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:And Stokely was the goth girl, I guess.
Speaker A:So we got the jock and the cheerleader, who's also Dublin.
Speaker A:Who's also Dublin as the head, you know, of the newspaper, which is weird.
Speaker A:So she don't fall into the nerdy category at all.
Speaker A:Head of the newspaper is usually the nerdy girl.
Speaker A:I don't think we had a nerdy girl in this one, really.
Speaker A:Except for the teacher.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:But we had.
Speaker A:We had her goth girl and she got accused of being a lesbian all the time.
Speaker A:Turned out she wasn't.
Speaker A:They kind of sold that a little bit though, I feel like, you know what I mean back there at the beginning.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Well, she had said that was a Story that she made up as a cover to get people to stay away from her and leave her alone because she didn't want to be around people, right?
Speaker A:And see, the first time that I saw this, I do recall the first time I saw this.
Speaker A:That kind of threw me off.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, she's lying.
Speaker A:Because she.
Speaker A:In class before.
Speaker A:Before that, she kind of turned around and gave Mary Beth that look.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:So before she even got accused of being lesbian, she's like, oh, she's got the hots for Mary Beth.
Speaker A:But I remember her.
Speaker A:She was misty and all that.
Speaker A:I definitely.
Speaker A:The biggest thing I remember her from probably is can't hard Bashira and Goes to Mars.
Speaker A:And then Lizzie Borden.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She was in two different Lizzie Borden things.
Speaker B:She was in.
Speaker B:She was Anna and Can't Hardly Wait.
Speaker A:Huh?
Speaker B:She was Jana and Can't Hardly Wait.
Speaker A:Jana and Clint Hardly wait.
Speaker A:There we go.
Speaker A:Yeah, y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:Excuse my phlegm tonight.
Speaker A:I've got a lot of allergies going on.
Speaker A:I'm doing a lot of coughing and clearing my throat.
Speaker A:Oh, and too.
Speaker A:So I'm gonna feel this little bit of silence we got right here because I think Christopher is in deep thought.
Speaker A:He's looking at his heart.
Speaker B:I was looking at what?
Speaker B:No, I'm here with you.
Speaker B:I was looking at this other thing on here that.
Speaker B:That she was in.
Speaker B:I didn't know.
Speaker A:Well, I. I was gonna say one of the listeners, Marty in particular, was wondering what the heck I was looking at in one of the videos.
Speaker A:Sometimes I don't have my double screen, my.
Speaker A:My double monitor set up, so I'll just plug my HDMI into my TV that's on my wall and my.
Speaker A:I don't call it the man cave.
Speaker A:I call it my dragon den because that's where I keep all my treasures.
Speaker A:But small.
Speaker A:I got.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Smog.
Speaker A:I've got a 72 inch TV on my wall, and that's my secondary monitor.
Speaker A:So I'm like, you know, if y' all wondering what I'm looking up in the sky at, and if you.
Speaker B:And if you want to find things like this out, just go.
Speaker B:Go to the videos.
Speaker B:Like, Marty did make a comment on the YouTube video.
Speaker B:What's Travis looking at anyway?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Or why is he not wearing a T shirt?
Speaker A:Why he ain't got a shirt on?
Speaker A:What kind of show is this?
Speaker A:That only happened once.
Speaker B:Why is he trying to scare off listeners?
Speaker B:And he should be bringing listeners in.
Speaker A:Trying to show off my.
Speaker A:Why is it a couple of really nice tattoos.
Speaker A:And then a couple of ones that I did myself with a guitar string and a VCR motor.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So why was it that episode when you had no shirt on?
Speaker B:We kept hearing right said Fred in the background singing.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was on purpose.
Speaker A:I was trying, you know, I mean, I was just trying to.
Speaker A:I'm always trying different things.
Speaker A:I'm always trying to see what's going to work with our entertainment.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:How many people do you think are going to get that comment about.
Speaker B:Right Said Fred.
Speaker A:Only the ones our age.
Speaker A:Oh, you know what?
Speaker A:She was also in one of my favorite horror TV shows, too.
Speaker A:In 24 episodes.
Speaker A:She plays Sophie in Carn.
Speaker B:I did not know she was in the Grudge.
Speaker B:I don't remember a lot about the Grudge because I tried not to look at it too much.
Speaker B:I kept turning my head away.
Speaker A:Yes, she was.
Speaker B:We just talked about this, what, last week, and we were talking about the House of Haunted Hill.
Speaker B:We talked about the creepiness of the Grudge.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm gonna tell you, the Grudge is the only horror movie now.
Speaker A:I went back and watched it, but the Grudge is the only horror movie that I've turned off and stopped watching.
Speaker A:I was watching it.
Speaker A:I was watching it alone.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:These days, I have to watch all my scary movies alone.
Speaker A:I was being whiny about it with Tasha.
Speaker A:She's like, oh.
Speaker A:I was like, well, since my daughter's fiance absolutely hates scary movies too, so me and my daughter don't have scary movie time much anymore, and she's the only person in the house that even watches them with me.
Speaker A:So most of the time, I'm on the house.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm in a room by myself watching scary movies.
Speaker A:My wife doesn't understand it because I'll fall asleep with.
Speaker A:I'll be in here sleeping with, like, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on.
Speaker A:And they're all like, how in the heck?
Speaker B:But yeah, because you're weird.
Speaker B:That's why.
Speaker A:Yeah, I actually not.
Speaker A:Not recently.
Speaker A:I mean, when it first came out back in the day.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I turned the Grudge off.
Speaker A:I'm like, dude, nah.
Speaker B:I fall asleep to what again?
Speaker B:Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You and Brian from Three Cousins would get along very well then.
Speaker B:That's him.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That is.
Speaker B:His favorite horror movie was Texas Chainsaw Man.
Speaker A:Oh, dude, it's in my top three.
Speaker B:Probably you would prefer Leather Face for Leatherface over Freddy Krueger.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:You know, to me, that's a little bit wrong.
Speaker B:But you know, Brian, if you're listening anyway, so three, there's no right or wrong.
Speaker A:There's no right or wrong with horror.
Speaker A:So for me, for me, like as far as my favorite bad guy, I guess goes.
Speaker A:And in, in a, in a franchise, the only person that beats Leatherface for me is Pinhead.
Speaker A:I'm a Hellraiser guy.
Speaker A:But him and, him and Leatherface are like neck and neck.
Speaker A:I love all the things.
Speaker A:The Chainsaw Massacre movies.
Speaker A:I call him Chainsaw Charlie.
Speaker A:That's the only one that ever gave my daughter the willies too.
Speaker A:That's the only one she won't watch because when they were living.
Speaker A:So a funny story.
Speaker A:We'll go off on quick tangent.
Speaker A:Funny story, my daughter grew up in Greenville.
Speaker A:We're not talking about the big city.
Speaker A:It's not like Atlanta or Dallas or nothing.
Speaker A:But Greenville is not a small place and she grew up in the rough side of the city, you know, where her mom and daddy grew up.
Speaker A:And so anyway, as you can imagine, you know, versus me living out here in the mountains, you hear, if I hear Chainsaw at night, I ain't really thinking too much about it.
Speaker A:She hears a chainsaw at night, she freaks out.
Speaker A:So it's like I think 9 o' clock at night and a chainsaw cranks up outside her bedroom window.
Speaker A:But she's in a town, I mean she's, you know, the house.
Speaker A:I could throw a football through the neighbors kitchen window from the back porch.
Speaker A:You know, somebody was trying to cut a limb.
Speaker A:Had fallen in the driveway of Mr. And Ms. Tom Thomas's, the next door neighbors.
Speaker A:And Mr. Thomas got up there and crunk up Chainsaw cut it out so they could get to work the next morning.
Speaker A:And she had just watched the Chainsaw Massacre like earlier that week with me for the first time.
Speaker A:And she went home, brings up a chainsaw outside a window.
Speaker A:By 10 o' clock at night, she's like the weekend after she watches this movie with me.
Speaker A:So she's like, daddy, I'm not watching no more of them movies.
Speaker B:Said enough of that.
Speaker B:Laura Harris played Mary Beth.
Speaker B:She was the new girl in town.
Speaker A:And she that honest to God, I watched so many movies where people do a fake country bumpkin accent.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:And now it was a little, it was a little.
Speaker A:I, well okay, I'm from here, so maybe it wasn't, I don't know.
Speaker A:But to my ears it was a little bit exaggerated.
Speaker A:But she had one of the best Georgia accents I've heard in a movie from somebody who wasn't from there.
Speaker A:You want to hear a real Southern accent?
Speaker A:Go listen to Andy.
Speaker A:Go watch an Andy McDowell movie when she was young.
Speaker A:That's how we talk.
Speaker B:Well, they can listen to you right now.
Speaker B:I mean.
Speaker A:You can ask any.
Speaker A:You can ask anybody that's ever moved here.
Speaker A:Like my neighbors from California.
Speaker A:They said that I'm my own thing.
Speaker A:They said nobody?
Speaker A:They said, no.
Speaker A:They said, yeah, you talk Southern, but you still talk different.
Speaker A:They said they.
Speaker A:Everybody meets me that's not from here.
Speaker A:Say that I sound different than anybody around here, because I'm not.
Speaker A:I'm not.
Speaker A:So I'm like Southern and daggone hood and hillbilly and gang.
Speaker B:You're Southern, hillbilly, gangster hood.
Speaker B:Is that what you're saying?
Speaker A:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker A:I'm a social butterfly.
Speaker A:That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:I. I used to tell people I don't have an accent.
Speaker B:What are you talking about?
Speaker B:You have the accent.
Speaker A:Yeah, you have that.
Speaker A:You got that accent.
Speaker B:I try not to.
Speaker B:I, I, at one point, I would purposely try not to speak with an accent.
Speaker B:I would try to speak more clearly and not have those enunciations on some words, you know, they'd like ride and stuff like that, you know?
Speaker A:Yeah, right.
Speaker B:I would try my best not to do that.
Speaker B:And then I would just get comfortable with who I'm talking to.
Speaker B:And all of a sudden, it'll all come back out.
Speaker B:You'll start hearing it again, you know, and.
Speaker B:Yeah, you can't escape.
Speaker A:My wife says.
Speaker A:My wife says the Bowie.
Speaker A:The buoys.
Speaker A:The buoy.
Speaker A:The buoys.
Speaker A:Go tell them booies.
Speaker A:That was 15 minutes to the lake, baby.
Speaker A:What you talking about?
Speaker B:We're not out in the water today.
Speaker B:I can't tell them buoys nothing.
Speaker A:Can't tell them booies Nothing changed all.
Speaker B:In my car either.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:All right, back to it.
Speaker A:We're gonna turn this into a two hour dagum episode, man.
Speaker B:Laura Harris.
Speaker B:Laura Harris.
Speaker B:Let's go to Laura Harris.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:She was in the TV miniseries it as the character Lonnie, but that's uncredited, so it must have been a big part.
Speaker B:Did a voice in my little ponytails.
Speaker A:Yeah, but she was Bright Eyes, and Bright Eyes is a main character, dude.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Probably the only one that anybody knows the actual name of the.
Speaker B:But you know what?
Speaker B:That was probably just one season that was out, and she did all 13 episodes.
Speaker B:Probably guaranteed Highlander for an episode, Mantis for an episode.
Speaker A:One episode of Highlander gets you credit as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker B:You're in the club.
Speaker B:She's not a.
Speaker B:She's not a McLeod of the clan McLeod or anything, but, you know.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:Let's see.
Speaker B:Where do we know her from other than the faculty?
Speaker B:Do you remember her from anything else?
Speaker A:Baby, I love you.
Speaker A:Oh, Nope, that was one episode.
Speaker A:Suicide Kings.
Speaker A:Suicide Kings for sure.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:24 episodes of Dead Like Me TV.
Speaker A:Suicide Kings is the one where.
Speaker A:Oh, that was the 90s.
Speaker A:We can do it.
Speaker A:So Suicide Kings was the one that had J Mar.
Speaker A:It started J Mar doing his Christopher Walken impression.
Speaker A:They kidnapped Christopher Walken and had him duct taped in a chairman and was trying to.
Speaker A:I think they're trying to extort money from him.
Speaker A:But then they're going to make it look like a suicide and they botched it.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It's a good one.
Speaker A:But yeah, probably the faculty, the calling.
Speaker B:Not really a whole lot.
Speaker A:Her like, her, her from.
Speaker A:She's been in quite a few things, but I don't recaller, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, I don't.
Speaker A:I. I don't think I would watch a movie unless I watched it like within the next week and go, hey, that was the girl.
Speaker A:But that was Mary Beth from, you.
Speaker B:Know, that's the girl that walked around naked at the end of the movie.
Speaker B:That's how people remember her.
Speaker A:Which is probably.
Speaker A:I feel like during that point in time, the only time that that particular thing helped your career is if you were already going.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like if you were already kind of known.
Speaker A:I feel like the 90s is where getting naked on film didn't really help your career anymore.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, I felt like that was the 80s.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then we got.
Speaker B:Since there's not much to do with her, jump to the next one here and Josh Hartnett.
Speaker B:Josh.
Speaker A:Now there's a lot with Josh.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:A lot of Josh Hartnett things that we do know.
Speaker B:Do you know what his heritage is?
Speaker A:His heritage?
Speaker B:Yeah, his heritage.
Speaker B:Take a guess where you think his family is from?
Speaker B:His mother and his father.
Speaker B:Ireland.
Speaker B:By thinking of him, just looking at.
Speaker A:Him, I would think he's Irish.
Speaker B:His father is of Irish and German descent.
Speaker A:Bank.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker B:His mother is of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Well, we're, we're.
Speaker A:Except for the Russian and Jewish that you throw in there on my grandpa's side and the Native American on my grandmother.
Speaker A:Paternal grandmother's side.
Speaker A:There I go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:We might be even be related somewhere way back.
Speaker B:Never.
Speaker A:My family's my, my paternal family.
Speaker A:My My linear paternal.
Speaker A:So that means my dad's.
Speaker A:The Rollins name is from as far back as I could trace.
Speaker A:It was to County Meath, Ireland.
Speaker A:And I mean it's just.
Speaker A:It's just well known that most of the Irish came from over from Norway.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, it's all kind of that Norse look.
Speaker B:Your great great, great great great great great great great great great grandfather could be neighbors to his could been.
Speaker A:That was that 10 because that was.
Speaker A:That was almost perfect.
Speaker B:I. I don't know.
Speaker A:My 9th and 10th removed.
Speaker A:So my 9 and 10 great great grandfathers are the ones that came over on the boat.
Speaker A:And my 10, 10 time removed grandfather died on the ship on the way.
Speaker B:I just threw it out there.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:That was pretty good.
Speaker B:I did try.
Speaker A:You can tell we've been doing this for a while.
Speaker A:We can tell we've been knowing each other for what, like dang Bo.
Speaker A:It's been my son since before I had my son when we started doing the E Fed stuff.
Speaker A:And Dag, he's 13.
Speaker A:So it's been like 15 years.
Speaker A:We've been knowing each other now.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Quite a while.
Speaker A:That's crazy, dude.
Speaker B:I've had to put up with him people for 15 years.
Speaker A:15 years he's been putting up with me.
Speaker B:15 long years.
Speaker B:Years.
Speaker A:Y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:Like, I used to go, chris, listen to written rap battles.
Speaker B:Listen, he bought me a coffee.
Speaker A:He was the only.
Speaker A:He was pretty good at it.
Speaker B:I was, I was.
Speaker B:Listen, he bought me a coffee cup 15 years ago and he still hasn't mailed it yet.
Speaker A:I just found it this weekend when I was going to camping or going out on the boat.
Speaker A:I was like looking through stuff.
Speaker A:I was like, there's Christmas coffee cup.
Speaker A:I'm gonna set it on the kitchen table with a note on it.
Speaker A:Mail this.
Speaker B:I gotta give you some grief every now and then.
Speaker A:I told her, I said, we have to mail this to Chris before Christmas.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker B:Listen, what is your.
Speaker B:What's your favorite Josh Hartnett movie?
Speaker A:Oh my God.
Speaker B:You can't say the faculty, because we're talking about the faculty.
Speaker B:So I mean, I wouldn't.
Speaker A:Dude, dude, honestly, that.
Speaker A:Honest to God, that's kind of a hard one, man.
Speaker A:Because I like a lot of stuff he's in.
Speaker A:I wouldn't, I.
Speaker A:And I wouldn't go for Sin City just because I feel like he was in there, but it wasn't enough for me.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:But aside from the things that like he's known from for the teen stuff, man.
Speaker A:Like I'll have to go towards stuff like Pearl harbor and Blackhawk down and dude, like, I mean, 30 days a night, like it's hard for me to choose a Josh Hartnett maybe, man.
Speaker A:He was good stuff.
Speaker A:I loved him in the.
Speaker A:The Penny Dreadful TV show.
Speaker A:He's ah.
Speaker A:I might have to say Pearl Harbor.
Speaker A:Wasn't that the one where he was the pilot?
Speaker B:Yeah, he was.
Speaker B:Him and Ben Affleck were pilots.
Speaker A:I might.
Speaker A:I might have to go with Pearl Harbor.
Speaker B:Do you remember what his first movie was?
Speaker B:His debut movie?
Speaker A:His debut deb.
Speaker A:Either the Virgin Suicides or Halloween.
Speaker B:Halloween H2O.
Speaker B:20 years later.
Speaker A:Heck yeah.
Speaker B:My favorite one of his though, if I had to pick one, is probably 30.
Speaker B:What was it?
Speaker B:Darn it.
Speaker B:40, 40 days.
Speaker A:No, 40 days and 40 nights.
Speaker B:No, no, no, no.
Speaker B:30 days of night.
Speaker A:30 days of night, yeah.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The vampire movie.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Now 40 days, 40 nights was a funny movie for me.
Speaker B:I liked it.
Speaker B:But I mean 30 days of night is.
Speaker B:Is the movie for him to like the most.
Speaker B:And you know, this.
Speaker B:This faculty just really kind of.
Speaker B:Oh man, it just kind of.
Speaker B:I mean, I don't want to say it set him off because Halloween H2O was a good movie for him.
Speaker B:He played a pretty decent role in it.
Speaker B:I think he was what, Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker A:I think the movie that he really gets.
Speaker A:He really gets the credit.
Speaker A:The movie that gets the credit that I've heard people talk about or I've heard in, you know, on the different media outlets was the Virgin Suicides was where everybody kind of really took notice of him, really, by, by and large.
Speaker A:I mean it could be anything for us, but I think that the Virgin Suicides is the one that really got him.
Speaker B:Do you know where.
Speaker B:Where he really stood out to me the most when I first really, really knew who he was?
Speaker B:Where was.
Speaker B:It was Pearl harbor that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker A:Pearl Harbor, Yeah.
Speaker A:That's why I think it's my favorite.
Speaker A:I feel like it's his best piece of acting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it's got some great, you know, some great sequences in it.
Speaker B:Good story between him and Ben Affleck's.
Speaker A:Character, but a bunch of them.
Speaker A:Like I said, man, Black Hawk down was good.
Speaker A:Dagum, Sin City, Wicker park was good.
Speaker A:The n. Lucky number seven.
Speaker A:Oh my God, if you had that one was so good I forgot all about that one.
Speaker A:Lucky number seven is good too.
Speaker A:And he was sle.
Speaker A:That might be my.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker A:And I think he was the invest one of the investigators, or he was the investigator on the Black Dahlia murders.
Speaker A:Or the Black Dahlia or whatever it was where they.
Speaker A:Yeah, he was in some good stuff, man.
Speaker A:But I don't think you can go wrong with 30 days or not.
Speaker A:Or.
Speaker A:Or Pearl Harbor.
Speaker B:No, not at all.
Speaker B:Not at all.
Speaker B:Jumping on down the line here, Salma.
Speaker B:Hike.
Speaker B:Ah.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker B:That's the one where I can use.
Speaker B:To describe that woman right there is just wow.
Speaker A:Just wow.
Speaker A:And I had.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And I have two things that jump through my brain immediately.
Speaker A:It's either going to be the scene where she comes out as the queen.
Speaker B:Vampire and Dust till Dawn.
Speaker A:Dust till dawn.
Speaker A:Or it's going to be Jay and Silent Bob when she's doing the little strip tease, the Candy Girl.
Speaker B:You know, I don't know what year it was.
Speaker B:I'm trying.
Speaker B:I'm trying to find out now.
Speaker B:But she had something that was kind of later in her career that a lot of people took notice of and talked about.
Speaker B:She had a dance with Channing Tatum in one of those Magic Mike movies.
Speaker A:She did.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:And a lot of people say that is one of her.
Speaker B:Probably one of her.
Speaker B:I don't know, man.
Speaker B:That thing with that dancing Dust till Dawn she did was probably kind of a hot scene.
Speaker B:She did.
Speaker A:Oh, dude, we're going with hot.
Speaker A:We got.
Speaker A:We gotta go with desperado, man.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:I mean, that's.
Speaker B:I mean, you.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:There's so much to talk about with her if you're gonna go that direction with it.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, Frida.
Speaker A:So she did.
Speaker A:She played Frida, and Frida was like.
Speaker A:Frida was like about.
Speaker A:She was in South America.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't recall.
Speaker A:And I really don't want to.
Speaker A:I really want to try to go too far into it and get it wrong.
Speaker A:Because when you talk about Frida, she was like.
Speaker A:As far as South American culture is concerned, she was like, for women, kind of like a Che Guevara or something.
Speaker A:Not like a guerrilla warfare person.
Speaker A:But she was.
Speaker A:She was really involved in women's rights and things in South America during a time where that wasn't cool.
Speaker A:And she was also bisexual.
Speaker A:And Frida, there's.
Speaker A:She's very, very.
Speaker A:Maybe Chegga is the wrong analogy, but she's just really prominent and really well thought of and did a lot for women's rights, but she played Frida and Frida even though Frida was a beautiful woman in real life.
Speaker A:You say this to a lot of people.
Speaker A:I mean, I don't think A lot of people's opinion is that they would.
Speaker A:It's not easy to hold up to some height, but they gave her a uni brow because Frida had a unibrow.
Speaker A:And like we said, if you're going that route.
Speaker A:She's got those kinds of scenes in that movie too.
Speaker A:It's like, even with the big bushy unibrows, like.
Speaker B:Gosh.
Speaker B:She's been in a ton of things, though.
Speaker B:I mean, now you talked about Desperado.
Speaker B:You got to follow up.
Speaker B:Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Speaker B:A Spy Kids three game over.
Speaker B:You mentioned Frida games.
Speaker A:Wild Wild west with Cindy Crawford.
Speaker B:Dogma.
Speaker A:Yes, Dogma.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:She was Serendipity in Dogma, Fools Rush in.
Speaker A:But the Matthew Wild Wild west, because that was like.
Speaker A:Remember on the train, she walked away and the flap on the unisuit was down.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:All the kids were like, thank you.
Speaker A:Because they didn't know about Desperado.
Speaker A:But she was.
Speaker A:Wasn't she the mom or something?
Speaker A:She was Bad woman.
Speaker A:She's back.
Speaker A:No, she might.
Speaker A:I don't remember.
Speaker A:She was in one of the spy kid movies.
Speaker B:Yeah, Spy Kids 3.
Speaker B:I mentioned that a moment ago.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:Bandidas, Ugly Betty.
Speaker A:She did some of that on tv.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:Of course, she was in Grown Ups.
Speaker A:She played Madame Truska in Cirque the Freak, the vampires assistant.
Speaker A:If any of you guys do audiobooks, I wish they'd make more of those movies because those.
Speaker A:That first circuit freak movie was awesome.
Speaker A:But if you start reading the books or.
Speaker A:Or I do because I don't get to read like I used to because I'm so busy.
Speaker A:Chris will tell you and most of the people that know me and Tasha tell us all the time.
Speaker A:We're the busiest people they know.
Speaker A:We're the business people we know too.
Speaker A:But anyway, yeah, those books are amazing.
Speaker A:The whole Cirque the Freak movie is just basically the first book.
Speaker A:There's like seven books in that series.
Speaker A:And Cirque the Freak is.
Speaker A:It's a kid.
Speaker A:It's supposed to be, I guess, aimed at kids, but it's super dark and it is just a great, great book series.
Speaker A:And she was also in Booze in Boots, so she.
Speaker A:She came back and did another one with.
Speaker A:With Antonio and Boost in Boots.
Speaker A:Oh, y' all know.
Speaker A:Y' all know Salma, man.
Speaker A:Everybody knows Salma Hayek Everly.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She does all kind of stuff.
Speaker A:So she was a voice of Teresa Sausage Party.
Speaker B:She was only in this movie, though, as a favor to the director, Robert Rodriguez, which she had Worked with previously.
Speaker B:And what, Dusto, dawn and Desperado.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Robert Rodriguez.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:So she also, if y' all don't know, she also adopted Ryan Reynolds in the Hitman's Bodyguard.
Speaker A:If you haven't seen the Hitman's Bodyguard, that movie is a great.
Speaker A:There's two of them.
Speaker A:Those movies are awesome.
Speaker B:There's a fun story about Selma Hayek.
Speaker B:There is an actor, Danny Trejo.
Speaker B:Yes, tell him.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Danny Trejo has a tattoo on his chest of her.
Speaker B:Her entire face and head.
Speaker B:Her likeness of her.
Speaker B:And showed it to her, and I guess it did.
Speaker B:She was kind of flattered, but yet kind of freaked out because.
Speaker A:Yeah, he was fresh out of San Quentin when he showed it to her.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:So everybody knows, like, hey, this is a real.
Speaker A:It's a real life, like, gangster mobster straight out of San Quentin, one of the hardest.
Speaker A:Are probably the hardest prison in the country at the time.
Speaker A:And he's on set, so he's like, all right, shut him up.
Speaker A:To hear y' all go look that up on YouTube.
Speaker B:Danny, you got to.
Speaker B:Yeah, he tells it the best.
Speaker B:You really gotta listen to him tell the thing, but definitely look it up.
Speaker B:I'm not going to go over a lot more people in here.
Speaker B:It's going to touch on a few people because we're already 42 minutes in.
Speaker B:But Famkey Jansen, we've covered her several times in the past few weeks.
Speaker B:Anyway.
Speaker A:Okay, so we'll give you this then.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So I found out because I felt like she may be like Charlize Throne, Charlize Theron, or Theron.
Speaker A:Everybody's been trying to pronounce it.
Speaker A:We always get it wrong.
Speaker A:And she said it's actually thrown, like, something you sit on.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So Famke Jansen is Dutch.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She are like.
Speaker A:She's the churline.
Speaker A:And the Dutch pronunciation is Famaki Jansen, but the English pronunciation, which is accepted, is still famky, but it's not Janssen the jam.
Speaker A:The J has a Y still.
Speaker A:It retains the Y sound.
Speaker A:So it's Famkey Janssen or Janssen, actually Johnson.
Speaker A:So I was like, okay, I. I thought that was a neat thing.
Speaker B:All the time.
Speaker B:It's like.
Speaker B:It's like.
Speaker A:And we love her so much that from now on, I'm gonna pronounce her name right.
Speaker B:It's like the girl from Elm Street.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:We were calling her Amanda Weiss for the longest.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And come to find out, her last name is pronounced Whis.
Speaker A:A Whis.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:You know, that was Straight from Diane Franklin.
Speaker A:Like Rachel Wise.
Speaker A:And her name looks like it would be Weiss or Weiss or something, but it's actually Wise from Mummy fame.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Piper Laurie played Mrs. Olson.
Speaker B:She was one of.
Speaker B:Was she the principal or.
Speaker A:No, she was the old lady.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:She might have been the librarian.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:For a while there, when you first watched the movie, you think they're.
Speaker A:Because you're like, okay, they're gonna throw a twist on us.
Speaker A:And you.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Or at least I did.
Speaker A:I thought that she was going to be the queen alien there for a good little while.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I forgot.
Speaker B:BB Neutral.
Speaker B:BB Newworth was the principal.
Speaker B:I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:BB New worth being of.
Speaker B:Of Cheers fame, of course.
Speaker B:Mentioned her earlier.
Speaker B:Christopher McDonald, as several things.
Speaker B:He's been in Happy Gilmore.
Speaker B:He's been in Breaking.
Speaker B:You know, He's.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:He's been around in quite a few movies.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:And we hit a lot of.
Speaker A:We've probably done five or six that he's been in, too.
Speaker A:He's in.
Speaker A:He's one of them, too.
Speaker A:That does.
Speaker A:He always does, like a side character, too.
Speaker A:Like a.
Speaker A:It's almost like a cameo, and sometimes more than a cameo.
Speaker A:But she's like.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:His face is Maybe.
Speaker A:I don't know what it is.
Speaker A:But you always know him, and he always brings something with him to the room.
Speaker B:And Louise, also in the quiz show, I mean, he's like.
Speaker B:You say he's kind of.
Speaker B:Maybe not a star and everything that he's in, but you definitely remember that he was in it.
Speaker A:Or not so much a star, but a lead man, right?
Speaker B:Not really.
Speaker B:But you still remember him being in it, though, Usually most of the time.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:He was tied in.
Speaker A:Perfect score.
Speaker A:The perfect storm about the boat.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Falls right outside our timeline.
Speaker A:That's a good one, too, though.
Speaker A:Y' all should go watch that one, too.
Speaker B:Eventually we'll get there, right?
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker A:We only got.
Speaker B:Just a few more years.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We gotta wait for it to be retro.
Speaker A:It's got to be classic.
Speaker A:It's got to be 30 years ago or 20 years ago.
Speaker B:At least 20 years ago.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:At least 20 years ago.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:At least.
Speaker A:So then you got Robert Patrick.
Speaker A:I think he's still working.
Speaker A:He's doing Tulsa King right now, isn't he?
Speaker B:He might be in Tulsa King.
Speaker B:I know he was recently in Reacher, in that series of Reacher.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:He was in that for sure.
Speaker B:Terminal.
Speaker A:Always.
Speaker A: He'll always be T: Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:But He.
Speaker B:Well, and a lot of people remember him from X Files, too, though.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:The whole molder thing wasn't going on.
Speaker B:You had him behind any.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The original.
Speaker A:Behind any Enemy lines.
Speaker B:Fire in the Sky.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Is in the Marine, the first marine movie with John Cena, although you couldn't see John Cena.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:He's in Tulsa King also, by the way.
Speaker A:And in 87, he did two movies where he played the same recurring character.
Speaker A:He did Corporal Johnny Ransom and Eye the Eagle, which I haven't seen, but I have seen behind any me lines.
Speaker A:Him as Johnny Ransom, and he was.
Speaker B:The first one with the eagle.
Speaker B:Eye of the Eagle, Eye of the Eagle.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A: rted out in war, so Equalizer: Speaker A:He played Deke.
Speaker A:I'm about to go back and watch these.
Speaker A:He's got them good 80s movies covers.
Speaker A:Boy, these are these Dag.
Speaker A:Them apocalyptic action movies.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:That is definitely my dude.
Speaker A:That looks like my jam right there.
Speaker A: at looks like some Death Race: Speaker A:Got Richard Norton in it.
Speaker A:Richard Norton plays Slade.
Speaker A:Wasn't he the one we missed?
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He left us before we got to interview him, unfortunately.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:He passed away, though.
Speaker A:Oh, I'm.
Speaker A:I definitely got to go watch this.
Speaker B:Now you're talking.
Speaker B: Equalizer: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Making sure.
Speaker A:That's pretty cool.
Speaker A:Yeah, that looks like total 80s cheese right there.
Speaker A: pocalyptic Mad max death race: Speaker A:Yeah, totally.
Speaker B:Do you remember him from Double Dragon or Kogosuko?
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker B:You don't?
Speaker B:He was a bad guy.
Speaker B:He had hit white hair.
Speaker A:Oh, Richard Norton.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:Robert Patrick.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Was he?
Speaker A:Was he?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:I don't remember that.
Speaker A:I'm trying to picture him in my head, and I can't remember it.
Speaker B:Huh.
Speaker B:Look it up on YouTube.
Speaker B:We get done.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You'll see him.
Speaker B:What's funny is I believe his hair is white.
Speaker A:I caught.
Speaker A: right, because he's not the T: Speaker A:But anyway, I think it's funny, too, that right after Terminator, he played the bad cop in Wayne's World.
Speaker A:And he.
Speaker A:He was dressed just like he was with the silver glasses and everything.
Speaker B:Elijah Wood.
Speaker B:Elijah Wood.
Speaker B:We know him.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker B:What the majority of us nerds know Elijah Wood for is Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Ring series.
Speaker B:And, you know, big, big thing for most of us.
Speaker B:He was also in Deep Impact.
Speaker B:He was also in Sin City.
Speaker A:Free Willy.
Speaker B:Free Willy.
Speaker B:Free Willy.
Speaker A:So now, was he.
Speaker A:Hang on.
Speaker A:Was he in the warriors, or was that that other kid that reminds you of him?
Speaker A:I don't remember.
Speaker B:Somebody reminds you he'd been too young for the Warriors.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:No, no, no, not that one.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:Not the Warriors.
Speaker A:Not that one.
Speaker A:The one with the kangaroos.
Speaker A:Warriors of Virtue.
Speaker B:Oh, gosh, I don't know.
Speaker B:I don't recognize that one.
Speaker A:I remember him as being the kid that got the kiss from Paula Abdul in the Forever your Girl music video.
Speaker A:I hated his guts from day one.
Speaker A:He was also in the straight up video, too.
Speaker B:Yeah, I. I had forgotten about that.
Speaker B:You were so right.
Speaker B:You know, speaking of.
Speaker B:Just off.
Speaker A:Just off topic, and he was one of the kids playing the video games and Back to the Future.
Speaker B:Yes, he was the one where he goes.
Speaker B:He plays the one where he's shooting on the cowboys.
Speaker B:Shooting him everything.
Speaker B:He says, yeah, that requires too much work or something like that.
Speaker B:That's lame.
Speaker B:He preferred the kind of games they had.
Speaker A:And we did this one not long ago.
Speaker A:We did this one not long ago.
Speaker A:I'm glad.
Speaker A:My wife watched it with me.
Speaker A:She loved it.
Speaker A:And you, I think you liked it, too.
Speaker A:Was Forever Young where Mel Gibson got frozen in cryogenics.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Andy was hooked.
Speaker A:Finn.
Speaker A:And something I do not recommend is to download the version of Huck Finn or, well, the Tom Stallier.
Speaker A:No, it's the Huck Finn story.
Speaker A:Since he played Huck Finn, he narrated the Huck Finn book.
Speaker A:And they did not omit or update anything from Mark Twain's literature.
Speaker A:And hearing Fredo Baggins saying the N word that many times is really awkward.
Speaker B:Very.
Speaker B:I'm sure it is.
Speaker B:Very awkward, yes.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because you remember Jim's.
Speaker A:You remember Jim's name.
Speaker A:Had a.
Speaker A:Had a different.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It wasn't just Jim, right?
Speaker A:Not cool, man.
Speaker B:Not cool.
Speaker A:Oh, he was in the Good Son, too.
Speaker B:He was in the Good Son.
Speaker A:Macaulay Culkin tried to kill him.
Speaker B:All right, so we got John Stewart, best known for the Daily Show, I believe.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:If we're getting down to most anything and Sonny and.
Speaker A:Wait a minute.
Speaker A:He was Frankenstein's dad, too.
Speaker B:I no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:Yes, you do.
Speaker A:He was Frankenstein's dad.
Speaker A:But, Sunny, I wiped my own ass.
Speaker A:Big Daddy.
Speaker A:Oh, Big Daddy.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:What you want to eat?
Speaker A:Hey, Frankenstein, what you want to eat?
Speaker A:30 packs of ketchup.
Speaker A:You heard the man.
Speaker B:You heard the man.
Speaker B:Cook him up.
Speaker B:And then, last but not least, I'm gonna throw out there that I'm is, is Usher and he's just, you know, mainly known for his music but Usher was also in was it Texas Rangers which was a good movie.
Speaker A:Usher can act man.
Speaker A:He does all right things.
Speaker A:I think that I've seen him in.
Speaker B:And let's just say for a giggle.
Speaker B:If you want to see, if you want to see something funny, go to IMDb, look at the cast of this movie, scroll to the bottom and look at Summer Phoenix and John Abrahams to see their roles in the movie.
Speaker B:If you've watched the movie, if you've watched the movie first, then go look at it.
Speaker B:You'll get a laugh out of it, trust me.
Speaker A:Yes, because it makes perfect sense then.
Speaker B:Perfect sense.
Speaker B:And you'll, you'll, you'll get a kick out of it for sure.
Speaker B:Oh my gosh.
Speaker B:The box office real quick.
Speaker B: ,: Speaker B:Budgeted around 15 million.
Speaker B:Made 40.3 million worldwide.
Speaker B:Critics were mixed about it.
Speaker B:Many praised its cast and energy but found it their derivative of other teen horror hits.
Speaker B:Audiences however, embraced it for its cool mix of sci fi and high school drama.
Speaker A:And the.
Speaker A:One of the things I said too, I know we're going to have to wrap it up saying we didn't get to a lot of cool things and a lot of cool things about the movie either.
Speaker A:We didn't get to our normal question and stuff.
Speaker A:But I think I've had fun.
Speaker A:This, this episode has been a lot of fun for me just because we've been off the rails and cutting up and having fun.
Speaker A:But that we didn't get to.
Speaker A:One of the main things about Josh Hartnett's character, one of the.
Speaker A:It's crucial to the whole arc of the story is that he is nearly a dropout.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:It almost seems like he's failing class on purpose.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:It's his second year as a senior but he's a genius really.
Speaker A:And he's does chemicals and stuff.
Speaker A:Well, he's making.
Speaker A:What did they call it?
Speaker A:I forgot what he called it but he basically.
Speaker B:I can't remember what he calls it but it's guaranteed to jack you up.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's basically making speed and he's putting it inside these clear pins so it looks like you're just holding a pin.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:Oh, and I flipped out too when they did the whole, they snorted the whole pin.
Speaker A:I'm like, God, that's a rail right there, boy.
Speaker A:Like you wouldn't do that.
Speaker A:But still, if I was doing Tweak, tweak, tweet, tw.
Speaker A:But yeah, I.
Speaker A:So, but what I was going to say too though, that's overarching part of the story.
Speaker A:He's a drug dealer basically, but it's like legal drugs because he's using, he's using caffeine pills to make it.
Speaker A:You find out later.
Speaker A:He basically just crushing up caffeine pills and selling people caffeine.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But anyway, caffeine is a diuretic.
Speaker A:So that goes back into the aquatic thing.
Speaker A:But what I was going to say is we chose the movies that we chose.
Speaker A:And I will probably, I guess we'll do the wheel again for the next one.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:We might have some extenuating circumstances.
Speaker A:We don't know if our plan is going to go as planned.
Speaker A:But what we're trying to do this month is, I think.
Speaker A:I don't remember if it was on air or not, but Chris and I were talking and I told him that I felt like that the 90s for horror was kind of a rebirth because it started that kind of teenage.
Speaker A:I don't know, I feel like these movies deserve their own genre.
Speaker A:It's kind of like a teenage.
Speaker A:Not angst, but it's just geared more toward teenagers like R.L.
Speaker A:stein type stuff like this movie and the faculty and Scream and I know what you did last summer.
Speaker A:And like these horror movies like this are a whole different feel.
Speaker A:It's almost.
Speaker A:I told, it's like I told my wife, I said this.
Speaker A:To me, this could also almost be classified as a sci fi horror almost, you know, except for it doesn't have the intergalactic stuff.
Speaker A:But it's not really.
Speaker A:I don't think of it as a slasher horror or a thriller or is definitely a horror movie.
Speaker A:But at the same time this, this group of movies that we're, that we're focusing on this month just to me have a different feel.
Speaker A:And it started a whole new class of, of horror.
Speaker A:I feel like I would even throw Final Destination in there with this, you know.
Speaker A:So I feel like this month's gonna be real cool.
Speaker A:These movies are going to be a lot of fun and I'll try.
Speaker A:Better not to derail us next time.
Speaker A:Next time before we run out of time.
Speaker B:But he's lying.
Speaker B:He derails this every single week.
Speaker A:Every single week.
Speaker A:So let's get a couple of those good ones that we do in here.
Speaker A:Do you feel?
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm gonna reverse the roles again and I'm gonna hold on, hold On.
Speaker B:Before you go to a question, I want to put one.
Speaker B:I'm gonna put one fun fact out here, because it's an important fun fact to me, because I like it.
Speaker B:Lord of the Rings overtook any movie trilogy ever that I.
Speaker B:That I love being Star wars or whatever.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Between Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, you know, each one being a trilogy.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:It was on the set of this film that Harry J. Knowles first got wind of Peter Jackson making the Lord of the Rings into a movie.
Speaker B:He urged Elijah Wood to go for it, even though the actor had never read the book, which Wood duly did, ignoring the news that Jackson was largely only casting British actors and videotaped his own audition.
Speaker A:I'm glad you forced that fact upon us, because anything.
Speaker A:Anything lotr, I'm down with.
Speaker A:And as everyone should know, if you don't, you do now.
Speaker A:We're.
Speaker A:Look, we're loader nerds, man.
Speaker A:Because.
Speaker A:And to me, as far as I'm concerned, JRR Tolkien is the godfather of fantasy literature, period.
Speaker A:Like, or the father of it.
Speaker A:Not even Godfather.
Speaker A:Like, He's.
Speaker A:I feel like after Tolkien, everything is borrowing or influenced by Tolkien.
Speaker B:But whatever you do, do not mention the.
Speaker B:Travis.
Speaker B:The Rings of Power.
Speaker B:Don't mention the Rings.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:I thought you were going to say the Silver Surfer.
Speaker B:No, don't.
Speaker B:Don't mention the Rings of Power.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Rings of Power is stupid.
Speaker B:I like this.
Speaker B:Don't mention it to him.
Speaker A:Disrespectful.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna say it's not well done for what it is, but I really wish that they would at least call it a reimagining or.
Speaker A:Or an interpretation, a reinterpretation.
Speaker B:We get Tom Bombadil.
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker B:We hit Tom Bombadil.
Speaker A:That's cool.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:That's cool.
Speaker B:Anyway, what'd you have?
Speaker B:You had a question, I believe.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I wanted to go.
Speaker A:Maybe if we can slide them in real quick.
Speaker A:I wanted to go.
Speaker A:I wanted to see if you felt like this movie in particular brought anything.
Speaker A:I know you're not a horror fan, but if this movie.
Speaker A:Did you feel like this movie brought anything to.
Speaker A:Or attitude or was part of that kind of, like I said, shift in the horror scene, or do you feel like it was pretty much screaming, I know what you did last summer.
Speaker B:This movie.
Speaker B:I don't think it was Scream.
Speaker B:I know what you did last summer.
Speaker B:No, because it's more of a sci fi horror movie to me than it is anything else.
Speaker B:But it does go right along with them.
Speaker B:Hand in Hand by being a mostly teen cast.
Speaker B:As far as who the stars were, the ones that carried the film.
Speaker A:Did you feel like.
Speaker A:But what I meant there was like, do you feel like it was like, do you feel like it was innovative or if there's anything that brought something new to the feel of the horror movie scene at the time?
Speaker B:I don't know if it brought anything new to the scene in my opinion.
Speaker B:I mean, because anytime you go back and you look at sci fi horror stuff, it's, you know, some kind of creature from outer space or some kind of unknown creature that's, you know, taking over the scene or something and you've got someone there to stop.
Speaker B:It doesn't remind me of anything much, much different from it, but I feel you.
Speaker A:So I felt like.
Speaker A:And it may be that it may be the.
Speaker A:While it's not that big of an age gap between you and I, it still is culturally because you know, anytime you got about a 5 year, 5 or 10 year age gap, there is a little bit of differences on how we view things because we.
Speaker A:You did have a little bit of extra time with Daisy Duke than I did.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:So you and Ray.
Speaker A:But for me, I felt like this movie was one of the ones that really, because I'm around that day, I'm a high school kid when this comes out.
Speaker A:I feel like this was a legit horror movie made for me and my people.
Speaker A:My, you know, made for us, our age group like it.
Speaker A:But it was legitimate, it wasn't kitty style.
Speaker A:So I, I felt like it bring that.
Speaker A:So what was your favorite part of the film?
Speaker B:Oh man, I think the scene where they're, they're forcing each other to, to take the drug to find out who amongst them, if anybody is alien or if they're real, if they're human still.
Speaker B:And the reason why I like that is because it's a turning point in the movie where it.
Speaker B:You, you.
Speaker B:Where you think you finally got something figured out now.
Speaker B:Then you find out later that you don't have it figured out.
Speaker A:And I think it was the first time that you saw a real cool effect that the alien had on the person.
Speaker A:Yeah, like that, right?
Speaker B:The way her face is crawling through.
Speaker A:Crawling through their face.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So they're, they're making everybody take a hit of one of those pins that Josh Hartnett's character has of the drugs.
Speaker B:He does don't tell him who did it though.
Speaker B:Well, I'm not, I'm just gonna say that they find out that that drug will actually kill the.
Speaker B:The aquatic parasite taking over the body of the person.
Speaker A:So because it's a theoretic and then it's an aquatic creature, it drives.
Speaker A:It's like pouring salt on a slug.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So they pretty much had this thing where everybody has to take the hit.
Speaker A:And he's tweaking, man.
Speaker A:Let him tweak.
Speaker B:You think you've got it figured out at this point, but then I'd say a good 20 minutes later, 20, 25 minutes later, you realize that you didn't have it figured out.
Speaker B:So, yeah, just watch the movie.
Speaker B:You'll see what we're talking about.
Speaker B:But that's.
Speaker B:I think that's my favorite.
Speaker B:And then my favorite line in the movie, my favorite moment is right there at the end where little Frodo.
Speaker B:What's his name in the movie?
Speaker B:I can't remember.
Speaker A:Oh, I. I don't either.
Speaker A:I wanted to say.
Speaker B:Wise Gamgee.
Speaker B:Casey.
Speaker A:Casey.
Speaker A:When Casey is Mary Beth, Delilah, Stokely.
Speaker B:And Stan, Casey is trapping the monster behind the bleachers of the gym.
Speaker A:That was cool too.
Speaker A:That was cool too, because we really did not back then.
Speaker A:We really did not have safety features.
Speaker A:Like, if you got.
Speaker A:There was kids that's actually gotten trapped in behind.
Speaker A:It was hollow.
Speaker A:It wouldn't squish you.
Speaker A:But the monster was big enough to get squished, right?
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:And then he has that one lock.
Speaker A:And come back out.
Speaker A:Like when first automatic ones do, they'd close up on you.
Speaker B:Right now he's got that one pen left with him.
Speaker B:And the monster can't quite reach out to him, but he looks at it and he says, guaranteed to jack you up.
Speaker B:And he goes to it, he stabs the thing and.
Speaker B:Right in the eye, as soon as he does it.
Speaker A:What about when it blurted with it, like threw those.
Speaker B:Threw up.
Speaker B:That's what I'm getting at.
Speaker B:As soon as he stabbed him with the pen, it.
Speaker B:It shot things out his face and was taking him over it.
Speaker B:And the whole theory was, if you kill the.
Speaker B:The queen, then the rest of them turned back normal.
Speaker A:Yeah, they came off of the queen's consciousness or whatever.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So it eventually worked out for him and everything.
Speaker B:But it was.
Speaker A:That was a wicked part.
Speaker A:That was a wicked part too.
Speaker A:I was gonna say that I agreed with you.
Speaker A:And when I first watched the movie, I probably.
Speaker A:I. I would still agree with you because.
Speaker A:But I think that might have been my favorite scene.
Speaker A:Because that part, watching it today, I was like, ah, damn.
Speaker A:Because the man, that was pretty gross.
Speaker A:Those things were like stuck in his face and wiggling.
Speaker A:It was like, oh, my God, dude.
Speaker A:So the special effects actually are still pretty good today, I would say, because that part kind of was like, oh, and when you get to see that, like, so these things too have tentacles.
Speaker A:So when you get to see the tentacles, like, moving under their skin and stuff too.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was.
Speaker A:That was pretty good, boy.
Speaker B:Definitely.
Speaker B:What was your favorite part?
Speaker A:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:Probably that.
Speaker A:But I would say.
Speaker A:I would probably.
Speaker A:I would probably agree with you because like you said, the shift in the movie, that's.
Speaker A:I. I would have to agree with you.
Speaker A:I probably think that that's.
Speaker A:That might have been one of my favorite parts.
Speaker A:And then I think.
Speaker A:I think the end of it, you know, the ending, showing the resolution where everybody, you know, the unlikely pairings got together and.
Speaker A:Yeah, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker A:Actually, actually, actually.
Speaker A:Okay, I'm gonna switch it up.
Speaker A:I know we're going way over.
Speaker A:Well, not.
Speaker A:We're not way over yet, but I'm.
Speaker A:Anyway, I think my favorite part, honestly, even though it was brutal, but you could tell that Josh Cartman's character, Zeke, didn't like doing it when Famkey was.
Speaker A:I don't remember her name.
Speaker A:Ms. Whatever.
Speaker A:When she came out to his car, because that was something.
Speaker A:Okay, so that's something I did want to touch on.
Speaker A:That I missed was the way she played that shy.
Speaker B:That was Ms. Purpose.
Speaker A:Ms. Burke.
Speaker A:Her character, Ms. Burke, before she got took over by Aliens, played shy, nervous, timid.
Speaker A:She did that so well.
Speaker A:And then she turned into her normal evil looking set.
Speaker A:You know, she's.
Speaker A:She can give you that evil, evil eye.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But when she walked out to his car and he was oftener.
Speaker A:What was.
Speaker A:He offered her a laxative first.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Did he put out condoms?
Speaker A:Like, maybe you need some of these.
Speaker A:And she was like, so disrespectful.
Speaker A:She got so upset.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:She's like, so disrespectful.
Speaker A:And it was really because she.
Speaker A:That their interaction there kind of reminded me of me and most.
Speaker A:Mostly my English teacher, Ms. Whitmire.
Speaker A:Was that the sexual tension aside?
Speaker A:Of course, sadly, the.
Speaker A:The way that she really.
Speaker A:She was showing that she really cared about him, that he was wasting himself doing what he was doing.
Speaker A:He was wasting his mind.
Speaker A:And I had a couple of teachers that really kind of came at me the kind of the same way, but him doing that back to her, I think that was my favorite part.
Speaker A:Even though it was like you felt bad for her.
Speaker A:Because she was, like, so disrespectful.
Speaker A:It was just.
Speaker A:It was disrespectful, man.
Speaker A:He was making her real uncomfortable when.
Speaker B:The parasite had taken her over.
Speaker B:She tells him, she sees him pedaling that stuff again, she'll put her foot so far up his butt that he'd be sucking her toes until I. I forget what age.
Speaker B:Yeah, it was something funny, though.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:All right, well, we about to wrap it up now.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Well, my bad.
Speaker B:Well, no, I mean, we're good.
Speaker B:We're good.
Speaker B:Let's go ahead and just throw it out there.
Speaker B:Our social medias, we got.
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Speaker B:Now, that's nothing to brag about.
Speaker B:There's people getting millions of views, but.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, are we getting millions of views?
Speaker A:We still wouldn't brag.
Speaker A:We're just doing this for us.
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Speaker A:This is just good therapy.
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Speaker A:We would like to have a million listeners, but, you know, we'll take, you know.
Speaker A:Oh, we're happy to have any.
Speaker A:Our normal 17.
Speaker A:We're happy to have the.
Speaker B:All two of you that listen eight times a piece, but because that's 16 right there.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Yeah, I. I got my education.
Speaker B:I know my maths.
Speaker A:I can cipher.
Speaker B:I take off my shoes and count to 20.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker B:So, anyway, yeah, but check us out there.
Speaker B:We have a website, retro life for you dot com, but retro life number four, litter u dot com.
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Speaker B:All our videos and shorts and stuff as well.
Speaker B:And then let's see what.
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Speaker A:Or if you would like to come on and guest spot, we'd love to have you come sit in for a show.
Speaker B:It's quite possible we could find a place to put you a time or two or something.
Speaker B:You never can tell so well.
Speaker B:All right, so go ahead and wrapping things up as far as the faculty goes.
Speaker B:Where did my closing script go?
Speaker A:Oh, don't tell them you use a script.
Speaker B:I use a script.
Speaker B:That's not my words.
Speaker B:Hey, that's not my words at the beginning that Travis interrupts all the time.
Speaker B:I read it off of a screen.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But he.
Speaker A:But they are your words because you prepared it.
Speaker A:We're just trying to be a little more.
Speaker A:A little more better.
Speaker B:A little more better.
Speaker A:We always trying to get better.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So there you have it, Travis.
Speaker B:The the Faculty, a late 90s sci fi horror flick that proved high school was already scary enough even before the aliens showed up.
Speaker B:It wasn't just another teen horror movie.
Speaker B:It was a clever mix of paranoia, pop culture and pure Kevin Williamson attitude.
Speaker B:A mashup of Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets the Breakfast Club, filtered through Robert Rodriguez chaotic fast cut style.
Speaker B:The critics didn't fully get it back in 98, but over time it's found its audience.
Speaker B: define an entire era of early: Speaker B:And the soundtrack still slaps and the movie self aware edge feels right at home the with the best of the post screen wave.
Speaker B:See, I told you I didn't write this stuff.
Speaker B:When do I use the word slaps for anything?
Speaker B:When do I use that word?
Speaker A:And I thought it was really cool.
Speaker A:I thought it was really cool that my wife mentioned the Breakfast Club and said.
Speaker A:And I said it reminded us of the Brexit.
Speaker A:Reminded me of her of that.
Speaker B:And there it is right there.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's one of those films that captures the feelings of the late 90s when the teen movies were smart, sarcastic, and just a little too cool for their own good.
Speaker B:So whether you watched it in theaters back in 98 or you found it later on VHS in your local video store, the faculty reminds us all of one thing.
Speaker B:Sometimes the weirdest part of growing up isn't puberty.
Speaker B:It's realizing the adults might actually be the monsters.
Speaker B:Speaking of scary.
Speaker B:Here we go.
Speaker B:Here we go.
Speaker B:Speaking of scary.
Speaker B:Travis.
Speaker B:Oh, do you have anything for us in closing today?
Speaker A:Yeah, I was thinking about this man when I was watching this movie, they started doing the Queen.
Speaker A:How is it that all the.
Speaker A:All the aliens that are running around taking over these civilizations.
Speaker A:Predator hadn't done it yet, but everybody's got a queen.
Speaker A:That's always jumping around from planet to planet, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like they're just visiting all these planets, trying to take over.
Speaker A:You know what I call her ship.
Speaker A:What, the ufo.
