While we technically missed Thanksgiving, it’s okay, because we planned it all along – this episode drops on Black Friday and we’re celebrating that hellish consumer holiday with the 2021 film Black Friday! This Devon Sawa/Bruce Campbell vehicle was actually a pleasant surprise considering the lack of fanfare and poor reviews – it’s a fun, zombie- and Thing-adjacent holiday horror that brings both the joy of Thanksgiving and the terror of Christmas shopping. We’re also drinking Founders’ Red Sweater IPA!
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0:00-14:00 Intro/Thanksgiving talk
14:00-20:00 Beer talk
20:00-end Black Friday
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0:00
This place isn’t impressive, it isn’t fun or magical.
It’s a prison.
It’s a ruse.
It’s a lie.
Well, that just sucks, you know, because I always saw you as manager material.
0:58
Hey guys, welcome back to the Blood and Black Rump podcast.
Ryan from cultsplitation.com and I’m joined in my Co host Martin.
How’s it going?
Well, it’s going pretty well.
It’s almost Turkey Day.
Double.
Double.
Actually, yeah, we this this episode will release after Thanksgiving.
1:20
I probably unless I unless I get ambitious and I put it out Friday.
No, you should put it out on Friday.
Yeah, it’s our normal release schedule.
Well, it’s.
It’s synchronistic with the topic.
Yeah, I, I probably won’t, but it, it’ll, yeah, exactly.
1:39
It’s, it makes sense to do it for Friday because this episode is really, it’s not technically a Thanksgiving episode.
You know, we do Thanksgiving episodes here and there throughout the the seasons that we’ve done, but this time we’re actually skipping over Thanksgiving and going directly to Black Friday, which is, I don’t know, this is your, it’s definitely not my favorite time of the year, but we used to have fun during Black Fridays, right?
2:05
Of course.
It’s not as big anymore like it used to be.
Well, this was and this was a problem that we discussed with the Thanksgiving Eli Roth shitbag movie.
2:21
It was more about Black Friday.
But at the same time it’s hilarious because these films are taking place in the early twenty 20s.
You know what isn’t like that big of a thing anymore?
People going to the actual store to do buy things at Black Friday and they just do it online.
2:40
So like if you set this film like in 2005, you got me.
You know, you know the idea that people are running to their local toy store for Black Friday Deals, I don’t believe it.
2:56
Yeah, yeah, they don’t.
Well, yeah, I mean, Even so now people are not really flocking and at least that I know of.
I mean, I haven’t been in the out in the scruff of things for a while, but.
3:13
And we used to go, the fun thing too is we used to go and we, we never bought anything.
We just went for the fun and the shit show.
Getting up like, you know, at midnight and, you know, pounding 5 hour energies and going to all the stores and watching people.
Like one of the fondest memories of my life will be us like waiting in front of JC Penney and there’s a mob of people and they didn’t haven’t opened their doors yet at the mall until like, what was it, 6 or 7:00?
3:40
And once they open those doors, people are running around and grabbing shit.
And Ryan just grabbed a random case of luggage that was out for sale.
And then he’s like, he wasn’t planning on buying it, but he’s like, we were walking around with it for like 15 minutes.
And we got into like the suit section.
He’s like, you know what?
3:56
I don’t need this.
And he just left it there.
And he’s like, we’re going to make somebody stay.
Someone’s going to be like, I really need that fucking luggage.
And they’re going to find it like, just hidden in there.
Those are the days.
That’s what I was kind of referencing is that that whole scenario because that was the a time probably, I don’t know, 10 years ago, something like that where we decided that we were going to go out that time.
4:20
And you know, again, that was a fun time.
I think it was fun in the sense that not even at that time the the bleed over was not into Thanksgiving.
It was like still still in the Black Friday.
You know, the morning of Black Friday, it wasn’t like, hey, it’s 6:00 PM.
4:40
You just finished your pumpkin pie.
You want to run over to Walmart and grab the the deals that have already dropped over there, which I find to be just, it takes the pleasure out of the whole experience or idea of Black Friday at being on Thanksgiving night.
4:57
It’s like, no, for one thing, it’s a it’s enough to feel like an asshole where like somebody had to go quickly finish their Thanksgiving dinner and be like, I got to get to bed.
I got, I got to get up at 2:00 AM to go open the store.
But then to to top it off is like, OK, here you go.
5:13
Now they can’t even have a Thanksgiving because you’re like, here, here’s a doughnut for breakfast.
Got to get to the store, got to get it ready, got to get it open.
It’s like that kind of shit, But now we’ve even moved past that for Black Friday, where now it’s like it’s Black Month.
It’s November that seems we’re doing Black Friday Deals all month long and all December long.
5:35
And they’re not really deals at all.
It’s just the same shit that we always have on.
Cyber Wednesday, you know.
Yeah, it’s really kind of ruined the fucking the way that things have.
I don’t know.
I don’t know.
5:51
What like what became of society?
I mean, for God’s sakes and Jingle all the way, Arnold’s out hunting a turbo man like 2 days from Christmas.
I know.
So he’s like really late.
Like those guys are really late to the the party.
6:06
You know, Phil Hartman wasn’t, though.
He was on.
He was on top of that.
That’s right.
You guys started early and even Even so now, you know, especially for our Thanksgiving this year, which is November 27th, it’s pretty late in the game for shopping in general.
6:23
Because you know, a lot of times Thanksgiving falls around like the 23rd, the 25th, something like 24th.
And we’re like almost a whole week, you know, almost in this number at this point.
So if you haven’t started now by Black Friday, it’s like, what have you been waiting for?
6:39
But you know what?
It’s great because that means of the later Thanksgiving is, the more longer it holds off Mariah Carey from fucking coming through and Brian Setzer and Michael Bublé having a living for a month.
That’s right where I carried Michael Bublé.
7:00
They they rise from the dead like Dracula pushing open the coffin.
Which is the vents.
You know what one of the funniest things too, you don’t hear on the ring.
It’s not like people are you really listen to the radio that much anymore.
But for somebody who had as many God damn huge humongous hits, Mariah Carey songs have been like thrown into the bin of time.
7:22
And it’s like, you know, from like 88 to like 2008, she was like, you know, everywhere.
Songs are huge.
And now it’s like, what do you remember it for?
Just all I want for Christmas is you.
That’s right.
That’s right.
All right, well, I think we’ve we’ve kind of dithered around what was long enough.
7:46
We’re we’re doing the 2021 film Black Friday, which I think for a lot of people is probably one that’s kind of been forgotten.
It’s really not that mentioned all that often.
I do recall when it came out.
And I think the biggest thing about when it came out was that it was like, hey, you know who’s in this movie?
8:04
Bruce Campbell and I thought you were.
I thought you.
Were going to I thought you were going to say that this what is prime to be fair.
That’s.
Right, the modern day equivalent of going direct to, you know, direct to a home video direct.
8:23
To to be.
That’s right.
And it’s not Black Friday, it’s Black Friday.
Black Friday.
There’s an exclamation point at the end.
So you don’t like, whoa, there’s going to be shenanigans.
That’s.
Right.
Yeah.
8:39
I mean, had you ever heard of this one before?
We No.
Not.
Not at all.
Not a not a thing, right?
Not a damn thing.
Yeah.
And I think that’s kind of the case.
Like it really has flown under the radar since its release in 2021, spent four years.
8:55
It also had a, you know, the inopportune time of releasing during, you know, the COVID pandemic really taking off.
And then especially considering the the actual content of the movie, which is about sort of like the spread of, you know, almost like a zombified state doesn’t really lend itself well when you’re in the midst of a pandemic to like, you know, wanting to watch this movie about the spread of disease in in a small area.
9:28
So, and it released it looks like around like September if 2021.
So yeah, we would have been fully blown into the the COVID craze.
And I think that at this time too, Spooky was shot I think in like early 2021 or maybe even the beginning of 20 or the end of 2020.
9:49
So I do also think that it was affected by COVID a little bit in that there’s probably limited amount of people that were on set at any given time, things like that.
So it.
Was it was filmed in from November 16th to December 16th in 2020 at a Babies-R-Us at Massachusetts.
10:10
At a Toys-R-Us.
Babies-R-Us.
Oh, a Babies-R-Us.
OK, yes, that makes sense.
Because if you look in the background of a lot of the shots, especially in the warehouse, you’ll notice that it has a bunch of cuties boxes.
And I recognize those as a cuties.
Like we have those diapers, Like those are diapers back there, which doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense for a, A, you know, a toy store that’s called I love Toys.
10:32
We love.
Toys we love toys that’s right.
That’s right with an LUV love so but I did I yeah, I thought that was funny and it was like if you look in the background, yeah, cuties diapers there.
All right yeah.
So I guess with that said before, we really, Oh my God, looking on.
10:54
Wikipedia There’s only one Babies R Off US left in the country.
I was going to say that’s not really a common enough store anyway.
You know, they probably were like, you know, if someone get on the phone call Babies-R-Us, they got nothing better to do.
They’ll let us shoot there.
11:10
You know, they won’t even need to shut the store down.
Just.
Number of locations since 2023.
One Good Lord.
Yes.
The other thing that’s kind of interesting is like somebody was able to pinpoint that one Babies-R-Us and they’re like, you know, you know, get Bruce Campbell on the plane.
11:27
You know, he we got to get him out for that one.
Babies-R-Us do.
You think he got flowed and he probably had to drive.
Like, you know.
Take a rental car and drive, you know, from the bottles of Michigan out there.
Like, you know, just in my head, I don’t think he lives in like, New York or California.
11:44
He’s still sitting in the forest of, you know, yeah, Michigan and.
I yeah, I, I didn’t realize that that was a Babies-R-Us, but I think you are right on the money in that the fact that it is a toy store that people are rushing out on, you know, Thanksgiving night or Black Friday morning, not really that realistic anymore.
12:11
But yeah, we can talk about that as we get into the film.
But what I did want to say before we get into the beer talk or the movie is, you know, we, we, we probably do this every year.
But Thanksgiving for you.
What’s your favorite thing about Thanksgiving?
It could be the food, it could be the family, it could be whatever.
12:32
You know, for a dysfunctional family, it was like the one holiday where we usually weren’t like, at each other’s throats and dinner.
You know, I have fond memories of my grandmother and my mom’s side when she was nearing death in her later years, squeezing the life out of everyone’s hands at the table, saying God is good, God is great.
12:51
There you go.
She knew the Grim Reaper was coming for her.
It’s funny.
Like, I like, like, I like, I like Turkey.
I’m a Turkey guy, you know, dark meats, great.
I love green bean casserole.
I love good mashed potatoes.
13:09
I love stuffing, even stove top.
It’s like, you know, perfect.
Yeah, you know, the food, the food’s good.
The older I get, like the less and less I eat though I don’t get to like, I don’t engorge myself, you know, I don’t want to feel like shit for the rest of the day.
13:27
So, you know, I just have enough and then live off the leftovers for a week and a half.
But yeah, I like, like I’m, I’m definitely like a Turkey, stuffing and Mashed potato and green bean casserole.
But cranberry sauce is trash.
Get it off the plate.
I want to go to a more, you know, fun loving Thanksgiving because there’s places that do like Mac and cheese, you know, so I would love that if Mac and cheese was added to our, you know, yeah.
13:53
Staples.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
My boy’s looms.
It’s even a better day.
There you go.
Mine I would say is probably sausage stuffing.
I mean, that’s probably my favorite thing your.
Uncle Bob’s sausage stuffing is crazy.
It’s great.
It’s I love sausage stuffing so much.
14:11
It was actually, it was not my uncle that initially introduced me to sausage stuffing.
They used to have it at they used to go to my other family, which we don’t normally see that often.
And we would go to their house for Thanksgiving and everybody would kind of make something.
14:27
And, you know, one of the staples was sausage stuffing there and it was always like spectacularly good and have loved it ever since.
And yeah, then it happily, you know, happily, my, my Uncle Bob also makes a really good sausage stuffing.
So love to have that at Thanksgiving.
14:43
It’s probably what I look forward to the most because I’m not really a big homestyle Thanksgiving meal fan anyway.
I don’t really like Turkey that much, even though we cook it, I don’t really like it that much.
And you know, I could take or leave mashed potatoes depending on how they’re made.
15:01
But I do really like Sasha stuffing and some of the other sides and, you know, also family drinking beer.
Wine, you know.
Are you a green bean casserole guy?
I’m not, no.
You know, what I do love is fried onions, The little fried onions.
But that’s the only reason I would actually eat green bean casserole.
15:19
Like I’ll just eat the fried onions off the top.
Hold on.
That’s the the main reason why it’s so amazing.
It’s not the cream of mushroom soup that goes in it and the green beans and all the it’s the fried onions on top of it that make it, you know, pull it all together.
You got to have some, you know, it took me forever to get there too.
15:35
But you know, like when you get older and you’re like, wow, I was wondering.
Like this is.
You know, yeah, but the thing too, another thing too, I would like to ask is have you ever done a Friendsgiving?
Yes, to a small, a small extent, yes.
15:53
Not like everybody, you know, you know, not this, not the Turkey and everything else, but just the get together and celebration and stuff like that.
Yes, I have.
Yeah.
It’s also nice.
Probably not with you, no.
No, no, no, no, I no sense.
16:11
But no, I probably.
I just come over like a crat and like, you know when you guys are packing your stuff up on Thanksgiving?
Hey, it’s not really.
Yeah, yeah, it’s.
Not leftovers.
It’s more of a a thing that you do with people that you don’t see very often, you know, or like they live far away.
16:26
So you’re like, let’s do it Friendsgiving because we don’t get to see each other a lot.
The only time I ever time, yeah, yeah, I was saying.
The only time I ever done when I was in college, senior year, we did Friendsgiving.
Yeah, one of the townhouses and we had like 20 of us.
We all brought something, you know, to to the shin deck.
16:45
Yeah.
Nice.
Well, that’s nice.
It’s nice to reminisce about those Thanksgiving past.
All right, let’s talk about the beer that we have on the show today.
I went out and I got some beer again today and this is one that I’ve seen that I was had been released a little while ago and I had wanted to check it out because it sounded interesting.
17:12
It’s a new beer from the from the brewery, it’s from founders.
It should be cut on here multiple times before.
And it’s their red sweater IPA, which comes in a 12 pack, not one of their 15 pack, you know, monsters.
And this one is a red ale style IPA or red IPA, whatever you want to call it.
17:35
And it’s got a nice little can on it.
So it’s like a little, you know, it’s not not quite holiday or Christmassy.
It’s just kind of like their winter offering, like the knit sweater on it.
It’s nice.
17:51
It’s like a.
Harpoon Flannel Friday.
Yeah, yeah, kind of like that.
And actually, I think what Founders is doing, I’m going to call him out on it.
I think this is effectively their celebration and offering that Sierra Nevada does because it’s very similar in style and look and everything else to what Sierra Nevada’s doing.
18:12
And I feel like Founders is like, we got to get in on that.
Like Sierra Nevada, they’ve kind of cornered the market on that, like Thanksgiving, Christmas.
Like it actually fits the season, like season like, you know, out.
This isn’t like, you know, super out of the wheelhouse.
18:29
It’s not just like, you know, a New England style IPA or like super citrusy or it’s not it’s not it just a West Coast style IPA.
It’s got that nice like, you know, multi backbone heavy better for the holiday season.
18:44
And you know, I think that’s pretty much what founders is doing here with the red sweater IPA.
That’s what it really reminds me of.
You know, with that said, I think it’s pretty solid as a beer.
I think this is one of the better Founders offerings that I’ve had recently.
Most of the new beers that I’ve had from Founders has been the all day series, which are, you know, meant to be a little bit less flavorful.
19:06
They’re meant to be sessionable, but I’ve not been a huge, huge fan of any of their more recent all day output.
I think they’re kind of they’ve, no offense, but they’ve gotten a little bit lazy with that stuff, you know, you know, they’re, they’re kind of trying to market to like a mass marketing appeal and it’s just not for me.
19:30
So I’ve been kind of put off by founders for a little bit.
But I’m, I think that red sweater IPA is a nice transition back to some of the styles that they do pretty well.
And again, like I said, it is pretty equivalent to the Celebration IPA in a way.
It’s got that red malt base to it, you know, nicely flavorful, not like a super West Coast style IPA, but nicely hoppy without being overwhelming.
19:56
I think it’s just overall a nice beer to sip for the holiday season, you know, very much akin to the Celebration IPA.
What do you think?
So I’m on #2 Are you ready when I open the sound?
Open this beer and you hear that pop, you know what you’re going to hear.
20:13
Hold on.
The best time to drink a red sweater.
It’s all the time That’s right one win a little turtle lyric.
It’s the kind cause one yeah, no, it’s pretty good and I’m not a red IPA fan really like they were style beer that was kind of prominent quite early in the early 20 tens.
20:42
A lot of people were pumping them out as like, you know, as everybody was going through the rainbow palette color of, you know, what can we do to an IPA?
Black, white, red, blue.
And basically it’s just means it’s more multi and more of a nice mix of pale ale, red ale and an IPA.
21:08
So this is the first one I’ve had in a a red Ipi should say in a long time.
Yeah, and it’s definitely not bad.
It it has like a nice ready sweetness to it and taste is it that backbone gives it like a nice like Oktoberfest bars and style.
21:29
And then you get hit with like, you know, the big Chinook and Cascade hops give it that brightness, little very subtle hint of grapefruit.
The comparison that you made to the Celebration IPA right on.
It’s like a poor version of that.
21:45
Not that this is bad because as I mean, the celebration IPA is, you know, damn good.
And I’m glad to see that they did something like this too, because again, just like you, we’ve always big been big fans of founders on here.
We’ve done a shit ton of their beers, but they have fallen into like the cycle that a lot of, you know, craft breweries that have gotten a little too big for the britches, like a Saranac, like a Sam Adams, where like the offerings become less and less interesting and less and less, you know, for the people who, you know, built the brand originally and are more, you know, to a wide audience.
22:24
So this is a this is a great fall offering.
I think if they released it in tandem with the Oktoberfest, and I know Oktoberfest now gets released stupid early, but if it was if this came out in like late September and was up into the beginning of December, I would find this to be a very delightful fall to like the beginning of winter beer, especially if you’re an IPA fan for 6 1/2 ABV.
22:51
Don’t feel it at all.
So drink with care.
But it’s, you know, take it out, try it.
I’m glad they did something different.
Greed.
All right.
Let’s get into Black Friday.
23:07
It’s it’s almost time, guys.
You did it wrong.
What’s that?
Can I say it right?
Black.
Friday, Black Friday.
Yeah, this one.
Some I say pretend you’re Andy and Conan and doing, you know, actually the last Empire.
23:23
I think the film has been stylized with an exclamation mark at the end, so yes.
Black Friday, it doesn’t say it in in the IMDb thing, but the poster has it on there, so you got it, you know?
That’s right, that.
23:42
Poster is is designed for straight to be.
It’s not bad, but I really.
It’s it’s got the whole like, here’s the cast, like, you know, Michael Jai White there in the background, you know, Bruce Campbell there in the front.
23:59
He’s got to be in the forefront.
He’s Bruce Campbell, you know.
It really is.
Devin saw was buried in the back and.
Such the generic, like you don’t know what you’re going to get with this movie, but it looks quirky, doesn’t it?
Look at it.
Look at it, you’d think Brian Bruce Campbell with that beautiful sweater vest and bow tie was pounding 22 year old pussy, you know, on a Black Friday.
24:23
Yeah, What?
He likes to Ivana Baquero, Yes.
Yeah.
So I mean, I think this movie, like we said, is it released 2021, not much fanfare.
It actually, if you look at like the reviews and ratings and stuff, it’s actually not very well received either.
24:41
Doesn’t have a very well known director or writer or anything like that.
But you know what?
This film kind of reminds me of like a Thanksgiving sort of Krampus in a lot of ways.
24:58
You know, it’s kind of got the quirky, the, you know, the horror, horror elements.
It’s definitely got a lot of, you know, like Thanksgiving crossover into Christmas, which, you know, is kind of like the perfect, if you’re on, you know, you just had Thanksgiving going to watch Black Friday.
25:15
It’s kind of the perfect transition in a lot of ways.
I, I think that that works pretty well.
And well, you know what else it reminds me of a lot is Silent Night, Deadly Night, of course, because you have sort of the toy store, toy shop sort of thing where the film is pretty much completely set in a toy store.
25:36
And a lot of silent Night Deadly Night was obviously set in Iris toy house, toy toy chest or whatever it’s called.
So it does remind me quite a bit of that too, which, you know, again, conjures up fond memories of quiet nods of approval and, you know, the warm side of the door.
25:56
So But yeah, I mean, what, what do you think about the the premise setting in a toy store?
And and basically the entire film effectively takes place in one setting and location, making it a very cheap movie to make because you’ve really only got to deal with one setting.
26:16
Yeah, in the box office, apparently it was $15181.00.
So, but again, it may, it does make sense.
Like if there was a, like a, like a, a reason for a film to be shot and look like this, Covid’s the answer.
And you can totally tell like it’s, and I’m fine with it because again, basically Dawn of the Dead, but instead of a mall, it’s a toy store.
26:41
So I’m fine with like the idea.
I think it’s I think the idea is actually really fun that there’s a monster that’s going around to all these stores and the converting the customers into a ridiculous hybrid.
27:01
The thing zombies Dead Space create creatures that have predator cackles and twirling, you know, so it’s a fun idea.
I think it works pretty damn good.
And I think the setting is totally fine because again, it’s about these workers at this store and their asshole bosses.
27:24
And the only thing I really take umbrage with it is that Devin Sawa great driving around in a fucking Buick like SUV.
Like the man’s got money or not a butt hole and he’s got two kids.
27:40
His wife’s divorced him.
He is 10 years.
We find out he’s been working at this Toys-R-Us.
Basically, we love toys.
The man’s like dipping into the four O 1K from his past job to keep these antics going off.
That’s true.
That’s true.
Because I mean, what are the Yeah, the big points of the movie is the fact that like these people have to work on Black Friday in the sort of what you would consider a dead end style job.
28:04
You know, if you’ve been working, especially Devin Savage character working at this toy store for 10 years as like.
And I’m not even quite sure what exactly their roles are because a lot of times they’re just skating around on roller skates through the aisles.
Like you guys finding everything.
28:19
OK, great.
You know, like they’re just kind of you would expect I should say that like someone at least who’s been thrown to by corporate to, you know, not issue bonus checks and after Black Friday, you know, cut jobs.
28:36
They probably would not want to be spending all of this time and a half money on having extraneous people just cruising around store not.
Well, not only that though, God, doesn’t it seem like this is like 1 lawsuit waiting to happen?
28:53
Sure.
Like oh corporate, we’re getting bonuses.
Actually, you’re not getting there.
You’re not getting time and 1/2 for working the holiday.
Like it seems like one big like, you know, lawsuit, like class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
29:10
But that’s why I love Devin Sawa too, because he shows up, he’s got a flask of, you know, whatever kind of alcohol he’s pouring it in his coffee, having the time of his life.
Like you know I make $15.00 to fucking.
You.
Know and I and, and I love too because it is like so fucking stupid and like when you think about it like this is one of the things I hate about this God damn country and like corporate culture and all that like here’s your name tag and it’s like I’ve loved toys since and like how many years you’ve been here and it’s like like holy shit.
29:44
I like that a lot.
I think the film, you know, regardless of how you feel about the actual content of the film or whatever, I think it does a pretty good job of addressing the ridiculous consumerism and capitalism that runs rampant during Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
29:59
Specifically.
Because it does actually, you know, take some time to evaluate the characters that are in the movie and to sort of, you know, find the the ways that they are alike and that they are kind of in this dead end job working on Black Friday for no reason.
30:20
Really away from their family.
If they, you know, if they, if they care about it, but they’re away from their, their family and friends to do this stupid job so that people can get like $2 off on their games.
And it’s pretty funny too, because it, and this again, reminds me of like that opening and scene in Krampus where they do show the shoppers eventually being able to come into the store.
30:42
And you just see like one scenario of like this woman just like ripping games off the shelves Like here’s, oh, here’s guess, you know, connect four and guess who.
And I’m just going to take them all, put them all in my fucking cart.
It’s like just ridiculous stuff that, you know, and I think the film does a pretty good job of addressing that idea of, of, you know, capitalism that runs rampant and like the the victims of the capitalism game in, in, in like a Black Friday setting.
31:10
Because, you know, whereas like you mentioned Dawn of the Dead, you know, this film definitely takes a lot of inspiration from Dawn of the Dead and that like they keep coming back here.
Why?
You know, but at the same time, it kind of sees it from the opposite viewpoint.
31:27
Like the people that come back to the mall, they’re obsessed with capitalism.
But these, this time the victims in Black Friday are literally the people that are stuck in the store on a holiday.
Yeah.
And as somebody who work retail, I worked at a convenience store for 70 years and I worked many a God damn Thanksgiving because they were the the one store that’s like, we’re going to be open no matter what.
31:52
So people can buy lottery and all that.
That’s how I got to experience your Uncle Bob’s amazing sauce and stuffing because like a couple of years in a row, him and your aunt would bring us, you know, Thanksgiving food.
And it’s like, thank you.
Yeah.
But like, it’s, it is true.
32:09
Like, it’s like, because we get to see in the beginning, Kevin Devin saw was dropping his kids off at his, their mom’s house and they’re like Thanksgiving breakfast is lame.
And he’s like, yeah, no shit.
But I got to go to work and like, well, we got to work.
And he’s like, well, because heroes work on the holidays.
32:25
Like, think firemen and police officers, an ambulance driver and the people who work at your.
We love toys.
Like, you know, like, like, it’s like, it’s just so, so stupid.
32:41
Like I like.
I yeah, I think that’s.
Like like like like like that’s why I like like at least like it’s becoming more just buy this shit online.
Not that I’m for that either, but I mean it’s because again, like.
Forgo the I.
32:57
Mean, let’s say the very least, Walmart.
Walmart is closed on Thanksgiving.
Now the stores are.
So they’re not doing this kind of stuff, but like, the idea is just so fucking ridiculous.
Like, hey guys, go out there after, you know, and like from six O clock at night on Thanksgiving to 6:00 in the morning, go out there and, you know, have fun.
33:16
I know, I know, I know.
And, and it’s I, I’ve also worked in retail, not much, thankfully.
I didn’t work a lot of retail in my life, but for a few years I did work at Sears when I was in college and a little bit out of college.
33:31
And I definitely did work Black Friday or two.
I tried my hardest to get out of it because I’d be like, I’m a college kid.
I got to go home, you know, like they’re they’re making me go home for the holidays.
I don’t, I don’t have, you know, there’s the dorms.
33:46
I can’t stay.
Around.
And I just make fucking shit up.
You know, like dorms are closed.
They won’t let they won’t let me stay.
But anyway, I did work a couple and I do remember when you’re coming in and just, you know, again, it’s overall just ridiculous.
34:02
It’s like no one needs to go out and beyond, you know what, the day after Thanksgiving or the the early hours after Thanksgiving and buy a fucking lawnmower.
You don’t, you know, it’s just not necessary.
And I think that this film kind of really shows like the the ways that that is just absolutely ridiculous.
34:22
And I think that’s a great line too, that he says like, yes, all the heroes work on Thanksgiving.
Even people who work at I love toys because it’s absolutely necessary that you need to go out and buy a toy the day after Thanksgiving.
You need a dour Dennis.
34:38
That’s right.
I love dour Dennis, honestly.
No, I have to tell you, yeah, no dour Dennis is like the best, one of the best things about this fucking movie.
My.
Wife left me, now I’m fucking the divorce dance.
I do.
34:55
Yeah.
I love the dowry, Dennis.
Like it goes.
It was so great too.
They’re like, by the way, don’t sell the dowry, Dennis, There’s a.
Yeah, there’s there’s a, there’s a.
Recall on the battery it’s causes fire in the one the lake floor manager, she slept like like, you know, defected on to it and like that’s great and like the whole OSHA bed too.
35:19
Like now, guys, the most dangerous day for retail is, according to OSHA, is today because people have been trampled and they’ve changed the way they track that.
So be safe out there.
Yeah, I do.
35:35
I love that.
I love, I love the fucking downer, Dennis.
I think that’s like one of the best things.
Because again, too, if you look some of the reviews in the complaints about Black Friday’s that it’s kind of a boring movie.
And you know, to a certain extent, I can see the the point of, you know, even at a 84 minutes, a very, very brief and brisk 84 minutes, the movie does have some lulls in it where it’s kind of like.
35:59
Just could have been, could have been a 4550 minute, like yeah.
It’s like, you know, it’s.
HBO special.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It’s kind of just doing things maybe and maybe not, you know, as active as it could be.
And I do definitely think that COVID is a big part of that.
36:15
There was a lack of extras 100%.
Like, you know, they just did not have the the staffing to do this, to do like big spectacles of like, you know, 800 people running into the store.
So, you know, there were definitely limitations that the film had no control over.
36:33
So I can understand some of the complaints of it being a little bit slow at times, you know, taking a back seat or maybe, you know, even having sort of like a messy storyline.
Because it, like you said, this is kind of a cross between a zombie film like Dawn of the Dead, The thing where like they’re kind of combining into this big entity like a Kaiju type film.
36:54
Dude, I was like the whole time they were like that thing’s building, and especially at the end of the monster, I was just going, you know?
It definitely takes a lot of inspirations and I think it’s a little bit messy in the way that it, you know, encompasses all of those ideas.
37:12
At the same time though, I think it’s pretty fun and I think that’s kind of all you can ask for.
A movie like Black Friday is like that.
It’s it’s somewhat fun to watch with the practical effects too from Kurtzman Studios.
I think that is really good too and something that you you kind of need in a movie like this.
37:29
Like if this was all CGIFXI think it would be pretty boring because it would just feel very unrealistic and unnatural.
But because there are the actual practical it.
Definitely adds to it.
So by the end, when it’s like, you know, CGI Kaiju, you can, you’re at least behind it because the at the very least, like the thing, like practical effects are pretty damn good.
37:54
Yeah, and actually I think they used a combination of not so much CGI because I think the the the end scene with the Kaiju is actually done is sort of like a model too.
So it has a definitely has like the CGI fire, but it’s also kind of shot as like a older style Kaiju film would be where it’s like a guy in a suit that’s, you know, in the background and then kind of shot with the CGI fire and stuff happening around it.
38:18
I think it’s pretty cool.
I mean, I think for a low budget film like this, which obviously did not have much money going into it, like you said, it has the Babies-R-Us setting, which probably they were just like, hey, just give us a shout in the credits and like that’s all you need for this, you know, we’ll supply the rest.
38:37
Could be an abandoned Kmart for all we know.
Yeah, exactly.
I think like they, you know, they got a lot of bang for their buck and you know, again to this, the intimate setting of the the store makes it seem like it doesn’t require all that much.
38:54
You know, I think that’s pretty cool.
I I like it a lot.
I I think that the film gets a bad rap for some reason, and it’s really not that bad.
I don’t even think the script is that bad.
It’s it’s, you know, it’s it’s pretty funny at times.
I think Bruce Campbell is really he’s great And he, you know, I think one of the things that stands out about this movie is that he is not just carrying the movie because you might stop it and see the poster and see, you know, look at the trailer and be like, oh, Bruce Campbell is really the only reason they, you know, they could make this movie because like he was the draw.
39:29
But I don’t think that’s the case.
Like Devin Solid puts in a great performance as well.
And like you said, very aloof, very carefree, and just kind of like how you would imagine yourself in a situation like that.
Really have been here 10 years.
I don’t fucking care, You know, like it’s just, I just do my job and leave.
39:47
I think that he’s doing a great job there and so.
He’s also doggy styling you know of.
Of care.
Yeah, the woman that’s 20 years his junior.
So listen, you know, like, listen, listen, ladies, if you’re 20 years younger than your man and they’re getting it up, feel proud.
40:08
That’s right, and not only he doesn’t even Flower looks great in that sweater.
No, he does.
He looks great.
He looks really dapper, you know, but.
Fit Dapper, Yeah.
What a guy too.
Like I’m going to dig you off pancakes after this, like, you know?
Hey.
40:24
Who?
We’re going to go listen.
We’re going to go ruin someone else’s Thanksgiving Black Friday.
Why we’re going to Denny’s getting.
That’s right.
That’s right.
Yeah, yes.
Like we just like.
Hey by the way, we know we hate working on this shit too, but you guys are here 24/7 as well.
40:42
So you know what she wants the moon over my hammies and I’ll take pancakes.
That’s right.
Never ending coffee, keep it coming.
That’s right.
I like, I like.
I also like at the end of the film too.
I think that the lady does a pretty good job of pushing away capitalism and saying like, look, at the end of the day, these people like, you know, as a, no matter how much your job says we’re all a family, we should all spend time together outside of this work because we’re all a family.
41:14
We do things together here at work.
It’s like they’re not your family.
You can make your family and you don’t have to subscribe to the, you know, the, the basic definition of a family, which is my bloodline, which, you know, it’s kind of a good, you know, moment for Chris, who’s like basically like his dad’s an asshole, complete asshole.
41:35
And he doesn’t really consider them family.
He doesn’t really care to spend Thanksgiving with them, but obviously doesn’t want to spend it in a toy store either.
I think there’s a nice Segway there between like you can make your own family and have a nice Thanksgiving with that family.
41:50
It doesn’t need to be literally blood related family.
And I think that’s a, you know, it’s a nice message for this kind of a reverent film, not.
Only that though, too.
I think that whole scene where they’re all like, you know, having their disagreements and tearing into each other about their character flaws.
42:06
Excuse me?
I think like, I think it works damn well.
I don’t think it’s derivative and I think like it, you know, really shows like, you know, everyone’s character flaws and like how they all are, they hate their job and like, you know what it’s, you know how they’ve ended up in life.
42:29
Like, you know, we hear, you know, Brian’s like, oh, you know, I wanted to be a fucking dentist, but I’ve been here for eight years or whatever.
And like Devin saw was like, I’ve been here for 10 years.
I told the wife it would just be temporary after I got laid off from my job.
And, you know, Chris going like, this place used to be so magical and I loved it.
42:48
I was like, I, I thought it was perfect.
And I just wanted to work here, you know, I thought it’d be cool.
And this place sucks.
And like hell, I even think Bruce Campbell’s part in that as the manager, like that’s like really good too.
He’s like, well, you know why I’ve been here for 27 years.
43:03
He’s like, I feel like, you know, he’s like, I don’t have anyone in my life and this is all I have.
And I feel I, you know, even though it bleeds more into, you know, a little bit of socio sociopathy, but still it is a real thing to like, like, like being like, look, this is all I have.
43:20
And I feel like, you know, they when they call me and say they need sales reports, like I feel like, you know, I’m, I have something I have to do.
I feel like I need it.
I’m part of a team and whatever.
And that’s why I love this place.
That whole like part, I think, you know, to some, I feel like, you know, it’s probably going to be, you know, derivative and feel stupid.
43:40
But I I like that part a lot.
Like, oh, I felt like I was being attacked when they were called saying, Christopher, you’re wasted potential.
Yeah, I I think that it’s a nice, you know, it’s, it’s great that it, it kind of pushes away that capitalism element and it doesn’t necessarily get mired in, you know, a socio political discussion about it, but in, you know, it’s it you would, you might think too with the idea being about Black Friday, it’s pretty obvious where the connotations lie.
44:18
But I think it does a pretty good job at at, you know, having some intimate discussions about that and, and dealing with some various different types of characters that it has.
What do you think about the the, the way that Bruce Campbell’s character kind of morphs because he’s, you know, very corporate esque at the beginning of the film.
44:37
And like by the end of the film, he’s like, you know what?
We’re all family.
I agree.
And I’m going to sacrifice myself for the rest of you guys because we’re all family.
He looks 1 looks great, he has a fan fucking tastic mustache.
44:54
He looks so dapper and that, you know, sweater and the bow tie, you know, he comes off as, you know, smarmy, but like you like, you know, a little bit of caring.
Like he does kind of care.
You know, we get to see in his office when we first see him, it’s like 1996, like manager runner up, like one.
45:15
If you’re in a company and you give that out to somebody, I would kill you.
Like you like, you know, it’s like, wow.
Like, you know, just like to have an award and be like, yeah, you were second best.
Like, that’s, you know, makes me, you know, but like, the fact that he’s like, yeah, you know, it’s going to be let’s all have smiles and be great.
45:37
And we’re a family.
We could do this together and teamwork and, you know, watching him be, you know, devolve into like, well, fuck this anyway, You know, this, you know, when he finally breaks and, you know, sacrifices himself.
But he’s hilarious, absolutely hilarious and charismatic as all hell.
45:58
Like the whole like, I’m going to go down with the ship.
You don’t have to when you get out of here.
No, no, just I’ve been here for 27 years.
God damn it, if the store’s going to go out of business, I’m going to go down with it.
And then look at ghoul jumps out and scares him.
The fact that runs away like what happened going down with the ship.
46:15
He’s like, I changed my mind.
It’s just, you know, it’s, you know, really funny.
So, but also to it shows to like, at least in my mind, like if you’re a middle manager like that, like you run the store.
46:31
But like when you’re like telling people that like, you know, like, Oh yeah, like, you know, like, oh, you’re getting bonuses and then like, no, no, you’re not getting bonuses.
Oh yeah, I guess maybe that like you are an asshole.
46:48
Like, you’re like, like that level of like, you have to be a special kind of person to, you know, be that level of ghoulish.
Yeah.
Yeah, I definitely agree.
And you see that too, like Anita, the best sale.
47:05
You know, she’s been employee the month like 10 months in a row.
And she’s like, I’m going to tell on you, Chris, because you’re going to get her right now because your shirts not online tucked in like, oh, slap the bitch.
It’s like people right now who are like unprompted, like I’m going to go to iced on you.
47:23
Why the fuck it’s like.
Yeah.
It’s like, like, shut up, Yeah.
Exactly.
It’s like.
Don’t you remember in a video that they say that we all?
Intended.
47:39
I think they do a good job of making those two in particular pretty.
And Brian as well, Yeah, you know, but.
I think that’s, you know, that’s kind of the point too, is like these kind of people exist in your work environment and you know, this is what you’d like to see maybe see happen to them in in your fantasies, but.
48:01
One thing I think is really neat but they don’t go far enough with it is I love the idea of Chris being a germaphobe and a zombie outbreak.
Yeah, right.
Great idea to see the reactions but it doesn’t like after 1/4 of the film they kind of drop it.
48:18
Yeah.
I mean, I think the end of the movie where he’s getting the forklift and stuff and there’s that call back to like, why did he have to learn the forklift?
I think, you know, they do show that where you like touches it and it’s got blood on.
It’s like, yeah.
I’m not that.
Affected anymore and you know kind of but I think at the same time you’re right they kind of drop it to the point where it doesn’t really.
48:39
Like that would be a fun ever like running gag of like shit blown up and stuff around him and like blood being spat splattered on him being like, wait, wait, wait, wait, where’s my sanitizer?
And again, like, it makes sense.
And it’s funny too, because again, like it’s COVID during the pandemic.
48:57
So like you have like all the opportunity in the world to like milk that shit dry.
And I, I think it’s just a little, you know, lost opportunity.
Yeah.
And it’s it is interesting too that they don’t really do much with COVID as a an idea because the film really lends itself to discussing that.
49:23
And it does it kind of, I don’t know, maybe it maybe they did on purpose, but it seems like it really refrains on purpose from just discussing anything about it.
It’s kind of, you know, kind of just doesn’t even mention it.
So I think that’s kind of interesting in and of itself that it’s kind of trying to distance itself a little bit from the pandemic idea.
49:45
Because obviously the beginning of the film when the shoppers are coming in is very much like a pandemic.
Especially when they show that one guy at the beginning, he’s like, I don’t feel very well.
You’ll be fine.
You’ll be fine.
It’s pretty funny.
And then, you know, the whole idea of like, you know, like, oh, you got to go clean up some puke and some, some guy puked his guts out.
50:06
Which is fucking hilarious too.
Like go clean the puke up.
And like you look at it, it’s like who’s like that’s puke.
It’s like, but like there’s like an intestine like like no, that looks like a Mortal Kombat 2, like fatality happened here.
Like what’s going on like?
50:26
But I mean, other than that, though, I, I find like again, I, I do kind of understand the, the complaints about it being a little bit slow and maybe it has some pacing issues even at 84 minutes, But I think it’s a pretty fun film.
And I, I definitely would, you know, it’s not something that I would watch every year, but I think it’s a, a good off holiday offering, especially to bridge the gap between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
50:50
And I think it’s it, you know, it does a good job of kind of parodying both of those.
I think it’s, you know, it, this may be a little bit, I don’t know, controversial, but I think it does a better job than Thanksgiving of parodying the holiday.
51:07
Oh, absolutely.
You know that, you know.
Absolutely.
So you know what’s better too?
Is having nice old lady Ruth be like, you know, my first Black Friday.
They were separate, separated by rings.
Yeah, yeah, you just see Michael Jai White in the background.
51:28
Like what the fuck?
Yeah, I did like that too.
And the absurdity too.
Like, like all the like, corporate, like, again, the corporate things Like, no, we’re calling it Green Friday now because Black Friday’s racist.
Yeah, Yep.
And, and because it gets people to think of, you know, gets people to think of money and Christmas.
51:52
Right.
They need Scott Calvin on their team.
You know, look Santa driving down the street in a pant.
Yep.
What else?
What else?
Anything else that we didn’t talk about here?
There’s a there’s a child’s play.
52:09
A little quick little child’s play.
Not as I say there there are quite a lot of like Dawn of the Dead remake and original nod like the whole truck and like, you know, all that very Dawn of the Dead.
Like, yeah, man, I really I really do appreciate like the thing like effects and looks of the monsters.
52:34
I think it would have been better if there was a consistency to all of that because again, it’s such a mishmash of like saying Akira Kojira zombies, you know, just like I think if they went more with like them turning into a thing like creatures, I think that’d be, you know, funner because all the effects of like the stuff of like, like poor Michael Jai White gets fucking, you know, like Spider Man gooped and pulled up and killed, you know, I think yeah, I I like it a lot, though.
53:10
I do like this film a lot though.
There’s definitely no, you know, dearth of the references that it has.
It is just certainly wears a lot of its references on its sleeve and it’s very much a product of all of those things combined, which I think maybe lends itself to why it can be a little bit messy.
53:32
But at the same time, and I really appreciated all the references and all the things that it does.
And I think I think it’s at the end of the day, just a fun movie.
You know, you kind of if it’s fun enough, you kind of can forgive some of the more, you know, excruciating elements of it or things that, you know, maybe would would not work in other movies.
53:53
And at the same time, too, you have to just really appreciate the practical effects in it to the point where, you know, it’s obviously there was a labor of love in a lot of ways.
You know, they didn’t go the easy route and just be like, everything’s going to be CGI D you know, they they definitely could have.
It could have been, you know, even cheaper to just everything’s CGI here, but the practical effects like the, the various zombie esque designs of the, the makeup all really great.
54:20
And I, I found it really entertaining to watch for 80 minutes of the you know, it’s, it’s really short too.
It’s like it’s really brisk.
Feel like it goes by pretty fast.
So you know, overall it’s really fun.
So on a scale of zero to 10 drinks, whatever he’s pouring into the the drinks before they they open the doors.
54:42
What it what it what do you think he’s drinking was think Devin salad brought in that that flask that he brings.
Who’s he got whiskey?
Is it Brandy?
I’m.
Going to keep it.
I’m going to keep it seasonal.
OK, Peppermint.
Oh, peppermint schnapps.
54:58
I literally.
Just went out and bought peppermint schnapps today.
Oh yeah.
You know, I see a video of a fun, well, not Halloween, I was going to say, fun holiday mixed drink is vanilla, spiced eggnog and Doctor Pepper.
55:15
Oh wow.
And then you put like some, if you want to like interesting, you know, liquor.
Yeah, good.
But you know, yeah.
No, I would think, like, you know, schnapps or something.
Or, you know, maybe it’s just like straight vodka.
Like, you know, he’s got Mr. Boston’s in the back, and that’s right.
55:34
That’s great, though.
He’s been working 10 years, and he’s sitting there pulling, you know, little snips into his coffee and stuff.
And no one’s like, I can, you know, we can smell that, you know?
Like.
Yeah.
Like, you know, we can smell that can.
Yeah.
But I’m selling roller blades and you know, I’ll give it a 7 hour ton of mysterious liquor being poured into people’s coffees.
56:02
I think it’s a lot.
Of fun.
I was, I’m very pleasantly surprised by it.
It’s and I was kind of going in thinking like, oh, it’s good, you know, just be Bruce Campbell, a bunch of ninja bronies and stuff happens.
It’s a really fun film.
Devin Saw was great.
Ivana Poquiero’s great, Ryan Lee’s great, Uncle Dye White’s always great.
56:20
Everyone does a great job.
You know, again, with Seth Green, with the Eisenhower, Dennis’s voice, you know, it’s all hilarious.
It’s a great concept.
It’s a lot of fun.
Again, I do understand it people’s critiques of it because I not necessarily on the story.
56:38
I would say yes, it does.
Even at an hour and 24 minutes long, it is sluggish in parts.
The third act feels like it goes on for forever and you get a lot of like false finishes.
Feels like it could be like a one hour, like you know, Tales from the Crypt episode.
56:58
But I think overall though, it doesn’t really matter.
It’s fun.
If you’re a horror fan, this is a lot of fun, has a lot of great homages into it.
It’s perfect for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and especially under the circumstances in which it was made, you know, it’s it’s like a little engine that could so I’m 7910 liked it a lot.
57:21
Very surprised.
Bruce Campbell as always hilarious and amazing.
So I would recommend it and say check it out.
Yeah, I would.
I would agree with that.
I would.
I would give it a 7/9/10 as well.
I think that, yeah, it’s a pretty fun movie overall.
57:38
I definitely had a much better time with it than I expected to have.
I thought that I, you know, based on the reviews and everything, that it was not going to be that great.
But, you know, overall I think it’s really fun.
I think it matches some of the tone and the entertainment value of something like Krampus or, you know, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and brings a holiday seasonal offering to that that’s kind of somewhat different than what you would get from a traditional Christmas horror movie.
58:07
You know, overall, I really appreciated the practical effects in the references that I had to various different horror movies of the, you know, the past.
And I think it does a really good job.
You know, Bruce Campbell’s the GOAT, but Devin Sauer is really great here too.
I think he’s also just in it for the game.
58:24
He’s just having fun and it shows, you know, everybody seems to just be having like a, you know, fun time.
And maybe that’s also due to COVID a little bit where like, you know, there’s a huge pause on making movies.
And at a certain point they were like, you know what, we’re going to try to cautiously go back and make movies.
58:39
And, you know, people were just like ecstatic to be out there and doing things and making movies again.
So, you know, that kind of shows.
And again, you can see the the elements of the pandemic here, that it’s a little bit lower budget, it doesn’t have extras.
You know, you can see the limitations.
58:55
But at the same time, I think that you can also forgive those things, recognize the context in which it was made and have fun with the movie and just kind of, you know, it’s a really, you know, entertaining movie to put on for the holiday season, especially that limbo period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
59:12
So 7 out of 10 for me.
Actually enjoyed it quite a bit.
Probably one of the better holiday horror movies that I’ve seen recently.
And that also reminds me of talking about holiday horror movies.
Pretty soon we’re going to need to go see the new Silent Night Deadly Night remake that’s happening.
59:28
Which honestly from what I’ve seen and all the various advertisements and constant like social media promotion, I’m guessing that it is very bad.
Honestly, I’m guessing that it is not.
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Could it be any worse than the I know what you did last.
Summer, I don’t know.
I don’t know.
I mean, I’m guessing like it has to be OK and that they were like, let’s throw it to theaters because this definitely screams like Shutter original style.
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You know, release, release it to screaming something.
But to me it looks bad.
It seems bad.
All of you know the amount of publicity they’re putting into it, like Reddit posts about it, like have you seen this trailer for the new Silent Day?
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That all tells me this movie probably fucking sucks and they’re just trying to get as many people to go out and see it as possible.
But we’re still going to go try and see it because honestly, it’s a little bit surprising, especially considering the remake Silent Night that came out.
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What was that like 8 years ago or something that we we did on the show?
I don’t know, however long ago.
And that one didn’t even get a theatrical release.
Like what the fuck is happening where we’re getting a new Silent Night, Deadly Night remake in theaters?
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It’s just kind of surprising to me.
But I still think it’s going to be garbage.
But we’ll definitely see it and we’ll report back on what we think.
So I think that’ll be.
Listen, listen.
If there’s no warm side of the door, I’m walking out of the theater.
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I know, I know I will.
Stand, I will stand up and like, if I don’t see somebody being like, hey buddy, you want some vodka?
No, Sir, I have milk.
That.
They’ll.
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Immediately show that this is not a lever of love like that’s not it’s not like a thing that people wanted to remake.
They just wanted the name alone and like the idea of Santa Claus as it killed him.
You know, which is not abnormal in the Christmas movie horror movie anymore, Like Santa Claus killing things is like not is like the most unoriginal idea that you can have.
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For a Christmas movie now 1 of this podcast I had no contribution to it though One of those podcasts and Ryan’s original works of masterpiece is taking Silent Night Deadly Night for the full runtime, having the opening credits and end credits but the rest of the film just be warm side of the door.
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That’s right.
You got to check it out.
Right, Yeah, I’ll tell.
I’ll have to post it here again pretty soon as we get into the holiday season.
And I’ll also post our the, you know, the, the obvious Christmas with John Saxon as well the, the Yule log that we have because that’s also.
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Messed.
With yeah, that was another fun one to do and we might need to, you know, update it or do some some other things, but I’m.
Sure is, yeah.
Yeah, we also there’s Udo Kier as well who just recently passed away and we could do it.
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You’ll log with Udo Kier.
But yeah, I’ll have to post all those.
But yeah, that’s a.
It’s a preview into what’s to come from.
You know what, maybe one day we’re going to have to like for one of the big episodes, we’ll have to redo Silent Night, Deadly Night, because that is actually one of our shortest episodes.
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Yeah, it’s only like 40 minutes long.
Yeah, redoing.
Give it another viewing and all that.
You know, and see, I mean, Grant, we don’t, we’re pretty consistent on time of episodes now.
We always hover around an hour to an hour and 10 now.
So yeah, no more, no more.
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Two hours and half, 2 1/2 hour.
Reviews of Batman V Superman don’t adjust.
Yes.
And I think that’s just normal because, you know, people’s attention spans waiver and once you get a little bit past an hour, it’s, you know.
I’m a sucker.
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I’m I’m a sucker for those long pad podcast, Dan Carlin.
Give me a six hour historical.
I think those are a little bit.
Different though.
Historical context on on, you know, the Nords being converted to Christian.
This is awesome.
Yeah.
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Yeah, but I, I will after this week, we’ll, we will be back with, you know, more episodes for our Festivus series, which I don’t know we’ve we’ve got so many now.
I have a playlist somewhere of how many episodes we’ve done, but we’ve done a lot of best concepts if yeah, it gets harder and harder every year, every year to be like, Oh yeah, what’s the next Christmas movies that we haven’t done before?
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So we’ll find some.
I have a couple that I what?
Am I going to do?
Is there like Robert Goulet Christmas specials we could do?
I don’t know.
Yeah, it’ll be fun.
The mistakes right in the lake.
Well, as I say, Speaking of with Trump’s nice turtleneck and how he was looking the other day, Yep, he was looking Goulet.
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He.
Really was, yeah, it was great.
It was actually great.
You should stick with that look probably.
Don’t put the toner on.
Keep, you know, big turtleneck like he’s Gregory Peck and Goulet.
Yeah, no, it was awesome.
But yeah.
All right, well, we should end this, but definitely check out.
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Hope you have a great Thanksgiving or had a great Thanksgiving and hopefully you don’t spend too much or go out too much on Black Friday and ruin a bunch of employees days.
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So keep that in mind if you’re looking for the next big deal.
You’re ruining somebody’d life by going out.
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