Guests: Jack Morrissey, Greg Yolen and Matt Cohen
Annotated by Kathleen @kaybeevee
2:19
Jack talks about Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival. Two guys
who “in the old days before home video” would watch terrible shorts and
pick the rudest, lewdest, funniest and send them around the country. Art
house circuit. Discovered Beavis and Butthead.
According to Jack, a Sick and Twisted must see: “Hot Sluts”
Also recommends “The Cat Came Back” http://www.youtube.com/watch?
5:16
Greg finally came back from working last week. They talk about the
Ardbeg podcast, Greg said it was the worst night he has ever
had...”alcohol is a terrible thing.” Jack says he has never had a
hangover, never really started drinking until 2011 (!).
8:52 Poor Pigpen is not doing well. Bumps his head a lot or stands facing the corner “Blair Witch style.”
10:12 Jack brings up “Rare Exports” movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Matt
likes the shorts better-”Training videos: how to capture and
domesticate Santa Clauses and sell them off to different nations”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
12:38 Jack discusses Phil Tippett (creator of Star Wars/Twilight wolves etc), obsessed with the movie Troll Hunter. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Other “found footage movies” discussed. Paranormal Activity/Monster/Blair Witch Project.
14:45
Blair Witch is the landmark “found footage” movie. Sequel to Blair
Witch “Book of Shadows” does not use the found footage effects. Greg
really likes the first one and defends it to Cohen.
17:20 Jack asks Greg why he’s so grumpy today?
18:20 Greg recommends (the now cancelled) “The Onion Sports Dome” Ha ha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?
19:14 MythBusters wayward cannonball story. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/
21:40
LA traffic discussion. Worse than it has ever been. Shooting the movie
Gangster Squad with Ryan Gosling in downtown Hollywood. Cohen says the
set is like walking into Hollywood in the 1920’s. Cohen tells a real LA
Gun story, guy opens fire on Hollywood Blvd.
Gangster Squad? Yes, please:
28:30
Greg’s holiday party/grisly murder story. At the party someone told a
guest that there was a murder in her home twenty years earlier. She had
no idea and was really freaked out. Greg told her “the murderer is not
still hiding in your closet.”
29:44 Cohen brings up famous LA murder tours in LA.
31:20
Would Jack be freaked out about that? He says no. His guest room, “The
McKellan Suite,” had someone die in it of natural causes before they
moved in. Jack read “The Amityville Horror” book and once the whole
haunted house thing from that was debunked, his belief in ghosts went
with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Amityville House then:
Amityville “Horror” House as it appears today. Wow! Changed creepy top windows:
36:30 Ghost encounters? UFO encounters? Cohen’s Shaquille O’Neal “ghost story.”
37:44
Greg talks about Ed and Lorraine Warren-”demonologists” that lived in
the area where he grew up. They would do Halloween-Eve lectures at
Southern Connecticut State University and were consultants for the
Amityville Horror movie/case, they did believe it was real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Interview with Lorraine about Amityville: http://www.movieweb.com/news/
Poltergeist in Connecticut home video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Ed and Lorraine Warren:
40:43
And now for something completely different... Martin Scorsese’s Hugo!
Greg has seen it...opinion? McNugget/McRib discussion. Hugo? NO, now on
to Filet O’Fish and discussion of McDonaldland characters.
45:19 Greg does Dr. Joseph Mengele impression!
Loved these!
45:44 Contagion movie discussion: http://www.imdb.com/title/
46: 26 Jack reads the Wikipedia description for the Filet O’ Fish (!)
49:25
Differences in fast food internationally. “Regional menus.” McDonald’s
Fajitas and Pizza experiments (Greg attempts to sing the McDonalds pizza
jingle).
McDonald’s pizza commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Jack says Bill Condon’s favorite was Diet Coke Plus-packed with vitamins!
Cohen brings up the “Arch Deluxe”-when McDonald’s tried to “class it up.” Arch Deluxe Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
55:02
Weirdest fast food they’ve ever eaten? For Cohen: Poutine on fries at
McDonalds. Jack likes to go to Hardees when he goes to visit family in
St. Louis (likes the ham and swiss cheese sandwich). More fast food
talk...Bob’s Big Boy! Greg says he “models his look” after the iconic
Bob.
58:20 Pizza and other favorite fast food discussion. For pizza, Jack likes Imo’s in St. Louis.
59:40
Greg talks about the best pizza in New Haven. Sally’s, Peppy’s, and
“Modern Apizza” where the locals go, you don’t have to wait for two
hours in line.
1:02:13
Greg is turning 30 in a couple weeks! Cohen is happy to go home to New
York soon. LOVES Shake Shack, going there right off the plane:
1:04:29
Popeye’s and Super Popeye’s in the deep south where you can get alcohol
with your meal. A gallon/milk carton of daiquiris OR margaritas can be
bought at the drive thru.
1:05:30 Jack brings up a place in Nags Head called “Brew Thru” where you can pull in and get alcohol.
1:06:15
And finally...back to the Hugo discussion! Greg says definitely see it
in 3D, “this is what 3D looks like in the hands of someone that knows
how to use it and has something to say about it.” Check out Greg’s
review of Hugo in his November, 2011 archive at http://www.stevenspielblog.
1:09:20
Jack asks if this is a “Spielbergian” movie? Greg says yes, very
sentimental. It’s really a movie about movies. What does Spielberg think
of Hugo? Greg bets that he loves it.
1:14:00 Greg does an Asa Butterfield (kid in Hugo, soon to be in Enders Game) impersonation.
1:15:18
Jack sings the Cat Came Back theme and makes the boys promise to eat a
Filet O’Fish before the next podcast! Greg balks...
OUT!