Our MINDF*CKS triple feature continues with David Lynch’s demented dive into domestic living. Parenthood is a cage, Henry's radiator is a stage, and the sins of the flesh have been injected with literal nightmare fuel as we wade our way through an industrial suburban hellscape to meet The Baby in ERASERHEAD.
We dive into the industrial hellscape of David Lynch's debut feature, Eraserhead (1977), for the second film in our MINDF*CKS triple feature.
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Monster reveals covered include:
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How I Met Your Monster
The film itself is the dream, the nightmare.
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David Lynch
I am not sure if I know what that means, but I guess, he's talking about it being a nightmarish film. Yeah, and this is, has a, dreamlike quality to it, for sure. You can't tell a lot of times whether things are real or whether they're they're not real. So that's, that's that could be that's a fine statement, you know.
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David Lynch
I mean, there is where you get why these things are. You know, I everybody has a little something different to say because it's it's up to, you know, whoever's writing or whoever's viewing them, you know, to make up their own mind about what's, what's going on. So I wouldn't do any good for me to say, you know, any more.
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How I Met Your Monster
Today we continue our mindfucks triple feature with David Lynch's demented dive into domestic living. Parenthood is a cage. Henry's radiator is a stage, and the sins of the flesh have been injected with literal nightmare fuel as we wade our way through an industrial suburban hellscape to meet the baby in Eraserhead. You're listening to how I Met Your Monster, a podcast that explores the introductions to your favorite movie monsters.
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How I Met Your Monster
My name is Zack. I'm Danny, and I'm Casey, and together we dive into the world of horror to find out how filmmakers have introduced us to our favorite monsters time and time again. This is how I Met Your Monster.
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How I Met Your Monster
Oh.
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How I Met Your Monster
Welcome to how I Met Your Monster, the show where we discuss the introductions to your favorite movie monsters. It's time to jump into a double feature within our triple feature. Yeah, because this is our first of two David Lynch movies. This is a race. We didn't do that on purpose. This is. We did not do it on purpose.
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How I Met Your Monster
But it's happening to make mind lots of movies. Yeah. In case you guys are new to the show, we. Someone chooses the triple feature and then individually, we pick our movies for the triple feature, and then we reveal it to each other. So it's it's a surprise. Yeah. So, Casey, you chose Eraserhead. And then unbeknownst to us, Danny was choosing, Mulholland Drive for the follow up, which I love because Eraserhead is obviously like early era Lynch.
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How I Met Your Monster
And then Mulholland Drive is I mean, that's one he was nominated for. It was an Oscar nominated film. Like, it's kind of wild, but they were talking about Eraserhead. And, before we get into Eraserhead, we recently just talked about Evil Dead Rise. On our monthly commentary episode over on Patreon. So if you haven't checked out our Patreon yet, check it out.
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How I Met Your Monster
$3 a month. How I Met your Monster.com slash Patreon. Nope. Patreon.com slash. How I Met Your monster. You'll get there. Serve you? Yeah, you'll get there. You can go to how I Met Your Monster.com, and there will be a link to Patreon. Oh, See? See? You'll find it. You will get there. You'll get there. You can't escape us, is what we're trying to say.
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How I Met Your Monster
We have polluted the internet airwaves. So no matter where you turn, you're probably going to find our Patreon. Yeah. And, Yeah, we just talked about Evil Dead Rise. To celebrate Lee Cronin's The Mummy releasing April 17th. I'm not sure if this one will be out before that or not, but, But. Yeah, check it out. Patreon.com slash how I Met Your Monster at.
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How I Met Your Monster
That's the link. Perf. Bam! Hey, I feel like that's your new catchphrase. And that's the link. No, fam. Like, I'm really. Yeah, I am link.
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How I Met Your Monster
Just like. So, like, I don't get it. We don't either. It's okay. You had to listen to episode 152 of How We Met Your Monster. You know what else? I don't get? This movie. This movie? Just kidding. I love. I really enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Yeah, this movie is wild. David Lynch's first feature. He had a handful of short films before this.
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How I Met Your Monster
And this was made during his time at the American Film Institute. I did not know that it took him six years to make it. Six years because they kept running out of money. Goddamn. Can you imagine if like, he was just like, oh, we can't make it work. Would that have been the end of, you know, like, would we have ever gotten the lynch that we have today, if at all?
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How I Met Your Monster
If he didn't, if he wasn't able to make Eraserhead? Yeah, but that's the thing. I mean, he was going to make it if it took him six years. Like, he was like, all right. But Danny was saying, what if he didn't? What if he just gave up? Well, yeah, I guess it's like, Was it Schrodinger's cat?
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How I Met Your Monster
Is that what it's called? Yeah. Somebody box something about a cat in a box. What's you're talking about? Do you even know what means, though? I don't think you. Well, yeah. Isn't that, like, something about, like, there's a cat in a box, but, like, if it's. You don't know if it's in there, but if you open it, then you know your answer or something.
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How I Met Your Monster
But if you don't know. What is it? It's my dick in a box. It's my cat. What is that? But. Yeah. Find out what the actual definition is, because I think this is what you're talking about. Like a cat in a sealed box is simultaneously alive and dead, linked to a random subatomic event. Until observed, opening the box collapses the state into one reality.
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How I Met Your Monster
Okay, so isn't that the same thing of what you're talking about? Like, if he didn't make eraser, would we have David Lynch? We wouldn't know. Because he did make Eraserhead. He did get it done. Well, because he's like, do you get what I'm saying? Not allowed to speculate anymore. Kasey's not buying this. No, I am. It's just.
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How I Met Your Monster
You're just. I think this is the most important conversation for this episode, because it's like there's technically an answer to this. I understand it, and I also am confused by it. But you get what I'm saying, right? Yes, absolutely. You never know. You never know. That's the case. I'm the asshole. No. No. I'm saying, like, I love that.
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How I Met Your Monster
Like, because the whole. I feel like I'm trying to attack anybody. I just I feel attacked. Well. I'm sorry. Do you want a big, juicy Johnson? Oh, that always, just always just helps me feel better just to get a little. I get a little watery. Yeah. Give me the whole big juicy, Johnson. I'm getting watery. I'm crying over here.
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How I Met Your Monster
Jesus Christ. It's funny that we're talking about this and nobody knows what we're reference. Doesn't matter. Oh, yeah. No. Everybody hates everybody knows that. We talk about hot dogs. Okay. And it's not like if we dogs the subject on the show where we have one segment that pops up every now and then, conspiracy theories of the week. We also have a rarer segment called Hot Dog Talk with the boys.
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How I Met Your Monster
It's rare. I think it's happening right now. It was hot dog talk with the boys like a rare hot dog kielbasa, bratwurst, ballpark franks, venir schnitzels, Italian sausage. Everything from wet floppy dogs to hard marble rats. This is hot dog Todd with the boys. It's like a nice touch. Rare where we sit down. So is this.
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How I Met Your Monster
Is this the first time you guys have seen a rare hot dog is like these little alien worms in Eraserhead? Yes. That's where it's what I mean when I talk about. Exactly. Speaking of which, No, I had seen, probably like 20 minutes of this movie before. Okay. So, yes, this is the first time I've watch it.
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How I Met Your Monster
This is the first time I've watched it all the way through. It's one of those movies I feel like you always see referenced, like multiple scenes. A lot of the imagery is very just iconic. So it's it's not that I felt like I had seen it before, but it felt familiar. Yeah. And also I went into it sort of having seen some other David Lynch films and in watching Twin Peaks, I was like, oh, okay, we're I know what I'm in for.
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How I Met Your Monster
I get it, I get the vibe. It felt. So in that sense, it also felt familiar that way. Did you like it, Zach? Yeah, I started it really late. The first I watched it over two nights because I started it really late. And there's like, why there's so many, like, long moments of silence, but also like notes.
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How I Met Your Monster
I shouldn't say silence, like humming or like some kind of music that I know they spent a lot of time recording the sound effects and things for this, for this movie. And by like a lot of times just like, and it's mostly industrial. Yeah. And so I kind of just like, fell asleep. But, have you ever done that?
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How I Met Your Monster
Have you ever seen a, like a movie, like a little late, like, even in theaters and characters get into bed and start getting cozy and you're like, oh, I want to do that right now, and you can't enjoy the movie because you're like, oh, it was so nice to have a blanket. Yeah. Like A Nightmare on Elm Street, when in the beginning, when Tina's in bed.
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How I Met Your Monster
Yeah, I always think when. Yeah, and Tina and Rod are in bed, I'm always like, man, I wish I was there. Yeah. Cozy. So cozy. Yeah. So I love this movie. And I think this movie is super, like, divisive because I think it's very much like, you either love this movie or you think it's a big, steaming pile of shit.
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How I Met Your Monster
And, I have always loved this movie. I haven't watched it in probably like 15 years, but I used to watch it a lot with my friend Sam, and we just both really liked it because we just thought it was weird. Like, I didn't know anything, that I didn't understand any of it or think about any of it.
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How I Met Your Monster
Watching it this time was very I mean, I understood a lot of it, and it gave me. Do you guys like art museums? Yeah. Okay. I don't I don't like art museums. So, I mean, I, you know, I hate them to know this. So this is the worst. This is what this movie reminds me of in art.
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How I Met Your Monster
I don't like art museum. I don't like galleries. Like, I don't understand paintings, period. I don't like a lot of them. I don't get they don't evoke anything from me. Right. But film does. And so, you know, in a lot of art museums, there's this one room, like usually just a white room that has a big movie being projected, like in the whole room.
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How I Met Your Monster
And that's very much what this movie is like. This movie feels like one of those art museum pieces that would just be playing on a loop in this room, where everybody is super quiet, and you just go stand in it for like ten minutes, and then you feel really fucking weird. Like, that's exactly what this movie. And that's like.
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How I Met Your Monster
Like, okay, well, okay. Yeah, that's I like that. Yeah, I, I feel like I, his movies are so strange. And obviously I think that's intentional. I had seen this interview. Or is that a red carpet? And David Lynch was stopped by, I believe it was Roger Ebert or someone, and they were basically they had seen a movie of his and they were like, hey, you know, like, can you talk about this movie?
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How I Met Your Monster
And he was like, no, I made the movie. Everything I said is in the mini. Yeah. You tell me about the movie. What did you take away? And because I know Lynch is famous for kind of going by this idea of he's lesson and we've said this, I think we've said this a million times on the show. So I apologize for repeating myself, but it's like he doesn't care about the logical interpretation.
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How I Met Your Monster
It's about the feeling. Yeah. He wants people to I think especially for this one wants people to apply their own experiences to their interpretations of the movie. So in a weird way, it's like there's no way to be you can't be wrong about it. But he does give you enough to be like it's contained a bit like it's like he is trying to say something, but what he's saying is evoking your feeling and your feeling can't be wrong.
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How I Met Your Monster
Which I think is a really difficult. It's difficult for us to like, have a conversation about it because we have a kind of a regimented system for the way the show works, but at the same time it's I don't know, it's helpful because it's not like it's not like, you know, you're talking about going to an art museum.
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How I Met Your Monster
It's not like a Jackson Pollock painting where he's just like splattering shit on the page. And I didn't mean to. That wasn't to say like a design that gets me like, it's just like you're just like. It's not like paint, is there? It's like, okay, how do you feel? There are constraints and like narrative constraints. Would you say that it's not black and white?
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How I Met Your Monster
Oh yeah. Listen, this movie is not black and white. That's like that's the first. It's a picture of me looking at a picture of a black and white movie. Yeah. Obviously I think it helps to kind of have he obviously navigates us in so many ways, just like with the structure of the story, even though the structure of the story is very abstract.
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How I Met Your Monster
But I think a general takeaway from this, at least what I got in just from like little, I tried to not do too much digging around and reading other people's interpretations. Yeah, I didn't either, but it's it was hard to avoid it in some cases, and it was more a case of me being like, oh yeah, like, okay, I felt validated.
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How I Met Your Monster
It's like, that's kind of what I was feeling because I went into this with the mindset were with the direction of what Lynch has said in the past about it. Let it just be a feeling. Don't feel like you have to overthink it or anything and it's like the movie is basically about anxiety and discomfort. And on a literal, more literal level, the fear of being a father and sort of settling down.
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How I Met Your Monster
And that seems like the most on the nose thing. And I thought it was really interesting that it's us three talking about this movie, because in Casey, I don't mean to speak for you, I'm only basing this off of conversations we've had, so please tell me to shut the fuck up. But I think it's interesting that it's three.
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How I Met Your Monster
Shut the fuck up that it's someone who has kids, Zach. Someone who wants kids. Me and someone who doesn't want kids. Casey. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, oh, what a cool. Yeah, I just, I don't know, I feel like that is. Yeah. But yeah, it's like the spectrum. An interesting spectrum. It is. Yeah.
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How I Met Your Monster
Yeah. And and even though I don't want children, the big fear of this movie is unwanted children, unplanned children. So yeah, that's not looking like that's so true, but. Yeah. And and the, the anxiety, depression leaving a life behind, you know, patience. Yeah. I think the, you know, I saw the black and white thing. And I think that it's really interesting that part of what for me and I'm sure this is intentional, but, what makes me feel weird about this movie is the lack of music.
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How I Met Your Monster
Like, there's real music, you know, when the woman, the lady in the radiator sings and when he plays the record player, but otherwise it's all just industrial hums and winds and fans and electricity and yeah, it's real weird. Yeah. And it's, it's like the, I think the most obvious like kind of in that I don't mean obvious like it's wrong, but just like.
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How I Met Your Monster
But the clearest takeaway from this is the, the dream logic that's applied to it, which he obviously does with a lot of his movies and shows, and it's because it's like it gives him a pass to sort of leave things open to interpretation, because dreams, that's like the whole like fundamental basis of a dream is that there is no logic to it.
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How I Met Your Monster
And yet it's, you know, in some cases at least, or maybe all cases, dreams are exist based off of like our subconscious, which is things that we're either thinking about or not realizing or thinking about. So for for him to like put that on film, it's, it's so easy to criticize as like, I didn't get it, therefore I didn't like it.
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How I Met Your Monster
Therefore it's bad. But the whole point of it is like, I don't want you to get it. It's fine. If it's bad, it doesn't matter. He's sort of breaking the rules and sort of defying criticism in a way. Yeah. Which kind of makes it's the same thing. We've talked about this with some movies in the past where maybe like your gut check and I'm just speaking for myself, but like, your gut check is like, I don't know how I feel about that.
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How I Met Your Monster
I don't know if I like it. And then I stop and wonder. I'm like, well, what does that mean? I didn't like it. Does that mean the rewatch value isn't as high and therefore I don't? It's not good. And then I was kind of like, you know, you've sort of. So I was like, no way. I and then you start to love it or like it even more, and then you start to love it and then you, it's like transcends, just like artistic appreciation.
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How I Met Your Monster
Yeah. You're like, wait a minute. This is is this a masterpiece? You're like, oh shit, now I get it, I get it, I get why people love certain filmmakers and in this case, specifically with Lynch, even though like what I to recommend this to like my grandmother. No, but that doesn't. That's not like that doesn't define the merits of this.
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How I Met Your Monster
Like like how you would grade a movie, but that that makes sense. I'm kind of like rambling a little bit because I'm like trying to process the movie as I'm talking and it's, it's interesting that you use the word transcends. Because I don't know if you guys know about David Lynch and like the David Lynch Foundation and all that stuff where he was really big into Trenton and a struggle to say transcendental meditation.
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How I Met Your Monster
Oh and so he's he was started doing that before Eraserhead. And it just like that's where he would like get his ideas right. And he was like a huge like like I said, they've got the David Lynch Foundation where they like, give scholarships to people to like, learn how to do this transcendental meditation. That's pretty cool. It's really interesting.
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How I Met Your Monster
You know, he always talks about, like, the ideas are like fish. If you're just like, on the surface, like you might be able to catch, like some little fishes, but if you like, go deeper in and like through this transcendental meditation, you go into, like your subconscious or whatever. And it's like calmer down there and you can catch bigger fish.
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How I Met Your Monster
And so I love that. There's also like fish down there that are clear, you know, because the sun doesn't get down there. It's pretty. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Fish that I'll eat. You know, I'm serious. I love deep sea life. Well, now I'm now I'm surprised. I wonder why Lynch never did a Godzilla movie. It's the ultimate big fish.
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How I Met Your Monster
But he did say, you know, we were. You were talking about, like, abstract and like the audience reaction to it and stuff. And he had said that when he was making this one, he wasn't even thinking about an audience when making it. It wasn't until his next feature, The Elephant Man, that he was like, okay, now I need to think about, you know, we're on a bigger scale.
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How I Met Your Monster
There's a play by the rules a little. We gotta I have to think about the audience more. But this one, he was like, it's like you were talking about how people are interpreting it. He's like, it's up to you to interpret this. This is what I'm putting out there. And you tell me what you think. And he even described this as his most spiritual film.
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How I Met Your Monster
And again, when asked to elaborate on it, he just refused to. He just says, no. But I know there was like pieces of this that had come together. And he wasn't like, things aren't like clicking. And he opened up the Bible and he like, read some. I don't know how much he read, but he came to one line and something clicked in him and he's like, I've got it now.
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How I Met Your Monster
And he shut the Bible and that was it. And he won't, you know, never told anybody what that line, what it was that he wrote that must be that must be what the guy at the gym is doing. There's a guy at the gym who reads the Bible in between a sets. That must be, oh, he's writing Eraserhead to.
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How I Met Your Monster
He must be. Try it open every time. Looking for some inspiration. Doesn't find it so he does more shit. Yeah, it's, you know. What would Jesus do? It just says one more rep.
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How I Met Your Monster
Oh, I thought I thought Jesus said worm movie. It's just a picture of a bunch of. All right. Are they worms or are they sperms? Boats? The sperm was going to say sperm worms, but that's. I was going for sperm and worm together. But it is for sperm spawn. Yeah, I think that they're worms that are, some of the sperm.
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How I Met Your Monster
Yeah, yeah. You know, it's interesting talking about, like, audience interpretation and a bunch of people were saying like, oh, it's like, it's about his, like, repressed sexuality and all this stuff. And in the beginning, you know, we'll get into where we're going to start the talking about the actual movie itself here in just a minute. But in the beginning of like, you go on that planet and then there's like this, almost like a Star Wars esque shot where it's like the canal, you know what I'm talking about, where they like at the end starts like when they're going into, yeah, to shoot the thing at the end.
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How I Met Your Monster
And it's like a tunnel, not a tunnel, but a it's a canal. Yeah, it's a canal. It's the classic, Darth Canal. You, this beautiful canal, they were going to fill it up with fish because he's like, Darth is like, I listen, why don't call him Darth, but not Vader? I don't know, but, yeah. First name basis.
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How I Met Your Monster
Yeah. Are you Darth, dork? Okay, so what was they fucking saying? Oh, this looks like a it's like a it's like a birth canal, right? Yeah. And then you get the guy in the, the man on the planet and he's like, well, he doesn't really have much to do with this, but like, you see, like the little sperm worm thing.
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How I Met Your Monster
And then he, like, pulls the lever and the sperm worm thing, like, goes somewhere. And then we float around a little bit and then we go towards this hole, which is essentially like a light on the other side. And it just it's dark. And then we go towards the hole and it becomes white. It's like the light we get, like we, we're being born.
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How I Met Your Monster
So you know, it was. Yeah, that was the thing. I was thinking of the part where the big worm falls into the well, like splashes in the like. I think that's conception. Oh, so is Luke the only one who's Luke? We're not talking about Star Wars anymore. So is that supposed to be like. We're not talking representing? I'm sure you are all about us.
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How I Met Your Monster
So you know, so so is Luke George Lucas trying to say, like, birth is destruction is Star Wars, kind of like, Danny, you know, I moved back to Eraserhead, right? Yeah. We're not talking about the birth canal scene and Star Wars. Well, now I'm just wondering, like, what does that represent of, like, he shoots the lasers, into the Death Star, into the Big bang.
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How I Met Your Monster
Explode. It's like an egg. Yeah, and it explodes. Think it's dude, the big bang. And then everyone conception like God. And now we're in Star Wars. Like one of those birthing videos they show in high school. Star Wars is the creation of man. I new hope so. See, this is it's conversations like this that get us. Wait, I missed it.
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How I Met Your Monster
What? How did you miss it? You said it. What did I say? I don't know, was I just laughing? I new hope so.
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How I Met Your Monster
I thought that was so stupid after I said it that I black, like, you know, put it out of memory. Laughing at that. Okay? I apologize for it. For bringing us back, but it is kind of like on the same page with it's kind of doing the same thing. Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah, let's get started. Let's, let's get into this.
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How I Met Your Monster
Let's head to. So are we on another planet? Where are we going? Because like, we're just kind of like a planet. And then then are we on Earth or is this does this take place on another planet? I don't I'm like, nobody knows. I feel like we're just in a nightmare. I feel like this is just an industrial health.
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How I Met Your Monster
Danny, where do you have your nightmares? Do you have them? Do they take place on Earth or in space? On other planets? Oh, that's a good question. On the Death Star just before it explodes. Guys, I had a dream. Yeah. Let's talk. I had dreams, had a dream that I was just sitting in the middle of a big pile of breadsticks and pizza crust, eating.
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How I Met Your Monster
I feel like that's a euphemism for your fears of being a mother. Oh, yeah, I know, I oh, I probably yeah, I, I think that it's probably because I have very strict eating plans and I don't eat pizza. Oh, I can have carbs and, oh, I have a decent amount of carbs. I just don't get to eat pizza, that's all.
00;25;23;12 - 00;25;48;05
How I Met Your Monster
Damn. I used to like pizza. And as I got older, I realized I love pizza. Oh, I love pizza. I'm having it next weekend. Pickle pizza. Oh, nice. Pickle pizza. Like pickles. Pizza? No. Some pizza. Like like some ranch and some cheese and pickles on the pizza crust. So it's good if you're a fan of pickle pickle.
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How I Met Your Monster
Anything good dude. Fresh dough all over it. Oh I can't wait to put a whole one down McGowan. Oh, swallow the dill. Useful. Do you like Hollanders? Yeah, guys, let's go to the planet. Well, it might be okay. So I watched this interview with David Lynch, and he talked about some of the inspiration for the setting of this movie.
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And he said growing up in believes that the Pacific Northwest, which makes sense, I guess because of, 206. He said he had a terrible experience when he moved to Philadelphia. Yeah. And he said it was kind of like, so this is Philly obviously wasn't literally like what it is in this movie. But yeah, it's kind of his like nightmarish interpretation and and how again, like how he felt about living.
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But he said at the time it was not what it is today. It was in the same way New York City is not what it was. Let's head to Philadelphia. Yeah. The city of brotherly love, brotherly love. That's it. Yeah. The city of we're in or the city of fatherly abandonment. Yeah. What the fuck is that about? Asshole.
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Real monster section coming up. All right, let's go to Philly.
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Little.
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Have you guys ever listened to David Lynch's music? Oh, I don't think so. It's really trippy and really cool, but that heaven song in heaven that's in this movie. I had heard that like, many times before. I was listening to to his albums and didn't know it was from Eraserhead, and it popped up in here and I was like, like, obviously this is, you know, where it was from?
00;27;45;11 - 00;28;09;07
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And I was like, oh shit, I know this song. But yeah, yeah, I'll check it out. He's really cool. And so like, there's some of it's startling, some of it's pretty startling, like you'll be listening and then like he cut in some like random sound effect and you're like, oh shit. Okay. I'm, I'm I'm back. I'm back. Okay, so for Eraserhead, we have seven monster reveals, and these monster reveals.
00;28;09;09 - 00;28;27;24
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If you're new to the show, a monster reveals anytime that a monster is revealed to us as an audience or to the people in the movie. We've got seven reveals. They're kind of just going with the flow of this movie, which is just kind of trippy. So abstract. Some of them, yeah, they're very abstract monsters. That's a good way of saying it.
00;28;27;24 - 00;28;42;29
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So, Casey, as we said before, this was your pick for our Mind Fucks triple feature. Go ahead and read the synopsis from IMDb. Henry Spencer. Yes.
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Henry. And start. Oh 31312. Let's start at five for you, I know it, I know you guys just that. Swear to God, the. Henry Spencer tries to survive in the desert. Okay, that was a test. That's right. Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment. His angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child. Okay, okay.
00;29;13;22 - 00;29;39;12
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Good job. I don't know how else to describe it. Yeah, without going into huge detail and you know. Right. And you can't use it like you can't use like David Lynch talk of describing it because a Lynchian tale. Oh, yeah. Wait, who's Lynch? You can't say Lynch. You haven't done this yet. All right. Yeah. That baby man. Well, we'll talk about it.
00;29;39;16 - 00;30;02;27
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Okay. Baby duty. All right. So our, you know, our first reveal is right at the beginning of the movie. It's the, the man and the planet. It opens on this, you know, this shot of this planet, and, Henry, that his name? Henry. He's 92, at a 90 degree angle, and he's, like, sort of transparent, and you can see, like, the planet behind him.
00;30;02;27 - 00;30;28;24
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And he's like, he's kind of just, like, floating. This made me like, I didn't like that shot. I love it. There's so many beautiful shots in this movie, like the compositions are so great. I'm like, this is just me. Like thinking, because I do this all the time, I'll do something creatively that's like out there and then like five years later or something, I'll see it again and I'll be like, what was I thinking?
00;30;29;02 - 00;30;44;10
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Everybody does. What the fuck do you think? Well, that's my question. Like, do you think Lynch was the kind of person that was like, I don't know if I, I believe this is, Schrodinger's cat.
00;30;44;12 - 00;31;05;06
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I should never say anything. I shouldn't said anything. I'm just kidding. I never should have said anything. I feel like Lynch is the kind of guy that even if he did feel that way, he could talk himself out of it. And being like, you know, it existed at a time when, like, it felt right. That's what exactly that's what he was feeling at the time.
00;31;05;09 - 00;31;25;02
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You know, it was meant to be that way for a reason. It's like when people say, you know, like you don't want to get tattoos, because what if you regret them when you're older? Like, okay, that's one way of looking at it. Or you can say, it brings me back to this time and I like created this permanent memory that I can like, reflect on visually, you know, every day.
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And it's beautiful. Yeah, I have some horrible tattoos, but they're beautiful. Whatever. What's what's your most hated tattoo? Which one? You just like. I don't hate any of them. I'm serious. That's the that you just said you had horrible ones. I do, but I don't hate them. But you don't hate them. Horrible. Objectively, what's the most horrible one?
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Just as horrible. What's the what's the most horrible one? That's the one I'm asking. None of them.
00;31;57;03 - 00;32;17;00
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I'd. Wait a second. Schrodinger's cat. You just said you have horrible tattoos. Okay, there are some on you that are horrible. You just said that? No. And I'm asking you, which one do you think was the worst? So pissed about my tattoos, first of all. Second of all, not horrible in a sense. They're just dumb. Not horribly. Not horribly done.
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They're just stupid tattoos. Okay, well, then what's the stupidest one you have? I don't that's the only fish on my ass back.
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Like, and in the alternate universe, there is a race of jellyfish who are like, I don't know, it's like the key on my ass.
00;32;45;02 - 00;32;55;28
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Fuck. But I'm already fever dreaming in this recording, and we're not. We're. We have that. Let's do the, first reveal. Squid.
00;32;56;01 - 00;33;19;18
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Oh, like, serious. Okay. So. Yeah. So we're on this, we see this planet, and like I said, our first reveal is the man in the planet. Man? Yes. And he's just, like, sitting by a window, chillin, pulling levers, like making the world go round. Basically. Can I say something? Can I just say this is the one part where I cheated?
00;33;19;21 - 00;33;38;24
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I was very confused by this character. Okay, I don't know if I gave it enough time. Mind you, I think I mentioned this already. I wasn't feeling that well when I watch this movie, so my brain is a little foggy. Well, I didn't look at it. Hold on, hold on. Okay. Hold on. Oh, yeah. Let's eat that. Yes.
00;33;38;24 - 00;34;08;27
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I want to hear the UN speculation. You want to hear some speculation from people who don't know? I don't know that I couldn't. I was thinking that maybe it was his brain. Okay. That's about all right. Okay. So my what I again and whatever what what I hold on. But but no that's no that's a good jumping off point because the information I got is sort of that.
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But it's like another take on it. And someone was saying how it's sort of like his Henry's libido in his urges. And he's like pulling levers to make Henry make primal decisions, not pragmatic or logic or well thought out. Sort of like to love somebody, I think even went so far as to say it's in his balls. Like the way the guys are like, you know, thinking with their brain, you're thinking with the thing between your legs.
00;34;34;22 - 00;35;04;14
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It'd be his frontal lobe, because that controls your impulse. What's your impulse control? Oh, okay. That's that is better. I like that because the little like worm sperm, the sperm spawns the sperm form, like, you know, that's, like, transparent with, like him. And it's like, layered like him and Henry and the planet and then, like, comes out a little bit, and then the man in the planet, like, pulls lever, pulls a lever and it like, shoots, like swims away.
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So that could be, like you said, it's either his brain making the decision to fucking have sex stuff or it's his balls or something. You know, it's something because then the thing are connected. It's like, you know, again, like we're we're trying to apply literal logic to this. And it could just be like the way your frontal lobe is sort of tied to your balls, is sort of tied to your primal urges.
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It's all kind of like doing this. It's like working in the same factory. We're all trying to have the same. Just controlling him. Yeah. Danny, you said your frontal lobe is attached, is tied to your balls, and all your balls are. And you could think about was Hugh Jackman in movie 40, 42, 43, 333 where Hugh Jackman has the testicles on his neck.
00;35;51;16 - 00;36;10;21
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I have a feeling that in the weirdest movie I've ever seen, dude, that movie is like, so hated. And I think it's so funny. It's pretty funny and isn't Kate Winslet in that scene? Oh my god. Kate Winslet is his date in the episode and she's like, I say episode. It's like a little short segment and oh, you're just looking at neck balls.
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Yeah. And he like, eats his soup and like, dips in his.
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You guys never saw that. It doesn't make it really cold. And they're like, oh, they go up not on but not on. Does that really happen? Casey, you need to watch that movie insane. It's it's a truly and and isn't it based it's like all these stories are based on Dennis Quaid's character. So you're just watching Dennis Quaid like it?
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Yeah. And there's a thing with Anna Faris and I think Chris Pratt. Oh my God, so gross. The I hate it dude. Okay, so you gotta watch for 43. It's funny. Okay. Got this. Yeah. I love the balls. I'm sure David Lynch would be proud that that's where our conversation about what some consider to be his masterpiece.
00;36;59;06 - 00;37;20;25
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Yeah. So I guess, but no, I actually like it. Okay, so the man on the planet, which makes sense because, I mean, again, like this, I could be, like, just sounding so stupid right now, but the planet being his brain or the planet being his balls, the planet being his body like this, like the idea that he's he's like the man in the movies.
00;37;20;29 - 00;37;48;22
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We don't know him made of cheese, but we do know who he is. Technically, it's he's played by Jack Fisk, who is, a production designer, most recently was so familiar. Well, he was the production designer for Marty Supreme, Socialist killers of the Flower Moon. I mean, he's had, like, a huge list, but he also, did Mulholland Drive and and some of the Paradise.
00;37;48;25 - 00;38;14;08
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What? David lynch. Yeah, yeah. And, so he did Phantom of the Paradise, and he's married to sissy space. Oh, fuck. And so when they were like, is when they were, like, running out of money and stuff for this movie, like, at one point, Jack Fisk and Sissy Spacek contributed some money to the to keep things, we find some comparison between Phantom of the Paradise and Carrie.
00;38;14;14 - 00;38;38;11
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Or was it? I was gonna say Jack Fisk did. Carrie, too. Didn't wait. Yeah. Happening. So. So here's what happened. I think it was Phantom of the Paradise. If I'm not mistaken, Sissy Spacek was production designer or art designer or something, and she screwed something up pretty big. And she got fired. She burned the whole stage down. Yeah.
00;38;38;13 - 00;38;56;15
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But then, you know, De Palma did use her later, famously, as Carrie. So if you're gonna fuck somebody, I'll do it. I let sure it's in the script. I love when things are, like, connected, you know, that's wild. That's like Fanning and Lee. Like, blowing my mind right now. Yeah. How about a mind fuck? So, yeah, that's Jack Fisk.
00;38;56;18 - 00;39;15;07
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So we don't know really what the man in the planet is, but we do know who he is. And did you notice? Like, he's got sores on his face? Kind of like the baby gets later. Those little, like, dots, little sparse. I thought he was just, like, covered in moss for some reason, I don't know. Oh, yeah. Maybe that's just supposed to be like Henry's psyche.
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Like, it's just sort of spoiled. And. No, maybe that's a spot. Feels like the baby. Yeah. And the baby is the ball. It's. Babies are made from the sperms, and the sperms are monsters. And he's pulling the levers to shoot the monster's sperms. Sperms? Can you imagine opening this episode, fast forwarding it just to kind of get an idea of, like, what the tone of the conversation is, and hearing that it's just I love it.
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Yeah, I love I hope, I hope they come to this spot. Fuck you. I just Danny kidding. Then he was hoping someone randomly lands on this. This moment. It just says fuck or this one, I love you. How about this one Juicy Johnson?
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Jesse for the glizzy getting watery. He all right guys? Yeah, that's me in hot dog talk with the boys. So now we get to we we meet Henry. We're down in Philly. He's walking around, stepping in puddles. And we find out what? Just the way he walks and oh, yeah, purposely goes over these mounds that he doesn't have to go over.
00;40;35;02 - 00;40;57;22
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Yeah. Everything in this movie is off. It's like everything is meant to make you feel like a little bit like I like it. It's sort of you. It's like even though the movie has this sort of, you know, like, not slow. I don't want to make it. It's not like a bad thing. It's just like there's just moments of where we're just kind of staring at things and like letting it play out.
00;40;57;25 - 00;41;22;11
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But it's not the kind of movie where you just sort of it always just kind of like tripping you up a little bit. So you're always sort of alert because you're like, what's that? Wait, what's this, what's that? So it's sort of it's a it's subversive in a way that it feels on paper or like at first glance it feels like this slow burn, when in reality it's constantly sort of like poking at you and throwing something to you that feels unfamiliar.
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It's really weird because I know that we're not going to talk about this as a part in it, so I'm just going to say it now. One of my favorite parts of this movie is when his wife is going to leave and she you just see her eyes above the bed and she's just, yeah, shaking the luggage underneath the bed.
00;41;42;06 - 00;42;05;16
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But you don't know that it's luggage. And so she, it's just like 30s of her just staring and shaking and making this noise. And I'm like, in a normal movie, this would be a funny moment. Yeah, but it makes me feel so strange. Yeah, well, you know, the interview that I was watching, they were like, the interviewer somehow brought up comedy, and he was.
00;42;05;16 - 00;42;26;19
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And Lynch was like, oh, yeah, it's definitely like a comedy because he was talking about, like, the elevator doors that takes so long to close. Yeah. Once they like, he gets in there and he's in there and he's like, oh yeah, that's supposed to be funny like that. But that's, he did it to be funny. But that lady, the lady, when she,
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Mary, when she's like, down there at the end of the the bed, that's like the shot of is it Bob in Twin Peaks, who's like at the bottom of the bowl. Yeah. And it's like, oh, shit. Like, that's fucking scary. So maybe, you know, he's like, oh, maybe I was funny. Like, think of that. I was imagining, Lynch being like, oh, you know what shot I loved was that shot of Mary, not the bed.
00;42;51;03 - 00;43;12;23
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Let's do that again in Twin Peaks. Like, I just like. So that was cool. But yeah, that's. Yeah. She's like pulling on something, just shaking the bed and you're like, what the fuck is going on? And then she pulls out the leggings. It's all just so uncomfortable. Yeah. I also love that we, when we're in the house, there's all this weird shit going on like, there's things that I wrote down that I genuinely don't remember.
00;43;12;23 - 00;43;42;15
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That's so strange. This movie was I just the movie the bedrooms covered in? Was it? Hey, what was that? So that made me think of like, okay, then again, this could be such a dumb on the nose interpretation, but like, it's like a nest. Like it's like they're home. Like, you know, everyone says it's like you're little. It's, I don't know, like it's very, a very primal, animalistic way to interpret a home because it's like a nightmare.
00;43;42;18 - 00;44;02;10
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You're sort of like things are being pulled out of your subconscious and sort of like littering the room, littering the space with like what your brain is telling you is this, you know, is a parent now is is a baby. That's it's because then there's also like the plant with no flower pot. Yeah. That's because he can't take care of things.
00;44;02;12 - 00;44;22;22
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Yeah. So it's like beauty and chaos. Kind of like it's we it's a beautiful thing, but it's. It's a mess. It's so right now he doesn't have the baby. Right. But to your point, I feel like throughout the movie the hey or whatever it is, I feel like it grows. I feel like there becomes more of it.
00;44;22;25 - 00;44;43;06
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So anyways, I like what you're saying, like maybe like when the baby comes in, like the nest gets bigger caring for it. Okay. Yeah. I also love this is kind of just a just a side note, but the movie, Casey and I were talking about this earlier. I think you were, you were off gallivanting, as I do this one does.
00;44;43;13 - 00;45;05;07
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It is a lot of, like, there's a lot of, like, room tone. Like there sounds like the the like the very heavy, deep room tone. It was cool. I like when movies do this where you see or hear something and it feels like it's non diegetic, and then you realize it is diegetic. And in this. I've never heard that word before.
00;45;05;08 - 00;45;25;28
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What does that mean? Oh really? It's an entire universe. And that part. Yeah. Like if you hear a song and you think it's oh a great maybe the best example is, Cameron Crowe's movie Almost Famous when it's playing out in Tiny Dancer, and then all of a sudden they start singing it and you think it's like biogenic, and then you're like, oh, they're playing it in the in the van.
00;45;25;28 - 00;45;49;06
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They can all part of their universe. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Yes. So in this case, they show steam coming from the radiator. And it's like oh. So it could still just be that there is this sort of tone in this world, in the world they created. But then he's also kind of giving it, giving the radiator like that's the reason for it.
00;45;49;06 - 00;46;11;29
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But it also can be the same thing. So it, yeah, it, it leans into that like that dream logic again or it's like is the steam is the sound coming from the steamer. Is the steam coming up? You know, it broke my brain, but also helped me understand the world a little bit. Yeah. Because even like the where he lives in the industrial spot, like that sound could just be coming from.
00;46;12;01 - 00;46;38;26
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Oh, yeah. Exactly. Yeah. But he gets invited to Mary's house, for dinner, and then you find out that, like, they must've had some fight or something because he has the picture ripped up in his drawer next to a bowl of water tucked in his jaw at the fact. Yes. You know, his his, lapping bowl is left off, as you, like, pick something up and, like, drops it in the bowl, I think, like, find, like a coin or something.
00;46;38;27 - 00;47;04;20
How I Met Your Monster
Put it in there so you don't have a coin cleaning bowl in your drawer? No, no. I love he is over to Mary's house. This scene has, like, kind of sitcom vibes. And I just go, oh no it doesn't. Yeah, well, like sitcom vibes. Like. But like what? Aliens. If aliens were to describe a sitcom, you know, it would be this weird.
00;47;04;22 - 00;47;35;15
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It's got like, it has killers the way they do the. It's like an interesting, you know. Yeah, it's very much, you're nervous to meet your significant others family, and you feel awkward, and it's projected out into the situation times ten. And it is so fucking weird, even though it's not really usually that weird, but it feels like it is when you're there.
00;47;35;17 - 00;47;54;07
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It's the anxiety of like, yeah, and the the worst case scenario, the dad's like so nice. But then he's like fucking weird, really nice. And he's like smiles for like five minutes and just stares. And the mom she, like, comes on to him. She like says, yeah, that's my daughter. And then she like so it's sucking on his neck.
00;47;54;12 - 00;48;12;18
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That part, that kind of weird. I don't understand that part, but. And the like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre grandma lady in the kitchen who just sits there, but she just holds the bowl, the garbage pail. They put a cigaret in her mouth and light it like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's of all the scenes in the movie. What?
00;48;12;18 - 00;48;37;16
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Casey, you said it's like, yeah, 100%, but it's the things that are in it that just confuse me even more, like specificity of events. It made me like it kind of made me sad when, like, the grandmas, like sitting there and they put the bowl of salad and on her lap and the mom, like, comes around and like, takes her arms and like, tosses the salad and then she, like, take them like, oh, let me just like, maybe it is just like the fear.
00;48;37;18 - 00;48;51;04
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Like I like just domestication, you know, like everyone's playing the role, but the role is sort of stifling you. And yeah, in Russia, role plays you.
00;48;51;07 - 00;49;13;18
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But you know, like the grandmother is just sort of like that's it. You just you have no real purpose. You just kind of sit there as life happens around you. People put a cigaret in your mouth. And to shut you up. And there's just yeah, it just is bleak and boring and performative. Then the mom, like, I don't know what that's all about.
00;49;13;20 - 00;49;35;12
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The kissing. Yeah. Maybe that's her. Like everyone's kind of having their own stares. Maybe her fear or her like nightmare. Is that she has is sort of kind of, similar to Henry or it's like I've, I'm locked in now. I have primal urges. Yeah, like. And even if the temptations are something I wouldn't have acted on if I had the freedom.
00;49;35;12 - 00;49;55;04
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Now that I don't have the freedom, I feel even more stifled. But she's been locked up for years, so. Yeah. Yeah. So she's like, what? She's actually living it. She's like, I'm just gonna kiss it till it. Till her daughter brings her hunky man to the house to like, a little sweet ass haircut. And yeah, that that haircut got her.
00;49;55;07 - 00;50;18;23
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And so here's where we get our second monster reveal. You guys. Number two. It's the little chickens, the little, chickens that they are going to have for dinner. That the dad asks, Henry to cut up. Yeah. Which is his hands. It's so strange. He messed up his arm, and they said that he was never going to use it again, but then he rubbed it for half an hour every day, and now we can use it.
00;50;18;23 - 00;50;42;09
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But he can't feel it. You know, it feels so strange. And so. Yeah, he he cuts open the chicken and like, he like, stabs it and like, so it's oozing like, you know what's funny about this is I've. It's not a fear. It's just like, you know, every now and then you just have a thing that kind of like it's a weird little percolating anxiety that doesn't hold really any weight or substance.
00;50;42;09 - 00;51;09;19
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But that's what I remember when I was younger. This movie is all about anxiety. Go ahead. 800%. And like when I was, I don't feel this anymore. But when I was younger, I was always afraid that I wouldn't be like, I don't know, like fit the role that I was. I thought I was supposed to fit correction. So for example, like you're at a dinner table, it's Thanksgiving and you're the quote unquote man of the house.
00;51;09;19 - 00;51;30;01
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Therefore, the turkey. Yeah. And I would be like, I can't do that. Like, there's no fucking way. I hope no one ever asks me to do that. And this kind of feels like that kind of anxiety because now it's like, oh, it's not just a chicken. There's like little chickens and they don't work. Well, what do you mean they don't work?
00;51;30;01 - 00;51;54;29
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It's like, yeah, exactly. Like, figure it out. You're the man of the house. And it's like, oh fuck. Like, what do I do if it's, that is blowing up? And it's just this rebel that tapped into a very specific fear. Yeah. Danny, are you okay, buddy? No, I need to go. It's not about the fatherhood aspect.
00;51;54;29 - 00;52;15;21
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It's not about, you know, losing your identity and blah, blah, blah. It's about the cutting the tree, the turkey. Yeah. But speaking of the fatherhood thing, you know, this is right where the mom starts freaking out about telling him about the baby and all this stuff, and it's like a little chicken, and it's oozing out all this black stuff.
00;52;15;27 - 00;52;39;11
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Oh, did you know that, like a baby's first poop is just all, like, black tar? Yeah, it just like, oozes and it's just black and it's. Do you mean like in the first poop or like the first poops? No. Like like in the hospital when, when they come out born poop and they're wrapped up in they're in the thing the first time they poop.
00;52;39;13 - 00;52;57;23
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Like in the real world, it's just black and oozy and goop. So, like, I kind of thought like that was like, oh, maybe this little chicken. And it's like the oozy black chicken. The mom's like, the mom freaks out. She starts doing her little gobble gobble thing. And like, my friend Sam and I used to do that to each other all the time.
00;52;57;26 - 00;53;20;11
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Oh 000. You know, it's interesting the the is the mom who does that then. Because that's kind of what the baby does later. Yes, it does do that. I don't know what the significance is, but I did note that be like, oh, that's just like the mom. And chickens, we know how they procreate. Clack or kiss little apple.
00;53;20;11 - 00;53;48;27
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Crackle kiss, baby. Yeah. Hell yeah. We didn't think we'd be talking about that again. You got to touch. You got to touch your events together for 15 of your fancy touch events that, touch the clack of events. Clack. What, are you, drunk? Check the black. Oh, no. But but I struggle on a normal day to say the word coaxial, so we'll just struggle to get that.
00;53;48;29 - 00;54;13;22
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It's a normal day. Okay, so let's get to our third reveal. This is the the baby. So this is like the monster of the movie were to, quote unquote, monster. Yeah. This is fear personified. Fear? What's the word I'm looking for an a fear of bears? Yes, the fear of bears. A fair of bears is a bear.
00;54;13;26 - 00;54;46;05
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Fairy bears. Fairies? No. What is it? What? Something is is is not right. We'll work it out, say stupid things and we'll figure it out. Bloop! A blob don't feel stupid. Just say that. Let it come out. Yeah, we're an improv class. Burt Bacharach. Burt. When something is, a, a manifestation, a manifestation. This is like his fear and anxiety and, you know.
00;54;46;05 - 00;54;58;09
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Oh, I don't remember the word that you said manifest. It meant a manifestation. Yeah, yeah. Guys, I think we nailed that.
00;54;58;11 - 00;55;17;20
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No, no, no, I mean, I think that's pretty accurate. I know it's it's a love that makes sense. People who don't have kids, they're always like, you know, there's that, like those memes that go around, right? It's like when a couple says like, oh, look at my cute newborn baby. And it's like, picture like an alien or something.
00;55;17;22 - 00;55;38;04
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And this is always literally just, yeah, they look like this. It's it's like it's just a weird creature. It hasn't form. Yeah, yeah. It's incomplete. Yeah. Newborn. Sorry, Zach are disgusting. Well, now I know that I no know how you really felt when I sent you pictures of my newborn baby. Oh, no. Because she vomited. Because she was too.
00;55;38;06 - 00;55;56;00
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Because she was, like, 13 pounds. So she was filled out. Yeah. You know what I mean? She looked like she was filled out like a full mane of hair. She had a whole head of hair, though, and she had snow, and then she lost it all, but and and and also, when I care about people, I care about their children.
00;55;56;00 - 00;56;21;27
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And it's different. I know, I know, I do, I know, but this baby, nobody knows how it was made. It was kept a secret. And now that David Lynch is gone, I don't think anyone would. I didn't know that. I didn't know that we would have to have this conversation with you. Yeah. How are they made about how babies are babies?
00;56;21;29 - 00;56;49;20
How I Met Your Monster
So you put the man in the planet? In the man. Clever. Yeah. And Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star. No, George. First the worm falls onto the wet. Yeah. Yes. And that bogey. You got to get in the male first. You got to get it in the mouth from the stork. No, from. Just don't think so. So in the common misconception, this is stork.
00;56;49;20 - 00;57;24;08
How I Met Your Monster
Stork. It's people get it. What is a stunk. It's, cave dwelling. It's almost like a chud. But not quite. But they live like the caves. The tunnels? Yes. You get a ballistic humanoid underground dweller, is what I'm talking about. Daddy. They the storks underground, burrowing around. What is come up. And it's wild that we wouldn't have life without the stockings.
00;57;24;10 - 00;57;52;17
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We wouldn't. And then they come up through your toilet and. Oh, yeah, that. That's when you get baby being, lost. I am Zach. Here's the problem. Now you're trying to understand it. You should just feel it. How do you feel right now? Bizarre. Exact. Congratulations. No. Okay, guys, nobody knows how fucking creature do. He knows how babies are made.
00;57;52;19 - 00;58;23;21
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I'm so sorry. Deal with it. Nobody knows how the creature baby prop in this movie was made. They kept it a secret. Apparently, even the guy who did the who developed the dailies for this movie was blindfolded. What do you mean how it was made? Like the material. That's how the prop baby was. I mean, that's like extra disturbing, because what it was when it was made out of how it was, you know what I mean?
00;58;23;23 - 00;58;59;20
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Well, there's only so many things. Unless they were doing something. Oh, so I know what it was. There. There is. People have speculated which we're allowed to do on the show. People have speculated that it was either a skinned rabbit or a lamb fetus. Oh. That makes more sense. And that would not surprise me if that was the case, because there was, there was like 20 or more minutes of this movie that was cut out after a test screening that he just, like, got rid of.
00;58;59;22 - 00;59;26;08
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Two of those scenes included a dead cat, which he got from a veterinarian, which was like a recently deceased cat. And it's in like the scene with like the it's line, like the tar when Henry's like, walking outside. That scene was cut and also a scene that featured a mouse that David Lynch put Nair on to remove a tear.
00;59;26;11 - 00;59;50;05
How I Met Your Monster
Is this true or is this like a. Yeah. Why didn't you just get a naked mouse? I don't know, and so that mouse, I don't know, I don't think so. I think it was a while. David. It so that the fact that this, you know, people have said this could be a lamb fetus or a skinned rabbit, I it it's not farfetched.
00;59;50;07 - 01;00;25;09
How I Met Your Monster
Well, whatever is in in it at the end is definitely some sort of real organism. Well, that's the thing. It's so. Okay. Realistic. Yeah. Yeah. So it's definitely for the definitely some sort of dead animal and. Yeah. And when you consider how the movie was made and the low budget and. Yeah, yeah, it's not that far beyond belief that they would, especially considering what you just said, that they how would they get like the eyes and shit, you know, like how did they do like the eyes and the like get it to it's a little tongue in its teeth and it looks, it spits up that.
01;00;25;09 - 01;00;46;20
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So I don't know. But fucking, the grits that come out at the end was generally. Oh yeah, that's right. The grits, it, overflows. Cheesy grits, but God yeah. Like the the mom is like her. Mary is like, feeding it and like, spits and she fucking plugs its nose so that it swallows the like a cat.
01;00;46;22 - 01;01;10;20
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Shit. I want to be, like, ebbing and flowing with this movie. Like, I love that it's a masterpiece. And I'm like, well, it's supposed to make you. Yeah. Not happy. So we see the baby, and then our fourth reveal is right after this. Henry goes to the mailbox and gets, a worm, a sperm. He gets a sperm out of his mailbox.
01;01;10;23 - 01;01;37;21
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Okay, so he does this. He then puts the sperm into a cupboard, and it made me wonder, is this supposed to symbolize him kind of practicing self-control? Because he knows where sex can get him. He's put it away. Yeah, he's like, okay, I got it, but I'm. I know better now. I see what it can do. I'm gonna just tuck it away and pretend it's not even here.
01;01;37;24 - 01;01;56;23
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Yeah. And he, like, doesn't even, you know, at first he's not taking care of the baby. He's just, like, sleeping. Well, Mary has to do everything, and she can't get any sleep, and she's freaking out. And so she leaves. He's like, you coming back? And she's like, I don't know, I just need to sleep. And so then he's got to start taking care of it.
01;01;56;25 - 01;02;16;00
How I Met Your Monster
He takes his temperature and then like, it's like crying and he like goes to leave and it starts crying again. And he's like, okay, it's a it's a strange movie, but there's a sweetness to it. Yeah. Well all of a sudden it's just like, so many stays. It's. Yeah, like on a dime, like it just switches and the baby's like, sick.
01;02;16;00 - 01;02;21;05
How I Met Your Monster
And it's kind of like sick. Oh, you are sick.
01;02;21;07 - 01;02;31;28
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And then you get that great shot with, like, the humidifier, like over the baby. And it's like in the boils, you know? Oh, God. Oh.
01;02;32;00 - 01;02;53;19
How I Met Your Monster
Let's move to our fifth reveal. This is the lady in the radiator. We've seen once before, earlier in the movie. Like the radiator, like lights up and you see the stage, but then nothing really happens, and then we see it again. Lynch said he described the lady in the radiator as a beacon of light for Henry in like This Dark World.
01;02;53;19 - 01;03;21;09
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She represents hope for Henry. Interesting. I mean, she also kind of represents suicide. Yeah, I'm thinking suicide. Well, I thought she was like an angel telling him to come to heaven. Yeah, like. Yeah. Like. Okay. Because at the end of the deal with this anymore, she has a heaven. Yeah, yeah. But she's got the cheeks. Actually, cheeks about to say the cheeks like a cherub.
01;03;21;09 - 01;03;51;01
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Like a fat little angel. That's what I was thinking. But I don't know that, so I like that she is very. There's like an angelic. The idea is, I mean, literally, she sings in heaven, everything is fine. So it's like, hey, don't worry about this. You know, like, leave the mortal coil. Come. You know, it's the whole thing of like, I'm not trying to shit on people who are religious, but it's just that idea of, like, yeah, this world sucks, but don't worry, because there's this other world waiting for us and there's no stress.
01;03;51;03 - 01;04;15;05
How I Met Your Monster
And it's like, Danny, you sound like. You sound like you've been taken over by the fucking aliens in the faculty. Oh, I like it's. There's no pain over here. Come on. This is the same. Everything's beautiful. You're gonna put this cat down. This is. What is it called? Scat. Is it scat? Get shit. No, but isn't that what they call it in the movie?
01;04;15;07 - 01;04;38;27
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Do. No. Oh, sperm. No! Danny, I know you've. This is like one of those fucking weird effects. Because scad. No, that's. No, it is called scat. Scat. Okay, because I remember we talked about, I mean, God, we did it. So we did the watch. It sounded right and wrong at the same time. When you. Because it is wrong.
01;04;38;28 - 01;04;56;23
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It should not be that we did an episode on it too. We did. Yeah. Yeah, I guys, I don't know where we're at. I don't know who we are. I know what we're doing. We're. But yeah. So she like the fucking things. The.
01;04;56;25 - 01;05;05;02
How I Met Your Monster
Get up, Scooby doo doo doo doo. Oh my god. Sorry. See the.
01;05;05;04 - 01;05;24;16
How I Met Your Monster
The the sperm worms fall from the ceiling and she steps on them. Yeah, yeah. He doesn't want any more babies. Dude. Yeah. She's like, yeah. See, I'm going to sing my song. Don't even look. I'm just stepping on them. I'm squashing your sperms like, don't worry, you're never have to worry about that. Here. The radiator heat will burn them alive.
01;05;24;18 - 01;05;56;28
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Jesus Christ, it also isn't there a thing if your balls are to like sperm? Can't live in a space that's too hot. Oh, yeah. So maybe that's true. There. No. All right, all right, listeners, rest your testicles on a radiator. Rest. Oh, no, I think I think it's I think it's some science to that because I think, like they would say, like people who wear tight underwear like, have like a lower sperm count than people who.
01;05;56;29 - 01;06;21;17
How I Met Your Monster
That's why you want your testes to hang. That's so they're outside of the body because, like, it too toasty. And unless you don't want children, keep wearing them tighty whities. Yeah. Toast those suckers. Drink all the Mountain Dew. Toast those testes like hashtag toast. Your testes. Just drink all the Mountain Dew. You and toast your testes. Oh my God, get rid of them sperms.
01;06;21;19 - 01;06;32;18
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I was so hoping that this happened. It would be chaotic. Toasting to toast and testes and doing the do.
01;06;32;20 - 01;06;42;27
How I Met Your Monster
But there was a clear slogan here on how I make it. So anyway, this lady in the radiator. Yeah, that's our through.
01;06;42;29 - 01;07;04;22
How I Met Your Monster
Oh, God. So then there's like, this isn't our next reveal yet, but Mary maybe comes back. Or maybe this is like a dream of his. Yeah, but they're sleeping in bed together, and she doesn't look good. She looks like she's sick of some kind, and she rubs her eye. Do you guys remember that visual? No, it's a closeup of her, like rubbing her eye like this in the skin.
01;07;04;29 - 01;07;27;18
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They must have had, like, prosthetic skin on top or something, because, like, she rubs and it, like, stretches out and, like, rubs into it. And I was like, get in there. Yeah. I feel so gross. I don't like them. Yeah. And then. Oh, and then he finds a bunch of little alien babies in his bed. Little squirms. So in his bed, now that we're talking about the swarms again, I.
01;07;27;18 - 01;07;53;12
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When I saw this sea worm score. Worm worm? Boris spores. My first gut. Even though he had seen them already, I they almost looked like in biblical courts. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, maybe it's both. Maybe it's just him kind of, conflating this, these visuals together. Yeah, sure. There's swarm chords, sperm whirring chords spawn biblical court.
01;07;53;16 - 01;08;19;07
How I Met Your Monster
Oh, this episode of Guys skins. It's getting fucking. It's a hat on a hat. It's a it's a there's a lot of them. And of course it's a sperm and a worm. It's, sperm on a worm, on an umbilical cord and a hat. And that's on a shirt. Because that's a list of the sperm on the the sperm on the worm writing the umbilical cord is wearing a hat.
01;08;19;09 - 01;08;44;05
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It's like in Spaceballs. Yeah. Hello? My baby. Hello. My, What kind of hat? Like a fucking like in Spaceballs. Like the, First of all, I haven't seen Spaceballs. I kind of think of it. It's like a carnival hat. You've never seen Spaceballs. Wait, what? We've talked about this so many times that Danny's never seen Spaceballs.
01;08;44;07 - 01;08;53;00
How I Met Your Monster
No, I haven't you haven't? Wait, you've never seen space climbs?
01;08;53;03 - 01;09;11;13
How I Met Your Monster
Schwartz. Not with you. We've talked about this so many times. Oh my God, no, I'm not seen. Spaceballs. No, I am not interested. I you know how now you know how Danny feels about the tree Rock city? No, I don't, because we talk about Detroit City a lot more than we talk about Spaceballs. Spaceballs is the Detroit rock city of.
01;09;11;14 - 01;09;38;09
How I Met Your Monster
No, it's not. Don't play David Lynch movies, dumpling. Okay, but, yeah, he's wearing a hat. Like a carnival hat. And then his neighbor comes over. Who? He's, like, lusting after, right? Infatuated. And she's like, oh, your wife's gone. Can I spend the night? I got locked out of my apartment, and he smothers the baby. And it's funny.
01;09;38;10 - 01;10;04;07
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Be quiet. Because she's, like, representing temptation free. Okay? And it's kind of like that thing of, have you seen this in movies? And I'm sure people have experience it. It's like everything that married men probably think they're giving up, you know, it's like that movie, Hall Pass where they're like, they give the husbands a hall pass and it it's like, okay, just because you have it doesn't mean, like, anything that'll work out.
01;10;04;07 - 01;10;27;12
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Like, you think you're losing out on this thing, but you didn't even have it before because it's like it's you can't just be happy with what you have. And we kind of see, like, where his priorities are, you know, like smothering the baby. It's like he's so over this commitment that he has that he's been, you know, I mean, have you seen me?
01;10;27;14 - 01;10;46;11
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You know, I know I wish there was like one scene where he's like, they're showing off the baby and being like, how cute is he? Like, oh, my God, it's perfect. Like, Well, part of me wonders if the baby actually looks like that. Oh. Or if this is what he thinks it looks like because he fucking hates it.
01;10;46;13 - 01;11;08;06
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That's a good. Yeah, that's a good thought. Yeah. But then they get into the bed. That's a puddle. It's a hot tub. It's a hot tub. Okay. Oh, did. Yeah. Talk about a waterbed. It's like in those motels that are like the the honeymoon suite. And they've got a hot tub right in the bedroom. Yeah, and that carpeting all around.
01;11;08;06 - 01;11;33;25
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Dude, I, when I was in, when I was becoming a restaurant manager for Cracker Barrel. Went through, like, weeks and weeks of training, and I did my training at the one of the cracker barrels in Buffalo and they put you, in a hotel, real fancy hotel. Had a hot tub in, but it wasn't like it was in the room.
01;11;33;25 - 01;11;55;14
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But it wasn't like cheesy, like Honeymoon suite. It was like. And Dumb and Dumber. It was like a normal room, but they had, like, a hot tub in there and, Yeah, one that I fucking got in that fucking hot tub. There you go. One night I had a sub from this other place. Yes. And I fucking watched, and I.
01;11;55;17 - 01;12;25;10
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And I was like, are you saying you watched porn? I see he's starting with P. I'm eating that fucking sub in a hotel, hot tub, living room, hot tub, watching porn. Know, watching predator two on TVs. I mean, it's better than porn. Sex. You were at a hot tub. That's hilarious. You got good getting your brain all steamed and soggy.
01;12;25;12 - 01;12;48;01
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What else did I know? I didn't eat the sub in the fucking hotel. Oh, I was picturing you in with eating like the sub. Like little like shredded lettuce, pieces of lettuce and picking them up and eating of. Oh, I guess I did mayonnaise. I guess I did say the sub part. I didn't say get in the hot tub first, but no, I had the sub for dinner.
01;12;48;03 - 01;13;08;00
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And then I got into the hot tub and watched predator two on TV. Gotcha. Good. Thanks. I it I like to imagine the Cartoon Code Editor two would be playing and you are like you had planned this evening and you're like, yes, exactly like a little late p m. I need to get a little night to myself. This is my little treat.
01;13;08;04 - 01;13;31;06
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Like a soggy porterhouse. Oh my God. Oh, right. Oh, that was like ten years ago. Very funny. Thank God that's anyways okay. I don't even know where the fuck we are. We're just talk about the baby. And it was, you know, this is when things are starting to ramp up. Actually, we're like, really in the climax of this movie.
01;13;31;09 - 01;13;40;20
How I Met Your Monster
Oh, so they got in the they got into the hot tub double bed thing and they like, go down into it. So that's where we were.
01;13;40;22 - 01;14;05;07
How I Met Your Monster
They were either subs, you know, subs. And now this year. So this is our sixth reveal because this is where Henry meets the lady in the radiator. This is where we hear the in heaven song. And she's in there and and he meets her. Yeah I think that she's just part of his like delusions. I think that like.
01;14;05;10 - 01;14;26;07
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Yeah it's like when we meet, when we meet her I think he already knows her. Not that it matters, but you know and I think yeah he's. Yeah. Okay. Yeah I see I think man. Yeah I think too like how I don't know if the baby actually looks like that. Like obviously I think he's having a really hard time telling reality from fantasy.
01;14;26;10 - 01;14;46;13
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Sure. You know, like the hot tub bed thing that also probably did not happen. Probably just saying. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if like this, this whole like, you know, starting from well, I had mentioned that I was like, I don't know if Mary came back. Like if that was a dream. I feel like that started the dream.
01;14;46;13 - 01;15;07;19
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Maybe because from here he like goes down to the thing. And this is also part of our sixth reveal. This is where his head pops off. And the little worm thing comes out of his shirt, his head telling us yeah he was pretty old. Our pets had never.
01;15;07;22 - 01;15;24;00
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So that was wild. Then the kid comes and gets the head and takes it to the pencil factory. And they like drill out a piece and make a pencil out of them. And the guy, the guy like, fucking writes with it and then erase it and all the dust. And he just, like, brushes it off and it's like, yeah, erase.
01;15;24;07 - 01;15;44;10
How I Met Your Monster
You know, buddy, all we are is dust in the wind, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. You're my boys are second movie with kind of like, it's not really a lobotomy, but it kind of is a lobotomy. Yeah. When they I think he would like to erase his life. Yeah, that's what I was kind of reading it to him. Okay.
01;15;44;10 - 01;16;01;27
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But the idea is, like, my note that I made was like, he can erase his problems, but only if he's dead. Well, he's like, that's the only escape for him, you know? Like, they kill him and it's like. Like he's an eraser now. Like we can we can do the thing. We can give him the relief he wants.
01;16;01;27 - 01;16;25;11
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But it's the sweet relief of death. Do you think that, like. I mean, there was like a whole, like, pencil machine thing going on there? I can't imagine that they, like, made that. And so my thought is like, do you think he had access or he like, knew about like this pencil machine? And then he was like, let me build a story around this.
01;16;25;11 - 01;16;45;16
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I genuinely hope that David Lynch found the guy and was like, can I use your pencil machine for this movie? You know what I'm saying? Though? Zack thinks the whole idea stemmed from the pencil machine especially. I'm saying, I mean, we'll kind of make sense because it's called Eraserhead. So it's like he just sees this pencil machine and he's like, what if the guy's brain was making these erasers?
01;16;45;16 - 01;17;07;16
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Yeah, yeah. And like, the symbolism just, like, built off of that. And then he was like, oh, there's something what if, what if, you know, erasing our mistakes. What are what mistakes. Yeah, yeah. And he's David. So at this point in 1977 I think this is when this movie came out, 77 here. That's when the pencil machines were hot.
01;17;07;19 - 01;17;32;27
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They were like, yeah, they they were radiator level hot. They were tested so hot. Did he have kids? He had his he got his girlfriend pregnant in 1968, okay. Out of wedlock and then was forced to marry her. So he so that okay. So he's been through this experience. So that would check out in terms of like what he was expressing.
01;17;32;29 - 01;18;04;22
How I Met Your Monster
Right. But when did he find when did was he gifted a pencil machine, the pencil machine. His wife gave birth to the pencil machine in 69. Oh, so a year after. Okay, okay. I'm like imagining him splinters out of so. Oh, when you. Yikes. It's hard to pencil birth. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people don't know this, but you get a lot of splinters when you give birth vaginally.
01;18;04;26 - 01;18;11;05
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Oh, yeah. Well, I'll tell you another time how this box bring your.
01;18;11;08 - 01;18;34;20
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Stocks to stuff. We we don't. We. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My mistake. I get those two, these two, stories. Did you guys notice, like, after this, like, when Henry is back and walking around in his head? It's not a pencil anymore. It's back on. Yeah. And he knocks on the neighbor's door, and she doesn't answer, and the baby fucking laughs at him.
01;18;34;22 - 01;19;03;01
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Oh, it's like scary. Starts cackling cackling yes yes. Yeah I think I think he's losing it. Yeah. Yeah. Because then he does see his neighbor with another man and he gets like super jealous. Well it's interesting the baby is mocking him and like laughing at him. The woman who's supposed to represent the temptation is kind of has spoiled that the glee, the the excitement that comes because she's with someone else.
01;19;03;03 - 01;19;23;22
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So it's sort of like everything is, is really putting him into a corner of, like, what do you do about it? You know, like, this is not only yeah, like everything sucked, but there are these little pockets of relief, you know, the baby, baby not crying anymore, this woman. And now it's like, no, like you're either your only choices.
01;19;23;22 - 01;19;49;24
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Now you're either going to deal with this reality or you're going to, you know, go with the lady in the radiator. Yeah. Can you imagine being his daughter that was born in 1968 and him being like, so made this movie. Yeah. What did you think about how I felt about having a baby? Yeah. Well, I think I had if I, I think she had, like, some birth defects when she was born.
01;19;49;26 - 01;20;15;09
How I Met Your Monster
Oh. Did you like clubbed feet? I don't know what that is. Oh, wow. But clubbed feet is when they're twisted, they're twisted. Okay. Yeah, but our, our last reveal, the giant baby, he like, cuts the fucking bandages. And the baby starts doing the same thing that the mom did. This is when he does that.
01;20;15;12 - 01;20;49;12
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Like the little gobble, gobble thing. Casey is good at it. Oh. Oh, yeah. And, he opens up the bandages and it's like the bandages were like, it's body, basically. Like it's all just like it's all the other, which that's kind of a neat way to sort of, to symbolize, like David Lynch's. I'm sure his own fears and anxieties of his, of his kid or any parent's fear of, like, if their kid has some sort of quote, unquote, I don't know, deformity or disability.
01;20;49;12 - 01;21;11;00
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Disability. That it is sort of, I don't know, like it feels everything, you know, like when you're going through something that's like a tragedy or an ailment, everything feels very permanent in the moment. You can't. It's hard to see the relief. So the idea that this baby is just perpetually sort of wrapped in bandages and that is sort of like its identity, that's what its makeup is.
01;21;11;02 - 01;21;34;02
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You can't really have one without the other. Yeah. And it stabs it. And then the grips come out and it's neck gets long, it it gets long, it it's nose long. There's a lot of like obvious like phallic imagery here. The fear of the penis is a very common sort of object of symbolism for the fear of the penis.
01;21;34;05 - 01;21;57;22
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Fear of the penis, the fear of the penis. The the fear of the penis. Oh, the fear of the penis. What are you talking about? The spear of the penis. So the idea of, like, of using it to make a baby. Yeah. Like what it does is like, in some, you know, in this case, like, when it come in terms of, like, your anxieties, it's a, it's like a tool of self-destruction in a way.
01;21;57;23 - 01;22;12;18
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Is that why kiss saying love gun, love gun, the opening song into Shark City? That's in interesting for oh.
01;22;12;20 - 01;22;42;22
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It's it's this is where you have Donny and Marie, too. Why would I have Donny and Donny and Marie? Then he's like, yeah. And it grows. It gets, bigger, bigger and bigger. Pretty big, pretty big. It's like the head on. That thing is really big. Yeah. Looking gorgeous. Yeah. Engorged. Oh, my goodness gracious. And, Yeah.
01;22;42;22 - 01;23;04;21
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So then we go back to the man in the planet and he's pulling gears again. And, Henry's in heaven, and the baby supposedly pulls the gears for Henry to kill himself. Yeah. How did he kill himself? Or did the baby kill him? I think it's him. Like, check it out. It's because it's literally becoming too much for him, for Henry to bear.
01;23;04;21 - 01;23;34;10
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It's, like, literally growing in size. It's like I can manage this anymore, right? It can clearly exist on its own. Even though I killed it. It's dying. But it's. And it's a baby, and it's a baby. So he watches before he this all happened or after the baby grows Henry watches a whole explode from. Oh okay. So you were saying earlier that the man of the planet, it's like the brain.
01;23;34;12 - 01;23;59;22
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So it's like that's his consciousness. That's his. It's either his brain or his balls. One of the two or both. What's the difference? Both in the fact that there's like, this whole blasted through it. I wonder if that is like a literal like he blasted the his brain in dead and then and we just end the movie just ends with the woman in the radiator embracing Henry and that's it.
01;23;59;25 - 01;24;29;11
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Well yeah, it was pretty simple. And then, but then you could also like argue you know, because this movie is all about symbolism and it being a nightmare. That idea of like the release. It's the you could just say like it's just a guy who's like and then he woke up and was like, oh shit. Like Henry outside of this nightmare world would be like, okay, you know, things, nightmares always seem more profound when you're in them and they feel real and visceral.
01;24;29;13 - 01;24;49;18
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And sometimes they feed on like a literal fear. You might be having falling from your subconscious. So maybe in this world, like when Henry Henry wakes up and he's not in this nightmare world, maybe it's him kind of contending with like, okay, I'm obviously not going to kill myself just because I'm, like overwhelmed by being a father.
01;24;49;20 - 01;25;17;17
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But at least he was able to sort of kind of confront that fear, you know? So there is like, so this movie is just a lesson in fortitude and and grit, literally. There's literally grits, grits, grits spilling out of a baby. Yeah. In buckets, buckets of grit. That was the original title for True Grit. Buckets of grits. You tell the truth, man.
01;25;17;19 - 01;25;23;10
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Truly I am, boy, that's the true grit right there.
01;25;23;12 - 01;25;48;12
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That's, that's the Eraserhead. Wow. David Lynch. I can't wait to do Mulholland Drive. I don't think it's as weird. The thing with Mulholland Drive is it's. Have you seen it? No, I saw it once, like, after high school, so I don't remember anything about it from what I remember. I saw it when it came out and I was a kid, so I feel like my read on it was just very wrong.
01;25;48;14 - 01;26;11;09
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The thing with that one, if I'm remembering correctly, is, yes, there is like an overarching kind of feeling of that very David Lynch nightmare vibe, but it feels a little bit more, at least in parts, existing within our reality. So you can kind of like, latch on to people a little bit more substantially as opposed to that one distract.
01;26;11;12 - 01;26;30;00
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Yeah, exactly. So when it does get abstract, you're like, okay, at least I know I'm it's like Twin Peaks, like Twin Brown is in some ways. Yeah. Okay. Let's go over our favorite reveals in Eraserhead.
01;26;30;03 - 01;26;59;01
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All right. Speedrun recap seven reveals. Here we go. Number one, the man in the planet, aka the boy in the balls and the boy in the balls. The boy in the brain balls. Number two is the little chickens, aka Chicken Little sick conflict. Okay, so I can guess. Cartoon kiss. Number three is the baby I got.
01;26;59;01 - 01;27;24;10
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No aka is. That's no. Number four is is Henry's male worm. Number five is the lady in the radiator? Number six is Henry meets the lady in the radiator. Also, the baby worm emerging from Henry's nickel. And, number seven is the giant alien baby head thing. Penis.
01;27;24;12 - 01;27;58;21
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Piece. You just wanted to say penis. Paytas. Penis. Penis. All right. What is your favorite? Casey, let's start with you. Since this is your pick. Oh, yeah. For my facts. Yeah. My favorite reveal is the baby. Okay. Just because, to be very honest with you, it was the only one that I thought we were going to talk about, so.
01;27;58;23 - 01;28;22;03
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Yeah. Okay, I get that then. Yeah. What are you guys? I'm. I'm with Casey. The baby is, I think, the most iconic, and it's. Yeah, it's the one that really stood out to me the most. And I didn't know a ton about this movie outside of, like, some visuals, but I was familiar with the baby. I just didn't understand, like, kind of the role it played, like what it was about.
01;28;22;09 - 01;29;00;20
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So not sure I do. Jacob. But it's it's terrifying. It's really scary. And we talked about how, you know, it's interesting that we are three individuals coming with three unique perspectives. A father who wants to be a son and a person who we want to be, and the Holy Ghost. Yeah. Sorry, I don't know, like, so to just see that visualized in that way being so horrific it yeah, it I don't know, it's it's I'm in this you know, we're talking about having kids so I hit it scary on these specific fears.
01;29;00;20 - 01;29;15;16
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But yeah like I do think about that a lot. Like, you know, there are times where I'll be laying in bed and or having a very cozy night and I'm like, I'm like, God, if babies right now like this would just wouldn't be happening. And then there's part of me that's like, oh, but that's okay, because I want that.
01;29;15;16 - 01;29;40;29
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I want to like, take care of something. I want to have this life, even if it is difficult. Just because it's hard, isn't it? It's bad. Yeah. And so I, it's I'm like reckoning with all of these feelings. And this movie really does evoke that those fears and those it forces you to think about that. So it's it's really interesting for just speaking for myself to be watching this movie at this specific time in my life.
01;29;41;01 - 01;30;14;27
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Well, Danny, remember that you can carve a turkey. No thank you. So I know I have conflict I can do. If I could carve it. Yeah you can. Ethan. Yeah. You'll be just fine. Zach. What's your favorite monster reveal in this movie? Yeah, no, I'm going to I think I agree with you guys. The baby, because that's, you know, when I think about this movie, that's what I picture because I, you know, I had seen the baby the first time I got into this movie a little bit and watched the whole thing.
01;30;14;27 - 01;30;38;00
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But I did remember seeing that baby and I it's like I knew it was in there. So that's what I think of. But just for variety's sake, I'm going to go with the lady in the radiator. Basically, because it was very, you know, like, you know, we've used the word a few times. It's, it's in the, it's in the, it's a word that's out there in a Lynchian.
01;30;38;04 - 01;30;58;07
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Right. Like it's its own thing. It's like, that was very like, you know, you see that a lot in his other son, like Twin Peaks in the the checkered floor and the the drapes and all this stuff and the the way she looks and the music and everything is just very Lynchian. And the fact that it's in a fucking radiator at the back.
01;30;58;09 - 01;31;27;10
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And so that's what's the baby would really be my first voice pick. But, I'm going to go with lady in the radiator for pick for whoever's keeping score. I know she's almost scarier in a way, because she's supposed to represent something positive, but it's just off. Like, even the makeup just is off. I've only seen very small pieces of Twin Peaks.
01;31;27;13 - 01;31;50;27
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But as lady in the radiator, reminiscent of that part with the little person. Well, that's kind of like the the like this scene I'm talking about, where it's like this scene kind of he's talking mirrors that scene. Yeah I know, yeah. And I love that he would film scenes like that where they, they speak backwards. They have to learn to speak backwards.
01;31;50;29 - 01;32;04;01
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And then he reverses it and they, they talk. It's like, oh, okay, now it's time for a segment that we like to call the real monster.
01;32;04;03 - 01;32;35;07
How I Met Your Monster
Okay. I'll start. I have to one is Henry for a couple reasons. Cheating. Whether it was a dream, it might have been a dream, but if it wasn't dream cheating and for smothering the fucking baby. What the hell? But I also have. Which might be the fucking bigger, real monster. What sucks? Yeah. When he steps on, the baby steps in that puddle, and then, like, later, he's in his room, he takes a sock off these swap fucking radiator, trench foot.
01;32;35;08 - 01;32;56;18
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And, is that what I suspected? The lady in the Raider radiator? She's like, this is a and, soggy suck, soggy suck suck. Exact. But yeah, I just the wet, soggy like, in the fact that, like, it was in his shoe and he had to keep wearing it and, like, walking in and I was like, oh my God.
01;32;56;20 - 01;33;17;27
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Danny, what do you got for real? Monster? It's funny, I didn't write any down. Usually I have a list and I just was. So just this movie just had was rock in my brain. So I just go off what's coming to me? Asking someone to carve a turkey. If you're not confident that they are confident that they've ever carved a turkey.
01;33;18;00 - 01;33;38;19
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Yeah. Just not. It's rude. And you're kind of like, I don't know. It's like asking someone to, like, pull their pants down in public, you know, like, okay, let them pull their pants down if they want to. Yeah. Because it's such a vulnerable experience. Yeah. Yeah. Eating sandwiches in a body of water. Damn it. Danny, that's is.
01;33;38;19 - 01;33;59;09
How I Met Your Monster
I'm good. Yeah. I'm sorry, because I didn't eat it in the hot tub. No, I just did. I almost didn't say because I didn't want to annoy you. It's not to do with, you know, it's not going to do this, is it? Like there's nothing. No. Just picture, like mayonnaise dripping into a coma. It's like hot off.
01;33;59;11 - 01;34;25;14
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Oh, I did have something else. And now I'm getting. Yeah, so it probably wasn't that important. Oh, just like, you know, we talked about how the man of the planet is sort of maybe representative or symbolic of the way that, you know, and people say, like, you know, quit thinking with your, you know, you know, penis downstairs, your penis.
01;34;25;14 - 01;34;50;29
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And you were and think with your brain because you in a lot of trouble. Yeah. You're thinking about the wrong it so penises, the penis, penis painters. Okay. Sperms, sperms. Casey, do you have a real monster for Eraserhead? This was your. This was your pick. Yeah. You know, funny enough, Zach, I do have a real answer to this.
01;34;51;04 - 01;35;17;07
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What is it? It is meeting your partner's parents for the first time. Yeah. Scary. Because this is next year. Yeah. It is, it is, I had a good experience with mine. I like my in-laws. I do now, my parents, but. And my ex's parents. But before that, like nobody's family ever fucking liked me for some reason.
01;35;17;09 - 01;35;38;15
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No, I think I was judged pretty hard for the way that I look. So Smuckers. Hey! Passed in-laws. Go fuck yourselves. Yeah. All right, well, now it's time for our last segment. Would you survive Eraserhead.
01;35;38;18 - 01;35;43;18
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I was a beautiful baby.
01;35;43;21 - 01;36;07;06
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Oh, yeah. So are we. Okay, so are we going? Are you. Are we the baby? And we have to ask you to kill us or not? Yeah, I would, I was I was coming at it from like, being Henry. Would we survive parenthood? Yeah. No, my thing was I haven't had kids, so it remains to be seen, but I hope so.
01;36;07;08 - 01;36;33;01
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I have, I think that I will survive. I think you'll do just fine, Danny. Thank you. I think you'll do just fine. Yeah, I think I think I'll survive. I think it'll be okay. You are surviving. You're so right. Yeah. I was a parent. You're a very good death. Thanks, dad. Okay. All right. Well, that was a quick segment.
01;36;33;03 - 01;36;38;25
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Well, quickie, a little quickie. Penis. Penis.
01;36;38;27 - 01;37;09;22
How I Met Your Monster
All right, well, guys, that was Eraserhead. That was our second movie in mind. Fucks triple feature. Our minds are truly melting. Dude, my brain hurt. And, we've talked about this, earlier in our, episode, but, Danny, your pick to round out mind fucks is coming up next. What is it? We're watching? We already know. But tell us again, in case you got lost in the kerfuffle of our conversation, we're watching another David Lynch movie.
01;37;09;24 - 01;37;38;05
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Mulholland Drive. Yeah. 2001 one. Okay. Wow. Cool. I'm very excited. It's got an incredible cast. It's, you know, we're we're visiting La La Land. Yeah. It's I'm looking forward to that. And it's got some terror monster reveals. It's got some good ones. It's got one of my favorites so I already know. Spoiler alert. You want to know what the best reveal is.
01;37;38;07 - 01;37;57;24
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And I gotta tell you Danny you know the movie. You probably know what I'm talking about okay, so yeah, that'll be coming up next. Make sure to follow how I Met Your Monster social media. We're on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. And, if you're not following the show already on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or even YouTube, go ahead and follow us there.
01;37;57;26 - 01;38;21;27
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Where can our listeners find you guys on social media? I am on Instagram at Wolf Mother Casey. Awesome, awesome. Danny. You can find me, Instagram or Letterboxd at. My name is just Danny Salem De and NY Salemi. That's two M's. Like the candy melt in your butt, not in your hands. Wonderful. I love it back.
01;38;21;29 - 01;38;44;22
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Where can you find me? On social media at Quincy. Oh, and, make sense and you'll be weird if we couldn't love it without magic. Had someone else. That's Zach Cage, wind sick. Brutal. Like you're running the race and getting sick, but it's not spelled that way. It's just how you're winning. But you're ill again. I've been thinking about changing my handle.
01;38;44;22 - 01;39;06;10
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This. Some form of rat bastard, is that it? Like you would be at some cell or more at bat? You know, at rat bastard. But I'm sure a rat bastard is taken. But another form of it. It would be like at X underscore a rat bastard underscore x x. Yeah yeah yeah. Oh. Capital X lowercase x. Yes. Underscore.
01;39;06;11 - 01;39;26;25
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Maybe this. Yeah in bastard is a dollar sign. Oh yeah. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. That was like rat money bastard. Oh and then you can throw in another at symbol. It'd be R at. Oh symbol that rat attack. No you can't use those. Hopefully not. I don't think you can have this rat. Rat right at rat.
01;39;26;28 - 01;39;33;03
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We're we're all well.
01;39;33;06 - 01;39;47;07
How I Met Your Monster
We're all well. We're all well. Yeah. We're okay. We'll be all right. This is proof. All right, check out Mulholland Drive in a couple weeks. And until then, thank you all for listening. Now go meet some monsters and.