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Join us for our Saw X review along with the tv series Dark. As Brannyk is away on special assignment, Jim is left fending off a fan who may have had a ‘small’ disagreement on his review of Dark being ‘utter crapola’. As Aidan defends German pride, Jim goes deep into Saw X land.

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Sax X and Dark sorta transcripts

00:01.38
jim_phoenix
Hey, everyone Jim Phoenix here and boy am I excited for Brand New Shreman Demons live version. That’s right, we’re doing it live as we do every time but we’ve got saw x or 10 sucks sucks. Ah that those bad naming for them and dark. Something dart 30 dark something dartboard I don’t know some of that all this more next stream and demons. Edit.

01:01.62
jim_phoenix
There’s no banter today. So just that’s how I got hey everyone Jim Phoenix here and boy Mike excited to have you all today with me is a special guest because box humans on a souljourn is that a word soldier. Anyways, Aidan please for to have you Aidan I believe you were here before? yes.

01:22.20
Aidan
Yes I was I think about early much earlier this year or last year yeah some time pandemic. But.

01:27.80
jim_phoenix
1 of the years it was sometimes early. Yeah, we know it sometimes earlier good go for you. That’s how time works sometime between here and the pandemic start you were aghast. Well I actually don’t remember.

01:39.76
Aidan
Yeah.

01:42.70
jim_phoenix
What what movie you’re talking about before. Do you remember it all was it ghost posters. Oh oh shit you had the fucking Nanny a Magician and the air like that at your birthday party I remember now oh my God Okay I remember now.

01:44.55
Aidan
Um I think he was talking about ghostbusters and and it and how it was Yeah yeah.

02:01.19
jim_phoenix
So if those who are just joining us the the format simple we’re just talking about movies Now that’s all it is we we do a streaming one and you know it’s a new one or whatever it is if you’re deor this is your spot on the internet to get your streaming content in.

02:03.41
Aidan
Have.

02:17.78
jim_phoenix
Box you mean will be joining us next time they’re just on a special assignment called they fucking off I guess I don’t know it’s all good, but right now we have aid and and because I am extremely lazy. Extremely lazy. Oh here I am we always let the special guest go first and by the way for those who that home I reviewed something that special guest is reviewing today I didn’t review it I just said I just trashed it.

02:35.54
Aidan
No, you’re not no, you’re.

02:52.40
Aidan
Yeah, yeah.

02:54.37
jim_phoenix
And they were so upset that they let me know that they like oh you just you just shash everything and and that so here you go here’s your redemption for you’ know it’s called is it darkness as a dark is it dark 30 western movie. What is it called what is called voice street screening game is called.

02:59.21
Aidan
She did.

03:05.60
Aidan
Ah I know what it’s called I know it’s called it’s flu dark. It’s called dark and it’s a German show. So I’m well yeah, obviously the I don’t know what the original or it is.

03:14.80
jim_phoenix
So it wass not really called dark because that’s not a german word. It’s like happening despite all my german listeners sorry Rabbi it.

03:22.54
Aidan
But you’re always like na na done my podcast and then and then the one time I listen to it. You’re like trashing everything ever to you as so. Ah.

03:29.56
jim_phoenix
Um, everything I didn’t scratch everything. It was just like 1 really bad show and by the way it is like I want to do dark but or maybe constantine of like constantine. That’s that’s kind of random. Okay, go for that one. You know the one on prime like.

03:44.74
Aidan
Hit.

03:47.56
jim_phoenix
They rebooted John constant I’m prime. Oh you know with both the John Wick I’m like oh even the continental. No a horror b no start the same letter. Youre right? It has a a letter god.

03:52.52
Aidan
Well, it’s very similar starts with one and it’s like several several syllables same amount of syllables and same 3 letters. It’s a very very.

04:06.38
jim_phoenix
So the very common word continental constanting continent it all good inconent. It’s scary how much I don’t care about that show I think this is a scary part of it because I’m like oh it’s a prequel and I know who couldn’t die. Okay, whatever.

04:10.40
Aidan
Very common mistakes make and it is somewhat scary just like constantine is and.

04:24.14
Aidan
I Know that it’s scary because you don’t know all the bad things and nothing.

04:25.85
jim_phoenix
Oh how? fuck.

04:30.59
jim_phoenix
He doesn’t look as any limbs. He can’t die. He is not getting maimed. He’s not going to end up like you know the other guy can’t die because he’s in it too. So it’s like like watching rogue one for me. Ah.

04:40.58
Aidan
Maybe you discover all these relatives and and close friends that he had that that him and and you know we die in the end at some point in this in this season.

04:47.62
jim_phoenix
Pain. Why are you pain? Thank you Dr Pay oh that me you not to laugh about him dying like that all right? So we decided on darkness what called dark.

05:04.71
Aidan
Yes, the show it’s a it’s a series on Netflix um, that is originally german so if you watch it in german you you have to like obviously read.

05:05.30
jim_phoenix
Art Oh God Okay, how good of what could possibly go wrong.

05:20.78
Aidan
Nonstop. There’s a lot of dialogue. So I chose to watch it dubbed which I think that’s why some people may dislike it because then the the lips did they totally do not match the words and it almost sometimes can be a bit comical because you’re like oh that’s not the voice that I imagine that character having it just.

05:24.82
jim_phoenix
Ah.

05:29.64
jim_phoenix
The lips don’t match the thing.

05:40.21
Aidan
You know it’s off you know? ah.

05:41.70
jim_phoenix
Like is most people don’t know this in my real voice another 1 they think is coming out of me but it it comes out you I mean and he just put it back in what so dark. What’s about dark.

05:55.16
Aidan
So the premise if if you know stranger things and I think I think most people who listen know know what stranger things is right.

05:58.99
jim_phoenix
Yes I hate that one too walk I hate Strangerer things. They know how much I hate stranger things I like the first season I can’t remember a second season probably willfully can’t remember after 3 I’m like what the fuck we’re doing what are we doing I think college I think they’re actually are in college. The strangest thing is none of them have jobs. That’s a strange thing for me. Oh great scooping ice cream I think that was his job at the start of the show though he’s still scooping ice cream awesome offer mobility right? there he saves the fucking world. He he scooping ice cream.

06:21.51
Aidan
Um, one of them works at a mall.

06:27.41
Aidan
And their students even their students. Why would they all have jobs. They’re like supposed to be like 12 and 15 or something.

06:36.50
jim_phoenix
But you know what? the funny thing is you’re talking more about stranger thing than dark because that’s how Shitty dark is you’d rather talk about a stranger thing and what we do in the shadows which I actually thought you thought like you’re to say like the the scary movie like what the fuck scary thing like you know I’m prime like what we do in the shadows.

06:44.14
Aidan
Um I.

06:55.80
jim_phoenix
Like that’s a scary one for you. Ah ha exactly and guess what you’re still not talking about dark. Well welcome to every conversation with me ever.

06:56.38
Aidan
Um, that was actually that was also really good, but that wasn’t really scary.

07:01.18
Aidan
Ok, all right? Well that okay, it’s just because there a lot of come. There’s a lot of common. You know, common ground between the 2 shows. That’s why I’m I’m just trying to like set it up for people. It’s very complex far more complex but far more complex and. Stranger things is okay so it’s a science fiction thriller that originally started like a few years before the pandemic it it I believe it ended right at the pandemic it it ended in 2020 the year. Yeah.

07:20.27
jim_phoenix
Well so oh.

07:29.31
jim_phoenix
It ended the pandemic this this show ended the pandemic Holy shit my mush washes again. Okay.

07:38.48
Aidan
And it follows a group of of people who live in this made up german town. Ok and they’re like about 3 key families and um, there’s a like some massive like nuclear power plant somewhere near them and it there’s underneath it. There’s like a cave and.

07:43.26
jim_phoenix
They all.

07:57.57
Aidan
People who somebody in there end up traveling in time.

07:59.51
jim_phoenix
You’ve already explained way to him. Oh my god oh my god you finally got the traveling and time thing you know what? honestly I didn’t get that fucking far I knew they’re gonna travel on time for a very first episode I watch whatever I watch I’m like oh.

08:10.37
Aidan
Um, know you won’t like half an episode and you fell asleep.

08:16.60
jim_phoenix
Best time travel. He’s having a flashback or a flash forward trip timing. Why me great and that’s all I need to know like oh he’s Goingnna call himself is all good. Oh go fuck oh like the kid’s missing probably back in time that like kid were missing probably it back in time again. Why who knows some german shit.

08:33.77
Aidan
Like um, well because of the wormhole it goes back really far. Yeah, because that no I’m just I’m not. There’s no spoilers but there’s.

08:36.53
jim_phoenix
But all hitler is is it. Hitler is it fucking nazis please to say say it’s nazis those oilers no spoilers. But it’s probably nazis.

08:48.78
Aidan
Every time a character has.

08:50.27
jim_phoenix
Her Grandma’s cookies in it. Well shit you just said that before son.

08:55.66
Aidan
Every time a character goes back or forward in history. It’s in a period of 33 years exactly 33 years

09:02.68
jim_phoenix
Dude Dude dude du dude you’re always going forward history that makes no sense. Yeah, back in history or full Also called time.

09:07.85
Aidan
Well in I mean in time I mean for okay I meant time’m back in time or forwarded. Okay, so that there are periods that go like 1986 1953 and the 1921 and so on. Ok, so there’s nothing really around world. You know world war 2 but I guess near the end of world war one yeah because you said nazis so I’m like not really, but.

09:27.97
jim_phoenix
Bingo. No No stop Bingo. You just mentioned those like years that our world war. Yeah talk I did not see that coming that.

09:46.23
Aidan
What’s what’s really messed up is that their characters who go back in time and they’re in the same they grow up in the same town. So as they age they then meet themselves but they’re younger selve like it’s so like mind twisting so and and it it is.

09:59.19
jim_phoenix
Is it That was my that was the boring part from you my go you’re meeting your younger son? Yeah yeah, no, but I flesh it out in my head Honestly, the first half hour. The.

10:03.77
Aidan
It really is no, we we didn’t even get to that part. It’s like you have to watch like the whole first season to set up that stuff.

10:17.89
jim_phoenix
Whatever the thing I watch at first episode first half hour I fleshed rested out my head that was pretty damn close I’m guessing except terror res on it. Well no, no okay so.

10:25.56
Aidan
Um, ah I haven’t even finished I’m on about the end of season 2 now. So and.

10:32.21
jim_phoenix
So I’ll give you a good shot at this you watch it dove but you can watch subtitles. But it’s a lot of reading and who likes to read I agree. No 1 likes reading. Ah and it is german so. something something something german actors who subtitled what are the effects like are they practical are they cgi I’m guessing cgi just for the hell of it. It sounds like something I would do I don’t think they’re in.

11:01.91
Aidan
There’s there’s really no need for special effects. There’s nothing I mean when they go to the 80 s it’s the all the the the clothes the cost. You know the outfits the makeup hair are very 80 s when they go back to the 20 s it’s again, they they have the cars and the.

11:07.78
jim_phoenix
Okay. But its the german eighty s those which is basically the 70 s or the sixty s they were behind a couple decades the whole I mean is is East Germany or West Germany this kind of matter.

11:17.17
Aidan
Everything matches that time period. But there’s no.

11:25.63
Aidan
Um, perhaps it’s between old town. So it’s not really.

11:31.83
jim_phoenix
Yeah, but they’re still affected by ah, a wall separating the berlin then like oh so it’s really fictional Germany where apparently fucking communism didn’t happen world war 2 never happened.

11:34.40
Aidan
Well, it’s not referred to at all in this show.

11:47.25
jim_phoenix
Boy are they germans just like that fucking allergic to talking about world war 2 they erase it from their history for sci-fi how weird sorry still have a ship of my shoulder around. Okay, so there’s no real effects. There’s what’s a sound like sound and sound sound.

11:55.70
Aidan
Ah.

12:05.50
Aidan
It’s pretty creepy as you can imagine with the title the theme song at the beginning if you could find a clip of the theme song at the beginning. It’s so amazing like.

12:07.58
jim_phoenix
Can be like this is like.

12:17.98
jim_phoenix
Can you hum it you.

12:26.97
Aidan
Um, no, no, um, but there’s there’s a the line in there. That’s like neither never nor ever Um, um.

12:29.89
jim_phoenix
Ah, no, so.

12:39.29
jim_phoenix
Nor but for fanboys yo. Yeah yeah, the show mine. Oh.

12:47.93
Aidan
Ah, you’re determined to trash this show but it’s it’s telling you. It’s a 4.5 I’m give it ah or.

12:54.71
jim_phoenix
You’re giving a 4.5 coolthuse out of like 10

13:00.52
Aidan
4 to 5 out of 5 based on well I’m almost finished the second season and the the reason I wouldn’t give it a perfect score is because they’re there’s far the characters names are confusing like I I made it because they’re german and like I I don’t you know.

13:00.55
jim_phoenix
Out of 5 venture southern first season based on first season. 4.5 out of 5

13:15.44
jim_phoenix
Um, Hansun Cuttle ob

13:19.26
Aidan
Like there’s Michael and Miel like those are easy to get. But then there’s like other names that are like you know and I’m not sure sometime who’s who because there’s a character that you think you know and then you realize oh my god that’s that character that is the same character but in a different time period who’s aged and so it’s 4

13:31.58
jim_phoenix
Oh shit wait wait wait wait are you having a flashback to the house of fucking dragon because that’s exactly the show. That’s the house of dragon you know that right? like oh is this? oh is it is she 12 or she 30 or what is that the same person and who’s naming these picking people. rackey no I don’t know dude so is is are you doing a house of dragon. Are you saying that dark is like the worst parts of the house of dragon you’ve never seen the house of dragon.

13:58.94
Aidan
Um, well I don’t know I haven’t seen house of dragon no I’ve seen enter the dragon and Bruce Lee

14:05.87
jim_phoenix
Ah, have you seen? Ah, the hobbass hobees is the same fucking Kaza el elf names hobbit names actually a ho names are pretty normal. The elf names are fucked up.

14:10.89
Aidan
Is.

14:23.14
jim_phoenix
I can’t mean there is Justin Bieber Elf I think that’s one the off teams so we give it 4.5 out of 5 Oh fuck oh man can I follow that damn it I have to follow it bra damn it brannicck I got this chimbo I’ll follow it. Oh boy, no fuck off right.

14:31.70
Aidan
Yeah.

14:43.19
jim_phoenix
Yeah, we’ll we’ll make this a short one. Oh okay, ah, let’s give him some make enough beer made up beer Jimbo yeah more of that stuff I love it all right? So my movie is Soexs Socks socks socks socks saw oh saw 10 fuck.

15:01.71
jim_phoenix
That could be more confusing my movie saw 10 it came out this year right now I believe this week was a first week and out that means if you’re still listening to it. Don’t listen to some german dub thing. Don’t listen to dubstep go it a saw x if you were a fan of the first. Currently 9 or 10 of them. So I don’t know if they counted the remake for the the spiral is that part of this universe I’m not really sure that a brand new thing I’m not really sure where in time this is I wasn’t paying touch that much I I did big as drink I have like a fucking fish bowl drink in my head. Tos on the sand so I need so it follows a journey of John Kramer I’ll read from the I amdb a sick and desperate john travels to Mexico for risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer. Only first cancer I can almost read this again only to discover his entire operation does a scam did it fraud the most vulnerable so you have something where they’re making jigsaw more of a person. Versus just a spooky guy who kills everyone that gives him ah more of a character line and they they kind of sink it in from there. It is interesting in a way. It’s also hard to see in a way so it’s interesting because they are fleshing out this guy a little bit.

16:35.72
jim_phoenix
Hello night but it’s hard to see in the way if you ever had someone dying slowly in front of you. This movie gets kind of tough to watch I I give it head someone now one is kind of like oh there were partss of like hey hey, okay, can we just kill the kids now please instead of watching. And old guy die slowly in front of me that that’ll be awesome. It’s the it’s a plot that we seen before as the vengeance trope. It’s the that you know they they wrong the be the wrong guy the wrong the wrong guy boy english language dumb. But they. Did wrong to the the person they should never mess with and you start cheering for the guy who’s killing everyone in other movies if you watched in movies before you see and Karill. You know he’s in the first one and you kind of root for the people a bit. This one. You’re not rooting for anyone at all. What do you think aid and this is 1 time special guests like start having conversation with me by the way you know.

17:39.14
Aidan
Um, well I I actually would have no desire to watch saw 10 But I saw the first 2 and I truly truly love the first one.

17:51.17
jim_phoenix
You love baby? Yoda the first one he was very small. He is only 30 you can barely box it. Ah but but so you like the first one. Yeah.

17:56.91
Aidan
Um, so long. Yeah yeah, but when the same guy who played princess bride I think yeah yeah, heck I is what you didn’t.

18:04.62
jim_phoenix
I Just said Curiosity asked that way to I’m so glad that people are paying attention to the conversation I’m havinging with him are.

18:13.57
Aidan
Yeah, but not a lot of people don’t know that it’s the same guy from Princess bride because he’s older and and it’s like a much darker type of film. So um, so I I didn’t want to see song.

18:24.23
jim_phoenix
Where’d you watch it at. Did you watch her. You didn’t watch. Did you watch it in Quebec did you see you saw our decadence. Okay so you didn’t watch it because the front the cupa colic title is decadence which makes.

18:29.33
Aidan
Yes I watched it in Quebec. Yes, no, just saw in 2004 is but almost twenty years ago okay well

18:41.95
jim_phoenix
Almost no sense. But apparently saw doesn’t translate.

18:45.57
Aidan
I was I was tricked by a friend told me that it was another film because they knew I wouldn’t have seen a horror film but they tricked me and I thought I was seeing something else and then by the time I realized what it was It was like it’s too late.

18:47.90
jim_phoenix
Your trick.

18:57.48
jim_phoenix
What time did you realize you were seeing something else because it starts out pretty gruesome was like but the title all that is true. It’s been brutal.

19:01.72
Aidan
Well I watch like 20 minutes of preers you know in previews before you you know? yeah and I don’t know like that was still like I thought anyway in the end I was glad that I saw it. The premise is great.

19:16.29
jim_phoenix
You got your salsa.

19:19.74
Aidan
It. It was so good that it made that That’s only reason I watched a second one because I thought it might live to live up to that kind of expectation but the second one was not as good and then so I just basically figured that third will only it will only get one there so I didn’t really try again. Um.

19:30.38
jim_phoenix
Somewhere around 7 you’re like ah.

19:35.56
jim_phoenix
I think you might like 10 because I’m in the same boat I washed it first one I thought oh that’s interesting I honestly don’t think I watched it maybe I watched the second one maybe but I don’t have a great impression on it because I’m like oh okay.

19:38.58
Aidan
Oh yeah.

19:54.75
jim_phoenix
It was something like there’s there’s another one that I watched later on that was like number 6 or some I skipped a few it was like oh it’s on Tv I don’t want to turn my tv off like I just leave it on I guess and fall asleep to it and that was how I watched other one.

20:05.70
Aidan
Ah, yeah.

20:13.17
Aidan
What’s it’s obviously a good formula that works for them that that they if they keep it’s like the fast and the furious right? They just keep like.

20:13.33
jim_phoenix
So um, yeah.

20:16.61
jim_phoenix
Paint my number. Oh god yeah time on my Twitter feed or my x feed or hell it is now threads I guess but yeah, there’s a formula things will happen. People have tried to make the decision if they want to cut. They’re left ear off or get their throat slit. Whatever you know is like oh decisions decisions one will lead to escape the other one will lead to your death. You know? Yeah, oh yeah.

20:42.39
Aidan
Um, and.

20:46.75
Aidan
Or or someone else’s death right? That’s so often like you know this person that you yeah.

20:54.33
jim_phoenix
But there’s a small swerve here for this one. So it’s the same formula except that here the the first act is really a first act. it’s it’s it’s the first one the first act is like Bam you’re writing the action you’re trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Number 10 the first act is an actual act you’re you’re building up the character of John in which honestly I’m pretty sure Iss the same guy but he’s been doing this for a bazillion years now Tobin Bell let me see Tobvin Bell I want to say Tovin Bell is chigcksaw yeah holy shit he is I do believe the original jigsaw I’m pretty sure people like knowing that game me’s else like I whatever don’t give shit actually I actually don’t give a shit I think he’s original jigsaw I’m going with that and. Have them still do it after all these years like 20 years the same character, especially he wasn’t not a young spry guy. It’s kind of like the count do cool of it all, but he’s there. He’s fleshing it out. He does a great performance I love him in it. The the other people who are in it all do really? Well this there’s the actings top notge it. It really is Shawnie Smith’s back as a mander and if you ever play Deb Bor I’m not Goingnna do the otherwise dead by daylight you’re like oh I get it now.

22:26.22
jim_phoenix
Yeah, cool it makes you want to boop the nose and try to run away. There are obvious things when you don’t know anything at all about saw if somehow you didn’t watch any in the movies. The last twenty years like oh saw x I can’t wait to see a random as fucking.

22:45.79
Aidan
Um, which.

22:46.15
jim_phoenix
Sequel to a movie I’ve never over a watch before if you’re that person you’re just gonna have a comer twenty years ago like I’m gonna go to movies today. Damn it is either this or haunting in Venice might be too scary you fall in Venice but you will see there might be some formula early on you. You. Might you’re gonna guess that they’re to screw him over you’re gonna guess all this things are gonna happen. You might not who know who John is but he’s very very intelligent and his intelligence not just in in game mastering. But in other aspects of as a physical realm in physics and just being a psychologist really. Come to play gore. Yeah there’s some gore there’s some parts where I’m like oh man and I wish this was kind of fast forward to this one part right here I won’t tell you what it was but it’s fast forwardable. The characters are flawed. They all have their own issues. They all try to work through their issues and he is more a mentor figure in this one because you’re seeing the behind the scenes instead of just the people struggling like the people struggling are almost secondary so it really is a more fleshing out of that character and I liked it for that. It’s about hour fifty something there is a small scene towards the ending credits but nothing like Marvel does or did I should say ah you know what? it’s an hour fifty eight. It’s a good way to kick off ah October for Halloween.

24:21.76
jim_phoenix
If you are into gore it is a gore movie if you’re not to gore just skip this movie entirely. But if you’re okay of gore you want to see an okay movie. You can do much worse I’m and give saw you gave ah dark 4.5 I’m giving a saw 4.5600000000000005 hot that’s right

24:32.38
Aidan
Um, yes, what are go in.

24:40.62
jim_phoenix
Because it’s got be better than dark even though it is decent I Honestly it’s more a before for me but I’m not spoiling shit So I can’t tell you I let I’m not saying anything man I don’t know.

24:44.83
Aidan
Does it have the same formula though like where you like a twist ending or some kind of like surprise and I used is there a twist. It’s okay, some people might want to see it if there is a twist.

24:58.39
jim_phoenix
Boiler Free is play free. Well then they should watch a different podcast and see if there’s fucking twist them next I don’t spoil shit Anyways, Now even though there’s a twist is always a spoiling if if you.

25:03.98
Aidan
Oh that’s not really anything. You’re not saying what the twist is the twist is that he speaks German he speaks German fluently.

25:15.54
jim_phoenix
Right? or watch enough movies. You just dissect and which is why dark was very boring for me I’ve seen that shit before it was like ah like this is done. This is already done for me. But I honest. Okay this honest rating for maybe 4.2 that that’s out of 5 fulfill that my final offer now. Oh man, you know what though god I have to say I will tell you one twist. Are you ready for one single twist I’ll give you it. There’s 1 time where the guy was running from John.

25:45.56
Aidan
E.

25:52.16
jim_phoenix
This is early on the movie. Maybe maybe even midway in the movie. Maybe even midway in the movie and this dos just like ha an ass but then he starts cramping up. He starts cramping up and you you know if you’re running. It’s it’s kind of bad. Cramp up, especially you not killers like chasing you and you you have to get out before you know this is owl happens in act one by the way and damn it I felt so bad because I was drinking. The 1 thing they helped the killer escape John but I got not the killer but you know escape John. Liquid iv I had if if only they could share some liquid iv I’m like damn it if he just would have stopped for liquid iv he would been out runningnning John and not have like done those horrible bloody things get to get done. So if you have wrong jigsaw in some way by doing some shady cancer treatments.

26:32.63
Aidan
Um, if you could.

26:51.20
jim_phoenix
Around anyone doing a shady cancer treatment boy the quote iv’s go to drop my as ah maybe if you need out run them. You should probably get some liquid iv I like cherry flavor if that’s a flavor if not schnnozzle bery. That’s a flavor right. Right now get 20% off when you grab your liquid ivy hydration multiplier sugar free or any other variant at liquidiv.com and use code haunted 100 at checkout. That’s 20% off anything you order when you shop better hydration today using promo code haunted 100 at liquidiy.com yeah I use it the guys and saws should hell use. It. They would have gotten away but too bad they didn’t that’s it so there you go liquid ivy thanks for the spot I know it so paying the bills paying the bills.

27:43.72
Aidan
Um.

27:46.12
jim_phoenix
So like so I was like they’re fucking a pie so he had more liquido iv then and then this guy’s running way after fucking over a cancer patient. Awesome that that that’s their that’s their image right now that’s her brand like iv.com so what do you want to plug Aidan.

27:53.68
Aidan
It.

28:04.69
Aidan
Well around this time of year people tend to buy a lot of candy. A lot of chocolate. Um, so I thought if ah if someone is into getting chocolate and doing some good in the world.

28:18.11
jim_phoenix
This this look what I think Lee could I be.

28:19.91
Aidan
And they might want to buy ah a brand called peace by chocolate which is a company that was set up by a syrian family and that came here after the war. Yes, Syria not and.

28:24.71
jim_phoenix
A syrian a asyria or Syrian not as Syria there different different countries. You know that the kid to a Canada or Canada.

28:37.40
Aidan
They came to Canada yes, one of the candidates and ah settled in this small town in Nova Scotia and um and they had no like others.

28:43.69
jim_phoenix
1 of the candidates the kanaas.

28:53.79
Aidan
Skills apparently than to just continue making chocolate and they make really good cooking. But.

28:55.69
jim_phoenix
They make Grandma cookies. Oh my God Hey jacker.

29:09.31
jim_phoenix
Your chocolate I like chocolate so much where is chocolate.

29:17.24
Aidan
Um, are you done a piece by chocolate. Yeah.

29:19.30
jim_phoenix
What’s a cup. What’s a card.

29:30.53
Aidan
Um, and they have like the cutest like Halloween bars now with like gold east and and pinkins and and if you are it.

29:31.80
jim_phoenix
How make the these plate. Yeah how we love our so much.

29:42.41
jim_phoenix
Ah, then Spice is my worst spice girl. Oh.

29:44.77
Aidan
If you go to piece by chocolate dot ca you can get 10% off your first order.

29:51.29
jim_phoenix
Ah, Taka Cha gotpa.

29:55.82
Aidan
Um, well yeah, yeah.

29:56.12
jim_phoenix
Ah time with car this car Hu ka.

30:01.19
jim_phoenix
He I make think you say spy bys sorry he’s he’s pass his bad time because he heard the CHOC ah late whatever house built word and it kind of got ramped up. So it’s pieced by that word dot comma you can say it.

30:13.28
Aidan
Um.

30:16.28
Aidan
Dot c a dot c a piece by sugar la piece by chocolate.ca.

30:19.87
jim_phoenix
Not Ca So what’s what’s website again.

30:26.70
jim_phoenix
Dude, you might want to say this So anyone understands you yeah so is it p I C E or P E a C So P E a C E B Y C H O l.

30:33.89
Aidan
No no look peace like international day of peace right? CHOCOL a t

30:43.31
jim_phoenix
DATEDotC a don’t have dylu like have a spelling me today. So it’s it’s peace as in peace and love got it by chocolate. That’s.

30:52.82
Aidan
Yeah, yeah, it’s a nice play on words and they they want to promote peace in the world by you know, making everyone consume their chocolate and it and it was something that was given to Trudeau which is given to Biden so it’s it’s got a really like a lot of international buzz.

31:01.34
jim_phoenix
Have diabetes and turn.

31:11.39
Aidan
Ah, from that exchange and um and it’s it has to be very very good.

31:12.44
jim_phoenix
More I dig it I like peace and I like that other word if you are in the c a land go Trump out I him and for me I am doing teeny’s creep week. Oh boy October sixth to the fifteenth. Ha to discovery’s new series brand new series Friday October sixth at Nine P M Eastern pacific and by the way I might be having a little bit of a talk or talk with these people ah coming out new and what’s cracking and of course history’s most haunted season finale. Friday October Thirteenth Ten p m eastern pacific only on t and e go check them out. They have a free preview for creep week that is october six to the fifteenth level them teeny on tv check them out and that is my plug. So. On behalf of myself Jim Phoenix my special guest a and and Nick Mcgee who stopped in for a half minute and probably payne who’s probably passed out with mega du be right now. I bid you all good day bye everyone.

32:25.66
Aidan
Um, bye.

32:26.65
jim_phoenix
Is the outro music. It’s got you know who didn’t call in today terror read. Ah just ah I just want ah right Tara around the outro. But what’s up girl or just want.

32:33.86
Aidan
Um, one damien one day.

32:45.23
jim_phoenix
Okay, nope that was Bigfoot I’m getting better at that screening than Bigfoot and start to read.

33:03.85
jim_phoenix
Yeah minute.

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Arctic Horror – A Chilling Tale of Survival and Terror by Nicole L. Duffeck

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Arctic Horror

By Nicole L. Duffeck

“Arliiiii.” The figure before him groaned. “Arliiiii.” Jung Kook could have sworn it was his own voice, echoing back at him, but that was impossible. The wind all but stole your voice before it had a chance of reaching your companion standing mere feet from you.

Jung stopped short, conflicted between being euphoric over finding Arli and confused at this sudden development. “Arli? What’s going on? Are you ok?” Jung asked, his words coming out in a jumbled rush.

“Arliiiii?” The thing before him mimicked the question.

Some primal part of Jung’s brain took over before the conscious part of his mind could make sense of what his body was doing. Before he knew it, he was running for the habitat door. Behind him, he could hear a shuffling as the thing followed him, its breath seeming to rattle in its chest.


Fourteen hours earlier

There’s a certain horror in not knowing what comes next: When you’ll get your next meal, your next breath of fresh air, the next time you’ll feel the sun on your face, the next time you’ll feel someone embrace you. That was the downside to any Arctic expedition: the instant insanity of endless night, of deadly cold, of breaths that turned lungs to ice, the isolation of snow and silence, the strain of ears to catch a sound other than the omnipresent howl of wind and scouring ice.

That night (or was it day? It was impossible to tell when the body and brain were in a perpetual state of darkness) there was a sound, or maybe the memory of a sound. A soft keening, moaning sound that could have been the wind or a wounded animal or any number of things. Whatever the source, it set Jung Kook’s nerves on edge, shredding his sanity in nearly imperceptible increments.

Wondering if he was finally succumbing to the white madness, he poked his head out of the thermal blankets and looked at the digital clock on his bedside table. The red lights displayed that it was nearly seven in the morning; time to get up and perform the morning systems check. There was at least that: the comforting routine of checking the weather measuring instruments, the environmental systems that kept him and the other scientists alive in a climate that was hellbent on killing any living creature that hadn’t evolved to exist there over the course of several millennia. As it was, Jung was the only living human at the Z-037 outpost, the others having left four days prior to beat the storm; the same storm that was preventing the relief team from coming in. Jung had stayed behind to ensure the continual running of the research station and, if he were honest, to hang onto the gossamer-thin hope that Arli was alive somewhere, out there, in one of the outbuildings and had just had to ride out the storm. The logical, scientific part of him knew that wasn’t possible; that Arli had fallen into a glacial crevice or succumbed to the elements after having gotten turned around in one of the many whiteouts that would hit with little to no notice.

More than likely, the sounds he was hearing were a combination of guilt, hope, and despair manifesting in the form of the white madness. Regardless, Jung kicked his feet out of bed, heedless of the thermal blanket he had been wrapped in falling to the floor. The ambient temperature of the habitat was still uncomfortably low since the inhabitants weren’t expected to be out of bed for another fifteen minutes. Resources were scarce out here, making rationing and frugality a matter of life and death.

Jung donned his heaviest sweater, hat, winter outer pants, and opened the door to his quarters. The first thing he noticed was the oppressive silence of the module he had been calling home for the past three months. Having only been alone for four days, he hadn’t grown fully accustomed to there being no other signs of life. Even if all the other personnel were sleeping, there were still the sounds of snoring, breathing, talking in their sleep, or simply absorbing the cacophonous stillness. The suddenness of the Z-037 bringing itself into day mode made Jung jump. The lights came on to their full brightness, the HVAC turned up a few levels bringing it from a low white noise to a full hum and, most importantly, the coffee machine began brewing.

Jung made his way to the kitchen and took a few sips of too-hot coffee before moving on to the brain of the hub. The control room was insulated between four walls of thick steel and kept environmentally stable with its own climate control, powered by its own solar panels and backup generator. Jung took his time checking the instrumental readings, the surveillance footage, and the habitat’s artificial intelligence. Everything was running as it should, but Jung was reluctant to leave the control room; there was something comforting in being in front of screens, even if all they were doing was showing him the vast, white expanse of the snowfields, unbroken only by the UN’s outbuildings, a few snow machines, and an all-terrain utility vehicle.

The silence and unbroken view lulled Jung into a sort of waking torpor, his mind wandering to Arli and the last time they had seen each other. They had been arguing about what Jung couldn’t remember—that’s how trivial it had been. Arli had gone against the weather recommendations and stormed out into the ice fields, stating he needed to check on the penguin population he was there to observe. That was the last Jung, or anyone, had seen of Arli. Shortly after leaving, a massive windstorm blew across the plain; stirring up ice and snow, blinding any creature that was unfortunate enough to be out in it.

A noise pulled Jung from his reverie; a low, faint keening, the same sound that had roused him from his sleep. He scanned the CCTV screens, looking to see what the source of the noise was. At first, there was nothing on the monitors except the vast expanse of the plains. Just as he was about to stand and walk away from the desk, he saw it: A small corner of what looked like blaze orange; the same color of clothing the crew wore for outerwear, the best chance they had of being seen in a whiteout. He could dismiss the sounds as nothing more than the wind or a lost and starving arctic fox but the scrap of cloth – that couldn’t be discounted. Since there was no one else but him and the countless dead explorers who’d come before him at the base, the only rational explanation was that Arli was out there, alive and trying to find his way back to the base.

Jung jumped up from his chair and ran to the antechamber that would lead to the outside. There, he hastily dressed for the tundra, forced the door open, and stepped out into the violent gale.

Strung from the habitat and anchored in place at intervals using lead pipes was a blaze orange cord, now frosted white from snow and ice. For a moment, the rational science brain whispered that he had just seen a flash of the cord and not a sign of Arli struggling to get home to him. Jung pushed the thought away and fought his way forward against the hurricane-force winds.

Above the howl of the wind, Jung heard the keening sound again. Louder, despite the weather. He could just make out a single word, his name, “Jung,” being cried out against the storm. He knew, with the certainty of a man who’d heard the voice a million times, that he was hearing Arli call for him, calling to him for help.

Jung’s lungs and heart nearly burst. Arli was alive! He knew Jung was there, coming to him, coming to find him and bring him back to warmth and safety. Fueled by blind determination, Jung tried to quicken his pace, but the elements persisted in slowing him down; all he was doing was wasting energy and calories, both of which needed to be rationed. He needed to be logical, clinical if he was going to get himself and, more importantly, Arli, back to safety.

Jung forced himself to slow down, to get his bearings and trudge calmly and methodically through the drifts of snow and blinding wind. With one hand, he held fast to the guideline and, with the other, he prodded the ground with his walking stick. Chances were, Arli was using the same cord or, worst-case scenario, he was unconscious in one of the snowbanks. If the first, they would meet somewhere along the line. If the latter, the walking stick would issue the tactile warning that there was an anomaly beneath the waist-high embankments.

The going was slow, and the cold was taking its toll on Jung. His feet and hands were beginning to go numb, and his eyelashes, beard, and mustache were crusted in ice, creating an all too persistent time clock, telling him he couldn’t stay out of the habitat much longer. His heart insisted he go on but the logical part of his mind urged him to be rational; if he succumbed to the elements, both he and Arli would be lost to the Arctic.

As if the universe finally started to care, the decision was made for him in the form of the guideline running out; he’d reached the end of the camp without finding any signs of Arli. It was time to go back and get out of his ice-encrusted gear and warm up. He could check the surveillance cameras for signs of Arli and make a plan to find him and bring him back.

Feeling downtrodden but bolstered by having an actionable plan, Jung found his way back to the habitat, discarded his outerwear, and brewed a cup of coffee before settling down in front of the monitors. There was nothing to see except for the omnipresent white of the landscape; even his footprints were all but swallowed up by the flurry. There was certainly no way of seeing if Arli was still out there unless he was upright and moving. Jung found that highly unlikely; he’d been missing for four days now. Unless he found shelter and food, he’d be weak from the elements and hunger…or worse. Jung shook his head, refusing to fall into the depression the flash of orange had pulled him out of. He’d find Arli, they’d get out of this godforsaken place together and spend the rest of their lives in a warm place.


Station protocol was that researchers only go outside once a day; even if they felt they’d warmed up to normal body temperatures. There was too great a possibility of the heart and lungs being damaged from the cold and the person not being aware of it. Despite being the only person there, Jung still followed protocol, the need to follow a structured pattern and adhere to the rules. The monotony and predictability staved off insanity thus far, it would have to continue.

Part of that routine was the midday systems check, reading the instruments, checking the life support systems, and reaching out to the main base with his status and the status of the station. The rhythm was soothing and allowed his mind to wander, that is, until a low noise pulled him out of his stupor. It was faint, just like the keening and, like the keening, it was persistent. Jung rose from his chair and walked quietly in his stocking feet, walking back and forth across the room, trying to ascertain where the noise was originating from. There! A sort of scritch, scritch, scriiiiitttccchhhh sound from the outside of the habitat. If there were any trees in the vicinity, he’d have thought the sound was being created from a branch scratching the walls but there was nothing of the sort on this barren plain. The sound was far to faint to be that of a moose or other wild beast. “Arli.” Jung whispered to himself. Arli had found the habitat! He was trying to locate the door in the blinding whiteout.

Jung ran to the surveillance room and flicked through the various screens, trying to find the right cameras with the correct angles that would show the outer perimeter of the habitat. In his haste, he’d skip over some cameras and double up on others. Jung forced himself to slow down once again, be methodical and check the cameras carefully. In the frame of Camera 3, he saw it, the proof he needed: Fresh boot prints. Arli was out there! He was certain of that now.

Rules be damned, he donned his dripping wet outerwear and hurled himself out into the weather. Rendered stupid with hope and love, Jung didn’t wait for his snow goggles to acclimate to the temperature change before charging in the direction of Camera 3’s view. He rounded the corner of the habitat and, in through the hurtling snowflakes, saw a shadow standing about eight feet in front of him. Through the fogged-up lenses of his goggles, Jung could just make out the blaze orange of the outerwear the field scientists wore. “Arli!” Jung cried out, tears of happiness and relief freezing on his face.

“Arliiiii.” The figure before him groaned. “Arliiiii.” Jung could have sworn it was his own voice, echoing back at him but that was impossible. The wind all but stole your voice before it had a chance of reaching your companion standing mere feet from you.

Jung stopped short, conflicted between being euphoric over finding Arli and confused at this sudden development. “Arli? What’s going on? Are you ok?” Jung asked, his words coming out in a rushed jumble.

“Arliiiii?” The thing before him mimicked the question.

Some primal part of Jung’s brain took over before the conscious part of his mind could make sense of what his body was doing. Before he knew it, he was running for the habitat door. Behind him, he could hear a shuffling as the thing followed him, shuffling, its breath seeming to rattle in its chest.

Jung slammed into the habitat door and fumbled with the handle as the thing stalked closer. Finally managing to get his numb, gloved hand to cooperate, Jung crashed through the door and slammed it shut behind him and, he could have sworn, he felt the hot, putrid breath of the thing on his skin.

Breathing heavily, Jung leaned against the door, trying to get his wits about him. That thing was Arli, he was sure of it but, also, positive it wasn’t Arli, at least, not the Arli he knew, the Arli he loved. What happened to him?

“Arliiiii.” He could hear his voice coming from outside the door followed by the scritch, scritch, sriiiiiiitcccch of, what he now knew, to be long, yellow claws.

Arli ran his gloved hands over his face, only realizing then that he was still wearing his outdoor gear when he jammed the goggles into the bones of his cheeks.

Checking again that the door was secure, Jung disposed of his outer wear, leaving them in a wet heap in the middle of the floor. Not caring that he was numb to the bone, he made his way to the surveillance room and brought up the camera for the front door of the habitat. There, he saw, hunched over itself, wearing tattered, blaze orange outerwear with the Z037 insignia emblazoned on its chest, the emaciated form of what had once been Arli. Arli had been a healthy, robust man and the thing that was scratching at the outside of habitat had ashen, papery, torn skin. Its lips were gone, in their place was chewed, ragged flesh. The thing had a stump where its tongue should have been. The tattered clothing revealed open, oozing wounds that wept despite the sub-zero temperatures. As he watched the Arli Thing, it tore a chunk of remaining flesh from its upper thigh, shoved it in it’s mouth and gnashed it with its teeth then swallowed it, the only trace left behind was sinew that clung to its teeth and a smattering of gore in the corners of its mouth.

Jung could taste the bile rising in his throat and heaved his coffee onto the floor, not caring about the mess. He needed to get out of there or he’d be the next gore in Arli’s teeth. He grappled with the comms system, finally getting it keyed up. “Z037 in distress! Z037 needs emergency assistance. Send help NOW!” He hollered into the microphone.

At first only static met his ear then, very lightly, he heard a keening, gargling “Arliiiiiii.” Jung dropped the mic and jumped back from the desk. Slowly, he turned. The thing that had been Arli was standing there, mere feet away and blocking the only door out.

The last coherent thought Jung had as the thing bit into his face and tore the flesh from his eye socket was that he had finally found what had happened to Arli.

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Perfect Reboot of The Franchise: Halloween H20 (1997) Review

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Oh, the 90s, the renaissance of the slasher genre after it crashed and burned in the mid-80s. Halloween H20 is the seventh installment in the Halloween franchise. It hits a reset button on the canon, which utilizes the strong points of the decade. Without any further ado, let’s dive in! 

Plot

We start with seemingly random characters as they die at the hands of Michael Myers, who is back for vengeance. He wants to find Laurie and is not willing to let anyone else stand in his way. Here is where the franchise diverges into a different canon that ignores all the movies after the second one.

After a wonderful tribute to the late Donald Pleasance we see Laurie. She is now a headmistress at a boarding school in California, with a new name and a son. Laurie appears functioning on the outside, but she is still traumatized by the past events, medicating both with prescription meds and alcohol. Not even her love interest (a fellow teacher) knows anything about her past. 

Her son John doesn’t understand the severity of what his mother has been through. He repeatedly tells her to get over it (not the brightest moment despite him being a teenage boy). More teenage characters are introduced in the form of his girlfriend played by Michelle Williams in her Dawson’s Creek prime, and two friends. 

John and the group want to stay at the empty boarding school while everyone else goes on a camping trip. What they think will be a romantic couples’ weekend turns into anything but. Michael catches up to Laurie and finds his way into the premises. What ensues is a blood-shed with some creative kills and full-on suspense.

Laurie takes a stand against Michael as she chases him down axe in hand, ready to finish this once and for all. This leads to a showdown with a glorious finale as Laurie decapitates Michael, seemingly ending his reign for good (or so we think). 

Overall thoughts

Halloween H20 is a great overhaul of a franchise that was running out of steam. It encapsulates everything about the 90s, from the camera work to the soundtrack to the cheesy one-liners. It has a star-studded cast of the sweethearts of the decade and who could be mad at Jamie Lee Curtis’s comeback? 

This movie takes an interesting approach to Laurie’s character. She spends the second movie kind of helpless waiting for someone to save her, however this time she takes the lead and faces her trauma head-on. Other characters have just enough development to make you care for their survival. The atmosphere is very reminiscent of the first one as well, with a bit of a slow burn before the big finish. 

Ultimately, this is the most entertaining instalment of the franchise and has a lot of rewatchability for those movie nights. Slasher 2.0 at its best. 

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H20: Halloween: Twenty Years Later (Dimension Collector’s Series)
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin (Actors)
  • Steve Miner (Director) – Debra Hill (Writer) – Bob Weinstein (Producer)
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Let’s Do Lunch Review – A Witchy, Whimsical Recipe for Chaos

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Ever wonder what would happen if a witch, a mythological dreamscape, and a kitchen disaster collided at full speed? Jennifer Weigel’s Let’s Do Lunch (Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster Book 1) doesn’t just answer that question—it serves it up on a flaming silver platter with a side of snarky humor and alliterative goodness.

This fast-paced, genre-blending novella is part mythological adventure, part obsessive investigation (Moby Dick style), and part cookbook. Yes, you read that right. The book sprinkles in recipes—some of which might be surprisingly edible (looking at you, tofu dish). I think the mix of this worked really well. At times, and this might be because of my background, I thought that the book was pushing into Gargantuan territory and then it slipped back into a real recipe.

A black and white book cover for Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster: Let’s Do Lunch by Jennifer Weigel. The cover features a minimalist line-art drawing of a skull wearing a crooked witch’s hat adorned with flowers. A floral vine border surrounds the title, giving the cover a whimsical, hand-drawn aesthetic.

Where Let’s Do Lunch really shines is in its world-building. The mythology of dreams is an intriguing and immersive element that keeps the story grounded in a unique and whimsical lore. The characters, while more like vehicles for humor than deep personalities, fit well within the book’s quick and quirky style. There’s also a delightful meta-layer to the storytelling, making it feel self-aware in the best possible way.

Let’s Do Lunch (Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster Book 1)
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  • Weigel, Jennifer (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)

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Another thing that worked really well, even on Kindle, is the art the author produces. The drawings really do make a lot of the book pop and work remarkably well in black and white (or paperwhite, as the case may be). Even the cover is a mix of void space set aside by white–the creation of art through erasure of darkness.

Kindle Caveat:

One small hiccup–if you’re reading the Kindle version, be prepared for footnotes that don’t always play nice with e-readers. They can be tricky to navigate, making it tough to appreciate some of the book’s side notes without breaking the flow. This is something the publisher seems to agree with (as the amazon page has a similar warning).

Overall and Score

Overall, Let’s Do Lunch is a light, fun read perfect for anyone who enjoys their fantasy with a heavy dose of humor and a sprinkle of culinary catastrophe. If the rest of the Recipes for Disaster series keeps up this level of playful mayhem, fans are in for a treat (or at least a hilarious food-related accident).

4 out of 5 stars (4 / 5)

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