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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.

Meanwhile, Doctor Payne sleeps off some Megadeth beer and Mick McGee makes a special appearance for PeaceByChocolate.ca. All this and more on the next Streamin’ Demons.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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33:03.85
jim_phoenix
Yeah minute.

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Joe Bob Briggs Creepy Christmas spooktacular: The Last Drive-In Special Charity phenomena

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Famed horror host, Pulitzer Prize nominated, and Cracker Barrel aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back in action, ready to bring some macabre merriment to your holiday season with Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas. It also gives us horror fans something to take into the new year, be that something Darcy’s panties (sorry, box, I tried) or just the intangible good feels of hanging with friends and supporting a lot of good causes.

The Return of Joe Bob Briggs’s Christmas Special

The Joe Bob Briggs’s Christmas event is akin to a Jerry Lewis telethon for Gen X, with a twist of ‘the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs’. This ‘Briggs’ auction of sorts is a nostalgic nod to the past, especially for those who remember the telethons. The dread, however, has shifted from the … well… whatever Jerry was supposed to do (see Sam Kinison’s bit on this for more info) to that of evil goodies.

Without a doubt, this Joe Bob Briggs special is the event we eagerly anticipate each year. It’s a tradition, and a worthy one at that. We hope to see everyone on the interwebs, joining the ‘creepy links’ and engaging in the conversation (We’ll be on Threads and Twitter….tag us as you wish!) ‘live’ the only way anyone should ever watch a tv show (oh, and I guess on demand, but ya weirdos will never know the sting of the Iron Mutant Award!). ‘Live’ is the only way anyone should ever watch a TV show, especially ‘the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs’ (as it’s far too hard to watch tv whilst dead).

Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas The ‘Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl’ special will hit the airwaves live on Shudder TV and AMC+ TV on Friday, December 15th at 9 p.m. ET. Fans of ‘the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs’ can also catch the special on-demand starting Sunday, December 17th.

A Creepy Christmas with a Cause

In its fourth year, the holiday tradition of The Last Drive-In goes beyond mere entertainment. It aims to use the platform to raise funds for four vital causes. The charity auction will feature unique props and exclusive merchandise from The Last Drive-In and memorabilia from Briggs’ illustrious 35-year career…including some of his unspoken work as John Bloom. I say Unspoken, because if anyone remembers the first Christmas Special, the autographed copy of Eccentric Orbits was featured (sincerely, a good book–check it out if you haven’t. Jim gives it 4.5/5)

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The supported charities for Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas will include:

The Mystery of the Joe Bob Briggs’s Creepy Christmas Special

The anticipation for Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas is high, with fans wildly speculating what films will be featured. Personally, nothing can beat the #1 top horror Christmas film of all time, the Easter classic: Passion of the Christ (if a snuff film about a guy who doesn’t fit in getting whipped and nailed up doesn’t scream horror story, I don’t know what does. Also: See Sam Kinison’s concept on crosses and resurrection). However, a Christmas movie I really want to see up on this is Hogzilla and Kiss Save Santa Clause! BOOMMM!! Christmas Won!

As we eagerly wait for December 15th, we wonder what surprises our favorite horror host, Joe Bob Briggs, has in store this time. Will there be exclusive ‘merch’ that Jim will buy and then accidentally put in a Toys for Tots box in the mall?

Join the Fun, Join the Cause, Join the Joe Bob Briggs Christmas event!

Are you ready to dive into the world of Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas? Do you dare to watch along and help raise money for a good cause? If so, join us at HauntedMTL on Threads (_HauntedMTL_) and maybe Twitter (@HauntedMTL) as we experience the thrill and chills that only Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy can deliver.

Remember, this is not just about indulging in some good old horror fun with ‘Joe Bob’s’ double feature. It’s about giving back and making a difference. So, let’s gear up to have a creepy Christmas with ‘Joe Bob Briggs’, filled with ‘christmas horror films’, ‘christmas demons’, ‘christmas slasher films’, ‘ho-ho-horror’, ‘yuletide horror’ and insightful ‘horror commentary’.Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas and make this holiday season memorable for all the right reasons! I’m sure Fright Rags will have another stellar set this year, too. They are perfect for the horror fan in your life (even if that fan is you!). I can’t wait to see what they have in store (no pun).

SPECIAL — IF YOU WANT Freeeeeeeee (as supplies last) Fright Rags Joe Bob Briggs merch for this year, just tweet/thread at us during the event and Jim will pick the one that makes him chuckle the most (you will need to give us your address and size in DMs)

No subscription to watch Joe Bob Briggs’s Creepy Christmas yet? No problem! Check the link below:

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X-Files, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas

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Airing in December of 1998, How the Ghosts Stole Christmas is a classic monster of the week episode of the X-Files. Except, of course, it’s ghosts, not monsters. Because it’s Christmas, and there’s no better time for a little ghost story than that.

The story

Our story begins like any good holiday evening should. Mulder is telling Scully a ghost story. They’re sitting together outside a supposedly haunted house on Christmas Eve, waiting for the ghosts of two lovers to appear. The story is that they killed each other eighty-one years ago, that very night. Mulder is very excited to see some ghosts. Scully would rather be at home celebrating the holiday.

One of these people has a family life and a dog. The other only has his partner.

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Eventually, the two of them do make it inside, where they find an elderly couple named Maurice and Lydia. They seem like a nice enough couple until things start getting weird. Doors lock and unlock as they please. Lydia and Maurice seem to appear and vanish. And, of course, some dead bodies are found.

Edward Asner and Lily Tomlin in X-Files.

As Scully and Mulder try to find each other in this sprawling maze of a house, the ghosts are after them. They tell them terrible, insightful things about themselves and each other. The scary thing is that some of this is good advice.

The scary thing is how much of this Mulder and Scully needed to hear.

Eventually, our heroes escape, though they sure don’t exorcise the ghosts in the house or themselves. Lydia and Maurice are left to enjoy their quiet Christmas Eve in the comfort of their love, no longer a raging fire of passion, but a warm bed of glowing embers.

What worked

First off, let me say that I’m a sucker for a bottle episode. Especially in a show like X-Files. (And it is a true bottle episode, being the cheapest episode of the season.) For the most part, our story takes place in one location, with just four actors. It is tense, it is tight, and it is intimate.

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Honestly, this episode has everything going for it. Of course, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson bring their A Game. And they’re joined by two of the funniest comedic actors of all time, Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin. These people could read you the phone book and have you in stitches.

But the writing is also exemplary. Mulder and Scully are forced to take a good look at how they treat each other, for better or worse. They have to consider their relationship, the way they live their lives, and the darker voices in their heads.

In the end, I think they come together beautifully.

Finally, I want to praise the location. The haunted house looks so much like Hill House, it can’t be an accident. It’s in turn freezing and warm, falling apart and beautifully maintained. The cobwebs and hanging sheets on the unused furniture are just classic. And with the massive fireplaces, bookshelves to the ceiling, and the well-stocked bar, the whole place has an air of old-fashioned comfort, left to rot.

X-Files How The Ghosts Stole Christmas.

What didn’t work

I honestly cannot think of one thing that didn’t work in this episode. It’s funny, it’s touching, it’s dark. It’s the perfect Christmas episode of television.

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In the end, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas is a dark, spooky little tale. It’s filled with scares and chills but still manages to warm your heart. And if you want to fit a little more blood and gore into your holiday watch list, this is a great way to do it.

5 out of 5 stars (5 / 5)

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Beyond the Witching Hour: a review of J. Pagaduan’s Tales from 3 AM

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J. Pagaduan’s Tales from 3 AM is a collection of wonderfully witchy wisdom and wit that touches on eerie energies, fairy fickleness, and supernatural spirits. Building on very human concerns about life, love, and death, the subjects of these twenty-two haunting tales find themselves in a myriad of mayhems, beffudled by unseen and inscrutible magics all around them. Lured by fae, ghosts, mermaids, and other mysterious presences, we journey with the protagonists as they wade through doubt, grief, and uncertainty. Recurring themes of death and drowning take special roles in this collection, speaking to the overwhelm of longing and love, internal, external, and even otherworldly.

The Humanity

For a book prominently featuring supernatural sentimentality, Tales from 3 AM expresses worldly triumphs and tribulations in very human ways. The mystical meanderings serve to provide a more intimate glimpse into our own nature. The focus is actually on us, not the unknown, which comes and goes to offer glimpses of our true being. The supernatural makes manifest our yearning, to be with our loved ones who have passed, to find peace, to belong… It casts both light and darkness on our utmost desires, good and bad.

The Flip Side

Many of these Tales from 3 AM drift into and out of being, without clear beginning or ending points, as if you’ve only stepped into the scene long enough for a brief glimpse into a larger situation. The spirit realm can only provide so much insight before releasing you to the world once again. I personally like the fluidity of this writing style, because it doesn’t feel so contrived as when a story just falls out in a neat bundled package, but if you are a reader who wants more clearly defined circumstances then you may feel unfulfilled, as many of these musings end rather abruptly.

I give this book 3.75 Cthulhus.

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3.8 out of 5 stars (3.8 / 5)

My biggest takeaway from Tales from 3 AM is that it reflects on life in all of its misshapen muddled messes. Though at times awkward and forthright, the concepts and explorations are genuine and heartfelt. More surreal and magically mysterious than terrifying, the mirror to our human vulnerability is nonetheless haunting, laying bare our fears, hopes, and hurts.

Similar Sentiments

Tales from 3 AM has similar appeal to the Obsolete Oddity, with its nostalgic sentimentalty for days of yore and haunting tales of woe and wonderment. I find this book to be more inclusive as it features less melancholic misanthropy (which can seem misogynous, with so much attention paid to the wanton murders of women). And I think it is a bit more accessible than the YouTube channel which comes across as overly melodramatic at times. Regardless both would be right at home in death-obsessed Victorian life. So if you’re into that sort of reminiscent rumination, it’s well worth a read.

The book can be found here through books 2 read on various platforms. You can read more about the author on their web page here. jpagaduan.com

J. Pagaduan Tales from 3 AM book cover
J. Pagaduan Tales from 3 AM book cover

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