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I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work.
I saw this when I come.
And be one of us.
Hello, and welcome to the Podcast on Haunted Hill Episode 170.
My name is Gav.
My name's Dan, and I am in my birthday suit.
Oh, and I can see that.
It's strange, though, really, why you should be in the suit when I am also in my suit.
It means we're both in our birthday suits.
Well, yeah, there's a reason for that, isn't there, Gav?
Well, it's my birthday.
Does that mean, because it's my birthday, you can be in your birthday suit, because it's going to be like nude Sundays?
Yeah, baby.
Nude day.
Sarah and I have nude day.
We just spend the day nude around the house.
We don't.
We don't.
It's a joke.
Honestly, that one is a joke.
I wouldn't say it's a joke, otherwise.
170.
This is our episode for Gav's birthday.
It is.
Happy birthday to me.
I shall cry all over the place.
Another year older, another year wiser.
Definitely like an owl hoot.
And if it's your birthday, you cry your want to.
And also, go shorty, it's your birthday.
It is my birthday.
Well, for anyone who doesn't know, if you're new to the podcast, welcome front.
If this is your regular listener, welcome back.
Welcome back.
And if you're just popping an out, welcome sideways.
But for anyone who doesn't know, and just to remind anyone who does, for the birthday episode, the birthday boy, the nude birthday boy, gets to pick the films.
It's kind of like our own little patron, although we pick it.
SPEAKER_5: Nude boy.
I'm oiled up nude boy.
Yeah, that's right.
The weirdest superhero ever.
Yeah, that's right.
By night, no, by day, he is a music producer for hip hop, Sean Coombs.
But at night, he becomes naked oiled up boy.
Yeah, baby.
No, no, no, shouldn't say that.
No, no, baby.
Especially with the baby in it.
No, no babies.
Yeah.
Well, we won't get into what they do.
But yes, Gav, you've selected two completely random films.
As is often the case.
You know, I can't talk.
As is my brain.
I've made us watch RoboCop, Labyrinth, if you name it, for birthday specials.
You've made us watch Charles Bronson and other stuff.
So rather than me tell our viewers, our listeners, what we're reviewing, why don't you tell us the two films you've selected for us?
It's one of those things.
It's quite a prestigious moment when you realize that you have essentially a Patreon episode where you can choose your own episode.
And I can see where, patrons, you love a lot.
I could see where it comes from when you become a bit like, I don't know what to do.
And you tell Danny a bit stuck of ideas.
And it is a bit like that.
I had different things.
I want to get things which have good conversation possibly.
But then sometimes I just will watch a movie and go, I want to do that.
And these two, whatever reason came up and I was like, that's the most weirdest pairing.
And one's claymation, really, really good claymation as well.
Like well up there, like Wallace and Gromit style.
And that's Chuck Steel, Night Of The Vampire, Night Of The Trampires, which is not Gav Chucky Steel.
It's just a coincidence, in fact.
I just played at Fright Fest, but I didn't see it.
And I just was like, what the fuck is this?
And kind of ignored it for a quarter of a few years and then got on it.
And we were getting on to that.
And the other one I chose really randomly.
And we've not done one yet, James Bond.
But not Connery.
It's after Connery.
So it's post Connery.
SPEAKER_5: Yeah.
And it is On Her Majesty Secret Service.
I'll tell you what, I'm an actor.
SPEAKER_5: I'll do it.
I'll play James Bond.
I've got my hair cut a little like Sean Connery.
SPEAKER_5: Suit tailored.
What do you reckon?
Yeah, you do.
SPEAKER_5: Great.
Let's go.
Don't know what I'm doing.
George Lazenby.
Yeah, George Lazenby.
Kiwi from New Zealand.
Yeah, so Chuck Steel Night Of The Trampires from 2018.
Yeah, it's kind of like if you wanted to know what Lethal Weapon or Cobra would be like, if they also took place in a John Carpenter-style zombie vampire invasion set in the 80s.
But then you've got Hardman.
But then Hardman Animations came in and said, I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll animate this for you.
So you kind of got that Team America style thing going on with it as well.
But then they sprinkle over the top of it and the naked gun sort of Leslie Nielsen type humor as well.
It's just absolutely batshit.
It's the first time I've seen it.
So I'll hold off on revealing more.
It's a lot to go through.
And this is going to be a long episode, guys.
So buckle in.
We're going to have a short intro, I think, for this one.
Yeah.
I've done the most notes I've ever done.
I was scrolling through my notes in the Bond movie, and I was like, oh my god, my hand's just flicking the notes from page to page.
And to set you all up, you know, On Her Majesty's Secret Service does make a lot of Bond fans top three films.
It's quite unique, isn't it?
Yeah.
It was the only one George Lazenby did, and we'll come and get into that when we talk about it.
But it's also very unique for lots of ways Bond gets married in it.
It's very dark at times.
The Craig David era.
SPEAKER_5: Craig David?
Craig David.
SPEAKER_5: On Mondays, Craig David.
Daniel Craig era.
Basically, I think all the movies, they looked specifically at it.
And also, was the blueprint for all the 200 more movies to come after it, and all the Austin Powers movies, and Angel The Dragon, and a bunch of other stuff as well.
The Sneaky Jakes are in there, aren't they?
Yeah, yeah.
So a lot of fun to be had with it, but it's also cinematically fantastic, and definitely in my top three, you know.
But again, we'll get into all of that.
But first of all, Gav, happy birthday.
You're getting a bit older.
Yep.
How are things?
Have you got any more elements?
My balls have got down to...
I'm tucking them into my socks now.
Good Lord.
It's got that bad.
The balls have got that long.
Oh, JB Creed is ticking this off on his bingo card now, because usually you mention either your penis or somebody else's, or testicles, usually yours.
So that's good that you've ticked that one off on the bingo card there.
I don't know.
Nothing else really.
I did get older, but it's a bit weird because I'm still hitting a gem in here.
It doesn't seem to be a phase of one of my things I go through when I'm obsessed for a moment.
I'm still out doing that, which is strange to be hitting it so later in life.
But it's fine.
But yeah, it's good to get strength a bit sore today for that.
But apart from that, nothing's different.
I'm more broke than probably last year, which is always great.
I think everybody is really apart from Donald Trump, but let's not get there.
But apart from that, everything's good.
I had a really great weekend for my birthday.
The kids were really good.
They actually spent time with me.
My elders actually spent time with me.
Even the kitchen man.
Do you want a hand with the roast dinner?
It's like, yeah.
All right, can you get this?
And it was like, wow, they actually spent pretty much whole time with me.
And this weekend I've just been with them.
Didn't see one of them pretty much all weekend.
That's lovely.
Occasionally I'll say to her, can you stop smoking cigarettes?
That's about it.
Really?
Wow.
You know which one that was as well, don't you?
I do, I do.
Talking of getting old, I had a wonderful moment about half past five this morning, only this morning with my boy.
I'd slept in the children's room, as is often the case.
I woke up at five, about 5.30, he begged, let's go downstairs, daddy.
All right, come on then.
So I said, I'm just going to do a quick wee.
So I did a sit down wee, because it's early in the morning.
You don't have to give an excuse for a sit down wee.
No, no, 80% of my wee's are sit down wee's if I'm honest with you.
I'm generally in the house of women all the time, so it's just always been like, as I sat down, I didn't even know I'd done it.
Jack sort of put his hand on my knee when I was doing the wee and said to me, daddy, when you sit down, why do you go, oh, oh, like that?
And I said, well, I'm getting older, Jack.
And he said, what's older?
Why is it getting older?
What's mean?
And I said, well, my god, here we go, son, sit down.
And then he said, will your beard fall out?
Will all your hair fall out?
And I said, what might do one day?
Yeah.
And he went, yeah, people die.
That was the start of my day.
That was 5.30 in the morning.
So, you know, people die.
Let's get going for the day.
See what's going to happen.
Let's go and watch cartoons.
Fuck it, now he's three.
Little bastard.
Gav, it's your birthday episode, so I'll let you start.
What have you been watching?
We haven't got a lot to discuss.
I haven't.
We need to jump into the reviews.
I haven't really seen that much.
I started watching last night, Clash Of Titans.
Charlie was really tired and was like, I'm going to go now after Medusa part.
I went to bed and Elijah went, it's quite boring, isn't it?
It is.
I think the worst thing about that film is Liam Neeson's accent.
Liam Neeson?
Yeah, Clash Of The Titans.
No, the original Clash Of The Titans.
Oh, thank God.
I thought you were talking about the...
No, stop motion animation.
The original Ray Harryhousen.
Yeah, that's great.
Elijah just at one point said it was a bit boring.
I was like, okay, and towards the end, that falls just up to a crack in it.
And then he went, I'm going now.
It's because Charlie went, so all of a sudden he just went, oh, someone can go.
I'm going to go in this.
I only picked up on Blu-ray the other day.
So it's really great to see it in such high quality.
Little segue there, because one of Chuck Steel's battle cries at one point when he's fighting some of the Trampires, he shouts out, Harryhousen!
I don't know if he picked up on that.
There's too much in that.
Yeah.
Apart from that, nothing really.
He started the second season of Squid Games.
That's pretty enjoyable.
Watch that with Elijah.
Well, there's one movie that you can also talk about with me, because it's been quite a few years since I saw it, and I sat down and watched Nothing But Trouble the other night.
Yes, and I only watched it for your two Halloween's.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a couple of months ago, yeah.
Yeah.
What did you think then?
I'd only seen it the once when I was like, I hired it out from the video shop down the road, literally down the road in the same road, and I just wanted to back to my house to go, how is this?
I remember watching it and being like, this is kind of weird.
And I was like, I understand.
I know the hip-hop crew and stuff because of that age.
And I was just like, I know 2Chase, I don't know anymore.
And I just know all these people, but Demi Moore from Ghost, because this was like, you know, when it came out.
And it was really weird, but I kind of liked it.
But I was just like, I don't really like it enough.
I really want to see it again.
It's a weird film because it's nice and dark.
It's got some good humor and some quite comical bits and weird bits.
And it's just every, so many good actors like of that generation.
Yeah, you've got Demi Moore, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd.
Dan Aykroyd plays a couple of roles in it and directs it, which he really struggled with because he was in heavy makeup for both of the roles he played.
He played the bait, one of the giant babies, and Penis Nose, a 100 year old judge, which guys, I'm not making this up.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch.
And John Candy plays brother and sister in it.
So he's got two roles in it.
He's the dragon in it.
And you've got Tupac and the two live crew, not two live crew, the Humpty, Humpty in the...
Tupac just is a little extra this year, so this is nothing.
He's just got to look around like, he was in that crew as well, though.