0:00:03: it is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
0:00:14: This is time enough podcast hey, it's time enough podcast where we dive into episodes of the Twilight zone and beyond.
0:00:46: This is matt here, you're getting your serious episode like in weird temporal time because you're going to hear people complain that I give you this silly comedy episodes, like four episodes from now now you have this one Yeah, surprise listeners. These are not recorded in the order that you hear them.
0:01:09: So um yeah, we got we got the hardcore one for you today, the invaders one that's I I guess this is like how sixties tv is supposed to creep you out.
0:01:19: Yeah, it's like kind of like outer limits than like slightly classier, maybe that sort of vibe.
0:01:26: It's, it's a like you want me that this episode has some like kind of cheesy dumb props, I actually love them. Oh, I do too. They're cheesy and dumb but but yeah, like they are a little cheesy and done but the episode is overall like real classy and dramatic and like gorgeously done and kind of experimental, occasionally twilight zone. It feels like an experimental film holder. Had a bit of that going on. Um Did you say 22? Well that's, that's in a few weeks, but that has a little bit of that going on and we did the hitchhiker, that kind of had that vibe too, I think. Which which you know, by season five there actually just buying like somewhat experimental films because they have to fill in their production thing for one to be specific. But yeah, so I I do, that's, I think that's one of the things I like about the twilight zones that does kind of stumble into that um experimental edge, like beyond just trying to be like, you know, creepy or trippy or whatever, and also episodes like this or dust that feel like so ahead of their time are the reason I was getting annoyed when you were giving me episodes like Mr Dingle Strong do just feel like, you know, episodes of a half 60 sitcom.
0:02:49: Yeah, sometimes with some cracking dialogue, I'll give them, but uh let me talk about this one, just a bit. Uh there's not a lot of trivia because there's not a lot of people here. Original air date was january 27th, 1961. Uh Richard Matheson scripted this one. So I imagine that script was mostly stage directions. Uh actually I'm gonna interrupt myself just um we had, we were I was watching it with my family right?
0:03:17: Um I I said you want the funny one, the creepy one or another one, airplane. My daughter went creepy, so that was this one and um luke, you'll you'll get this right away the subtitle since there's no speaking, it's like pants and then a few seconds later pants loudly keeps panting, you know? So for a pants, for those of you who don't know actually means underwear in Japan also in Britain, that's why it means in Japan. Okay. Oh, well there I learned. Okay, that's why we say trousers, right? Because pants is underwear. Okay. So anyway, yeah, my, my daughter thought that was hysterical watching it. So again, we're watching a horror thing that she keeps giggling at and my wife keeps wincing at it.
0:04:02: Uh Director Douglas Hayes will ultimately be responsible for nine episodes of The Twilight Zone. He doubles down on this one as he's also responsible for that bit of Spacemen dialogue we get at the end.
0:04:17: Mhm.
0:04:18: Why hire someone? Right? You got a voice do it.
0:04:22: Agnes Moorehead was a bit of a late bloomer. I'd wager. This episode alone could have earned her her legacy, but she hit that button even harder playing Andorra on. Bewitched yet another Bewitched reference. Okay.
0:04:38: An episode like this absolutely needs an original score and jerry Goldsmith absolutely provided it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's, you know, when the twilight Zone has original score, it's like what's literally movie quality music, Right? So, you know, a few years down line, he's doing Planet of the Apes. So, okay, uh can you prologue us please?
0:05:04: This is one of the out of the way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted dying.
0:05:10: This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, A house untouched by progress.
0:05:19: This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who's been alone for many years.
0:05:23: A strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat a woman about to face terror, which is even now coming at her from the twilight zone.
0:05:38: Yeah, so back in season one for this podcast, I mean, uh you and I did the hitchhiker, I did Mirror Image with Andrew and I got to the point where it's like, oh, I can't keep doing these, these episodes is like another dude and that was the original thought for this. But I mean we even talked about a little bit yesterday, but it doesn't really matter that much.
0:06:01: Yeah, I mean, I definitely there is an element of like a woman alone in her house during this kind of home invasion does have a different Vibe than a dude, right?
0:06:13: Especially in like 60s television, you know, a man defending his house would be a very different proposition than you know, a woman alone in our house being terrorized. But ultimately, yeah, this is a story about a person in a house being attacked by little critters.
0:06:27: So it I maybe maybe your original guest would have caught some, you know, like relatable feeling that I'm not aware of.
0:06:38: But yeah, I'm also actually very glad that you picked me for this one Because like I was just checking the date actually my phone because they said, that's six years after Hopkinsville and this is very Hopkinsville goblins.
0:06:55: I thought you might have a word or two about that after I watched it. So I had a much dumber thought now temporarily of course it's wrong. The twilight zone as it does with many things as a few years too early. But I kept thinking like a gritty reboot of the smurfs like Agnes Moorehead characters like Gargamel or something.
0:07:14: Oh you know what the equivalent of that that I was thinking of was oh this is like small soldiers. Okay, there's a touch of you. I've watched that one once you've seen that one I guess a few more times than I have. So. But yeah, that that perfectly makes sense as well. Or toys attacking the neighbor sid in Toy Story, you know or if we want to go to something a bit classier reminds me of like the farmhouse scene in war of the worlds as well.
0:07:46: That and that it's not a little like fellas, it's a probe coming in but still like silent farmhouse creeping away from an alien obviously.
0:07:55: Well yeah, at one point should we start, I mean I assume everyone's watch this, they're listening but what point should we break and let it go into full twist land as far as our discussion?
0:08:05: We talk aliens first.
0:08:06: Let's talk about aliens first because I like the episode a lot when you're just treating it as a woman being terrorized by aliens. but you want to get rid of this screen share. Oh yeah, good thinking there just because it was giving my face terrible lighting.
0:08:27: If you're thinking about it as just aliens attacking a house, I really like it and it's creepy and it's tense and I did see the twist coming from like the start, but I actually think the episode will be better without the twist.
0:08:42: I think just played straight creepy terrorized by creatures in a home story and you know, just have give us an extra scare or two at the end instead would be better than this.
0:08:55: Real obvious kind of cheesy twist. I might be a moron because I watched it. Um, not not picking up on the twist basically cause I think I always, you know, I see the plot descriptions when I'm scheduling this thing and it's one of the episodes I don't think I've seen any time recently. So it was just like woman is terrorized in their farmhouse. I'm like, okay, that's what I'll expect. So, um, I might have poisoned my own brain and I don't know if that's good. Maybe that, I mean that's the correct way you want the audience to be watching it. Right.
0:09:23: I mean, what are we, how many episodes are like 50 something episodes into the twilight zone now And I've been watching along with the show, I'm looking for the twist. Yeah, I think I've gotten like mildly like, I'm not looking for the twist anymore. You know, like when, especially when I was younger, I'd be like, I'm smarter than this. I'll find the twist, but now I'm like, no, I don't want to figure out the twist. I just wanted to play, you know, which was so if I do get the twist ahead of time, it's like especially annoying now because I, I'm actually like trying not to look for them.
0:09:53: It's not like I'm set to go into it like, right, let's find the twist, let's solve the puzzle. I'm so smart. But my brain, yeah, but my brain is just up to be like, oh hang on a minute. I know what's going on here.
0:10:05: I'm sure there are episodes that will subvert that because they know the audience is doing that right. Like you've already had that conversation a couple of times. Yeah. Another thing I get down weird Youtube rabbit holes last night I told you I was, what did I tell you? I was telling someone else. I was watching uh you know, videos of weird small Tokyo living spaces.
0:10:28: So about a year ago I was watching um like these seventies documentaries about like weird Appalachian, let's not say weird, let's say out of the way Appalachian like villages and farm homes and stuff. So I had just recently been watching things about homes like this because one of the things is, oh, this is actually is an Alien Home, right? So it doesn't have to correlate with modern earth or anything because like why is she alone? All that sort of stuff? But you know having watched those, it was like yeah, sure makes sense. So that could have been a good sixties perspective thing where there were more people living in like you know weird non utility laden, you know rural homes and things. Oh yeah, I believe that, I mean if you go out of the way enough here in Japan there are still people living borderline that way right? Yeah, yeah, I just saw, I didn't click on because I wanted to go to bed last night, but after I watched my Tokyo thing, it was like next up is uh the Hermit dude that lives in a secret village.
0:11:29: So you know, I have to get back that that's what I kind of feel like the invaders is you know, the Hermit woman living in this place you can't find on earth would have been perfectly acceptable. I didn't even necessarily assume she was a Hermit woman because the episode doesn't take place over a very long period of time.
0:11:48: She could have a family who were just out and this is mid afternoon, well evening at least. Yeah, but there's nothing in there, it's not like the episode takes place over days and days of torment right? Although just to throw back the prologue, you just read this is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who's been alone for many years. So okay I thought this is a woman who lives in the house not being alone.
0:12:11: Okay, but let's talk about the goblins because you can definitely school people in that more than me and probably school myself. I don't know if I've heard a full description for you in a while. Yeah, so the Hopkinsville Goblins encounter was ufo alien encounter around the 1955 where it's a farmhouse in I think it's Kansas, Hopkinsville somewhere in that part of America. Anyway sorry, I'm letting myself down with that. But yeah, so two families, they're over having a nice evening that same night, there was a strange light in the sky reported by the police and then yeah they were just over the entire course of the night just harassed by these creatures who kept coming up to their windows. Little goblin looking guys and family apparently tried to shoot at them. It didn't work, they were coming in at the windows, coming in at the um did you call him trying to get through the chimney all of this.
0:13:09: Um They even like went into, managed to make a desperate escape in their car into town and brought the police back with them. The police, you know, saw all the bullet marks and stuff but I don't think the police saw any of the creatures police went home the creatures attacked again and it became a fairly famous sort of alien encounter incident but way more famous in japan.
0:13:31: So like a lot of anime have aliens based on this creature rather than the um sort of the typical gray that you get in the west.
0:13:40: Yeah they're like smallish goblin looking things.
0:13:43: Um Now the sort of prevailing theory is that it was probably just owls because the creatures kind of do have the face of an owl and owls would behave like that sort of thing in real life. Yeah but maybe but obviously you know when I'm thinking about these things I like to let myself believe it's an alien for a little while of course. But yeah so E.T.
0:14:10: I was originally going to be like a retelling of that. It was gonna be a horror movie about these little goblin aliens attacking a house and then it ended up over many script revisions becoming sort of the family movie. It was but maybe that's why I think maybe they did a little bit.
0:14:30: Um But then also maybe that explains why E.T. Looks like such a horrible little goblin.
0:14:36: Um Not to be that guy but I'm sorry I just I just looked just for anyone that cares there is a Hopkinsville Kansas there's a Hopkins soul. Ohio this one's Kentucky christian county Kentucky. Okay sorry go ahead.
0:14:49: Yeah the kelly Hopkinsville encounter is what you meant to call because kelly was the family Hopkinsville was the not even technically the town it's in, they were in like an even smaller little village outside of this small town.
0:15:02: But yeah, it's a big favorite of mine and this definitely had the feel of it and I've kind of been waiting for a good movie of it.
0:15:11: There's like a real crap made for TV semi documentary one that I feel like yeah, just family overnight harassed by aliens would make for a pretty fun or horror film. Oh yeah, for sure. Like you said, I mean more of the world has a few seconds. The cruise one, right? I thought, well I mean the alien doesn't come inside but the, even the original does have that scene with the probe which is iconic.
0:15:38: Yeah, I get, yeah, it's in the, it's in, it's also in the 50s movie but it doesn't stick out as much. Oh really? But again, this is just not that much. Yeah, that is, that is the reason that's in the cruise one is because it's a very iconic scene and the other one. Okay, well I'm just saying, I guess as far as like me feeling tension while watching it, the Cruise one, you know, filmmaking techniques probably helps a lot too. And so um, you know, I guess the 19 fifties one, I just think of people standing, you know bio forest grove and getting vaporized as the image that sticks in my head the most and then the other completely separate from that. The other reason I really dig this episode, it's got big Pickman vibes.
0:16:23: Yeah. Give that run in the game series, you play as a tiny little astronaut who comes to earth and then you know, plug these little plant creatures to help him survive in penguins case the humans are all gone. It's like a post apocalyptic and it's just, it's also completely dialogue list. So you're just this tiny little astronaut, these little plant guys, they don't talk and you're just desperately trying to rebuild your spaceship and go home.
0:16:52: And I guess as the player, you're kind of like pushing Pickman around from the back like in this, so it's like, it's like a strategy game, but you play as a little dude, so you actually have to run around and command them. But yeah, so yeah, I guess we'll talk a minute or two about the spaceman in this one, which I, I instantly looked had to see if there was like merch of that available.
0:17:19: Yeah, I mean in my notes I write, it's it's the best and worst prop ever, you know, at the same time because it is completely unrealistic. Like no one even a three year old is not going to buy it, but it's still just like, hey, the rest of this episode works perfectly there. Like okay, Spaceman, we made this little plush thing and pushed around some Yeah.
0:17:44: And like the way he's really big and chunky and fat. I really like it. If they, if they actually just photoshopped in like actual human actors or whatever in little suits.
0:17:58: I wouldn't have liked it as much as the big chunky thing that it is.
0:18:02: I think it's because there were a couple of scenes where it moves a little bit, right? So they had to put some sort of motor in it.
0:18:09: Okay. I just assumed these were the um, from the walleye verse. So they were all extremely large by this point. Well, maybe a little smaller. This would be post Earth return by a few years. So they just swim down and touch. You remind me a little bit of the, the aliens you see right at the start of what you call it, fifth element.
0:18:34: You know the big chunky aliens who stomped into the pyramid of the stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. I can see that. Except these obviously have like The, I mean, you know, I may be the tell was even though too chunky, it was generally like how you would conceive like uh cosmonaut or astronaut going into space in the early 60s.
0:18:58: Um, the saucer is fun. I mean it's just a plain old saucer, but it was weird cause the first time she goes up, I thought it was an attic and then later it's clear that it's just the roof. So that a set design. Yeah.
0:19:11: So I probably was filmed like, yeah, I'm sure it was on a sound stage. I mean twice does make quite a bit of use of backlog especially and like we saw earlier in the season where it's like, hey, we've got a mansion, we can fill them out film at. So I did like two or three episodes there, uh, the universal backlot we've seen whereas everybody, so they get outside a bit. But yeah, this one seemed very sound stage. I mean it would make sense from a filming perspective because you need to get like every angle conceivable since you have no dialogue, you know?
0:19:46: Um, this is one that would have actually, I think getting back to the videotape discussion. This would have been a terrible episode on videotape because then it would have felt like a stage play and that's not what this needs. This needs to have 10 shots, you know, and cuts and things like that. Um, you can get the invader but it's always either sold out $800. That's what I found when I looked. Just, maybe we'll see it at some random recycle store. One of these days.
0:20:16: I'm already tasked to find the japanese twilight zone soundtrack cds. So I guess I'll just look for both when I do that. What, what was the creepiest moment of this one for you?
0:20:30: I'm just saying I'm asking because I already have an answer for me. It was, but after she, when she escaped back down the ladder and the one down there was gone and was like I think it went, she's like checking under all the beds and everything and it's not there and she doesn't know where it is. Maybe that's saying that its creepiest when you can't see them. But well, jaws screen, right? Yeah, that was when it was the most creepy for me. I think you probably have a better moment. This would have been jaws if they had just like, you know like whatever, just keep it on the screen more So so maybe that's something that could have done this. But again, we both like it it's fun, it's it's a slightly weird fit but it's perfectly fine for 1961 and its iconic for me it's it's the the door opening because I was like something's gonna happen here but they're gonna he's gonna slip the knife through the door wasn't like my first thought, I was like, oh my God, how much would it suck opening a door and like grabbing onto a large knife?
0:21:35: The bit that I really liked and would probably have been taken slightly further if this was made today was when she was pulling the knife away from it by holding the blade and I was like if you made that today, she would be like grabbing it and there'd be blood running down her hands and stuff and yeah, that was gnarly.
0:21:53: Yeah, I mean her you know everything's rough hewn in this episode, her her clothes are the farmhouses but she has a nice little knife collection. Those are some swank knives. She is there, she keeps unpolished.
0:22:06: She's got she's got to eat I guess is the first knife we see her using is like this curved dagger thing. Like you don't use that for vegetables. That's what's like murdering your foes.
0:22:21: Well it's an alien planet. You know they have different food in it. So going back to Pickman maybe their their vegetables do need murderers um with with the soundtrack you know I do like that. It's very kind of like the rustic soundtrack and then just like invaded by all of our forbidden planet noises. I thought that was cool. So I love I love the sound design of mostly because if the aliens had been like talking or whatever, it would have been super lame but just making those weird beeps and bloops and stuff and it's a bit lame.
0:22:58: It works really well.
0:23:01: Yeah you're describing it perfectly. It's a rustic farmhouse invaded by sci fi noises.
0:23:06: So yeah that's just in sound and alien. So that's kind of kind of cool. Um I do like that while she's you know flipping out like quite understandably in this situation you would be flipping out. Um She is reasonably strategic, you know like because Bruce Campbell right? He always flips out if he's in a room by himself but she tends to keep her head on her shoulders a little bit better I think, which could be a plus or minus depending on your, your viewing taste. But now I tend to like in my horror movies, I mean Bruce Campbell's exception because you're watching it to see him freak out, right? But I usually don't like horror movies because the cast is such idiots.
0:23:50: So seeing someone just actually fairly sensibly figure it out is much more entertaining to me.
0:23:56: This definitely goes pew, pew, pew for the lasers or whatever. I don't know. What are they? What are those weird sores and stuff that, that was pretty creepy to where she starts finding those. I'm like, man, I would, I would not enjoy that, although, you know, um, so we we've talked about him enough as aliens. You say that you'd like it better without the twist. So I think so, yeah, it's not like the twist ruins it because it's twilight zone. It's got to be a twist and it's it is what it is. But yeah, for me just the very simple premise of woman alone in a farmhouse harassed by little aliens.
0:24:35: It was more interesting than the who actually were the aliens twist is this is this is how the Air Force would handle extraterrestrial giants. I mean, they get relatively shooting pretty quickly and they should be able to at least recognize the, even though they're much smaller, that I think they should be able to recognize the tenor of this place and understand what's going on a little bit. Yeah.
0:25:03: Yeah. It's also another one of those funny moments with twilight zone where it feels like Nasa should exist already.
0:25:10: But again, it's us on the ship. I think by this point I think Nasa was in business, but maybe they weren't quite a household name yet. Excuse me. Even today though, I mean we have like the Air Force sending these shuttles into space for like years at a time and that doesn't really make the news. Um, it's switched air force bases secret public now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're saying this the, the, I guess it's a Ryan, right? I keep wanting to orient in Japan, but that's supposed to be a blasting towards the moon. As we are having this conversation.
0:25:48: Did you not see that news?
0:25:50: They launched the Artemis rocket, which is 15% more powerful than the Saturn five with one of Nasa's Orion capsules on it. Like not the SpaceX one but an actual Nasa one. It's unmanned, it's going to circle the moon. Uh, come back land. They're going to make sure everything checks out. They put some dummies on there. If that's successful next year, they're going to send a crew around the moon and by the end of the decade, the plan is to send a specifically a woman and a person of color, uh, to land on the moon because we've already had enough white dudes on it.
0:26:28: Okay. I'm very glad to know that we're putting people back on the moon. Well they'll happen when it happens. But yeah, they've been saying that for years, but they are currently sending their their, you know, test doing more than they've done in like 40 or 50 years. 5050, unfortunately.
0:26:45: So that's kind of cool. So, you know, hopefully they don't like you end up going through a weird space rift and landing on this planet or the plan the apes or well, they're not going to tell us about in the future.
0:27:04: Yeah, these guys get a signal out. So I guess everyone knows they at least landed on the land of the giants. Yeah.
0:27:13: Um, do you have any other big hits you wanna throw out in this episode?
0:27:18: No, I think I feel yet I, I finally got my good one for the first time in a while, so thank you. Okay, look, I don't think it's been that long since I had a decent ones. Just I had like two or three comedy ones in between. Yeah, like I said, you have the downside of not being able to specifically ask for episodes as you are learning about the twilight in real time.
0:27:39: Yeah, that's a, that's a bit of a handicap I guess. But let's do our questions. Um okay. Actually, the first one who went through the twilight zone in this episode. I think there's I guess there's actually two answers for that pre twist. You would say she's in the twilight zone and post twist, it turns out she is of the twilight zone and it's the aliens, the astronauts who went into the twilight zone, right? Although is that just being too biased? Should we keep the focus on her being in the twilight zone?
0:28:09: What emotional terror is the other guy if you're flying saucer guys, I guess at this point you are of the twilight zone. Yeah, they signed up.
0:28:17: She's just a little farmhouse lady who gets attacked by Yeah, I guess either way she's the one who got twilight zoned.
0:28:24: Yeah. Because she did not sign up for this. Uh you know, you're going on the Air Force's experimental space mission and you have to I mean you don't have to expect that you're going to end up in the land of the giants. But yeah, now they they do reference her as being highly aggressive, which I don't know. I guess that's just a matter of perspective because she's pretty much on defense. It hasn't done anything yet and she chucked it down.
0:28:53: Okay, that's a good point. That's Gargamel. I guess how many of us can say we wouldn't react to the same with the little space man came into our house. Just scream and throw it. Well what do you do with your bugs? I mean I try and get the bug out without killing it myself, but I'm pretty good at trying to take them out alive but once they're in my home sometimes it's just like yeah you need to go. I'm scared they get squished. Yeah, I don't think I man, I don't think I actually killed it but I was just trying to this little bug like on the train and was like just go anywhere but here, you know, had a cicada a couple of months back. Like get stuck in the rut of my screen door on its back freaking out and making loads of noise in the middle of the night and it was so hard to like flip it back up right so we can get out of there.
0:29:45: What's better that that or the time you got the cicada in your pants.
0:29:50: Um My pants are smaller but it did die when we tried to remove it but I was surrounded by other people and it was very funny. Okay, so you got the humor, you got a bit go back to the start of this episode, matt's talking about pants in the american sense.
0:30:10: He wasn't in my underwear. Oh right, okay, sorry, I'm going yankee on this, Can I say yankee? I'm from Georgia and then if you're in Georgia you don't call yourself a yankee, I guess you're all Yankees to us too busy. I know that's why I was like having this little bit of a Labeling dread.
0:30:29: Um Does she deserve you want to go with with Agnes Moorehead character if she doesn't deserve any of this other than like I said, she did actually instigate the fighting, but also they did land on her roof. So you know your point of view if we're going for? Did they deserve it? Yes.
0:30:54: Military and acting like total colonizers just landing on people's planet people's houses and strutting about. So yeah, I deserve everything. They got um A flying saucer on your roof. Might be a little too on the, on the face. I think we can still put a big black monolith on your roof. What do you do?
0:31:10: Um I mean, I know you live in an apartment, let's just assume you have a roof directly above you.
0:31:16: And I suddenly got a Monolith on it tweet about it, take pictures of Oh yeah, like that was the last two years ago where the random monolith art and stuff. That was kind of fun.
0:31:31: But those weren't on anyone's roof, they were like in the desert, right?
0:31:36: So yeah, Yeah, I'm just gonna agree with how you're talking about deserving or not deserving for this one.
0:31:43: I definitely curious where you want to put this on the triple meter.
0:31:48: You gave me a number number again because because the teleplay for this is all Yeah, the teleplay has done how I usually do my trip.
0:32:01: Okay. Um Yeah, I think the number of originally came to mind was 3.5 and I'm not really sure it could be a 42, so I could drop, I would probably drop it to a three for the twist.
0:32:15: Yeah, that's the sign of a bad twilight zone where the twist makes you drop your triple meter.
0:32:22: Yeah. Like I said, just the, when it's, you know, normal person and something strange is invading them is a better trip than like, you know, the humans are in a spaceship and they stumbled across this thing.
0:32:39: You know, I feel like that's less trippy for me. I get what I get what you're going for and it is a nice little twist, but it felt it really feels like they felt like, well this episode doesn't have a twist yet. What's the twist you brought up a little bit like uh sort of brings out the, the colonizing vibe, which if it's aliens doing that, you know, it's just like whatever. That's like Independence Day, we want you to die or whatever, But, but in this one, you know, it's just, it adds just just a sliver of social socio political comment, I guess you could give it that if you're being generous and yeah, and then of course the triple meter depends on how much you love the Spaceman prof, which I do love.
0:33:24: I I saw one for 50 bucks and I was going to buy it and then it was sold out, but I'm not paying 800 bucks. No, that would be insane. So, um, like last week I showed you the the Robin from batman. Robin bald figure and I was like, oh, if it's 20 bucks you have to get that. But it was that those are $400 figures and no, Yeah, there are not many characters. I'd buy $400 figures of what I'm gonna tell you. Batman and Robin's robin with a big crotch bulge is not one of them.
0:33:55: But no, I actually, I had the thought like a month or two ago, maybe I should like make the space behind me like some twilight zone merch. And yeah, then I saw the price of twilight zone merch. And as as you know, if I'm spending that much money, it's gonna be another guitar.
0:34:11: I realized, why don't I have that much dorky collective.
0:34:15: Put your that little shelf behind you, You could put the lights on.
0:34:18: At least I the case. So bad amazon review when I got the case, it was the case was gnarled and I had to put them into this sleeve thing. So they live in here. Okay. I don't know. I got the eighties one.
0:34:36: The eighties one is there now, which we won't be getting to for some time, but it's there, if someone can actually see it's kind of easter egg. If you can see it or not. Talking of things we won't be getting to for some time. The the other film that this reminded me of was nope, I think I've said on here before, I've decided to simply not watch those and treat them as the first three episodes of his twilight or four or five By the time I get to treat the movies as the first few episodes of his his twilight zone and watch them fresh when I do the podcast. So I'm actually going to say, I'm sure a lot of people get the reference and I'm going to say no, no, don't tell me.
0:35:16: I am intentionally I've watched about five episodes actually, a few more of his series, but the movies themselves like man, I'm still in the dark about them for the most part and that's I think I should stay there until it's time to talk about it. Yeah, I get that. But yeah, this from the trailers look like exactly my so I had to go see it.
0:35:39: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well I did the theory lesson you anyway, so you don't live over the road from one, correct. So you have a family, you can't just blow money whenever you want.
0:35:50: So you can tell people what you're actually up to because this airs in what, three or four days. So any, any any twitching, anything like that?
0:36:00: Yes. So if you're liking liking my chat about the Hopkinsville Goblins, the reason I'm so into them is because one of my favorite Pokemon is based on it and I do a wee little podcast called luke, loves Pokemon.
0:36:11: You can find on twitter at luke loves P K and N on facebook, all of that. And the new Pokemon game is coming out has just come out as you listen to this episode.
0:36:20: So we'll be doing episodes on the new Pokemon from that so make sure you check it out, you can see me on twitch at twitch dot tv slash clubs PK man, that's on friday night, eight PM UK time, friday nights and saturday nights and yeah, generally just find me doing Pokemon related content a whole bunch at the moment probably. So does that mean you're going to, you're going to switch from unite to scarlet now, I have never played Pokemon unite. Okay, it's a chinese, like free to play third. Okay, I know it's because our, it's because our mutual student tells me about what he's doing unite every week as he does, I'm sure, so that's probably why I'm dialing you in for that. Oh what is the other one? Scarlet, what's the other one? Scarlet and violet? You have to get both or you getting one? I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get both and play one as my own game in my free time and then the other one I'll stream Okay because the one I stream, I'll just be playing for like two hours a week, so it would take me like a year to finish it.
0:37:22: Okay, like planning planning things out Well yeah, as for this, it is time enough podcast. Um time enough pod maybe on twitter. Who knows at this point and at facebook luke and I also do other podcasts as well. He mentioned his, but if you go to Patreon podcast podcast, you'll hear luke and I talking about various sci fi movies every week with far more obscenities. Um I was hoping you were going to announce it without mentioning there's me and you should listen to that one. That's co host is really cool. Okay there. You did it now. Oh yeah, yeah, I will never not use a joke even if it stops being appropriate.
0:38:06: You already mentioned luke, Los Pokemon and you also do the monster mash, the monster hunters in the game game show where you all game and we get four british guys screaming insults at each other.
0:38:18: Yeah, as you're listening to this, you're in the midst of two episodes where I've had to use a lot of speeding sections up because two hosts in a row did way too many questions that were just us listing stuff like matt's been telling me that the episodes have been relying too much on like, like actual video game knowledge and it's not as entertaining and if that's not your bag, then these are two episodes not to start with. So yeah, go start with number one, I guess if you're gonna do the game game show because it's not like it's, it's not like they're time coded particularly right? It's it's it's an evergreen of a show. Yes, morning pants loudly.