God Awful Movies - 420: Wild Weed: She Should've Said No

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

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Like she's got like a crank operated kid killer machine. Yeah, we shouldn't have given you that one. So yeah, that's what's up with me. Why don't you switch with Larry's bucket? Like she does it smart, right? And she chooses Larry's and it's like petafile and she's like you deserve to be here Larry

not awful movie welcome back to the gamcast for each week. We sample another selection from Christian cinema because for all we know, that's what's been making the sun come up this old time. I'm your host, Noah Luzon's. He's going to be unable to join us this week, but sitting 900 miles to my northeast is my bad friend Eli Bosnick Eli. How are you this fine afternoon, sir? Episode for 20. That's right. That's right. I'm a black light poster right now. And I am a black light.

And also joining us today is the host to be reasonable to cohost the skeptics with a K the project director for the good thinking society and one of the organizers behind the very best conference and all of skepticism QED, which is coming up in just a few short weeks. Check the show notes for more details. Michael Marshall Marsh. Welcome back, sir. Hey, guys, good to be here.

I am so inexperienced with drugs that I did not realize the reason you doing this particular film was because it was episode four. Until Eli just said that. We just say it all came together for you, huh? I wrote in our calendar, we should do this one. Hi, right? Like, oh, funny. Hi, episode.

And then I realized it was a March week. And I was like, never mind. And it's just really all you're saying is that you, because I always do them high, right? Like, so you were just saying, I should have smoked weed for this. I should have smoked weed before this regard. Yeah, it was my, was my plan. Or we should have drugged March at the beginning of the Lord.

And then just been like, March, you're being really weird. Everyone's mad at you. Yeah. Yeah. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, record. And then just been like, March, you're being really weird. Everyone's mad at you. Yeah. Yeah. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but there. No, we've heavily hinted here, but we might as well make it official. Marsh, tell us what will we be breaking down today? Oh, so we watched Wild Weed. She should have said no. It is the story of a nightclub dancer who gets pulled into the sleazy, hard drugs world of marijuana. Marijuana, yeah. But I think turning into an undercover cop to bust the criminal gang, I think that's what happens.

Yes. So it's basically hashed ants meets joint break. Yeah. Yeah. No, turns out she should have said no, it's better applied to the casting agent than the weed within the film. And Eli, how bad was this movie? Well, if you love the over the top propaganda of your driver's end class, but you wish they

told you that parallel parking would land you in the loony bin. Yeah, we'll love this movie. Yeah, I placed reaffirmedness was too thickly plotted for you. Now, I should point out here too that the lead actress in this movie, Lila Leeds, was actually busted for marijuana. She was busted very publicly for possession and use of marijuana, but 60 days in jail. And this movie was her way of trying to rehabilitate her public image. After that, because that was still a really big deal in 1948.

Now, I should say, she was caught along with Robert Mitchum who went on to like, I don't know when Oscars is she like, like, he, nothing happened to him, but to know how to do it. He was, her career was ruined after this. Wow. Yeah. So let's start off on that sad note. She had to change her name to Lucinda. No. Okay. You can call me old all you want. But I'm standing around to you. You start that with my wife. I was already think you guys wouldn't have an eight this would be the best to be the worst at. Oh, yeah, I want to go for a best best chapter titles on YouTube.

We watched this on YouTube. It was uploaded by cult cinema classics who had done us the the favor of titling each segment of the film with their own titles. And you know, some of the ones that were not even as impressive as we get to with things like boss or friend and she's mafia wife material. And the ones that are highlights, I'll come to in the notes because they were delightful. They really were. And they even knew how to like, let it build and deliver on a punchline.

It was great stuff. Yeah. Fantastic. So I'm going to go with best worst over reaction. even knew how to let it build and deliver on a punchline. It was great stuff. Yeah, it's fantastic. So I'm gonna go with best worst overreaction. So at one point in this movie, the main character's little brother catches her smoking weed and I'm not gonna spoil anything now, but trust me, he overreacts more than you're guessing based on what I've said so far.

Yes, he does. That is true, that is absolutely true. He does. And I'm gonna take the easy yes, he does. That is true. That is absolutely true. He does. And I'm going to take the easy one, because I always take the easy one. I'm going to go with best worst marijuana smoking method. So I looked this up because I was like, why the fuck are they doing this? And the weird thing is that I guess they were trying to be able to send this movie to more theaters.

This is an IMDB and the like fun fact section. So grain assault. So they thought that if there was less lady smoking, the movie would be available in more places. I don't know. We'll look into it when we can't do it. No, so actually that this is part of the haze code that that govern movies back before they started rating things are and PG and PG 13 and you weren't

supposed to show drug use. So what they show instead is people putting their like cupping both hands as though there's a joint in there somewhere and puffing on something and then like smoke wafes in from off screen because now they haven't actually shown anyone how to do the drug. Yes. So they're basically pomming the joint and passing the time like that they close the magicians who like to get high in the There we go. Yes, I thought they were all just doing some kind of bird call at the same time All right, well, so I have to obviously smoke a spike ball before we dive all the way in but we're gonna keep the break brief

And when we come back we'll dive into all the hazy bullshit that is Wild weed Or she should have said no break brief and when we come back we'll dive into all the hazy bullshit that is wild weed. Or she should have said no. Or the devil's weed. It was actually was really under all three titles. Was it really? I love making audiobooks a part of my fall routine and I love using my Raycon wireless earbuds to do it. Raycons every day ear buds look feel and sound better than ever. With optimized gel tips and a range of sizes for the perfect in-ear fit, these earbuds are so comfortable and they will not budge. Raycons give you 8 hours of playtime and 32 hours of battery life. Raycons every day earbuds have over 78,000 5 star reviews and their price just right. You get quality audio at half the price of other premium audio brands.

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Alright everyone, welcome to the first ever right is meeting for Wild Weed. She should have said no. Bowie. Wow, yeah. Now Johnson, I hear you have an idea for this film. I sure did. It's a tale of intrigue, a real blockbuster, but with a great moral for the kids at home.

Excellent idea. What do you think, Benson? I think it's just a ticket boss. Hmm, I'm not sure. Let's run it past the gals in the office. Say Betty, what do you think of my treatment for this picture? I think it's the bees, knees, Johnson. It's a real one too.

Uh, what about that Southern girl? What does she think? Yeah, Helen, what do you think? Well, slap my mouth and call me Sally. This is just the hootness tootness treatment I ever saw. Say, is Helen's daughter here? You mean the one that lives in Boston? That's the one.

What does she think of the picture? Yeah, what do you think, Eileen? It's... Good. That's all? It's good. You sure you don't have a more complex and verbose opinion? Yeah, because I remember you having a lot to say about this subject. Yeah, I guess we'll just have to ask her twin sister who has all those previous things,

but also has a list and a stutter. Look, I know this sketch is just to make me do American accents, Eli. I am not your performing monkey. I'm the editor of the Skepnik magazine, dammit. The sketch was just so you could make him do American accents, right? Oh, totally. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, I figured. And the sketch was just so you could make him do American accents, right? Oh, totally. Yeah.

Yeah. I figured I thought Michael Schumer was the editor of Skeptic magazine. Well, he's the evil one, the bad one. And we're back for the breakdown and we're going to start off with a title card that thinks all of America's narks. That's where this movie is going to start. This movie is so old that the title screen couldn't stay still. It was just one of those, it's all that was moving around. I didn't know movie titles could get Parkinson's, but somehow this one, yeah, it's really sad. You hate to see it. They also spell marijuana like it was yelled at them across a football field.

Yeah, the old school like Caucasians spelling with the H. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's impressive that a title scroll can even have an accent. Let alone the accent of a rich elderly up a middle class aunt. Marijuana. Yeah, exactly. So this title scroll keeps going through. It tells us it's going to tell us the story of T or tomato. No, we're those things slang for weed when you were a kid.

You have to tell us it's like being a cop. Okay. So I am totally laying that on my weed guy next time. He's like 25 years younger than me. So it's funny. The first one is my slang never works with him. I was just so you got that T and he'll go what? And I was just the tomatoes.

Open a virtual little tomatoes from this time. Come on, man. Also just one note on the credits here, at one point it comes up and it says, Thera man affects by, and I'm like, color me surprised. Yeah. Although it did also have in the credits

that the ballet performance and the piano solo, like you've brought me for some kind of cabaret act. That was exciting. Right. You see how those would fit in. Yeah, I'm still not sure the ballet did. Did the ballet ever fit in? I don't recall a ballet. Yeah. I mean, either. So, but then a narrator comes in and introduces us to LA, like the fucking LA tourist board just broke into the sound booth. Right? Los Angeles, not yet completely covered in

the set of a post-apocalyptic movie. Yeah. Right, right. Right. Look, you can still see the sky. Yeah. But he says, but like every city, LA has its back alleys. Right. Yes. And it says the darkest shadow in LA is marijuana, which is very much a sentiment brought to by straight white men. If that is the darkest thing in 1950s or 1940s, LA is marijuana.

I was going to say, LA. Right. It's marijuana. I was going to say, this is 1949, the American Nazi party still exists. Yeah. So, yeah, so, so eventually we meet Captain Hayes. He is the chief of the Narcotics Division here in LA, right? He says, you know, every marijuana case tells the same story, a story of tragedy. And I'm like, yeah, you could end up a fucking podcast. Cautionary. His job as the police captain is to, um, leave through

folders of paper and then occasionally open them and but don't look at them for any more than five seconds before you'd move to the next one. That's how he solved crimes in 1950s LA. It's very much moving paper across the desk. Well, I think you're leaving out the most important part, Mars, which is where he periodically picks a joint up out of the can of joints on his desk and then stares angrily at it to get motivation. Oh, yeah, like he's trying to read its mind. Yes, absolutely. Who sold you? Talk, damn it. Talk. Right, right.

You know, I'm your friend, but we've got a cop here who wouldn't be so gentle with a joint like you. I am familiar with the term canoeing kid because we could canoe you real cut. So there's also, there's this montage of like secret agent marijuana handoff sales. Yes. And I was, I'm tempted to say that's not how it works because I've bought a lot of wheat. But then I remembered Eli and my mutual friend Frankie who insists on selling you weed like this. Frankie had obviously learned to sell weed from while we said I said

no. One jointed at a time in a sale canker chip. Honestly, that would be the most practical way I ever received wheat from it. Yeah. No, that would be the most practical way I ever received from it. Yeah, not that's true. There's one fantastic handover as well, where it's a guy holding a newspaper and then they just sort of shuffled the joint into his hand and then he moves off, but he moves off sideways holding the newspaper.

So I just want to see that in wide-shopped and just see this guy like scuttling off like a crab with the joint behind the newspaper. Like, scraping away. Saving away. Exactly. And I think this is also where the voiceover is saying about how this joint is like this harmless looking cigarette, which again is pure 1940s 1950s America, you know? Yeah, right.

It looks like a regular health and rich life-giving cigarette that you might give, for example, to a little tummy, but it's actually something bad. Right. Yeah, exactly. And he says it's a gateway drug to cocaine and heroin and I wrote, aren't those like cough medicine at this point? Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

barely even took that out of the Coca-Cola. But also, he's saying like, it's a, it's a gateway if you, the marijuana is the darkest thing in L.A. Because it's a gateway to worse things. Yes, it's all the darker things. Yes. So yeah, but then we meet our weed man, right? because it's a gateway to worse things. Yes, so the darker things, yes. So yeah, but then we meet our weed man, right? And eventually this settles on this weed man,

he said a soda shop because he sells drugs to kids in high school. And the narrator even says, he'll even sell to these kids in high school and then we cut to a bunch of 30 year old kids in high school, 84 year old senators. Yeah, this is 1949 and those kids served in the wall. And I'm the first one.

These are all kids. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, so Marke, that's the weed dealer. Marke the weed dealer, he's sitting at the counter and he says to the cashier, and I'm gonna say this to the next cashier, I see. Change five pennies for a nickel pop.

It's the best. It's the best. So he could use the phone, right? Because he needs a nickel for the phone. And the kid comes up to him and he's like, Hey, Marky, because he's trying to buy drugs and he says, never say my name. And I wrote in my notes, yes, it's far less suspicious to just gently touch hands with a stranger without talking. Yeah.

Right. But that isn't a standard that market keeps up for anybody else in this movie because every the time anyone tries to get drugs off him, they use his name and use and stop him, which makes me think that market just hated this fucking kid. Right. This is one particular guy's, oh yeah, he's a, he's a prick. Don't say my name. You don't get to say it. It's done for. It's great, Grandpa. So, so yeah, so but they're're gonna do a drug deal. Marke's gonna sell him three joints for $5. That's $20 in today's money. Oh, man, better times, am I right now?

A better time, I don't know. I don't know. Some crappy looking joints for 20 bucks. But yeah, and the kids like, I don't know, that's all the money I got. And he's like, I'll take your whole allowance because I'm a heartless drug dealer. And he's like, oh, okay.

What a weird take on marijuana dealing to children. take your whole allowance because I'm a heartless drug dealer and he's like, oh, okay. What a weird take on marijuana dealing to children and they'll charge him too much. Yeah, right. Well, but I love the way this exchange works because apparently what happened is Frankie went and put the joints in the coin return in the phone booth, then stepped out of the phone booth, haggled about the prices and then the kid goes in to get his joints that he's just paid for. I wanted someone else to go use the phone while they were haggled about the prices and then the kid goes in to get his joints that he's just paid for. I wanted someone else to go use the phone while they were haggling.

100% absolutely. That should have happened. It would have been amazing. So okay, so then we cut all these high school kids marijuana, right? Which is mostly just cackling laughter. Yeah. But like psychotic laughter, like super evil laughter. I mean, if this wasn't exactly how I behaved when I was high, I could also join this scene,

but at least one of you have seen me laugh like this when I've consumed marijuana. So I get it. I do get it. And given my reputation for over laughing and everything on the podcast, I don't know that I can dispute this reputation on either. So yeah, but what are the girls? Because I'm on a great big purple cloud. And it sure is purple.

And I'm like, okay, that was probably worth 20 bucks for three. They both have purple based like metaphors that they're going through. Well, they're high. And I'm like, okay. So someone told the makers of this movie, the marijuana makes you hallucinate purple. Okay, we get it. Sure. Like a copy of Hendrix, purple haze fell back into a time hole and then that's

their only experience of marijuana. And that's how they used it. Yeah. Yeah. Also, they're smoking that specific type of weed that makes you incredibly energetic lively and desperate to go out dancing. Yes. That particular type of weed. Yes. So yeah, so they head out to dance. They're driving around under the influence of marijuana. I wonder what will have a car rack right underneath the the safe driving billboard. They found an ironic car crash. Amazing. Yes. Yeah, well, so we don't see the car rack. Of course they drive off. We hear a scream and then the camera pans up to this billboard that's like you're probably gonna wreck your car if you drive around on weed.

So we cut to this hospital, where one of the girls is coming out of surgery and her mom's there, right? And she's like, oh, well, let me place a comforting hand on her leg now that she's at a surgery, but she doesn't have legs anymore. Yes. So did the doctors not tell them

that we're gonna amputate the daughter's life? Because I'm really glad that doctors these days have stopped doing that childhood take something away under the sheet memory game, but with patients' limbs, which apparently they did in the 19th

four weeks. Right. They were like, do you know, this will be funny. Let's surprise her. Let's surprise her. No, give it a good old head up the knee.

Yes. I thought this is where my best, best really started to kick in because this scene was titled Look Ma, No Legs. Yes. Yes. Yes, Marrow on a stroller, daughter's legs. We get another scream from her and

then we cut over to Captain Hayes explaining that the other three kids all died. Right. The legless girl was the lucky one. Yeah. And so they died in a crash. Why didn't they just make the sensible choice of sticking to the five B is they were legally allowed to be drinking it. They had to go lead as well. Yeah, but what they know is that they need to take this drug dealer that's selling to

the kids down once and for all. Apparently he sells weed all through L.A. right? Because they're like, yeah, but this guy's not like regular dealers. He deals in that. And then he just they list every neighborhood in L.A. Right. Like this film is doubling as an A to Z of L.A. It's like, no, it's fine. We get money from the map people if we usually be publicly. So he's like, cap one, cop two, you guys need to go undercover and bust this guy who's selling weed teenagers. And I'm like, oh my God, we're going full 21 jump street, aren't we? Yeah, we are.

But this almost never comes up again, right? No. Certainly one of these cops does not go undercover. And as we'll come to later, the way of doing this, the way of trying to solve this crime is to wait until someone comes in and admits the crime essentially. Yeah, or the police work. Yep. Their undercover work never comes to anything.

So yeah, and then suddenly cop one takes over as the narrator. Right. He's like, I want to do more of a film noir. And they're like, no, we're already doing a fucking anti-narrow. I'm the narrator. I'm the narrator. It's me. And it's a really small thing,

but their boss ends that briefing scene by saying, better get some sleep, because we've got work ahead. It's like, boss, it's 10 a.m. You've just briefed us on the first case of the day. I don't think we need to go home and sleep, but this is maybe what they do. The police, they don't really solve a lot of crimes.

Like, for example, when my car got stolen, the police closed the case on the same day, saying they'd re-open the case if they found any evidence. And then when the car got found, they didn't consider finding the car as evidence in the theft of the car. That officer, still an officer. So you know, police don't solve that many crimes. That's all I'm saying. To us ever this. Maybe they do just go to be there. Both these cops and the cops that didn't find your car did an excellent job of not killing black people. So I'm saying they used to do it better and they're doing it better.

Yeah, really. Yeah, yeah. Capture chickens. Yeah. So and by the way, I should say that the exact words he uses are the captains just better get some sleep tonight. You may never do that again, which sounds like a fucking death right. But then cop won the sudden narrator takes over and he's like, the boss was right.

Sleep, that was for babies. That's again, I'm quoting the fucking lines. He's like, so I went home and I brushed up on my jive talk. Yeah. Yes. And got to work. We will never get to hear his jive talk. By the way, unfortunately, this is, no, 1950s jive talk. Yeah. And got to work. We will never get to hear his Jive talk. By the way, unfortunately, this is a,

1950s Jive talk was mostly just slurs. So they got probably, yeah. Although, we do hear a tiny bit because he said, I played a solo in the malt shop, which is a mind you, you from his impamassivation. So that's something from this. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, playing a solo in the malt shop. Hey, Marsh, does it look like malt?

Because you should go to the doctor right now. You should leave this record, stand up from your computer by the near sauce. So and then by the way, just as we're going like, wait, does the cop the narrator now? Then the fucking bartender mussels his way into the narrator's booth for like three sentences and then disappears from the film forever. It's me. It's me now, damn it. It's like a quarter of a scene.

It's so weird. It's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in film. Yeah. So, okay. So meanwhile, we cut back to Markey. And I guess he's like selling weed to all the dancers at this nightclub. Yeah. So we get him going to the dressing room and this is where we're going to meet Rita and

Anne. Now Rita is already ruined, right? She's already a dope fiend, but Anne is a good innocent girl that's just working at the nightclub to send her brother to college. Yeah. Her brother who's a three-legged puppy. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Her brother who's a three-legged puppy. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Don't fuck her. She's got a sad backstory, you know, like a contestant in the final rounds

of her reality show. Yeah. That's what we're having. Yeah. Yeah. Also Rita says, Evan, you know, she's only working here because she wants money. It's like, yeah, you're describing jobs, lady. You know, that's how we're working. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because we want money. Right. He's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job, he's a job,

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I don't know how to tell you this. This is not worth it. Well, crack me up about this is that then Rita has to pull this joint out from behind her ear so you can tell how that how she got it or whatever, but it's like it's trapped in there and it takes her a really fucking long time. Woveing into her braid somehow. All right, so she gets the joint out of her ear and then she roaps and into a night of fucking drugs and purple clouds or whatever. Right. And it's it's way the way she does it. She's like, oh, I'm having a party tonight. You should come and I'm like, no, thank you.

So no, no, I'm gonna have the party at your house. So you have to come, could you lower the be at your house? I'm gonna organize it at your place. Yeah. And then it's like, well, that is the rule, okay? I guess I am going to take the party back now. Yeah, it's technicality, yeah.

So okay, so we cut to the party. Mark is playing a little piano and everyone else's cackling maniacally again, right? Yeah, I got to say it's weird. I know that playing piano was a much more common thing that people did back then, but it's way weird to have the infamous drug dealer playing us a short jazzy tune on the piano. Like you got a picture, Marquis doing piano lessons being like, I've got to deal drugs to kids later, but I'm having a real trouble with myself. Oh, I don't reach over with the, you got to reach with the ring finger and then get it with the seven. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Smitherson, who I take lessons from Thursday at 2 p.m. Yeah. So he's, he's

over there like that. And then and Rita, she's so ruined by the weed that she's making out with two guys at the same time, right? That's what we do to you. Which again, like I know that they're trying to say like, watch out girls, this is what we do to you. But what they're also saying is, so guys, if you want to make out what a chick and not get a lot of resistance, weed is your thing, right? Yep.

Yeah, it is, it is doing that. It's absolutely doing that. And also, like Anne is just watching Rita with the two guys on the couch, and I'll remind you, on her couch, she's just sat in a chair watching Rita with two guys on her couch. That's, yeah. She feels uncomfortable. Judgy, Marsh, and, I mean, if Anne had said she was into it, totally fine, but as far as Anne's concerned, does not.

I think it's pretty obvious that Anne isn't doing. She's very aware of that. You know, you're going to have to have this fight on air. This is why you never take any of my advice to the Smith party. Yeah, I'm not coming to make sure I'm part of it. Not after last year. That's why he's not. It's because we all smooched in front of him for that four-hour party. Oh, that's okay.

All right. No, no, it makes that soft. I wonder why he kept suggesting board games, but okay, now we all come together. Yeah, I didn't know Crocanol was your euphemism for that. So yeah, so but Marky wants to, you know, get Anhigh, of course, that's the whole point of the party, but she's too busy being a goodie to issues to do drugs and have fun. Right? So he starts telling her all about all the glories of being high. And she says, and I quote, you make living a sound attractive. Right. Yeah. That is a way of lying from a character who as far as we are aware. I'm not, is not suicidal through this. It's incredible. Yeah. So she goes to light herself a nice, healthy tobacco

cigarette. And Marke says, why don't you try one of mine instead? And this is where the fucking Theraman kicks in. I wanted them to turn and there's just a guy playing the Theraman Chris, do you mind, man? It actually sounds really good. Nobody likes it. Chris. He's like the heroin dealer. So every day, I have to bring their own instrument. So yes. So she tries to say nobody shoves the joint in her mouth anyway. And then we have the 50s and no means no had no been invented yet. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. And Rita sees this and she's like, Oh, guys, let's peer pressure in into doing drugs. Right. And and eventually she gives it.

She's like, well, maybe one puff won't hurt me. And I'm like, ooh, famous last words, right? Thereman, guys, go and fucking wild back there. Yeah. He's playing the fucking national anthem. Yeah. So, okay. So she smokes weed in the weird cup tanned way that we were discussing earlier and Rita explains that she's doing it wrong.

She's supposed to smoke it. She demonstrates. Rita demonstrates. So apparently you're supposed to smoke it like you're drinking boba tea through a plastic coffee stir. Yeah. I'll like you, you're playing the world's smallest oble like a tiny little orbo. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. I'll try to suck the meat out of a crab leg. That's essentially what she's doing. Yeah. Also, I just want to say this is not a realistic movie at all. If this movie were accurate, she would have a beginner coughing fit for an hour and then spend the rest of the evening asking anybody if there was, quote, anything in that weed. So yeah, so, but we watch her slowly Don a high smile, which was just my reason for being that was amazing.

And then she goes, my head is so light. It's like I'm floating and Marke goes, that's because all your troubles are gone. And now, and now she's in. She's hooked, right? Mm-hmm. In fact, so hooked that Markey plants a big ol' kiss right on her lips and she doesn't even resist because of the marijuana.

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And I have a theory. I think he was walking home and he got into an argument with a wizard who shrunk him by 15% but left everything around him normal size. And he's just 15% smaller. Okay. He looks so much like I'm playing Pikmin for right now, and I could not get over how much like a Pikmin. He's like, I'm not a whistle. I'm not a whistle and see if he'll fight a big snake for me. I just got a check. Oh, that's what I assumed you'd misspelled something in your notes when you kept writing Pikmin.

And I didn't want to ask what it was. You were one of your British slurs. Now I was 90% sure. I was 90% sure it was. What is this heat that they at the Glasgow show? No, right. Right. So my favorite thing to is when he walks in the room and he looks around and everything's like it's still messy there. And there's a guy passed out on the couch.

The theorem in is still going. So we have to assume that the heroin dealer stuck around, right? He's just still there. You know, just like we're doing mood. Yeah. I guess, but they've destroyed the house with their, you know, several hours of smoking a joint, but by destroying the house, if I they've locked it knocked over the lamps and the cushions almost specifically just the lamps and the cushions are knocked over. Yeah. They knocked over exactly what Mrs. McGullag Gulling who lended them their house for this shoot, would allow them to knock down the door.

Right. Yeah, exactly. So he goes to the dude that's passed out of the couch and he's like, get out of hand now. You know, that's our something and the guy leaves. And then he goes to Anne's room. He looks around in her room as also a mess. Now, I expected, you know, that she'd be in bed with Markey, but she's not. She's just in bed.

No. No, the, the haze code also for men and women in beds together. So we do follow around the room to see her leaving like a trail of clothes to the bed one by one, like, like she was fleeing from a bed to her bed. Is it like a throwpiece of clothing down there, the barrel stop and sniff it and get into bed safely? Yes. Yeah. And the shot is panning in such a way that the barrel will stop and sniff it and get into your bed safely. Yeah. And the shot is panning in such a way that the narrator might as well come in and go,

you guys know what happened. Right. Right. Yeah. It honestly, it feels like it should resolve on a dildo, right? Like at the end of his visual journey, but no, it's just her and bad and he goes and he wakes her up and she goes, why didn't you wake me up? And he said, oh, because I wanted you to be carry on sleeping.

You look so at least that you did. You just go for it. Who are you guys fighting? We'll be immediately. Yeah. Such a weird life. Yes. So, but she's like, why don't you go make coffee?

So he goes and he leaves. He comes back with coffee on a fucking silver tray or something. Like under a cloche or something. Yeah. And, and they start talking about how he doesn't want to go to school anymore because she's working too hard to put him through college and it's just not fair to her darn it. And he feels like a mooch. And he's going to college to paint. So he's going to be the the alt student who is anti-wee. So like the single alt student who is anti-wee by machine means.

It's just him and Hitler being like, no smoking weed for us. Am I right? Yeah, I'm. Yeah, super cool. So. Yeah. And but then she remembers that Marke said something the other day about how she could make a lot of money in a different job.

And then it wouldn't be a problem at all to send him to art college, right? Yeah. And by remembers, we hear Marke continually saying that over and over again, I thought it's a bit weird of Marke to have left behind like a recording of him saying some of his lines in her bed once he left. I mean, to remember me by toast. Yeah. Hi. So then we cut to like, I guess Bob is now, I don't know, at Rita's house or Rita's at his house, but he's now

confronting Rita about why it was that there was a dude on the couch and everybody keeps talking about Marke, right? Right. And she's like, what's with all the question Kent and had a little party that's all and he's like well I'm sure glad I missed that party and she's like why do you suck well and then he just he repeats the conversation he had with Ann about not wanting to mooch off of her and we're like, didn't the movie is the movie not watching the movie? We already know this, right? But finally, he goes to leave and then he's like, wait a minute, one more thing. Who's Markey? And Rita goes, you're a drug dealer and he

goes, what? And she goes, what? Oh, this is also where Rita's saying, no, you don't need to quit because Anne's going to get some more money. She's going to start doing a speciality act at the club, but it's going to be a surprise, a surprise speciality act for her brother. I thought, this is a speciality act at a nightclub. That's a surprise for her brother. Is he going to be the first to get one to like get his beer bottle opened? Is that what's the surprise? Do you play ping pong there, kid? This is important. His a banana and his little you walk it. Yes.

Too soon, March. Too soon. Our hearts are recovering. No, no, it's a get ahead. It's fine. Our record is again. It's okay. We're okay.

You're going to be it by that. We're over it now. All right. So, so, so then we cut over to Marky. He's going to see his boss, right? Cause drug dealers have bosses. And their bosses have offices, you know, with big Mahogany desks.

And secretaries. What's in the drawer of his desk? Drugs. Drugs. These are the financial reports. Oh, but for the drugs, yes. Exactly. But the boss is mad at Marky because he's seeing in the news

all this stuff about this fatal car crash that these teens had at the beginning of the movie. And he's pretty sure Marky's the one that was selling them wheat, right? And that's gonna bring the heat down on him. Exactly. Is this where he says, when Marky says that, the boss here, which is Jonathan Trainer,

thinks the name of the boss here, he says Jonathan Trainer, I think, is the name of the boss here. He says the boss, it goes through three suits a day. Yes. He says, oh, you're a big fancy guy. Was he a three suit today? Like, why does he have three suit a day? Like, please, just, I want the movie to just stay there for a moment. Like, is he sweating through the suit?

So, is he shitting himself and he did change? And does he change it work? And if so, do the staff notice, but then pretend they haven't noticed, because they don't want to ask, because they know it's gonna be a whole thing if they bring it up. And they pretend he's still wearing the same shirt. Oh, this afternoon suit.

Yeah, right, right. Oh, did someone notice I've changed once again? Oh, yeah. Yes, we're fucking lying. Very fancy. But trainer tells him he's gonna have to raise the price for his weed now, because he's bringing too much heat. But just then he gets an old, timey phone call, right?

And by just then it is literally punctuating the sentence. Well, I guess I'll buy those drugs for you as long as nothing happens to your supply. Yeah, apparently his shipment, his next shipment of tea got hijacked by a rival outfit. And Markey says, you know who I think did it, Miller. And we're like, have we met Miller? We haven't. We have no idea who this is. Why Markey expects it. But trainers like, you're right, that probably was.

So he has Miller killed. Yeah, on his words killed. Yeah, on his words instantly. Yeah. On his word, I know it gives him a discount on the drugs. On the back of that rumor as well. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, well, I'll just have Miller killed and I'll sell you the weed at the regular price again. Now that you've helped me out, he's like, well, there you go. Fuck. I'm glad my appointment was at three and Miller's appointment was at three third. Yeah. So, yeah. So trainer sends Raymond. Now this is his like heavier whatever out to have a little chat with Miller, right?

Yeah. And then we cut to a newspaper headline about the cops fighting Miller's dead body in the ocean. We get it moving. We get it. Yeah. They killed Miller. But the thing is, butch Miller is apparently such a famous drug dealer. You can use his name in the headline without a

descriptor. Right. So body and river is butch Miller. And like if you were the person buying the newspaper, you're like, what the fuck, butch Miller? Yeah, but Miller is at any point. And also just reading the little text underneath, the new paper also includes the sentence, bullet holes are definite proof that it was murder. Yes. Yes. You nailed it. You would absolutely nailed it.

That will prove that it's murder. I honestly almost went with best worst newspapers sliding into frame because if you read everything in these newspapers, you will not be disappointed. Oh, yeah, it's great. So then we montage our way through and's escalating marijuana addiction. Yep, this was labeled high montage in the chapter title. In the chapter title. Yeah, this goes on for three fucking minutes. Yeah, we see tomato cans full of weed. Now I really want to get Noah

a tomato can full of joints for matriarch. I also want you to do that. Yeah. points for Manitri. I also want you to do that. Yeah. Also, some of the shots in his montage are the previous scene where she smoked drugs. So even in the montage of her sliding, it's like, and you remember that first time and like most of the montage is just that one time she smoked drugs. Right. With that and her dancing at the nightclub. Yeah. Yeah. But eventually this resolves it. another weed party complete with piano. I guess we I guess that's what parties did before record players got popular. I don't know, but the guy who's plant piano is dead. What do these people need drugs? Right. Yeah, right. But the guy is damn your plant chopsticks on the piano. This guy is playing the most annoying possible piano.

Yeah, and the thing is this is such a boring looking party and fair play to this piece of anti-drug propaganda. It is managed to make doing weed looks so boring. Right. I actually achieved that. Yeah. You won't even be able to play piano good. Yeah. Now, Marke isn't here. He's at a business meeting tonight and walks up to the pianist and she goes, wow, that's beautiful. And I'm like, it's, it's not though. It's not. It's not all three of those notes are great. Have you, have you got a fourth one you could bring into the mix and we'll,

we'll really get this party swinging and we're canine. And again, she's continuing to smoke weed like she's trying to make owl noises in the cobscats with her hands. I like she's a squirrel nibbling it a small invisible note. Yes. Like she's a bad uncle showing you cool thing you can do with a blade of gray. Yeah. Right.

This is actually where I started looking up and I was like, does the haze code forbid that it doesn't forbid it? It discourages you from showing drug you. So that's that's why. Yeah. But then there's a guy at the party who starts to have a bad trip on the weed, right? Yeah. Heath's grandpa is freaking out in the corner.

He starts yelling, I'm gonna die. And this shit comes up and she's like, that's the funniest thing I've, like I said, heath's grandpa. Yeah, right, right. And they're like, okay, well, what you need clearly need is more drugs. So they give him more drugs, problem solved. And then the pianist asks and a fuck off so he can play his masterpiece. He actually does start playing chopsticks after I wrote in my notes. He might as well be playing chopsticks. So you know illusions make fun of my piano. Yeah, right.

But then this pianist who we've never, we've never seen this character before until this point, he starts fantasizing about playing piano at a big concert hall. So for two and a half minutes, we watch this fucking piano player play piano at a big concert hall. Well, this is something for the kids, you see? You want some holds of entertainment with your informational drug film. And why not a concert from, let me check Doug Mastrioni. I mean, that sounds like a good, honest name. Sure.

You're on a concert from Doug Mastrioni. Yeah. Yeah. It's such a long scene. It's so fucking boring. This scene was labeled by the chapter titles. Existentialist meets the absurd. Right.

Honestly, I get it. I do. Yeah, exactly. Yep. But yeah, so he plays this whole concherto. And then he fucking Theraman doodly dues his way back to the party to take some boughs, right? Yeah. So the piano song ends, but I'm going to die guy realizes then that he needs some air. So he goes to the window. The window won't open. So he just punches his way through a few pains of glass like you do when you're on the

weed. But it's even funnier than that because it's one of those things that has like the tiny square pains. Yes. So he's not even breaking through the window. He's just punching holes in the square pains and he's still trapped. He's like, I got it. Oh, no, I'm still in.

I just add and help my hand. Why would I think a second one would have that's dumb? That was dumb. Yeah, I could go into like hand. What would I do a second? Why would I think a second one would have, that was dumb, that was dumb. Yeah, I could go into like peace by peace of a stained glass window. I need to get the halo on the Jesus or another face on the Jesus. It's like just stabbing in it.

All of a sudden Jesus puts up his hand like the three stooges. Woo! So yeah, so they all gather around and laugh at him for being stupid. And then we cut to the dressing room where all of the nightclub dancers hang out. Rita and Ann are talking about how high they were

during rehearsal today, right? And you know what they say, being high famously makes you a worse dancer. Yeah, right. Well, I feel like it probably does. I don't know. I couldn't get worse, so I don't know. But yeah, Ann says, wow, I was all feet. And I'm like, is that a thing? I don't think. I couldn't get worse, so I don't know. But yeah, it answers, wow, I was all feet.

And I'm like, is that a thing? I don't think. Oh, I wish. They feel like that would be good if you were a dancer. Yeah, that'd be pretty decent. There's a couple of perverts in our audience that really wish that was true. Yes.

So yeah, but she's like, what I really need right now is drugs. And this is also where like Rita is like, oh, and by the way, so I probably should have brought this up before, but Dad Guy, Marky that you're by your lead from like, he's super duper rapy, very rapy. And she's like, ah, it'll be fine, right? So they go to leave.

The boss comes in and says, hey, Rita, and I need to talk to you before you leave. So they go in to see the boss. We get the scene of them in his office. And he's been noticing their descent into poor dancing over the last several days and his firing, both of them. Yes. He says, you lump it about like two elephants, like statues.

Is that, which is it? Because I, I'm not. Right, that's not the same thing. They are, they're not going to be, like any, they are moving, which statues clearly aren't. All right. You lumped about like elephant statues moving, which statue is clearly on. Right. You lumped about like elephant statue specifically, which is a really weird, you specific thing to cue someone being.

Also, they start to object and he says, please, don't that accept me. And I wrote my notes. I get it. He's French. Yes. Oh, he says as well, I shall be brief, but he's accent is so thick that he sounds like he's saying, I shall be brave. And I thought like he's been trying be like, he dislikes confrontation,

but he decided to like brave it this time. He's like patting himself on the back. Like, come on, you did it. Well done, well done, you made it through it. So Rita's like, ah, fuck, you take this job and shove it and she leaves and hangs back and she's like, I actually would rather not be fired. And he's like, tough, you're fired.

And she's like, well, then why did we even include this addition to the scene? Well, I think this is even weirder because she's like, tough, you're fired. And she's like, well, then why did we even include this addition to the scene? Well, I think this is even greater because she's like, look, I'd rather not be fine because I need the money for the brother. I've got this kind of sob story thing. And he says, yeah, I know you've got a sob story. I feel bad for you. And she says, I don't want your sympathy.

He's like, then why did you give him your sob story? Right? Maybe only serve the sob story to get sympathy. Was she thinking that maybe there was a chance she could just be like, don't though and he'd be like, at it very well. Yeah, I didn't think about it like that. Yeah.

Maybe she knew he's very conflict diverse. And she just kind of like placed him down. He'd be like, okay, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. Look, you've been very brave, but you're not allowed to fire me. Okay, fine, you have a job. Yeah.

Yeah, but he's like, I do feel sorry for you for being a weed head, but I still allowed to fire me. Okay, fine, you have a job. Yeah. Yeah, but he's like, I do feel sorry for you for being a weed head, but I still have to fire you. So she leaves, she goes outside where Markey is waiting to pick her up, right? And he's like, well, you're off early today. She's like, I'm off early every day. I'm fired and he's like, well, now maybe you can be a professional weed head.

And she's like, oh, is that a fucking thing? I feel like if that was the thing, Noah would have been on that long ago. She says, like, I lost one of a girl's best friends, a job. It's like, that's not an expression of all of the exes that this diamonds famously, girl's best friend. There are other things you can probably say, but job is not what anybody would fill the ex in there.

No, Ronald Reagan sneaking into the writers room. Hey, maybe you all say that a job is a girl's best friend. I'm really fucking up the economy in a couple of years. I'm using guys as help. So now, so we cut back to another piano and weed party, but this time she's there in a professional capacity. Her job is to dress like a goth flapper and give everybody the hard sell on the joints, right? Yes, she's absolutely joined the audience from the US.

And Markey stops her like a fucking idiot because Markey doesn't know fucking shit about marijuana sales. The thing marijuana lovers, more than anything in the world, second only to a black light poster and a cartoon mushroom who is also stoned for some reason, is when someone talks to you about your weed to tell you about why it is more than just normal weed.

They're supposed to smoke a guy. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. No, she's killing it. She's like step right up and let me tell you all. And he's like, fuck you. Just sell him to joints and shut up.

Yeah. We've all got like Connor LeBacca from Marijuana in here. That's exactly what she's doing. Yeah. She's really going for it. Yeah, she's just playing piano at the same time as well. And is this this thing that you, that I'm sure you've told me about what like you do, that ask you to smoke at his place while he plays you like some of the music that he wrote, but like you don't have got on his bad side. So you do it, but it's like a super born. So a lot like that. Yeah. Correct. It is a lot like that. But just as she's

selling these drugs and telling everybody how great they are, her little brother comes in unbeknownst to her and catches the end of her weed sales pitch. Right. Where she's putting the money away as well. Because she's like $1 for Markey and $1 for Means. Wow. She got straight into a 50-50 pay deal, like fair play to you know, bust the gender pay gap. Fuck yeah. In fairness, paying women fairly is probably also one of the evils this film is here to warn about.

Yeah, because paying women fairly cocaine heroin marijuana. Yeah, right. Yeah. So yeah, so and this is I love this line again. She says dig into your pocket for the big beautiful green stuff called money. And I'm like, yes, you just give it a give it some effort. He doesn't have to make sense. Just just let me know you're trying.

Damn it. Exactly. Everyone loves a little razzle dazzle in their weed sales. Yeah. So yeah. So, but Bob comes in and he's like, sis, I'm so disappointed. He knocks her joints to the ground, which is very rude, right? It's all of us.

Well, sorry, all the stoners in our podcast have a, okay, Bob, don't take it out on the weed. Okay. We're not ruining me here. I want to hit your sister, hit your sister. Oh, Jesus. I don't have that in my notes. Let me be clear here.

Speak for your own notes. But yes, and Mark, he's like, Hey, Bob, why don't you take this fight out and go fuck off until tomorrow? He does. He says, go get a double-multed or as March would call it two comes. But he does give him whiskey money and tells him to come back tomorrow, but he lives there. That's his house. So like, yep, does he, he wants me to go live in a whiskey overnight and come back in

the morning. I love that you hear Multiden can only think whiskey. How very British obvious. So, so the next morning, Ants leave in the house. She's in a very smart skirt suit probably going out to look for a job. She goes to the garage. She opens the garage where she finds that Bob, the little brother, has hung himself in the garage, suicidally ashamed of his sister's weeds.

I wanted him not to be dead because he's so little and his head so heavy, he's just like, you might help him knee down. It actually turns out a lot of, a lot of the weights on top of the rope. I'm actually just a little uncomfortable. And so in case it wasn't clear, by the way, this was my best worst overreaction. She gives the great movie scream and everything. And then a newspaper slides into place again, just every fucking word on it is amazing. Super.

Yeah. But it says, brother of famous nightclub dancer commits suicide in garage. Honestly, if when you die, the thing they list is your sister's profession, right? Maybe maybe suicide wasn't the worst choice. Oh, I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Also, you said his ex profession, because she isn't a dancer anymore. Right.

Yeah. The subtitle is Robert Leicester, brother of attractive nightclub dancer, was found hanged. So like, I really hope that his tombstone reads, here lies Robert Leicester, his sister was totally fucked up. He probably saw a naked one twice. Come on. When I'm fristing, good balls. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. That big old hand, use it as a fish ball. And then the narrator shows back up out of nowhere. He reminds us that Captain Hayes was part of the That big old hand, use it as a fish ball.

And then the narrator shows back up out of nowhere. He reminds us that Captain Hayes was part of the movie. Hey, everybody, sorry, the cops have been doing something. We have, you see, the 21 jump street kind of a thing. What are we doing? We were following Markey. Yeah. We couldn't catch him doing any crimes.

Well, so this is actually where they first,, like, get glued into the whole market thing, right? Because they're like, oh, you know, a guy committed suicide in the garage of his sister's house. That's probably weed related. We should probably look into that, right? No, it's, it's even worse than that. It's Hugo, the boss from the club, heard about Bob's suicide.

He was like, Bob, isn't that Anne's brother? I know Anne. She was doing drugs. I'm going to go to homicide and say that this is probably, he's probably been killed for some of this because then the film says, like Hugo went to homicide who passed him along to narcotics. So like, we do not need to know the details of which police departments he, Hugo called 999 where he spoke for a while with an operator who said, come into the, come into the station and he spoke to the desk sergeant for a while. It was actually very rude when you all think you're considering. Yeah. Yeah. He went to

the police. So the police is attempts to crack this case have been in order. Number one, go home and get some sleep. Number two, wait for a kid to die and hope that someone who knew his hot sister comes to tell us about the drug she's doing. I feel like you left off brush up on our jive dog. I'm sorry. Obviously, those are a lot of jive homework. Yes. They were actually first in jive on their dualingo apps that week. March. If you had checks. And also, I love this moment because

we see Hugo down at the boss, the nightclub boss down at the station making an ID on Markey right so the animal these folders and they're like you know Which one of these people is is the guy the first fucking folder that he opens up is Rita It's fucking really easy like well, it was a man. I already told you it was I really wanted Hugo to have to like wake one of the cops up from the nap that they've been taken since that initial briefing. Yeah, right, right. So yeah, but they figure out that Marke is the bad news.

So they start following Marke everywhere he goes. And this is what leads the cops to also start looking into Anne as well. But this is where they say that Marke lived in a fishbowl on the end of a string. I like, I don't need to string. No, he's not, he's not going, nobody ever puts this goldfish on the league. It's not going in these were the questions I had, Marsh. I had the same question. Yeah. So, but we watched the cops tail, Markey, for a while, and then we watched them like reporting

to Captain Hayes a week later, right? They're like, we've been following them for a week. We haven't caught them selling a single drug yet. Yeah. Right. Cause I guess because of the clever handoffs that he does. And so they decide to go and see Anne, you know, the person that Hugo came in to say you should probably see Anne, her brother just committed suicide. You should see Anne and the one that I know, the one in the paper, the one whose name is in the paper, could you go and see her? And then I got it, marquee. You're right, right?

We're looking for Marsha's car right now. It's, ha ha ha ha. Oh, God, at this point I wrote my notes, they're using so much bullshit for his slang that I no longer know what the hell anyone is talking about. Yeah. Oh, and there's a line they say about marquee,

they say we don't know his source of income. But guys, it's drugs. It's death and it's a problem. That's and it's a line they say about marketing. They say we don't know his source of income. Guys, it's drugs. It's definitely. That's the whole thing. So, okay. So then we cut to Rita going out on a date with the two guys that she dates. Well, the two guys are waiting for her like they're all complaining because she's taken too long because she's a woman, right? Yeah. Imagine having so little content to your movie that you open with the scene of guys being like bored. Yeah, well, I go like retar. He calls it retar. I don't know why he calls that. Come on, retar. So yeah, so they're like, we should go see Anne. She's feeling really bad about all the drugs that she's been doing. I figure we should go do drugs with her and help her feel better about that. So we cut to Anne and she's like, she's on the phone. She's like, Mikey, I got the shakes.

I really need to see. Yeah. And I would say that this is a silly thing to say about marijuana, but I once traveled through a Japanese airport with no one, Lucinda, where they weren't allowed to smoke. So I get what I'm saying is I get it. Well, I was about to ask like, is weed withdrawal shakes a thing? Then I thought, well, I can't ask Noah because you'd have to have withdrawn from weed. Right. You've gone a little while without smoking. So let me, let me be super clear.

That was because we were both cigarette smokers at the time and couldn't have a cigarette. That's not it wasn't the weed. I turned around and he was wearing a suit, Marsh. He didn't even bring a suit with him, but 11 hours without weed, he was suddenly wearing a full three- feet suit. Somehow his hand was short and every. It was short. No, it was in a crew cut. So so we cut to the cops.

They're staking out, Markey. When Raymond, that is trainer, his boss is heavy, right? The henchman shows up to like take a little ride with him to go see the boss, right? Yeah. And the cops tire pops, so he loses him and I wrote my notes, shit, we gotta get a second policeman. Yeah, they're in. They have a saying, what is the other cop doing?

We never saw him. Did he die? Did that's not time to act? You're quit. He's brushing up on his goddamn drive top. He's getting so good. He is so good. But then because the, because the time

is pop, he has to go to like a pay for and then pull the police station for lift, like his mom getting him to pick him up from the party early. Why did they include that scene? We want to figure it out that he didn't just die there on the side of the road. But they felt the need to keep that in the movie. Okay. So then Markie goes to see Mr. Trainer, his boss, and the boss is going to send him to Arizona to pick up the weed. Now, possibly my favorite moment in the entire fucking movie is when he explains the boss explains to Markie how the pickup is going to go. He says, you're going to drive out to Arizona. You're going to stop at a mechanic near, you know,

fucking blah, blah, blah town. And when you do, tell them you need gas in a new tire. They'll know what to do. I feel like a bunch of people accidentally get free weed. I think that would happen. Yeah. How many times do they start loading tomato cans and they're guys like, what are you doing?

And they're like, nothing, nothing, never mind. Thought you were someone else. Awesome. The thing to bear in mind is in the previous scene that we've seen in his boss, he's complaining that his shipment has gone missing. Yes. And he kills one of his employees over it. Like how many employees has he killed because his code is this shit.

Right. They're just giving his shipments away, left front center. Because the code minus well, B, to you have changed for a 20 and the answer might as well be sure to do. Yeah. And also, by the way, he doesn't tell him the name of the mechanic shop. We just know it's near this city. Yeah. Oh, there's a brilliant bit as well. When Markey is saying to train, are you going to kill me and train us as I you're worried? It's like, well, well. When Marquis saying to Trina, are you gonna kill me? And Trina says, are you worried?

It's like, well, yeah, if you're gonna kill me, if you're not gonna kill me, then very much depends on the answer to this question. If you're not, if you're on suggestions, then yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha. So, okay, so then the cops go to check out Ann, they go to Ann's house, and dammit if there's not a weed party going on there,

at just that moment, this is such a big house. Like she was affording a house this size on a club dance is wage. Like maybe I should be a club dancer slash weed dealer. This is a massive house. Maybe you should be looking for a house in 1949. Yeah, I was gonna say, first of all,

it was 1949, second of all, you more should absolutely be a club dancer slash weed dealer. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, really. I've got the legs fresh. I've got the comes and now you've got the time. You have the extra time. It's going. Right. So yeah, so the door buzzes and she's like, well, that must be Mikey and she opens the door and damn it, if it's not actually the cops and they barge in the second, she opens the door, which they're not allowed to do. She tries to run for like half a second, she's like, you never take me alive, never mind him,

wearing heels. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, so they bust her and they bust Rita, they bust the two guys that are there, and they ask about Markey, and she's like, I don't know, no, Markey. Yeah, she's like staying tight like, she's really bolt into this lifestyle.

Like about a week ago, at most, maybe two weeks ago, she's been feeling like an old Janu who'd never seen a joint before. And now she's Carmella Sopran. Yeah, she's both just like some very quick, very quick. Oh, I believe the chapter title here was, she'd make a great mafia. Why?

Exactly. But yeah, but everybody's under arrest for weed partying now. So I guess things are heating up. So we'll take a break there. But first let me give the act three of the hard sell. Is it just me or has it been the same minute for a really long time? Am I driving okay? Have you ever really looked at a dollar bill, man?

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Well hey a friend I thought I might wilt like the willow waiting on you to call Yes sorry babe I've been counting sheep Well yeah they all make it over the fence It's more bo peep than I'm worried about. Bow peep is fine as long as she's got a crook, I hear. Well, what's a crook if, if you don't mind, I'm sorry, this is exhausting. Pardon?

I can't we just talk like people? Isn't this how people talk right now? No, no. There's no way this is how people talk not all the time. I'm losing my fucking mind where 11 sentences in and I don't even think we've said hi yet. Okay, fine, fine. What did you want to say?

Are you going to Coras birthday tonight? Well, that depends. Does the dime on a dollar? No, please, just... No. Thank you, Jesus. The-the-the-the-any-bob-body wants something from my car. I popped in the back-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y. Damn it, Marsha's too late for that now.

Way too late. Oh, but I practiced you in the break. ... ... ... ... ... And we're back for still more of this shit.

We're gonna rejoin and under the hot lights getting grilled by Captain Hayes down at the station. Yeah, he's like, please sit down and she's like, it's a free country. I'm allowed to stand on time. He's like, well, this is going to take a while. And she's like, oh, never mind. Okay. Why would they include that?

It was so fucking where she's like, no, I'll stand. And he's like, it's going to be more comfortable if you sit. And she's like, I hadn't thought about it that way. Okay, I'll sit. Yeah. So and the first question is, Hey, why did your brother kill himself? And that seems like an unfair question to open with. Right?

Straight in with the dead brother. Nice move. Nice move from the bad cop of that good cop out cop duo there. Yeah. But they explained to her that like, she might as well roll over on her drug dealer friend, Marke, because and I quote, drug dealers aren't even human, misluster. Yeah. I feel like they are. He says the Malkies, the Malkies in this world aren't human. Is that well, yeah, that explained Malk wall bugs daily routine. Okay. That's not the next. Oh, okay. All right. So I thought they met the drug dealers, but Marke is specifically.

Okay. All right. That's fair. Also Her accent changes starting in this scene, right? We could acknowledge that yes. She suddenly started doing a British person doing an American accent She's going for that kind of femme fatale mid-Atlantic kind of voice that she hasn't been doing up until now Right. Yeah, but she's she's hardened. She's about to go up the clink of course, she's going to start to go into the accent. Oh, that's true. That's true. Yeah. So they're like, he'll take advantage of you.

And she's like, I'm immune to being take advantage of my drug dealers. And they're like, he says, no, you don't understand. See, first they give it to you for free, but then they stop giving you the drugs once you're addicted. And I'm like, well, yeah, but that's what showtime and a hulu do as well. Like it's not inherently true. That is just a, yeah. I love the guy who tries to convince her is like, sure, weed is great.

Makes you feel good and makes food taste better. It's significantly less bad for you than alcohol. But sorry, what was I talking about? What was I talking about? Right there. I had a point. But she's not buying it, so they start to use props. They decide to bring in a girl who's

strung out on too much weed, who apparently they've just had waiting outside the office. Yeah, they've kept a drug addict in the office as an interrogation prop. And like, surely, we all got excited about what the 24-year-old addict looked like, right? Because they go and get her her file out of the filing cabinet of every single drug take in LA.

These are the filing cabinet of that. And it's like, here she is at 21. Do you want to see what she looks like at 24? And surely we're all like, yes, please show me what you think three years of doing green to a bus. And of course, right now she's deep in the grips of psychosis. She's wearing haunted house makeup now, which to be fair, is one of the consequences of doing weed. No, that is a real risk. You could end up working it on and out.

The great thing is like, once she's there, they're like, you see, look at her. And then it's like, take another look at the before picture. It's like, she's right there, man. Like, look at the poor picture. Now look at her. You see? Fucking disgusting. Now get her out of here. Put her, put her back in the cage until we need to fight in another hot suspect. Yeah. She can't hear us. She's listening to fish. But that's it. Yeah. They're like, see, we brought her in as a prop. Now take her away.

We're done with her for now. And you think that that's, that's that. But no, that is the opening to a whole fucking, I don't know, a scared straight tour. Yeah. Captain Hase has been working on. Yeah. He's got a whole zoo of former hoties. He's like, how about all of the Gladys? Look at Gladys Gladys. He used to be really hot. Now look at her arm. Apparently she's on heroin. And so she's been doing the injection thing. She appears to have turned into a zombie from the wrist up. Yep. And it's that this is what happens when you take that needle. It's like, guys, PSA never share your needles with the undead. You can be a zombie virus by doing needles with the undead. I really wanted to be like, you guys know I do weed, right?

I'm arrested for weed. Oh shit. Fuck. All right. Well, we're going to we'll go introduce you to a prisoner down here. She ate a whole bag of red hearts. So they want to, well, and in case you're in Gladys's arm looking like the guys who got radiation poisoning in HBO's Chernobyl wasn't enough, they then take her to Gladys' old apartment and show her that it's very small and cramped. Right.

Right. It takes a while seeing this how that's the best apartment, like 50% of our audience can afford in the place they live. It took a minute for us to figure out that that's the point they were making. Yeah, I wanted Anne to take them to my house and have them be like, how the shit, what drugs was this guy? Just got a toddler. But the thing is, did they keep Gladys' house like preserved for just this kind of occasion? I did, yes! Right, she's in jail, you would have thought they'd reented that place the fuck out. But instead they're doing the universal to a book for crackheads, I just wanted the person who lives there now to show up and be like, guys, can you stop using my apartment as a, I

know it's a crappy apartment. I just, I like, I'm dealing with it. Yeah. But the fucking universal tour is not quite over yet. They then take her to the psycho ward where drug users inevitably wind up, right? Yeah. This is where we meet straight jacket lady. Yeah.

I wrote in my notes, I mean, to be fair, most of these ladies just, you know, wanted a divorce or something. Yeah, right. Or pretend you were with some of them smoked weed too. Jesus. Yeah. Lots of other activities were involved with the insanity commitment to 1949. And doesn't he say as well, I'm you're here, you're as good as dead.

Essentially, that's the only stuff the message they're trying to give us, yeah. Right. And to prove that, they go and take us to an actual dead person, which is so wildly inappropriate. They take us to the morgue and it's like, you see, they pull back the cover, dead, put the cover back. And that you don't get to use dead bodies as like the scared straight props in this kind of way. This is wildly inappropriate.

And keep in mind that they would have had to drive all the way across LA traffic to do this. Like she's like, no, I know what you meant by dead. Right? Like I actually had a vision in my head of what you were talking about. Yeah. And when he pulls back the dead girl, he goes, this one's lucky. She killed herself and I wrote in my notes. I mean, I get it. But not cool. And I wanted to carry on doing that, like traveling to do with some of you visual, like, this one's lucky. Like, she's kicked the bucket and then we see even like drive to a hardware store where he buys a bucket. You see, this is a period.

We really don't have a lot going on. Yeah, right. Right. Right. Let's either this or go home and take a nap. Actually, just like in a little pizza tour, we got a lot of stops and not a lot going on. We're never going to find Marcia's car. I've been through the gypedictionary three times.

Yes. So this is a do a Beatles tour of Liverpool. Yes. Two options. So they go back to the office to wrap up their scared straight tour. She still doesn't want to help them now. But the thing is they get back to the office to wrap up their scared straight tour. She still doesn't want to help them. But the thing is, they get back to the office and then he summarizes the trip.

So like, it's weird that they waited to get back to the office before he summarized what she just seen. What was the card you're going to like? Right. Just like an awkward silence. And if she tried to speak, he'd be like, uh, uh, not, not wait for it. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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Just eating ramen noodles. I just realized I'm thinking of Heath's life. Heath's life and the's life, and the prison is a very similar man. But the thing is 60 days, the criminal stakes that we're supposed to be so worried about in this film is at most a two month sentence. This is not Pablo Escobar level stuff that we're talking about here. Yeah, so we get a little montage of her going to weed prison. She's not having fun at all. But then the narrator upon realizing that, yeah, but I guess 60 days in jail is not really that bad. He's like also also she still feels

guilty about the dead brother. Right. The 60 days in jail isn't a thing so they're like also she's undergoing terrible post trauma and finding her dead brother and I'm like yeah, I'll go ahead and not find my suicide and sibling then, which seems to be her major problem, right? Really? Yeah, exactly. What this film proves is that prison is inhumane, not that drugs have had. It's just prison. The prison needs reform, not the drug laws need reformia. Right. Well, and I should also point out that Lila leads that the actor in this movie was introduced to heroin while she was in prison and became a heroin addict. So like what, what wrong in her life was going to fucking prison. Whoa.

Yeah. Right. But also in her, in the, in the, and the characters defense, if all that's going to take to push your brother over the suicidal edges, seeing you smoke a fucking joint, it's on him. And like, he needed more help than you could provide, right? Yes. She was pushing against an open door on that one.

Absolutely. Yeah. So yeah, so she's like pacing her way through her 60 day sentence and she starts to hear these voices in the background going, kid, killer, kid, killer, good killer. We listened to that for two and a half. God damn it. It's different actors and they're all really trying to make it kid killer. Kid killer of kids.

Kid there was a kid and then you killed him. Middle kid. God, I wish we could swear in movies. It would do so much more of that. Yeah, it's it's awesome. Well, trying to put the stress on the wrong part of the sentence in that advert. That's a little killer. Tell me how you can stress kid killer.

You can't stress the law in kids. Show me show me how it's to show me how I know I'll go down on you. Also, when she sees the different actors doing it, they're all like faces floating up in front and it just seems like they're doing a rendition of Bohemian reps. Yeah. Kidd killer. Kidd killer. Kidd killer. Kidd killer. Kidd killer. Kidd killer. Kidd. Kidd killer. Kidd. We're done, the mop bucket calls her a kid killer. The faucet calls her a kid killer. She looks at herself in the mirror while she slowly turns into weird Barbie. Yes. Yes.

And then and finally turns into her brother. And then of course she screams quite screamily again. Just one thing on the mop bucket. She's like cranking the the handle on like a thing to squeeze out the rag in the mop. And every time she cranks it, it says kid killer. Like she's got like a crank operated kid killer machine. Yeah, we shouldn't have given you that one. Sorry. That's what.

Why don't you switch with Larry's bucket? Like she does it smart. Right. And she chooses Larry's and it's like pedophile and she's like, sorry Larry. You deserve to be here Larry. Fuck yeah. And mostly she just seems to know that she's saying the same thing all the time. Like she's hearing the same thing all the time.

Like she's irritated that one of the cellmates is bought a soundboard and now all her life is just kid killer and sad trombones. A soundboard you say. No, no, no, we took a vote as a company. So then, but then of course, we cut to the mental hospital where her weed psychosis has inevitably led her, right? Obviously. She has a full time stare at her sympathetically nurse, which is nice. You don't really get that kind of care of these. Oh, medical care in this country. Just where

is the deep eye contact that we used to have in days gone by. But the nurse has some words of wisdom because she's like, I yes, no one ever came to see me. Nurse and the nurse is like, let me, you know, let me give you some words of wisdom that I've learned in all of my years. It's a woman. I don't know who he is, but he's shit. He's just.

Yeah, she's like, listen, the prison recidivism rate is really bad. And she's like, yeah, but it's,. He's just shit. Yeah. Yeah. She's like, listen, the prison recidivism rate is really bad. And she's like, yeah, but is that because the bail system punishes people for being poor? And she's like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But it's great as well. Because she says, you know, at first, it's 60 days. And then it's like 120 days. And before you know, it's six months in six months out. And when you add that up, that's half a lifetime. Is that well, that can't add up to half a lifetime unless you start doing it as a baby. No, you got to be doing that from the base. And now, now I want the scene of a six month old in prison, like, mopping the floors,

while people are yelling kid killer at him, but they mean he's a kid who is a killer. That right. It's is dual use. It's useful in multiple different types of phones. No, just have them do it backwards. Then it says killer kid and it works for him. There you go. It's working out. Are you part of the tour? I'm part of the tour. I don't know. You know, I'm, I'm stopped 36 on the tour. After they do the place where they make your own mozzarella. So then, so of course, then ancestors to like flash. I'm so sorry. So then so of course then and stars to like flash So but of course eventually and

So, but of course, eventually, Ann starts flashing back to people talking to her early in the movie, which is the fat lady singing of GAM, right? So we have Rodney just stopping at any time. But eventually she gets out of prison. She gets out of prison 10 days early, right? And they say like, what are you going to do when you get out of prison? She's like, well, I'm a lady, so I'm going to get my hair done first, most importantly. Yeah. That has second priority is to get a bath to wash the prison offer.

And I feel like you take the bath before you have people working up close to your body. But yeah, and I also feel that you don't take the bath immediately. You've, you've, you've, you've paid a lot of money to have your hair and makeup done. You got to immediately get into the back. Exactly. Priority is a wrong. Right. No, she definitely has the wrong order there. She had two months to think this through and did not think't know. So send it back. Yeah, right. But then so we see her. I guess she's coming out of the beauty salon now or whatever.

But Marke is picking her up and he's like, Hey, I really appreciate you not turning me in. She's like, well, not yet. And he goes, what? She says nothing. Nothing. By the way, it took me so fucking long to think of a non-inuendo's way of saying not turning her in, right? Cause I was like, I kept going like, not fingering him. Now, that doesn't, not rolling over on him. Now, that doesn't work. Yeah, that's unfair.

But yeah, but she's been prison hardened. That's the key, right? 50 days into slammer. I'll do that to you. So she's not taking any shit off of Marke anymore. She says, in fact, I actually know bigger and more important drug dealers than you. And now he's intrigued, right? Yes, she somehow made some connections with dealers from out east.

Again, it's been less than three months since her first joined. And now she's well to white. It's ludicrous. Yeah. So, but she explains to Marke that there's a new big crime syndicate moving into town, but luckily, if he was, she can get him a meeting with new big boss. Right? There are, I should point out, 12 minutes left in this movie when we start introducing

all this shit. Yes. And she said it was like, because she had a roommate who was a gangster's mole, which, you know, we know she didn't have a roommate. So I wrote, is she playing him? Because if so, the lesson here is that drugs make you smart and cool. Yes. Because she was like, it's naive innocent before.

And now she's like able to like scam a drug dealer, but just purely because she's done drugs and been to prison. And get her revenge and everything. Yeah, exactly. And that is the message of the film, spoiler alert. So, yeah, so now we get, and she's in Mr. Trainor's office with Markey and Gabriel, the crime boss.

This is cop number one who was practicing as Jive Talk earlier. That's right. And this scene opens with Trainor saying, I don't usually talk business at this late hour. And I was like, yeah, it's a real four suits kind of day. It's, it's one of those. I'm going to have to put on my first suit again. I'm going to have cycled all the way through now. But trainer realizes that Gabriel works for Mr Romero. Yes, the Mr Romero and gets all fanboy about it. Right. He hands him a stack of money, says, I've got $75,000 for you and hands him a stack of way less than 750 bills. Yeah, it could not be a 750

grand there. There's no way in the world that that's 750 bills. But the thing is 75 grand in 1949. I looked at the actual kind of inflation conversion. That's $962,000 in today's money. That guy was carrying as a single water bill. Just a third of it. You just got a bunch of a bunch of $1,000 bills and a pile of it. Everyone else. Well, and also keep in mind that earlier they were negotiating the price and he mentioned that he was paying $25 a can. So that leads us to believe that he's gonna pick up 3,000 cans of tomato joints in his personal vehicle.

Right, but just then trainer gets a phone call once again, I guess his shipment got ripped off, right? Because he's like, oh, there's no stuff down in our warehouse. We're gonna have to pick up more. Yeah. It's the cursed phone of blood guys. Be honest with me. Am I a bad drug lord? I feel like I'm a bad drug lord. It's like the second thing I've lost in two months.

He needs to change phone every time this phone rings during a business deal. He's being robbed. Just get a different. Just stop answering the phone. That's the only solution to this. Don't answer the phone. It's all going to be fine. So Ann and Markley, they've got to go out to Arizona to pick up more, well, 3000 cans of tomato joints, I guess, right? Yeah. And we see that the cops are still tailing them. And what has become of this anti-drugs propaganda movie, it's now become like a noir crime

caper. Well, she, she's gone full femme fatale. I was like, yeah, say, like, full on kind of that voice. It's, this movie did not know where it was going at this point, I don't think. I like it because it's very obvious that their PSA got boring to them and they were like, we could do like one or two action scenes where you mean it doesn't,

the whole thing doesn't have to be a PSA. Now, it's like the third act hasn't met the first two. Yeah, it's fucking nuts. We did a piano concert. We can do a fifth fight. Come on. You guys are being lame. You wouldn't even let me show someone smoking your joint on TV. So, yeah. So, and there's also this great bit where she starts going like, wow, Marke, you still haven't got promoted up the line to like regional district manager of marijuana sales for this area. Very disappointing. I thought you were more ambitious than that, right? You're really getting in his head. Yeah, assistant to the regional drug dealer. Exactly. Exactly. Mark, he's just like, yeah, you

know, you got to buy all of it on telegram now. And everyone's always like get verified. And I don't always want to do drugs so I can convince someone and fucking Arizona. It's fine. You send me a picture of your driver's license. It's weird. So, so meanwhile, Gabriel slashed the undercover cop. He gets to drop on Raymond the henchman. Right. And then he explains the whole sting operation to Raymond, who is the bad guy in what is like a reverse James Bond villain move.

I've seen this before before where the good guy explains their plan to the bad guy before the plan's done. Yes. But then right before this is a very short scene, but I do want to point this out right before the scene and he goes, don't worry. They put on plays where you are going. Do they put on plays in jail? I wasn't at the reference. I kind of want to watch a jail playing now. I was a movie want to watch a jail, right? Romeo, Romeo, where for ought thou, Romeo? And then so we get some shots of Ann and Markey driving through Arizona and everything and there's this little ticker that I guess is the cops telling the boss what they're

doing, but it's also just the movie very lazily explaining what has to happen at this point, right? It does, but that ticker moves so slowly that you have to read it as it goes along, that it's too slow for you to read towards the end. And then remember what the first words were because it's going so slow. Yes, I was going to say ticker technology has come really far. So yeah, but the cops like follow them all the way to the supplier. And so now they know where the supplier is and they know that all you have to do is ask for a new tire and gas or whatever.

And they give you weed, which is weird. They give you 3000 cans of to me. Yeah. So now, okay. So we cut to trainer. He's at the warehouse and he's going to show it to Gabriel, the undercover cop, right? They get in there. Now there's a note from Raymond, because of course Gabriel has got, you know, like already got to Raymond. There's a note

that says went to eat, be right back or whatever. And he's like, oh, my henchmen's not here. I'm sure he'll be back. Lay it. Oh, this is awkward. So, um, how did you guys meet? Not a lot of couples in drug dealing. Oh, it a party. That's fun. Fun. Who's playing piano? I read in the paper, your brother killed himself. Well, right. So yeah, this is where Ann and Marke show up. And just then the pay phone gets a phone call. Trainor cannot have a meeting without taking a phone call in the middle of it. No, absolutely not.

We know the type. We've all met this guy. It's another phone call of applause. Yeah, constantly sits down on the toilet gets a phone call. God damn it. Someone stole my shit out of my ass. This is this is Romero calling. Yes, to give him.

So like Romero, the the the famous drug the famous drug supplier is called at a very convenient time, which is like the two drugs guys would have to beautifully choreograph this to the exact second and I wanted us to see them like planning this out. Okay, so I think it's going to tempt me like it's best to say six or seven minutes. I know that red light is sometimes two or three cycles to get through it. Right, he couldn't have texted him and say, call now it's 1949. Yeah, exactly.

We had a time this, which means like if they had shown up earlier, trainer would have had to like make small talk for a little bitters. Yeah. So okay, but yes, that's Mr. Romero calling to say he doesn't know, no, Mr. Gabriel, That guy's an undercover cop. So Marquis Smacks and because he realizes, you know, like that she set him up and the cop smacks trainer and then we have a great big 1949 fight.

See. Now, this is unfortunately they would not discover the left hook until I think 1973, right? Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. In this one. Unfortunately, they would not discover the left hook until I think 1973, right? Yeah, yeah, right. In this one. Muhammad Ali actually invented it. We don't talk about it a lot, but yeah. Yes.

Yeah, and of course, you can't tell which besuited white guy is which during this entire thing. Yeah, it's, first of all, they're identical. Second of all, it's shot in the fucking dark. Mm-hmm. Right. There's no way of knowing what's going on. No, they keep moving to the darkest versions of the set, right? Because the set is lit for like close up and they keep moving way back.

Yeah. And at least in cowboy films, they put like a white hat on the good guy and a black hat on the bad guy so you could tell which is which. They don't even do that here. No, one of these guys could just not be wearing a fucking sports coat during the drug deal. But no, I don't think that would make you pass the haze code. I think that's another crucial man. Not in sports.

What am I across the toot? Yeah. I don't take off this spot. It's called until it's time for my third or fourth soon of the day. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I will say though, after this shit fight for like two minutes, the pratfall off the stairs onto the table was incredible.

Yeah, that was good. That was, I think that was real. I think that guy just fell. I remember like, good. Let's keep it. Yeah, back then they just kill an actor here and there. That would explain why the cop did like a little jog around his prone body to see if he was all right, because it was like a, he burst into like a very slight jog.

Yeah, I know you guys he did that. So yeah, it might have like a, he, he birthed into like a very slight jog. Yeah, I know you're right. As he did that. So yeah, it might have been real. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, but the good guys win the day, Marke and trainer get arrested. And then we head back to Hayes office where they can thank Anne for being a narc, right? Well, actually, it's so that she can thank the cops for scaring her straight before she ended up a suicidal psychopath in the psych award, right?

Yeah, yeah, because they open with like, thanks for all your help and buy all her help, straight before she ended up a suicidal psychopath in the psych award. Right. Yeah, because they open with like, thanks for all your help and buy all her help. They mean doing all of the police work while two thirds of the on screen police had no involvement at all. Only one cop was there during any of the police work. So two of the three police officers did absolutely nothing and the old Janu cracked the entire case. Right.

And put her life on the line for it. Yeah. I wanted the cop to bust and be like, guys, my jive talk is red. Oh, my God, fuck it. But here's the weirdest choice they make. They're like, thanks for your help. She turns to deliver her. I really learned something today, my log.

Yes. But because it's 1949, the fucking scrolling credits are like, you don't need to hear a woman talk. Is the thing about Marlana. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The fucking title cards come up and give what I have to assume is the dial, the, the, the

monologue that she's saying silently behind them. Yeah. That's so fucking weird. And we, we slowly pan in on her face as well. Yeah. As she's still saying, the only thing I can think is her accent has been developing throughout this movie. And I can only think by this last stage, it evolved to its final form and was incomprehensible. So we can't have that. We can't have that. We've got to, oh, maybe, I mean,

this is the 40s. It could have just been something incredibly problematic. That's true. Yeah, you're looking at even the Hayes Court is going to let this through. No, they would never block that out though. Like, yes, that is a good moral to learn. Yeah. So, yeah, but we get her whole like monologue in title cars. There's so many title cars. I started copying them all out and then I realized there was way too many to copy out, but I kept, I like, I already started. So I had to.

So I copied them all into my fucking notes. There's one part that I love where it says, best authorities estimate that the world has over 200 million dope addicts today. Yep, that is. That would be 8% of the world population in 1949 for those keeping track. And 75% of all new marijuana smokers are teen dash ages. So if you were a teenager, you had not been invented at that point. Well, apostrophe teen, right?

Apostrophe teen hyphenate. 18-years-old. 18-years-old. been invented at that point. Well, apostrophe team, right? apostrophe team. Oh, you're high for teenagers. Yes. You got to say it as you're playing a banjo. Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, but I think we can probably then do the math to try and figure out what percentage of the world's population would have been teenagers and whether these numbers. Right. Yeah, exactly. I don't think they do. I don't think they come together. don't think they come together. But the point is it's like tomorrow, it could be your young star. And then it says, and this seems like a direct challenge to me, it said, no one seeing this film could be easily tempted to so wreck their mind and body. So I packed

a ball. Show you. And then the last line of the scroll is cooperate fully with government authority. Yes, that's a great of a line to end up. It just get badges. Yeah, the parentheses on this movie are essentially how about them, NARX, huh? All right, well, I'm clearly doing the work of several dope addicts at this point based on those numbers. So I guess we need to wrap things up there. But Marsh, thank you so much for hanging out with us today.

It's been a ton of fun. I would not have missed it for the world. I would not have missed it. And I'll quickly remind you that the show notes have links where you can find many of Marsh's other fine contributions to skepticism and rationality. And while that's gonna do it for our review of Wild Weed, that's not gonna do it for our episodes yet,

because we still need to lure ourselves back into this trap next week. So Eli, tell us, what's on deck? Well, I don't know about you gentlemen, but I'm longing for the supernatural after all this hard-hitting realism. Marsh, feel like coming back next week, but somehow sounding a month older. Yeah.

All right. Well, then we will be watching the happy science cults. Oh, the birth of Buddha. Oh, I'm so excited to revisit the happy science cult. All right. So that's a look forward to we're going to bring episode four, 20 to a merciful close. That's right. That was the reason we did a weed movie. Marsh once again, a huge thanks to Mars for all this help. But perhaps even huge thanks to all the Patreon donors to help make the show go.

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Was used with permission. Thanks again for giving us a check in your life. This week for Heathenwright and Neil Ibozdi, I'm an illusionist. Promise it to work hard to earn another chunk next week. Until then, we'll leave you with a breakfast club close. Markey got out of prison three days before we became legal in his Weed went on to win the war on drugs This movie came out in 1949 just two years after a 17 year old no Okay, smoked his first joint. I'm sorry. No, I turned 40 next week. This is my last chance to make fun

No, it's a three weeks ago that you turned 40 and that is true. Sorry. Yeah, right fucking yeah Apologize to past you. You're probably dead by now, though. Oh. Oh. Okay, I've read the skits ahead of time and I'm glad I have. Yeah, you know, I get surprised by this.