The Peanutbutter Solution (1985)
We dive right into The Peanut Butter Solution — a wonderfully bonkers 1985 kids’ fantasy where 11-year-old Michael loses all his hair after a spooky encounter, uses a ghost-given peanut-buttery potion that makes his hair grow out of control, and gets kidnapped by a sinister art teacher who wants to turn that magic hair into irresistible paintbrushes. We riff on the plot (yes, the peanut-butter recipe includes “five dead flies” — don’t try this at home), break down the family dynamics (absent mom, sister Susie filling the parental role), and point out how the villain’s brush-for-profit scheme turns the kid-friendly romp into something oddly dark. I explain a bit about production: it’s a Canadian Tales for All film shot with practical effects (no CGI), modest mid-’80s funding, and—fun fact—features a teen Celine Dion on the soundtrack doing one of her first English recordings. We also chat about the era: why 1985 felt culturally distinct (Live Aid, early AIDS awareness) and how that shapes the film’s tone, plus why the movie’s multicultural accents and low-budget charm give it cult status. Along the way we gush about the standout supporting players (Connie, the brave best friend; the surprisingly expressive dog), mock the wig moments, and share our takes on the climax and moral — kids using imagination and teamwork to outwit adults who’ve gone off the rails. Finally, if you liked this one, we toss you a couple of snack-tray recs (Little Monsters, The Witches) to keep the spooky-kid-movie vibe rolling. We dive headfirst into the gloriously weird world of The Peanut Butter Solution — and yes, we say 'we' because we were the two lunch-break renegades chomping through this one. We start off with our usual banter (shag carpet, AOL discs, Tom Hanks yelling about cash in podcasting — the classics), then rewind to 1985 and let the story unfold: eleven‑year‑old Michael gets scared by ghosts, loses his hair, and then follows a ghostly recipe that restores it… except he uses too much peanut butter. Hair grows out of control, the sinister art teacher (the Señor) smells profit and suddenly we’re in a bizarre kidnap-and-paintbrush business. We walk listeners through the plot beats — the wig gag, the midnight blender scene, the rope-to-tie-up-hair bits — and laugh at how many ways a children’s story can go sideways. We also break down why this movie still tickles our strange-film nerve: practical effects (no CGI — real wigs, puppetry, in-camera tricks), a low but clever Canadian budget, and the fact that it was filmed bilingually in Quebec. We highlight a couple of delightful curiosities — Celine Dion singing one of her first English songs for the soundtrack (yes, really), Skippy’s promotional cameo, and the odd multicultural chorus of kids chanting as Michael runs home. Along the way we toss in the human stuff: the family dynamics (a sister playing mom, an artist father), the vulnerability of kids, and how a film meant for kids crests into genuinely creepy territory when a teacher starts kidnapping children to make enchanted paintbrushes. We close with our takeaways: it’s bonkers, practical effects are charming, and if you like off‑kilter kids’ films, this one’s a culty treat.
Takeaways:
- We walk listeners through the film’s wild plot: an 11‑year‑old loses his hair from a supernatural fright, uses a peanut‑butter concoction that makes it grow uncontrollably, and then a sinister art teacher exploits the hair to make irresistibly magical paintbrushes — hair‑raising, literally.
- I explain practical effects basics in plain terms: the movie relied on wigs, prosthetics, in‑camera tricks and physical props rather than CGI, which gives the film a tactile, handmade charm that modern effects often smooth away.
- We put the movie in 1985 context — Live Aid, Gorbachev, early AIDS awareness — to show how cultural moments shape storytelling and why some elements feel dated without that historical framing.
- I call out the family dynamics and character setup: Michael’s mom is absent, Susie fills a parental role, and those choices create vulnerability that fuels the plot and emotional stakes for child protagonists.
- We poke fun at eccentric production choices — many accents, reused wigs, chanting kids, and a creepy van-driving art teacher — but we also praise the earnestness and inventiveness behind a low‑budget Canadian production.
- I dig into the themes: exploitation of childhood creativity, commodification of talent (hair turned into brushes), and how fear and friendship become tools to both harm and rescue children.
- We offer viewing tips and extras: watch it as a kids’ fantasy with surprisingly dark edges, enjoy Celine Dion’s early English songs, appreciate the practical effects, and treat it as a charming, cult Canadian oddity.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- AOL
- Skippy
- Severin Films
- Nickelodeon
- National Film Board of Canada
- Stanford University
- Odysee
- Bluesky
- Yoplait
- Patty's Video Palace
Transcript
Well, hey, hey there.
Speaker A:Minutia mat, New Year's or whatever.
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Speaker B:Wow, somebody's been on vacation, haven't they?
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:And speaking of being on vacation, I cannot believe that they actually picked up in here while they're gone.
Speaker A:Usually nothing happens when we leave the building except dust accumulates.
Speaker B:Well, I don't think it's.
Speaker B:They picked up as much as probably the kids in the back just stole stuff.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, when they have their supervised visitations here, they do have to clean.
Speaker A:So maybe that's the reason why.
Speaker A:The place looks semi inhabited.
Speaker A:But it's great to see that nasty shag carpet gone and.
Speaker A:And we're stepping into the modern age because I see some of these plastic discs things on the shelves.
Speaker A:So yes, we're going to be renting DVDs now.
Speaker B:If you say so.
Speaker A:Either that or.
Speaker A:Either that or they're commemorative coasters.
Speaker B:Oh no, that's an AOL disc.
Speaker B:Never mind.
Speaker A:So did you enjoy your break, sir?
Speaker A:Did you get to, you know, put your feet back and maybe crack open a book and have someone bring you drinks at the pool?
Speaker B:Crack open a book?
Speaker B: What is this,: Speaker B:Oh, never mind.
Speaker B:We time travel.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:What did I do?
Speaker B:Actually, yeah, I had enjoyed it.
Speaker B:I didn't do much of anything.
Speaker B:I, I caught up on some Doctor who, some, Some Star Trek that I haven't watched in a while.
Speaker B:Oh, I watched Alienation.
Speaker B:So you and I talk about Alienation, the series girl, huh?
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Speaker B:Let me tell you, it started out so good.
Speaker B:I was, oh my God, this is a great series.
Speaker B:I got about halfway through and then they, the.
Speaker B:George started carrying the babies and the little tentacles came out of the woman.
Speaker B:And I'm going, oh my God, they put this on tv.
Speaker B:This is crazy.
Speaker B:So I'm okay, now I know why it went downhill.
Speaker A: s and it was replaced with: Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker B:Well, from one, you know, horror to another.
Speaker B:But at least that gave us Shannon Doherty being fired and going and doing Charmed and.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And then there was that 90s version of Fonzie that was played.
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Speaker A:He's not.
Speaker A:He's no longer with us.
Speaker B:But Gary Graham was.
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Speaker B:He was good.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, he could have been my daddy.
Speaker B:I would have been fine with that.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:But with, you know, having had a few birthdays since then, I'm realizing now that Luke Perry's character was sort of the Fonzie in the 90s.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because he was.
Speaker A:He was a cool.
Speaker A:I think he even had motorcycle, if I remember right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Of course, now when you give somebody the thumbs up, you know, the younger generations cry because they can't tell if a thumbs up or a flip flipping the bird are the same thing.
Speaker B:And I'm like, wow.
Speaker A:Well, and they thought, if it's anything, our arcade kids, they actually hand out participation ribbons on the way in so they don't feel left out.
Speaker B:Yeah, well,.
Speaker A:Oh, well, we're here to do a job and unfortunately, I have to be the one who breaks the news.
Speaker A:Boss lady has figured out that we're doing this show on our lunch breaks and she's cracking the whip.
Speaker A:Now, as much as I have tried to put it through her thick skull that there's no money in podcasting, she seems to think that you and I are making money on the side with this.
Speaker A:So we gotta be a little bit more hush hush about doing the show here, and we keep it under wraps here.
Speaker B:So anyways, Tom Hanks yelling at her.
Speaker B:There's no money in podcasting.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:You're gonna lose.
Speaker A:Well, tune in and find out if Lula May loses.
Speaker A:And, you know, we'll get some cheap candy bars, a woman.
Speaker B:Let's figure.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:Well, that man in the basement, he's coming upstairs here because we're interrupting his nap.
Speaker B:Play this.
Speaker A:Okay, so we're gonna go right into this because like I said, we're running short on time.
Speaker A:All right, we're gonna find out what we're discussing and watch.
Speaker C:Hello, time travelers.
Speaker C: day you're watching a bizarre: Speaker C:A supernatural peanut butter concoction restores it, but now his hair won't stop growing.
Speaker C:Things get stranger when his sinister art teacher kidnaps Michael to turn his magical hair into paintbrushes.
Speaker A: Oh,: Speaker A:Well, that was a.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker A:But those kids in the alley, they're having their fun, so let's get to it.
Speaker A:Rewind through time into movie nights, blockbusters,.
Speaker B:Indies in black and white, from 80s grills to silver screen dreams trapped in the past by a time machine.
Speaker A:Each time the Door for DJ and.
Speaker B:Mac to explore the lore.
Speaker A:The past is present and you're gonna.
Speaker A: Okay, so: Speaker A:Now, did you know In March of 85, so, you know, just before the, the Easters there, Mr. Gorbachev, you know, the guy with the.
Speaker A:The birthmark there, he's from the Soviet Union.
Speaker A:He became the general Secretary of the Communist Party and it became an error.
Speaker A:He started an era of reformation form and changing relations between the Soviet Union and the West.
Speaker A:Later that year, he met with President Ronnie Reagan.
Speaker A:And don't you know, that was, you know, when Reagan made his famous speech.
Speaker A:Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.
Speaker A:Although I'm sounding more like Nixon right now for some reason.
Speaker B:But hey, well, you know, isn't it interesting that the.
Speaker B:Gorbachev became one of the most popular, you know, leaders of that time and, and did all this reform and started moving, you know, Russia forward, everything.
Speaker B:And the only thing most of us who lived through that is he had a birthmark on his head anyway.
Speaker A:And 85 was an important time frame too, because it was.
Speaker A:Well, it wasn't the earliest days, but we were certainly aware of HIV and AIDS at the time and people were actually trying to turn the tide.
Speaker A:We were trying to raise awareness and education.
Speaker A:And there became a effort called Live Aid.
Speaker A:It was a massive benefit concert in London and Philadelphia.
Speaker A:It brought together many of the era's biggest, biggest music, music stars to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief.
Speaker A:Because, you know, countries that don't have a strong national government like the US and uk, places like Ethiopia, they.
Speaker A:They need help whenever there is a crisis like the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
Speaker B:Well, and the famine, Live Aid was particularly, you know, for.
Speaker B:For the famine, they raised so much money, you know, it's like, do they know it's Christma feed the world.
Speaker B:You know, all those songs came from that era and it became.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And this, this was an event that actually not.
Speaker B:It happened in London and Philadelphia, broadcast on television all over the world.
Speaker B: ng pop culture moments of the: Speaker B:And tying it into kind of what you said with the HIV movement, there were a number of people like Freddie Mercury who became.
Speaker B:Was just like this stupid star performer of that.
Speaker B:And this is right before he came out being HIV positive.
Speaker A:And I, I want to say by 85, I can't be for certain, but people are at least aware of Rock Hudson's sexuality.
Speaker A:And that came to the Forefront because he cried out to the Reagan's for help and of course they turned their backs on him.
Speaker A:But let's get to the story that we're talking about here.
Speaker A:It's a kids movie, it's a kid's story.
Speaker A:So it's got to be a little bit more lighthear than what we were just talking about.
Speaker A:All about the children.
Speaker B:Won't somebody.
Speaker A:Well, so as, as always, there are three parts to a story.
Speaker A:A screenplay, you know, an act of.
Speaker B:Peanut butter, the jelly, the bread.
Speaker B:Yeah, all of that.
Speaker A:So we're gonna set up things here.
Speaker A:So the, the story centers on 11 year old Michael, as you heard about, who's frightened by ghosts inside an abandoned mansion.
Speaker A:Now I'll tell you that as a kid when I first saw this, I didn't understand the setting of that old house.
Speaker A:But in hindsight, now I realize that it was just simply an abandoned building where homeless people were gathering.
Speaker A:It was a, you know, like a squatting situation.
Speaker A:So anyways, the ghosts inside the abandoned mansion suffered such.
Speaker A:And Michael got a severe shock from, from it.
Speaker A:Such a shock that all his hair falls out and he was desperate to get it back.
Speaker A:Michael got a mysterious recipe from the ghosts for a hair growing solution.
Speaker A:I don't think William Shatner was, you know, being mocked for his toupee quite yet then, but Hair growing solutions and it was made with peanut butter.
Speaker A:He makes this concoction but uses too much peanut butter which he was warned about doing, but he decided to do it anyways and it causes his new hair to grow uncontrollably.
Speaker A:So much so that it made Cousin it in the Addams Family look like a bad joke.
Speaker A:And what began as an embarrassing supernatural problem becomes increasingly dangerous when Michael's unusual hair attracts the attention of his sinister art teacher, the senior.
Speaker A:And it is discovered that the hair has extraordinary properties.
Speaker A:So keep that onto your hat as we keep talking about this.
Speaker A:So Matt the hair under.
Speaker B:Ha.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So what we've got some, some discussion points here.
Speaker A:What is the first thing you wanted?
Speaker A:What's the first thing that you wanted to say?
Speaker B:Okay, the first thing that I want to say is.
Speaker B:So when he's playing.
Speaker B:So they give him a wig which is like the most horrible wig that apparently they reused during, during what's the show with 11 Stranger Things, when 11 was bald and they put that same wig on her, which is basically the horrible.
Speaker B:I did it myself a lesbian cut.
Speaker B:So anyway, so they put the wig on, he goes, he plays soccer and then this kid that's twice his Size.
Speaker B:Why is he on the teams?
Speaker B:Grabs his wig and pulls it off, of course, not realizing it's a wig, apparently.
Speaker B:Just gonna rip his hair down, pulls it off.
Speaker B:Then both teams, 20 kids somehow know some weird rhyme.
Speaker B:Okay, this thing that they chanted at him all the way home while he's running away.
Speaker B:And they're chanting this, you know, baldy blue.
Speaker B:This, his wig didn't stick.
Speaker B:And it's all chanting this same thing in unison the whole way.
Speaker B:When did somebody have time to sit down and write this?
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:This makes no sense.
Speaker B:And why did everybody have a different accent?
Speaker B:Every there.
Speaker B:One's one's French, one's English, one's two or three are Italian.
Speaker B:Then another one's Canadian.
Speaker A:And now we'll have to explain for the dear listeners here, and apologies to any of our Canadian friends who might be listening, but here in the boot, you right here in the Americas, we think that we all have to speak the same language.
Speaker A:So we don't have a national standard that says it must be in French and English.
Speaker B:Now go ahead.
Speaker B:It wasn't, it wasn't about that.
Speaker B:It was just like, how can you have this tiny little film with this tiny group of people and almost every single person has a different accent?
Speaker B:I mean, this is very multicultural.
Speaker A:I mean, it might, it might simply just be part of the experience of working in that part of the world.
Speaker A:You've got people from all sorts of backgrounds.
Speaker A:I mean, Toronto, just like New York City, is a melting pot.
Speaker A:So the Peanut Butter Solution, because it was a Canadian made children's story because.
Speaker B:They needed to make it cheap and Hollywood wouldn't do it.
Speaker A:I think it actually originated there.
Speaker A:So it wasn't like nowadays when we try to fight the, you know, the, the, the, the hourly pay situation and get it done cheap.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Although, although the X Files, I think, filmed in Canada in the 90s.
Speaker A:So anyways, so the Peanut Butter Solution was filmed in English and in French just because it was being sold.
Speaker A:But to your point, to your point, there were people with several different accents and that could be confusing.
Speaker A:Anyways, Wig.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Poor Michael, after he lost his hair, was told and reassured by his sister that we'll talk about her a little bit more in a bit.
Speaker B:Yes, we will.
Speaker A:Because he said it's, it's fake hair.
Speaker A:It doesn't look real and it's just gonna fall off.
Speaker A:And she's.
Speaker C:No, no, no.
Speaker A:We'll just get this magic glue and it will stay on and you won't have a problem.
Speaker A:Okay, news flash.
Speaker A:Children are impressionable and they will believe anything an adult or someone older than him will say.
Speaker A:I had an experience when I was a kid.
Speaker A:I split my pants at amusement park.
Speaker A:And I was told by the sweet old lady, no, but I didn't know that I'd done it because I'd had so much fun at the park.
Speaker A:But the sweet old lady that was working there, as one of the security people told me as she fastened a garbage bag around my waist, that nobody will notice, honey.
Speaker A:So that's why.
Speaker A:That's my experience.
Speaker A:Akin to the magic glue.
Speaker A:So this began as a bedtime story, if you might imagine.
Speaker A:I mean, we tell our kids all sorts of horrible things because, you know, there are children's songs like Ring around the Rosie.
Speaker A:Do you know that that is about.
Speaker A:Was it.
Speaker B:Yes, I do.
Speaker B:Y.
Speaker A:So it's not as innocent as it seems.
Speaker B:And burning the bodies.
Speaker B:Ashes.
Speaker B:Ashes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, some of our ancestors there did live through the Depression, so they were very different times.
Speaker A:But the director, Michael Rubo, originally invented the story for his young son who repeatedly asked him to tell it again.
Speaker A:Tell it again, daddy.
Speaker A:Rubo eventually turned the idea into a 15 page outline and submitted it to the producers Rock Demers for his Tales for All series.
Speaker A:So when you see the Peanut butter solution in the beginning credits, it tells you that this is the second installment in the series.
Speaker A:So I don't know what the other ones are, but maybe somebody out there could tell us.
Speaker A:So, Matt, what was the other thing that was interesting about this film?
Speaker A:Well, it's a bedtime story.
Speaker B:Yes, it was a bedtime story because you fall asleep during it.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:But this was photographed actually in.
Speaker B:In Montreal and it was on a 35 millimeter film and used and physical sets, props, makeups, and especially the hair pieces.
Speaker B:And there was a lot of hair stuff going on, but all of that was props and makeup and everything because.
Speaker B:And some in camera techniques.
Speaker B:But there was no cgi, there was no overlay.
Speaker B:You know, even in bed knobs and broomsticks, they would overlay certain, certain things at the time.
Speaker B:None of that on this.
Speaker B:So props to the, the.
Speaker B:The makeup and costume department that they.
Speaker B:They did a really good job with this stuff.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And nowadays we would call those practical effects because it doesn't involve computers.
Speaker A:They had to, you know, make things up on the fly.
Speaker A:Whether that was stepping on stalks of celery to make it sound like somebody was getting punched, but erasing the.
Speaker B:Erasing the.
Speaker B:The lines that made the hair brushes float through the air like on bewitched Right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And, and actually if you think about it from the perspective of production, which we don't do too often because that's sort of, you know, pulling back the curtain and revealing the secrets of the, of the, of the presentation there.
Speaker A:But due to the fact that the boy has hair in the beginning of the film and then he doesn't have hair for a while, you know, unless they' wigs the entire time, which they, they didn't.
Speaker A:I found out he's sort of a spoiler.
Speaker A:This had to be filmed in a certain order because you know, a person is not going to grow all that hair back just like the character because they don't have the real world peanut butter solution.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:It's interesting to, to think about that because if you watch this and you think about the story, you might wonder to yourself, I wonder when these scenes were filmed and in what order because there's a natural flow to, you know, natural things.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So he basically became Sinead o' Connor during the middle part of the film and.
Speaker B:Yeah, so but I mean they did a good job with it in, in.
Speaker A:The start of the movie.
Speaker A:He had quite longish hair for it to be a present day style.
Speaker A:Although his parents were artists so they might have embraced the idea of him just being his own person.
Speaker A:You know, that's like having parents that don't tell you, don't go out, don't leave the house dressed like that.
Speaker A:That's inappropriate.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:No, we're gonna let you figure that out for yourself and I'm not telling you you need to get a haircut.
Speaker B:Okay, so let's.
Speaker B:Right, but let's talk about the family real quick.
Speaker B:Okay, so.
Speaker B:Because that's really integral to had this movie, especially during the beginning part.
Speaker B:So it starts out that his mother doesn't make an appearance until the last scene where because she's out selling I don't know what houses or something.
Speaker B:So she's in Australia, which is real convenient because the director was from Australia, so.
Speaker B:But she's not there and he's depressed.
Speaker B:And so it leads us to think that the mom died.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And no, she's just in Australia and he's a brat.
Speaker B:So then the sister who looks maybe two years older than him maybe.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Is the one who is acting a 35 year old woman taking care of the entire house and paying the bills and you know, change of kitty litter and, and appeasing the father and I'm just, oh my God.
Speaker B:God.
Speaker B:How did they make this little 12 year old girl act the most adult person of the entire movie.
Speaker A:It was insane to put it into perspective.
Speaker A:There's just three characters to keep track of in the most of the story.
Speaker A:Michael, who is the kid who loses his hair and gets it back.
Speaker A:His sister, who's Susie, so, you know, Susie Q.
Speaker A:And then their dad, who is Mr. Baskin, but they'll.
Speaker B:And who is played by Michael Hogan.
Speaker A: ca that was done in the early: Speaker B:It actually took me a minute because I.
Speaker B:You kept going on that.
Speaker B:You know, he was in this.
Speaker B:And I'm like, well, where is he?
Speaker B:And then all of a sudden I realized, oh, that's okay.
Speaker A:He still had hair.
Speaker B:Then a little bit.
Speaker B:I was like, why didn't the dad want some of the peanut butter solution?
Speaker B:I mean, because that was kind of a little mess.
Speaker B:Oh, and by the way, he was a painter, and then he.
Speaker B:He had somebody come by and offer him $6,000 for one of his paintings.
Speaker B:That was the most.
Speaker B:Third grade.
Speaker B:Throw it together.
Speaker B:Oh, did your son paint that?
Speaker B:Oh, that's sweet.
Speaker B:You know, look at anything.
Speaker B:And he wants to give it to his daughter for his birthday, which is really sweet.
Speaker B:And I say just throw it out.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:But yeah.
Speaker B:So anyway, moving on.
Speaker A:You definitely get the setting there in the beginning because it's all about the.
Speaker A:And the fact that somebody.
Speaker A:Somebody is missing from their little home life set up there.
Speaker A:And by the way, Susie, the.
Speaker A:The sister who's trying to stand in for mom who's, you know, away.
Speaker A:She's wearing her bathrobe, and it really bothers her brother, and he.
Speaker A:And he knows that she's doing it on purpose.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker B:But I will say.
Speaker B:And we can't forget this and we'll talk about him in a little bit, but one of the best characters in this film was actually his best friend Connie.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:But we'll talk about him in a bit.
Speaker A:So we were talking about production values and presentation.
Speaker A:And who would know better or who would know more about that than the director, the guy behind the camera?
Speaker A:And Matt, he's going to tell us a little bit about Mr. Michael Rubo.
Speaker B: ,: Speaker B:And so that would make him a.
Speaker B:A Capricorn.
Speaker B:Hey.
Speaker B:Anyway, but he's actually.
Speaker B:He was Azzy.
Speaker B:Ozzy, filmmaker and a documentarian, which he got his start with.
Speaker B:He was born in Melbourne and he Actually studied anthropology at the Sydney University, which is very cool.
Speaker B:I love anthropology, especially cultural anthropology.
Speaker B:But then he went to.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:He actually earned a Fulbright scholarship and went into studying filmmaking at Stanford University, where.
Speaker B:And he spent more than two decades in the National Film Board of Canada, which is, you know, Australia to Stanford.
Speaker B:To Canada.
Speaker B:That's a.
Speaker B:That's quite a traveler there.
Speaker B:But anyway, he was directing acclaimed documentaries including Sad Song of Yellow Skin and Waiting for Fidal,.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker B:Oh, like, yes.
Speaker B:I was thinking more the little Mouse.
Speaker A:Or something that was Bible with a V, but that's very much.
Speaker B:Well, that would make more sense.
Speaker B:But yeah, so Adele.
Speaker B:That's interesting.
Speaker B:You know, you're probably waiting for him to show up for an interview.
Speaker B: d then directed this piece in: Speaker B:Did you ever see that?
Speaker A:No, but I think this guy's probably really popular in the Canadian Board of Tourism.
Speaker B:Yeah, actually, I think a lot of Canadians probably know those works much better than we would here anyway.
Speaker B:But then he returned to Australia and continued making documentaries and pursuing interests like painting, writing and community activism.
Speaker A:So I guess maybe in the Peanut Butter Solution, the dad had something in common with the director.
Speaker A:You know, he might have had his personality or his backstory loosely based on the director's real life.
Speaker A:Maybe.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So tell us about the lead actor, the annoying little bald child who I will.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I say that jokingly for what he had to do and this.
Speaker B:He actually did a really good job.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Now we should also point out the fact that the reason why we're discussing this is because it's the beginning of the school year for a lot of people in September as we're recording this.
Speaker A:So of course, naturally we thought we should discuss something that involved children, cuz, you know, seen and not heard maybe sometimes.
Speaker A:But the actor who.
Speaker A:The young actor who played the lead character of Michael in the Peanut Butter Solution, Canadian actor Matthew McKay.
Speaker A: ad in the wonderfully bizarre: Speaker A:And McKay continued acting into adulthood, building a career across Canadian film, television, theater and voice work.
Speaker A:His credits include Little Men, Are you afraid of the Dark?
Speaker A:Which was actually a series on Nickelodeon, which is something I a little familiar with.
Speaker A:Not a lot, just a little.
Speaker A:But then there's also Maniac Mansion, which itself has its own pop culture following, and Then Lapse of Memory, and then there's something called Clara, which is an Irish concept there.
Speaker A:And the art of more.
Speaker A:Let's see, Mr. McKay was bilingual in English and French, as many Canadians are.
Speaker A:McKay has also performed extensively on stage.
Speaker A: rd or, sorry,: Speaker A:So if you're somebody who collects things, you might be vaguely aware of this little bit of trivia, or you could.
Speaker B:Be like us and not be until now.
Speaker B:We have told you you will never forget this information.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:And no.
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker A:Annoying as half the battle.
Speaker A:But there is some of the roles that Michael McKay was most known for, includes Michael Baskin in the Peanut Butter Solution, also in Lapse of memory.
Speaker A:In 91, which was a Canadian mystery drama, he played Bruce Farmer and then Bruce Carson.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And then in 88, he appeared in the as a character called France or Franz in the feature film adaption of Louisa May Alcotts.
Speaker A:And if I'm not mistaken, that's the author who wrote Little Women.
Speaker B:Yeah, this is Little Men.
Speaker A:So, yeah, okay, so the, the, the boy version there, Little Men starring Mariel Hemingway.
Speaker A:And then also in 92, McKay played Ricky and Dean Burkham in Nickelodeon's Are you afraid of the Dark?
Speaker A:He appeared in two episodes of the popular Canadian children's horror anthology, so much like another beloved childhood franchise there called you can't do that on television, which was Canadian.
Speaker A:Nickelodeon acquired the rights to are you afraid of the Dark?
Speaker A:To distribute it in the Americas there.
Speaker A:And then of course, one of McKay's later acting roles, because he's actually.
Speaker A:No, he's no longer a public figure, I guess.
Speaker A: in Clauda and The Assassin in: Speaker A:It was one of his longer television engagements and he appeared in 14 episodes of the Assassin.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:He's really busy throughout his 20, 30, 40 years of acting.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, he probably made up.
Speaker A:You know, he probably get earned some savings, bought a house, and then he probably eventually decided to settle down and have a family.
Speaker A:And now his kids are like, grandpa, were you in that movie with the peanut butter?
Speaker B:He's probably like, no, no, I wasn't.
Speaker B:That was my favorite peanut butter.
Speaker B:Yeah, he probably does hate peanut butter.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, did you know that in: Speaker B:Did you know that?
Speaker A:Oh, and they're still famous.
Speaker B:Well, okay, so there was Lana Del Rey who apparently is a singer.
Speaker B:I've heard the name.
Speaker B:There's Anna Kendrick, the actress and singer who I absolutely love and adore, and I think she's awesome.
Speaker B:Bruno Mars, apparently, he's a singer.
Speaker B:Chrissy Teigen, who apparently is somebody who says mean things and about people and makes a lot of us giggle on Twitter.
Speaker B:And then there's this one called Raven Simone.
Speaker A:Oh, everybody should know who she was.
Speaker B:Well, God, that's so raven of you to say that.
Speaker B:But, yeah, she.
Speaker B:She came out as bisexual, and she has a wife, I believe.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And not to mention the fact that in, you know, back in my day, she.
Speaker A:She played Bill Cosby's granddaughter before people stopped talking about Bill Cosby.
Speaker B:Yes, she was actually.
Speaker B:She was so funny on that show.
Speaker B:She has so much character.
Speaker A:Yeah, she was basically Rudy the next generation.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Rudy, too.
Speaker A:Rudy too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then that's probably what their chair said at the studio set, too.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:They just put a number two on it because we're not buying another one.
Speaker B:Yeah, right.
Speaker A:So, Matt, when we get to the middle of the story, this is when things get complicated.
Speaker A:You want to tell us about the conflict in the rising action?
Speaker B:Well, I have a lot of conflict about this rising action, but.
Speaker B:So basically, Michael's hair, he gets the peanut butter solution.
Speaker B:He puts way too much peanut butter in it.
Speaker B:And the ghost told him.
Speaker B:The ghost told him.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And by the way, can I just say, that was the craziest concoction.
Speaker B:I'm listening to them talk about the scenes.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:How is he gonna find half of that stuff?
Speaker B:Oh, and then I loved it when he finally got all of it together the first time and the sister took it and threw it out.
Speaker A:Don't eat that.
Speaker B:I wasn't gonna eat it.
Speaker B:I was gonna put it on my head.
Speaker B:We're gonna have to send you to therapy.
Speaker A:But we should also note, though, for those who have not seen peaber solution, this is a very fun moment because he knew that what he was doing was very strange and out there.
Speaker A:So did he try doing it during the daytime?
Speaker A:No, he waited until the house was asleep.
Speaker A:And he's in the kitchen with the lights off.
Speaker A:Off, and he's putting things in the blender.
Speaker A:The blender alone's not gonna wake the house up.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So it's.
Speaker B:Oh, five dead flies, nine things of soy, nine soil, a fistful of kitty litter.
Speaker B:Right, exactly.
Speaker B:And it's.
Speaker B:You don't even have a cat, so.
Speaker B:But I just.
Speaker B:Okay, so he.
Speaker B:He has to find all this stuff, and then they get rid of people.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:That's a. Oh, I would have been mad.
Speaker B:So mad.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, if mom and dad have been making margaritas and they interrupted them, they'd be pretty ticked, too.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:Midnight margaritas, midnight kitty litter, Peanut butter solutions.
Speaker B:You know, it's all the same.
Speaker A:It's just, like, downright and stimpy.
Speaker A:It stays crunchy even in milk.
Speaker B:All right, so Michael's magical hair, once he gets it, it starts growing the next day.
Speaker B:And it was funny because it starts out with just a little nub.
Speaker B:And the next thing you know, hour later, it's hanging down to his shoulders, and none of them are really saying anything.
Speaker B:Ah, your hair's growing a little fast.
Speaker B:Nobody's.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, get him to a doctor.
Speaker B:But so he grow.
Speaker B:It grows super, super quickly.
Speaker B:It'll grow an inch in a minute, basically.
Speaker B:And it grows at such an uncontrollable rate that it's forcing the family to constantly cut it.
Speaker B:Not to mention his friend cutting it in the class.
Speaker B:And then the teacher's.
Speaker B:Well, that's distracting.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's not distracting.
Speaker B:Having someone.
Speaker B:A little boy's hair just grow and grow and grow until they look.
Speaker B:Kirsty Alley got a bad perm.
Speaker B:Anyway, meanwhile, his mysterious art teacher, the senor, who, by the way, has this coolest dog.
Speaker B:I love the dog.
Speaker B:And the dog actually got a credit in the cast, which I think was awesome, but.
Speaker B:So this horrible teacher.
Speaker B:Go ahead.
Speaker B:I know you're gonna say something.
Speaker A:I was just say, I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't know the breed, but it reminds me of a Jack Russell terrier.
Speaker B:Yeah, I. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker B:I don't know the breed, but I was just.
Speaker B:He's cool.
Speaker B:I like the dog.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So anyway, so it's the senor.
Speaker B:He discovers that Michael's hair can be used to create extraordinary paintbrushes whose paintings are irresistibly compelling, which.
Speaker B:Okay, so I didn't get it.
Speaker B:I thought.
Speaker B:I didn't.
Speaker B:Did the brushes make the magic paintings, or was he making the magic paintings and then using the hair to just make brushes?
Speaker A:Well, I think it's both.
Speaker A:I think that he realized that, you know, brushes are often made from hair.
Speaker A:I mean, in.
Speaker A:In the historical sense, it usually was horse.
Speaker A:But he, you know, he knew about this boy that had this uncontrollable hair, and he thought, what can I do with that?
Speaker C:Because this is.
Speaker A:This is one of those characters who's villainous.
Speaker A:You know, he is.
Speaker A:He's just salivating.
Speaker A:At this opportunity of what can I do with this terrific thing that's happening?
Speaker A:Because, mind you, he is also person of questionable morals.
Speaker A:He is picking on the children in his art class and he makes one of them cry.
Speaker A:He drew a scary sketch of his dog and told the kid to take it home and hang it on his wall.
Speaker A:And then later on you hear that the kid's having nightmares because of it.
Speaker A:And then his best.
Speaker A:And Michael's best friend is in the art class with him.
Speaker A:And when the teacher comes up to him, he threatens to do the same thing he did to the last kid's arch.
Speaker A:And he's gonna tear it up.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And this is something you might not notice watching it the first time, but upon additional viewings, it comes clear.
Speaker A:This is a private school.
Speaker A:This kid is ticked off that the teacher is abusing the students and was going to tear up his artwork too.
Speaker A:And he says to the senior, this is Connie.
Speaker A:This is Michael's best friend.
Speaker A:He says to the senor, senor, if you turn.
Speaker A:If you tear up my picture, I will never come to one of your classes again.
Speaker A:Which means you're gonna get canned if you don't behave yourself.
Speaker A:So right.
Speaker A:He, he causes problems for himself because eventually the principal has a little sit down and we'll talk about that.
Speaker A:But that causes the senor to try to turn things around for himself because he's had a stroke of bad luck and he's.
Speaker A:Oh, look, hair.
Speaker A:Let's make some paintbrushes.
Speaker A:And whoa.
Speaker A:Now that I've made something with it, that this is really cool.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:Never mind the fact that the character was probably a former hippie.
Speaker A:So of course there's probably some sort of drug allegory in there that he.
Speaker A:Making paintings with his child hair.
Speaker A:Not to mention.
Speaker B:Go ahead.
Speaker A:He has a van.
Speaker A:Okay, so, yeah, red van.
Speaker A:That's the essential element of creepy in the kids stories.
Speaker A:And they don't talk to strangers.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The teacher has a van and he kidnaps kids.
Speaker A:Oops, did I say that?
Speaker A:Okay, well.
Speaker B:And, and that's okay.
Speaker B:So the senor kidnaps Michael and, and other children.
Speaker B:Okay, 20, 20 other children and Michael and the whole town's just, oh, well, well, they'll turn up eventually.
Speaker B:And, and so he imprisons them in an abandoned factory where he forces.
Speaker B:Forces them to grow hair.
Speaker B:And as.
Speaker B:No, he just forces Michael to grow hair and the other.
Speaker B:The kids to make paintbrushes out of the hair for his increasingly profitable brush making operation.
Speaker B:And then as Michael realizes the true extent of the senor Scheme.
Speaker B:He and the other captive children must have a way to escape and stop it.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:So the senor is feeding him, making him lay down and feeding him yoga while all the other kids trim the hair and make paintbrushes and stuff.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So if it weren't for the sister and Connie, his best friend, they might never have been noticed.
Speaker B:What was I gonna say?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:But I think it's.
Speaker B:It's interesting that.
Speaker B:So Michael, he.
Speaker B:He keeps Michael.
Speaker B:And with the magical hair and everything.
Speaker B:But what we're not seeing here is that, well, little Connie, the best friend, by the way, Connie is.
Speaker C:Is a.
Speaker B:A boy.
Speaker B:So the best friend had taken some of the Conrad, taken some of the peanut butter solution and decided, as kids.
Speaker A:Do, he's going to develop prematurely, apparently,.
Speaker B:And decided that he was going to give himself premature pubes.
Speaker B:And so it's growing down his pants, legs out.
Speaker B:So he's got.
Speaker B:But the senor doesn't capture him and be.
Speaker B:Well, let's have two of them doing stuff.
Speaker B:Like even the senor.
Speaker B:I'm not going there.
Speaker A:It's just not hygienic, apparently.
Speaker B:Oh, but then he doesn't capture Connie, but he captures the.
Speaker B:Connie's little.
Speaker B:Little sister who.
Speaker B:Who's a little spitfire and gets no credit for doing anything.
Speaker B:But she's right there being all spitfire y and everything.
Speaker B:So that was funny.
Speaker B:But anyway.
Speaker B:Hey.
Speaker B:So the film's signature effect, right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Is Michael's rapidly growing hair.
Speaker B:And this was actually created before digital effects were an option.
Speaker B:So productions record that Roger Canton was actually one.
Speaker B:I think he.
Speaker B:Well, he.
Speaker B:I don't know if he won an award, but he.
Speaker B:He basically was one of the creators of the special effects animated hair so that you could see the hair growing.
Speaker B:Oh, and didn't you love the scene when he's going to bed and he had to get a rope to tie his hair way up on top?
Speaker B:That was hilarious.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, that's.
Speaker A:So that he could sleep comfortably and the hair was all pulled back.
Speaker A:But you just know that during the night his hair continued to grow and he woke up up laying on the floor or something.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:When do you see the.
Speaker B:The scene where the.
Speaker B:His.
Speaker B:His dad and his sister just have giant trash bags of hair that they're hauling out to the curb.
Speaker A:There's even a scene where he asks his sister to cut his bangs because they're getting in the way at the dinner table.
Speaker A:And she says to him, oh, I would give anything to have hair yours.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And he's like, no, you wouldn't.
Speaker B:Girl, I look like cousin It.
Speaker B:I'm trying to eat Muschietti.
Speaker B:So tell us about the budget.
Speaker A: Okay, so in: Speaker A:And while archival production records give a final cost of roughly.
Speaker A:Roughly 2.27 million Canadian, which was small even by mid-80s standards, rather than being financed by a major Hollywood studio, the film drew support from Canadian organizations and.
Speaker A:Or Skippy Peanut Butter, because, you know, they had product placement.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:They did too.
Speaker A:But we're talking about money.
Speaker A:So if we put things into perspective for a moment here, there's a scene where Connie and Susie, the sister and the best friend, are trying to find Michael because he's been kidnapped.
Speaker A:And they go to an art store, and they ask the man behind the counter about these new paintbrushes that he started to sell.
Speaker A:They're weird.
Speaker A:And Susie notices something about the brushes.
Speaker A:What did she notice, Matt?
Speaker B:That they were ugly.
Speaker B:Oh, that they were the same texture and everything as her brother's hair.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:She's like, I know this hair.
Speaker A:I've cut this hair.
Speaker A:And my.
Speaker A:By the same point that we're making with the budget, when asked how much these paintbrushes cost at the.
Speaker A: At the checkout in: Speaker A:And that's a little exorbitant for a single paintbrush, if you think about it, because most people won't reuse them if they're, you know, know, a perfect slob or whatever.
Speaker A:Most paintbrushes, I mean, we're in a disposable society here.
Speaker A:You use it and throw it out.
Speaker A:If I'm paying 50 bucks for a paintbrush, God, you know, that thing better give me a few happy endings.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:Well, yeah.
Speaker B: And so they spent $: Speaker B: convert now to US dollars in: Speaker A:It's almost 4 million.
Speaker B:Wait a minute.
Speaker B:Let me.
Speaker B:Yes, almost.
Speaker B:So let me make sure I said that.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:$3,776,936.54 USD.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And, you know, Canadian money is worth more.
Speaker A:So round it up.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Because.
Speaker B:Well, and that's the thing.
Speaker B:So in Canadian money, this would be.
Speaker B: In: Speaker A:Oh, and, you know, just a cultural reference here.
Speaker A:I grew up in the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The western part of New York State.
Speaker A:So we had more.
Speaker A:What would you say?
Speaker A:Interactions.
Speaker A:More interactions.
Speaker A:More exposure to Canadian culture.
Speaker A:In fact, there was a time where we actually carried Canadian programming on the local cable system.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But point fact about money, Canada was so futuristic, Even in the 90s, they had money with holograms on it to prevent things from being counterfeited.
Speaker A:So if you look at the checkout when Susie and Conrad are going to pay for this 20 brush, you can tell that they actually are paying in Canadian money.
Speaker A:Because unlike American money, which is just green and.
Speaker A:And tan, Canadian money is blue and tan and green and tan and red and Dan.
Speaker A:So it used to be when I was a kid, people would joke about Canadian money as monopoly money because it didn't look real compared to American because, you know, they used color and techniques to keep it from being counterfeited.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Huh.
Speaker A:So Matt, the best friend who was the quick wit and this, the guy who saved the day, basically was played by a young actor who accomplished something himself, who played Conrad or Connie.
Speaker B:Well, that would be Sileki.
Speaker B:Yes, that is what we will call him.
Speaker B: ,: Speaker B:Which makes him Aquarius.
Speaker B:Anyway, but he's a Canadian.
Speaker B:He was a Canadian actor and filmmaker of Loetian heritage.
Speaker A:So he's from Laos.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:It's next to Cambodia.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Which is next to.
Speaker B:Come on Animaniacs, kick it in.
Speaker B:No, nothing.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:I was gonna say Vietnam.
Speaker B:Basically.
Speaker B:As a child actor, he gained attention playing Connie.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Michael's loyal best friend.
Speaker B:And he did a really good job.
Speaker B:I mean, he.
Speaker B:To me, he was the most believable character of.
Speaker B:Of all.
Speaker B:But so he was in this.
Speaker B:And then later he actually became known as a. Canadian television audiences as one of the original students on Degrassi Junior High.
Speaker B:And then later that became Degrassi High, and then he basically became.
Speaker B: s a big franchise in the late: Speaker A:It was kind of the Canadian Saved by the Bell.
Speaker A:A decade before we made Saved by the Bell, but it was less.
Speaker B:Forgive America for that.
Speaker A:But it was.
Speaker A:It was less sitcom, more After School Special, because you had kids with real life problems that make.
Speaker B:That makes more sense.
Speaker B:So as an adult, he actually moved behind the camera, working in production and as assistant director.
Speaker B:While occasionally he did return to acting, including appearances connected with.
Speaker B:With the.
Speaker B:The Degrassi franchise.
Speaker B:So maybe he grew up and became parent Degrassi or, you know.
Speaker A:Right, he was the, you know, the soccer parent.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:But the projects.
Speaker B:I said, what Are his top projects.
Speaker B:And was basically told they're listed, they're classified.
Speaker A:He works for the government.
Speaker B:They're basically.
Speaker B:Okay, well, we just told you he was.
Speaker B:He played Yikyu and he was in Peanut Butter Club.
Speaker B:That's basically what he's known for.
Speaker B:So we went with that.
Speaker A:Well, speaking of peanut butter, because the plot thickens.
Speaker B:Does it have peanuts in it too?
Speaker B:Is it chunky?
Speaker A:I mean, aren't we all.
Speaker A:Look, girl, we aren't gonna try to compete on that one here.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:So we have reached to the point where we've gotten to the most complicated part.
Speaker A:But now we're figuring out what's on the horizon, who's gonna save the day and how are we gonna get there.
Speaker A:It's the climax and the resolution.
Speaker A:So Michael, the.
Speaker A:The boy with the magical hair there, he's been kidnapped.
Speaker A:And the children finally in the factory that's making these.
Speaker A:These paintbrushes, they finally rebel against the signor who's been holding them captive and using their magically growing hair to manufacture enchanted paintbrushes.
Speaker A:So, spoiler.
Speaker A:Because now we're, you know, in the second half of the story and this is a film that's more than 30 years old.
Speaker A:The senor has been let go from his job at the school.
Speaker A:He's been given the sack, as they say.
Speaker A:And that was his next idea to, you know, make it get rich quick was to kidnap the kids and make paintbrushes.
Speaker A:So Michael discovers that the senora's own magical paintbrushes can be turned against him.
Speaker A:Michael was shown these fantastic paintings that the senor has made.
Speaker A:But they had one thing in common.
Speaker A:They were all make believe places because he wasn't gonna help the kids escape his factory.
Speaker A:And during Michael creates an image that causes the senior to overwhelmed and defeated, allowing the children to escape.
Speaker A:Well, that's partly wrong, but in the sense that his best friend helped out with this because Seymour was impressionable.
Speaker A:He was.
Speaker A:He had.
Speaker A:He had a soft place in his heart for this little boy who told him that his dad had died and he wants him to be his substitute dad.
Speaker A:And of course the senor was touched by the story because all he has in his life is his dog.
Speaker A:And of course he'll be his father.
Speaker A:So Connie got the senior to draw the place that Michael lost his hair.
Speaker A:They call it the fright because in various versions of the story before this was turned in movie, it was called the fright or Michael's fright because it was a specific event that caused him to get scared and lose his hair.
Speaker A:So anyways, they got the senor to draw some something to paint something that allowed them to escape.
Speaker A:And the captives are reunited with their families bringing the senor's bizarre operation to an end.
Speaker A:It's so bizarre he's got Michael laying in basically like a cat with his tear flowing out the back and he's feeding him a special diet news or spoiler.
Speaker A:It's just yoplait.
Speaker A:It's yogurt but Frenchie so it's yo.
Speaker A:So Michael's uncontrollable hair growth is finally stopped because they pass the scare or the on to someone else.
Speaker A:The senior was challenged to go inside scary house that he had just painted.
Speaker A:At his new son's request, Connie asked for him to the fight and of course when he went in he experienced the same thing and well now the has been lifted.
Speaker A:Michael has been released of his prison and it restores normal appearance in life.
Speaker A:The strange adventures that began with Michael's supernatural fright concludes with him safely home again.
Speaker A:Cuz you know we have to see the mom.
Speaker A:Cuz we're used to having a know an old fashioned family with mom and dad and the kids.
Speaker A:So she's got to show up at some point.
Speaker B:Yeah she's got to come back so they can be normal again.
Speaker B:But yeah the I, I was thinking the whole time okay, you've got all this hair at your disposal.
Speaker B:You could weave some of it into a rope and then you could have 20 kids attack all this one man with no weapons and just tie them up and, and get your friend I'm goodness these are some dumb kids.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And the whole town's all well, 20 kids have disappeared and one that has magical hair.
Speaker B:But oh well.
Speaker B:So yeah, nobody wants it anyway.
Speaker A:I mean for what it's worth it is a children's story.
Speaker A:So the kids movie is going to have a shorter run time than something directed by Kevin Costner obviously.
Speaker B:Well let's hope so.
Speaker A:But the scene they managed to put in as a transition to help you understand that this terrible thing has happened that the kids have been kidnapped is explored vis a vis Michael's father having a fit in his studio at home there he's throwing his paintbrushes, he's destroying things.
Speaker A:And as a kid, if you're watching this as a kid or your child or your loved one who's a young person is watching this for the first time they're not going to understand why that adult's happy have fit because they didn't know that it's because those kids were kidnapped.
Speaker B:So Right.
Speaker A:But, yeah, Mike's dad had a fit because his boy is missing.
Speaker A:And now, you know, all these kids from school and there's got to be a cause to it.
Speaker A:So he was happy in the end.
Speaker B:Got to see mom very happy in the end.
Speaker B:It was, it was a very lovely ending because it ended.
Speaker B:But yeah, it, it, it rested on the kids to, to make.
Speaker B:They did.
Speaker B:So I just hope that the dog got, you know, a good, good home.
Speaker B:But, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, and then, like, the, the senor, he had these brothers.
Speaker B:I was, okay, which one's?
Speaker B:And I thought it was funny when they're like, really?
Speaker B:That's his twin.
Speaker B:It doesn't look like him.
Speaker B:Well, that's because we don't want to have him play two parts.
Speaker B:So we're just going to bring someone in and say, well, they're not identical twins.
Speaker B:Right, right.
Speaker A:And I mean, it's sort of a spoiler that it ties in with the beginning, and it might take you watching it a couple of times before you pick up on it.
Speaker A:The beginning of the film, Michael is challenged to go visit that tire.
Speaker A:And he's a little freaked out because one of the homeless people that have been spotted through town, they, of course, in those days called them wino, but he recognized this homeless guy because he had actually given him money.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Which showed that Michael is a nice.
Speaker A:Kid, but it also provided a connection.
Speaker A:It was sort of a reality check because from perspective, he's supposed to understand that things don't go right in life.
Speaker A:He's got this person, so he's helped this homeless person, and then now he's got a connection because.
Speaker A:Oh, no, he might have been in that.
Speaker A:That just down.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, and don't forget that the, the whole.
Speaker B:The speaking of the dad having a meltdown.
Speaker B:He's having a meltdown because he's in his bald phase, inspired by his son.
Speaker B:So he's making paintings of bald characters and stuff.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:And he's like, oh, my son has hair now.
Speaker B:I can't.
Speaker B:I. Oh, where's Sinead's picture?
Speaker B:So, yeah, but it, it's one of.
Speaker A:Those stories that, if you think about it, it had to have been written years before, because by the time the peanut butter solution had come out, Danny Thomas had already been on TV with St. Jude's Forever.
Speaker A:So I don't think that when I was in school, there would have been children teasing the bald kid because we knew what cancer was.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:That's another thing.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:What are they doing that for?
Speaker B:Wouldn't they be, oh, My God, he's sick.
Speaker B:You know, he's probably going, but.
Speaker B:But no, they decide to have 20 kids chase him home, being home, chanting some weird thing that.
Speaker B:How'd they come up with it all in unison?
Speaker B:I don't get it.
Speaker A:So I think if they were to have made this today without changing anything, there would have been a disclaimer at the beginning of the story.
Speaker A:Story saying that this story was written in different times.
Speaker A:So you know, the things that you see happening aren't present day.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Kind of an alienation when they use words that I'm.
Speaker B:Oh my goodness, you don't say that on television now.
Speaker B:What's the matter with you people?
Speaker B: heard that you know, back in: Speaker A:Uh huh.
Speaker A:Including what I mentioned earlier.
Speaker B:Earlier, Yeah, I was thinking about that.
Speaker B:And you know Rock Hudson who did passive AIDS related, you know, issues.
Speaker B:He was only 59 years old.
Speaker A:If I blink, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker B:I know it's a baby, but also.
Speaker B:So coach on Cheers.
Speaker B:He died.
Speaker B:He was only 61 and you know, he looked much older at the time.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So we had your brand winner who was 65, Orson Welles who was 70, Cary Grant who is 82.
Speaker B:Cary Grant.
Speaker B:And then we had Diane Fosse who's only 53 and she studied, you know, apes and the gorillas.
Speaker A:And there's that terrific Sigourney Weaver movie that was based upon the life of Dian Fossey.
Speaker A:Also Gorillas in the Mist.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:I never understood missed, but I missed why it was there.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And then Ricky Nelson, who's only 45.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, he was, wasn't he one of the children of Ozzy and Harriet?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:So he, he passed and then he had two sons.
Speaker B:Well, he had a bunch of kids I think, but he had two twin sons who called themselves Nelson were in a group and I didn't one or both of them die too.
Speaker B:I don't, I don't know.
Speaker B:I may be way off people.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:So as we mentioned, this film had some sponsors, although not many.
Speaker B:It's not, you know, it had one release, one sponsor.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Well actually I think somebody suggested that there might have been another sponsor.
Speaker A:But I can't tell you what that product is because it's really prominent.
Speaker A:But they, they of course had Skip and there might have been something else.
Speaker A:I don't think it was toothpaste based ways.
Speaker A:So it was.
Speaker A:The marketing was for this movie and they.
Speaker A:Skippy, the peanut butter company provided a hundred thousand dollars in promotional support.
Speaker A:So, you know, they paid for craft services, basically, and they helped finance and advertisement material.
Speaker A:Because that jar of Skippy Peanut Butter was right there, the bathroom sink, as Michael was putting it on his head.
Speaker A:That was part of the.
Speaker A:The recipe.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker C:The lady.
Speaker A:The homeless lady, Mary, who.
Speaker A:Who I thought did a terrific job as that character.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker A:To Michael, the ingredients in this peanut butter solution.
Speaker A:And each.
Speaker A:Because she refused to hand it to him, she wasn't going to give it to him.
Speaker A:It's a secret.
Speaker A:It's been passed down.
Speaker A:And so she kept telling him, you got to memorize it.
Speaker A:And as he was being told it, he was told to say, put it on my head, so that he could remember all of those.
Speaker A:But it's hysterical because the ghost says to him, you know, five dead flies.
Speaker A:And at that point he says, put it on my head.
Speaker A:And she's.
Speaker A:What's wrong with you?
Speaker A:Don't they teach you no grammar in school?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Although, you know, they wanted to go for the gold.
Speaker A:They would have had that actress who played Ma in Throw Mama from the Train.
Speaker B:And Ramsay and Ramsey should have been.
Speaker A:And Mary in the Peanut Butter Solution, although she probably wouldn't have gotten a big enough paycheck.
Speaker B:Probably not.
Speaker B:But I loved her.
Speaker B:She was.
Speaker B:She was an amazing, amazing person.
Speaker B:So we did have some other cast members note.
Speaker B:Yeah, you want to take the first one.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So Christy and Susie was Michael's sister Darcy later appeared.
Speaker A:Oh, the actress who played her.
Speaker A:Her as Darcy.
Speaker A:She's also known as Allison Pod.
Speaker A:She played Michael's sister Susie.
Speaker A:And she also later appeared in film, including the Sum of All Fears, which for those of you who like action movies, was the Jack Ryan series of stories, including the Hunt for Red October.
Speaker A:Well, the Sum of All fears was the 90s.
Speaker A: Well, the early: Speaker A:So she played.
Speaker A:She got to play Harrison Ford's movie Dog.
Speaker B:Well, and then we had Michael Hogan, of course, who we talked about who played the father, and he was known as Colonel Sul Ty in Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:Wow, you never saw that coming, that character coming for him, did you?
Speaker B:That was kind of crazy.
Speaker B:And then.
Speaker B:And then we have what, Michael Melo.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:The senior, the sinister art teacher and the film's principal villain, Mei Low also appeared in Robert Altman's science fiction film, which I haven't seen, but I'm curious now from 79 called Quintet.
Speaker B:Yeah, I haven't seen that either.
Speaker B:And then we have Helen Hughes, who played Mary, the family's housekeeper, and really I don't remember a housekeeper.
Speaker B:Anyway, so did they cut her part?
Speaker A:Oh, maybe she wasn't a past life.
Speaker A:Hint, hint.
Speaker B:Apparently.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker B:Wait, the.
Speaker B:The housekeeper?
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:So anyway, but she enjoyed a long Canadian acting career and later played Miss.
Speaker B:Miss Calligan in Tommy Boy.
Speaker B: Oh,: Speaker A:Yeah, that was Chris Farley.
Speaker B:Oh, really?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker A:That's the movie that Dan Aykroyd was in because he was the competition and Chris Farley's character to help this small town come makes auto parts survive the competition.
Speaker A:That was Dan Aykroyd's character.
Speaker A:It's the movie where Chris Farley said, if I want, I go to butcher and buy a steak or I could put my head up the cow's ass and take a look for myself or something like that.
Speaker A:David Spade and Chris Farley was in Tommy Boy.
Speaker B:Yeah, I. I know that.
Speaker B:I've watched it a couple times because I thought that, you know, they were.
Speaker A:The only thing that I remember, mostly because of my.
Speaker A:I have nephews, was there was a scene where they.
Speaker A:They had a deer that they thought was dead that they had rescued on the side of the road and the deer woke up in the car.
Speaker A:So of course they're freaking out because it's like it's alive.
Speaker B:Yes, I remember that.
Speaker A:So that, you know, the tide was turning on animal cruelty.
Speaker A:We didn't kill the deer this time.
Speaker A:He came back to life, much like last season when we discussed Starman.
Speaker B:Anyways, so Griffin Brewer played Tom, one of the ghosts who helps Michael.
Speaker B: ed in the Sum of all fears in: Speaker B:Where did I hear that.
Speaker B:That before?
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:Right, okay, so.
Speaker A:And this is not a coincidence here, although in recent years, this name is brought up a lot of.
Speaker A:In history.
Speaker A:The character was Dr. Epstein.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The family doctor in the Peanut Butter Solution was played by actor Harry Hill.
Speaker A:The doctor consulted Michael's mysterious hair loss and, you know, very humorlessly referred to it as Haram Scarlet.
Speaker B:Yeah, that was like, really?
Speaker B:I actually had to run him back and be.
Speaker B:What did he say?
Speaker A:He also appeared in Canadian film and television productions, of course, because, you know, that's.
Speaker A:That's his backyard.
Speaker B:And then so there was this character called the Rabbit, played by Edgar Fruitier.
Speaker B:And he.
Speaker B:Frutier was a prominent Quebec actor, radio personality and classical.
Speaker B:Classical music broadcaster with, well, a career spanning several decades.
Speaker B:The Rabbit.
Speaker A:Oh, and then there was the lady who played the school principal, Ms. Prune.
Speaker A:Now, I'm sorry, she reminds me, and you're gonna have to fill in the blank for me of the actress who was in Harry Potter, who is a very famous British lesbian and she.
Speaker B:A famous British lesbian?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The famous British lesbian who played one of the professors in the Harry Potter series.
Speaker A:Who.
Speaker B:The evil one, the.
Speaker A:That grew plants.
Speaker B:Oh, that group.
Speaker B:Oh, oh, okay.
Speaker B:Yes, it.
Speaker B:It's on the tip of my tongue, girl.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And she's.
Speaker A:She's well known for being foul when she does interviews because she's old and she doesn't care.
Speaker B:Yes, Miriam.
Speaker A:Oh, Miriam.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:So the character that is the high school girl, not the high school, but the school principal, Ms. Prune, she reminds me a bit of Miriam Margulies.
Speaker A:Now the actual actress who played her, Pat Thompson.
Speaker A:She plays one of the adults in Michael's world and was a veteran Canadian actor with extensive stage, film and television work.
Speaker A:So if you grew up there in the, you know, in the.
Speaker A:The landmine.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:You might actually recognize her from other things.
Speaker A:I wonder if she had any guest appearances on Degrassi.
Speaker B:Oh, I imagine they all did.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And then of course, who played Little William?
Speaker B:Yes, that would be Patrick St. Pierre.
Speaker B:The young actor had previously appeared in another tales for all production call called the Dog who Stopped the War.
Speaker B: And that was from: Speaker A:By virtue of the fact that that's 84, I'm guessing that that was tale one versus solution being tail two.
Speaker A:So as we are often one to do, we like to draw a connection, a parallel, if you will, between the topic we're discussing and some of our favorite other entertainment, of course, that being Sci Fi and Star Trek.
Speaker C:Trek.
Speaker A:So as we mentioned, Michael Hogan, who played the dad, Billy Baskin, well, he was not only in Battlestar Galactica, which not.
Speaker A:We're not saying that that's adjacent to Star Trek because he actually was in some Star Trek.
Speaker A:He was in two different series.
Speaker A:In Voyager, he played the character of Ambassador Loban.
Speaker A:So, you know, maybe he was like the intergalactic door to door salesman.
Speaker A: And then that was in: Speaker A:And then he was in an episode of Enterprise.
Speaker A: at was Scott Bakula's show in: Speaker A:He was captain Armando.
Speaker A:So, you know, maybe he was a little heartthrob character there.
Speaker A:And the episode was the Einar, which is actually pretty important because it tells us that there is a.
Speaker A:Another race within the Andorian people where they actually are.
Speaker A:Are basically blind, but they have heightened sensibilities because of their antennae.
Speaker A:And a character in the first season of Star Strange New Worlds was actually a member of that race, the Einar.
Speaker A:So of course sci fi fans recognize Michael Hogan as Colonel Saw Ty in Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker A:But who else had been in our favorite franchise that was in this movie?
Speaker B:Well, that would be this person here.
Speaker B:So that would be Griffith Brewer who played Tom and he was also appeared in Star Trek the Next Generation as the elderly Kieran Briannan.
Speaker B:Brian.
Speaker B: , but he was basically in the: Speaker A:Oh yes.
Speaker A:And actually if I remember right, that was an episode where there was a child that died on the ship and, and it was a story that explored Worf's son who was friends with him.
Speaker A:And anyways, that was that episode there.
Speaker A:So here we are, we have gotten through the whole discussion of the film and we're gonna tell you some of the little miscellaneous things that are kind of interesting.
Speaker A:You know, maybe tickle your funny bone about the Peanut Butter Solution.
Speaker A:So the original title of this was Michael's Fright, which sounds like a horrible horror movie if you ask me.
Speaker A:Contemporary Canadian production reporting shows the movie was still being listed under that title while it was in production.
Speaker A:Of course, studios love to have fake names for things when they're celebrities at least because you know, people aren't going to be digging through the trash to find the script.
Speaker A:Yeah, and what about the director there, Matt?
Speaker B:Well, let me tell you, that would be Mr. Rubio and he actually was new to the dramatic practices and this was his first narrative film, feature film, after working, like I said before, primarily just in documentaries.
Speaker B:But now here comes a really interesting thing.
Speaker A:Oh yes, yeah.
Speaker A:So it's more than halfway through the film that we actually get to hear the sort of ballad, the theme song of the movie.
Speaker A:And if you listen carefully, you'll recognize the voice behind that ballad there.
Speaker A:In fact, when this film was being made, this was an up and coming star.
Speaker A:She was only 17 years old.
Speaker A:And because the Peanut Butter Solution was filmed in Quebec, it was amongst in French speaking culture there.
Speaker A:Well, you might be surprised to know that 17 year old, she couldn't even drink or gamble in Canada because that's 19.
Speaker A:17 Year old Celine Dion was part of the movie and she sang Listen to the Magic man and another song called Michael's Song.
Speaker A:And actually by virtue of the fact that she was only 17, this actually became her first English language recordings because as you may not know if you're a fan of Celine Dion, her family was musically talented and she had a classical Training in opera and theater.
Speaker A:So she spoke French because she was from Quebec.
Speaker A:So this was her first time that she recorded something in English.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it was very memorable, too.
Speaker B:Too, right.
Speaker A:Possibly the most memorable part of the movie.
Speaker B:Well, they're very beautifully done.
Speaker B:Well, one of the things I. I found that I wanted to throw in there was when we were talking about the cast, I was very disappointed that the.
Speaker B:That Mike the dog or Michael the dog or whatever it was, who's a big part of it, was not listed in the cast.
Speaker B:And that was actually paid, played by a very wonderful trained animal called Pat Patches.
Speaker B:And Patches sat and he walked and he barked and he did things.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:And part of the character that took place during this movie that was so charming and I'm sure a testimony to the spirit of that animal, that dog, was that while the teacher, the senior, his master, if you will, his owner.
Speaker A:I. I still don't like those terms because.
Speaker A:Yeah, as an animal lover, I consider myself a pet parent, but caretaker.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:So anyways, the dog is the model for the class.
Speaker A:He's up there on the pedestal or what have you, the stage while the kids are supposed to be sketching him.
Speaker A:And when the teacher's back is turned, one of the students is coaxing the dog to lay down because the teacher wants him to be sitting up.
Speaker A:So that's, that's one of the little character moments is that he keeps, you know, convincing the dog to lay down when the teacher's back is turned.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Well, and the, The.
Speaker B:The dog was very patient because even when they're driving crazy in the van and all this other stuff, the dog's just laying there.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:I get paid whether I'm awake or not.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Well, there's also the possibility that since it's a Canadian production, they had different standards.
Speaker A:Standards than, you know, us terrible Americans.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:As soon as they yelled cut, the dog had a little cigarette and was laid back.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Because it was a French dog,.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:Where's my wine?
Speaker A:I actually, I want to say that that dog might have been the same breed as Spuds mackenzie.
Speaker B:I don't know, but I want.
Speaker B:Wouldn't.
Speaker B:I wouldn't be surprised if that was a mix in there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Something she didn't have that, you know, broken nose look.
Speaker B:So true.
Speaker A:So if we haven't lost you, we're now going to move on to a short little segment that we call our Snack tray, because this is what you have left over.
Speaker A:And we're going to tell you about some things that you might.
Speaker A:If you enjoy things like the Peanut Butter Solution, maybe you like crazy after school specials or just kids shows because you know, adulting is hard and sometimes it's easier just to put on a cartoon or a kid show because it doesn't require that much concentration.
Speaker A:So I'm going to recommend a film from a few years after the Peanut Butter Solution.
Speaker A:Now this is actually a film that stars an up and coming young actor who is actually a star in a, a sitcom that came out in the early 90s, the wonder years.
Speaker A: much, but this is a film from: Speaker A:It's about an 11 year old named Brian who's drawn into a world of magic, mischief and wonder after moving to a new town.
Speaker A:And of course as a new kid in town, he uses his imagination to make life more interesting.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker A:He falls asleep in his six year old brother's bedroom and soon discovers, just like his brother was afraid, that there was a monster under the bed.
Speaker A: recommend that you check out: Speaker A:A very unrecognizable role except for the personality because he was in makeup and costume.
Speaker A:He played one of the monsters under the bat.
Speaker B:He was so fun back then.
Speaker B:Yeah, well I think that's a good one.
Speaker B:And actually as we're moving into the Halloween season, it's a good little one too, but I got one that Yankee coming.
Speaker B: It's called the Witches from: Speaker B:So a year after after Little Monsters.
Speaker B:So basically young Luke discovers a secret concoction.
Speaker B:Oh, I'm sorry, convention.
Speaker B:Not peanut butter concoction, but you know, a secret convention of witches plotting to transform every child in England into mice.
Speaker B:What a lovely story.
Speaker B:After becoming one of their victims, Luke and his grandmother must stop the terrifying Grand High witch and her followers before their sinister plan can spread throughout the country.
Speaker B:Now for those of you who have not seen this before, this is the wonderful one with Angelica Houston.
Speaker B:And it is scary and it is.
Speaker B:Yeah, especially if you're a kid.
Speaker B:This is, this is more of a scare and.
Speaker B:But it's fun and it's good and it has a happy ending.
Speaker B:But if you watch the remake of it girl, it just.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker A:The remake stars an hathway.
Speaker B:Well, the remake stars the.
Speaker A:Actually there's been a couple of remakes I think.
Speaker B:Well, okay, I'll give you that.
Speaker B:I, because I, I'm not totally sure, but the witches remake While you're.
Speaker A:While you're looking.
Speaker A:While you're looking that up.
Speaker A:I was going to Angelica Houston, as you were saying in the Witches.
Speaker A: ch the witches, which is from: Speaker B:Yes, so, but so not only does it start the remake star Anne Hathaway, but it also stars Octavia Spencer, who's one of my favorite favorites.
Speaker B:But let me tell you this one.
Speaker B:Donate and happy.
Speaker B:Okay, this is the one.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:What the hell did I just watch?
Speaker B:Okay, that.
Speaker B:That's the one.
Speaker B:The only thing that's good about that film is Octavia Spencer.
Speaker B:The rest of it is.
Speaker B:Oh, heck no.
Speaker B: So watch the original: Speaker A:And that was the Witches.
Speaker A:Alrighty, so we're gonna go ahead and break that fourth wall here.
Speaker B:Here.
Speaker A:Oh, I wonder what we're going to be watching next.
Speaker C: In the haunting from: Speaker C:Among them is emotionally fragile Eleanor, who becomes increasingly convinced the mansion is communicating directly with her.
Speaker C:As terrifying events escalate, Elanor's fascination with Hill House becomes dangerously concerned.
Speaker C:Assuming.
Speaker A:Oh, well, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm guessing that since we're going into the Halloween season, that we might be experiencing something spooky the next time that we get together here.
Speaker B:Although Halloween.
Speaker B:This is Halloween.
Speaker A:Little is spookier than knowing that boss is coming and our lunch break is over.
Speaker A:So I guess we had better get on going here.
Speaker A:And I'm gonna work on this post production because I moved files from last season that I still need to.
Speaker B:Oh, okie dokie.
Speaker A:But I still have them.
Speaker A:I just have to transfer them from a folder.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Well, everybody enjoy the fall or autumn as we say, because you know, in the northeast here, this is where we get a little taste of the Tuscany with all the beautiful colors that are coming out.
Speaker B:Although.
Speaker A:As I said, although.
Speaker A:Although, if you're someone like me, who's only recently decided discovered the enjoyment of being outdoors.
Speaker A:Yes, I know I'm weird right now.
Speaker A:It's just a countdown to when my bike goes to live in the garage for the cold months.
Speaker B:Well, and don't forget to come on down and you take care of the.
Speaker B:The matinee minutia discount here at.
Speaker B:At the.
Speaker B:The Patty's.
Speaker A:Patty's Video Palace.
Speaker B:Yes, yes.
Speaker B:And it.
Speaker B:No and no.
Speaker B:Coupons for the back.
Speaker B:If you go in the back, full.
Speaker A:Price and you know, don't tell, don't complain.
Speaker A:If you watch the adult version of the peanut butter solution.
Speaker A:I asked Lula May to take that off the shelf and she says it's one of her favorites.
Speaker B:Although I hear if you do watch it, you can still join the FBI.
Speaker B:Moving on.
Speaker A:Alrighty folks, thank you for joining us and we will have more enjoyment and entertainment in your ears for season nine to come by.
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