Muppets Dracula

0:00LeeBrave.

0:22LeeGood evening and welcome to horror. I'm Lee.

0:25ChrisI'm Chris.

0:26AdamI'm Adam.

0:27JenniferI'm Jennifer!

0:28UnknownYay!

0:31ChrisWhy is Adam on the side? Is that just me?

0:34LeeYeah, no, Adam's playing up and he's going. I'll be honest, you're all on the side at the moment.

0:40ChrisYou're on the side.

0:45LeeSo, we are here for our Christmas staff party episode as always that we do every year, but this year we're doing something very new.

0:54Leea fantastic suggestion from Claire, so just to remind everyone in case you didn't hear the end of the last episode. This evening, in the style of Muppet's Christmas Carol, we are going to be recasting Dracula with Muppets.

1:51LeeSo, like Muppet's Christmas Carol, our main character will still be Gary Oldman, but we will be doing Bram Stoker's Dracula and we're each have come up with a list of which characters we would replace with which Muppet.

2:06ChrisNow, is Claire trolling me because she knows I've never seen Bram Stoker's Dracula and I basically only know who Kermit and Miss Piggy is.

2:14LeeDid we not cover this as an episode? I thought we did Bram Stoker's Dracula.

2:17AdamWe've never done Bram Stoker's Dracula.

2:19ChrisWe've never done it. We've done lots of Draculas but never the old Bram Stoker.

2:23JenniferI think Lee refuses to watch it.

2:25ChrisYes, it's not his favorite. However, it turns out it's one of my favorites having now watched it.

2:31LeeOh, have you watched it?

2:32JenniferOh, he went to me.

2:32ChrisOh, I thought I got at least watch this and try and watch some Muppets as well, you know.

2:37ChrisWell, I should know Muppets, but there you go.

2:40AdamWell, this was a similar thing because Claire had suggested the Muppets thing and I was kind of like, well, we need to find a film that's got a big enough cast and you know, is reasonably well.

2:50ChrisAn interesting enough cast to be able to place each of the characters.

2:55ChrisAs I was going through it, I was like, this is actually a seriously great idea and I was loving it.

3:01ChrisBut I also feel like I need about a year of studying both to fully appreciate it, but we'll see.

3:07AdamWell,

3:08ChrisI've actually come up with two versions as well.

3:10LeeOh, you went around?

3:11ChrisI'm not messing around here. I've I've put some effort in.

3:13LeeYou have.

3:13Chriswell, yeah, yeah. But you can see which one you like the most.

3:16JenniferThe one, the X-rated version.

3:19ChrisWell, where I've called it the hyper-modern comedic version.

3:24ChrisVersus the serious Muppet version.

3:28LeeSee now you say Chris that you've put some serious effort in.

3:30LeeI would like to point out for the listeners because it might there might be a giggle or two.

3:35Leeevery time I give my recommendation, I'm going to share my screen and share an image because I spent somewhere in the region of three hours today on AI getting it to recreate each of the characters as a Muppet.

3:46LeeAnd have even, I'll say I'll say that for later. I'll say, but yes, but I've done that and I will share them with Adam.

3:51LeeSo, and I'll put them on our socials.

3:56AdamOh, good.

3:57ChrisNo one can argue your your diligence.

3:58AdamFor a good cause.

4:00ChrisBut which AI have you incorporated?

4:02LeeOh, so I used two different ones.

4:03LeeThe first one I used brought back pretty much like a very similar image for both.

4:09Leebut some of them were brilliant. So I kept some of them, then I went and used a different AI.

4:15Leewhere you can add photos as well. So I would add a character, a photo of the character, a photo of the Muppet and then say, I want this Muppet as this character.

4:20LeeAnd it did it.

4:21LeeI laughed my absolute cock off for about an hour and a half today.

4:27LeeI was in absolute bits just sitting in the house on my own.

4:30LeeLaughing at these images.

4:33ChrisSo Lee has actually put some serious effort into this one.

4:36ChrisNo one can take that away from him except possibly Jennifer sitting to his left or right.

4:41JenniferNo, no, I put minimal effort into this, but it sounded so much fun. I was like, I need to come out of retirement to get involved.

4:50JenniferBut no, no, I am.

4:51AdamIt's like, it's Godfather III, we've pulled her right back in.

4:54JenniferYeah, that's it.

4:56LeeI mean, just to discuss why we haven't covered it.

4:58LeeI think my issue with it is.

5:00JenniferYou refused.

5:01LeeI didn't refuse. I definitely wouldn't have refused.

5:03JenniferYou definitely voted it before.

5:05LeeI think you might have come up with some and I went with one of your other options.

5:08LeeThe reason is, I I think it's an awful film because it it it's just the casting.

5:13LeeBut it's it's an amazing cast. Everybody in it is brilliant as an actor.

5:19LeeThey are all.

5:22ChrisWell, well, surely, surely you cannot apply that to Mr. Reeves.

5:26ChrisWho I love he's amazing, he's definitely not a good actor.

5:32AdamIt's

5:33AdamYeah, but he is a good person.

5:35ChrisHe's about as good as me as an actor.

5:36AdamQuite frankly, having seen the number of really good actors who have been outed in various ways of, you know,

5:44Adamhorrible people and horrible events and so on and so forth, I'm going to give Keanu a break on this one.

5:51AdamIt's like, actually you're a decent human being and that seems to be a thing in Hollywood than a good actor.

5:58ChrisHe gets a bit better throughout because he's in it a lot less.

6:03LeeI think he's one of those, he's like.

6:06LeeIf you cast him in the right film, look at like John Wick and stuff, he is incredible.

6:12JenniferThe same film four times, yeah, yeah.

6:15LeeYeah, all right, yeah, he is.

6:17ChrisI mean, I actually like, I think he's great in the Matrix as well.

6:20LeeHe works.

6:21JenniferYeah, as a robot.

6:22AdamYeah.

6:23AdamMy

6:24AdamMy favorite thing here that actually, you know, just on the Bram Stoker's Dracula thing is watching it because similar sort of thing, Claire had never seen Bram Stoker's Dracula, she's a Muppets fan and obviously she suggested it and I'd sort of like thought, well, Dracula will be the one because there's enough characters to go around.

6:41AdamIf you did like the Shining, well that's only three Muppets and one of them's got to be a real actor, you know, so.

6:47ChrisA lot of them play the blood, but yeah.

6:51AdamYes, exactly.

6:54AdamBut so, you know, it seemed like it had a big enough cast and everything else like that.

6:59AdamSo we watched it with a view to Claire had never seen it and also, you know, you can just go through and start casting as you go, something.

7:08Adambut the one thing I'd forgotten about with Bram Stoker's Dracula is the fact that Jonathan Harker as played by Keanu Reeves has to age prematurely.

7:28AdamAnd it's like, Keanu Reeves hasn't aged in the last fucking 30 years.

7:35AdamAnd strangely enough, when he was a young whippersnapper, putting talcum powder on his luscious hair does not in any way shape or form age him.

7:42AdamHe just looks like he's had an accident at the a club, you know.

7:51LeeIt's such a bad movie.

7:53LeeAnd it's funny because previous guest on the show Chris Jones whenever we have this discussion, always argues it and he's like, no, no, it's supposed to be a comedy.

8:01LeeIt's supposed to and I was like, no, it isn't.

8:03LeeIt's just awful.

8:05AdamI I think actually the worst and the worst thing is, is it is very much.

8:10AdamYear zero for modern sexy Dracula.

8:14AdamAnd that pains me to have.

8:16AdamThe one horror film that's got, well, the one horror film I can think of that's got Gary Oldman in it isn't actually all that cop.

8:27AdamAnd it's Dracula, you know, it's.

8:29LeeI know.

8:30LeeHow do you get it wrong?

8:32AdamActually, I'll tell you what.

8:33ChrisBut is it, wait, but is it that sexy?

8:35AdamIt's just.

8:36AdamWell, they decided to give it a.

8:39ChrisI mean, obviously start.

8:41ChrisA few, a few moments, really.

8:42LeeYeah.

8:43ChrisBut on the whole, it's not what I would think of as that sexy.

8:46ChrisI mean, basically look, Keanu Reeves gets pleasured, that's most of his scenes, it seems, he's getting pleasured, right?

8:51ChrisSo sure, that side of it.

8:52ChrisBut the rest of it is not that.

8:54AdamI I love the fact that the Victoriana has has is seeped into you, Chris.

8:58AdamThat it's like, this man was pleasured.

9:02AdamCouple of weeks back, it'd been like, Keanu's got gets noshed.

9:09AdamRight, so, so let's get stuck in.

9:11AdamSo for anybody who missed what we were doing this week and would like to go and do their own very quickly, pause this, go and write some down and come back.

9:19AdamAdam, would you like to list the characters that we will be recasting with Muppets, please?

9:25AdamSo, obviously, as we said, so this is the Muppets Bram Stoker's Dracula.

9:31Adamwhich is actually technically the Muppets Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.

9:36Adamthere's a lot of a lot of apostrophes in there.

9:41Adambut basically Dracula will be played by Sir Gary Oldman.

9:46AdamHe's not been knighted, but he is in my head.

9:48LeeYeah, and mine.

9:50AdamI'll call him sir because he has earned the title.

9:52AdamAnd yeah, so Gary Oldman will still be playing Dracula.

9:55Adamand then we're recasting the essential characters.

10:02AdamSo we have Jonathan Harker, who is the state agent who visits Dracula at his castle.

10:09AdamMina Murray, his fiance.

10:12AdamLucy Westenra, her dirty mate.

10:16Adamand then her three suitors.

10:21AdamLord Arthur Holmwood, Dr. Jack Seward, and Quincy P. Morris.

10:26Adamthere is also Renfield, who used to work at Jonathan's company but has gone Doolali and is enthralled to Dracula.

10:33AdamProfessor Abraham Van Helsing, who is brought in to deal with the terrible curse of the of the vampire, and then there's also Dracula's Brides and the crew of the Demeter.

10:43AdamSo, you know, there but they're they're sort of that that's more just a sort of a generic thing.

10:50AdamSo essentially, yes, so it's Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Lucy, Arthur Holmwood, Dr. Seward, Quincy Morris, Renfield, Van Helsing.

10:58AdamAre the characters that we are recasting.

11:01AdamAnd obviously there's plenty of moments where rats walk across the go across the cellar.

11:06AdamSo there'll be plenty of bits for the rats to appear in Muppets Treasure Island to do their thing.

11:13LeeYes.

11:16LeeNice.

11:17ChrisAnd is Anthony Hopkins?

11:19ChrisI did not know that.

11:21AdamYes.

11:22JenniferSir, Anthony Hopkins.

11:24ChrisNot not necessarily.

11:26ChrisWell, yeah, yeah.

11:27ChrisI don't know I'd give him a sir from this film.

11:30JenniferHe's good.

11:31LeeHe's not.

11:31ChrisHe's good.

11:32LeeYou really want a sir from this film.

11:33AdamI I he is he's phoning it in.

11:36LeeYeah.

11:37AdamHe really is.

11:38AdamBecause I was watching it, I was going, I can already think of three other people who play this better.

11:43ChrisNo.

11:44AdamBecause they've given Van Helsing a bit more of his sort of you know, eccentric humor that is in the book.

11:51Adambut Hopkins is playing it like a bleeding wet fish in this.

11:55ChrisStop flopping around.

11:57AdamYeah.

12:00AdamI also, because I get that and weirdly enough, this is be the last thing about Bram Stoker's Dracula, but I get the idea that obviously so Mina is the reincarnation of Elizabeth that who is Dracula's bride who dies.

12:08ChrisI did like that backstory. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

12:11AdamBut why the fuck is the priest also played by Anthony Hopkins?

12:19AdamThat adds fuck all.

12:22AdamAnd just seems a bit shit.

12:25LeeThis whole film is just a series of mistakes.

12:29JenniferIt saved them on an extra actor.

12:31AdamThat's true.

12:32ChrisI thought why is it it feels a bit like it's just seen stitched together with seen rather than a total sort of following thread, but anyway. I I still loved it.

12:42AdamI mean the book is what's the term for it? epistolary as in it's made up of letters and documents and everything else like that.

12:52ChrisYeah, well, okay.

12:53AdamSo I I suppose that could kind of come out of it.

12:56Chrisdecided to go with that. Yeah.

12:58AdamYeah.

13:00LeeRight, Adam, if you would like to lead us in.

13:01LeeAnd then call each of us out for our our choices.

13:06AdamOkay, so.

13:08AdamWe have we have Jonathan Harker.

13:14AdamSo personally, I went with.

13:17AdamIt seemed obvious that that would be Kermit to me.

13:21AdamBut so Chris, what what what say you, sir?

13:26ChrisI also thought that was an obvious Kermit.

13:29ChrisEarnest, observant, a little naive.

13:33ChrisHis decency makes Oldman's Dracula feel even more predatory.

13:36ChrisHe asked the right questions too late every time.

13:40AdamOh.

13:40AdamNice.

13:41AdamMr. Lee and and are you and Lady Jennifer doing separate?

13:45LeeOh, we've done separate.

13:48ChrisOh, separate.

13:49AdamIn which case, sorry, I should have gone ladies first.

13:51AdamLady Jennifer.

13:52JenniferThank you.

13:52Jenniferwell, so my initial thought was obviously Kermit because that would work.

13:56JenniferI was like, sorry, Keanu is no Kermit.

14:00JenniferSo, I went Cookie Monster.

14:02JenniferHasn't got a clue what's going on, generally just interested in one thing, you know, thought that was more appropriate.

14:08ChrisWhat what did Adam say earlier?

14:11ChrisGetting noshed.

14:12JenniferYeah, exactly.

14:13LeeThat's it.

14:13JenniferIt's noshing the cookies, that's all that was going on there.

14:18JenniferSo, yes.

14:20AdamAnd and what say you, Mr. Lee?

14:22Leeso I have got this one, which I'm hopefully sharing with you now.

14:26LeeCan you see that?

14:27ChrisOh.

14:28LeeI have gone with Beaker.

14:30Leehe would give the same performance as Keanu Reeves, guys.

14:34ChrisThat is, that is.

14:36JenniferFormless, yeah.

14:39AdamOh, beautiful.

14:42LeeOh.

14:42LeeYeah.

14:44LeeIt's it just for some reason, as soon as you said it, I just immediately went well, it's Beaker, it can't be anyone.

14:50LeeBecause he's he would just be.

14:53Adamespecially especially as he's being pleasured by the brides, you know, that's that's quite something, isn't it?

14:58AdamYeah, if he was to be there.

15:00AdamCan I can I also just say that that that image has reminded me that I'm just going to say this this episode has to be dedicated to our fallen friend, Mr. Wesley Smith.

15:06AdamBecause quite frankly, he'd have been fucking in for this and also, he'd have done us a brilliant poster.

15:09ChrisAbsolutely.

15:10AdamSo.

15:11AdamAlso, as soon as he took his glasses off, bless him, that was his best impression of Beaker.

15:17Leeyeah, I would like to say, I'm not taking work away from anyone with this AI.

15:21LeeIf I hadn't been doing this, I wouldn't have paid somebody, I would have just sat on the sofa reading a book and drinking tea, so.

15:28ChrisThat is a good job though, that that is a Beaker Keanu Reeves.

15:33LeeYeah.

15:35LeeIt's.

15:35AdamBeaker Reeves.

15:37AdamImagine that was his nickname at school.

15:39ChrisWhat were you saying Lee? Sat on the sofa doing what?

15:43LeeI'd have been sat on the sofa drinking tea and reading a book. I wouldn't have been doing anything productive.

15:49LeeI certainly wouldn't have been paying someone to do this artwork, so.

15:52AdamWould you would you've been pleasuring?

15:55LeeI mean, at some point maybe, who knows, I mean, it's a Sunday.

15:58AdamDepends on how good the book is, I suppose.

16:00LeeOh.

16:01JenniferOh, or the anacne.

16:02LeeNo, it wouldn't be an acne, yeah.

16:04ChrisCan I follow up with my alternate?

16:06AdamOh, yes.

16:06LeeOh, yes.

16:07ChrisYou got.

16:08ChrisI got for Animal.

16:09ChrisSent as an assistant by mistake.

16:11ChrisCannot read.

16:12ChrisCannot write.

16:13ChrisCommunicates via screaming, drumming and intense eye contact.

16:16ChrisDracula generally unnerved, legal documents are eaten.

16:21JenniferGood ending.

16:22LeeNice.

16:23LeeI like that.

16:24AdamI I'd love to.

16:25AdamI I have to I have to say there's because I well, I'll we'll come to it.

16:30AdamI because I did I thought I think I know where where I had Animal and Beaker peg for this one.

16:36LeeOh, obvious.

16:37AdamThere we go, right, so.

16:39AdamSo that's Jonathan Harker.

16:42AdamSo next up is Mina Murray.

16:46AdamNow, continuing obviously where it was Kermit, I obviously went with Miss Piggy.

16:54Adambecause it just seemed like not only that, but also just.

16:59AdamI can't begin to say how much I suspect Gary Oldman would enjoy romancing Miss Piggy, much in the same way that do you know what I mean, all all the best guest guest stars on the Muppet show were always the ones who were flirting with Miss Piggy, not the ones who.

17:13AdamYou know.

17:15AdamAnd I just really feel that, you know, and and let's face it, it's there are there are.

17:22AdamThere are lady Muppets but truly there is only one ultimate lady Muppet.

17:26AdamAnd so you've got to give her the female lead of the film, I think so personally I went with Miss Piggy.

17:34AdamSo, Jennifer, what say you, sir?

17:38ChrisI'm starting to think this might get us on a list saying that Gary Oldman would enjoy flirting with Miss Piggy.

17:43ChrisBut I absolutely agree.

17:45ChrisThat is who I would choose for Mina.

17:50ChrisDevoted, intelligent, barely restrained fury.

17:53ChrisShe's not passive, she is love sharpened into a blade.

17:57AdamNice.

17:58LeeNice.

17:59JenniferYeah.

18:00JenniferNo, I again, first of all, put down Miss Piggy, but I was like, no.

18:04JenniferWe know a rider, sorry, a bit in zipped in this, a bit floaty around.

18:08JenniferSo I went with Camilla, who I didn't even know that was her name.

18:13AdamIs that the chicken?

18:14JenniferIt's the big eye one.

18:15JenniferI think, is it?

18:16JenniferOr was it a chicken?

18:17JenniferI can't remember now.

18:18JenniferIt's the only other woman I could find.

18:20AdamJanice?

18:20JenniferOn the Muppets.

18:22JenniferI don't know who Janice is.

18:22AdamNot Janice the bass player from the Electric Mayhem Band.

18:24JenniferNo, not her.

18:26JenniferNo, I wrote down Camilla.

18:27Adamokay.

18:28JenniferJust someone that was a bit bland.

18:30JenniferNo, you know what, that was fair.

18:32JenniferSorry, you know, you've done a lot of good things since.

18:36AdamDon't worry, I'm don't worry, I'm about.

18:37ChrisShe's she's the chicken apparently.

18:39AdamYeah, Camilla's Camilla's Gonzo's chicken bride, yeah.

18:43JenniferOh, a bit like.

18:45AdamI can sort of see that actually, yes.

18:49JenniferOkay.

18:50JenniferAnd then Lee?

18:52LeeOkay, so if Winona was upset with her, it's going to get worse.

18:56Lee

18:56ChrisWhat what's Lee got?

18:58LeeFor Mina Murray, I have gone with Fozzie Bear in drag.

19:03LeeIt's it's a large role.

19:05AdamI love the fact that's he was out of.

19:07LeeWhat's that?

19:09JenniferIt's a good hustle.

19:10LeeIt is.

19:12LeeI wanted someone with presence who was going to bring the character to life.

19:17LeeYeah, I'm doing a it does look a bit like I'm gesturing for boobs, but I yeah, I like.

19:22LeeSomeone who needs to be an important role in the film.

19:27LeeI mean, and and you can't not have Fozzie Bear as an important character in the film.

19:32LeeSo therefore I have gone with that.

19:36JenniferFair.

19:38ChrisHe brings some color to an otherwise very drab looking but impressive scene.

19:45AdamAgain, I I think that Gary Oldman would have plenty of fun romancing Fozzie Bear and Camilla the Chicken as well as as well as Miss Piggy, so.

19:54LeeOnce I'd seen the picture, in my mind, all I kept hearing was Fozzie Bear's voice going, but take me away from all this death.

20:00LeeAnd then I I kept why didn't you take me away from all this death?

20:04AdamBy the way, on the subject of the Muppets doing the Shining, obviously Fozzie would play Danny.

20:07AdamBecause he's got someone who lives in his finger in Muppets Treasure Island.

20:10AdamSo it would sort of follow on that just as a little offside there, I have to mention it, so yes.

20:18ChrisMy alternate here.

20:19AdamOh, yes.

20:20ChrisOh.

20:21ChrisI was going for Gonzo.

20:21ChrisGender curious.

20:23ChrisVictorian chaos poet.

20:24ChrisIn love with Jonathan in theory.

20:26ChrisDracula in practice and danger in general.

20:28ChrisTreats the entire situation as an immersive art project.

20:31AdamWell, funnily enough, this was something that Claire said, she she said she wished that we'd decided who was going to play.

20:35AdamWho was going to be played by a human, so that Gonzo could have been Dracula because it would have just been great when his shadow is walking around.

20:42LeeYeah, yeah, you could see the yeah.

20:44AdamSo clearly.

20:46ChrisDefinitely.

20:50AdamRight, so.

20:52AdamNext up and this this is an interesting one.

20:55AdamSo we've got Lucy West Endra.

20:57AdamObviously played by Sadie Frost in the film.

21:01AdamAnd and this is a because again, I was like.

21:04AdamOh, do we go with Janice from the Electric Mayhem Band because she was one of the only lady Muppets that I could think of.

21:12Adamand then Claire came up with Rizzo.

21:16AdamBecause she felt he was the only one who had the same matched the same energy that Sadie Frost brings to Lucy of like this sort of crazy scaty bastard.

21:24ChrisLucy is a bit scaty, I'll give her that.

21:26AdamYeah.

21:27AdamSo I thought again, we're we're talking so obviously it'd be Rizzo basically Rizzo in drag is his Lucy from on my version.

21:34AdamSo, Chris, who do you have?

21:38ChrisWell, I went.

21:38ChrisFor Janice, soft-voiced, drifting presents.

21:40ChrisA sweetness that curdles beautifully into tragedy, her slow fading feels dreamlike rather than comic.

21:44ChrisA fragile candle in the fog.

21:47LeeOh.

21:47LeeNice.

21:48AdamVery very beautimus.

21:50AdamLady Jennifer?

21:52Jenniferare we on to Lucy?

21:56LeeYes.

21:56AdamLucy, yeah.

21:57JenniferYeah, so, you know, yeah, so Miss Piggy, because again, I feel like this is where Miss Piggy should have been.

22:04JenniferBecause this this role is the whole.

22:06JenniferLike nymph fat kind of, isn't it?

22:08ChrisShe's got the energy.

22:10AdamShe have the energy and she she would also be happily battling off three hunters.

22:14JenniferThree.

22:15ChrisThree suitors.

22:16AdamYeah.

22:17JenniferWhich I think really.

22:18JenniferGrace Miss Piggy.

22:20LeeI went with exactly the same.

22:21JenniferYeah.

22:22LeeYeah.

22:23LeeMiss Piggy.

22:24ChrisOh, let's.

22:24ChrisLet's see your your piggy.

22:26Lee

22:28ChrisOh, yes.

22:29ChrisAmazing.

22:30LeeYeah.

22:31LeeExactly the same reasons.

22:32LeeReally, yeah.

22:33LeeI was like, Lucy is in the you know, is the sex crazed one with all the boyfriends and Miss Piggy is always the most sexually like, not sexualized.

22:41LeeBut yeah, she's the most sexually active of the Muppets, I would say.

22:45LeeSo yeah, it seemed only right to put her in that role.

22:48ChrisOn my first viewing, appreciating the scene where they start looking through the book together, I was like, I did not expect to see them kind of giggling about different positions in this film.

22:55AdamIt's.

22:56AdamI'd forgotten because because I I had I had it stored on the fucking digital box from when Film 4 showed it.

23:04AdamOn we watched it on I think like exactly the same date I recorded it last fucking December.

23:13LeeWow.

23:14Adamand it starts off and it was like, you know, please bear in mind that there is this is a highly charged erotic film with.

23:20LeeI was like.

23:21AdamIs it?

23:22ChrisIs it?

23:22AdamYou know, and it's sort of like.

23:24AdamI mean, there's there's yeah, there's there's boobs, but then that's that's it's an erotic.

23:30ChrisIs that the Ghostbusters scene with Keanu Reeves this time?

23:32ChrisYou know.

23:33AdamYeah.

23:33ChrisSure.

23:34ChrisBut it's a little bit dreamlike, but then they showed all those pictorial versions of

23:38AdamYeah, I mean there is.

23:39ChrisThe doggy position.

23:40ChrisI was like, oh, okay.

23:41ChrisThis is.

23:42AdamThere is erotic there.

23:43AdamIsn't it?

23:44AdamWell, I mean that.

23:45AdamThat would obviously be Ralph.

23:46AdamIn the Muppets version, wouldn't it?

23:49AdamSo it just be a picture of Ralph.

23:51AdamOh my God, I've now suddenly just in my head a Karma Sutra of Muppets.

23:57AdamI don't need to think about that.

23:59LeeThankly Lee.

24:00JenniferYour AI.

24:01AdamDo not.

24:01ChrisIt's got to be it's got to be Gonzo doing his thing there somewhere.

24:04AdamNaughty.

24:05AdamHell.

24:05LeeSo what was your second one for this one, Chris?

24:08ChrisOh, yes.

24:09ChrisOh, right, so Lucy.

24:10ChrisLucy.

24:11ChrisSam the Eagle, deeply repressed.

24:13ChrisAccidentally the most erotic presence in the film.

24:17ChrisSlowly discovers vampirism is freeing, confusing, and frankly a relief.

24:21ChrisStill insists, it's deeply improper.

24:24JenniferFair.

24:25JenniferI went with Beaker for this one.

24:27JenniferBecause kind of like, you know, whatever.

24:31JenniferJust saying.

24:33LeeYeah.

24:34LeeYes, Adam.

24:35LeeYou hit the nail on the head for this one.

24:37LeeI did go with the reporter.

24:39ChrisOh.

24:40Adam

24:40Lee

24:41LeeJust because.

24:42LeeAgain, it it he's the main character in the majority of them, so when they do these weird spin-offs, they like to make bigger characters of some of the other.

24:50LeeWell, yeah, so I thought putting him in a smaller role would be

24:55LeeYeah.

24:56LeeIt's the most forgettable character in the film potentially.

24:59AdamYeah.

25:00Adammy my scientific advisor has just passed me this urgent piece of paper, apparently it's Guy Smiley is the guy I'm thinking of.

25:07ChrisOh.

25:07Adamwho who was the journalist on Sesame Street.

25:10AdamSo sorry, so you and you went with Kermit.

25:12LeeThey like.

25:12LeeYes.

25:13AdamAnd who was your alternate, Chris?

25:16ChrisOh, yeah.

25:16ChrisLet's check that.

25:17ChrisLord Harker.

25:18ChrisIt's Miss Piggy.

25:19AdamYou know who he is.

25:20ChrisNo, I do I'll put up a picture of him.

25:23ChrisI definitely remember him in the film now.

25:25ChrisBut yeah, I think he was overshadowed by the Texan a little more.

25:29ChrisBut Lord Arthur Holmwood, Miss Piggy.

25:30ChrisEntitled aristocrat with big emotions and bigger entrances.

25:33ChrisFurious that Lucy does not belong to her, challenges Dracula to duels, ballroom dances and eventually a reality TV style confrontation.

25:40JenniferFair.

25:41JenniferOh, so like Miss Piggy.

25:45AdamLove it.

25:47AdamRight.

25:48AdamSo, next up, we have Dr. Jack Seward.

25:51AdamWho, runs the mental asylum where Renfield is is resident and is obviously adjacent to Carfax Abbey.

26:00AdamI, at this point, I have dug out someone who's already been mentioned a couple of times on here.

26:06AdamAnd you'll probably see my working when we get onto a later character.

26:09AdamThis is who I decided should have been Beaker.

26:12AdamJust because I just love the idea, particularly, of everyone having to translate for him.

26:19LeeYeah.

26:20AdamDuring certain points.

26:22AdamThere was a part of me that thought maybe maybe Bunsen and Beaker, the head of heads of the asylum, or like Bunsen make him Dr. Seward and then Beaker would be one of the guys with truncheons who knocks Tom Waits about.

26:36Adambut I thought Beaker, I thought Beaker.

26:40ChrisI love their helmets.

26:40ChrisAs well.

26:41AdamJack Seward, I thought Beaker.

26:43AdamSo I've gone with Beaker.

26:44AdamSo Chris, who did you go with?

26:46ChrisI went with Fozzie Bear for this, kind, capable, quietly breaking under pressure.

26:49ChrisHis jokes falter as the horror deepens, which somehow makes it sadder rather than silly.

26:53AdamOh.

26:54AdamOh.

26:54AdamLady Jennifer.

26:57Jenniferso I went with.

26:57JenniferBunsen, because I thought.

26:59Adamokay.

26:59JenniferYeah, why not? Seems right.

27:06LeeSo I went with Gonzo for this one.

27:07LeeBecause I thought he would add gravitas to this

27:10Leeto this character, which I mean, I'm not sure it needs it, but.

27:13AdamI I have to say, he rocks that suit.

27:16LeeHe does.

27:16LeeYeah.

27:17LeeVery.

27:17LeeSharp as fuck, isn't he?

27:18JenniferI don't think that's AI, that's real.

27:20AdamI.

27:23AdamWearing that suit.

27:25AdamFantastic.

27:27ChrisNow, I did quite like their interactions Seward and Renfield in this.

27:31ChrisNo, I.

27:33ChrisI did watch, we did watch A Dracula, we've watched Nosferatu, you know.

27:37ChrisSo I'm starting to get a feel for these characters, yeah, and in this, it was like, okay, you know, they've got a sort of a connection that I didn't realize they had to begin with.

27:43AdamI think also they, well, because he because he runs the asylum, so he's the one who's basically the gateway to Renfield.

27:48Adamand also, I have come to the conclusion, not only the fact that I am a fat old git and quite short.

27:56AdamThat I will I will have to do the thing that every goth has to do and go.

28:00AdamI will never play Dracula.

28:04AdamI've come to accept that now.

28:07AdamMuch in the same as I've had to come to accept I'll never play Sherlock Holmes.

28:11AdamBut but fuck me, Renfield.

28:13ChrisI don't know.

28:14ChrisWe're assuming like this Gonzo.

28:15ChrisI reckon you're in there.

28:16AdamWell, that's the thing, are no, Renfield.

28:18AdamI reckon I can do that.

28:20AdamAnd I also now go that Dracula films live or die on their Renfield.

28:25ChrisYes, yes.

28:25AdamAnd if despite a great deal of miscasting in this, Tom Waits is fucking great.

28:31LeeHe is.

28:31LeeHe is fantastic.

28:32LeeThe only person in the right role.

28:34AdamAnd and interestingly enough, the only American doing a convincing fucking English accent.

28:39LeeYeah.

28:42AdamSo it's like, oh, well, these are the proper trained actors and there here's the musician who's come in.

28:48AdamIt's like his side job.

28:50AdamAnd yeah, he's just blown you out of the fucking water.

28:52AdamGuys, come on.

28:53ChrisI mean, I I think I I'm I'm I quite like Gary Oldman.

28:56ChrisBut possibly he could play any role ever at any time, so maybe that's.

29:01AdamHave you ever seen that thing online where it's like you you were do you ever get that for there was a thing that someone wrote online.

29:08AdamIt was, do you ever get that feeling where you'll be just doing something in the middle of the day and then suddenly you'll hear cut and you turn around and there's the director and it turns out you were being played by Gary Oldman the whole time.

29:16LeeThat's how good an actor he is.

29:17ChrisYes.

29:17LeeYeah.

29:19ChrisYeah.

29:20AdamAnd I wish I could.

29:21ChrisI'll report to that.

29:22Adamthat that just got me that did.

29:24AdamIt really did.

29:26AdamSo.

29:28Adamdo you have an alternate on Mr. Dr. Seward?

29:31ChrisSeward.

29:32ChrisYeah, I went for Beaker on this.

29:34ChrisRuns the asylum alone, no one knows how.

29:36ChrisScreams constantly while making accurate diagnoses.

29:40ChrisIs always right, but tragically ever listened to.

29:42AdamExactly.

29:43AdamThat was that was what I was thinking with Beaker in charge, you know.

29:46AdamIs that he would be, you know, it'd just be like, well, that's one of the greatest scientific.

29:49AdamYou know, just people are just like, well, that was very profound.

29:52AdamYou know, sort of like.

29:54ChrisNo one knows.

29:55ChrisWhat are you talking about?

29:56AdamRight, so.

29:58AdamNext up is.

30:00AdamThe big Texan.

30:01AdamQuincy P. Morris.

30:03AdamThe P stands for penis.

30:06AdamAnd that was who I decided.

30:09AdamI decided that's where I was putting Fozzie.

30:12AdamBecause I just thought Fozzie's got the big P energy.

30:15AdamHe'd just be there, he'd be sort of romancing.

30:17Adamadmittedly.

30:18AdamRizzo in drag, Claire is actually laughing over in the corner after that.

30:21LeeYeah.

30:21AdamThat is literally the most basic thing I've ever done.

30:24ChrisThat's got legs.

30:26AdamSo, but yeah, so I went with Fozzie because I just I could just see him in a Stetson with his Bowie knife hanging out.

30:32AdamAnd giving it large.

30:34AdamSo Chris, who do you have?

30:35AdamFor Quincy P. Morris.

30:38ChrisFor Quincy.

30:38ChrisI had Animal.

30:39ChrisAll instinct.

30:40ChrisAll loyalty.

30:41ChrisNo hesitation.

30:42ChrisHe barrels towards danger without overthinking.

30:46ChrisChaos, but purposeful chaos.

30:48AdamOoh.

30:49AdamNo, nice.

30:49AdamI like.

30:50JenniferFair.

30:51AdamLady Jennifer.

30:53JenniferYes, well, I snap with you.

30:54JenniferI felt Fozzie would have been just right in this role.

30:57JenniferSo, you know.

30:59LeeYay.

31:00JenniferThere we go.

31:01AdamNice.

31:02LeeWhat about Lee?

31:03LeeSo I personally have gone for Cookie Monster.

31:05Leeyeah, again, just because he's large.

31:08LeeHe's like.

31:09LeeYeah.

31:10ChrisHe suits the.

31:10ChrisYeah.

31:11ChrisDressed like that.

31:13LeeIt works, it works.

31:14JenniferThat suits.

31:15JenniferThat's good.

31:17ChrisA cookie and a double barrel shotgun.

31:19ChrisWhat more do you need?

31:20AdamYeah.

31:23AdamAnd did you have an alternate for Quincy?

31:28ChrisQuincy.

31:29ChrisSwedish Chef.

31:30ChrisSpeaks exclusively in violent culinary metaphors.

31:33ChrisTries to kill Dracula using improvised cookware.

31:36ChrisAccidentally seduces half the cast.

31:38ChrisHeroic death involves a flambé.

31:41AdamYeah.

31:42JenniferGarlic, surely garlic for the chef.

31:46JenniferNice.

31:48AdamRight.

31:49AdamWell, moving on to Renfield.

31:52AdamNow, as I say, any Dracula film lives or dies on the basis of its Renfield.

31:57Chrisused quite a lot now.

31:58AdamAnd so I had to do my favorite Muppet, so I had to give this to Gonzo, there was also the possibility that Rizzo would be in the cell with him, so we can recreate that lovely double act from Muppets Christmas Carol, but yes, I I I thought I it just seemed an obvious one that Renfield would be Renfield Gonzo would be Renfield in all his fucking mental glory.

32:13AdamSo Chris, who did you have for Renfield?

32:16ChrisAs you predicted, I went with Rizzo the Rat, perfectly scaled madness.

32:20ChrisScrappy devotion, hunger, twitching fear.

32:22ChrisHe believes, he knows, he is the warning everyone wants to avoid.

32:25LeeThat's good.

32:26AdamI think that would have been.

32:27AdamThe other thing I was thinking as well because obviously Renfield's eating increasingly large animals.

32:32ChrisA kitten, I want a kitten.

32:33ChrisHow about a cat?

32:34LeeYes.

32:34ChrisA large cat.

32:39ChrisI did not know.

32:39ChrisThis film had any humor.

32:43AdamLady Jennifer.

32:45JenniferYes, well.

32:45JenniferI went for Animal.

32:46JenniferCause surely he's a crazy one, surely.

32:49LeeYeah.

32:50AdamYeah, he spends a lot of a lot of his time.

32:51AdamA lot of his time in chains.

32:52AdamSo.

32:52JenniferSo, I thought it was ready.

32:54JenniferHe's got the outfit.

32:56AdamHe's got the straight jacket.

32:57Adamaka the cover coat.

32:59LeeI also went for Animal.

33:01ChrisOh, there we go, two for Animal.

33:02AdamTwo for joy.

33:04AdamTwo for a girl, one for a boy.

33:05LeeAnd let's see Animal in his.

33:06AdamOh, yes.

33:06AdamOh, that's.

33:07LeeIt's nice. It works.

33:08AdamThat's rather Muppet.

33:09AdamWe will definitely we'll definitely get these up on we'll we'll definitely get these up on the Insta so that people can enjoy.

33:13ChrisHe's eating some good things there.

33:14AdamSpectacular looking Muppets there.

33:16JenniferOh.

33:17Adam

33:18ChrisMy alternate was Kermit for this one.

33:19AdamOh, yes.

33:20ChrisOh yeah.

33:21ChrisSoft spoken.

33:22ChrisPolite.

33:23ChrisEmotionally articulate.

33:25ChrisGenuinely believes Dracula understands him.

33:27ChrisDelivers devastating monologues about devotion, boundaries, and disappointment.

33:30ChrisWhile being completely ignored.

33:33JenniferFair, fair.

33:35AdamI can see Kermit sort of like.

33:37AdamI love the idea that the calmest, most sensible Muppet is the one who's locked up because frankly, yeah, this film is quite, you know, the whole thing is fucking mental.

33:49ChrisIt's pretty backwards.

33:51AdamRight, so.

33:53AdamNext up is the last of the sort of big cast, so it is Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

34:01AdamI went with Bunsen.

34:02AdamBecause I was linking it up that if Beaker was my Dr. Seward and he calls in his scientific mentor and etcetera.

34:08AdamAnd I also just thought Bunsen's got the right sort of Van Helsing E air to him.

34:12AdamYou know, he's sort of just a wise calm figure.

34:15AdamAnd frankly.

34:15AdamPlays it a lot better than Anthony Hopkins.

34:17AdamBut that's that's the thing.

34:18AdamYeah, that's that's the story.

34:19AdamSo.

34:20AdamSo Chris, who did you have for Van Helsing?

34:23ChrisI'm joining you with the Bunsen on this one.

34:24ChrisBrilliant.

34:25ChrisUnshakable confidence.

34:26ChrisWildly experimental.

34:28ChrisHis seriousness never wavers, even when the methods are questionable, that contrast keeps the tone buoyant without breaking it.

34:37AdamLovely.

34:37LeeNice.

34:38AdamStuff.

34:39LeeDo we have any others?

34:41JenniferWell, I saved the you know, ace as it were up my sleeve for Gonzo.

34:49AdamYeah, I can see it.

34:52JenniferDidn't go too excited with him earlier, waited.

34:56JenniferSo just the right choice.

34:59AdamAnd what about what about you, Mr. Lee?

35:02LeeSo I have a pair of Van Helsings.

35:04LeeI've gone for Statler and Waldorf.

35:07AdamOh man, that looks fucking amazing.

35:09LeeYes.

35:10AdamDon't convince me that AI is good.

35:12LeeThat's work.

35:13ChrisThat's good.

35:14AdamYeah.

35:14AdamBecause I I want to watch that film, particularly as that is the most Christopher Lee.

35:18LeeI've ever seen a Muppet look.

35:20LeeWell, this is what I'm doing, so I add a picture of Peter Cushing in the outfit and a picture of the two of them.

35:25LeeAnd I put the two pictures in and just said.

35:28LeeStatler and Waldorf as Van Helsing and this is what it came out with.

35:32LeeAnd no exaggeration, I probably asked for about 45 seconds non-stop and annoying volume just by that image, it just made me absolutely.

35:43JenniferOh, it's good.

35:44LeeIt's the anticipation.

35:44LeeBecause you put it in and you have to wait like a minute, maybe two minutes for it to generate.

35:49LeeAnd then when it suddenly pops up, it just fucking nails you out of nowhere, it's so good.

35:55AdamBut yes.

35:56AdamOh, well, that's.

35:57AdamThat's bloody marvelous.

35:58LeeWell.

35:59LeeI just thought.

35:59LeeThey'll be arguing, which I thought would add to the.

36:02AdamNo, it's not you're not going to kill the vampire.

36:05LeeWell, the one isn't it then.

36:09JenniferNice.

36:10AdamSo, we have so that is our main cast gone through.

36:12AdamNow, we also have a couple of sort of wild cards but also mopping up of sort of if you've if you felt that you'd got.

36:19Adamthere's Muppets that are always going to be in there but they're always going to be minor roles and so on.

36:23AdamSo, first of all, we've got Dracula's three brides.

36:26AdamNow, bearing in mind, whoever this is will be pleasured, aka noshed off by these by these three brides at a certain point.

36:35AdamAnd I went with Animal, Sweetums, you know, the giant full-bodied Muppet.

36:40AdamAnd the Swedish Chef.

36:43AdamMostly because of the bit where Dracula is talking to the brides.

36:47AdamNow.

36:47AdamAlso, that's my last that's this is genuinely my last bit of Bram Stoker's Dracula thing, he definitely says salad tits in that bit.

36:59LeeI mean.

36:59LeeIf I must watch that that scene again.

37:01LeeI will do it.

37:01AdamOh dear, yeah.

37:03AdamOh, that.

37:03LeeIf I really.

37:04AdamWhat a what a erroneous task for you there, Chris.

37:05AdamI'm so sorry.

37:08Adamso yeah, so I've got yes, so Sweetums, Animal and the Swedish Chef.

37:12Adamdo we have any others for the for the brides?

37:14AdamChris?

37:15ChrisI did the Electric Mayhem.

37:17ChrisEthereal, seductive.

37:18ChrisUnsettling.

37:19ChrisSlow music drifting through corridors.

37:21ChrisGlamour edged with menace.

37:22ChrisThey feel like temptation given form.

37:26AdamOoh.

37:26AdamNice.

37:27AdamSee, I thought I.

37:28AdamI also thought and this is one that obviously we're not sort of necessarily casting.

37:33AdamBut I did think that it'd be good that when Jonathan Harker is picked up by the monastery.

37:38AdamThat it was actually just a cult run by Dr. Teeth and it was the Electric Mayhem who rescued him.

37:43ChrisYeah, yeah.

37:44AdamBut that was.

37:45LeeNo, it wasn't.

37:46AdamThat was just a thing in my head.

37:47AdamSo.

37:48JenniferSo, Lady Jennifer.

37:50JenniferDo you have brides?

37:51JenniferWell, I mixed this up a little bit.

37:52JenniferSo, yeah, I mean we've still got the picture up, imagine these two, but slightly sexier.

37:57LeeStatler and Waldorf.

37:58JenniferYeah, and I Big Bird in.

38:00LeeYes.

38:01JenniferIt's a bit wrinkly.

38:03AdamAnd who?

38:04JenniferOpportunities, you know, some people like everyone.

38:06LeeSome people like a big bird.

38:07JenniferExactly, that's what I'm saying.

38:09AdamI I nearly put Big Bird in actually.

38:12AdamBut then that's.

38:13LeeI see.

38:14AdamBut then that then followed because I just wanted to initially I just wanted to find the biggest ones, so I had Sweetums and then I was like, oh, Big Bird and then I went Mr. Snuffleupagus.

38:22AdamAnd now you've got the image of Mr. Snuffleupagus Snuffleupagus thing around the crotch of Keanu Reeves.

38:26AdamOr whoever is playing Keanu Reeves, like the Cookie Monster being pleasured by Mr. Snuffleupagus.

38:29Christhis this all makes more sense when you actually see that they're sort of deformed and you know, they're a bit they're a bit odd.

38:34ChrisNot what you not what you initially think they are.

38:38JenniferThis is what I was thinking, you see.

38:41AdamWhereas I I.

38:42AdamJust went blately.

38:42AdamWhere it was just like, yeah, that's who are the three most horrendous people to be coming on to you.

38:48LeeI say it's the size as well.

38:49LeeThat's the thing, isn't it?

38:50LeeLike if you go for the big one, like it's just menacing, there's something about three huge people just coming at you at once like this.

38:56LeeYou're not going to escape from the room, they're going to block everywhere you can, oh, yeah.

39:01LeeSo I I'd say.

39:02LeeI've got to admit.

39:03LeeI had the same, so I had the rats who worked in Scrooge's Yeah.

39:09LeeOh, that's perfect.

39:10AdamI'm I'm I'm going to I'm going to sort of pull rank there, I reckon crew of the Demeter is all the rats.

39:15AdamAnd Sam the Eagle is the captain just because he's got the right level of pomposity to try and deal with this situation while all the rats probably quite literally leaving a sinking ship.

39:19LeeOh, that's.

39:20JenniferYes, as well, they would all leave, wouldn't they at the right point.

39:25AdamYes.

39:25AdamNo, that would be quite clever.

39:28AdamWell, I think that that is I've.

39:30AdamI've thoroughly enjoyed going through this list.

39:32AdamAnd everything else like that.

39:33AdamDo we want to try and get?

39:34ChrisI I actually think this would make a decent film.

39:36ChrisNow, the more I was going through it.

39:37ChrisThe more I was like, yeah, I could actually.

39:38AdamIt doesn't have to be.

39:40AdamDracula, the Muppet's Dracula, I think.

39:41ChrisWouldn't be really good.

39:42AdamI think we'd have to.

39:44AdamAbsolutely.

39:45JenniferDisney.

39:46LeeWell, I I tell you what I do think, as we haven't actually picked what we're going to be covering next as our next episode.

39:51LeeIt's going to be Christmas, we're going to be busy for the next fortnight.

39:53LeeAs you've both watched Bram Stoker's Dracula again, and Jennifer is always keen to be, we cover it as our next episode the actual movie.

40:00AdamNo, yeah.

40:00LeeAnd that way.

40:01AdamYeah.

40:02AdamI'll be too.

40:04ChrisI absolutely would like to.

40:05ChrisYeah, it is way better than I imagined.

40:08ChrisI, you know, you think it's very good, but.

40:10AdamIt also.

40:11AdamLooks like.

40:12LeeI can.

40:12AdamYeah.

40:13LeeYeah, I think I lost.

40:15LeeI think I fell out of love with it for a long time.

40:16LeeAgain, like one of those ones.

40:17AdamWas was that?

40:18LeeI'd seen it too much.

40:19LeeAnd I just I'd seen it so much.

40:20LeeThat I'd got bored of it.

40:22LeeSo when everyone kept raving about it, I was like, oh, it's not that good.

40:23LeeYou need to, you know, get your balls a target.

40:25LeeLike it's all right, but it's not.

40:27LeeWhat are they serious?

40:28LeeYeah, and then if you don't watch it for a while and you watch it again, you go, yeah, no, this really is.

40:33ChrisYeah.

40:34ChrisI think that's.

40:34LeeYeah.

40:35AdamI think that's exactly what happened on the episode because I think I was prepared that it was like, oh no, I don't like the lost boys and everything.

40:39AdamThen I watched it.

40:40AdamIt was like actually it's bloody fucking good.

40:42ChrisYeah.

40:43ChrisIt's it's funny, it's got some proper horror elements.

40:45ChrisBut but I I even I even again, against against some people's wishes, I even showed it to Toby and he was like, it wasn't it wasn't that scary.

40:51ChrisAnd there was actually, I tell you I tell you what, no but there is a lot more graphic scenes than I remembered.

40:59ChrisI was like, oh yeah, his face is melting at that point, okay, that's stereo.

41:05ChrisI'm just I just watched.

41:07ChrisWhat was it?

41:08Chriswhat's the melting guy?

41:10ChrisRobocop.

41:11ChrisAnd I was like, he probably does melt.

41:13ChrisAnd and that apparently was bad.

41:15AdamNo, he does.

41:15ChrisThat was bad.

41:17ChrisAnd I totally forgot that that was banned, but it is.

41:20ChrisAnd I was like, actually, there's a similarity here, there's definitely some melting going on.

41:28AdamThe melting guy in Robocop was one of the great pub quiz questions I had with Lee.

41:30Adamonce about.

41:32AdamNo, you know, when it's like, right, we're a bit worse for where, so obviously we need to go into business making T-shirts because that's that's the sort of conversation you have, you need a T-shirt with the only one we came up with was the guy from Robocop melting with acid casualty written under it in like.

41:46ChrisOh, I'd probably buy that.

41:47ChrisYeah.

41:47AdamExactly.

41:48LeeYeah.

41:49AdamYeah.

41:51Leealso, as a sidebar, just to let everybody know, we covered nearly two years ago.

41:57LeeWe spoke to the writers and directors of Vampire.

42:00Adam

42:02Leeand they were making this film and they were trying to crowd fund to get the film finished to get it completed and released.

42:07LeeThis morning, I received my digital download of the film.

42:12ChrisOh, cool.

42:12LeeSo.

42:13LeeOh, sorry.

42:13ChrisDid we pay for it?

42:14LeeI spoken to them, they have said they would like to come back and discuss our thoughts on the film, and they're going to do like a wind up to the streaming release.

42:22LeeSo, they're going to keep us posted as to when it's it's it's going to be imminent, but yeah, so in the couple of weeks in the run up to that, obviously we'll watch it and we'll jump back on a call with those guys and have a discussion about how the film turned out and everything just before it's available to everybody else for streaming.

42:35LeeSo yeah, if you did buy the pre-order, which I did.

42:37LeeGo and check your email because it's there and waiting.

42:39LeeAnd if not, we'll be back very shortly to discuss it just before it goes live for streaming or just after, yeah, just before it goes live for streaming.

42:44LeeBut

42:45AdamAnd and it's just fantastic because they were so enthusiastic and so positive and everything about and it's like, I really hope this they it felt like they were going to get it made.

42:56LeeYeah.

42:57AdamBut the fact it has now, I'm really, really.

43:01LeeIt's so good.

43:02LeeAbsolutely like the fact it's made it all the way to fruition and they're so proud of it as well.

43:06LeeI know they were at that point when they'd they'd filmed it.

43:09LeeBut the the finished product hadn't yet been done, but they were so excited about it.

43:14LeeYeah, and their excitement's only ramped up since it's been finished, so it's clearly everything they dreamed it'd be.

43:23LeeThanks ever so much for listening everybody, we hope you enjoyed this.

43:26LeeLet us if if you disagree with our choices, or not if you disagree with our choices, don't just call us mug, but if you have a better suggestion, drop it in the post for this on our social media and stuff.

43:38LeeDrop us an email.

43:40Leeand go and rewatch Bram Stoker's Dracula and we'll see you in somewhere around a fortnight's time probably.

43:47LeeOnce we're into another new year if we fucking make it.

43:52LeeThanks so much for listening and good night.

43:55ChrisGood night.

43:56AdamGood night and a Merry Christmas to everyone at home.

44:00ChrisMerry Christmas.

44:01JenniferMerry Christmas, everyone.

44:03AdamGod bless this one and all.