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Welcome to the Trash Mix podcast. We're on episode

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two, season two, and it's a strange summer this

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time. We're going to be talking about two very

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strange movies from Mexico. Ironically, both

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based on comic books, and then they're both comedies,

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one being a horror comedy. So it's going to be

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pretty interesting to talk about these movies

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today. Yeah, I think when you came up with the

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idea, because we talked about doing something

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like a wild summer. And then you proposed these

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two movies. I was like, after I watched it, I

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was like, yeah, we definitely got to do these

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two movies because these are fucking crazy. Well,

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the second one is a little more crazy than the

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first. The first movie is a little colorful and

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very visually awesome. Like just everything about

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it is awesome. We'll get to it. But yeah, it's

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pretty awesome. Yeah. So, I mean, we kind of

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took a little bit longer to do this episode.

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Just the way our schedules worked out. I was

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on vacation for like a week and a half. Um, and

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then it was 4th of July and, uh, it's still all

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worked out. Yeah. It's still all worked out,

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but it was kind of, uh, when I was on vacation,

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I had told you this, but I just kind of wanted

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to say it because I think it was kind of a cool

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story. I was, uh, I was in Cleveland at a record

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shop and I had my trash mag shirt on and the

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guy was kind of like looking at me the whole

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time. And I'm thinking like, oh man, I hope he's

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not like a racist dude or something, you know?

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And I asked him to look at something on the wall

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and then he kind of just stopped me and was like,

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trash mags. He's like, like, like the post -apocalyptic

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wrestling movies i was like uh yeah he's like

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you know which one i'm talking about right i

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was like wow i assume you're talking about entrepilos

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punks and he's like yeah that's the one this

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guy's like pile driving this fool he looks like

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they look like yeah that's yeah that's that's

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us yeah yeah that's the homie armando and i had

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explaining what it is like yeah yeah yeah i know

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yeah that's fucking sick trash max hell yeah

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hell yeah so uh trash max is uh spreading spreading

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wild man yeah that word is just going around

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trash mix it's just pretty cool you know just

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like oh that's nice like i'll even say it like

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on discord and like you're seeing it on forums

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people just use it as that term not even aligning

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it with anything would i do but just as the word

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and i think that's pretty awesome instead of

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mexploitation or whatever yeah i mean i don't

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want to like go on about it but yeah when people

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say mexploitation like let's say kaguamas ninjas

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mexploitation that doesn't make any sense you

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know what i'm saying yeah i don't think mexploitation

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fits like a whole wide range of movies like trash

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mix does exactly yeah there's more than just

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i'm not even gonna get into it but that's cool

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though i mean it's cool yeah like i said that

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was awesome to hear Yeah, it was cool. What was

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it at, Cleveland? It was in Cleveland, yeah,

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yeah. So shout out to my Minds Eye Records. If

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you're ever in Cleveland, go out to my Minds

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Eye Records. Really cool. Shout out to Charles.

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Doubt he's listening, but if he is, shout out

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to Charles. All right, well, let's get into it,

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right? So we're in the midst of a strange summer

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globally, you could say. Oh, yeah. And we got

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two cool ones. So like Armando said, the first

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movie that we're talking about is called Hermelinda

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Linda. And she's based off of a Mexican comic

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book from the 60s. And kind of a long history

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there. It was published by Editor Mex Mexicana,

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and that started in 1965. And it ran for 37 years.

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That's a long time. that's a really long time

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yeah um considering i mean i'm not too too big

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into comics but i mean i would think that almost

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a 40 year comic run is pretty pretty out there

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i don't i don't know how many comics are last

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that long unless if they're not marvel or whatever

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but um but yeah so it started in 1965 and it

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didn't officially change to ermelinda linda until

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1968 because there was like a from the Mexican

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government, I guess people were taking this comic

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too serious because it was originally titled

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something like Brujeria or Brujeria or something

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like that. And I guess I ran for three years

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under that title, but people were calling in

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trying to learn how to make potions and how to

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do their own little witchcraft shit. Mexican

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government, paranoid at the time. Yeah, I mean,

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you know, you can guess why. I mean, 1968, it

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was a very historic year for Mexico. They had

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like the whole student killing, disappearings.

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And, you know, we still don't know what happened

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to those people this, you know, this many years

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later, you know, you can say. But yeah, so it

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had an official 1 ,266 issues of Hermelinda Linda.

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Imagine collecting all that. that crazy crazy

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i i look some of it up and you know the art is

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amazing um yeah i like the art it reminds me

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of like i mean like old school like underground

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comic style yeah yeah yeah uh it definitely has

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like that um like tales from the crypt type uh

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illustrations it's like a horror comic yeah it

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has horror imagery all over it and i guess it

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was originally like the the covers were in color

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but the actual comic itself was it was a black

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and white comic yeah yeah And it wasn't until

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much later that they became, you know, color

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prints. And she even, like, it later changed

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in the 70s to, like, they call it, like, the

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fotonovelas, right? Yeah, I saw those when I

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was looking them up. I saw there was fotonovelas.

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I was like, oh, shit, I didn't even know they

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did those for Hermelina. I thought that was pretty

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cool. Yeah, and I guess that was, I guess that

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would be, like, the inspiration to what the movie

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became. I think that's what it is, yeah. So,

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yeah, so, Hermelina Lina. Ran for 37 years. It

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was created by a guy named Fausto Buendia. And

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it was illustrated by Jose Cabezas and later

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by Joaquin Mejia and Pedro Nunez. Took over the

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reins for that. And I would love to get some

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of these original issues just to see how the

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art changed based off. Because I guess the original

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illustrator was the illustrator for, I mean,

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almost its entire run. And it wasn't until later,

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probably right before they turned to the fotonovelas,

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that it was a different illustrator. I would

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assume that the art changed, but I don't know.

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Who knows? And the whole thing was based off

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of a fictional city, Bondogia, which I guess

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I later learned that. it kind of represents a

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different colonia in mexico city called bondo

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hito which i guess is like one of the more dangerous

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colonias or at least at that time was one of

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the more dangerous yeah i mean i i read a little

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bit into it because i after watching the movie

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i was like you know this movie it was fucking

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sick and you know you learn that it's about a

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comic book and you're all right well let me let

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me learn about the comic i'm not a comic person

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um But I know a lot of people are, so I kind

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of wanted to get a little bit of history on that.

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And reading that, that's when I learned that.

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I don't know if that's official, but that's kind

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of what is assumed just based off of the name

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change and how similar it is to the Bondojito

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neighborhood in Mexico City. So yeah, let's get

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into it. The movie itself was made in 1984, so

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you're looking at like a 20 -year gap between

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when this comic started. and when the movie is

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actualized. It's directed by Julio Aldama, who

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some people would know Terror en los Barrios,

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but most people would know because he directed

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Chiqui Draculas as well, which is like a staple.

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Yeah, and before directing movies, he was a big

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actor in the 50s and 60s and 70s. He was always

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an antagonist. He was a bad guy. So did he start

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as an actor? That's how he started, yeah. He

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was an actor, and then later on, that's during

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the 60s and 70s is when he started making movies

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on his own. And then he brought in his family,

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his sons, two sons. One of his sons is in this

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movie, isn't he? Julio Aguirre. Yeah, he goes

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under Julio Aguirre. I wonder, he probably just

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didn't want to be known as a nipple baby or something.

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Probably. That's kind of how they all are, yeah.

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I mean, that's one of those things. It's like

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a lot of them are nipples. well i mean as as

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we've been saying since basically episode one

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mexican cinema is a is a very uh uh it's like

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fam family dynasties that run it and then betrayals

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it's traumatic In the camera, outside of the

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camera and in the screens. It's so funny. That's

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what I love about it. It's a family affair, man.

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I was thinking about this because it makes tracking

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these movies a little easier because there's

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like a line there. but there's still not enough

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uh information out there in the public so once

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you like start realizing like oh okay this person

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didn't work with them they were cousins of this

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or the son of this literally how it all started

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for me these 15 years it's like okay this this

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this person is related like like adolfo for example

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like i didn't even know his dad was gilberto

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uh -huh i was like oh that makes perfect And

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then that's when I looked and I was like, oh,

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so his brother -in -law, blah, blah, blah. You

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know, everything just starts connecting. Yeah.

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It's awesome. That's what I love about it. And

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so hopefully, you know, you guys, the listeners,

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are starting to connect the dots because there's

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a lot of dots to connect. And there's even some,

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you know, I'm about to say who produced this

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movie. And there's already a connection between

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Hermelina Linda and Santo, which is kind of crazy.

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But this movie was produced by Julio Adalma as

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well. also co -produced by Fernando Oses who

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basically got like the the production or Santo

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to start being in movies he produced the son

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the early santa moves as well and he was a wrestler

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himself so you know there's so many times and

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that was kind of by coincidence i didn't really

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realize that until after i started reading it

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i was like oh shit fernando says was you know

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so we didn't do it on purpose we're back -to

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-back episodes fernando says it's one of those

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things where it's like it's you know you know

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they're all connected somehow because it's such

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a it's a small community at least back then you

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know and everybody knew each other then It's

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about to get even smaller because guess who was

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the cinematographer for Hermelina Linda, people?

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Alfredo Uribe, who was a cinematographer for

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Entrepidos Punks and Venganza de los Punks. Those

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were the ones that he knew. Yeah, when I looked

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at his filmography, I was like, oh, wow. And

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then he did a lot of the Santo stuff in the 70s,

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too. I'm telling you guys, get your notes out

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and start taking notes because there's a correlation

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to everything in Mexican cinema. And so it stars

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Evita Munoz, who is known as Chachita. She was

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like a childhood actress. She's the main star

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in Ermelinda. She plays Ermelinda Linda. But

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she was a child actress in the golden age of

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Mexican cinema. She was in Nosotros los Pobres,

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which is probably one of the most iconic Mexican

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movies ever made. yeah she was a child actress

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for a while and then like when she got older

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she got chubbier she got more filled as as we

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all do yeah and then yeah she just started like

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doing comedic roles just just like this loud

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mouth woman you know dancing around or like singing

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sometimes or like being like a flirt to like

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younger guys you know that's something that runs

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rampant in mexico there's a lot of weird flirtation

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with younger gals and guys yeah so that's that's

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kind of how she was known for later on in her

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life but it was still good for her you know she

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obviously had fun doing this and then she got

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to play hermelinda linda which is an honor i

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think uh i mean yeah when i mean it's a very

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historic comic book you know it's one of the

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most uh well -known comics of mexico's uh comic

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book history i didn't even recognize her like

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the way they did her makeup and everything and

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the prosthetics i actually didn't even notice

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it was chachita at first well yeah you look at

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the so the emelinda linda herself she's got like

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this you know the typical witch nose you know

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like long and pointed she's got like warts on

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her nose and her cheeks and stuff she's got one

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lazy eye that's like looking to the left the

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other one's looking straight nappy hair like

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she looks really gross um yeah So you look at

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Chachita, like, especially, like, you know, through

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the ages where, you know, she started off young.

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Cute little girl. And then, yeah, you get to

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Hermelina Linda. She's completely different.

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Yeah, Chachita's like this. She looks like everybody's

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tia. Like, you all have a tia that looks like

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that. Or if you don't have a tia in existence.

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Or if you don't have a tia like that, do you

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have, like, a friend of a family that looks like

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that? I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's, yeah.

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She, like. Even the clothes that Emeline Dalinda

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wears is almost like grandma -style clothes.

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Yeah, and it's authentic to the comic, too. When

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you look at the comic book, the way she dressed,

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man, they really nailed it. They did a really

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good job. The costume designer did an excellent

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job, and the makeup, too. I don't know who the

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makeup are. I didn't look into that yet. I should

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have looked into it. Yeah, me too. I fucked up

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the whole thing. We can't do everything, guys.

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We can't do everything. Whoever did it, yeah,

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they did an amazing job. um they read the comic

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books for sure and we're like looking at the

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pages clearly oh yeah yeah absolutely and the

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photo novellas probably too um the cool thing

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you know chachita she you know she kind of you

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know she was known for a lot of stuff but i'm

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just gonna name a couple things that some people

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might haven't seen her in she very minor background

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role so you you don't know who she is you wouldn't

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know but she was in an episode of colombo which

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is you know everyone knows colombo you know uh

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one of my favorite american comedies uh romancing

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the stone i feel like a lot of mexican actors

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were in that movie i think they filmed it in

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mexico yeah that's why but then it's like they

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it's credited but then it's like where are they

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yeah it's one of those things so she's one of

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those yeah she's she's one i get when i was reading

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it she i guess she's one she plays like one of

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like the heavier set mexican women's when they're

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in when they're in the little pueblito when they're

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at the centro yeah i guess there's like a a hefty

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mexican woman that yeah that movie and then what's

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the other one i forget what the other but there's

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a lot of movies like that where there's like

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so many mexican actors and that's like what in

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a monorail in a hollywood movie um and so the

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i guess the second star of the movie would be

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julio aldama himself who plays uh brigidio pachochas

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and he i guess he's like a like a slumlord and

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a I don't know if he's like a lawyer of some

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type, but he's like an entrepreneur, slumlord,

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like business guy in this movie. And he's a bad

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guy, so see, Julio Dama. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

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And his son plays Nabor, who is like the young

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version of Julio Dama's character, right? Yeah,

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basically like his son. There is Ruby Ray, who

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plays Hermelina Linda's daughter. And, of course,

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she's like the only one. She's like training

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to be a witch, but she doesn't look like a witch.

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She looks like her typical self, gorgeous as

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ever. It's like the monsters, like Marilyn. Yeah,

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exactly. They knew what they were doing. They

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get one hot girl in here, and she can play the...

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Yeah, the name sounded familiar, so I started

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looking into her filmography, and I was like,

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yeah, she was in, like, Pedro Navaja and all

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that, but, like, not really big roles, but she

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stood out in those movies because she's so really

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pretty. Yeah, oh, yeah, she's absolutely gorgeous.

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Yeah, very beautiful, yeah. And then she did

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some fotonovelas before that, and then, yeah,

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she retired, like, after the 80s were over, she

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retired. Just fell off the face of the earth.

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Fell off the face of the earth. Yeah, that's

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kind of how it goes, right? You're either a star

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or you're, you know, you're kind of a recognizable

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face, and then you just disappear. Yeah. So that's

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kind of a shame. I would have been curious to

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see more of her. But that was it. And then I'm

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just going to mention off one more person because

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she actually kind of plays an integral role in

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this movie as well. Her name is Maria Cardinal.

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And she plays the young version of Hermelinda

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Linda. Because, you know, we'll get into the

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plot in some storyline topics. You know, there's

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a there's a point in time when the movie where

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Melinda Linda is young and beautiful. And, you

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know, she she she plays off of Ruby Day's character.

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But she's not she's noticeable, too, because

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she was in the Lola La Trailera movies. And,

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you know, those are pretty that's a pretty that's

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a pretty big franchise. You know, Mexican movie

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fans would know that movie. So let's get into

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it a little bit. The actual movie itself. There's

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a lot of good things to like about it. The comedy

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is comedic, but it's not over the top. Yeah,

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it's just like slapstick, I want to say. Yeah,

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I mean, it's like typical Mexican comedy, I guess

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you could say, because it's very witty. There

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are the Mexican tropes. There's a gay guy character.

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There's always a gay guy character in a Mexican

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movie that's always the brunt of the joke. um

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you know fast witty punch lines and of course

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there's always a live band playing in the movie

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so Thank you. Pretty typical. If you like Mexican

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comedies, you'll definitely like this. But it

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opens up very, I don't want to say hocus pocus,

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and I think that's what most people would compare

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this to. But I don't think, that's just the easy

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comparison. But it's not a hocus pocus movie.

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But it opens up on, I guess, their version of

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Halloween, but they were calling it Dia de los

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Brujos. And there's a very great soundtrack.

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to the opening of this like a very um uh synthesized

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driven soundtrack that was something that me

00:20:39.049 --> 00:20:40.849
and joey pointed out at each other like yeah

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that music is great the music in this is fantastic

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yeah um there's there's multiple scenes of music

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in here but the intro is like there's like kids

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trick -or -treating and they're like you know

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trying to get candy or whatever and it's like

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intercut with um ermelina linda and her and her

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coven of witches uh making a um making like a

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potion or whatever. But it looks like a pulque,

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but they're obviously making like a potion. And

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it's like a smooth jazz soundtrack. And it's

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like cutting in between the neighborhoods where

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you see like an old guy yelling at the kids and

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stuff. So it definitely kind of sets the mood

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of like the horror aspect, if you will, of Hermelinda

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Linda. And the soundtrack was done by Eduardo

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Casanova. And I tried to look up... you know

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his music yeah me too i didn't find that i mean

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yeah it's i'm sure like there's it might have

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been like a like a stage name like a alternate

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name maybe i'm thinking i mean i found like some

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random like mexican uh lps that are just kind

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of like comps that he was a part of oh but i

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mean there's no way to tell that if that was

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gonna and i'm not gonna you know i'm not gonna

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buy you know random jazz compilations of mexico

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just to see if i mean i guess i should but Only

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if you really want to. Yeah, only if you really

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want to. You don't have to, but if you want.

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And it's like there's like a very smooth jet.

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I'll play a clip of it right now. But it's like

00:22:06.940 --> 00:22:09.940
a scene where they're all dancing by the fucking

00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:13.279
pot. That scene is amazing. And then they're

00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:15.099
all just dancing. It's just such a vibe. It's

00:22:15.099 --> 00:22:16.940
like, oh, my God, this is so good. When I first

00:22:16.940 --> 00:22:18.119
watched that movie, I was like, this is going

00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:20.519
to be a great one. As soon as that scene was

00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:21.460
going on, I was like, oh, this is going to be

00:22:21.460 --> 00:22:23.500
good. It's for the girls that like it spooky.

00:22:23.819 --> 00:22:26.759
Yeah. This is a spooky girl movie right here.

00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.960
It is Summerween or whatever. Summerween, is

00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:32.119
that a thing? Is that what they're calling it?

00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:33.400
I forget what it's called. Oh, my God. Yeah.

00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:35.730
There's always something new. So yeah, we got

00:22:35.730 --> 00:23:41.430
your summer wing movie. The central plot of Hermelina

00:23:41.430 --> 00:23:45.890
Linda basically is, you know, she's a witch and

00:23:45.890 --> 00:23:49.829
she basically is trying to save her community

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from basically being gentrified and taken over.

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Because I guess there's... Brigidio is trying

00:24:00.690 --> 00:24:02.509
to... They call them pachochas in the movie,

00:24:02.549 --> 00:24:06.609
so we'll just go by pachochas. Pachochas is trying

00:24:06.609 --> 00:24:09.609
to basically... eliminate all like the people

00:24:09.609 --> 00:24:13.289
in the neighborhood and um you know buy out the

00:24:13.289 --> 00:24:15.690
apartments and renovate you know gentrify the

00:24:15.690 --> 00:24:17.430
neighborhood basically what's going on in mexico

00:24:17.430 --> 00:24:22.009
right now um and she's there to save save that

00:24:22.009 --> 00:24:25.390
basically so she fucks she uses her her witchcraft

00:24:25.390 --> 00:24:27.589
to fuck with these food like the main fools to

00:24:27.589 --> 00:24:31.470
scare them out basically yeah yeah yeah um but

00:24:31.470 --> 00:24:33.029
in between there's a lot of there's a lot of

00:24:33.029 --> 00:24:36.759
fun stuff so like um One of the first scenes,

00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:41.819
you know, she's asked to rejuvenate an old man.

00:24:42.669 --> 00:24:45.390
And he's like, I want to look like Jorge Rivera,

00:24:45.630 --> 00:24:47.710
which for those who don't know, you know, he's

00:24:47.710 --> 00:24:49.670
a very, you know, very established actor. But

00:24:49.670 --> 00:24:52.869
for the for the horror fans, he was the main

00:24:52.869 --> 00:24:56.470
actor in Conquest by Lucio Fulci. So you wouldn't

00:24:56.470 --> 00:24:58.150
you would know him. You know, he's the main guy.

00:24:58.250 --> 00:25:00.970
He's buff as shit. He's a very suave, you know,

00:25:00.970 --> 00:25:03.609
everyone like the prototypical manly man of Mexico

00:25:03.609 --> 00:25:06.410
of the time. So I thought it was hilarious that,

00:25:06.450 --> 00:25:09.970
you know, a little meta there, you know. But

00:25:09.970 --> 00:25:13.210
yeah, so she goes to like a graveyard to, I guess

00:25:13.210 --> 00:25:15.930
she has like a pact with the graveyard guy. Yeah,

00:25:15.930 --> 00:25:17.430
everybody in the neighborhood is just like connected

00:25:17.430 --> 00:25:20.410
to her somehow. I mean, you know, because she's

00:25:20.410 --> 00:25:23.309
helpful. That's why she's the savior of the town,

00:25:23.329 --> 00:25:27.809
right? She basically has to go and get like body

00:25:27.809 --> 00:25:30.930
parts that she's going to use in her potion to

00:25:30.930 --> 00:25:33.680
rejuvenate this young man. who coincidentally

00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.359
works for Pachochas. And so that's the connection

00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:43.740
there. And so once she gives this guy the potion,

00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:45.799
he's young, he goes to Pachochas. He's like,

00:25:45.859 --> 00:25:48.559
yeah, look at me. I'm going to get all the girls

00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:53.759
now. um yeah no so stupid that was julio yeah

00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:59.380
exactly that's who julio adama's son plays the

00:25:59.380 --> 00:26:29.299
the rejuvenated old man What do you think of

00:26:29.299 --> 00:26:32.859
this? No, it's not too skinny. This must have

00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:37.759
been ejidatario. Come here. I got two dancers

00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.799
here. And these do have what you want. Oh, my.

00:26:42.299 --> 00:26:47.859
These are very well made. And this guy? He's

00:26:47.859 --> 00:26:52.059
a poor cardholder. He was run over by a truck.

00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.740
But I have his socks saved. You see, sometimes

00:26:55.740 --> 00:27:22.869
he needs them. And so he's basically like, yeah,

00:27:22.970 --> 00:27:26.210
okay, let's fucking... Let's get a party going.

00:27:26.410 --> 00:27:29.890
Let's invite some girls. And Hermelinda Linda's

00:27:29.890 --> 00:27:32.589
daughter, Arlene. She gets invited. She gets

00:27:32.589 --> 00:27:35.369
invited by Pachochas as, like, his little, like,

00:27:35.410 --> 00:27:38.069
his side piece, his little trophy girlfriend.

00:27:40.809 --> 00:27:42.829
And, of course, you know, that's when, like,

00:27:42.829 --> 00:27:44.609
the part. I don't remember the name of the band,

00:27:44.670 --> 00:27:46.109
though. Do you remember the name of the band?

00:27:46.109 --> 00:27:48.220
I don't remember the band, no. Yeah, they go,

00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:50.680
they show up at Pachochas' house with a bunch

00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:53.380
of old businessmen. Of course, she's there to

00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:55.500
service them. And he tells her, bring some friends.

00:27:56.059 --> 00:27:59.500
And that's when Hermelina Linda, she drinks her

00:27:59.500 --> 00:28:01.200
own potion. And she's young. And, you know, of

00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.269
course, she's hot, smoking hot. It's time. She

00:28:04.269 --> 00:28:06.230
can only be young and hot for a certain amount

00:28:06.230 --> 00:28:10.289
of time. Of course, naturally, what happens is

00:28:10.289 --> 00:28:12.089
she goes to this party and she runs out of time.

00:28:12.210 --> 00:28:15.170
She starts getting warts and her feet start to

00:28:15.170 --> 00:28:20.930
expand. Of course, she has to fly home. Was it

00:28:20.930 --> 00:28:24.410
a vacuum? She uses a vacuum cleaner to fly home.

00:28:25.269 --> 00:28:29.750
She uses a vacuum cleaner. She rushes home. Super

00:28:29.750 --> 00:28:34.680
silly. Oh, yeah, I do. Look, I wrote it down

00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:41.079
here. Flying vacuum. Flying vacuum. So, yeah.

00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:46.039
See, I just lost my train of thought. I'm looking

00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:48.480
at my notes writing down, and I can't even remember.

00:28:49.140 --> 00:28:52.140
Oh, look, I wrote it down here. The band singing

00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:55.339
at the pool party scene is Los Alcantara. Oh,

00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:59.960
okay. This is all coming back. I did write it

00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:02.319
down, and I did look them up. And I found records

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:07.660
of them from 1983, 1984, and 85. So hopefully

00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:10.259
one of those songs is one of the songs that was

00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:12.559
in the party scene. So there's a possibility

00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:16.839
of an unofficial soundtrack record out there.

00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:22.220
But yeah, there's like a scene in here where...

00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:26.660
this very like poltergeisty there's a scene where

00:29:26.660 --> 00:29:29.980
like there's you know it's nabor who i don't

00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:33.559
remember if he like um if his transformation

00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.559
was timed as well but there's a scene where inside

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:40.660
the house at the party he starts to melt in it.

00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:42.779
You remember the scene in Poltergeist when, you

00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:45.279
know, looking at the mirror, like the famous

00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:46.660
scene, you know, he starts to melt and shit.

00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:48.940
It's almost an exact copy of that. And I thought

00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:52.480
it was really fucking cool. Yeah. He like turns

00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.359
into a skull and it's all gross and shit. I don't

00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.490
know. It was, there's horror aspects. that kind

00:30:00.490 --> 00:30:03.250
of blend in. I would say this is more of a comedy

00:30:03.250 --> 00:30:04.930
than a horror. Yes, I was going to say it's more

00:30:04.930 --> 00:30:06.490
of a comedy, but there's definitely a lot of

00:30:06.490 --> 00:30:08.869
horror imagery in it. Absolutely, yeah. And I

00:30:08.869 --> 00:30:12.390
think it's like fun horror, like child -friendly

00:30:12.390 --> 00:30:14.390
horror, you can say. Yeah, this is definitely

00:30:14.390 --> 00:30:17.849
something you can watch with kids. Pretty much

00:30:17.849 --> 00:30:19.170
everybody in the family. I mean, I assume this

00:30:19.170 --> 00:30:22.329
was made for kids. It seems like it, yeah. The

00:30:22.329 --> 00:30:25.710
humor was pretty light. It wasn't too inappropriate.

00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:27.529
Like, I don't even think there was anything really

00:30:27.529 --> 00:30:30.250
inappropriate in it either. No, they saved the

00:30:30.250 --> 00:30:33.690
inappropriate jokes for part two. Oh, yeah, that's

00:30:33.690 --> 00:30:37.549
the one I just started to see, yeah. Yes, for

00:30:37.549 --> 00:30:40.630
those wondering, Hermelinda Linda does have a

00:30:40.630 --> 00:30:45.089
sequel. We'll talk about it in a little bit because,

00:30:45.170 --> 00:30:47.170
you know. I didn't watch it, but Joey did. Yeah,

00:30:47.190 --> 00:30:49.230
I watched it. I was curious, and I was like,

00:30:49.250 --> 00:30:54.509
well, let's see what happens. All that to say,

00:30:54.529 --> 00:30:57.069
like, you know, towards the end of the movie,

00:30:57.329 --> 00:31:01.390
Pachochas finally figures out that Hermelinda

00:31:01.390 --> 00:31:05.269
Linda was behind all the trouble and the grief

00:31:05.269 --> 00:31:08.089
that he was facing with, like, the public. Because

00:31:08.089 --> 00:31:11.049
there's, like, the public outroar where, you

00:31:11.049 --> 00:31:12.789
know, they start to turn on them and they start,

00:31:12.890 --> 00:31:15.279
like, I guess, like, his... business people or

00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.079
investors whatever show up and they're like throwing

00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:19.960
rocks at their car and shit so he figures out

00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:22.559
that ermelina linda was the one who was responsible

00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:25.559
for it all so he decides he's gonna kidnap arlene

00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:29.539
as bait because he figures out that she is ermelina

00:31:29.539 --> 00:31:33.519
linda's daughter um and apparently witches uh

00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.380
have telepathy because she ends up talking like

00:31:36.380 --> 00:31:38.759
telepathically to her mom like come save me i'm

00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:47.980
at her powers to convert or to magically you

00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:50.940
know uh i don't know what the word is but change

00:31:50.940 --> 00:31:54.339
into like inanimate objects or whatever she converts

00:31:54.339 --> 00:31:57.799
herself into a roach so she can sneak into pacho

00:31:57.799 --> 00:31:59.980
chess's office that's pretty smart actually i

00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:02.660
mean you know as smart but i mean in mexico you

00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:04.640
see a roach and what are you stomping the out

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.140
of it you know so she she ran the risk of getting

00:32:07.140 --> 00:32:09.740
herself killed but all for the name of saving

00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:15.069
her daughter you know um I don't know. That shit

00:32:15.069 --> 00:32:17.950
was hilarious. But, you know, she ends up saving

00:32:17.950 --> 00:32:21.069
Adelaine and, you know, saves the town. But,

00:32:21.069 --> 00:32:24.650
you know, the whole thing apparently was just

00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:27.029
a flashback, which I thought was kind of a cut.

00:32:27.109 --> 00:32:31.049
I fucking hate in movies when it turns out to

00:32:31.049 --> 00:32:34.349
just be a flashback. Yeah, you feel almost cheated

00:32:34.349 --> 00:32:36.569
by that. I don't know. It's that feeling of you're

00:32:36.569 --> 00:32:38.900
like, man, that was what? Yeah, like, if it's

00:32:38.900 --> 00:32:41.720
a flashback or, like, a dream, something that

00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:46.599
never happened, I fucking hate that shit. Yeah,

00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:51.000
but, you know. But it all works out still. Like,

00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:53.720
it's still fun and everything, you know. You're

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:55.680
still satisfied. Once you're done watching it,

00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:57.799
you're like, oh, yeah, this is fun. It's super

00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:01.799
fun, but, you know, it also, like. I don't consider

00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:06.299
myself a film reviewer. I don't like to peel

00:33:06.299 --> 00:33:08.119
back too many layers of stuff. I just like to

00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:10.539
watch movies for enjoyment. It's pretty obvious

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:16.220
that this movie has underlying topics of classism,

00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.319
chauvinism, capitalism. It deals with so many

00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:25.839
different topics in fun ways. Where I guess if

00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:27.420
you were an adult, you can watch it with your

00:33:27.420 --> 00:33:29.319
kid and be like, oh, okay, you get like a broader

00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.819
story and kids can watch it and just be like,

00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:34.940
hey, this is fun. Like a Pixar movie, for example.

00:33:34.940 --> 00:33:37.099
That's a lot of Pixar movies. Yeah, yeah. There's

00:33:37.099 --> 00:33:39.220
always some kind of like emotional underlying

00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:40.279
theme or whatever. Something for the grownups

00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:45.299
to understand. But yeah, like there's like, you

00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:46.940
know, they're abusive to the women. You know,

00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:52.240
Pachochas hates his wife. Yeah. And she's just

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.779
like an endearing, I guess she's an older woman

00:33:54.779 --> 00:33:58.519
at the time, but she's very subservient to him,

00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:00.920
and of course he takes advantage of that until

00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:03.279
the end of the movie where he's like finally,

00:34:03.339 --> 00:34:07.680
okay, I love you, babe, that type of shit. Classism,

00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.179
because most of the people that are in the town

00:34:10.179 --> 00:34:13.199
are, of course, of darker skin. Darker skin and

00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.079
then lower class. Lower class, and that's still

00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:18.139
a battle that happens in Mexico to this day.

00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:21.909
The colorism in Mexico is a very, very real thing

00:34:21.909 --> 00:34:24.809
the darker skin you are in mexico the the lower

00:34:24.809 --> 00:34:27.510
you looked at uh from the upper class like whiter

00:34:27.510 --> 00:34:31.929
skin mexicans um so again like you know these

00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:34.650
these movies while they're goofy they're funny

00:34:34.650 --> 00:34:37.510
or whatever there's there's something to actually

00:34:37.510 --> 00:34:41.710
you know cut back the layers of and and uh you

00:34:41.710 --> 00:34:44.110
know find a true story there which is which is

00:34:44.110 --> 00:34:48.320
always fun but you know i don't know Like I said,

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:50.300
I don't like to be like the fucking Siskel and

00:34:50.300 --> 00:34:52.400
Ebert and shit. I know when we first started

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.179
this podcast, Armando made sure, like, yeah,

00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:55.960
you know, we don't want to go too deep, you know,

00:34:55.980 --> 00:34:57.639
but. But sometimes you kind of have to. You kind

00:34:57.639 --> 00:34:59.000
of have to sometimes, yeah. Sometimes you kind

00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:00.699
of have to. But then there's movies where you

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:02.400
don't need to, which will be for the next one.

00:35:02.539 --> 00:35:04.440
Yeah, well, you know, yeah. Oh, we'll talk about

00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:05.460
it then. Yeah, we'll get into it in a moment.

00:35:06.300 --> 00:35:08.500
Just to, you know, just to touch on Hermelinda

00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:13.500
Linda 2. How do I, I don't even know how to describe

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:15.880
this movie. It's. From the way you told me, I

00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:19.480
was like, oh, wow. It definitely does not have

00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:22.619
the same feel as the first one. Very obvious

00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:25.179
that it was kind of a cash -in. Hermelina Linda

00:35:25.179 --> 00:35:26.880
had to have been successful, so they're like,

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:31.239
fuck it, let's do part two. It's the same writer

00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:35.239
-director. Oddly enough, though, it was a different

00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:38.900
production company that was listed for part two.

00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:42.320
Obviously, it's the same guy. It was Producciones

00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:48.239
Aldama. But yeah. So anyways. Yeah. So part two,

00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:51.159
you know, not to get too deep into it, but somehow

00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:54.920
she's involved with like the FBI of Mexico and

00:35:54.920 --> 00:36:00.059
she gets tasked to intercept a Soviet nuclear

00:36:00.059 --> 00:36:05.239
war or bomb, I should say, rather. So naturally,

00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:07.260
there's going to be a lot of racist jokes against

00:36:07.260 --> 00:36:12.619
the Russians, the Chinese. And somehow there's

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:15.969
a. racist jokes about arabs in this movie as

00:36:15.969 --> 00:36:19.110
well so i know some people don't like to uh yeah

00:36:19.110 --> 00:36:22.329
this sounds very 80s for sure very 80s and it

00:36:22.329 --> 00:36:24.110
just doesn't i don't know like it's hard like

00:36:24.110 --> 00:36:26.530
i said it's hard to explain because the jokes

00:36:26.530 --> 00:36:29.329
well i guess i can see that they're funny they

00:36:29.329 --> 00:36:31.170
just don't land like they do in the first one

00:36:31.170 --> 00:36:34.489
and you know it's i would say out of the runtime

00:36:34.489 --> 00:36:38.010
80 of it is just kind of racist jokes and tropes

00:36:38.010 --> 00:36:40.570
about you know the chinese arabs and russians

00:36:40.570 --> 00:36:45.840
and um There's a lot of toxic masculinity again

00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:48.719
in part two. There's even jokes about AIDS in

00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:51.340
part two. Because by that time, AIDS is already

00:36:51.340 --> 00:36:55.179
like a thing, you know. And of course, well,

00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:56.480
I don't want to say of course, because I actually

00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:59.300
don't remember. But I think it was a joke about

00:36:59.300 --> 00:37:03.639
gay men and AIDS. Yeah, it would make sense.

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:06.219
It's one of those things where it's like it's

00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:08.260
a product of its time. It's not to say it's a

00:37:08.260 --> 00:37:10.789
good thing, but it's like. It is what it was

00:37:10.789 --> 00:37:12.809
for that time, you know. Yeah. That was the humor

00:37:12.809 --> 00:37:15.130
then, you know. That could be said about any

00:37:15.130 --> 00:37:18.150
movie, you know, from another country too. Oh,

00:37:18.150 --> 00:37:21.469
yeah, absolutely. But, you know, there's like

00:37:21.469 --> 00:37:25.590
a weird dream sequence where the mom of Hermelina

00:37:25.590 --> 00:37:28.010
Lina, who was in the original one as well, she's

00:37:28.010 --> 00:37:30.389
back in this one. Is she in the coffin still?

00:37:30.570 --> 00:37:32.809
She's in the coffin still. She's pissed off because

00:37:32.809 --> 00:37:34.610
she can't. Same thing as part one. I didn't talk

00:37:34.610 --> 00:37:36.530
about it, but she can't get no damn sleep, so

00:37:36.530 --> 00:37:39.619
she's mad at the world, you know. But there's

00:37:39.619 --> 00:37:41.500
a dream sequence where she's dressed up in, like,

00:37:41.500 --> 00:37:45.239
full astronaut outfit. Oh, my God. And she fucking

00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.260
blows up the world as an astronaut with the nuclear

00:37:49.260 --> 00:37:52.539
war bomb, I should say. That's dark. Yeah, so,

00:37:52.619 --> 00:37:55.280
I mean, it's, I don't know, it gets crazy. And

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:59.579
then they reuse the same, like, smooth jazz soundtrack

00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:02.099
as they did in the first one. So that scene where

00:38:02.099 --> 00:38:03.619
they're dancing by the fucking. It's on there

00:38:03.619 --> 00:38:08.119
again. It's the same song, yeah, so. um worth

00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:10.519
a watch yeah probably you know just to complete

00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:14.559
the the complete the circle of ermeline but it's

00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.500
not as good as the first one unfortunately and

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:20.599
um i mean i you know if it came out on the blu

00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:22.639
-ray i would i would i would assume it would

00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.780
come out as a double pack and i would get it

00:38:24.780 --> 00:38:28.530
but i don't know if by itself yeah i don't know

00:38:28.530 --> 00:38:31.090
it'd rather be the first one yeah oh absolutely

00:38:31.090 --> 00:38:33.289
yeah absolutely and they're both on tubi so you

00:38:33.289 --> 00:38:35.250
guys can you know oh yeah that's what comic buys

00:38:35.250 --> 00:38:37.929
a prize yeah people can watch them for sure and

00:38:37.929 --> 00:38:39.949
if you know there's no english subtitles unfortunately

00:38:39.949 --> 00:38:43.150
for those who don't speak spanish but um you

00:38:43.150 --> 00:38:46.260
can watch it and decide for yourself if Eta Molina,

00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:50.000
Lina 1 or 2 is better. I would say Part 1, obviously.

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.360
Yeah, I mean, I've only seen Part 1, but that

00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.300
one is really good. If you're into horror, comedy,

00:38:55.639 --> 00:38:58.639
80s stuff, basically, it's one of those you have

00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:02.500
to watch for sure. Yeah, it's super witty. It's

00:39:02.500 --> 00:39:05.320
typical Mexican comedy, fast punchlines and kind

00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:09.420
of stupid witty jokes. There's always dance numbers

00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:14.980
and hot girls. It's just one of those you have

00:39:14.980 --> 00:39:19.050
to watch. and you know i guess ermelina linda

00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:22.989
was kind of like right before i think is right

00:39:22.989 --> 00:39:25.030
before the boom of the video home right like

00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:27.710
before everything kind of transitioned into yeah

00:39:27.710 --> 00:39:29.510
there's still a little discrepancy with video

00:39:29.510 --> 00:39:32.030
homes but yeah like i want to say the middle

00:39:32.030 --> 00:39:34.650
of 80s is when it was kind of blossoming uh -huh

00:39:34.650 --> 00:39:37.329
and then it went from to the 90s where it really

00:39:37.329 --> 00:39:41.210
fucking where it like blew up right and so the

00:39:41.210 --> 00:39:43.630
second movie we're talking about Was part of

00:39:43.630 --> 00:39:45.289
the video home boom. Yeah, part of the video

00:39:45.289 --> 00:39:46.530
home boom. So for those that don't know what

00:39:46.530 --> 00:39:49.150
a video home is, so let me school you in really

00:39:49.150 --> 00:39:52.469
quick. So video home, the way I like to describe

00:39:52.469 --> 00:39:55.090
it is it's popular cinema. And if you don't know

00:39:55.090 --> 00:39:57.190
what popular cinema is, popular cinema is basically

00:39:57.190 --> 00:40:00.110
films that were popular with the public. That's

00:40:00.110 --> 00:40:01.809
what the public wanted to go see. So like back

00:40:01.809 --> 00:40:04.289
in the day, people wanted to see Santa movies.

00:40:04.409 --> 00:40:09.789
That was popular cinema. So it was always genre

00:40:09.789 --> 00:40:11.329
stuff mostly. So, you know, you got your horror,

00:40:11.429 --> 00:40:15.179
action, comedies. melodramas the shit that sells

00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:16.659
the shit that sells yeah that was the popular

00:40:16.659 --> 00:40:19.659
cinema whether you are can agree or disagree

00:40:19.659 --> 00:40:21.159
because a lot of people are like well if it was

00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:24.059
popular and it wasn't good it's like well even

00:40:24.059 --> 00:40:25.480
if it wasn't good people still want to go see

00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:28.269
it yeah i mean that argument is tired there's

00:40:28.269 --> 00:40:29.889
a there's a whole stigma where it's like well

00:40:29.889 --> 00:40:31.809
why is it called popular food it's not a good

00:40:31.809 --> 00:40:33.530
movie and it's like well maybe it was a good

00:40:33.530 --> 00:40:35.769
movie if people want to go see it you know people

00:40:35.769 --> 00:40:38.550
conflate these this thing because just because

00:40:38.550 --> 00:40:41.130
it's not good doesn't mean that it's not popular

00:40:41.130 --> 00:40:44.769
like i mean it's just like there's terrible movies

00:40:44.769 --> 00:40:47.469
that make tons of fucking money because yeah

00:40:47.469 --> 00:40:49.409
people just want to watch the shit you know that's

00:40:49.409 --> 00:40:51.769
what tells you exactly so yeah so popular cinema

00:40:51.769 --> 00:40:54.369
you know it's like lucha stuff you know all that

00:40:54.369 --> 00:40:57.650
stuff you know genre stuff and then during the

00:40:57.650 --> 00:40:59.670
80s like the mid to late 80s that's when the

00:40:59.670 --> 00:41:01.889
cinema in mexico was just in decline as they

00:41:01.889 --> 00:41:05.329
say it was already a crisis as they say not a

00:41:05.329 --> 00:41:07.190
lot of money was coming in anymore people weren't

00:41:07.190 --> 00:41:10.289
really interested so in the 90s it's like well

00:41:10.289 --> 00:41:12.269
we want to keep this you know a lot of these

00:41:12.269 --> 00:41:14.250
people from those eras you know from back in

00:41:14.250 --> 00:41:15.690
the day they wanted to still work you know and

00:41:15.690 --> 00:41:19.150
keep their friends working too so it's like well

00:41:19.150 --> 00:41:21.289
hey let's just make these movies but let's make

00:41:21.289 --> 00:41:23.849
the budget smaller let's get a little bit of

00:41:23.849 --> 00:41:26.230
money not too much we'll make we'll go to a town

00:41:26.230 --> 00:41:28.190
or something we'll shoot it in i don't know somewhere

00:41:28.190 --> 00:41:31.449
near guadalajara make a movie there for a week

00:41:31.449 --> 00:41:35.269
put it on video and that's how it started it's

00:41:35.269 --> 00:41:36.750
like we're gonna make these movies for the video

00:41:36.750 --> 00:41:38.250
market you know because that was already like

00:41:38.250 --> 00:41:41.130
a growing market i mean this it'd be the same

00:41:41.130 --> 00:41:43.710
thing as like the the shot on video here exactly

00:41:43.710 --> 00:41:46.389
that's how it was yeah get a camera get your

00:41:46.389 --> 00:41:49.110
friends make a movie in in a week or in a month

00:41:49.110 --> 00:41:51.610
and Just fucking put it out there and sell it

00:41:51.610 --> 00:41:53.309
to somebody. Yeah, exactly. So they weren't shooting

00:41:53.309 --> 00:41:55.550
on 35 anymore. They were shooting in 60 millimeter.

00:41:55.909 --> 00:41:58.429
Sometimes it was just shot on Betamax tapes or

00:41:58.429 --> 00:42:01.590
whatever. And that's how it started with that.

00:42:01.670 --> 00:42:04.570
So with Caguamas Ninja. So this is a product

00:42:04.570 --> 00:42:09.690
from 1991. No hay problema. Son las Caguamas

00:42:09.690 --> 00:42:57.710
Ninja. It's such a weird year for video homes.

00:42:58.230 --> 00:43:00.090
Cause when you look at the filmographies for

00:43:00.090 --> 00:43:01.369
a lot of these actors that were in those movies,

00:43:01.489 --> 00:43:04.849
91, 91, 91, 91, 91, just churning and burning.

00:43:04.889 --> 00:43:06.750
They were just churning left and right. It's

00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:09.469
crazy. And I was just like, okay, so if this

00:43:09.469 --> 00:43:11.090
was like low budget, where were these, where

00:43:11.090 --> 00:43:12.989
was the money coming from? It's like, all right.

00:43:13.750 --> 00:43:16.369
So I kind of dig, I did do some digging one time,

00:43:16.429 --> 00:43:17.889
like a long time ago. And I was like, why was

00:43:17.889 --> 00:43:21.250
there so many movies coming to 91? And it turns

00:43:21.250 --> 00:43:24.210
out, I mean, without giving names or anything,

00:43:24.269 --> 00:43:28.690
let's just say, yeah, there was, I mean, you

00:43:28.690 --> 00:43:30.769
didn't even have to say it. I already knew that.

00:43:30.869 --> 00:43:32.550
Yeah, there was a lot of money laundering going

00:43:32.550 --> 00:43:37.110
on, you know, in particular in 90 and 91. And,

00:43:37.210 --> 00:43:39.630
of course, they were putting it into music, television,

00:43:39.809 --> 00:43:43.409
and films. Not the big films that you were seeing

00:43:43.409 --> 00:43:45.409
in theaters, but the films you were renting in

00:43:45.409 --> 00:43:48.429
the video stores. I mean, yeah. But, like I said,

00:43:48.530 --> 00:43:50.170
I don't know if these people, the ones that make

00:43:50.170 --> 00:43:51.889
up, I wasn't involved in that, but probably.

00:43:52.090 --> 00:43:53.730
I wouldn't doubt it. Because, you know, these

00:43:53.730 --> 00:43:55.489
guys, the producers, they just popped up out

00:43:55.489 --> 00:43:59.269
of nowhere. So Kiwamas Ninjas, it was produced

00:43:59.269 --> 00:44:02.449
by a guy named Guillermo Jaime Alarid or Francisco

00:44:02.449 --> 00:44:06.090
Guillermo Jaime Alarid. And he opened up a production

00:44:06.090 --> 00:44:10.530
company called Producciones Laser in 1989. And

00:44:10.530 --> 00:44:13.050
yeah, he was pretty active for like a good while

00:44:13.050 --> 00:44:16.510
until 2020 when he died. And then his partner,

00:44:16.650 --> 00:44:19.429
Omar A. Gonsenheim, he opened up a production

00:44:19.429 --> 00:44:22.889
company called Fiesta Films, which he then opened

00:44:22.889 --> 00:44:25.909
up his own video label called Cinemix Home Video.

00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:28.739
which was based in San Diego. Oh, interesting.

00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.579
Yeah. And then he's featured in the book of Robert

00:44:32.579 --> 00:44:35.280
Rodriguez's book, Rebel Without a Crew, because

00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:36.900
Robert Rodriguez, when he was selling mariachi,

00:44:36.980 --> 00:44:38.800
he was going through all the video label companies.

00:44:38.900 --> 00:44:41.179
So he was traveling from LA, San Diego, Chula

00:44:41.179 --> 00:44:44.440
Vista, whatever. And he visited Goldsenheim.

00:44:45.179 --> 00:44:46.880
And then it's funny because he's, like, telling

00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:48.139
them, like, hey, you know, I have this movie.

00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:50.300
And then they play the movie and they're, you

00:44:50.300 --> 00:44:52.500
know, in the company or whatever. And the company

00:44:52.500 --> 00:44:55.679
was, like, a store, too, which was cool. Like

00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:57.699
a video store? Yeah, he had his own video store

00:44:57.699 --> 00:44:59.619
with Cinemax. And then on the top was, like,

00:44:59.619 --> 00:45:01.360
the offices and shit. So it was pretty cool.

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:03.260
So they were watching the movie, the mariachi,

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:05.260
the first 10 minutes at the video store. And

00:45:05.260 --> 00:45:07.320
people were there, I guess, renting shit or whatever,

00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:08.940
buying stuff. And they were just like, whoa,

00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:12.440
what's this movie? And Guntenheim was like, well,

00:45:12.460 --> 00:45:14.079
I want to buy it, but I don't have enough money.

00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:17.280
how do you not have enough money for that the

00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:19.599
movie was made for like yeah I know so that's

00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:20.860
when he was kind of like telling like well the

00:45:20.860 --> 00:45:22.960
business isn't doing as good as it seems and

00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:24.599
you know and he thinks you know he's like you

00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:25.619
know I'm just gonna be straight up you know the

00:45:25.619 --> 00:45:27.159
movie looks like it's too good for us you know

00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:28.380
that's kind of what he was telling him in the

00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:31.400
book so it's like you're better off selling this

00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:34.340
to like Hollywood or something you know and then

00:45:34.340 --> 00:45:36.179
that Robert Rodriguez was like so do you even

00:45:36.179 --> 00:45:38.019
like the movies that you make and that Gunsenheim

00:45:38.019 --> 00:45:41.139
was like no he just looked at him and he said

00:45:41.139 --> 00:45:44.650
no so yeah so a lot of these guys I mean, if

00:45:44.650 --> 00:45:46.530
they were making these, you know, half of them

00:45:46.530 --> 00:45:48.590
weren't even, like, into movies. It was just

00:45:48.590 --> 00:45:49.969
a business venture. A business, yeah, straight

00:45:49.969 --> 00:45:53.230
up. Or money laundering. I don't know about Goldsteinheim,

00:45:53.250 --> 00:45:55.610
but from what I saw, Goldsteinheim now, like,

00:45:55.650 --> 00:45:58.530
he's not in film anymore, but he's living pretty

00:45:58.530 --> 00:46:01.389
well off. I saw pictures where he's, like, in

00:46:01.389 --> 00:46:04.969
Aspen and all this other shit, you know. California,

00:46:05.190 --> 00:46:08.090
beautiful. Yeah, all this, like, really, like,

00:46:08.110 --> 00:46:10.389
yeah, he's living life very comfortably, you

00:46:10.389 --> 00:46:12.570
know. So whatever he was doing then, it's paid

00:46:12.570 --> 00:46:16.010
off now, you know. I mean, it's safe to say that.

00:46:16.070 --> 00:46:19.210
I mean, you can do your own research of the 90s

00:46:19.210 --> 00:46:22.050
and who were the major crime bosses. Like, again,

00:46:22.150 --> 00:46:24.809
I don't want to say no names either, but it's

00:46:24.809 --> 00:46:27.829
pretty obvious that they were laundering their

00:46:27.829 --> 00:46:31.070
money in these type of ventures. Oh, yeah. And

00:46:31.070 --> 00:46:33.329
like I said, I've asked people before, and they're

00:46:33.329 --> 00:46:35.530
like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were close friends

00:46:35.530 --> 00:46:38.030
with someone. So I was like, oh, okay. I mean,

00:46:38.050 --> 00:46:41.489
you know. don't don't ask don't if someone was

00:46:41.489 --> 00:46:43.130
like here here's all this money to make your

00:46:43.130 --> 00:46:45.670
make your stupid fucking movie yeah are you gonna

00:46:45.670 --> 00:46:48.530
turn it down no of course not exactly yeah anything

00:46:48.530 --> 00:46:50.650
to anything to make a movie and make a quick

00:46:50.650 --> 00:46:52.449
buck you know yeah and then like i said these

00:46:52.449 --> 00:46:54.929
video homes were made so fucking cheaply it's

00:46:54.929 --> 00:46:57.449
like you can make dozens of movies a year you

00:46:57.449 --> 00:46:58.949
don't have to make three movies or you can make

00:46:58.949 --> 00:47:01.329
like 12 movies a year yeah so that's how cinemix

00:47:01.329 --> 00:47:03.750
was working you know cinemix was busy busy when

00:47:03.750 --> 00:47:06.619
they opened the night the late 80s and 90s is

00:47:06.619 --> 00:47:08.619
when they were in the home video market already.

00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:11.360
And a lot of their movies are just comedies from

00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:14.119
what I've noticed. It's mostly comedy, some action

00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:17.159
stuff, some horror stuff, quote -unquote. Because

00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:20.639
comedy is the cheapest to make. You don't need

00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.320
to have explosions, car chases. You don't need

00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:25.320
a makeup effect. You just need a stupid, silly

00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:28.099
joke, and that's it. Exactly. So in case of Kawama's

00:47:28.099 --> 00:47:31.699
Ninja, I mean, they literally just shot this

00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:35.630
movie in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. And I would guess

00:47:35.630 --> 00:47:37.150
three days they shot this movie. Probably, yeah,

00:47:37.150 --> 00:47:39.469
or even like a week. Yeah, so Kiwamas Ninjas.

00:47:39.469 --> 00:47:41.489
So for those who don't know, Kiwamas Ninjas is

00:47:41.489 --> 00:47:44.710
a parody of Ninja Turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja

00:47:44.710 --> 00:47:49.989
Turtles, to be exact. And, yeah, it's not what

00:47:49.989 --> 00:47:51.429
you think it is. Like, you're probably like,

00:47:51.510 --> 00:47:53.230
oh, maybe this is going to be kind of cool. It's

00:47:53.230 --> 00:47:55.730
like, no, it's pretty fucking crappy. But it's

00:47:55.730 --> 00:48:00.820
a good crappy. I thought it was hilarious. For

00:48:00.820 --> 00:48:02.940
those who don't know what a caguama is, it's...

00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:05.980
Yeah, it's a slang for, like, a turtle. And then

00:48:05.980 --> 00:48:08.460
the beer, too, the big caguama, the 32 -ounce

00:48:08.460 --> 00:48:11.659
beer. Yeah, because the big beers are shaped

00:48:11.659 --> 00:48:13.400
like the body of a turtle. Yeah, the body of

00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.260
a turtle, and it's big, and it's affordable.

00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:19.039
I've seen dudes in Mexico that I've known drink,

00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:20.860
like, 10 of them, and it's like, fuck. I mean,

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.280
listen, I don't drink anymore, but when I was,

00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:27.469
you know, a teenager in Mexico... I mean, it

00:48:27.469 --> 00:48:30.409
was either you go get kawamas or you go get a

00:48:30.409 --> 00:48:31.929
bottle of tequila and you're getting fucked up.

00:48:32.070 --> 00:48:33.929
Yeah, it was one of those things. It's like,

00:48:33.949 --> 00:48:36.309
yeah, you're going to get a kawama. And I've

00:48:36.309 --> 00:48:38.230
seen dudes drink a bunch. It still trips me up

00:48:38.230 --> 00:48:40.110
when I've seen dudes just drinking a bunch. It's

00:48:40.110 --> 00:48:43.380
like, how? How does the body consume all of that?

00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:46.059
You know, it's just something that people do,

00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:48.000
you know? Yeah, so that's what they're based

00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:49.980
on. So, Caguamas, ninjas, and then these guys,

00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:52.239
you know, they're not teenagers. They're older,

00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:55.679
fat guys. To be exact, they're comedic actors.

00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:57.619
They're legendary comedy actors, actually. So,

00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.699
you got Pedro Weber, Chattanooga, Guillermo Rivas,

00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:04.199
El Borras, and then Gaston Padilla. And then

00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:05.739
the other guy wasn't a comedy actor, but he was

00:49:05.739 --> 00:49:08.539
actually kind of a popular actor during the 80s.

00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:13.030
Leo, what was it? Where's his name? Ernesto Yanez.

00:49:13.070 --> 00:49:17.010
Yeah, Ernesto Yanez. And then the other people

00:49:17.010 --> 00:49:19.949
in the movie, they were also in very popular

00:49:19.949 --> 00:49:22.110
movies back in the day. You got Felicia Mercado,

00:49:22.190 --> 00:49:24.510
this beautiful blonde bombshell. She's in this

00:49:24.510 --> 00:49:27.150
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles parody. You got

00:49:27.150 --> 00:49:29.610
Ernesto Gomez Cruz, who was in a bunch of famous

00:49:29.610 --> 00:49:34.449
movies in the 80s too. And then Leonelita Ochoa,

00:49:34.590 --> 00:49:36.789
another one again. And then you're probably thinking,

00:49:36.829 --> 00:49:39.280
why were these like... actors these famous actors

00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:41.619
in this cheap ass movie and again it's like well

00:49:41.619 --> 00:49:43.679
this is a perfect example of the video home market

00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:46.000
you're gonna make a low budget movie you're gonna

00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.440
hire whoever wants to work you know and the work

00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:50.699
back then was not a lot so it's like if they

00:49:50.699 --> 00:49:52.460
were done with one big thing they had to do a

00:49:52.460 --> 00:49:54.679
bunch of little stuff in between i mean you know

00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:57.019
like felicia mercado she was in plenty of novellas

00:49:57.019 --> 00:49:58.860
back then and then it's like okay novellas are

00:49:58.860 --> 00:50:00.900
over she's not getting cast it's like well she

00:50:00.900 --> 00:50:02.840
needs to work she needs to you know pay her bills

00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:05.719
okay i'm not starting this fucking comedy about

00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:08.619
ninja turtles so yeah so you're always gonna

00:50:08.619 --> 00:50:10.900
see big names in these like really shitty movies

00:50:10.900 --> 00:50:13.619
or like good but shitty movies you know in other

00:50:13.619 --> 00:50:17.039
words yeah my thing with this is that i'm not

00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:19.800
big into comedy so when it's like a low budget

00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:23.719
comedy i'm just like oh my god so this was a

00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:27.550
tough watch for me um yeah it's this is like

00:50:27.550 --> 00:50:30.090
you know those like shitty like 90s like like

00:50:30.090 --> 00:50:33.530
below national lampoon type movies like the bootleg

00:50:33.530 --> 00:50:35.969
national lampoons this is even worse than those

00:50:35.969 --> 00:50:38.030
movies so yeah this is not a good one i mean

00:50:38.030 --> 00:50:40.130
i mean i didn't say i'm not gonna say i hated

00:50:40.130 --> 00:50:41.610
it but i didn't say it was a good movie either

00:50:41.610 --> 00:50:44.650
yeah yeah i mean we'll talk about it once we

00:50:44.650 --> 00:50:46.909
get into like the plot and yeah break break it

00:50:46.909 --> 00:50:48.449
down but yeah let me break it down i actually

00:50:48.449 --> 00:50:50.090
wrote i'm gonna read it off from my old review

00:50:52.049 --> 00:50:54.110
Before you start, I just wanted to ask, because

00:50:54.110 --> 00:50:56.190
I don't know. This is my assumption. I don't

00:50:56.190 --> 00:50:58.610
know if this is true or if you did any research

00:50:58.610 --> 00:51:02.570
on this, but I have to assume that Carta Blanca

00:51:02.570 --> 00:51:04.909
was somehow a producer in this movie as well.

00:51:04.989 --> 00:51:07.309
They had to have been chipping off. I mean, they

00:51:07.309 --> 00:51:09.210
were filming in Monterrey, and then the brewery

00:51:09.210 --> 00:51:12.610
is there. I mean, this whole story is just Carta

00:51:12.610 --> 00:51:15.880
Blanca. There's a Carta Blanca in... every fucking

00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:18.679
scene of this movie yeah i mean it's carta blanca

00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:20.440
is one of the you know one of the beers sold

00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.639
there and then brewed there too which is they're

00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.599
they're like a the natty ice of american beer

00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:29.360
for mexico like it's so it's such a low -tiered

00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:32.000
beer like the proletariat beer you know like

00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:36.900
the working man's beer yeah so i say i lost my

00:51:36.900 --> 00:51:40.559
notes hold on yeah so of course Being in Monterrey,

00:51:40.659 --> 00:51:43.219
the beer there is Carta Blanca, and then it's

00:51:43.219 --> 00:51:46.280
part of the Cerveceria Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma,

00:51:46.380 --> 00:51:48.579
which is a major brewery in Monterrey. So, of

00:51:48.579 --> 00:51:50.800
course, that's why, you know. I'm sure they probably

00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:52.340
asked the people there, too, you know, like,

00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.039
hey, can we use the beer for the movie? Of course.

00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:56.280
And then throughout the whole movie, you're going

00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:59.460
to see nothing but Carta Blanca. This is not

00:51:59.460 --> 00:52:02.659
an exaggeration. If there's not an actual Carta

00:52:02.659 --> 00:52:04.920
Blanca in the scene, they're talking about Carta

00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.699
Blanca. There's every fucking scene possible.

00:52:08.059 --> 00:52:10.900
There's something about Carta Blanca. So let

00:52:10.900 --> 00:52:12.880
me break it down. So in Las Caguamas Ninjas,

00:52:13.059 --> 00:52:16.360
three old fat dudes, Pedro Weber Chatanuga, Guillermo

00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:19.480
Rivas, Ernesto Yanez, dress up like ninja turtles

00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:23.039
to defend their beloved Carta Blanca beer. They

00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:25.119
also happen to work at the Carta Blanca brewery.

00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:28.300
Naturally, some local gangsters decide to take

00:52:28.300 --> 00:52:30.480
over the beer market in town by selling imported

00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:33.460
beer instead of the domestic stuff. Thus, they

00:52:33.460 --> 00:52:36.199
force the local shopkeepers to sell the imported

00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:39.719
beer only. Some business owners then start selling

00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:41.820
the imported beer, and that's a big no -no for

00:52:41.820 --> 00:52:43.980
the Cahuamas Ninjas and their short brewery boss,

00:52:44.179 --> 00:52:47.199
who's played by Gaston Padilla. They must save

00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:49.639
Mexican beer before it is taken over by the lame

00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:51.820
imported beer. So, yeah, in the movie, they're

00:52:51.820 --> 00:52:54.860
like, Any other beer that's not got the longest

00:52:54.860 --> 00:53:38.659
crap There's very... What's the word I'm looking

00:53:38.659 --> 00:53:43.320
for? Like when the little mafia thugs that try

00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:50.639
to impose this thing. There's very anti... What's

00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:55.320
the word I'm looking for? They're very... I don't

00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:58.099
know. I don't know what I'm trying to say. The

00:53:58.099 --> 00:53:59.900
only thing I can say is these guys are super

00:53:59.900 --> 00:54:02.960
anti -Mexican beer. They're just like... We're

00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:04.880
going to sell American beer. We're not going

00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:07.079
to sell Carta Blanca. You're going to sell this

00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.039
stuff that we got. Because I guess I'm assuming,

00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:11.320
I mean, they don't really say, but I think I'm

00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:12.960
assuming is that they got like a bunch of beer

00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:15.920
from, you know, America. So it's like, okay,

00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:17.900
well, now we got to get rid of it. How are we

00:54:17.900 --> 00:54:19.360
going to get rid of it? We can't just sell it

00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:21.500
ourselves. So that's when they start threatening

00:54:21.500 --> 00:54:22.940
these shops and they're like, hey, you're going

00:54:22.940 --> 00:54:27.170
to start selling this or else, you know. I'm

00:54:27.170 --> 00:54:28.670
going to be the devil's advocate here. I know

00:54:28.670 --> 00:54:30.369
I just said I don't like to peel back layers

00:54:30.369 --> 00:54:33.670
and get really deep into this movie, but it made

00:54:33.670 --> 00:54:37.289
me think, was there some kind of nationalistic

00:54:37.289 --> 00:54:40.989
thing happening in Mexico at the time where people

00:54:40.989 --> 00:54:45.949
were preferring imported items over... mexican

00:54:45.949 --> 00:54:51.230
made um items consumption in mexico because there's

00:54:51.230 --> 00:54:53.550
a there's like a there's like a the entire movie

00:54:53.550 --> 00:54:57.409
so this so they i don't even this is this is

00:54:57.409 --> 00:55:00.449
how crazy it is the group of thugs that want

00:55:00.449 --> 00:55:05.360
to impose this ban on mexican products are argentinians

00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:08.800
that wasn't but they're importing american goods

00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:12.360
yeah and the whole movie is just there's a lot

00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:18.099
of anti -argentine uh jokes very racist against

00:55:18.099 --> 00:55:22.119
argentines so i was i don't know this is super

00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:24.400
confusing no yeah i wouldn't doubt it i mean

00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:26.360
i mean the movie should but there's probably

00:55:26.360 --> 00:55:28.920
something going there yeah which is obvious too

00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:32.329
in a way but you know I mean, it was the only

00:55:32.329 --> 00:55:34.090
way I can get through this movie was to try to

00:55:34.090 --> 00:55:36.630
find a deeper meaning in it. And I'm sure I dug

00:55:36.630 --> 00:55:38.630
way too deep to try to find a meaning in it.

00:55:38.630 --> 00:55:40.010
No, that's an interesting thing. No, that is

00:55:40.010 --> 00:55:41.829
good, though. See, that's the thing. Because,

00:55:41.889 --> 00:55:43.289
like I said, I mean, it's kind of going with

00:55:43.289 --> 00:55:44.909
Hermelinda Linda, where it's like, you know,

00:55:44.989 --> 00:55:47.750
there's something going on there, you know, other

00:55:47.750 --> 00:55:50.429
than just the horror comedy aspect. It's like,

00:55:50.429 --> 00:55:52.610
oh, there's something deep going here. And in

00:55:52.610 --> 00:55:54.250
Gawama's Angels, there's something kind of deep

00:55:54.250 --> 00:55:55.829
going, too. It's like, hey, you know, we got

00:55:55.829 --> 00:55:58.630
someone trying to, like, take away our products

00:55:58.630 --> 00:56:00.590
and sell shit that's probably not as good, you

00:56:00.590 --> 00:56:03.619
know? They know we make the best shit. Mexican

00:56:03.619 --> 00:56:06.980
beer is always seen as the best beer. Yeah, yeah,

00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:11.559
yeah. It definitely touches globalization, capitalism,

00:56:12.019 --> 00:56:16.699
consumerism. And again, I mean, look, it was

00:56:16.699 --> 00:56:18.159
the only way I can get through this movie was

00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:21.119
to try to find something there because I was

00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:22.760
struggling, man. I was struggling. And these

00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:24.800
Ninja Turtles, you know, these Kawama Ninjas,

00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:25.960
they're very serious about it. They're like,

00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:27.780
no, you know, we can't. We're not going to allow

00:56:27.780 --> 00:56:29.260
this. You know, that's taking away, that's stripping

00:56:29.260 --> 00:56:31.480
off our culture, basically. It's taking away

00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:32.679
our jobs, you know, because they work at the

00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:34.219
brewery. So they're like, oh, hell no, you know.

00:56:34.619 --> 00:56:36.539
So then, of course, you see them. They put on

00:56:36.539 --> 00:56:39.420
the little headband. And then the top part is

00:56:39.420 --> 00:56:42.800
green. I mean, yeah. And then. The costumes are

00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.920
so stupid. They're worse than the worst Party

00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:48.340
City costume that you can imagine. They obviously

00:56:48.340 --> 00:56:51.139
got some cheap Ninja Turtle mask to cover their

00:56:51.139 --> 00:56:53.280
head. And then they're wearing these shirts.

00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.820
Remember the shirts? It says cheers, beers, or

00:56:55.820 --> 00:56:58.500
something. It's so weird. And they don't know

00:56:58.500 --> 00:57:00.139
how to do karate, so they're just like, oh, wow.

00:57:01.099 --> 00:57:05.380
Super ignorant comedy. Quote -unquote comedy,

00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:09.860
like making kung fu noises. There's even... You

00:57:09.860 --> 00:57:12.860
know how Ninja Turtles love pizza? Well, these

00:57:12.860 --> 00:57:16.280
fools love Chile. That powers them. Actually,

00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:18.880
I forgot about that. Yeah, that's right. They're

00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:21.280
like, yeah, we'll fight crime, but are you going

00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:22.860
to give us Chile? And they're like, yeah, all

00:57:22.860 --> 00:57:26.179
right, all right. This is such a weird fucking

00:57:26.179 --> 00:57:49.329
movie. Yeah, the movie's just a mess. Oh, my

00:57:49.329 --> 00:58:08.400
God. Oh, shit. You don't want to see my little

00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:56.599
dinner, huh? So, yes, of course, you know, so

00:58:56.599 --> 00:58:58.179
they're right there trying to fight off these

00:58:58.179 --> 00:59:01.440
mobsters or making sure that, you know, these

00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:03.480
stores are stocked with Carta Blanca beer. There's

00:59:03.480 --> 00:59:04.900
like a scene where they're dressed up and they're

00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:08.539
like bringing the cases. It's just so. Wow, yeah,

00:59:08.619 --> 00:59:11.739
it's just weird. There's even a Carta Blanca

00:59:11.739 --> 00:59:14.639
-sponsored soccer team. Oh, yeah. What the fuck?

00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:16.699
Everything is just Carta Blanca in the movie.

00:59:17.500 --> 00:59:21.159
Very much product placement, obviously. Yeah,

00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:24.139
I don't know. It's a mess. The movie's just,

00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:26.960
it's not funny. Like, it tries to be funny, and

00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:28.500
then some parts that are funny, it's just not

00:59:28.500 --> 00:59:31.079
meant to be funny. I think the only part that

00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:33.599
I genuinely laughed at was there's a scene where

00:59:33.599 --> 00:59:36.699
they get fed. Like, I don't know if they're,

00:59:36.739 --> 00:59:39.280
like, tainted. I mean, maybe they were imported

00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:41.960
chiles because they ate these chiles and they

00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:43.739
started tripping out and started, like, fighting

00:59:43.739 --> 00:59:46.119
each other and shit. Oh, I think I remember that.

00:59:46.300 --> 00:59:49.920
Like, at a park or something. I don't know. I

00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:52.000
was like, what the fuck is going on here? The

00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:54.059
movie's just so bizarre. It's not funny. And

00:59:54.059 --> 00:59:56.699
if it is funny, I did laugh. But it was just

00:59:56.699 --> 00:59:58.320
that parts that were not meant to be funny. The

00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.619
movie's just bad. But it's a bad. It's one of

01:00:00.619 --> 01:00:02.280
those rare occurrences where I'm going to say

01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:05.219
it's a so bad, so good movie, I guess. I don't

01:00:05.219 --> 01:00:06.619
know. I hate saying that. I fucking hate that.

01:00:06.619 --> 01:00:08.500
I hate that, too. But that's the only way I could,

01:00:08.619 --> 01:00:12.539
I guess, redeem this movie. It's a shitty movie,

01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:15.260
but it's funny, too. It's fun. I didn't have

01:00:15.260 --> 01:00:17.079
a bad time watching it, honestly. Me, personally,

01:00:17.139 --> 01:00:19.619
at least. it's not that I had a bad time watching

01:00:19.619 --> 01:00:21.860
it. It's just, I'm so bad with comedy. Like comedy

01:00:21.860 --> 01:00:24.599
is my least favorite genre of movie. Cause I

01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:27.599
just don't find a lot of the jokes funny. Yeah.

01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:32.840
Um, so like a low, super low budget comedy. Yeah.

01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:35.519
I can understand. Yeah. This is like, yeah, but

01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:39.340
it's, I don't know. I guess it's just up to the

01:00:39.340 --> 01:00:40.940
viewer. It's like you're either going to hate

01:00:40.940 --> 01:00:42.679
it, you're going to maybe kind of like it, or

01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:44.320
you're going to just think it's dumb, but it's

01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:46.260
funny. And me, it's like it's dumb, but it's

01:00:46.260 --> 01:00:49.260
funny. Well, I mean, not to shit on anyone, because

01:00:49.260 --> 01:00:52.000
there is a large population of movie watchers

01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:56.360
that love low -budget comedies, or low -budget

01:00:56.360 --> 01:00:58.679
movies in general, that I think would enjoy this

01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:01.239
if they understood Spanish. Because you'd be

01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:04.579
hard. I wouldn't even... I'm not even going to

01:01:04.579 --> 01:01:07.820
guess that there's an English... subtitle for

01:01:07.820 --> 01:01:10.539
this available anywhere i don't even know if

01:01:10.539 --> 01:01:12.880
i would want to personally i'd be like it would

01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:14.940
take too long for me to do subtitles for this

01:01:14.940 --> 01:01:19.289
movie to make it worth it exactly um But I don't

01:01:19.289 --> 01:01:22.969
know. I mean, look, they had to have taken it

01:01:22.969 --> 01:01:24.989
a little serious because there's two original

01:01:24.989 --> 01:01:27.849
Kawama Ninja songs in this movie. Oh, yeah, that's

01:01:27.849 --> 01:01:30.010
right. Like in the opening scene, they're driving

01:01:30.010 --> 01:01:31.670
around. That's another thing. We didn't even

01:01:31.670 --> 01:01:33.070
mention that. They have like their own little

01:01:33.070 --> 01:01:35.829
like mini car that looks like a turtle. Oh, yeah.

01:01:35.889 --> 01:01:37.769
And they drive around the town and they're bumping

01:01:37.769 --> 01:01:40.489
this fucking Los Kawamas Ninja song. You know,

01:01:40.489 --> 01:01:44.309
like it's. It's a silly scene, too. Yeah, I don't

01:01:44.309 --> 01:01:46.539
know. I mean. The whole movie is just bizarre.

01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:52.800
There's quirks in it. I don't know. It's a trip.

01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:56.360
It's a whole trip. Like I said a little bit ago,

01:01:56.440 --> 01:02:01.380
the whole movie is anti -Argentina. There's a

01:02:01.380 --> 01:02:04.679
lot of racist jokes about how they speak primarily.

01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:08.559
They keep getting the Q and the K wrong. They

01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:11.380
keep getting the Y and the double L's wrong.

01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:15.710
Oh my God. it was just it was just a weird one

01:02:15.710 --> 01:02:18.889
for sure and then it's like in the end like the

01:02:18.889 --> 01:02:23.449
uh um well uh the amaretos that was the like

01:02:23.449 --> 01:02:26.429
the the mob that was you know strong army and

01:02:26.429 --> 01:02:30.610
everybody but petiza was the leader of them and

01:02:30.610 --> 01:02:33.349
towards the end she's like yeah you know what

01:02:33.349 --> 01:02:35.730
fucking let me get a carta blanca anyways and

01:02:35.730 --> 01:02:37.670
then like her group was like what the fuck you're

01:02:37.670 --> 01:02:39.750
drinking a carta blanca And she's like, well,

01:02:39.889 --> 01:02:41.889
I mean, it's good, but business is business.

01:02:42.010 --> 01:02:43.210
I don't want to sell this shit. I'm going to

01:02:43.210 --> 01:02:46.449
sell American products. So I don't know. Yeah,

01:02:46.570 --> 01:02:48.989
it's just a weird thing. And I remember the ending

01:02:48.989 --> 01:02:52.150
at the wedding. That's another? What the fuck

01:02:52.150 --> 01:02:55.590
was that? So there's a scene where the Amaretos

01:02:55.590 --> 01:02:59.289
kidnap one of the Kawamas, like the latest, because

01:02:59.289 --> 01:03:01.210
there's three originals and then they add a fourth

01:03:01.210 --> 01:03:02.789
one. The fourth, which is Gaston Padilla, yeah.

01:03:02.909 --> 01:03:06.099
And so they kidnap that fool. And she fucking

01:03:06.099 --> 01:03:07.800
falls in love with the fool and she gets married

01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:10.119
with him. Then she has like a change of heart.

01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:11.940
Yeah, there's like a double wedding at the end.

01:03:12.300 --> 01:03:15.320
We didn't even mention their names, right? Let

01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:18.519
me go back because the three originals, so like

01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:21.039
Leonardo, Raphael, right? So they have their

01:03:21.039 --> 01:03:25.099
own names. There's Kawamon, who's Pedro Weber,

01:03:25.300 --> 01:03:30.360
who's the main Kawama ninja. There's just Kawama

01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:32.860
straight up, who's like the second sidekick.

01:03:33.659 --> 01:03:37.820
And then there's Kawamo. Kawamo. So they don't

01:03:37.820 --> 01:03:39.380
even get original with the names. They're just

01:03:39.380 --> 01:03:41.059
like, wow, what do we call them? That's probably

01:03:41.059 --> 01:03:42.480
what was going on when they're writing the script.

01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:43.559
They're like, ah, shit, what do we call them?

01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:47.559
Just put Kawamo Kawamo. That's another video

01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:48.940
home example. It's like they were always writing

01:03:48.940 --> 01:03:51.800
the script during the day of the shooting. So

01:03:51.800 --> 01:03:53.300
more than that's what was going on. They're like,

01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:57.960
just changing shit, adding jokes. But, yeah,

01:03:58.099 --> 01:03:59.400
I mean, at the end, like you said, there's a

01:03:59.400 --> 01:04:02.840
double wedding with Kawamon getting married to,

01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:06.380
of course, an absolute bombshell. Oh, yeah. Turns

01:04:06.380 --> 01:04:09.500
out he was cheating all this time. Turns out

01:04:09.500 --> 01:04:11.820
he was cheating because the final scene of the

01:04:11.820 --> 01:04:15.019
movie. His turtle wife, turtle kids, they're

01:04:15.019 --> 01:04:18.440
dressed up in, like, ninja turtle outfits. I

01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:20.599
was like, oh, my God. Yeah, it was just like,

01:04:20.659 --> 01:04:24.380
whoa, what? Like, yeah, I'm telling you, it's

01:04:24.380 --> 01:04:27.539
just. It's a weird one. This is a very wacky

01:04:27.539 --> 01:04:31.300
Z -grade comedy out of Mexico that I don't know

01:04:31.300 --> 01:04:33.980
how many people outside of Mexicans would enjoy.

01:04:34.179 --> 01:04:36.500
But, I mean, it's on YouTube for anyone that

01:04:36.500 --> 01:04:38.880
wants to watch it. I also put it in the notes,

01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:40.800
too, in our show notes. You'll see a download

01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:44.239
link, so if you want to watch it. Oh, shit. You're

01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:46.320
giving out a free download. I know, right? Isn't

01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:49.239
that weird? What is happening here? I don't know.

01:04:49.300 --> 01:04:51.760
I was just bored. When I was writing the notes,

01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:52.880
you know, it's like, all right, what do I add

01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:57.150
here? I still have the link for Joey's. I might

01:04:57.150 --> 01:04:58.969
as well just share it. Hey, so there it is. If

01:04:58.969 --> 01:05:00.110
it works, it works. If it doesn't work, don't

01:05:00.110 --> 01:05:04.329
even bug me. It'll work for a while, I'm sure.

01:05:04.429 --> 01:05:07.329
Sometimes these Dropbox things don't work for

01:05:07.329 --> 01:05:10.429
a while. You have to change it. If it stops working,

01:05:10.510 --> 01:05:12.250
it stops working. It'll be in the show notes

01:05:12.250 --> 01:05:15.889
where you can watch this movie. The YouTube one

01:05:15.889 --> 01:05:18.590
is really bad. The quality is really bad. The

01:05:18.590 --> 01:05:20.969
YouTube version is real shitty. The audio sucks.

01:05:21.269 --> 01:05:24.650
I'm sure you can't find a good audio for this

01:05:24.650 --> 01:05:27.809
anyways. That was another thing too. When they're

01:05:27.809 --> 01:05:29.429
making these video homes back in the day, they

01:05:29.429 --> 01:05:31.139
were just using it. these cheap ass microphones

01:05:31.139 --> 01:05:35.219
cheap equipment just get the movie done type

01:05:35.219 --> 01:05:37.099
shit yeah exactly that was the business that

01:05:37.099 --> 01:05:39.159
was the business model and it's like all right

01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:41.079
guys we have a week we have this certain amount

01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:43.900
of money let's just do it hey this scene didn't

01:05:43.900 --> 01:05:49.440
come out good just cut it hey uh what's what's

01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:50.699
going on with this script i don't think we're

01:05:50.699 --> 01:05:51.940
gonna be able to do this all right here we'll

01:05:51.940 --> 01:05:54.019
just rewrite it so like i said this is a perfect

01:05:54.019 --> 01:05:56.119
example of a video it's just a movie that they

01:05:56.119 --> 01:05:59.199
made on the fly obviously It doesn't make any

01:05:59.199 --> 01:06:01.820
sense, but hey, they got to make money. It's

01:06:01.820 --> 01:06:02.840
like, hey, we're going to make a Ninja Turtle

01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:04.960
movie. It'll sell. Kids are loving this shit

01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:09.059
right now. I mean, it's like the perfect way

01:06:09.059 --> 01:06:12.239
to spoof the Ninja Turtles because the Kawama

01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:15.380
is the turtle. Yeah. And it's a fucking beard.

01:06:15.539 --> 01:06:17.059
I mean, so you get the best of both worlds. You

01:06:17.059 --> 01:06:20.039
can mash the two together and you have. Yeah.

01:06:20.510 --> 01:06:23.949
uh, ninja, ninja turtles that are fighting crime

01:06:23.949 --> 01:06:27.170
against, uh, beer, beer importers from Argentina,

01:06:27.389 --> 01:06:30.230
from Argentina. And again, you know, this is

01:06:30.230 --> 01:06:32.750
like the only way I can get through this was

01:06:32.750 --> 01:06:35.769
try to find like the, the subplot or the sub

01:06:35.769 --> 01:06:37.650
meanings of everything. And then of course, you

01:06:37.650 --> 01:06:39.050
know, with the way they sell these video homes

01:06:39.050 --> 01:06:40.889
was the cover. So when you look at the cover

01:06:40.889 --> 01:06:42.730
art, it's just like a drawing of the turtles.

01:06:42.769 --> 01:06:44.610
I got to say the cover art is pretty sick. And

01:06:44.610 --> 01:06:46.110
then they just plastered pictures of the guys.

01:06:47.369 --> 01:06:49.070
So that's not even their real bodies, but they

01:06:49.070 --> 01:06:51.050
try to make them look like turtles, too, I think,

01:06:51.090 --> 01:06:53.110
too. That's another thing. Or maybe they just

01:06:53.110 --> 01:06:55.409
drew them way too fat. I don't know. But either

01:06:55.409 --> 01:06:57.849
way, it's a cool cover, though. I don't know.

01:06:57.909 --> 01:06:59.929
It'll catch your eyes. That was another way they

01:06:59.929 --> 01:07:01.449
sold these movies. It's like, all right, we're

01:07:01.449 --> 01:07:02.730
going to make a movie. It's like, it's kind of

01:07:02.730 --> 01:07:05.369
shitty. Well, we better make the cover look good.

01:07:05.730 --> 01:07:07.789
So better draw something fucking good, you know?

01:07:08.469 --> 01:07:10.070
You know, I don't want to be the one that tells

01:07:10.070 --> 01:07:13.489
anyone to not watch a movie because there's a...

01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:15.280
There's always going to be someone that likes

01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:17.699
this shit, so if you want to watch it, watch

01:07:17.699 --> 01:07:19.000
it. Yeah, I'm sure someone's going to be like,

01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:22.320
well, this was actually really good. Lie to yourself.

01:07:22.619 --> 01:07:25.139
Yeah, we'll see how long it takes to get a five

01:07:25.139 --> 01:07:27.079
-star review on Letterboxd for this thing. Yeah,

01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:28.900
even I didn't really like it. In my old review,

01:07:29.099 --> 01:07:30.699
I mean, I'll probably post it later on, but even

01:07:30.699 --> 01:07:33.599
I said it's not a good movie. It's just funny,

01:07:33.699 --> 01:07:36.099
but it's not funny in the way it's trying to

01:07:36.099 --> 01:07:38.539
be. It's just a really stupid movie. I feel like

01:07:38.539 --> 01:07:40.280
this is one of those movies where you're laughing

01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:43.079
at it, not with it. Exactly, yeah. Because there's

01:07:43.079 --> 01:07:47.840
just so many stupid things happening. It's just...

01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:50.239
It's not for me, but maybe it's for somebody.

01:07:50.420 --> 01:07:52.440
I don't know. It's stupid. It's strange, but

01:07:52.440 --> 01:07:57.500
it's there. And I hope Gonsenheim and Alakid

01:07:57.500 --> 01:07:59.179
and all those other guys, I hope they made their

01:07:59.179 --> 01:08:01.800
money. Hopefully they paid. Are any of these

01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:05.219
guys still around? So Alakid, he's dead already.

01:08:05.460 --> 01:08:07.900
Gonsenheim, like I said, he's still alive, living

01:08:07.900 --> 01:08:10.119
comfortably. Living in San Diego. San Diego.

01:08:11.589 --> 01:08:13.329
And, yeah, a lot of these actors, they're all

01:08:13.329 --> 01:08:15.550
gone already. Yeah, I know. Only Felicia Mercado

01:08:15.550 --> 01:08:17.369
is still alive. I know that. She's still alive.

01:08:18.350 --> 01:08:20.350
But, yeah, like the comedy actors, like the Turtles,

01:08:20.369 --> 01:08:22.069
they're all gone already. They're long gone.

01:08:22.149 --> 01:08:23.489
Oh, yeah. I mean, they were, you know, older

01:08:23.489 --> 01:08:25.510
in age already by this time. Yeah, they're all

01:08:25.510 --> 01:08:28.529
gone already. But, yeah, hopefully, like I said,

01:08:28.630 --> 01:08:30.369
they all got paid. And I'm sure they did, like

01:08:30.369 --> 01:08:31.949
I said, because that was the only reason why

01:08:31.949 --> 01:08:33.670
they would do these movies. It's like, hey, we

01:08:33.670 --> 01:08:36.770
need work. Hey, none of these novellas are hiring

01:08:36.770 --> 01:08:40.850
us. Hey, but this guy in this small town is making

01:08:40.850 --> 01:08:44.289
a movie. Okay, let's go. How many pesos are you

01:08:44.289 --> 01:08:46.909
paying? Okay, let's do it. So, yeah, this is

01:08:46.909 --> 01:08:48.550
an example. Like I said, they were not doing

01:08:48.550 --> 01:08:50.289
it because they believed in the movie. They just

01:08:50.289 --> 01:08:54.029
needed money. That's all it was. They needed

01:08:54.029 --> 01:08:56.659
the work. Well, I mean, there it is, guys. You

01:08:56.659 --> 01:09:00.159
had two strange comedies for this. I think these

01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:02.260
are good summer movies, actually. Yeah, especially

01:09:02.260 --> 01:09:03.960
if you're just chilling at home. It's like, hey,

01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:06.840
if you're on Tubi, and I know a lot of people

01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:09.180
watch stuff on Tubi, put it on Tubi. Yeah, yeah.

01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:11.319
And then Kawamas Ninjas, hey, if you want to

01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:13.000
put it on YouTube, put it on YouTube. Or if you

01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:15.500
get the link. If you're lucky enough to have

01:09:15.500 --> 01:09:17.979
a live download link on the show notes. Yeah,

01:09:18.020 --> 01:09:19.260
if you get the download link, yeah, download

01:09:19.260 --> 01:09:21.340
it or just watch it on Dropbox on the website.

01:09:21.899 --> 01:09:24.149
Yeah, just chill, you know. Grab a kawama if

01:09:24.149 --> 01:09:28.310
you want. I don't drink anymore, but if I still

01:09:28.310 --> 01:09:30.029
was drinking, I probably would have to drink

01:09:30.029 --> 01:09:31.829
a kawama just to wash this shit. Yeah, I'm not

01:09:31.829 --> 01:09:33.470
doing that. I don't even really drink either,

01:09:33.569 --> 01:09:40.329
but I'm just saying. I can't. Well, there it

01:09:40.329 --> 01:09:44.130
is, guys. Strange summer, strange movies. A witch.

01:09:44.770 --> 01:09:50.500
Turtles. Good times. I don't know. But, yeah,

01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:54.119
that was fun. We're going to move on next month

01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:58.420
to something a little bit more serious, more

01:09:58.420 --> 01:10:02.840
dramatic titles that I think are relevant to

01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:07.760
what's happening in L .A. today. Again, I think,

01:10:07.779 --> 01:10:11.699
you know, moving forward, I think we've found

01:10:11.699 --> 01:10:15.180
how we're going to. The formula. Yeah, the formula

01:10:15.180 --> 01:10:17.720
of what to do. So, obviously, we're new to this.

01:10:18.590 --> 01:10:21.329
You know, after listening to other people's podcasts,

01:10:21.550 --> 01:10:24.510
shout out to, you know, all the homies that have

01:10:24.510 --> 01:10:27.210
been doing podcasts for so long. Yeah, like Unsung

01:10:27.210 --> 01:10:29.130
Horrors was honestly probably the reason why

01:10:29.130 --> 01:10:30.770
I wanted to. Just after listening to it for a

01:10:30.770 --> 01:10:32.329
little while already, it's like, you know what,

01:10:32.390 --> 01:10:34.310
I kind of want to get on this shit too. Yeah,

01:10:34.310 --> 01:10:36.930
absolutely. Shout out to Unsung Horrors. And

01:10:36.930 --> 01:10:39.029
they're also listeners too. Erica, Lance, they

01:10:39.029 --> 01:10:41.609
shout us out a lot. So it's always awesome to

01:10:41.609 --> 01:10:46.369
hear that. And so I think moving forward, you

01:10:46.369 --> 01:10:49.350
know, the episodes will be more aligned to a

01:10:49.350 --> 01:10:51.689
different format. But I think people are going

01:10:51.689 --> 01:10:54.250
to enjoy it. The topics are still going to stay

01:10:54.250 --> 01:10:57.329
the same. You know, I did have a couple of people

01:10:57.329 --> 01:11:00.470
reach out about some of the playlists that we've

01:11:00.470 --> 01:11:04.229
made on Spotify. You know, that kind of correlate

01:11:04.229 --> 01:11:07.029
to the more music related episodes that we've

01:11:07.029 --> 01:11:10.310
done. um so moving forward you know we're gonna

01:11:10.310 --> 01:11:13.850
have spotify playlists and we're gonna have apple

01:11:13.850 --> 01:11:16.149
playlists because i know there's you know a couple

01:11:16.149 --> 01:11:18.310
people that said they would listen but they don't

01:11:18.310 --> 01:11:22.800
have spotify um so we'll you know those playlists

01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:26.380
will be available on apple oh once you hear this

01:11:26.380 --> 01:11:29.039
it'll be available so you can uh you can follow

01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:31.899
that um which reminds me what was the most downloaded

01:11:31.899 --> 01:11:35.380
episode oh my god which is funny because it has

01:11:35.380 --> 01:11:38.159
to do with music the the episode we did about

01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:41.640
los bookies and los temerarios who would have

01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:43.739
fucking thought i know that one was just like

01:11:43.739 --> 01:11:45.199
a random one that you had an idea i remember

01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:47.000
and i was like yeah let's do it i literally i

01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:50.039
proposed it as a joke and it became it i mean

01:11:50.039 --> 01:11:52.460
it gets at least five downloads every day yeah

01:11:52.460 --> 01:11:54.119
and then you know we just went we hung out with

01:11:54.119 --> 01:11:56.600
jaime we recorded and now all of a sudden it's

01:11:56.600 --> 01:11:58.739
like the probably the popular episode i would

01:11:58.739 --> 01:12:01.859
say ah i mean maybe maybe we gotta you know focus

01:12:01.859 --> 01:12:04.720
on the the music related trash mix that's what

01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:06.779
people want more we have a music one coming up

01:12:06.779 --> 01:12:09.579
too right yeah yeah we i mean i've already you

01:12:09.579 --> 01:12:12.579
know i gotta add it to the to the note the collaborative

01:12:12.579 --> 01:12:14.539
note that we have but yeah i want to do more

01:12:14.539 --> 01:12:19.199
music stuff um i think i think december would

01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:22.039
be a good month for the for the next music uh

01:12:22.039 --> 01:12:25.239
episode just because of who it is. But, yeah,

01:12:25.340 --> 01:12:27.500
I mean, there's a couple other groups that, you

01:12:27.500 --> 01:12:29.899
know, were very prolific in Mexican movies that,

01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:32.000
you know, we're obviously going to talk about

01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:37.399
those. So, you know, don't forget to rate and

01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:40.939
subscribe and review the show. Yeah, give us

01:12:40.939 --> 01:12:44.420
a review, rate us, give us stars, whether it's

01:12:44.420 --> 01:12:47.100
four, five, whatever, three. Or one, if you want

01:12:47.100 --> 01:12:49.579
to, you know, if you hate us. I know I got some

01:12:49.579 --> 01:12:51.899
haters, but the haters that I get are weird.

01:12:51.979 --> 01:12:54.119
They just message me on. Instagram and it's like

01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:57.460
a weird message. I'm like, what? I'm so thankful

01:12:57.460 --> 01:13:01.659
that people don't know who I am. Or on Letterboxd

01:13:01.659 --> 01:13:04.279
they'll comment. I'll be like, okay. Am I supposed

01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:08.640
to get offended? I'm almost 35. I don't care.

01:13:09.260 --> 01:13:13.000
People are just strange. People want immediate

01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:15.739
access to stuff. They want you to give them downloads.

01:13:16.699 --> 01:13:19.100
That's fair. Asking is one thing. Or they're

01:13:19.100 --> 01:13:21.680
just jealous. It's weird. Why are you jealous

01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:23.970
of someone you don't know? I saw one. I mean,

01:13:23.970 --> 01:13:25.609
not to go on a tangent at the end of the show,

01:13:25.630 --> 01:13:28.350
but I saw one when we did. I forgot which episode

01:13:28.350 --> 01:13:35.649
it was. Oh, it was the episode we did with. Oh,

01:13:35.649 --> 01:13:37.029
God, I can't remember his name now. What the

01:13:37.029 --> 01:13:41.449
hell? I feel so bad. The episode we did with

01:13:41.449 --> 01:13:46.649
on. Jesus Christ. What the fuck? When we guessed

01:13:46.649 --> 01:13:52.819
it on. Adolfo? No, not Adolfo. elias's show god

01:13:52.819 --> 01:13:55.460
damn i'm sorry elias yeah elias shout out sorry

01:13:55.460 --> 01:13:57.739
i forget i'm sorry i forgot your name but you

01:13:57.739 --> 01:14:00.319
did an episode with with elias and oh yeah there

01:14:00.319 --> 01:14:02.439
was yeah the one guy was commenting like yeah

01:14:02.439 --> 01:14:05.260
this guy's not a fucking uh he just shows off

01:14:05.260 --> 01:14:07.260
yeah he just shows off his collection he's not

01:14:07.260 --> 01:14:10.039
he doesn't uh represent me i'm like jesus christ

01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:12.140
yeah like relax like it's not that fucking serious

01:14:12.140 --> 01:14:14.140
it's not that serious yeah like that's the thing

01:14:14.140 --> 01:14:16.420
so like i said if you're gonna be weird like

01:14:16.420 --> 01:14:18.119
that like i said just know that i don't care

01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:27.279
no me importa and yeah you know keep watching

01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:29.399
and then if you're following i mean that's all

01:14:29.399 --> 01:14:31.359
on you you don't have those are like the weird

01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:33.479
ones they follow you they watch everything they

01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:35.920
hate on you still you know you can't please everybody

01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:40.000
uh you know it's it's it's hard enough to to

01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:43.119
you know, find these movies. So have some patience

01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:46.039
or have some humility when Armando says he cannot

01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:49.100
upload a movie for you. cool, you know, but that's

01:14:49.100 --> 01:14:51.739
just not my formula. But it's, you know, it's

01:14:51.739 --> 01:14:54.399
also like. This shit takes time to fucking rip

01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:56.840
these movies and put them up and to give them

01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:58.819
out for free. That took me a while, actually.

01:14:58.859 --> 01:15:00.579
Because I thought I had an old rip that I had,

01:15:00.619 --> 01:15:01.920
but I lost it. So I was like, I'm going to have

01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:04.319
to watch it and put it on the disc. Yeah, you

01:15:04.319 --> 01:15:07.159
know, people fucking, you know, people think

01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:08.920
it's so easy to put these shits out. I'm not

01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:10.319
at home all day. Like, I wish I was home all

01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:12.319
day, but half the time I'm at work. I'm fucking

01:15:12.319 --> 01:15:14.199
tired. Well, that's the thing, too. A lot of

01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:16.739
these fools are like these fucking film bro nerds

01:15:16.739 --> 01:15:18.659
that just fucking pretend to watch 10 movies

01:15:18.659 --> 01:15:20.359
a day. Like, get the fuck out of here. Yeah,

01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:22.590
you know, they probably don't do anything. but

01:15:22.590 --> 01:15:24.970
that's another story. But anyway, so like I said,

01:15:25.010 --> 01:15:27.449
strange people, strange summer, strange movies,

01:15:27.550 --> 01:15:29.710
strange movies, strange comedy. Thank you guys

01:15:29.710 --> 01:15:31.489
again. And then for those that are always supportive,

01:15:31.689 --> 01:15:34.029
I'm very, very, very, very much appreciated.

01:15:34.170 --> 01:15:36.649
If I don't like show it enough, I apologize,

01:15:36.689 --> 01:15:38.890
I guess, but also at the same time, just know

01:15:38.890 --> 01:15:41.789
that I'm never, I never overlook anything. Like

01:15:41.789 --> 01:15:44.470
I do appreciate everything I say. And if you're

01:15:44.470 --> 01:15:46.710
responding to me or if I'm messaging you back,

01:15:46.810 --> 01:15:49.979
just know that I do appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely.

01:15:50.300 --> 01:15:52.279
I mean, I don't talk to too many people myself,

01:15:52.340 --> 01:15:56.420
but it's nice to see that people are responding

01:15:56.420 --> 01:15:58.840
well. And I'm sure you get tons of messages.

01:15:58.939 --> 01:16:00.479
I don't get too many. I don't really get many.

01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:02.239
Yeah, you guys need to start messaging Joey because

01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:04.000
sometimes I get an overflow of messages. I'm

01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:07.359
like, I'll respond tomorrow. Which reminds me,

01:16:07.359 --> 01:16:09.479
I have an email. I need to show Joey later, but

01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:11.539
not right now. Yeah, we'll look at it once we're

01:16:11.539 --> 01:16:14.649
done recording here. Shout out to everyone who

01:16:14.649 --> 01:16:18.550
listens. We definitely appreciate it. People

01:16:18.550 --> 01:16:22.109
have left five -star reviews and stuff, but please

01:16:22.109 --> 01:16:25.369
subscribe, tell everybody. Spread the word. The

01:16:25.369 --> 01:16:28.130
mission here is to keep spreading Mexican movies,

01:16:28.430 --> 01:16:31.010
hopefully movies that you've never heard of or

01:16:31.010 --> 01:16:35.359
that you haven't seen. And, you know, hopefully

01:16:35.359 --> 01:16:36.720
people are enjoying it. I think they are enjoying

01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:39.779
it. And I know I'm having fun watching, you know,

01:16:39.779 --> 01:16:41.220
a lot of these movies. Some of them I haven't

01:16:41.220 --> 01:16:44.420
even heard of. Some of them, but. Like, I think

01:16:44.420 --> 01:16:45.779
you're going to really like the one we talk about

01:16:45.779 --> 01:16:47.539
next, which is what? Vagón de la Muerte, right?

01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:49.560
One of them? One of them is Vagón de la Muerte.

01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:52.079
Oh, you're going to be like, oh, shit. I'm excited

01:16:52.079 --> 01:16:53.680
for you to watch that one because that's a really

01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:55.699
good one. I'm excited. You talked that one up

01:16:55.699 --> 01:16:58.819
like crazy a couple months ago or probably a

01:16:58.819 --> 01:17:01.579
year ago now. Like I said, too, like when I.

01:17:02.039 --> 01:17:04.300
I was talking to all those dias at the Juan Valentin

01:17:04.300 --> 01:17:06.640
show. Baguando la Muerte was the main movie they

01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:08.520
were telling me about. I was like, damn, that's

01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:10.840
a movie that people like. I mean, and hopefully

01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:13.100
people tune in. So that'll be on the next one.

01:17:13.159 --> 01:17:15.020
That'll be the next one. And if you, you know,

01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:16.760
you can look that up, you know, preemptively

01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:19.119
right now and pretty much guess what the topic

01:17:19.119 --> 01:17:21.020
is going to be. It'll be more, more serious.

01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:25.750
So. Again, thanks. Thank you very much. Rate,

01:17:25.850 --> 01:17:28.270
review, subscribe, all of it. And hit us up on

01:17:28.270 --> 01:17:32.789
email, on Instagram. Armando's on Twitter, I

01:17:32.789 --> 01:17:34.789
think, or Blue Sky or whatever the fuck it is.

01:17:35.550 --> 01:17:38.390
It's just getting hard now. I know, I know. Now

01:17:38.390 --> 01:17:41.010
I can see why other people are completely leaving.

01:17:41.170 --> 01:17:44.600
Jumping ship, yeah. You know, if you're on Letterboxd,

01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:49.260
follow the list that we put up. Joey has a list

01:17:49.260 --> 01:17:51.000
on there with all the movies that we're covering.

01:17:51.319 --> 01:17:53.960
I add them as the shows come out, you know, not

01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:56.899
to spoil the next month's episodes and what we're

01:17:56.899 --> 01:17:59.739
talking about. So follow along, like it, share

01:17:59.739 --> 01:18:02.680
it, watch. Tell us what you think of all the

01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:04.470
movies. That's the one thing, you know. We want

01:18:04.470 --> 01:18:06.310
to have a dialogue, too. So if you're watching

01:18:06.310 --> 01:18:08.369
it, let us know, man. Tell us what you think.

01:18:08.449 --> 01:18:11.189
If we're doing shitty jobs talking about it or

01:18:11.189 --> 01:18:13.729
if you like the movie, hated the movie, you know,

01:18:13.750 --> 01:18:16.069
just hit us up. Let's start a dialogue, man.

01:18:16.390 --> 01:18:18.890
Mexican movies need to have more discussion,

01:18:19.149 --> 01:18:21.590
you know. Yeah, not just the same ones either.

01:18:22.159 --> 01:18:24.979
Yeah, not all the, you know, the Hodorowskis

01:18:24.979 --> 01:18:27.560
and Alucardada. I saw you got some hate on your

01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:31.380
list about why you didn't add Alucardada. It's

01:18:31.380 --> 01:18:33.000
funny because I was already making fun of that

01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:35.960
before that was going to happen. I knew it was

01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:37.340
going to happen. Even after, it was like, all

01:18:37.340 --> 01:18:39.119
right, it did happen. See, I was right. Yeah,

01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:41.640
I know. It was funny, but it's whatever. It's

01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:44.819
cool. And Vacaciones de Terror is the best horror

01:18:44.819 --> 01:18:47.710
movie. Okay. Of all time, yeah. Best Mexican.

01:18:47.789 --> 01:18:50.189
I'll argue about that during October for something.

01:18:50.390 --> 01:18:52.210
I'll let y 'all know. Oh, you know what? I did

01:18:52.210 --> 01:18:54.130
want to plug because I know you had asked me

01:18:54.130 --> 01:18:56.670
about writing stuff too for the site. Oh, yeah.

01:18:56.750 --> 01:18:59.130
So I'm going to plug this. It's been a while.

01:18:59.189 --> 01:19:01.850
I wanted to publish this article that I wrote

01:19:01.850 --> 01:19:05.380
for the Trash Max website. for the summer and

01:19:05.380 --> 01:19:09.020
so maybe it'll be live by the time the show goes

01:19:09.020 --> 01:19:12.319
up if not you know we'll post it but I did write

01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:15.939
something about you know because I'm a collector

01:19:15.939 --> 01:19:20.899
of soundtracks and library music as some of you

01:19:20.899 --> 01:19:23.180
guys may or may not know but you know I wrote

01:19:23.180 --> 01:19:26.420
a little article about library music in Mexican

01:19:26.420 --> 01:19:29.949
movies and covered specifically one record that

01:19:29.949 --> 01:19:33.569
has been used in many different Mexican movies.

01:19:33.729 --> 01:19:35.970
So I think people will get a kick out of it.

01:19:36.069 --> 01:19:37.989
Hopefully you guys will read it when I post that.

01:19:38.109 --> 01:19:40.189
And obviously we'll, we'll let you know when

01:19:40.189 --> 01:19:43.170
that goes live. I'm still, I know a lot of people

01:19:43.170 --> 01:19:45.010
are still like, Hey, where's the old review for

01:19:45.010 --> 01:19:46.569
this? Like, don't worry guys. It's going to come.

01:19:47.090 --> 01:19:50.640
I've been pumping that shit hard, but. It's a

01:19:50.640 --> 01:19:52.159
long process. I thought it was going to be like

01:19:52.159 --> 01:19:53.939
an easy process, but it's been harder than I

01:19:53.939 --> 01:19:56.460
thought. But the website will be complete by

01:19:56.460 --> 01:19:58.800
the time, like, I don't know, in the coming month

01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:01.359
or so? For sure. And then everything, all the

01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:02.920
new stuff that I have already lined up. There

01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:04.619
it is. So keep an eye on the website as well,

01:20:04.619 --> 01:20:07.279
guys. Trashmix .com. Joey's stuff will be there,

01:20:07.340 --> 01:20:09.539
of course. And hopefully I'll start writing more.

01:20:09.579 --> 01:20:12.720
I plan to write more, too. Yeah, for sure. Yeah,

01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:15.140
we'll get it there. So thanks again, everyone,

01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:16.979
again, for listening. Sorry for rambling for

01:20:16.979 --> 01:20:20.500
the last. 10, 15 minutes, but it is what it is,

01:20:20.500 --> 01:20:23.699
right? Here's a little clip of what's going to

01:20:23.699 --> 01:20:44.239
happen for next month's episode. Peace. en una

01:20:44.239 --> 01:20:49.640
extensión de 2 ,986 kilómetros, donde la gran

01:20:49.640 --> 01:20:54.260
alucinación ejerce su funesta influencia. Aquí,

01:20:54.420 --> 01:20:58.500
donde millones de mexicanos, con razón o sin

01:20:58.500 --> 01:21:01.600
ella, renegando de la tierra que los vio nacer,

01:21:01.779 --> 01:21:05.539
son atraídos también por la fábula del dólar.

01:21:06.340 --> 01:21:11.279
Aquí, donde tiene lugar quizá el drama más intenso

01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:16.060
de nuestros tiempos. human avalanches from all

01:21:16.060 --> 01:21:20.640
over the world of all races and creeds were launched

01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:24.479
since then to the conquest of the land of promise