Ep. 88: "The Phantom of the Opera" Behind the Scenes at the Alabama Theatre

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Thank you.

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Hey y'all, it's me Tara Strong,

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aka Miss Minutes for Bama Geeks.

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I hope you're ready to watch,

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and if you don't,

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I will have to prune you.

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Stay on your sacred timeline.

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Hey, hey, hello.

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Hello.

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Good Sunday evening with the Bama Geeks.

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We are thrilled that you are with us.

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We are live on YouTube.

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And I'm sorry I'm looking down.

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I'm already trying.

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And I want to ask,

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do you guys remember who I am?

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Yeah.

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It's been a while, right?

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That's Kevin.

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We got him back.

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I promise, guys.

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I've been on a journey.

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Well, again,

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we thank you so much for joining us.

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I'm Brock Parker.

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Yes, Kevin is back.

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And then Jess is way over there.

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And so is Bo.

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And right in the middle,

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we've got the man of the hour.

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We've got...

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Mr. Gary W. Jones from the

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Alabama Theater.

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Yay!

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Yes.

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I'm going to start

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channeling my inner Paul

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Lind if I'm going to be the

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center square.

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Absolutely.

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We love Paul.

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Yes.

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You would expect nothing less.

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Nothing less.

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And in the chat, Darnay Olson.

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Howdy, howdy, howdy.

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Hello.

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Hey, Darnay.

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Hey.

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Thank you so much for joining us.

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And if you've got any

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questions or any comments

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for Gary as the stream goes along.

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Careful.

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There are certain words that

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we've been cautioned that

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Gary doesn't like.

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We went over it in our

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member exclusive stream.

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I did not say I didn't like those words.

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I just said it's questionable to use them.

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I use them daily.

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I'm sure Bo does too.

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But Gary is with the Alabama

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theater and we love him and

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we're so thrilled to have him back.

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We had him on earlier this

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year and we're going to

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have him on as much as he

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wants to come on.

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All he has to do is ask.

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So when you text, you're like,

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before you got you out, it's like,

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I'm in.

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Whatever it is, let's go.

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Could you hide a body for me?

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He's like,

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we don't necessarily have to

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talk about the theater.

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What else do you want to talk about?

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I know how to hide a body.

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I have grown up in

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unincorporated Jefferson County.

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I have places.

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There are a lot of places.

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All right.

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All the local stores do not

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sell lime to Gary.

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Yes.

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Gary,

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I'm pretty sure you just went on a list.

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Another one.

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Another one.

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Also, if you're using lime,

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you're an amateur.

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Okay.

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Boy, we knew.

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Yikes.

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There we go.

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Well,

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talk about how to get flagged by YouTube.

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Yeah.

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The only bad press is no press, right?

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Well,

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if their AI is smart enough to figure

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that out, then we're all screwed anyway.

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I was speaking YouTube of

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this kind of thing.

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Yes, the lime.

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You put the lime in the coconut.

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Yeah.

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Or the gin and tonic.

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He knows how to make a mean Cuba Libre,

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you know.

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Oh, my.

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Well,

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we got a lot of fun stuff coming up

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in October at the Alabama Theater,

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and that's what Gary is here for.

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And I cannot wait to hear.

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I know of one thing coming to the Alabama.

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I don't know the whole thing,

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so I want to hear

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everything that you want to talk about.

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Well, just briefly, the October is full.

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So there's all kinds of

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different shows focusing on Halloween.

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On the twenty fifth of October,

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we have Hocus Pocus and

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that's a one showing only.

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So that'll be a lot of fun.

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That's going to sell out.

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No, no.

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We have a costume contest this year.

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We've never done that.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Special specialty cocktails

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with eyeballs in them.

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So that would be fun.

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They're gummies.

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They're gummies.

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They literally were the

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conversation we were just at.

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I didn't know.

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I know.

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The second word we're going

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to use is clarity.

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Clarification.

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Clarification.

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And then, of course,

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our annual production of

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the nineteen twenty five

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Lon Chaney silent classic

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Phantom of the Opera will be Sunday,

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October twenty seventh at two o'clock.

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And that that that is we

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always talk about the

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American Theatre Organ Society,

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the Alabama chapter of the

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American Theatre Organ

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Society and the parallel

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universe that we run in

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geekdom nerding with the Bama Geeks.

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But this for us, for the organ nerds,

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this is like prom.

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So biggest day of the year.

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It's a great event.

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I can never oversell it,

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no matter how enthused I

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seem about it or how great

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I tell you it is.

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Once you come and experience that show,

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you will leave a changed person.

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I'm not saying hopefully,

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you will leave changed.

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It's a wonderful presentation with a very,

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very talented

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incredible organist, Tom Helms, who comes.

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This will be his forty fifth

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year in a row to do this.

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He started doing it.

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I'm kidding.

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I'm kidding.

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No, no.

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He's been doing this since

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nineteen seventy nine.

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And we do it every year.

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We did it even during covid.

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We were we managed to make

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it work and we made it work

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and we did it.

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It's a terrific show.

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We'll talk about the show in

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and of itself and the movie specifically.

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If you'd like... Yes.

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It was only the thumbnail

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for the live stream.

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That's right.

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That's why you're here.

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There are so many things I

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can say about Phantom of the Opera.

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Let me

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the movie itself is, is it's,

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it's not a horror movie and

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everybody thinks, Oh,

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it's a horror movie.

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It is not, it is not, it is,

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it is a story of love and betrayal.

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And that is,

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that is the basic premise of the story.

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And what you have are, uh,

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people who I very much can

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relate to today trying to

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further their career and

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maybe going down a path

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that they really shouldn't

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in order to achieve that career result.

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And that is the premise of the film.

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Now, this is nineteen twenty five.

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It's a silent film.

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So we're lucky that we have Big Bertha,

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the mighty Wurlitzer

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Theater pipe organ doing

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exactly,

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precisely what she was built to do.

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And that is accompany this film.

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And of course,

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when you have a maestro such

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as Mr. Helms at the console,

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he has created this original score

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I we've shown it forty five times.

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I think I've only missed one

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of those performances.

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And in each year, it's a little fresher.

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He's refreshed it and and

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made a couple of changes

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here and there just to keep

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it different and lively.

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But what I always tell people,

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if you've never seen a silent film before,

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is it's come.

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not expecting anything or, you know,

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expecting whatever you want.

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But what you're going to get

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out of it is going to be

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all of a sudden very,

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very different than the

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realization that you're

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thinking this is a silent

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film about three to five

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minutes in the most

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significant repeated comment

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that I get from patrons

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about three to five,

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maybe seven minutes in is it's like,

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I forgot it was a silent film.

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I forgot there was an organ.

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I forgot there was a man

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down there playing for

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ninety six minutes nonstop.

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And it's because his

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masterful score weaves the

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story in and out.

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Each character has a musical theme.

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And he takes each

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character's musical theme

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and he will take them and,

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if I can do this on screen,

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twist them around and

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invert them and flip them over.

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And all of a sudden you're like,

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wait a minute,

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that's her theme coming

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from this juxtaposition in the film.

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And

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And if you're a geeky musician like me,

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I'm just like, clever, clever, clever.

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It's just amazing.

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And of course,

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the organ lends itself to

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all the sound effects that

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are needed and all the...

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the classical music that's

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part of the score,

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all of the theatrical music

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that's part of the score.

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And of course,

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I'll go into a little bit more detail.

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This story centers around a

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young aspiring opera star,

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and the setting is Paris Opera House.

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She is there, she's on the rise,

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she's an understudy, she is

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trying to make her mark and

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she is not making any

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headway there is the the

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prima donna uh ahead of her

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and she's one of those uh

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stage hogs with a stage

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mother and so they're

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they're trying all sorts of

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ways and I'm not really

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going to give away a whole

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lot of the film but that basically um

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There is a character that is

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living in the bowels of the

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Paris Opera House.

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He had been in prison there

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during the revolution and

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escaped and is living there.

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And of course,

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he is he's a genius as far

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as being able to invent

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things and do things.

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And then he does delve into the dark arts,

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black magic.

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And so the basic premise of

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the film is he enters into

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an agreement with our main

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character to promote her career.

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And she is like, yes, I'll do it.

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I'm all for it.

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But there's always a but.

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She does not realize what

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he's asking for in exchange.

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And so throughout the film,

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what we find is

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she is really,

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manipulating everyone around her.

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And, uh, I, I feel very, uh, not sorry.

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What's the word I'm looking for?

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Uh, for, for the Phantom himself, Eric, uh,

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because he's, he's,

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he's presented her with options.

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She's chosen the options and

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then she betrays those options.

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Right.

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So the whole tale revolves

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around this and the other

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characters in the film.

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And, uh,

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This movie in nineteen

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twenty five was an almost

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instant triumph.

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And of course,

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you've got a cast of

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characters that at the time

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were known names.

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You had Lon Chaney,

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who was certainly known

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just coming off of

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Hunchback to do this film.

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And of course,

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the makeup and prosthetics

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and all of that, he did himself.

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Those things in and of

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itself are worth watching the film alone.

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And then you have Mary

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Philbin who plays the lead,

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Christine Day.

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And she's hot now.

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And I mean,

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not hot like I'm talking like

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hot ticket items.

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She's, I've got a list of,

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she's just come off of Temple of Venus in,

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and the Gaiety Girl in .

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And here now she, Chaney wanted her.

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for this particular role.

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And then you've got Norman Carey,

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who was very, very handsome heartthrob.

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And he was also in Hunchback.

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So Chaney knew of him and

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wanted him involved with this.

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And then we have Mary Fabian.

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And Mary Fabian, believe it or not,

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from birmingham alabama oh

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wow yeah and she she plays

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uh carlotta who is the the

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main character the lead uh

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in the paris early on in

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the film who gets displaced

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um she was born in in

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birmingham and had a

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professional operatic

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background in training she

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performed uh

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internationally as a soprano she did

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So much and founded the, let's see,

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I've got to get this correct.

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She founded the American

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Civic Production Company

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and founded the Civic Opera

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Association in Birmingham,

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which later paved the way

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for opera in Birmingham.

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She sang Madame Butterfly

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over a hundred performances in Italy.

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And she,

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she was just highly sought after

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because she,

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She could act primarily.

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Her goal and focus in life was opera.

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So putting her as the lead

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character sort of in an

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operatic situation was just

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a natural fit.

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Now, she, I'm sorry,

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I don't mean to interrupt, Jess,

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but this picture here shows her.

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She's getting sworn in.

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This is in WWII.

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She's in World War II.

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She was sworn in as a WAC.

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And went overseas and

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entertained audiences and

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entertained soldiers.

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And so she served in the Army Corps from,

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I believe,

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forty three to forty seven and

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then came back to Birmingham.

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So a great tie.

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in the film from our native city.

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I had no idea.

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I didn't even know that.

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No, I know.

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I know.

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Thanks for that.

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You're welcome.

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You're welcome.

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But I always imagine that, you know,

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here's this...

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She's not a little girl.

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Here's this little girl from

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Birmingham winding up in

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all these different places

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at such important times in

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the history of the world, in our country,

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in the world.

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So it's always good.

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But the film runs about

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ninety six minutes.

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We do a little entry with the.

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coffin casket there's

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there's a difference I

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can't I can't remember

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which uh it's I believe

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it's the shape of of the of

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the box and then the the

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phantom comes and does uh

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his thing out of out of there it's just

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incredible in the production.

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And then to sit there and

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play that organ for ninety six minutes,

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I just it's you know,

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I'm good to get through a

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thirteen minute show and it's fine.

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But anyway,

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that's that's the basic premise.

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The show itself is the biggest fundraiser

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for Big Bertha.

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It is our annual fundraiser.

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So all of the net profit

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goes to the regular ongoing

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maintenance that we do on the organ.

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And it funds all the other

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things that we do

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throughout the rest of the year.

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I really can't encourage you

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enough and oversell it enough.

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I think everyone would

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thoroughly enjoy it.

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That's awesome, man.

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I'm sorry.

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I was not on the mute button

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quick enough for Jess.

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She's got a cough going on.

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She's enjoying the season

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like we all have.

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Yeah.

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Bo,

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you should get her to come cut your

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grass.

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I mean, it won't matter to her.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Hey, yeah, hey.

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She has a hard time seeing

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over the handlebars of the lawnmower.

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Yeah.

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I will say I'm intimately

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interested in going and seeing this.

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I'm definitely going to be

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getting tickets myself as well to go.

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I'm working on my second right now to go,

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my buddy.

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But I've only ever seen the

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Andrew Wood Weber versions of it.

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And I really want to see

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this older version.

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So there are half a dozen

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different versions.

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There was the nineteen

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twenty nine redub remake.

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They cut some scenes and

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added some scenes in nineteen.

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I think four.

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Don't quote me here.

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Forty five mid forties.

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Let's just say that's all be safe.

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Redo.

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And then there was one later on than that.

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And then, of course, you know.

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Ruining Phantom, as he did Cats,

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Andrew Lloyd Webber comes

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in and creates this astounding,

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gorgeous musical.

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And of course,

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the first year after Andrew

00:18:40.038 --> 00:18:41.098
Lloyd Webber's Phantom of

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the Opera hits and we're

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doing our annual showing,

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which we don't even think

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anything about it,

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And we had this one lady who

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came and she was just

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furious that this was not

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the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

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And in true Gary form,

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I just put one hand on one

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hip and I was like, lady,

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your ticket was five bucks.

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What did you expect?

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Even in Birmingham,

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you're not going to get

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Broadway musicals.

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Now we make sure that

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everything that we say and

00:19:22.191 --> 00:19:23.852
everything that we do and

00:19:23.912 --> 00:19:25.113
every ticket and every

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promo and every social media thing says,

00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:34.461
And I always go out right

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before everything starts to

00:19:36.144 --> 00:19:37.305
get everybody into their seats.

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Because once we start the show,

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they've got to stay seated

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for the first couple of minutes.

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And I always remind everyone

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that this is not the Andrew

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Lloyd Webber production.

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And if you think it is, please see me.

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And I will not give your money back.

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I'll smack you about the

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lobby and we'll go on.

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And the funny thing is,

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as we're talking here,

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I'm chatting with someone

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via text about the

00:20:02.346 --> 00:20:04.469
potential of going and seeing this.

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And they're looking at this

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and they saw somewhere on

00:20:08.790 --> 00:20:09.832
the page where it says it's

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a horror movie.

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somewhere on the actual page

00:20:13.479 --> 00:20:14.680
for this says it's a horror movie.

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They're like, is it a horror movie?

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And I'm like, no,

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I'm literally talking to

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the guy right now that puts it on.

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It's not a horror movie.

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No,

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but I know it gets categorized as a

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horror movie because the Phantom's figure,

00:20:36.103 --> 00:20:37.064
his prosthetic,

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his makeup is very disturbing.

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Even even today.

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Yeah,

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it was horrifying in nineteen twenty

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five.

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But I, I repeat myself.

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This is a story of love and betrayal,

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not a gory horror film.

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Right.

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You might need to check your Web site,

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Gary.

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I'm not in control of that.

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You need to talk to the web

00:21:07.343 --> 00:21:09.323
team because it says film synopsis,

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the Phantom of the Opera,

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nineteen twenty five, unrated,

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ninety three minutes horror.

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He's like, I got to make a phone call,

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hang on.

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Take horror down.

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I'm over here trying to

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convince these people that

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it's not horror and that

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you guys go and put horror

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on the website.

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Okay, it's a horror film.

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It's a horror film for those

00:21:39.980 --> 00:21:41.740
expecting Android Lloyd Webber.

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That's the horror.

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Oh, goodness.

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I'll check into that

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tomorrow after my morning gin and tonic.

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Jess and I,

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we have only been able to come

00:22:03.336 --> 00:22:04.497
down to see it once,

00:22:05.017 --> 00:22:06.898
but it made such a lasting impression.

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We're

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We're definitely gonna try

00:22:08.653 --> 00:22:10.013
to get my daughter to come

00:22:10.054 --> 00:22:10.855
with us this year.

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Oh, I think she'd love it, yeah.

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She is a musical person like all of us.

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I think if you took the body

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of our American Theatre

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Organ Society chapter,

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And you go down the row and say,

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how did you first or how

00:22:34.481 --> 00:22:35.663
did you get involved or

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what connected you to the

00:22:37.123 --> 00:22:38.823
Alabama Theater and Big

00:22:38.883 --> 00:22:40.943
Bertha and the Mighty Warlitzer?

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I guarantee you nine out of

00:22:42.884 --> 00:22:44.124
ten of them will say, oh,

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I attended Phantom of the

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Opera in fill in the blank year.

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It's what hooked me.

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It's like I had when growing up.

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My mom was cheap.

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We never went to the Alabama.

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We were going to second run

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neighborhood houses.

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We were going to the Empire

00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:03.820
and the Melba because it was cheaper.

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And good Lord,

00:23:06.082 --> 00:23:08.262
Mona turns ninety Saturday

00:23:08.823 --> 00:23:10.044
and she's still she's still

00:23:10.124 --> 00:23:10.944
out there squeezing a

00:23:10.984 --> 00:23:14.866
nickel in her craggly hand.

00:23:17.375 --> 00:23:18.895
She's not watching so I can say that.

00:23:21.596 --> 00:23:22.297
I won't tell her.

00:23:23.018 --> 00:23:23.718
Don't tell her.

00:23:23.758 --> 00:23:28.080
So I had never been to the

00:23:28.641 --> 00:23:29.741
Alabama growing up.

00:23:29.801 --> 00:23:32.563
We just, we went elsewhere.

00:23:33.644 --> 00:23:36.566
And in nineteen eighty one,

00:23:36.625 --> 00:23:37.846
which was the year that I

00:23:37.865 --> 00:23:39.346
became involved with the

00:23:39.426 --> 00:23:41.008
Alabama and the American

00:23:41.028 --> 00:23:42.169
Theatre Organ Society.

00:23:43.161 --> 00:23:47.805
I was at college and on WBHM,

00:23:47.865 --> 00:23:49.006
they made the announcement

00:23:49.046 --> 00:23:51.028
that the Oregon Society was

00:23:51.048 --> 00:23:51.748
going to be showing this.

00:23:51.847 --> 00:23:54.349
I thought, hey, that can be kind of fun.

00:23:54.390 --> 00:23:56.152
Maybe I'll drive down for that.

00:23:56.172 --> 00:23:57.952
And I was at Jacksonville State,

00:23:57.992 --> 00:24:00.055
so it was a super easy drive.

00:24:00.855 --> 00:24:03.718
And I came down and saw it and I was like,

00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:07.740
holy Hannah Montana, that's just...

00:24:11.387 --> 00:24:13.308
You said that in eighty one.

00:24:13.328 --> 00:24:13.409
Yeah.

00:24:16.050 --> 00:24:16.770
What was that?

00:24:16.851 --> 00:24:18.071
And what is that?

00:24:18.112 --> 00:24:19.833
And what the hell is that?

00:24:22.854 --> 00:24:23.934
And as they say, you know,

00:24:24.015 --> 00:24:27.676
I was hooked and I went the

00:24:27.717 --> 00:24:28.497
chapter meets every

00:24:28.537 --> 00:24:29.857
Saturday to work on the organ.

00:24:29.897 --> 00:24:30.678
And I went back the next

00:24:30.718 --> 00:24:32.519
Saturday to to see if I

00:24:32.558 --> 00:24:33.460
could get involved and.

00:24:34.662 --> 00:24:35.923
As they say, the rest is history.

00:24:36.682 --> 00:24:37.643
And here we are now.

00:24:39.523 --> 00:24:40.384
Now I want to hear more

00:24:40.403 --> 00:24:41.924
about the origin story of

00:24:41.964 --> 00:24:46.067
Hannah Montana now.

00:24:48.847 --> 00:24:49.909
Much like the Phantom,

00:24:50.108 --> 00:24:55.431
I too delve in the dark arts.

00:24:55.471 --> 00:24:57.071
Not too bad with Miley Cyrus, okay?

00:24:57.132 --> 00:24:57.271
Yes.

00:25:00.732 --> 00:25:04.195
So I foresaw and foretold

00:25:04.855 --> 00:25:06.317
Hannah Montana's existence.

00:25:09.398 --> 00:25:09.640
Well,

00:25:10.099 --> 00:25:11.901
I don't know whether to be proud of

00:25:11.941 --> 00:25:12.442
you or not.

00:25:13.162 --> 00:25:14.603
Whisper to Billy Ray's ear.

00:25:16.744 --> 00:25:17.404
Be scared.

00:25:17.986 --> 00:25:18.465
Be scared.

00:25:23.531 --> 00:25:25.133
It's certainly a sight to behold.

00:25:26.615 --> 00:25:28.836
I know when Jess and I went,

00:25:29.036 --> 00:25:31.617
we expected to see the film.

00:25:31.877 --> 00:25:33.118
We expected to hear the organ.

00:25:33.239 --> 00:25:34.920
As you said,

00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:37.162
we did not expect for all of a

00:25:37.201 --> 00:25:38.722
sudden to be a procession

00:25:38.762 --> 00:25:39.604
down the aisles.

00:25:39.923 --> 00:25:40.624
Yeah.

00:25:40.644 --> 00:25:41.805
And then on stage with the

00:25:41.865 --> 00:25:44.166
cemetery and everything like that.

00:25:44.186 --> 00:25:44.267
Yeah.

00:25:44.287 --> 00:25:46.587
Well, in our new...

00:25:48.105 --> 00:25:49.385
I'm not going to spoil anything,

00:25:49.445 --> 00:25:49.967
I don't think,

00:25:50.067 --> 00:25:51.267
but our new lighting

00:25:51.287 --> 00:25:53.528
director has some tricks up her sleeve.

00:25:54.407 --> 00:25:57.308
And it's like two or three times a week,

00:25:57.328 --> 00:25:58.528
she's rushing into where

00:25:58.548 --> 00:26:00.250
I'm sitting going, what if we did this?

00:26:00.309 --> 00:26:02.410
And I'm like, yes, yes.

00:26:04.550 --> 00:26:06.852
So I think, you know,

00:26:06.872 --> 00:26:08.132
I'm going to get her really

00:26:08.152 --> 00:26:09.251
hyped up on some kind of

00:26:09.313 --> 00:26:10.472
chemical that night of.

00:26:14.256 --> 00:26:15.916
we'll see what happens so so

00:26:15.997 --> 00:26:17.257
is she like the whoever

00:26:17.277 --> 00:26:18.617
controls the the lights at

00:26:18.637 --> 00:26:19.818
bryant denny stadium now

00:26:20.118 --> 00:26:23.400
yeah like that she has the

00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.721
power I got rgb now watch

00:26:25.781 --> 00:26:29.804
it full fan of the pink

00:26:29.844 --> 00:26:34.465
floyd wait am I tripping

00:26:34.506 --> 00:26:36.426
what's going on what is

00:26:36.467 --> 00:26:38.208
going on it's like it's like

00:26:38.674 --> 00:26:39.494
Let me take your ticket.

00:26:39.575 --> 00:26:42.236
And here's your pill.

00:26:42.256 --> 00:26:44.195
Let us transport you back to

00:26:44.236 --> 00:26:45.896
nineteen twenty five.

00:26:46.696 --> 00:26:49.238
And then it starts RGB.

00:26:49.258 --> 00:26:49.718
Wash that.

00:26:49.758 --> 00:26:50.678
Wash that pill down with

00:26:50.698 --> 00:26:51.919
some Tito's handmade vodka.

00:26:51.939 --> 00:26:56.539
We're there.

00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:57.119
We're there.

00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:58.140
So you got that plug in.

00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.681
That's right.

00:26:59.721 --> 00:27:01.560
We will have a lovely little

00:27:02.461 --> 00:27:04.122
fun cocktail for both Hocus

00:27:04.142 --> 00:27:05.061
Pocus and Phantom.

00:27:06.503 --> 00:27:08.006
Featuring Tito's handmade vodka.

00:27:08.165 --> 00:27:10.768
Of course, yeah.

00:27:10.848 --> 00:27:11.669
And gummy.

00:27:12.170 --> 00:27:12.569
And gummy.

00:27:12.971 --> 00:27:13.852
An edible gummy.

00:27:17.114 --> 00:27:18.394
This is going to be a very

00:27:18.615 --> 00:27:20.736
awesome movie presentation.

00:27:20.756 --> 00:27:25.259
It is a child-approved edible gum.

00:27:25.419 --> 00:27:28.020
Yeah, right.

00:27:28.381 --> 00:27:30.701
We got it out of a child-safe container,

00:27:30.842 --> 00:27:31.222
okay?

00:27:32.123 --> 00:27:32.723
It's approved.

00:27:32.763 --> 00:27:34.064
It's all right.

00:27:34.124 --> 00:27:36.526
Next, your sponsor, Avondale Apothecary.

00:27:42.974 --> 00:27:43.434
I've heard.

00:27:45.836 --> 00:27:47.776
It's just a rumor.

00:27:48.036 --> 00:27:51.136
The rumor.

00:27:52.696 --> 00:27:54.538
I can't say enough wonderful

00:27:54.557 --> 00:27:56.498
things about Mr. Helms.

00:27:56.637 --> 00:27:58.118
Once this film gets underway,

00:27:58.159 --> 00:27:59.298
he kind of disappears.

00:28:00.058 --> 00:28:02.779
And as I mentioned, folks say,

00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:05.079
I forgot he was there.

00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:05.900
And he's like,

00:28:05.961 --> 00:28:06.820
that is the greatest

00:28:06.881 --> 00:28:07.861
compliment I can get.

00:28:08.330 --> 00:28:09.611
is that you get so wrapped

00:28:09.691 --> 00:28:11.132
up in the characters and so

00:28:11.152 --> 00:28:12.892
wrapped up in the score.

00:28:13.232 --> 00:28:15.192
And I point these things out

00:28:15.212 --> 00:28:16.294
because I want you to look

00:28:16.334 --> 00:28:17.733
for them if this is your first time,

00:28:18.193 --> 00:28:22.035
is if they are showing an

00:28:22.255 --> 00:28:26.696
opera on screen and the

00:28:28.718 --> 00:28:31.438
singer is in that moment,

00:28:31.699 --> 00:28:33.818
he is playing the exact

00:28:34.900 --> 00:28:36.319
lines that she is singing.

00:28:38.176 --> 00:28:38.817
At one point,

00:28:38.836 --> 00:28:39.917
they're doing a ballet and

00:28:39.958 --> 00:28:42.141
he's doing that ballet.

00:28:42.361 --> 00:28:43.541
You see the orchestra doing

00:28:44.103 --> 00:28:45.044
their thing down there.

00:28:45.104 --> 00:28:46.144
He is actually playing the

00:28:46.224 --> 00:28:47.666
orchestral part of the

00:28:47.707 --> 00:28:48.948
ballet that's being performed.

00:28:50.032 --> 00:28:50.553
Oh, wow.

00:28:50.573 --> 00:28:51.953
It's all very, I get chills.

00:28:52.174 --> 00:28:53.155
It's all very clever.

00:28:54.717 --> 00:28:56.719
And he's a madman.

00:28:56.778 --> 00:28:58.601
And I mean that in the best possible way.

00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:00.582
It's just a genius that he

00:29:00.602 --> 00:29:01.824
contrives all of this.

00:29:01.844 --> 00:29:05.247
And later on,

00:29:05.326 --> 00:29:08.108
he literally plays the ballet in reverse.

00:29:08.128 --> 00:29:11.231
And it's really creepy and

00:29:11.271 --> 00:29:12.933
it conjures the devil.

00:29:12.953 --> 00:29:13.233
No, I'm kidding.

00:29:13.253 --> 00:29:13.594
I'm kidding.

00:29:13.614 --> 00:29:13.934
I'm kidding.

00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:16.961
I just convinced someone

00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:18.402
it's not a horror movie, Gary,

00:29:18.422 --> 00:29:20.604
so that they would come to me to see this,

00:29:20.644 --> 00:29:21.444
and now you're saying we're

00:29:21.484 --> 00:29:25.587
conjuring the devil.

00:29:25.788 --> 00:29:26.808
It's a southern devil.

00:29:26.828 --> 00:29:30.172
Okay, so they got to battle over a fiddle?

00:29:32.012 --> 00:29:34.875
Alabama devil.

00:29:35.035 --> 00:29:35.875
Mama said Phantom of the

00:29:35.955 --> 00:29:36.676
Opera is the devil.

00:29:40.541 --> 00:29:41.462
Come see Phantom of the

00:29:41.544 --> 00:29:42.986
Opera or the devil will get you.

00:29:43.946 --> 00:29:44.347
There you go.

00:29:44.367 --> 00:29:47.992
That needs to be your marquee now.

00:29:48.012 --> 00:29:48.933
Your digital marquee.

00:29:52.317 --> 00:29:53.538
By the way, we passed,

00:29:53.919 --> 00:29:55.961
we were driving down I-sixty-five,

00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.301
passed that sign last week.

00:29:58.022 --> 00:29:59.143
It's time to repaint that.

00:29:59.163 --> 00:30:00.124
It's getting a little faded.

00:30:00.144 --> 00:30:01.065
A little fade, yeah.

00:30:01.085 --> 00:30:01.184
What?

00:30:03.507 --> 00:30:04.327
The actual sign?

00:30:04.768 --> 00:30:04.968
Yeah.

00:30:05.188 --> 00:30:05.469
Yeah,

00:30:05.509 --> 00:30:06.750
go to church or the devil will get

00:30:06.769 --> 00:30:07.390
you the sign.

00:30:07.710 --> 00:30:07.910
Oh,

00:30:08.790 --> 00:30:11.153
I thought you were talking about the

00:30:11.173 --> 00:30:11.593
Alabama marquee.

00:30:11.613 --> 00:30:12.074
No, you didn't.

00:30:12.493 --> 00:30:13.535
We just didn't shut down for

00:30:13.555 --> 00:30:13.994
a couple months.

00:30:14.015 --> 00:30:14.496
I'm afraid not, sir.

00:30:14.516 --> 00:30:18.019
He's like, that is literally my job.

00:30:18.118 --> 00:30:19.138
You did not say that, okay?

00:30:21.540 --> 00:30:23.042
I'm worried there for a second there.

00:30:23.182 --> 00:30:25.724
How could you see our

00:30:25.765 --> 00:30:27.126
marquee from sixty five?

00:30:30.250 --> 00:30:31.951
That sign is in rough shape, though.

00:30:31.971 --> 00:30:32.811
It really is.

00:30:32.832 --> 00:30:35.914
I think that adds to its charm.

00:30:36.255 --> 00:30:36.555
Yeah.

00:30:36.756 --> 00:30:37.757
Yeah, I think so.

00:30:39.662 --> 00:30:39.842
I mean,

00:30:39.862 --> 00:30:41.083
last time I drove by the sign

00:30:41.103 --> 00:30:42.403
looked rough and the grass

00:30:42.423 --> 00:30:43.305
was growing up really bad

00:30:43.345 --> 00:30:44.125
around it as well.

00:30:44.145 --> 00:30:44.605
And I was like,

00:30:45.446 --> 00:30:46.907
do you want a glitzy devil?

00:30:47.188 --> 00:30:47.888
Do you want a glitzy?

00:30:51.330 --> 00:30:52.791
Gary, are you asking me for real?

00:30:52.811 --> 00:30:53.353
Because yes, I do.

00:30:53.373 --> 00:30:55.875
That sounds like one of them

00:30:55.894 --> 00:30:56.915
specialty drinks you're going to make.

00:31:01.219 --> 00:31:02.960
I mean, when I think of the devil,

00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:04.280
I think of Glenda from the

00:31:04.300 --> 00:31:05.082
new wicked movie.

00:31:05.762 --> 00:31:06.083
Okay.

00:31:06.623 --> 00:31:07.144
You know what I mean?

00:31:07.183 --> 00:31:08.724
Like, you know, yeah.

00:31:08.744 --> 00:31:08.825
Yeah.

00:31:09.673 --> 00:31:09.972
Well,

00:31:09.992 --> 00:31:11.394
you get a little Ariana Grande as the

00:31:11.413 --> 00:31:11.773
devil.

00:31:12.194 --> 00:31:13.974
Well, you got me thinking, like,

00:31:13.994 --> 00:31:14.675
when you're thinking of that,

00:31:14.695 --> 00:31:15.375
of a glitchy devil,

00:31:15.395 --> 00:31:17.436
I would think of him from, what was it,

00:31:17.457 --> 00:31:18.478
the, what was the cartoon?

00:31:18.498 --> 00:31:19.278
Powerpuff Girls.

00:31:19.438 --> 00:31:20.578
Powerpuff Girls, yes, him.

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:25.381
I just, I, for some reason, went to,

00:31:25.961 --> 00:31:27.061
I went to Saturday Night Live,

00:31:27.102 --> 00:31:29.002
church that, do you want Satan glitzy?

00:31:29.042 --> 00:31:29.423
Satan glitzy.

00:31:34.548 --> 00:31:35.388
Okay, Gary,

00:31:35.469 --> 00:31:37.089
there's your new... Are we

00:31:37.109 --> 00:31:38.089
going to get back on track here?

00:31:38.631 --> 00:31:39.570
Oh, no, no, no.

00:31:39.590 --> 00:31:41.212
Just to clarify for anyone listening,

00:31:41.292 --> 00:31:43.273
it's not a horror thing, okay?

00:31:43.394 --> 00:31:43.854
Please.

00:31:44.634 --> 00:31:44.914
Gary,

00:31:44.934 --> 00:31:48.096
that is your new shirt at your work

00:31:48.136 --> 00:31:49.018
camp in Alabama.

00:31:49.218 --> 00:31:50.338
Do you want a glitzy devil?

00:31:50.878 --> 00:31:52.240
Do you want a glitzy devil?

00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:52.660
Yes.

00:31:55.801 --> 00:31:56.583
And people who have been

00:31:56.702 --> 00:31:57.923
coming since seventy nine

00:31:57.963 --> 00:31:59.765
when they got started, they're like,

00:31:59.805 --> 00:32:00.986
what are you talking about?

00:32:01.066 --> 00:32:07.010
So I think a couple of you

00:32:07.451 --> 00:32:08.692
have been to a Christmas

00:32:08.731 --> 00:32:09.972
movie where I'm actually

00:32:10.012 --> 00:32:13.175
playing for the Christmas movie.

00:32:13.256 --> 00:32:15.518
I generally wear some kind

00:32:15.877 --> 00:32:19.300
of Pentecostal style jacket.

00:32:19.461 --> 00:32:19.780
Yes.

00:32:21.001 --> 00:32:23.805
And so there's your glitzy devil.

00:32:24.144 --> 00:32:25.145
Oh, there you go.

00:32:26.826 --> 00:32:27.026
I mean,

00:32:27.046 --> 00:32:28.567
we've seen you perform at the best

00:32:28.587 --> 00:32:33.073
Christmas movie, which is Die Hard.

00:32:33.532 --> 00:32:33.633
Yeah.

00:32:33.973 --> 00:32:34.934
Now see, let's talk about this.

00:32:34.954 --> 00:32:35.535
Here we go.

00:32:37.517 --> 00:32:39.259
Is Phantom a horror movie?

00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:42.803
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

00:32:43.584 --> 00:32:45.065
I'm not going to open that can of worms.

00:32:45.586 --> 00:32:46.467
It is a Christmas movie.

00:32:47.082 --> 00:32:47.882
It is a Christmas movie.

00:32:47.981 --> 00:32:49.863
It is a Christmas movie.

00:32:50.143 --> 00:32:51.223
Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

00:32:51.263 --> 00:32:51.403
No,

00:32:51.743 --> 00:32:53.663
you'll never ever get me to say

00:32:53.704 --> 00:32:54.404
anything else.

00:32:56.125 --> 00:32:57.566
Phantom is a love story with

00:32:57.605 --> 00:32:59.227
a very scary figure.

00:32:59.267 --> 00:33:03.147
Yeah, so is it horrific?

00:33:03.508 --> 00:33:03.867
Yes.

00:33:04.388 --> 00:33:06.269
But for the sake of this show,

00:33:06.628 --> 00:33:07.470
we need to make sure that

00:33:07.490 --> 00:33:09.990
we say that Phantom is not a horror movie,

00:33:10.010 --> 00:33:10.171
okay?

00:33:10.230 --> 00:33:12.672
Because I can't... I need

00:33:12.692 --> 00:33:13.432
that to be like...

00:33:14.098 --> 00:33:16.480
okay I I I think that's an

00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:17.901
okay thing to say because I

00:33:17.961 --> 00:33:19.701
say that I it is a story of

00:33:19.781 --> 00:33:22.544
love and betrayal and I

00:33:22.564 --> 00:33:23.644
know we're live how much

00:33:23.663 --> 00:33:24.785
can I get away with saying

00:33:24.825 --> 00:33:28.507
here we push the boundaries

00:33:28.567 --> 00:33:29.508
already brock's already

00:33:29.528 --> 00:33:30.607
been squirming over there a

00:33:30.627 --> 00:33:36.131
little bit so well you know

00:33:36.171 --> 00:33:38.593
people we got several people watching uh

00:33:39.365 --> 00:33:41.207
Why don't you guys that are watching live,

00:33:41.646 --> 00:33:42.507
sound off in the chat.

00:33:43.288 --> 00:33:44.488
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

00:33:44.627 --> 00:33:46.128
Is Phantom of the Opera a horror movie?

00:33:46.769 --> 00:33:47.028
Yeah.

00:33:47.469 --> 00:33:49.950
Give us your take.

00:33:50.029 --> 00:33:52.191
But I always tell people privately,

00:33:52.310 --> 00:33:54.352
you know, the main character in here,

00:33:54.392 --> 00:33:56.373
Christine Day, she is a,

00:33:56.432 --> 00:33:58.034
and you just fill in the

00:33:58.074 --> 00:33:59.394
blank there with the word

00:33:59.413 --> 00:34:00.674
that you're thinking right now.

00:34:00.755 --> 00:34:00.994
Yeah.

00:34:01.015 --> 00:34:01.154
Yeah.

00:34:04.175 --> 00:34:08.538
yeah yeah yeah a scoundrel

00:34:08.557 --> 00:34:10.358
there we go she is the

00:34:10.398 --> 00:34:12.960
devil there you go she's

00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:14.800
not glitzy enough though

00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:18.181
yeah I don't know she's got

00:34:18.222 --> 00:34:19.483
some great costumes in this

00:34:19.523 --> 00:34:20.742
this movie oh that is true

00:34:20.782 --> 00:34:23.744
that is true you know I

00:34:23.885 --> 00:34:25.125
really hate I really hate

00:34:25.144 --> 00:34:27.365
that I I've got the uh neck

00:34:27.405 --> 00:34:28.867
of the toy company they put out

00:34:29.813 --> 00:34:30.695
They put out a black and

00:34:30.715 --> 00:34:33.336
white Lon Chaney Phantom of

00:34:33.356 --> 00:34:34.137
the Opera figure,

00:34:34.237 --> 00:34:36.039
and I totally failed and

00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:37.280
did not... I mean,

00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.340
I can go get it really

00:34:38.380 --> 00:34:39.481
quickly if you want to see it.

00:34:40.202 --> 00:34:41.023
Do you know where it's at?

00:34:41.802 --> 00:34:42.023
Yep.

00:34:42.202 --> 00:34:42.423
Oh, okay.

00:34:42.443 --> 00:34:42.864
Go get it, Brock.

00:34:42.884 --> 00:34:44.005
Go get it, Brock.

00:34:44.025 --> 00:34:44.585
Go get it, Brock.

00:34:44.605 --> 00:34:45.166
We're totally going to

00:34:45.186 --> 00:34:46.365
break... We're going to

00:34:46.407 --> 00:34:47.327
break this while you're gone.

00:34:54.411 --> 00:34:54.652
Yeah.

00:34:54.952 --> 00:34:56.634
I think he muted Jess as well.

00:34:56.673 --> 00:34:57.394
Oh.

00:34:59.248 --> 00:35:00.130
Oh, Jess, you're muted.

00:35:00.150 --> 00:35:01.231
Yeah, when she stepped away,

00:35:01.251 --> 00:35:02.094
I took him out.

00:35:02.273 --> 00:35:04.056
So, Jess, this is your cue to cough.

00:35:04.077 --> 00:35:05.418
You can cough now, okay?

00:35:05.438 --> 00:35:07.342
Cough all you want.

00:35:07.362 --> 00:35:09.364
Into the mic.

00:35:11.269 --> 00:35:12.271
so yeah we want to make sure

00:35:12.291 --> 00:35:13.510
that we are very well aware

00:35:13.530 --> 00:35:14.831
that the phantom that this

00:35:14.851 --> 00:35:15.652
version of the phantom is

00:35:15.751 --> 00:35:16.711
not a horror movie and

00:35:16.731 --> 00:35:18.273
neither and no version of

00:35:18.293 --> 00:35:18.932
the phantom I've ever

00:35:18.992 --> 00:35:19.873
watched has been a horror

00:35:19.914 --> 00:35:21.313
movie it's always exactly

00:35:21.353 --> 00:35:22.215
the way you described it

00:35:22.255 --> 00:35:23.215
gary where it's just kind

00:35:23.255 --> 00:35:25.155
of a it's a love story you

00:35:25.195 --> 00:35:26.436
very much feel the love in

00:35:26.496 --> 00:35:27.817
it and it's also the big

00:35:27.856 --> 00:35:28.777
thing is is a story of

00:35:28.797 --> 00:35:30.798
betrayal it's it's a huge

00:35:30.818 --> 00:35:32.039
story like a betrayal all

00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.119
over the place oh he's back

00:35:35.601 --> 00:35:36.360
showing I'm back

00:35:38.740 --> 00:35:40.322
When you leave, Brock, it mutes me.

00:35:40.501 --> 00:35:41.001
Oh, does it?

00:35:41.463 --> 00:35:41.963
I'm sorry.

00:35:41.983 --> 00:35:44.244
I forget.

00:35:44.264 --> 00:35:45.525
We're on the same feed in here.

00:35:45.585 --> 00:35:47.085
My bad.

00:35:47.585 --> 00:35:48.545
Is that what you kids are

00:35:48.565 --> 00:35:49.465
calling it these days?

00:35:49.505 --> 00:35:49.967
That's right.

00:35:50.007 --> 00:35:53.007
That's what we call it these days.

00:35:53.027 --> 00:35:53.807
All right, Brock, show us.

00:35:54.028 --> 00:35:54.869
Oh, he does have it.

00:35:55.289 --> 00:35:56.250
Yeah.

00:35:56.710 --> 00:35:57.110
Let's see.

00:35:58.927 --> 00:36:00.186
There he is.

00:36:00.307 --> 00:36:02.188
Oh my gosh.

00:36:02.268 --> 00:36:03.010
Oh wow.

00:36:04.851 --> 00:36:05.391
Sweet.

00:36:06.632 --> 00:36:07.253
Does it open?

00:36:08.213 --> 00:36:11.255
It does.

00:36:11.376 --> 00:36:11.896
Oh.

00:36:12.195 --> 00:36:13.297
Oh man.

00:36:15.077 --> 00:36:16.840
The man of a thousand faces.

00:36:17.139 --> 00:36:17.880
Isn't that beautiful?

00:36:19.302 --> 00:36:20.222
That's incredible.

00:36:20.382 --> 00:36:21.822
Fantastic job with these.

00:36:21.842 --> 00:36:23.264
They've done the universal

00:36:23.304 --> 00:36:25.045
monsters and things like this.

00:36:25.085 --> 00:36:26.347
So yeah, we've been collecting.

00:36:26.967 --> 00:36:27.987
We've been collecting these.

00:36:31.010 --> 00:36:32.490
I've got to get me one of those.

00:36:32.510 --> 00:36:32.771
Yeah, you do.

00:36:32.811 --> 00:36:36.715
They're easy to find.

00:36:36.735 --> 00:36:37.615
Yeah.

00:36:37.635 --> 00:36:38.635
I'll go over to Kevin's and

00:36:38.695 --> 00:36:39.797
rob it from his front yard.

00:36:39.817 --> 00:36:41.498
There you go.

00:36:43.059 --> 00:36:43.940
I haven't gotten into any

00:36:43.981 --> 00:36:44.882
Phantom stuff yet,

00:36:44.922 --> 00:36:46.782
but I've only been doing this a few years,

00:36:46.822 --> 00:36:47.483
so give me time.

00:36:48.364 --> 00:36:48.945
I'll give you time.

00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:52.641
No,

00:36:52.661 --> 00:36:55.304
the only thing horrific about Phantom

00:36:55.364 --> 00:36:58.525
is his appearance, is the way he looks.

00:36:58.545 --> 00:36:59.746
And that shock, you know,

00:36:59.766 --> 00:37:02.349
when she goes to pull the mask away,

00:37:02.389 --> 00:37:03.590
you see the face.

00:37:04.170 --> 00:37:05.853
You know, you see the face.

00:37:06.052 --> 00:37:08.114
That's the shock part of it.

00:37:08.215 --> 00:37:08.954
It is shocking.

00:37:09.155 --> 00:37:12.277
And see, here we're back to her character.

00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:16.280
He tells her, you know, you will be fine.

00:37:17.282 --> 00:37:18.523
Everything will be fine as

00:37:18.563 --> 00:37:19.204
long as you don't.

00:37:20.034 --> 00:37:21.155
pull my mask away.

00:37:21.335 --> 00:37:23.456
And what does she do?

00:37:23.878 --> 00:37:24.998
Pull the mask away.

00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:28.422
And she is horrified,

00:37:29.123 --> 00:37:29.983
as I think most of the

00:37:30.083 --> 00:37:31.184
audience will be too,

00:37:32.226 --> 00:37:34.929
because he went to great

00:37:35.389 --> 00:37:37.711
lengths to create this

00:37:39.061 --> 00:37:39.442
face.

00:37:40.282 --> 00:37:41.443
And so a couple of things,

00:37:41.583 --> 00:37:43.143
one is when they were filming,

00:37:43.603 --> 00:37:45.963
she had never seen his makeup.

00:37:45.983 --> 00:37:47.623
So when she pulls the mask

00:37:47.643 --> 00:37:48.824
and sees it for the first time,

00:37:49.143 --> 00:37:50.405
that is an actual real

00:37:50.465 --> 00:37:52.644
reaction to seeing him.

00:37:53.125 --> 00:37:53.485
Now,

00:37:54.025 --> 00:37:56.246
what he did to create this is he was

00:37:56.306 --> 00:37:59.606
putting celluloid discs up inside here,

00:37:59.646 --> 00:38:01.146
inside his teeth and cheeks.

00:38:02.108 --> 00:38:05.268
He was using wires like

00:38:05.307 --> 00:38:07.108
chicken wire to pull here.

00:38:07.688 --> 00:38:09.730
He was making a concoction

00:38:09.889 --> 00:38:13.811
using egg whites to glaze his eyes over.

00:38:14.253 --> 00:38:17.313
I mean,

00:38:17.333 --> 00:38:18.655
that's a lot of work and a lot of

00:38:18.695 --> 00:38:21.976
commitment to create.

00:38:21.996 --> 00:38:23.297
Yeah, these days that's just Botox.

00:38:23.318 --> 00:38:23.478
Okay.

00:38:23.657 --> 00:38:25.739
Botox.

00:38:27.250 --> 00:38:29.271
A little bit of Botox, a little CGI.

00:38:32.373 --> 00:38:33.273
He literally walked around

00:38:33.293 --> 00:38:34.675
with his own tackle box

00:38:34.735 --> 00:38:36.936
full of prosthetics and makeup.

00:38:37.898 --> 00:38:42.161
He had wire that pulled his nose up.

00:38:42.181 --> 00:38:44.061
You want to talk about practical effects,

00:38:44.141 --> 00:38:44.641
that's fine.

00:38:45.483 --> 00:38:48.525
Here we are right here.

00:38:49.786 --> 00:38:52.108
When you think of how much time

00:38:53.329 --> 00:38:54.208
practice,

00:38:54.929 --> 00:38:56.771
trial and error he did to come up

00:38:56.791 --> 00:38:58.532
with this horrific look.

00:39:01.275 --> 00:39:02.155
I don't think anybody could

00:39:02.175 --> 00:39:03.096
have done that to him.

00:39:03.135 --> 00:39:05.518
I think he had to do that to himself.

00:39:05.538 --> 00:39:05.617
Yeah.

00:39:06.358 --> 00:39:08.721
It's kind of like...

00:39:10.273 --> 00:39:10.813
I was just going to say,

00:39:10.914 --> 00:39:11.813
it's kind of like Betty

00:39:11.833 --> 00:39:13.916
Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

00:39:14.436 --> 00:39:15.817
She did that makeup on

00:39:15.876 --> 00:39:20.019
herself because her primary

00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:21.001
makeup artist that she

00:39:21.041 --> 00:39:22.061
worked with forever said,

00:39:22.461 --> 00:39:23.422
I'm not doing this.

00:39:24.083 --> 00:39:25.244
They'll run me out of town.

00:39:25.664 --> 00:39:27.746
And she just slathered it on.

00:39:27.826 --> 00:39:29.806
And Chaney was in that same vein.

00:39:30.668 --> 00:39:31.708
Anything for the art,

00:39:31.809 --> 00:39:34.851
anything for the reaction,

00:39:34.951 --> 00:39:35.751
anything for...

00:39:36.693 --> 00:39:37.753
making this the best that he

00:39:37.813 --> 00:39:38.715
possibly could.

00:39:38.755 --> 00:39:39.094
Basically,

00:39:39.114 --> 00:39:40.315
it was kind of like method acting,

00:39:40.335 --> 00:39:41.896
but like a physical transformation.

00:39:41.916 --> 00:39:42.257
Oh, yeah.

00:39:42.336 --> 00:39:42.757
Yeah.

00:39:42.818 --> 00:39:43.318
Yeah.

00:39:43.378 --> 00:39:43.538
Well,

00:39:44.219 --> 00:39:46.019
and he was he was used to physical

00:39:46.300 --> 00:39:46.639
acting.

00:39:46.721 --> 00:39:48.282
He had grown up in

00:39:48.322 --> 00:39:49.782
vaudeville and had

00:39:49.842 --> 00:39:51.603
transitioned over to silent film.

00:39:51.643 --> 00:39:53.164
So he he understood the

00:39:53.204 --> 00:39:55.487
physicality of everything

00:39:55.527 --> 00:39:56.668
being on screen.

00:39:56.927 --> 00:39:59.530
And it just it was a natural fit.

00:39:59.570 --> 00:40:00.951
It was just a magic moment

00:40:01.090 --> 00:40:02.152
in cinematic history.

00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:02.918
Yeah.

00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:04.740
And I think the success of

00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.242
him coming off of Hunchback was what,

00:40:07.623 --> 00:40:09.264
you know, that allowed them to like, okay,

00:40:09.304 --> 00:40:11.065
of course, here is your freedom.

00:40:11.146 --> 00:40:13.148
You know, you create your character.

00:40:13.208 --> 00:40:14.268
We trust you to,

00:40:14.309 --> 00:40:15.429
we're going to put this in your hand,

00:40:15.449 --> 00:40:17.010
we trust the outcome of it.

00:40:17.070 --> 00:40:17.690
Yeah.

00:40:17.771 --> 00:40:19.452
Well, and, you know, I said that earlier,

00:40:19.952 --> 00:40:24.257
he was a very known entity.

00:40:24.902 --> 00:40:26.382
And by that point, like you just said,

00:40:26.402 --> 00:40:28.704
he was well trusted by the studio.

00:40:29.005 --> 00:40:31.505
They expected him to do his

00:40:31.545 --> 00:40:32.706
best and he always did.

00:40:34.934 --> 00:40:36.594
He didn't make money and he did that.

00:40:38.876 --> 00:40:40.697
So, you know, free reign, free license,

00:40:41.137 --> 00:40:42.159
do your own thing.

00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:42.579
Yeah.

00:40:42.659 --> 00:40:44.139
Yeah.

00:40:44.219 --> 00:40:46.061
He was, he was, he's fantastic.

00:40:46.722 --> 00:40:47.001
Yeah.

00:40:47.021 --> 00:40:49.063
For, for, for all that he, you know, the,

00:40:49.083 --> 00:40:50.043
what, the things he did.

00:40:50.083 --> 00:40:52.405
And of course the makeup is just, you know,

00:40:52.425 --> 00:40:54.065
it's just fantastic.

00:40:55.007 --> 00:40:55.887
Well, it is fantastic.

00:40:56.106 --> 00:40:56.907
It's also painful.

00:40:57.367 --> 00:40:58.489
So, you know,

00:40:58.509 --> 00:40:59.248
there was a great deal of

00:40:59.289 --> 00:41:00.710
physical pain for him to be

00:41:00.769 --> 00:41:01.670
in that getup.

00:41:03.217 --> 00:41:04.759
for those hours.

00:41:04.838 --> 00:41:06.920
Which I'm sure that fed into

00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.503
the whole pain and betrayal part of it.

00:41:09.543 --> 00:41:10.403
I'm sure that actually fed

00:41:10.463 --> 00:41:11.284
into him being able to do

00:41:11.324 --> 00:41:12.246
the character as well.

00:41:12.545 --> 00:41:13.867
Just the pain of the actual

00:41:14.427 --> 00:41:16.090
because he was able to pull

00:41:16.130 --> 00:41:18.532
on that pain to give you

00:41:18.572 --> 00:41:19.472
the character as well.

00:41:20.222 --> 00:41:23.903
Yeah, and I always feel,

00:41:24.844 --> 00:41:26.505
the very first time I saw this, I thought,

00:41:27.264 --> 00:41:28.626
I'm going to hate him.

00:41:28.726 --> 00:41:30.106
He's an awful person.

00:41:30.646 --> 00:41:31.847
And I came away that very

00:41:31.887 --> 00:41:34.228
first time and I felt sorry

00:41:34.248 --> 00:41:35.688
for him because here's

00:41:35.748 --> 00:41:38.989
someone who is rejected by society.

00:41:40.090 --> 00:41:43.132
He's living in the bowels of

00:41:43.172 --> 00:41:44.512
the Paris Opera House.

00:41:45.193 --> 00:41:47.253
And he basically has...

00:41:47.974 --> 00:41:50.536
everything that he needs

00:41:50.996 --> 00:41:52.717
except one thing and that

00:41:52.777 --> 00:41:54.436
is love and companionship

00:41:55.496 --> 00:41:58.197
and he saw this as a way to

00:41:58.717 --> 00:42:00.018
obtain love and

00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:03.960
companionship and uh of

00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:05.340
course you know let's see

00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:06.721
black black magic dark

00:42:06.740 --> 00:42:08.400
magic trickery a little bit

00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:10.581
of murder we're all

00:42:11.641 --> 00:42:12.943
involved but you know

00:42:12.963 --> 00:42:14.163
glitzy devils glitzy devils

00:42:14.242 --> 00:42:15.623
glitzy devils what are you

00:42:15.643 --> 00:42:16.443
gonna do for love

00:42:19.076 --> 00:42:19.195
Yeah.

00:42:19.215 --> 00:42:20.476
Well, I mean, that's good.

00:42:20.496 --> 00:42:21.077
I mean, that's, you know,

00:42:21.117 --> 00:42:22.159
you talk about here we are, it's,

00:42:22.179 --> 00:42:22.398
you know,

00:42:22.438 --> 00:42:23.418
almost a hundred years later

00:42:23.438 --> 00:42:25.661
from the movie was released and yeah.

00:42:25.721 --> 00:42:26.161
Oh yeah.

00:42:26.181 --> 00:42:26.842
We're real close.

00:42:27.382 --> 00:42:27.503
Yeah.

00:42:27.523 --> 00:42:27.862
We're close.

00:42:27.882 --> 00:42:27.963
Yeah.

00:42:27.983 --> 00:42:29.204
Think about what we're going

00:42:29.224 --> 00:42:32.226
to do next year.

00:42:32.246 --> 00:42:33.266
That like, yes.

00:42:33.286 --> 00:42:34.867
I mean, we're going to show jaws.

00:42:40.048 --> 00:42:40.668
Jaws three.

00:42:41.570 --> 00:42:42.670
We're totally going to miss it this year.

00:42:42.690 --> 00:42:45.190
It's fine.

00:42:45.210 --> 00:42:48.452
Jaws three D. That's a horror film.

00:42:48.472 --> 00:42:55.373
Yeah, there we go.

00:42:55.414 --> 00:42:57.175
Honestly, it would be tragic,

00:42:57.195 --> 00:42:58.074
but it would be hilarious

00:42:58.114 --> 00:42:59.054
if you guys just decided to

00:42:59.094 --> 00:42:59.856
show something totally

00:42:59.876 --> 00:43:00.675
different and people are like,

00:43:01.376 --> 00:43:03.336
it's literally the one year anniversary.

00:43:04.137 --> 00:43:04.536
Really?

00:43:04.556 --> 00:43:05.378
It is?

00:43:07.521 --> 00:43:07.943
It will be.

00:43:08.242 --> 00:43:09.204
Now, let me tell you,

00:43:09.864 --> 00:43:10.846
what we should sneak in is

00:43:10.885 --> 00:43:11.927
the Andrew Lloyd Webber.

00:43:13.568 --> 00:43:15.530
Yes, that's when you do it.

00:43:15.590 --> 00:43:15.891
Yes.

00:43:17.472 --> 00:43:18.373
Or the nineteen ninety

00:43:18.414 --> 00:43:19.394
Robert England version.

00:43:19.855 --> 00:43:20.775
Oh, no.

00:43:25.318 --> 00:43:26.219
Or you could really, you know,

00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:27.681
shake things up and make it, you know,

00:43:27.721 --> 00:43:29.123
Phantom of the Paradise from the,

00:43:29.222 --> 00:43:30.103
you know, the seventies.

00:43:30.164 --> 00:43:33.927
So there you go.

00:43:33.947 --> 00:43:34.168
Yeah.

00:43:34.208 --> 00:43:34.487
No.

00:43:34.527 --> 00:43:39.393
You want to talk about a trip?

00:43:39.432 --> 00:43:40.293
That's a trippy one.

00:43:40.534 --> 00:43:41.155
That's a trip one.

00:43:41.195 --> 00:43:42.155
Yeah, that's trippy.

00:43:43.126 --> 00:43:44.027
I do look forward to seeing

00:43:44.047 --> 00:43:45.088
this because I know that it

00:43:45.128 --> 00:43:46.389
was an inspiration for the

00:43:46.568 --> 00:43:48.030
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

00:43:48.369 --> 00:43:49.391
And then the version in the

00:43:49.411 --> 00:43:50.431
film version that came out,

00:43:50.692 --> 00:43:51.452
what was in like two

00:43:51.492 --> 00:43:54.635
thousand or whatever it was, you know,

00:43:54.655 --> 00:43:55.456
it was an inspiration.

00:43:55.496 --> 00:43:56.297
But just like the way you're

00:43:56.336 --> 00:43:57.918
talking about it, you know,

00:43:57.998 --> 00:43:59.378
he while it was while I'm

00:43:59.619 --> 00:44:01.159
picking up that it wasn't as good.

00:44:02.340 --> 00:44:03.461
I'm also picking up like

00:44:03.541 --> 00:44:04.762
where he obviously where he

00:44:04.782 --> 00:44:05.864
drew a lot of his inspiration,

00:44:05.903 --> 00:44:06.565
because like, you know,

00:44:06.605 --> 00:44:08.005
watching in the Andrew

00:44:08.025 --> 00:44:08.746
Lloyd Webber version,

00:44:08.806 --> 00:44:09.967
watching the Phantom,

00:44:10.047 --> 00:44:11.668
I came away feeling sorry for him.

00:44:12.548 --> 00:44:13.329
Every time I watch it,

00:44:13.349 --> 00:44:14.869
you feel sorry for him because it's like,

00:44:15.429 --> 00:44:16.110
yeah, man, I mean,

00:44:16.190 --> 00:44:17.010
the dude thought he had it

00:44:17.030 --> 00:44:17.650
all figured out.

00:44:17.690 --> 00:44:19.030
He was just going to sweep

00:44:19.050 --> 00:44:19.891
her off her feet,

00:44:20.271 --> 00:44:21.331
do a little bit of murder.

00:44:21.532 --> 00:44:22.291
This is all fine.

00:44:22.331 --> 00:44:23.012
Everything's fine.

00:44:23.092 --> 00:44:23.452
It's fine.

00:44:23.612 --> 00:44:24.492
You're going to be perfectly

00:44:24.532 --> 00:44:25.592
fine with this life, right?

00:44:25.913 --> 00:44:28.333
And then she's like, yeah, no, bro,

00:44:28.733 --> 00:44:29.393
this is not cool.

00:44:31.726 --> 00:44:32.907
There weren't glitzy devils in it.

00:44:34.768 --> 00:44:36.588
Well, and she's not doing the,

00:44:36.768 --> 00:44:37.929
this is a cool thing.

00:44:37.949 --> 00:44:40.009
She's doing the, I want it all thing.

00:44:40.048 --> 00:44:42.190
She wanted to keep her lover.

00:44:43.369 --> 00:44:44.751
She wanted to star,

00:44:45.331 --> 00:44:47.331
to be the star of the opera.

00:44:47.672 --> 00:44:49.472
And she just didn't uphold

00:44:49.512 --> 00:44:50.413
her end of the bargain is

00:44:50.452 --> 00:44:53.432
what basically it boils down to.

00:44:53.472 --> 00:44:54.253
So, yeah.

00:44:55.173 --> 00:44:57.155
It's a shame.

00:44:57.195 --> 00:44:57.275
Yeah.

00:44:57.295 --> 00:44:58.115
I do look forward to seeing

00:44:58.135 --> 00:44:59.097
this version since it's,

00:44:59.197 --> 00:45:00.018
it is the original.

00:45:00.057 --> 00:45:00.318
So that's.

00:45:00.757 --> 00:45:01.298
Yeah.

00:45:01.378 --> 00:45:01.579
Yeah.

00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:02.340
And, and, you know, there's,

00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:04.380
there's been so many iterations of this.

00:45:04.460 --> 00:45:05.561
I think this is,

00:45:05.822 --> 00:45:09.684
this is certainly my favorite, the best.

00:45:10.346 --> 00:45:12.106
This was this, you know, this was a novel.

00:45:12.748 --> 00:45:13.969
They lifted a lot of this

00:45:13.989 --> 00:45:14.989
from the novel and we get

00:45:15.389 --> 00:45:17.010
once or one or two a year that go,

00:45:17.271 --> 00:45:18.532
it's not in the novel, you know,

00:45:18.592 --> 00:45:20.434
and I'm like, Hollywood license.

00:45:20.454 --> 00:45:20.634
Yeah.

00:45:20.833 --> 00:45:21.534
Yeah, right.

00:45:22.355 --> 00:45:24.295
Hollywood does take that dramatic license.

00:45:24.376 --> 00:45:25.717
But see, this is what's funny.

00:45:25.737 --> 00:45:26.916
You're talking about in a

00:45:26.976 --> 00:45:27.797
time and age where people

00:45:27.838 --> 00:45:28.777
are tired of remakes and

00:45:28.818 --> 00:45:30.159
reboots and they get upset.

00:45:30.579 --> 00:45:31.358
At the end of the day,

00:45:31.398 --> 00:45:32.739
you've still got your original classic.

00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:34.061
As you see, if it's a great movie,

00:45:34.101 --> 00:45:35.081
it has staying power.

00:45:35.101 --> 00:45:35.161
Yes.

00:45:35.740 --> 00:45:35.822
Yes.

00:45:35.981 --> 00:45:36.922
Yes.

00:45:38.043 --> 00:45:38.722
Yep.

00:45:40.981 --> 00:45:41.681
Yeah, I agree.

00:45:42.101 --> 00:45:42.702
I prefer this.

00:45:42.762 --> 00:45:42.943
And I,

00:45:43.402 --> 00:45:45.844
I prefer this one over the Claude

00:45:45.884 --> 00:45:46.764
Rains version of the

00:45:46.804 --> 00:45:47.443
Phantom of the Opera.

00:45:47.463 --> 00:45:48.585
Yeah.

00:45:48.625 --> 00:45:50.304
But I just something about,

00:45:50.364 --> 00:45:51.164
I don't really like the

00:45:51.184 --> 00:45:53.885
Claude Rains version of Phantom.

00:45:53.925 --> 00:45:55.246
He was a violinist too.

00:45:55.327 --> 00:45:56.306
It was just kind of weird.

00:45:56.327 --> 00:45:56.766
Yeah.

00:45:56.867 --> 00:45:57.047
Yeah.

00:45:58.387 --> 00:46:00.367
I, I just, I don't know the,

00:46:00.387 --> 00:46:02.068
the remakes after that, they, you know,

00:46:02.108 --> 00:46:02.289
they're,

00:46:02.369 --> 00:46:03.909
they're just trying to capitalize

00:46:04.269 --> 00:46:05.610
on the hype of it.

00:46:05.630 --> 00:46:07.311
And I don't think anyone really actually,

00:46:07.331 --> 00:46:07.371
uh,

00:46:08.739 --> 00:46:09.920
captures that essence.

00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:10.440
Now,

00:46:10.581 --> 00:46:12.961
I do admire the Andrew Lloyd Webber

00:46:12.981 --> 00:46:16.643
just because, I mean, you can't not.

00:46:16.684 --> 00:46:17.905
How much money did it make?

00:46:18.144 --> 00:46:19.126
Right.

00:46:19.206 --> 00:46:19.925
If you're looking just

00:46:20.106 --> 00:46:21.867
strictly at box office success.

00:46:22.086 --> 00:46:22.427
Yeah.

00:46:22.467 --> 00:46:23.867
But, you know,

00:46:23.887 --> 00:46:25.228
you do have this original

00:46:25.369 --> 00:46:28.731
inspiration and it is as

00:46:28.791 --> 00:46:32.672
timeless today as it was then, you know,

00:46:32.753 --> 00:46:34.034
almost a hundred years later.

00:46:34.054 --> 00:46:34.273
Mm-hmm.

00:46:37.347 --> 00:46:38.509
I do want to point out that

00:46:38.528 --> 00:46:43.333
you can get tickets at

00:46:43.612 --> 00:46:47.036
www.alabamatheater.com

00:46:47.096 --> 00:46:49.717
slash events and it will pull that up.

00:46:49.797 --> 00:46:50.938
Just make sure you're going

00:46:50.958 --> 00:46:52.681
through our Alabama Theater

00:46:52.701 --> 00:46:56.483
website or going to Ticketmaster Direct.

00:46:56.503 --> 00:46:57.184
I had...

00:46:58.465 --> 00:47:00.306
One person say, oh, we bought our tickets.

00:47:00.365 --> 00:47:01.146
We're so excited.

00:47:01.166 --> 00:47:01.746
They were one hundred and

00:47:01.786 --> 00:47:08.248
sixty four dollars.

00:47:08.447 --> 00:47:09.188
And I'm like, what?

00:47:10.128 --> 00:47:11.329
I just bought two tickets

00:47:11.369 --> 00:47:12.550
and they were thirty three dollars.

00:47:13.590 --> 00:47:14.311
So that should.

00:47:14.331 --> 00:47:14.891
Yeah, that should.

00:47:14.911 --> 00:47:14.990
Yeah.

00:47:15.231 --> 00:47:15.692
Yeah.

00:47:15.831 --> 00:47:16.192
It's well,

00:47:16.211 --> 00:47:17.994
that's that's that's if you bought two,

00:47:18.014 --> 00:47:18.434
that's it.

00:47:18.454 --> 00:47:19.894
Because it's it's six.

00:47:20.094 --> 00:47:21.757
It's sixteen all in.

00:47:22.237 --> 00:47:22.657
Yeah.

00:47:22.677 --> 00:47:23.398
And times two.

00:47:23.418 --> 00:47:24.219
And then there's a dollar

00:47:24.259 --> 00:47:25.079
service fee for the

00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:26.320
processing of the car.

00:47:27.681 --> 00:47:28.882
So, yeah, I mean,

00:47:28.981 --> 00:47:30.083
it's just and you can you

00:47:30.103 --> 00:47:31.063
can get them online.

00:47:31.585 --> 00:47:32.545
You can get them at the door.

00:47:32.565 --> 00:47:34.186
This is a general admission show.

00:47:34.327 --> 00:47:34.547
Mm hmm.

00:47:35.427 --> 00:47:36.387
Let me go ahead and tell you,

00:47:36.407 --> 00:47:37.708
there are a couple of

00:47:37.748 --> 00:47:39.371
places that the organ geeks

00:47:39.411 --> 00:47:41.012
will run to immediately.

00:47:42.092 --> 00:47:43.193
And those are their seats.

00:47:43.233 --> 00:47:44.614
So don't even don't even get in their way.

00:47:46.663 --> 00:47:48.043
They will hit you.

00:47:48.324 --> 00:47:50.224
They will bash you with an oxygen tank.

00:47:50.244 --> 00:47:55.806
And just let them have the

00:47:55.846 --> 00:47:58.766
first balcony row E and F. That's theirs.

00:47:59.347 --> 00:48:00.148
Because that's where the

00:48:00.208 --> 00:48:01.288
organ speaks the best.

00:48:02.947 --> 00:48:04.909
And then you've got the ones

00:48:04.929 --> 00:48:06.208
that don't like to climb the stairs.

00:48:06.228 --> 00:48:08.190
They'll be in rows, you know,

00:48:08.230 --> 00:48:10.411
JKL on the main floor center.

00:48:11.510 --> 00:48:12.972
Also a great place to see the film.

00:48:12.992 --> 00:48:13.132
Yeah.

00:48:15.489 --> 00:48:17.532
Now everybody clamors in for those seats.

00:48:18.291 --> 00:48:19.873
I've seen so many things there.

00:48:19.932 --> 00:48:23.213
It's hard to find a bad seat.

00:48:23.675 --> 00:48:26.516
It really is.

00:48:26.536 --> 00:48:27.536
This is general admission.

00:48:29.077 --> 00:48:30.157
It would be lovely if we

00:48:30.898 --> 00:48:31.659
were going to sell out,

00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:32.940
but it's not going to sell out.

00:48:33.019 --> 00:48:34.920
You can get tickets in advance.

00:48:34.940 --> 00:48:36.641
You can get them at the door.

00:48:36.681 --> 00:48:38.382
We're just happy to have the

00:48:38.422 --> 00:48:39.563
love and the support that

00:48:39.603 --> 00:48:40.402
everyone comes in.

00:48:40.422 --> 00:48:40.603
We have

00:48:42.835 --> 00:48:44.418
at at forty five years I I

00:48:44.438 --> 00:48:45.639
know there are at least

00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:46.639
half a dozen people that

00:48:46.681 --> 00:48:47.762
have been there every

00:48:47.822 --> 00:48:50.425
single year wow uh and they

00:48:50.445 --> 00:48:52.007
just you know they keep

00:48:52.586 --> 00:48:54.048
back back back and they're

00:48:54.068 --> 00:48:55.510
like me it's fresh every

00:48:55.550 --> 00:48:56.871
time you know the story

00:48:57.413 --> 00:49:00.115
that uh the score is fresh every time and

00:49:01.485 --> 00:49:02.344
As a fundraiser,

00:49:02.606 --> 00:49:03.126
I couldn't think of

00:49:03.166 --> 00:49:03.827
anything that we could

00:49:03.867 --> 00:49:05.088
possibly be doing better to

00:49:05.128 --> 00:49:07.530
showcase what the organ was

00:49:07.570 --> 00:49:09.032
originally built to do.

00:49:09.793 --> 00:49:12.936
It's just the perfect marriage and match.

00:49:13.016 --> 00:49:13.195
Yeah.

00:49:13.235 --> 00:49:14.876
The ambiance, the environment,

00:49:14.958 --> 00:49:16.699
everything just sitting there, you know,

00:49:16.838 --> 00:49:17.719
being able to sit there and

00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:19.621
watch that with everything going around.

00:49:19.681 --> 00:49:21.364
It's just, it's absolutely perfect.

00:49:21.423 --> 00:49:21.543
Yeah.

00:49:21.784 --> 00:49:24.186
You just hit something, Jess,

00:49:25.188 --> 00:49:27.050
and that is the Alabama is

00:49:27.090 --> 00:49:28.092
a magical place.

00:49:28.692 --> 00:49:30.655
And with a little bit of altered lighting,

00:49:30.715 --> 00:49:33.518
you can go from charming,

00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:36.300
from castle-like,

00:49:36.681 --> 00:49:38.623
to very creepy very quickly.

00:49:39.704 --> 00:49:41.086
And that's why we're so excited.

00:49:43.586 --> 00:49:44.487
that we've got some new

00:49:44.507 --> 00:49:45.307
lighting features this year

00:49:45.327 --> 00:49:46.108
that are going to be spectacular.

00:49:46.128 --> 00:49:46.307
Yeah.

00:49:48.527 --> 00:49:49.628
It may be really impressive, too,

00:49:49.668 --> 00:49:50.409
because like you said,

00:49:51.628 --> 00:49:52.489
you were going to make sure

00:49:52.528 --> 00:49:54.048
that the lighting director

00:49:54.108 --> 00:49:57.409
was very happy when you had

00:49:57.429 --> 00:49:58.090
the performance.

00:50:00.070 --> 00:50:01.331
Your charity, take this.

00:50:03.911 --> 00:50:05.472
It may or may not be Tito's vodka.

00:50:05.492 --> 00:50:08.192
We don't know.

00:50:08.211 --> 00:50:09.972
Could be.

00:50:10.012 --> 00:50:10.893
Could be another eyeball.

00:50:10.932 --> 00:50:10.992
Yay.

00:50:13.523 --> 00:50:13.684
Well,

00:50:13.744 --> 00:50:15.965
since you're not playing the organ

00:50:16.005 --> 00:50:16.786
during the film,

00:50:16.826 --> 00:50:17.786
what are you doing while

00:50:18.067 --> 00:50:18.646
the movie's going on?

00:50:18.666 --> 00:50:20.748
Okay, so that's a great question.

00:50:20.788 --> 00:50:21.068
Thanks.

00:50:22.309 --> 00:50:25.851
So I will come out and do the intro.

00:50:26.971 --> 00:50:29.833
And that is, first of all,

00:50:30.092 --> 00:50:31.994
I truly will make sure

00:50:32.074 --> 00:50:33.355
everyone understands this

00:50:33.394 --> 00:50:34.735
is not a Broadway musical.

00:50:35.576 --> 00:50:38.617
And then I will ask everyone

00:50:38.697 --> 00:50:40.059
to please take their seats

00:50:40.278 --> 00:50:43.860
and for the entrance of the

00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:45.742
pallbearers to please stay seated.

00:50:45.782 --> 00:50:47.063
If you're in the upper balcony,

00:50:47.382 --> 00:50:48.282
just give it a moment.

00:50:48.563 --> 00:50:50.744
Once they clear that edge of the balcony,

00:50:50.784 --> 00:50:51.905
you'll be able to see what's going on.

00:50:52.146 --> 00:50:52.885
And then everything else

00:50:52.905 --> 00:50:54.186
takes place on stage.

00:50:54.666 --> 00:50:58.349
Uh, so what happens is, is, uh, I'll,

00:50:58.510 --> 00:51:00.771
I'll go out, do that little spiel,

00:51:01.331 --> 00:51:02.552
step off stage.

00:51:02.954 --> 00:51:05.215
And I am at the bar.

00:51:05.436 --> 00:51:06.856
Nice.

00:51:06.876 --> 00:51:08.978
Working or otherwise.

00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:10.619
No, otherwise.

00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:11.340
He says, yes.

00:51:12.942 --> 00:51:13.681
Where do you think the

00:51:13.702 --> 00:51:14.862
glitzy devil comes from?

00:51:15.344 --> 00:51:16.585
I got to get started, baby.

00:51:18.606 --> 00:51:20.086
No, so I'll, um,

00:51:22.193 --> 00:51:24.695
Everybody's done this so many times.

00:51:25.375 --> 00:51:26.635
We have a wonderful crew,

00:51:26.655 --> 00:51:28.056
a wonderful set of volunteers,

00:51:28.838 --> 00:51:30.039
and they all know their part.

00:51:30.059 --> 00:51:31.239
They all know their position.

00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:33.221
Helms is magic,

00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.163
so I don't worry about him.

00:51:38.063 --> 00:51:39.885
Once that first thing gets on the screen,

00:51:39.985 --> 00:51:40.286
actually,

00:51:40.465 --> 00:51:42.306
I actually really run to the

00:51:42.327 --> 00:51:43.148
booth because there's a

00:51:43.288 --> 00:51:44.628
queue at the very beginning.

00:51:45.827 --> 00:51:48.110
And the stagehands,

00:51:48.990 --> 00:51:50.010
they're waiting for that cue.

00:51:50.052 --> 00:51:51.512
And then once I've done that cue,

00:51:51.652 --> 00:51:56.157
then I'm off to Tito's land.

00:51:56.197 --> 00:51:57.659
Concessions, concessions.

00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:00.742
Concessions, concessions.

00:52:00.802 --> 00:52:02.043
And then I really actually

00:52:02.063 --> 00:52:03.123
will go up there and grab a

00:52:03.164 --> 00:52:04.505
cocktail and go in and sit

00:52:04.545 --> 00:52:05.465
and watch the whole show.

00:52:06.226 --> 00:52:08.306
darn thing good there you go

00:52:08.327 --> 00:52:09.288
I'm glad you get a chance

00:52:09.447 --> 00:52:10.407
you get a chance to sit

00:52:10.427 --> 00:52:12.048
back and watch it it is the

00:52:12.289 --> 00:52:14.110
the one show a year that I

00:52:14.150 --> 00:52:15.451
do not schedule myself on

00:52:15.490 --> 00:52:16.572
the floor it is the one

00:52:16.592 --> 00:52:17.492
show a year that I

00:52:17.632 --> 00:52:19.632
absolutely go in and sit

00:52:19.733 --> 00:52:21.313
and watch it's kind of

00:52:21.414 --> 00:52:22.914
awesome it's phenomenal

00:52:23.175 --> 00:52:23.914
It takes you back to the

00:52:23.934 --> 00:52:24.715
reason why you fell in love

00:52:24.735 --> 00:52:25.476
with that voice, right?

00:52:25.655 --> 00:52:26.717
It is the whole reason.

00:52:26.797 --> 00:52:29.318
And I promise you, don't sit near me.

00:52:29.478 --> 00:52:29.737
Don't.

00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:33.099
Well, that tells me even more.

00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:34.740
Because he doesn't tell any

00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:36.001
of us how long he's been at

00:52:36.021 --> 00:52:41.824
the bar at that point.

00:52:42.264 --> 00:52:43.726
I still will laugh.

00:52:44.326 --> 00:52:46.228
at during this film I I

00:52:46.507 --> 00:52:48.570
still literally will cry at

00:52:48.690 --> 00:52:49.871
one point during this film

00:52:49.891 --> 00:52:51.012
it is very moving and very

00:52:51.072 --> 00:52:54.273
touching and and I I just

00:52:54.313 --> 00:52:55.655
it's very emotional for me

00:52:55.695 --> 00:52:57.777
because it it represents so

00:52:57.797 --> 00:52:59.998
many things in my life the

00:53:00.139 --> 00:53:01.300
origin of the film the

00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:02.981
organ itself the theater

00:53:03.041 --> 00:53:04.402
itself why we're doing it

00:53:04.422 --> 00:53:06.244
um you know and I'm

00:53:07.731 --> 00:53:08.692
Right before I go on,

00:53:09.012 --> 00:53:11.713
I'm on the phone with the ticket booth.

00:53:12.713 --> 00:53:13.355
What's our ticket count?

00:53:13.394 --> 00:53:14.155
What's our ticket count?

00:53:14.175 --> 00:53:15.797
Of course,

00:53:18.478 --> 00:53:20.699
we have a break-even point for

00:53:20.739 --> 00:53:21.701
producing the show.

00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:22.820
As soon as we hit that,

00:53:23.141 --> 00:53:25.422
I am three fingers into the gin.

00:53:25.463 --> 00:53:28.085
Gary,

00:53:28.105 --> 00:53:29.766
do you have your own private booth

00:53:29.806 --> 00:53:30.447
like the Phantom?

00:53:31.487 --> 00:53:31.686
No.

00:53:38.521 --> 00:53:43.362
In the film, it's box five.

00:53:43.402 --> 00:53:43.822
Box five.

00:53:43.862 --> 00:53:44.902
And the new owners of the

00:53:44.943 --> 00:53:48.483
theater go and they go,

00:53:48.523 --> 00:53:50.143
who occupies box five?

00:53:50.184 --> 00:53:51.164
And the attendant,

00:53:52.385 --> 00:53:54.666
you can see it in French

00:53:54.726 --> 00:53:56.106
and I unfortunately can't do it.

00:53:56.126 --> 00:53:57.545
She just goes, I do not know.

00:53:57.885 --> 00:53:58.666
She knows.

00:53:58.686 --> 00:53:58.907
Okay.

00:54:00.786 --> 00:54:02.688
so she's like no no no don't

00:54:02.728 --> 00:54:06.248
go in there don't that guy

00:54:06.268 --> 00:54:07.409
will kill you don't go in

00:54:07.449 --> 00:54:13.510
there that is one thing I'm

00:54:13.550 --> 00:54:15.971
trying to think now um what

00:54:16.010 --> 00:54:17.570
the murder count is in this

00:54:17.610 --> 00:54:20.231
film uh because it's not

00:54:20.532 --> 00:54:22.512
low but it's not you know a

00:54:22.572 --> 00:54:24.012
massacre it's just it's you

00:54:24.032 --> 00:54:24.992
know onesie here and there

00:54:26.574 --> 00:54:28.195
yeah just sprinkled around

00:54:28.576 --> 00:54:29.416
yeah it's not texas

00:54:29.456 --> 00:54:30.657
chainsaw massacre but it's

00:54:30.717 --> 00:54:34.157
kind of close and it's it's

00:54:34.318 --> 00:54:35.858
it's never a scene murder

00:54:35.898 --> 00:54:37.420
it's an implied murder yeah

00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:39.860
yeah that's that's that's

00:54:39.900 --> 00:54:40.900
why I kind of steer away

00:54:40.940 --> 00:54:42.121
from trying to classify

00:54:42.161 --> 00:54:43.382
this as horror because

00:54:43.422 --> 00:54:44.882
there's not a lot of you

00:54:44.922 --> 00:54:45.623
know where there is no

00:54:45.922 --> 00:54:47.324
blood and guts and gore and

00:54:47.864 --> 00:54:50.385
no no visible murder just a lot of

00:54:51.623 --> 00:54:53.304
sad people well when it's

00:54:53.425 --> 00:54:54.865
when it's told correctly

00:54:54.905 --> 00:54:56.367
and it's told well you know

00:54:56.407 --> 00:54:57.708
you don't have to have that

00:54:57.728 --> 00:54:59.389
right yeah it can be

00:54:59.429 --> 00:55:00.570
implied and you're like oh

00:55:00.590 --> 00:55:03.833
no that person's dead oh no

00:55:03.853 --> 00:55:06.835
you know they did um they

00:55:06.855 --> 00:55:07.494
have or I'm sorry we're

00:55:07.514 --> 00:55:08.155
youtube they've been

00:55:08.235 --> 00:55:09.496
unalived I'm sorry I guess

00:55:10.036 --> 00:55:11.157
they have been unalived

00:55:12.898 --> 00:55:13.639
kevin that was you know

00:55:13.659 --> 00:55:15.280
that was hitchcock's greatest

00:55:16.300 --> 00:55:18.664
uh card that he would play

00:55:18.724 --> 00:55:20.847
is so much of his uh

00:55:21.148 --> 00:55:22.331
meaning was implied you

00:55:22.371 --> 00:55:24.032
never saw this or you never

00:55:24.132 --> 00:55:26.056
saw that you you knew yeah

00:55:26.936 --> 00:55:27.818
and in this film it's the

00:55:27.858 --> 00:55:28.780
same things very very

00:55:28.820 --> 00:55:30.543
clever very clever uh

00:55:35.188 --> 00:55:37.070
Maybe a little bubble in the water.

00:55:37.090 --> 00:55:37.369
Yes.

00:55:37.389 --> 00:55:37.449
Yes.

00:55:37.469 --> 00:55:38.451
Man, I'm looking forward to it.

00:55:38.490 --> 00:55:38.911
Honestly,

00:55:39.170 --> 00:55:40.592
I saw that Brock and Jess were

00:55:40.612 --> 00:55:41.413
going to it, and I was like,

00:55:41.432 --> 00:55:42.132
I'm going to wait, Tom.

00:55:42.213 --> 00:55:43.735
I want to hear Gary talk

00:55:43.755 --> 00:55:45.376
about it a little bit before I decide.

00:55:45.416 --> 00:55:46.135
And then, you know,

00:55:46.155 --> 00:55:46.797
you're talking about it,

00:55:46.817 --> 00:55:47.416
and I'm like sitting here

00:55:47.797 --> 00:55:49.237
texting with my person, and I'm like,

00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:52.460
number one, it's not a horror movie.

00:55:52.940 --> 00:55:54.242
I know it says it on the website,

00:55:54.322 --> 00:55:55.762
and Gary's going to get that fixed.

00:55:55.782 --> 00:55:58.465
But...

00:56:02.367 --> 00:56:04.188
So I do always make this offer.

00:56:05.268 --> 00:56:07.269
I tell people, come,

00:56:07.911 --> 00:56:08.851
stay for the whole thing.

00:56:08.951 --> 00:56:10.012
And at the end,

00:56:10.052 --> 00:56:12.634
if you absolutely positively hated it,

00:56:13.333 --> 00:56:14.514
I'll give you your money back,

00:56:14.675 --> 00:56:15.695
which we never do.

00:56:15.715 --> 00:56:17.657
But I'll take it out of my pocket.

00:56:17.956 --> 00:56:19.057
And I make that offer

00:56:19.097 --> 00:56:21.679
because I guarantee you,

00:56:21.759 --> 00:56:22.760
if you watch this thing

00:56:22.780 --> 00:56:23.840
from beginning to end,

00:56:24.701 --> 00:56:25.320
you're going to fall in

00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:26.802
love with it and I'll see you next year.

00:56:27.242 --> 00:56:29.344
So for the hundredth.

00:56:30.003 --> 00:56:30.463
Yeah.

00:56:30.505 --> 00:56:31.284
So, yeah.

00:56:32.452 --> 00:56:32.771
Yep.

00:56:32.811 --> 00:56:33.572
Mitchell Brinkley.

00:56:33.612 --> 00:56:34.092
Hey, Mitchell.

00:56:34.672 --> 00:56:35.693
Says the best horror

00:56:35.713 --> 00:56:36.612
suspense movies are the

00:56:36.773 --> 00:56:37.532
ones where they let your

00:56:37.552 --> 00:56:39.074
mind fill in the bad parts.

00:56:39.094 --> 00:56:39.233
Yes.

00:56:39.954 --> 00:56:40.494
Exactly.

00:56:40.693 --> 00:56:42.074
Exactly.

00:56:42.235 --> 00:56:43.675
Your brain is the best

00:56:43.855 --> 00:56:45.155
screen that you have,

00:56:45.175 --> 00:56:47.155
and it fills in those bad parts.

00:56:47.175 --> 00:56:49.597
You know what just happened to that guy.

00:56:49.737 --> 00:56:50.416
He's unalived.

00:56:50.436 --> 00:56:51.137
Yeah.

00:56:51.677 --> 00:56:51.876
Right.

00:56:52.197 --> 00:56:53.036
Yeah, more often than not,

00:56:53.056 --> 00:56:53.896
when you get a movie where

00:56:53.916 --> 00:56:54.998
they just spoon feed you,

00:56:55.097 --> 00:56:56.217
like a lot of modern movies,

00:56:56.257 --> 00:56:57.117
they'll just spoon feed you

00:56:57.237 --> 00:56:58.617
everything and tell you

00:56:58.878 --> 00:56:59.679
every single thing.

00:57:01.398 --> 00:57:02.838
When you just trust the

00:57:02.898 --> 00:57:04.759
intelligence of the people watching it,

00:57:05.099 --> 00:57:05.960
and you can actually write

00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:06.800
the story to the point

00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:08.460
where there is no way

00:57:08.940 --> 00:57:10.480
anybody could mistake this.

00:57:10.500 --> 00:57:12.300
Exactly.

00:57:12.340 --> 00:57:13.420
That's just good writing,

00:57:13.481 --> 00:57:14.960
and it's also trusting the audience, too.

00:57:14.981 --> 00:57:15.141
Yeah.

00:57:15.641 --> 00:57:18.882
Trust the people.

00:57:21.061 --> 00:57:21.561
And I'll see you.

00:57:21.601 --> 00:57:22.505
Hey, hey, Mitchell.

00:57:23.025 --> 00:57:23.327
Hey.

00:57:23.367 --> 00:57:23.527
Yep.

00:57:24.409 --> 00:57:24.869
Hey, y'all.

00:57:25.672 --> 00:57:26.172
And by the way.

00:57:26.193 --> 00:57:26.594
Hey.

00:57:30.981 --> 00:57:31.262
It's all good.

00:57:31.282 --> 00:57:32.262
I brought up here, you mind if I share,

00:57:32.282 --> 00:57:32.563
Brock?

00:57:32.603 --> 00:57:34.184
He was talking about their website.

00:57:34.204 --> 00:57:36.085
That's what I say.

00:57:36.106 --> 00:57:37.606
Their beautiful website here for you.

00:57:37.626 --> 00:57:38.188
He was talking about the

00:57:38.248 --> 00:57:40.208
alabama.com theater slash events.

00:57:40.228 --> 00:57:41.710
And this is the particular one itself.

00:57:42.070 --> 00:57:43.291
Like I said, he's got it here.

00:57:43.311 --> 00:57:45.213
He got you where you can buy your tickets,

00:57:45.313 --> 00:57:46.054
plan your visit.

00:57:47.074 --> 00:57:50.898
He's got a wonderful designed, I guess,

00:57:51.097 --> 00:57:52.398
a poster marquee type thing.

00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:55.300
There you go.

00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:56.460
See what else is correct on there.

00:57:58.702 --> 00:57:58.882
Oh, yeah.

00:57:58.902 --> 00:57:59.101
No, no, no.

00:57:59.121 --> 00:57:59.481
Scroll down.

00:57:59.501 --> 00:58:00.762
Scroll down just a little bit more.

00:58:00.902 --> 00:58:01.302
Right there.

00:58:01.663 --> 00:58:02.784
Film synopsis.

00:58:02.824 --> 00:58:03.983
The Phantom of the Opera.

00:58:05.224 --> 00:58:05.684
Unrated.

00:58:06.326 --> 00:58:06.786
Horror.

00:58:07.246 --> 00:58:07.726
Right there.

00:58:08.126 --> 00:58:08.367
Boom.

00:58:08.447 --> 00:58:08.786
Well,

00:58:10.608 --> 00:58:12.307
obviously someone copied that off of

00:58:12.528 --> 00:58:13.168
IMDb.

00:58:15.690 --> 00:58:15.949
Of course,

00:58:16.130 --> 00:58:17.190
we need the information if

00:58:17.210 --> 00:58:18.572
you've ever been to the area before.

00:58:18.751 --> 00:58:21.413
It's at two o'clock in the afternoon.

00:58:22.418 --> 00:58:23.820
Yes, it is.

00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:25.041
Doors will open at one.

00:58:25.902 --> 00:58:27.043
Go ahead and get there early.

00:58:29.467 --> 00:58:30.909
find your seat that you want, then,

00:58:31.088 --> 00:58:32.731
you know, meander around the theater.

00:58:32.751 --> 00:58:35.532
There'll be some ghouls hiding out,

00:58:36.132 --> 00:58:38.936
hoping to scare unassuming patrons.

00:58:40.637 --> 00:58:41.757
Concessions will be open

00:58:41.918 --> 00:58:43.059
when the doors open at one.

00:58:46.661 --> 00:58:48.083
And this really, I mean,

00:58:48.242 --> 00:58:50.625
I wouldn't bring a three-year-old to this,

00:58:50.664 --> 00:58:51.385
but this is really

00:58:51.445 --> 00:58:52.586
something the whole family...

00:58:54.583 --> 00:58:56.664
I've seen people bring infants to Deadpool,

00:58:56.864 --> 00:58:57.344
okay?

00:59:02.128 --> 00:59:06.411
We had little bitty toddlers at Die Hard,

00:59:07.072 --> 00:59:09.875
and from the console, I was like, okay,

00:59:09.954 --> 00:59:11.016
I need to make a public

00:59:11.036 --> 00:59:11.735
service announcement to

00:59:11.755 --> 00:59:13.958
those of you with young children,

00:59:14.898 --> 00:59:15.880
and if you're okay with this,

00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:16.880
I'm okay with this.

00:59:16.900 --> 00:59:18.001
Yippee-ki-yay.

00:59:18.021 --> 00:59:18.300
Yippee-ki-yay.

00:59:22.914 --> 00:59:25.255
This is Bruce Willis' break into action.

00:59:27.155 --> 00:59:28.597
This is not Bruce Willis the

00:59:28.677 --> 00:59:30.617
soap star or whatever he was before that.

00:59:30.838 --> 00:59:33.518
This is Bruce Willis dropping the F-bombs.

00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:35.579
A lot.

00:59:39.742 --> 00:59:40.202
Oh, man.

00:59:40.302 --> 00:59:41.682
I can't wait for that again this year.

00:59:42.202 --> 00:59:43.804
We're doing it this year, right?

00:59:44.123 --> 00:59:44.784
Yes, we are.

00:59:44.963 --> 00:59:49.126
We don't want to get too far ahead.

00:59:49.166 --> 00:59:51.746
But now just remember, in May,

00:59:52.688 --> 00:59:53.927
Lowe's and Kevin are

00:59:53.947 --> 00:59:55.748
putting out Halloween decorations.

00:59:55.929 --> 01:00:05.072
So I feel like it was a compliment.

01:00:05.333 --> 01:00:06.893
So in September,

01:00:06.954 --> 01:00:07.773
I can talk a little bit

01:00:07.813 --> 01:00:09.454
about the holiday film series,

01:00:09.514 --> 01:00:11.135
which we will be announcing shortly.

01:00:11.454 --> 01:00:13.175
Our biggest issue right now

01:00:13.235 --> 01:00:16.257
is used in the pre-COVID world,

01:00:16.956 --> 01:00:19.478
the studios and the

01:00:19.518 --> 01:00:21.298
licensing agents would

01:00:21.438 --> 01:00:24.079
allow you to call in February and say,

01:00:24.099 --> 01:00:24.340
hey,

01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:25.960
we want to show White Christmas on

01:00:27.661 --> 01:00:28.442
December third.

01:00:28.481 --> 01:00:29.661
And they'd be like, oh, sure, fine,

01:00:29.842 --> 01:00:30.181
book it.

01:00:31.043 --> 01:00:34.224
Now, in today's world, we can't.

01:00:35.168 --> 01:00:37.688
book officially a movie

01:00:37.929 --> 01:00:40.809
until the quarter that it's being shown.

01:00:41.489 --> 01:00:44.530
So we won't get confirmation

01:00:44.652 --> 01:00:48.293
for our Christmas lineup until seriously,

01:00:48.353 --> 01:00:49.952
literally October first.

01:00:50.594 --> 01:00:54.014
So very, very end of September, very,

01:00:54.054 --> 01:00:55.074
very first of October is

01:00:55.114 --> 01:00:55.996
when we'll announce the

01:00:56.016 --> 01:00:57.135
holiday film series.

01:00:58.436 --> 01:01:00.416
I can assure you Die Hard is

01:01:01.398 --> 01:01:02.057
on the docket.

01:01:04.494 --> 01:01:06.498
If they deny Die Hard, we riot.

01:01:09.282 --> 01:01:09.965
Especially with the crowd

01:01:09.985 --> 01:01:10.746
they had last year.

01:01:10.826 --> 01:01:11.527
Oh my gosh.

01:01:13.715 --> 01:01:14.775
We will get there early.

01:01:15.556 --> 01:01:16.755
Okay.

01:01:16.815 --> 01:01:17.757
Let's just talk about that

01:01:17.797 --> 01:01:18.476
for half a second.

01:01:18.496 --> 01:01:18.577
Okay.

01:01:18.597 --> 01:01:19.317
Let's do it.

01:01:20.318 --> 01:01:20.597
Yes.

01:01:21.237 --> 01:01:23.458
This is turning into the Die Hard episode.

01:01:23.478 --> 01:01:24.400
This is the Die Hard episode.

01:01:24.940 --> 01:01:26.721
Number one, the late,

01:01:26.740 --> 01:01:29.661
great Cecil Whitmire would be just like,

01:01:29.702 --> 01:01:31.101
if they denied it, he would just be like,

01:01:31.563 --> 01:01:32.402
well, we're going to show it.

01:01:32.422 --> 01:01:33.023
What are they going to do?

01:01:33.083 --> 01:01:34.023
Come down to Birmingham and...

01:01:36.181 --> 01:01:37.021
haul us to prison.

01:01:37.422 --> 01:01:38.023
And I think, you know,

01:01:38.043 --> 01:01:41.045
maybe today they would, uh, but, uh,

01:01:41.065 --> 01:01:42.507
he was definitely of the,

01:01:42.606 --> 01:01:43.967
let's ask forgiveness

01:01:44.007 --> 01:01:46.070
rather than permission mindset.

01:01:46.369 --> 01:01:47.351
Um, our current,

01:01:47.411 --> 01:01:49.132
our current management plays by the book.

01:01:49.393 --> 01:01:51.976
So we would, we would have an issue.

01:01:52.416 --> 01:01:54.838
Uh, the very first year we showed Die Hard,

01:01:55.518 --> 01:01:55.599
um,

01:01:57.751 --> 01:01:59.534
I think, you know,

01:02:00.715 --> 01:02:01.737
you're showing a movie up

01:02:01.777 --> 01:02:02.557
against things like

01:02:02.577 --> 01:02:03.818
Christmas Vacation and Elf

01:02:03.838 --> 01:02:05.300
where you're selling out a

01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:06.501
full house every show.

01:02:07.222 --> 01:02:08.844
And the very first year,

01:02:09.045 --> 01:02:12.429
Die Hard was at maybe a

01:02:12.449 --> 01:02:14.971
little over half a house sold.

01:02:15.132 --> 01:02:15.411
Mm-hmm.

01:02:15.789 --> 01:02:19.351
And our then business manager was like,

01:02:19.391 --> 01:02:21.153
see, I told you this is not going to fly.

01:02:23.556 --> 01:02:24.916
Negative fancy.

01:02:25.836 --> 01:02:28.840
So the bar tab that night.

01:02:31.942 --> 01:02:32.041
Right.

01:02:32.061 --> 01:02:33.364
It's always the concessions.

01:02:33.983 --> 01:02:35.065
It's always concessions.

01:02:35.085 --> 01:02:36.686
The bar tab was like three

01:02:36.726 --> 01:02:38.248
sold out Christmas vacations.

01:02:39.387 --> 01:02:41.510
And when I turned in the

01:02:41.550 --> 01:02:42.550
numbers the next day,

01:02:43.978 --> 01:02:46.980
I mean, she just, it's just like,

01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:48.139
I'm going to go change clothes now.

01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:52.501
Do you remember driving Miss

01:02:52.521 --> 01:02:53.681
Daisy when Hoke shows back

01:02:53.701 --> 01:02:54.721
up with a can of salmon?

01:02:56.601 --> 01:02:57.362
That's what she did.

01:03:00.242 --> 01:03:00.603
Wow.

01:03:01.222 --> 01:03:02.543
I love it.

01:03:02.583 --> 01:03:04.403
So that's why Die Hard has,

01:03:04.463 --> 01:03:05.804
since that first time,

01:03:05.844 --> 01:03:07.364
has been on our Christmas

01:03:07.403 --> 01:03:08.905
docket every year.

01:03:08.945 --> 01:03:09.764
Because A, it's...

01:03:11.125 --> 01:03:12.126
It's better than Rudolph.

01:03:12.146 --> 01:03:12.427
Come on.

01:03:13.007 --> 01:03:15.570
And it's certainly a

01:03:15.610 --> 01:03:17.992
different shifting gears

01:03:18.092 --> 01:03:21.436
from all the white Christmas.

01:03:23.838 --> 01:03:26.420
It's the quintessential nineties,

01:03:27.181 --> 01:03:28.202
like macho,

01:03:29.003 --> 01:03:31.105
but still quirky holiday movie.

01:03:31.485 --> 01:03:31.925
And then, you know,

01:03:31.945 --> 01:03:32.867
of course we had Alan

01:03:32.907 --> 01:03:34.528
Rickman and Alan Rickman's past.

01:03:34.588 --> 01:03:34.789
Right.

01:03:35.128 --> 01:03:36.750
And now, you know, Bruce Willis, you know,

01:03:36.769 --> 01:03:38.349
we love him, but he's not doing well.

01:03:38.809 --> 01:03:40.751
So you're, you're,

01:03:40.771 --> 01:03:42.010
we don't know how long that'll be.

01:03:42.451 --> 01:03:43.992
So we'll have that as well.

01:03:44.032 --> 01:03:44.452
So, I mean,

01:03:44.472 --> 01:03:45.351
the movie is just going to keep

01:03:45.391 --> 01:03:46.371
getting more and more popular.

01:03:48.552 --> 01:03:49.592
You see where you're at,

01:03:49.853 --> 01:03:50.853
where you're at today

01:03:50.913 --> 01:03:52.293
versus where you started at.

01:03:52.333 --> 01:03:53.454
Look at what's changed.

01:03:53.614 --> 01:03:55.454
Like I said, this last year, it was,

01:03:55.695 --> 01:03:57.135
we were like, Oh, we can get there.

01:03:57.155 --> 01:03:57.954
We'll be fine.

01:03:58.916 --> 01:03:59.536
Whoa.

01:03:59.556 --> 01:04:01.275
That was a massive lie.

01:04:02.036 --> 01:04:03.396
So we had, um,

01:04:04.336 --> 01:04:05.057
This past year,

01:04:05.177 --> 01:04:06.860
we had seventeen tickets

01:04:06.900 --> 01:04:09.461
left to sell out.

01:04:10.023 --> 01:04:11.103
And I almost went to the box

01:04:11.164 --> 01:04:12.025
office and bought the

01:04:12.085 --> 01:04:13.186
seventeen tickets so we

01:04:13.226 --> 01:04:14.065
could say we sold out.

01:04:14.085 --> 01:04:16.327
But, you know,

01:04:16.469 --> 01:04:17.650
I only make a dollar eighty

01:04:17.670 --> 01:04:18.630
three an hour and all the

01:04:18.670 --> 01:04:19.751
popcorn I can steal.

01:04:19.811 --> 01:04:22.773
So I just let that go.

01:04:22.793 --> 01:04:23.735
They don't even give you a

01:04:23.775 --> 01:04:24.655
free tab at the bar.

01:04:27.097 --> 01:04:31.059
What bar?

01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:31.260
No,

01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:34.260
so I think that is a true testament to

01:04:34.300 --> 01:04:35.780
the best Christmas movie ever.

01:04:35.900 --> 01:04:38.541
Die Hard is the cool uncle

01:04:38.561 --> 01:04:39.262
Christmas movie.

01:04:39.702 --> 01:04:41.983
It's the cool uncle Christmas movie.

01:04:42.003 --> 01:04:45.824
That's a really good way of describing it.

01:04:45.844 --> 01:04:45.903
Yes.

01:04:45.963 --> 01:04:47.065
And it's not a horror film.

01:04:47.824 --> 01:04:50.266
Well, well, and I used to watch Die Hard,

01:04:50.306 --> 01:04:51.467
like I would make a habit

01:04:51.527 --> 01:04:52.748
of it just watching it at the house.

01:04:52.768 --> 01:04:54.710
But now I don't do that.

01:04:54.871 --> 01:04:55.992
I come to the theater and

01:04:56.032 --> 01:04:57.592
see it because it's a much

01:04:57.632 --> 01:04:59.974
better that that movie is

01:05:00.396 --> 01:05:01.617
fifteen times better.

01:05:02.135 --> 01:05:02.936
If you see it with other

01:05:02.956 --> 01:05:05.697
people that movies are made for a crowd.

01:05:06.038 --> 01:05:06.878
Cause it's like when you go

01:05:06.898 --> 01:05:08.998
to a sporting event and you're like,

01:05:09.139 --> 01:05:09.998
you're there and you just

01:05:10.059 --> 01:05:11.659
feel the energy of

01:05:11.739 --> 01:05:14.001
everybody there and everybody's root.

01:05:14.240 --> 01:05:15.422
It's almost like you get

01:05:15.442 --> 01:05:17.021
that exact same thing from

01:05:17.461 --> 01:05:19.643
a movie that's been out for this long,

01:05:19.902 --> 01:05:23.065
you know, the energy of the audience,

01:05:23.085 --> 01:05:24.125
the synergy that you've

01:05:24.164 --> 01:05:25.746
created with everyone else in the room.

01:05:25.766 --> 01:05:27.106
It, it, I mean, it,

01:05:28.867 --> 01:05:29.987
I love White Christmas.

01:05:30.148 --> 01:05:30.728
I do.

01:05:30.809 --> 01:05:32.630
That is my favorite film in

01:05:32.670 --> 01:05:33.172
the whole wide world.

01:05:33.192 --> 01:05:34.813
But it is not the same.

01:05:34.913 --> 01:05:35.994
I can watch White Christmas

01:05:36.014 --> 01:05:39.297
alone in July and be just

01:05:39.338 --> 01:05:40.297
perfectly happy.

01:05:40.858 --> 01:05:42.681
But seeing Die Hard with

01:05:42.721 --> 01:05:44.483
that two thousand people is

01:05:44.523 --> 01:05:46.043
just because everybody's

01:05:46.063 --> 01:05:47.525
just they're in the same

01:05:48.686 --> 01:05:48.847
boat.

01:05:48.867 --> 01:05:49.967
They're in the same place

01:05:50.728 --> 01:05:51.429
pushing it through.

01:05:51.449 --> 01:05:52.168
It's awesome.

01:05:52.188 --> 01:05:53.771
They are shouting out the lines.

01:05:53.791 --> 01:05:55.692
They are cheering when Hans falls.

01:05:57.253 --> 01:06:00.255
It's an experience too.

01:06:00.376 --> 01:06:01.436
It's much like what you're

01:06:01.456 --> 01:06:02.438
going in here with Phantom.

01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:05.280
Oh, yeah.

01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:06.822
Phantom is the same way.

01:06:07.663 --> 01:06:09.405
I can watch that at home and I'll be okay.

01:06:09.445 --> 01:06:11.786
But seeing it there with

01:06:11.806 --> 01:06:13.668
that audience and hearing

01:06:14.188 --> 01:06:15.630
an audience laugh with you

01:06:15.710 --> 01:06:19.074
and gasp with you and do this like...

01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:20.420
Yeah.

01:06:20.500 --> 01:06:21.320
All at the same time.

01:06:21.340 --> 01:06:22.460
It's just, you know.

01:06:22.521 --> 01:06:24.501
And of course, of course,

01:06:25.221 --> 01:06:27.442
the wallets are belting it out, too.

01:06:27.521 --> 01:06:28.641
I mean, that's just, you know.

01:06:29.682 --> 01:06:30.003
Yeah.

01:06:30.103 --> 01:06:30.302
Yes.

01:06:30.362 --> 01:06:30.563
Yes.

01:06:30.902 --> 01:06:31.063
Yes.

01:06:31.202 --> 01:06:34.264
And I always cleverly point out, too.

01:06:35.583 --> 01:06:37.045
And I said this earlier, and that is,

01:06:37.144 --> 01:06:37.304
you know,

01:06:37.324 --> 01:06:39.264
it's exactly what the organ was

01:06:39.304 --> 01:06:39.925
designed to do.

01:06:40.126 --> 01:06:43.326
But you have never heard the

01:06:43.425 --> 01:06:45.286
entire range of.

01:06:45.842 --> 01:06:47.262
of that organ from its very

01:06:47.302 --> 01:06:49.204
most quiet to its very most

01:06:49.244 --> 01:06:51.106
bombastic yeah as you will

01:06:51.146 --> 01:06:52.628
hear during this show it is

01:06:52.768 --> 01:06:54.929
it is the full circle it is

01:06:55.650 --> 01:06:57.713
he utilizes every single

01:06:57.753 --> 01:07:00.074
thing the organ the organ

01:07:00.094 --> 01:07:01.096
is its own character it's

01:07:01.135 --> 01:07:02.737
its own star yeah yeah it

01:07:02.777 --> 01:07:04.079
really is yeah it really is

01:07:04.139 --> 01:07:05.480
yeah well now you got me

01:07:05.500 --> 01:07:06.541
even more I can't get any

01:07:06.561 --> 01:07:07.702
more excited than this gary

01:07:07.782 --> 01:07:09.664
okay yeah you love that yeah

01:07:10.985 --> 01:07:11.244
Kevin,

01:07:11.284 --> 01:07:12.846
you talk about your love for the for

01:07:12.865 --> 01:07:13.246
the war.

01:07:13.306 --> 01:07:16.086
It's going to magnify.

01:07:16.306 --> 01:07:17.186
Well, the fact that, you know,

01:07:17.206 --> 01:07:18.967
we were in our we were just before this,

01:07:18.987 --> 01:07:20.867
we recorded our member exclusive episode.

01:07:20.907 --> 01:07:21.208
And, you know,

01:07:21.228 --> 01:07:22.427
Gary was talking about some

01:07:22.447 --> 01:07:24.088
of the restoration that was

01:07:24.148 --> 01:07:25.829
happening with Big Bertha.

01:07:25.869 --> 01:07:27.730
And, you know, it's going to be back.

01:07:28.597 --> 01:07:28.797
you know,

01:07:28.818 --> 01:07:30.280
hopefully you have the bugs

01:07:30.300 --> 01:07:31.101
worked out and everything,

01:07:31.121 --> 01:07:33.764
and it'll be back in full blast for this.

01:07:33.884 --> 01:07:34.824
And it hasn't been for a

01:07:34.844 --> 01:07:36.385
little while because it's been in repair.

01:07:36.806 --> 01:07:38.568
So that's going to be even better.

01:07:38.628 --> 01:07:39.208
It's like, you know,

01:07:39.329 --> 01:07:41.110
not only is it the full range of it,

01:07:41.152 --> 01:07:42.972
but it's with everything fully repaired,

01:07:43.293 --> 01:07:44.896
fully, fully restored.

01:07:45.615 --> 01:07:47.317
So the Bertha project is a

01:07:47.697 --> 01:07:49.376
three-phase project,

01:07:49.556 --> 01:07:51.478
and the return at the end

01:07:51.498 --> 01:07:52.898
of September will be the

01:07:52.938 --> 01:07:54.838
completion of phase two.

01:07:55.858 --> 01:07:57.760
Phase one was a complete

01:07:57.800 --> 01:07:59.800
reworking of the keyboards.

01:08:00.420 --> 01:08:02.061
There are four sets of keyboards,

01:08:02.701 --> 01:08:04.141
and all of those were

01:08:04.181 --> 01:08:05.061
completely reworked.

01:08:05.742 --> 01:08:07.963
reworked uh and she oh my

01:08:07.983 --> 01:08:09.224
goodness before she left

01:08:09.244 --> 01:08:12.407
she was it was playing was

01:08:12.427 --> 01:08:14.329
a dream it's just it's like

01:08:14.369 --> 01:08:15.331
eating a chocolate sundae

01:08:15.351 --> 01:08:18.673
you just ever wanted to

01:08:18.694 --> 01:08:20.274
stop and then phase two is

01:08:20.414 --> 01:08:22.796
is a very mechanical uh

01:08:22.817 --> 01:08:25.139
portion the uh the the rail

01:08:25.158 --> 01:08:26.320
that holds all the stop

01:08:26.341 --> 01:08:27.261
tabs that go up and down

01:08:27.320 --> 01:08:28.242
and control all the

01:08:28.261 --> 01:08:29.563
different things all of

01:08:29.603 --> 01:08:31.385
that is being reworked and uh the

01:08:32.375 --> 01:08:33.475
stop-action magnets are

01:08:33.515 --> 01:08:34.636
being replaced because

01:08:34.957 --> 01:08:36.658
after all these decades, they wear out.

01:08:37.719 --> 01:08:38.359
It's time.

01:08:38.418 --> 01:08:40.381
It's time to do that.

01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:41.502
And then there's some other

01:08:41.862 --> 01:08:43.182
console things and the

01:08:43.222 --> 01:08:45.064
platform itself and the railing,

01:08:45.505 --> 01:08:46.826
ornamental railing got redone.

01:08:47.345 --> 01:08:49.127
So it's mostly mechanical.

01:08:49.448 --> 01:08:51.189
And then phase three,

01:08:51.248 --> 01:08:55.032
we will do probably in

01:08:55.891 --> 01:08:57.233
twenty-five or twenty-six,

01:08:57.292 --> 01:08:58.134
approaching the one

01:08:58.173 --> 01:09:00.055
hundredth anniversary of the theater.

01:09:00.095 --> 01:09:00.716
And that is the

01:09:01.847 --> 01:09:04.789
physical cosmetic portion of

01:09:04.829 --> 01:09:05.871
her she looks great from

01:09:05.911 --> 01:09:07.030
ten feet she photographs

01:09:07.070 --> 01:09:08.431
well but once you get close

01:09:08.452 --> 01:09:09.512
you can see she's a little

01:09:10.472 --> 01:09:18.557
so that that'll be phase

01:09:18.597 --> 01:09:19.497
three and that'll be done

01:09:19.837 --> 01:09:20.819
prior to the one hundred

01:09:21.302 --> 01:09:22.923
anniversary celebration in

01:09:23.043 --> 01:09:23.944
twenty twenty seven.

01:09:24.043 --> 01:09:25.463
So this is once again,

01:09:25.484 --> 01:09:27.164
this is a multiphase

01:09:27.185 --> 01:09:28.185
project that we've planned

01:09:28.265 --> 01:09:30.365
out over several years and

01:09:30.405 --> 01:09:32.167
we've raised the money to do this.

01:09:32.207 --> 01:09:33.667
We're not borrowing any

01:09:33.707 --> 01:09:37.929
money and we it's it's been

01:09:38.088 --> 01:09:39.349
entirely self-funded

01:09:39.868 --> 01:09:42.329
through donations and earmarked money.

01:09:43.751 --> 01:09:46.292
We do Phantom for forty five years.

01:09:46.712 --> 01:09:47.671
Where does all that money go?

01:09:47.771 --> 01:09:49.292
Exactly what we're talking

01:09:49.332 --> 01:09:49.912
about right now.

01:09:51.494 --> 01:09:52.216
One of those things I like

01:09:52.235 --> 01:09:53.315
to brag about the World Series,

01:09:53.336 --> 01:09:53.735
I tell you what,

01:09:53.796 --> 01:09:54.676
after you've experienced it

01:09:54.697 --> 01:09:55.737
the first time and you hear it,

01:09:55.936 --> 01:09:56.717
but one of my favorite

01:09:56.738 --> 01:09:57.318
things is when you're

01:09:57.337 --> 01:09:58.078
getting ready to play it,

01:09:58.097 --> 01:09:59.259
you haven't even played that single note,

01:09:59.298 --> 01:10:00.399
but you hear that rumble.

01:10:00.420 --> 01:10:02.940
Oh, yes.

01:10:03.020 --> 01:10:04.381
It's like that, oh, here it comes,

01:10:04.442 --> 01:10:06.302
here it comes, and then it belts you.

01:10:06.382 --> 01:10:07.563
And that's one of the things

01:10:07.603 --> 01:10:08.323
I wanted to break up while

01:10:08.344 --> 01:10:09.144
I was thinking about it.

01:10:09.203 --> 01:10:10.304
It's just that's one of those things.

01:10:10.364 --> 01:10:10.685
I don't know.

01:10:11.524 --> 01:10:12.284
Even before it plays its

01:10:12.324 --> 01:10:13.706
first note that I know it's coming,

01:10:13.725 --> 01:10:14.627
that's one of my favorite

01:10:14.667 --> 01:10:15.327
things about it.

01:10:15.815 --> 01:10:17.337
Like everything switches on.

01:10:17.676 --> 01:10:17.957
Yeah.

01:10:18.198 --> 01:10:19.399
It's like everything's ready

01:10:19.418 --> 01:10:20.578
and you can hear it.

01:10:20.618 --> 01:10:21.180
Exactly.

01:10:21.380 --> 01:10:22.780
And even if you don't know, you're like,

01:10:22.921 --> 01:10:24.301
oh, God, something's about to happen.

01:10:25.762 --> 01:10:26.604
And then you hear the first

01:10:26.663 --> 01:10:27.644
notes and you're like, oh, my God,

01:10:27.663 --> 01:10:28.385
that's the organ.

01:10:28.404 --> 01:10:28.744
Oh, wow.

01:10:28.824 --> 01:10:29.085
Yeah.

01:10:29.125 --> 01:10:33.448
Well, and the organ, you know,

01:10:33.528 --> 01:10:35.909
it's a living, breathing organ.

01:10:37.838 --> 01:10:40.240
It's a living, breathing character.

01:10:40.261 --> 01:10:41.261
You think you're coming to a

01:10:41.301 --> 01:10:42.082
theater and you're like,

01:10:42.101 --> 01:10:42.882
this is really cool.

01:10:42.903 --> 01:10:43.422
It's ornate.

01:10:43.764 --> 01:10:45.104
And then you realize this is

01:10:45.145 --> 01:10:47.025
just the shell that houses the organ.

01:10:48.006 --> 01:10:50.048
That's basically what this place is.

01:10:52.291 --> 01:10:53.030
You say that,

01:10:53.070 --> 01:10:55.092
and that is exactly what

01:10:55.212 --> 01:10:57.255
saved the Alabama theater

01:10:57.774 --> 01:11:00.417
is in the late eighties and, you know,

01:11:00.497 --> 01:11:00.978
eighties, six,

01:11:02.639 --> 01:11:03.220
The theater,

01:11:04.280 --> 01:11:05.481
the owners of the theater at

01:11:05.502 --> 01:11:07.404
the time had filed for bankruptcy.

01:11:08.326 --> 01:11:09.646
The Oregon Society went to

01:11:10.028 --> 01:11:11.569
the bankruptcy attorney and said, look,

01:11:11.609 --> 01:11:11.869
you know,

01:11:12.966 --> 01:11:13.927
This doesn't look good.

01:11:15.009 --> 01:11:16.489
If bankruptcy proceeds,

01:11:16.609 --> 01:11:18.971
then this theater will be

01:11:19.032 --> 01:11:21.092
torn down because no who in

01:11:21.113 --> 01:11:21.974
their right mind would want

01:11:22.054 --> 01:11:23.015
a nineteen twenty seven

01:11:23.055 --> 01:11:24.695
movie palace and try to operate.

01:11:25.235 --> 01:11:26.117
And so we asked them,

01:11:26.757 --> 01:11:28.319
could could we purchase the

01:11:28.458 --> 01:11:30.701
organ and remove it so we

01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:31.942
could put it in a different venue,

01:11:31.962 --> 01:11:32.801
a suitable venue?

01:11:33.582 --> 01:11:35.003
And the bankruptcy attorney said, no,

01:11:35.885 --> 01:11:36.505
you want the organ.

01:11:36.524 --> 01:11:37.086
You've got to buy the

01:11:37.126 --> 01:11:38.426
building and its contents

01:11:39.426 --> 01:11:42.750
and the the organ without the room.

01:11:45.087 --> 01:11:46.048
and the room without the

01:11:46.109 --> 01:11:48.251
organ yeah yeah no so they

01:11:48.350 --> 01:11:49.872
really are you know

01:11:49.912 --> 01:11:51.512
together they're really one

01:11:52.193 --> 01:11:55.935
being and the it's just a

01:11:55.975 --> 01:11:57.497
natural fit and so it's

01:11:57.516 --> 01:11:58.417
like you said kevin you

01:11:58.438 --> 01:11:59.217
know you come in and you

01:11:59.238 --> 01:12:00.800
see it's gorgeous but then

01:12:00.859 --> 01:12:02.060
it's a whole organic

01:12:02.541 --> 01:12:05.403
experience with the wind

01:12:05.582 --> 01:12:06.703
and the air that it takes

01:12:06.743 --> 01:12:08.244
to power the instrument and

01:12:09.577 --> 01:12:11.158
it's crazy yeah you really

01:12:11.198 --> 01:12:12.319
only have to go and see it

01:12:12.359 --> 01:12:13.460
like one show and then

01:12:13.500 --> 01:12:14.701
you're then you know if

01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:15.621
you're lucky enough to see

01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:16.801
a show like if you don't go

01:12:16.822 --> 01:12:17.842
there for like a concert or

01:12:17.882 --> 01:12:18.922
something and you see a

01:12:18.962 --> 01:12:20.944
show that that is actually

01:12:20.984 --> 01:12:21.845
playing you're like okay

01:12:21.864 --> 01:12:24.266
yeah it's very very obvious

01:12:24.327 --> 01:12:25.188
especially when you you're

01:12:25.207 --> 01:12:26.108
looking around the theater

01:12:26.127 --> 01:12:26.988
and you're like well

01:12:27.009 --> 01:12:28.050
there's a box over there

01:12:28.069 --> 01:12:28.689
that looks like it should

01:12:28.710 --> 01:12:30.070
be like a box like a an

01:12:30.190 --> 01:12:31.032
area where someone just

01:12:31.072 --> 01:12:32.152
said no that's literally

01:12:32.171 --> 01:12:33.273
where the theater has its

01:12:33.372 --> 01:12:35.814
parts the organ has its parts

01:12:36.595 --> 01:12:40.019
So my best one is always, you know,

01:12:40.038 --> 01:12:41.301
we always get that one person that goes,

01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:43.063
oh, when we were here, blah, blah, blah.

01:12:43.082 --> 01:12:44.083
We sat right up there.

01:12:44.123 --> 01:12:44.784
And I'm like, you did?

01:12:44.805 --> 01:12:45.005
Really?

01:12:45.024 --> 01:12:45.685
Oh, interesting.

01:12:45.706 --> 01:12:50.411
Just sharing.

01:12:53.113 --> 01:12:53.994
I wish I could point.

01:12:54.355 --> 01:12:55.676
Okay, so you see the console,

01:12:55.716 --> 01:12:56.958
and if you look to the left

01:12:57.378 --> 01:12:59.041
and go up where that shield

01:12:59.081 --> 01:13:00.023
and the Griffiths are,

01:13:00.342 --> 01:13:02.125
those are the chambers.

01:13:02.484 --> 01:13:02.865
Behind that,

01:13:02.905 --> 01:13:04.908
you see a kind of a graded plaster.

01:13:05.609 --> 01:13:07.390
Behind the shield is the main chamber,

01:13:07.551 --> 01:13:08.431
and behind the curtain,

01:13:08.472 --> 01:13:09.132
behind the Griffith,

01:13:09.193 --> 01:13:10.113
is the string chamber.

01:13:10.914 --> 01:13:13.417
And those rooms are, they're huge rooms,

01:13:13.497 --> 01:13:15.059
but they are filled floor

01:13:15.118 --> 01:13:18.801
to ceiling with pipes, regulators,

01:13:18.881 --> 01:13:20.703
wind regulators, the chest work,

01:13:21.064 --> 01:13:22.305
the actual instruments.

01:13:23.126 --> 01:13:24.146
I wish I could point even

01:13:24.186 --> 01:13:24.886
more because I could show

01:13:24.907 --> 01:13:25.287
you the one hundred

01:13:25.307 --> 01:13:26.127
nineteen twenty seven

01:13:26.167 --> 01:13:27.689
warlets are upright right there.

01:13:28.189 --> 01:13:28.631
Right.

01:13:28.751 --> 01:13:31.493
And just right behind the drapery there.

01:13:31.512 --> 01:13:32.134
Yeah.

01:13:33.595 --> 01:13:35.435
Is this where the organ,

01:13:35.975 --> 01:13:36.997
the seats we don't get

01:13:37.016 --> 01:13:38.417
because the organ enthusiasts,

01:13:39.639 --> 01:13:40.399
they'll sit there?

01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:41.859
Is this balcony here?

01:13:41.939 --> 01:13:45.162
No, no, no, no, no.

01:13:45.181 --> 01:13:46.182
We need a different shot.

01:13:46.682 --> 01:13:48.444
Jess is trying to plan her visit already.

01:13:48.765 --> 01:13:53.108
I'm going to be in the floor

01:13:53.167 --> 01:13:53.787
in the middle.

01:13:55.529 --> 01:13:56.670
You come by one day next

01:13:56.729 --> 01:13:58.011
week and I'll show you where to sit.

01:14:00.372 --> 01:14:01.752
At the bar with me.

01:14:01.832 --> 01:14:02.132
At the bar.

01:14:02.153 --> 01:14:02.393
Right here.

01:14:02.412 --> 01:14:02.552
No,

01:14:02.573 --> 01:14:13.078
so on the opposite side is the same

01:14:14.078 --> 01:14:16.859
visual symmetrical look on the outside.

01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:19.280
The other side is called the solo chamber.

01:14:19.860 --> 01:14:21.742
And instead of two chambers

01:14:21.761 --> 01:14:22.761
like you have here,

01:14:23.662 --> 01:14:26.543
it's one big chamber that's one big room.

01:14:29.012 --> 01:14:29.712
Yeah.

01:14:29.813 --> 01:14:31.734
Can you see that?

01:14:32.234 --> 01:14:33.453
Yeah.

01:14:33.774 --> 01:14:35.675
Trying to see if I can.

01:14:35.694 --> 01:14:35.814
Yeah.

01:14:35.835 --> 01:14:36.375
Say, oh, no, it won't go any.

01:14:36.395 --> 01:14:36.935
Can you just scroll?

01:14:36.954 --> 01:14:37.055
No, no.

01:14:37.074 --> 01:14:39.256
I don't know if you're.

01:14:39.315 --> 01:14:39.756
That's OK.

01:14:39.996 --> 01:14:40.336
It's OK.

01:14:40.896 --> 01:14:42.476
If you're there and you find me,

01:14:42.497 --> 01:14:43.957
I'll point for you and show you.

01:14:44.778 --> 01:14:47.338
Gotcha.

01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:47.798
The that's.

01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:52.039
It was in those those chambers.

01:14:53.541 --> 01:14:54.980
There are no parallel walls

01:14:55.060 --> 01:14:55.560
within the room.

01:14:55.581 --> 01:14:56.701
There's several different

01:14:56.740 --> 01:14:58.322
sides to the rooms, you know,

01:14:59.666 --> 01:15:01.868
multi-sided, no parallel walls.

01:15:02.208 --> 01:15:03.990
So that way the sound waves

01:15:04.030 --> 01:15:06.354
inside can't get trapped inside the room.

01:15:06.394 --> 01:15:08.496
The chambers are designed to

01:15:08.695 --> 01:15:11.298
push the sound of the pipes

01:15:11.338 --> 01:15:12.319
and the instruments out

01:15:12.439 --> 01:15:13.822
into the auditorium.

01:15:14.162 --> 01:15:15.743
And then the swell shutters,

01:15:15.863 --> 01:15:17.945
the shades are designed to

01:15:18.065 --> 01:15:20.108
open up and fire into the room.

01:15:20.149 --> 01:15:20.349
So

01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:22.662
The organ was designed and

01:15:22.782 --> 01:15:23.921
built for it to be able to

01:15:24.042 --> 01:15:25.682
speak into that auditory

01:15:25.823 --> 01:15:28.384
very cleanly and clearly.

01:15:28.484 --> 01:15:31.244
She does a fantastic job, that's for sure.

01:15:31.864 --> 01:15:32.524
Absolutely.

01:15:33.185 --> 01:15:34.265
That's why taking the organ

01:15:34.326 --> 01:15:35.845
out of the theater would mean nothing.

01:15:35.886 --> 01:15:37.346
No.

01:15:37.527 --> 01:15:40.228
You can take it out and we

01:15:40.247 --> 01:15:41.528
could put it somewhere else,

01:15:41.568 --> 01:15:43.229
but it will never sound the same.

01:15:43.788 --> 01:15:44.989
The room is always the

01:15:45.029 --> 01:15:46.829
biggest component of any organ,

01:15:46.949 --> 01:15:48.430
hyper-electronic either way.

01:15:49.671 --> 01:15:51.132
that's the single most

01:15:51.172 --> 01:15:52.412
important element is the

01:15:52.472 --> 01:15:54.215
room and the acoustics of the room.

01:15:54.335 --> 01:15:55.114
And boy, does she sing.

01:15:55.135 --> 01:15:55.615
She does sing.

01:15:55.636 --> 01:15:59.238
She does indeed.

01:15:59.297 --> 01:16:01.038
Absolutely.

01:16:01.059 --> 01:16:03.100
Well, we know we got Phantom on October,

01:16:03.140 --> 01:16:05.761
the two o'clock in the afternoon.

01:16:06.382 --> 01:16:07.363
What are some other things

01:16:07.644 --> 01:16:09.364
happening in October that we can expect?

01:16:10.045 --> 01:16:10.244
Well,

01:16:10.364 --> 01:16:12.646
other than Hocus Pocus on the twenty

01:16:12.827 --> 01:16:13.127
fifth.

01:16:13.146 --> 01:16:13.507
Yeah, that's a.

01:16:21.100 --> 01:16:22.002
Look here and see.

01:16:22.021 --> 01:16:22.202
Who knows?

01:16:22.221 --> 01:16:22.362
I mean,

01:16:22.381 --> 01:16:24.345
I'm in that mode right now where

01:16:24.925 --> 01:16:25.706
tomorrow is Monday.

01:16:25.725 --> 01:16:32.414
I just got to get through Monday.

01:16:35.278 --> 01:16:36.279
That's the only one showing

01:16:36.380 --> 01:16:37.081
on the website.

01:16:37.121 --> 01:16:37.301
Yeah.

01:16:37.934 --> 01:16:38.134
Well,

01:16:38.175 --> 01:16:39.996
T-Bone Burnett's coming to the Lyric.

01:16:41.597 --> 01:16:42.918
Gillian Welch and David

01:16:42.958 --> 01:16:45.220
Rawlings are coming to the Lyric.

01:16:45.841 --> 01:16:47.283
There is the Witch Perfect

01:16:47.363 --> 01:16:48.664
Tour for twenty twenty four,

01:16:48.704 --> 01:16:50.606
which is drag oriented.

01:16:51.106 --> 01:16:53.689
That's going to be fun on the eighteenth.

01:16:54.510 --> 01:16:56.431
Hocus Pocus on the twenty fifth.

01:16:56.532 --> 01:16:57.814
Phantom on the twenty seventh.

01:16:58.641 --> 01:17:01.724
And then there's an ABBA tribute band.

01:17:02.703 --> 01:17:03.384
What?

01:17:03.463 --> 01:17:04.364
On Halloween night.

01:17:04.444 --> 01:17:05.625
Yeah.

01:17:05.905 --> 01:17:07.025
That's also with the lyric.

01:17:07.265 --> 01:17:09.886
Oh, ABBA tribute band.

01:17:09.907 --> 01:17:11.188
This group, this is like their,

01:17:12.248 --> 01:17:13.628
I know it's at least third time,

01:17:13.649 --> 01:17:15.229
if not fourth time that they've come.

01:17:15.750 --> 01:17:18.612
And they do such an amazing show.

01:17:18.652 --> 01:17:19.493
It's unbelievable.

01:17:19.533 --> 01:17:20.193
So if you want to come to

01:17:20.233 --> 01:17:21.373
the Lyric for the first time,

01:17:21.734 --> 01:17:22.895
there's your show right there.

01:17:23.095 --> 01:17:23.815
Oh, wow.

01:17:23.895 --> 01:17:26.877
And then November first is Nate Jackson.

01:17:27.679 --> 01:17:28.880
November six is Morrissey.

01:17:28.899 --> 01:17:29.000
Yeah.

01:17:29.020 --> 01:17:31.662
Gotcha.

01:17:31.681 --> 01:17:32.521
So what you said that they

01:17:32.542 --> 01:17:34.342
were doing that Halloween night?

01:17:35.783 --> 01:17:37.005
At the Lyric?

01:17:37.085 --> 01:17:39.146
Yeah, the ABBA tribute is Halloween night.

01:17:39.287 --> 01:17:40.728
Okay, you know what?

01:17:41.167 --> 01:17:42.448
You can either go see ABBA

01:17:42.569 --> 01:17:43.609
or you can come to my house

01:17:43.630 --> 01:17:44.810
and get full-size candy bars.

01:17:46.109 --> 01:17:50.951
You know, I might do both.

01:17:51.030 --> 01:17:52.631
I don't have a bar, though.

01:17:52.671 --> 01:17:55.492
Well, it's okay.

01:17:55.572 --> 01:17:56.573
I'll bring my own.

01:17:56.592 --> 01:17:57.092
Candy bar.

01:17:57.153 --> 01:17:59.134
Yes, there we go.

01:17:59.154 --> 01:18:00.493
Candy bar, yeah, candy bar.

01:18:00.514 --> 01:18:01.274
Affordable bar.

01:18:02.194 --> 01:18:04.115
As Brock would say, I've got the beatus.

01:18:04.536 --> 01:18:05.235
That's all I've got.

01:18:05.256 --> 01:18:08.917
I've got it, yeah.

01:18:08.936 --> 01:18:10.358
But I love Halloween, of course.

01:18:10.417 --> 01:18:10.597
You know,

01:18:10.637 --> 01:18:12.439
I get to wear my sexy kitty outfit.

01:18:12.578 --> 01:18:12.819
Yeah.

01:18:16.161 --> 01:18:16.801
In public.

01:18:16.981 --> 01:18:21.426
I was expecting a glitzy devil, but okay.

01:18:23.948 --> 01:18:24.829
No glitzy devil.

01:18:24.850 --> 01:18:30.756
I saved that for Christmas.

01:18:30.777 --> 01:18:31.637
Man the images.

01:18:31.797 --> 01:18:32.618
All right.

01:18:35.563 --> 01:18:39.007
And this is why we love Gary.

01:18:39.408 --> 01:18:39.909
That's right.

01:18:40.390 --> 01:18:41.511
We turned him loose with a

01:18:41.551 --> 01:18:43.956
live mic this time.

01:18:43.975 --> 01:18:44.577
And it was beautiful.

01:18:44.617 --> 01:18:45.677
And it was gorgeous.

01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:48.042
And a brick wall.

01:18:48.282 --> 01:18:48.863
And a brick wall.

01:18:50.876 --> 01:18:52.216
We were joking in our member

01:18:52.456 --> 01:18:54.216
exclusive stream that Gary,

01:18:54.436 --> 01:18:56.476
when we want him to come onto the stream,

01:18:56.697 --> 01:18:58.177
he just materializes out of

01:18:58.217 --> 01:18:58.877
that brick wall.

01:19:00.118 --> 01:19:00.917
And then he just puts some

01:19:00.957 --> 01:19:03.019
earbuds in and he just starts talking.

01:19:03.099 --> 01:19:05.279
There you go.

01:19:05.538 --> 01:19:10.479
That's all you need.

01:19:10.619 --> 01:19:11.579
This is my life every day.

01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:11.739
Awesome.

01:19:11.760 --> 01:19:13.001
Gary, I hope we can have you back on.

01:19:13.020 --> 01:19:13.801
We'd love to have you back

01:19:13.881 --> 01:19:14.520
on and talk about the

01:19:15.081 --> 01:19:16.440
holiday film series.

01:19:17.061 --> 01:19:18.301
We'd love that if you're free.

01:19:18.322 --> 01:19:18.442
Yeah.

01:19:20.690 --> 01:19:25.921
I'm free I'm free maybe not free

01:19:30.725 --> 01:19:31.606
Well, what do you want me to say?

01:19:32.046 --> 01:19:33.788
I'm available.

01:19:37.171 --> 01:19:37.591
You guys,

01:19:37.792 --> 01:19:39.453
I am always so thrilled and

01:19:39.514 --> 01:19:41.576
excited and honored to be a

01:19:41.595 --> 01:19:43.557
part of your podcast and

01:19:43.797 --> 01:19:44.498
your live stream.

01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:45.640
I just,

01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:47.600
I can't tell you how much it means

01:19:47.640 --> 01:19:48.561
to me to be able to come

01:19:48.582 --> 01:19:50.743
and talk to you and talk to

01:19:50.783 --> 01:19:52.305
folks who really get it.

01:19:52.326 --> 01:19:53.265
Uh, and,

01:19:53.386 --> 01:19:54.828
and we can have these discussions

01:19:54.908 --> 01:19:56.890
of is this, this, and is this that, and,

01:19:57.029 --> 01:19:57.170
uh,

01:19:58.206 --> 01:19:59.266
I just,

01:19:59.287 --> 01:20:00.987
I appreciate you guys more than anything.

01:20:01.627 --> 01:20:03.127
Hey, we love you, man.

01:20:03.509 --> 01:20:04.868
It's a, and Mitchell says,

01:20:04.908 --> 01:20:05.869
Gary's cool people.

01:20:05.909 --> 01:20:06.869
Thank you for coming on.

01:20:07.670 --> 01:20:08.810
I'll send you a check Mitchell.

01:20:13.972 --> 01:20:16.234
And I can say Mitchell is just as,

01:20:16.395 --> 01:20:18.135
is a cool, cool people too.

01:20:18.154 --> 01:20:19.176
Awesome.

01:20:19.235 --> 01:20:19.576
Yes.

01:20:20.115 --> 01:20:21.277
I have to get them over here

01:20:21.296 --> 01:20:23.238
for one of these films for sure.

01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:26.420
I think Mitchell's been to the Alabama.

01:20:26.479 --> 01:20:28.681
I think he came for the Ghostbusters.

01:20:28.721 --> 01:20:29.922
Yeah.

01:20:30.382 --> 01:20:32.965
Now you just need to come

01:20:32.984 --> 01:20:33.546
for Die Hard now.

01:20:33.565 --> 01:20:34.426
That's the best thing.

01:20:36.929 --> 01:20:39.050
That's the one, yes.

01:20:39.069 --> 01:20:39.511
That would be.

01:20:40.331 --> 01:20:42.073
There's another one I can guarantee you.

01:20:42.552 --> 01:20:43.753
If you don't have a good time,

01:20:44.835 --> 01:20:45.735
there's no helping you.

01:20:45.756 --> 01:20:50.158
I don't think it's possible.

01:20:50.198 --> 01:20:50.498
I know.

01:20:52.666 --> 01:20:54.067
We will put a link to the

01:20:54.127 --> 01:20:55.228
Alabama Theater and where

01:20:55.247 --> 01:20:56.189
you can get the tickets for

01:20:56.229 --> 01:20:58.911
Phantom of the Opera and their website.

01:20:58.930 --> 01:20:59.831
We can get all kinds of

01:20:59.890 --> 01:21:00.851
information of everything

01:21:00.872 --> 01:21:03.493
that's coming up.

01:21:03.573 --> 01:21:04.555
Mitchell even says, oh,

01:21:04.635 --> 01:21:05.895
I'm thinking about Die Hard.

01:21:06.435 --> 01:21:07.356
You will not regret it.

01:21:07.377 --> 01:21:09.238
Mitchell, come watch Die Hard with us.

01:21:09.278 --> 01:21:11.159
You will not regret it at all.

01:21:11.500 --> 01:21:13.041
And judging by last year,

01:21:13.140 --> 01:21:14.202
buy your ticket as soon as

01:21:14.221 --> 01:21:14.902
they go on sale.

01:21:14.921 --> 01:21:14.981
Yes.

01:21:15.002 --> 01:21:16.724
Yes.

01:21:17.184 --> 01:21:17.663
Oh, my gosh.

01:21:17.684 --> 01:21:19.286
And get there early that night.

01:21:19.345 --> 01:21:19.786
Yeah.

01:21:21.658 --> 01:21:22.738
And be aware that there are

01:21:22.859 --> 01:21:26.421
multiple concession areas in the theater,

01:21:26.921 --> 01:21:27.742
and they have some of the

01:21:27.801 --> 01:21:29.143
best drinks when you're there.

01:21:29.302 --> 01:21:30.023
It is so nice.

01:21:30.042 --> 01:21:31.003
Thank you.

01:21:31.243 --> 01:21:34.465
So for Die Hard,

01:21:34.886 --> 01:21:37.587
we will open every level of bar.

01:21:37.686 --> 01:21:39.427
It will be main, mezzanine, balcony,

01:21:39.608 --> 01:21:42.350
and the loft all the way up, every bar.

01:21:42.409 --> 01:21:42.649
Yep.

01:21:43.270 --> 01:21:43.750
It takes it.

01:21:44.131 --> 01:21:44.610
It does.

01:21:46.032 --> 01:21:46.452
Very nice.

01:21:46.471 --> 01:21:46.671
Thank you.

01:21:46.833 --> 01:21:49.036
Because he knows that's

01:21:49.076 --> 01:21:49.775
where the money is.

01:21:51.037 --> 01:21:53.118
Now it's attendance and you

01:21:53.139 --> 01:21:54.300
get all those two thousand

01:21:54.340 --> 01:21:56.081
people there times what

01:21:56.100 --> 01:21:57.703
they drink and you're good to go.

01:21:59.743 --> 01:22:01.125
It's what keeps the lights on.

01:22:01.145 --> 01:22:01.966
There you go.

01:22:02.025 --> 01:22:03.127
It's just true.

01:22:04.740 --> 01:22:05.261
Well, awesome.

01:22:05.301 --> 01:22:05.702
Like I said,

01:22:05.921 --> 01:22:07.222
we'll put a link to the

01:22:07.262 --> 01:22:08.123
Alabama Theater in the

01:22:08.144 --> 01:22:09.845
description and in the

01:22:09.925 --> 01:22:11.086
audio feed when this comes

01:22:11.166 --> 01:22:12.027
out on Wednesday.

01:22:13.828 --> 01:22:15.288
And we'll also, you know,

01:22:15.349 --> 01:22:16.850
help plug what's going on.

01:22:16.951 --> 01:22:17.951
All you got to do is follow

01:22:17.990 --> 01:22:19.372
us on social media

01:22:19.733 --> 01:22:21.434
everywhere at Bama Geeks.

01:22:22.034 --> 01:22:23.255
That's where you can find us.

01:22:23.515 --> 01:22:25.056
And if you want to join us

01:22:25.636 --> 01:22:27.158
in our private Facebook group,

01:22:27.979 --> 01:22:29.201
The Bama Geeks front porch.

01:22:29.240 --> 01:22:30.643
Just search for that on Facebook.

01:22:30.662 --> 01:22:31.543
We're easy to find.

01:22:32.283 --> 01:22:34.667
And if you'd like to toss, you know,

01:22:34.787 --> 01:22:37.350
five bucks a month to us to

01:22:37.411 --> 01:22:39.113
get some bonus audio,

01:22:39.693 --> 01:22:41.775
patreon.com slash Bama Geeks.

01:22:41.796 --> 01:22:43.118
You can also click the join

01:22:43.158 --> 01:22:45.860
button on the YouTube channel.

01:22:46.649 --> 01:22:47.990
And, you know,

01:22:48.471 --> 01:22:49.453
we'll try to entertain you

01:22:49.472 --> 01:22:50.293
as much as we can.

01:22:50.814 --> 01:22:51.734
And we certainly appreciate

01:22:51.774 --> 01:22:52.756
our Patreon members.

01:22:54.077 --> 01:22:54.698
We're still going to do a

01:22:54.738 --> 01:22:56.078
live stream at some point

01:22:56.099 --> 01:22:57.260
with our Patreon members

01:22:57.881 --> 01:22:59.381
where Jess will lovingly

01:22:59.421 --> 01:23:01.623
make bracelets to say Bama Geeks.

01:23:01.663 --> 01:23:03.085
You can pick your own colors

01:23:03.104 --> 01:23:04.046
and stuff while she makes them.

01:23:05.106 --> 01:23:07.628
We'll plan on that at some point.

01:23:08.149 --> 01:23:10.212
I knew you were going to say that.

01:23:11.493 --> 01:23:12.654
My wrists are bare.

01:23:12.673 --> 01:23:14.475
I will get you some bracelets.

01:23:14.935 --> 01:23:16.957
I have become the bracelet making queen.

01:23:17.018 --> 01:23:18.458
Over here on the table,

01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:20.300
there's like four stacks of bead kits.

01:23:20.460 --> 01:23:23.984
Oh my goodness.

01:23:24.104 --> 01:23:25.324
I'm going to get you some bracelets.

01:23:25.965 --> 01:23:26.626
Absolutely.

01:23:27.949 --> 01:23:29.711
So, uh, but Gary,

01:23:29.751 --> 01:23:30.811
thank you so much again for,

01:23:30.952 --> 01:23:32.833
for joining us and being

01:23:32.873 --> 01:23:34.614
here and we'll have you back on.

01:23:34.694 --> 01:23:37.697
And we hope, uh, you watching, uh,

01:23:37.716 --> 01:23:38.377
have enjoyed it.

01:23:38.398 --> 01:23:39.559
And we appreciate all the, uh,

01:23:39.578 --> 01:23:40.899
the conversations in the chat.

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Yes.

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And we will,

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we may or may not be here

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again in two weeks.

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We have to discuss this

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because that's a really busy weekend that,

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um, a lot of us are going to be.

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preoccupied.

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That's a busy weekend.

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We'll come up with something.

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We'll talk about it.

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Again, thanks so much, Gary.

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Thank you so much to

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everybody for watching.

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We appreciate you.

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We love all of you.

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For Beau and Kevin and Jess and Gary,

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I'm Brock.

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We're the Bama Geeks.

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We'll see you next time.

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Bye.