RFYL 253: Cold Storage

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Hey everyone, welcome to the show. I'm Daphne.

And I'm Pake.

And this is the Run for Your Lives Podcast.

This episode is the horror comedy film Cold Storage, directed by Johnny Campbell and released February 13th, 2026.

A new one. Oh my gosh. You know, we started our season with a new one.

Newer movies. Newer.

Yeah. So let's just keep doing that. Because as we were talking about before we started recording, there's a lot of movies that fit our genre that either came out already this year or are coming out during the year. So we have tons of new content to be able to talk about.

Yeah, and I think I mean it's Run for Your Lives the way that we do things. So this season will go all over the place. I'm sure there will be some older classics and stuff we dive into and do stuff with from time to time. But I think I have the most fun when we're covering new stuff, so we will probably lean heavily into that a lot this season.

But who knows?

We all we always just do whatever we feel like from time to time too. So who knows? We've there's probably a good little there's plenty of a backlog of like still older movies that we haven't covered that we we can if we want to. But but there's so much really good new stuff out now or coming out soon that we definitely want to get to as soon as we can. So And I think a lot of listeners, I think you guys really like the new stuff too, that we we can feel a little bit more current and fresh.

Yeah. And you know, as usual, we wait until something hits streaming before we cover it instead of doing it right away, because even if we end up going to see it, we want you to be able to see it easily without having to go to the theater. And so we wait, even though I know some podcasts will cover a movie right away. We tend to wait because we want you to be able to watch it too without and I like to be able to like take my notes and really take my time with it.

And my local theater gets mad every time I pause the movie every five minutes and try to take a note on my phone.

Yeah, um, it I I feel bad because I know they ran you out of the theater that one time that you were taking notes. They they weren't very happy that you were doing it. I can't remember what movie it was, but but they were really riled up about it.

Well, yeah, because the uh the audience that's there to see the movie in theaters, they get really mad too because I hack into the system and I do pause so I can take my notes, and I just have to make everybody wait. And they're like, What why does the movie keep stopping and freezing? And it's just like I'm doing something more important than whatever you have planned for this evening.

The runtime for this movie.

It's five hours now.

Because taking notes takes time. When you think about um podcasting as an actual activity is not something that just takes an hour and a half to record, or you watch the movie, you record, and you're done. There's note-taking and all of these other things that are part of it. And so, in some ways, it's like a six or seven-hour-a-week endeavor to deliver this podcast.

Yeah.

There's so many things that go into it. We've been on a little extra break, as you guys know. We had that little extra break, and uh yeah, we're back now, fully in it, and ready to bring you some fun, scary, terrifying, adventurous movies over the season.

Yeah. We found it was a nice little break, and then we kicked it off with some 28 years and got to dive back into that world for a little bit, and now we've got all kinds of new stuff, and like I said, maybe some old stuff. But yeah, I don't know why we go on a tangent of like all the how hard podcasting can be. We don't want you to feel sorry for us. Yeah, you know, I'm glad you enjoy it, and we do enjoy doing it. But I don't know, if you if you want to Venmo us some money to donate for then you totally can. If you want to feel like it.

Now, I wasn't explaining it for them to feel bad for us. It's just because sometimes I know people don't really know, and so it's you know, it's good to share that it's it's a process, it's not you know, it's a process that we love doing.

Yeah.

But it's it it has different components and we manage it. So I'm not complaining, I'm just sharing what goes into putting this podcast together.

Yes.

Okay, well, let's do some production notes. It was filmed in Rome and Caserta, Italy, as well as Warzazat, Morocco. Johnny Campbell has only directed two movies. His last one came out in 2006, and it was called Alien Autopsy. I kind of want to see more from him. Don't wait another 20 years to do another movie. David Camp wrote the book Cold Storage and then adapted the screenplay. He also wrote scripts for some of my favorites, like Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Jurassic Park, and Jurassic World Rebirth, which we covered that one last season. The budget was 10 million, estimated to be 10 million, and it grossed 3.8 million at the box office. I think that's deceiving because I think this movie could be a cult classic maybe 10 or 15 years from now, and so I I believe in it. I think there's a lot about this movie to love.

Yeah.

It was 99 minutes long. Pake, bring us a synopsis that you may or may not have had to correct IMTB on.

Yeah, changing a couple of things. Uh yeah. When a highly dangerous fungus escapes from containment, a former bioterrorism agent dives back into action alongside two young employees, and they must stop this threat.

Excellent. And I saw what it said before, and it was wrong. So thank you for correcting that. IMDB, you can send us payment as well. We'll come in and correct your synopsis synopses if you need us to.

Yeah. And again, they're get into it. It's it's synopsis supposed to be vague, because then I'm like, well, employees, but it was a containment. What does that mean? Because yeah, we'll we'll talk about the movie. Because there are employees at a self-storage place that which what govern high security government facilities are just closing and selling to somebody to open a self-storage unit thing like you know suspension of disbelief.

Absolutely.

A lot of that has to happen in this this movie, but it was still very fun.

I really enjoy this one, and you picked it. We kind of were on the same wavelength when we were thinking about it, but then yeah. This I think was the perfect movie for us to cover this week. Plus, Pake Georgina Campbell. Love, love, love what she brings to the table. We got her in Bird Box Barcelona. We had her in Barbarian. She's moved on to the C films now with Cold Storage. Um she was also in Black Mirror in one of my favorite episodes, which was Hang the DJ.

Yes.

The matchmaker dating episode. I really liked that one. So um it's always great to see her. I don't know if we have covered a movie with Joe Carey before. I think this might be our first one.

Yeah, I think this is the first time we've uh had him in a Run for Your Lives movie. I mean, I've talked about him plenty on Strange Indeed when I was doing that.

Steve Harrington. Yeah, a lot of people um pretty much decided that if anything happened to him, they were gonna riot because he became a fan favorite throughout the is it was it five years? Six years? It just seems like five seasons. Twenty. Yeah. Yeah. Um so this was based on David Cap's novel, and I've started doing this whenever we are covering something that was based on a novel. I go and look on Spotify or Amazon um or what is it, Audible, to see if it's available in audiobook form. Because I might want to listen to it, and so it is available. So once I finish Clown in a Cornfield 2, Friendo Lives, then I will maybe listen to this one. Um which will be able to cover The Clown in a Cornfield 2, because they're gonna make it.

Alright, good.

I'm down for that. That was one of my like sleeper hits that season for us. I was not expecting to enjoy that movie as much as I did.

Yeah, that will be fun for sure.

Yeah. So we're gonna do this the way that we always do. That hasn't changed. We are gonna talk about characters, and it's impossible to split up our duo of Travis and Naomi or Tea Cake and Naomi. I have him listed multiple times in my notes as Tea Cake or Travis.

It goes back and forth.

And they're the main characters. I'm I'm I mean the the the synopsis mentioned the former work the former government guy coming in, but to me they're the main characters of the of the movie.

Follow their exploits a little bit more uh in depth. So yeah, it's always a good place to start there. Is yeah, we have this self-storage place, and it's the overnight security team, because it's a 24-hour place, so people can still come in and go to their storage units, and so you've just got this kind of two-person team manning the place. Uh Travis, aka T cake, um, who I guess has been there for a little bit, and then Naomi is must be the newer hire, because this is the first time they're meeting. First shift they've worked together, so she's new. Uh yeah, and we talked about I have you know, T cake Joe Eri, and I I have that spelled as DJ O Kiri in my notes because I can.

Uh hoping to see him in concert this summer. Yeah.

Yeah. Uh so yeah, he's this overnight security guy kind of up top, while Naomi is spending more time kind of watching wandering the units downstairs. He lets this sad old woman in and goes down to her unit.

Aww.

Uh well, uh Miss Rooney. Uh Mrs. Rooney.

Miss Rooney, yeah.

And and and that was that was fun. I like it was very sad at first because she's like, oh, she's gonna go down to her unit and go and be with her husband, for her late husband, forever.

Um yeah, that's kind of what it looked like. She was gonna take her own life and she seemed very lonely. But she also didn't want to talk to him and didn't want him to talk to her, like as he was trying.

It was kind of the through line. She's like, You're so chatty. And then even when Naomi meets him and they're like, You talk a lot, and then I love that whenever they're on the phone with with uh Robert later, and the first thing he has to say is like, Who's that other who's the other person with you? Oh, that's Travis. Tell him to shut the fuck up.

Yeah.

Like, I've tried, he just doesn't listen to me.

It's very loquacious.

Yes, that's a new word. Like, I'm learning new terminology, new words, definitions. It's great. Loquacious.

Yes.

And he makes such a joke out of that when she c says that he's loquace. It was it was kind of adorable.

Uh, yeah, so besides you know, his normal job in tailing, he's also having to deal with this mysterious beep that keeps happening in in the building.

Well, Griffin told him to take care of it. He did. He said to take care of it, and so as far as I'm concerned, T-Cape was not responsible.

He was taking he was doing what he was ordered to do, which was going into the wall and climbing down the stairs into the or the ladder. All of that was yeah, he said he was told to take care of the beeping. So technically, the expedition, everything is warranted. He took care of the beeping.

He did. Took care of the self-storage, too.

Yeah.

It's not gonna beep anymore. After this movie, it's not gonna beep anymore. He did fix that problem.

He took care of it. I think it's a success.

Yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, it's definitely more than just a smoke detector with the needing a change of batteries. But Oh man.

Those have you ever had that problem at your house?

Yeah.

I take the batteries out.

Yeah.

Usually if I don't have new batteries to go in, I know it's dangerous. And folks at home, please don't do that.

But also, uh who do who doesn't do that? Where it's gonna be- I'll get the batteries eventually, but right now I'd rather die in a fire than have to listen to that anymore. So for the time being, it's worth the risk.

The gamble is the beeping is oh, it's just so awful. And that's what it sounds like, really. I mean, it sounds like a smoke alarm that the batteries are going dead.

So yeah, so that's uh with this beeping, so that's how he goes on the little intercom, reaches out, and meets Naomi, this newer security guard, and she seems pretty cool. They start to get along, uh, despite Travis tea cakes, uh over chattiness. Uh she seems to kind of like him anyway, and they they hunt down the beeping together. Um while talking to him, I mean, she immediately tracks some of his like tattoos and the way he like talks and like the things he says, and she puts it together immediately, like that he was formerly in prison. We don't really know fully why. It seems like he was kind of just like a wheel man. He got roped into the to a situation he really wasn't supposed to be in. Um, I like how she even just like you know, oh, it was it Everett, and is like, well then you're nonviolent, so like, okay, we're cool. Then I don't it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you did. Like, yeah, you're out now, and I I like that. She's just like, Pass is the past, you're here now, let's get along.

Yeah, she's not dismissing him or making him seem like just because that happened, he's someone who should just be written off.

Yeah.

I like that they each had their own long, complicated stories that were annoying them. And they were too long, they didn't want to talk, you know, they're like, it's a long, complicated story, they didn't want to talk about it. But then eventually we do find out what the complicated stories were that they didn't tell. And they it wasn't, I don't think it wasn't something that really added a lot to the story of what we were watching in the movie, but it was interesting, like they were they were, you know, little stories that took a long time to explain, I guess. I like that she encouraged him to make the hole in the wall. She had and and Travis is like, I you know, people talk me into things, and so he was trying not to be the person talked into something.

Yeah.

And so he's like, uh yeah, I don't he I don't think he wanted to do it, but then he gave in. And then after that, I feel like they just talked him into whatever. He would do whatever.

Yeah.

She would talk him into it. Probably because she didn't dismiss him. Like she just treated him like he was a person, and he's probably like used to being written off, so I like that. Although I don't think he wanted to go down the 400-foot ladder.

Yeah, that was I mean, it's quite an uh, you know, a journey exploring around. Not anything they would have expected to find down there. Like, who would have known there's like all this secret, high, you know, government, military, high security. Well, guess how not high security now, for being like a giant vault door. It was pretty easy to just open.

Uh I think, yeah, it it wasn't that difficult. This movie reminded me of The Gorge, a little bit with like the green and fungusy stuff. Uh, creep show. There's a a vignette in Creep Show that is about a moss type substance that spreads. It's one that Stephen King actually is the star of.

Nice.

Um, which is kind of a fun. Um an invasion of the body snatchers in a little bit too. Like it was kind of a mix of a bunch of different movies, but I like that it it was really clever.

Yeah. But then you're also dealing with like the fungal um thing. It's very The Last of Us, girl with all the gifts. Yeah. It was basically alien cordyceps.

Yeah.

Because it worked the same way, it would infect the host and then compel the host to spread it. And usually the way that cordyceps works in like ants and and grasshoppers and bugs and stuff, and is having them climb to a high point and then bursting open and releasing spores or whatever.

Yeah.

It kind of worked the similar way of having people climb up as high as they could, or animals, or whatever it infects, climbing up climbing up high and then exploding.

Uh I mean, impaling themselves on certain things, yeah. Yeah. That that was something new. Yeah, it did remind me of the of really um the girl with all the gifts.

Yeah, because they did like the spores and like the release. Yeah. But then it kind of goes more Last of Us because it adapts. It you know, then like like graboids, it gets smarter and it learns. Uh and so then it's just like, alright, I'm done climbing on top of things and exploding. Now let's start exploding in the vicinity of other people or vomiting on them and spreading it that way just by physical touch and get it just directly, you know, farm to table. We don't need to Organic green goo.

Oh, I mean, you could just wait for the latest elevator take a ride up.

Yeah, you gotta wait for the deer to be done using it first, though.

You you know, you really do. That made me think, am I watching is this Severance and it's some twisted thing with I don't know, because it reminded me of of the lamb room, the the lamb room and the animals on severance. So I'm like, I don't know. You think you figure it out, okay? This is like this. Oh, but it's like this, but it's also like this, and it's also like this. And then if you put it all in a blender, you get cold storage.

A nice green goo that is gold storage.

Yeah.

So if it's like that, was the deer that came out of the elevator upstairs? Was that the innie deer or the outie deer? I guess actually the the deer's any became its outdies after. I think so.

Yes.

It kind of was just both. Yeah. Yeah. Uh they somehow avoided any splatter from the running deer goo explosion.

I don't know how they did that, because I really thought one of them was gonna get it.

There's a lot of goose plosions that they I don't know how they didn't get anything on them. They're standing right there.

Uh you know what? I think it was a continuation of the Stranger Things mantra that they didn't they knew that the audience wouldn't want anything to happen to Joe Carey's character, so they continued it.

Yeah.

Um, and no, you can't hurt Georgina Campbell. Leave her alone.

So his his plot armor actually extended to people around him, so as long as you're with him, you're good.

Yeah, it's kind of a super Superpower he has where he's built a shield around himself that no one can see, but it's there. Um the fungus works really, really fast. Like it's I don't I mean it made me think of the rage virus and 28 days later and how fast that happened. This wasn't quite as fast as that in some ways, but once you were infected, it it was starting. It wasn't like you had a few minutes to adjust, it was just starting to erode your brain and turn you into a missile of exposure, basically, trying to spread everything.

Which is, you know, Travis didn't really seem to trust Robert at first. He was like, what is this guy gonna do? And then so he wants to like leave out of like the storage unit they were hiding in to just be like, I'm gonna go, you know, stop this zombie problem. It's like, what are you gonna do on your own because of how quick it spreads and how it's like, what are you planning on doing? Like, what was he really going to it? What else are you going to do?

Yeah. Um, it needed a nuclear option for sure. I like though with the zombies, he wasn't she was kind of dismissing him on that, but he wasn't referring to like the Romero zombies that we've seen in movies. He was referring to like this voodoo, Haitian voodoo, yeah, like zombie thing.

Which also not how these worked at all, but no. Like I said, it's more he would know. I mean, if he's as big of a zombie nerd as it seems like he is, because he was talking about I like this. He was like, you know, he was like, yeah, there's movies and TV, and he's like, and I've got plenty, I've got a long list of the ones I can recommend to you. Which was like, oh, he's a big zombie nerd. I knew I liked this guy. Yeah. Uh but I mean, then he should know Last of Us and Girl with All the Gifts and stuff. If he's that big of a nerd, then like he should know what this is. He should recognize this.

Absolutely. You have to, you know, if you live in it, like the two of us being Walking Dead fans, we've seen a lot of the zombie stuff. I mean, we've covered a lot of zombie films on this podcast.

Yeah.

I feel like we are experts enough that if we were faced with a situation like this one, we would observe and format a hypothesis based on what we know in our heads.

Yeah.

I wouldn't have thought zombie. Maybe. But he obviously did.

Yeah. Which it's technically not. Again, it's this infected versus zombie alien parasite, you know, whatever it is. Um, but it works similarly. You know, they their brain turns into the function of spread, which is what zombies are too.

So yeah. That's spread at all costs. Get it out there, move it around. I mean, not unlike Pontypool, which was an audio-based thing. Like it's it's a fungus, not a virus, but it spreads in a particular way that is not unlike some of the other things that we've seen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh we talked about them like being in that storage. Of course, they end up going down there after Naomi's ex Mike shows up, and then he gets infected, and so now we have this infected X infected X, band name called it. Uh Infects. Infected X. Um, yeah. Chasing after them, uh, which I guess, you know, the fungus isn't that smart, completely just like not paying attention to the only door that's not closed. Uh and they they almost got away scot-free with it until you know backing up into the drum set. I was like, way to go, whiplash.

Oh man. Um, yeah, he's very clumsy. They are really lucky that they were not found by Mike at any time because he just kept making noise.

Yeah, but they they hide out there, they had seen the Oh god, what was it like? I never even wrote it down, the actual acronyms of the Oh, Peggy did.

Because I have a reason why. DTRA is what is written on the door downstairs, and I thought it's very cool that you and Naomi have something in common where you like to create fake acronym meetings when needed, because she decided it was don't touch radiation, asshole.

Yeah. And then she almost touched it. So she's not even taking your own advice. Like, come on.

What are you doing? You are someone who knows a something about medicine. You need some rubber gloves. You don't go touching. You know? You don't. You don't know what that is. Man. Yeah, you definitely don't do that.

Yeah, there's a lot. They they contact DTRA, and then again, it gets back to which took them a while. We gotta figure out who to contact because all this has been just like long buried and forgotten. But it does get back to Robert, and he gets in touch with them, telling them, you know, don't move, stay there. Think they'll make it? Not a chance.

Uh but I was hopeful because I felt like she had brains and he had some of the brawn, and I thought together they could maybe survive this, but I also know these movies sometimes it's uh it ends in a very hopeless way. And so I was kind of trying to prepare myself for that. I did find their definition of a rat king to be a little bit different than what I've seen before. But that rat king was that that was not something I ever needed to see in my lifetime. That was yeah, no. Not doing it.

Yeah, the staying put thing didn't last very long. Because again, as I mentioned, like Travis is just like, well, I'm getting out of here because I'm gonna stop the zombies. I don't know. Again, what was your plan? I don't really know.

Oh, they had one.

Yeah, they go out because like Griffin and his biker gang shows up. Uh, which I was a little confused about. I guess, you know, they're running TVs or something.

I don't know what they're whatever he's got going on. There was a storage unit that someone didn't pay for, and they ended up with whatever was in it, maybe, or they hijacked a truck somewhere for these TVs.

Yeah. Who knows? Because he seems to be kind of like the leader of this group, but he's kind of an idiot. So I don't know. Oh, like he just plays pretend badass really poorly, but it is kind of funny, you know, just like it's me. And it's like, hands up, my hands have been up. Drop the gun. I don't have a gun. Get on the floor, up against the wall. Which one? Which one?

I mean, come on. Travis just wants an answer. He doesn't know what he's supposed to be doing because he keeps getting mixed signals or mixed commands. And I'm with you. Griffin's an idiot.

Yeah. I was confused. Like, why did glasses guy keep calling him Daryl the whole time? Because I thought he was Griffin.

Uh me too. I don't know where that came from. I I really don't know. Um, and the glasses guy was Dr. Friedman because I wrote him down as Glasses Guy throughout all of my notes, and then I went to Wikipedia after, and I'm like, oh, so that's what his name was. Because I I didn't know. Also, there was a guy called the Rev. But I was called It's the guy that just took off with all the TV.

So he actually ended up surviving just because he was tired of their bullshit.

Like I called him Santa Biker because I didn't even know what his name was until I looked after. Like Santa Biker got out of Dodge.

Santa Biker? Bring put some TVs under my tree. You've got like 33.

Yes, Peg's Christmas album will be coming out later this year, so watch for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, Griffin did not help the situation. He basically brought people in to get slaughtered, including himself.

Yep. Oh, that wasn't even at the hands of the fungus like everybody else.

No.

That was just like Trini coming in and being like, yeah, fuck that guy. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That was, yeah. I really thought he might make it, but then he was being such a jackass with Quinn that I'm like, no, take him out before he's gonna fuck something up and get somebody. He's already got all these people killed. He's gonna fuck it up and even more people will be killed. Including Travis and Naomi. So no, take him out because he's an idiot.

Yeah. So they leave him and all the rest of them taken care of there. Gotta run the bomb back down, which is just that whole thing, and then like Robert just started it, started the timer, and then handed and then handed it to him. Like, alright, now go do it. Because he's like tell tells them how to arm it, but then you know, in his head, he's like looking at Travis and going, I'm not I'm not trusting this guy to know like to follow directions and do it correctly. I'm setting it now, and then he'll get it down there.

Yeah. Again, I think they probably would have been okay to do it and just lower it down the top like that long um ladder. But they they stayed committed to the project and they took it into the room, but not into like the little And I was like, do we need to put it in there?

And I before they even said it, I was like, no.

No, absolutely not. You're not doing that.

You're good.

If you do that, you're gonna risk hurting yourself. And then they were taking off their hazmat suits to go up the ladder faster once they realized that he had armed it and they had no time. I'm like, oh my god. This wasn't a love story. Like it wasn't like, oh, these two are a couple the whole time. Even though you could kind of tell they were digging each other and like it was it was a cool thing. Um I didn't want one of them to die in case, you know, they wanted to be friends after, because honestly, I felt like uh I felt like Travis needed a friend. I feel like he needed someone who wasn't gonna write him off.

And she was cool. Yeah, so they plant it, they get out in time, they pick up Robert, they get out of there. And uh I mean it's a good thing that that location was incredibly remote because boom.

There was a big hole at the end, like everything was you just yeah, a crater was made.

Yeah.

And if you had anything in the storage unit at that place, gone. Bye-bye. It's over.

Yeah. It was very remote, which I was that's usually not a thing. I think most who who opens up a storage, self-storage center way out there. Like usually that's gotta be pretty like central location, easy for everybody to get to in the middle of a town.

Yes, because it's supposed to be convenient if you need to get something.

Yeah.

If you're gonna put one out there, it makes me think, what are you up to out there in the middle of nowhere?

This is a sell, this is a storage place for illicit substances only. Uh nobody's going out of the way to store store stuff there. They did say it was a discount self-storage, so that must be what gets people to use it out there. It's like, yeah, it's it's a 20-minute drive, but it's worth it. But it's five bucks a month.

I'd be down for that. Five bucks a month. I would love to clean out my basement and store it out of my basement, like some of the stuff that I never get go into, which makes you wonder why do you keep it? But it's sentimental stuff, and you just you can't let go of it.

Yeah.

But they're able to get a what? Go ahead.

It does make me want to see the movie adaptation of Jay Bon and Zangha's uh, I believe, self-storage, which also a great horror story that takes place in a self-storage containment center uh facility. Um and I love the book. I have a signed copy because I bought it and he signed it after I moderated uh like panel and did an interview with him at a convention.

Um Was he your first panel?

He was.

I thought so.

Uh and and yeah, uh it's a great, really fucked up, horrible, horrifying story. Uh but it, you know, a lot of supernatural, like really crazy incense stuff. But uh I think because I remember like sometime last year I had seen something about they were working on a movie adaptation. I think Chris Jericho was involved in like starring in it or doing something. Really? Yeah, and but I haven't heard anything about it in like a year or more, so I I don't know if that ever like kept going or not.

Sometimes those things pop up and then you don't hear anything about them, and then five years later something drops.

So So we'll see. Yeah, random tangent. But I thought about that because like watching, you know, because whatever when this one was first announced, I was like, oh, did they change the name a little bit? But are they doing it? I was like, oh no, this is a separate thing, but like, but then watching this today, even I'm just like it reminded me. I'm I want that to come out. I need to check back into that and see.

There was also one of those Walking Dead webisode things that was about a storage unit.

Uh-huh.

I saw it way back probably ten years ago, because it they only really did those like the first I think few seasons. They did one about the bicycle walker, and then there was one about a storage unit.

Yeah.

Um, that I remember vaguely. Um, but they didn't do them after really after that.

Yeah. Yeah, so anyway, big bing big R.I.P. Pontiac.

Uh Anthony is not gonna be happy about the Pontiac.

That's his baby.

And already it sounds like his wife doesn't like his mother. Like something happened.

Yeah.

Janet sees you're here, she's gonna kill you. I'm like, what happened?

What what could she have done that his wife would have liked her? Like, it's not like she stored a nuclear bomb in their garage. Wait, wait, maybe that could be.

Yeah.

But Janet didn't know about that. But if she's storing nuclear weapons in her son's garage, what other things has she been up to? Yeah. So they were able to get away.

Yeah.

The world is saved. We get to see tea cake and Naomi with Sarah, who is Naomi's daughter, just kind of sitting on a blanket, hanging out.

Getting to be a father figure. It's nice. Good for him. Even more importantly than The World Saved, we got the origin of the name Tea Cake revealed. So that's what we really needed out of this. That was perfect.

Yeah, which is basically his friend stole all the good snacks, and he got stuck with a tea cake when he went into a store and he liked it and wanted to go get another one, so they started calling him tea cake. Cause she thought it was something else. Yeah. She thought it was based on a character, and I looked into it. There's a book called Their Eyes Were Watching God, and there's a character named Tea Cake in that. It's like from the 30s, I think. Which is almost a hundred years ago page.

Yeah, it is. That's wild.

Yeah.

So yeah, world saved, everything's fine. Well, maybe, but not. We don't know. Classic cliffhanger in these kind of movies. You gotta you gotta leave us with a little bit of the something something.

I mean, that deer didn't look too bad until it puked on the screen.

Maybe it just ate something bad. It was fine.

You know, it might have walked on an old double day set and ingested some green slime.

Mm-hmm. That's I you know, deer do have a hankering for gak. That's a scientific fact, I think. So it was a problem at Nickelodeon Studios. They were like, we gotta keep the deer out. They keep getting into the slime, into the gak.

We're not gonna be able to film any of these shows that require it because the deer can't do the big slide that comes out of the nose today because the deer got into the slime. Yep. That's what happened, Peggy. That's that's what happened. That's what I'm choosing to believe.

Sorry, Mark, we can't film today. It's the deer.

Nope. Nope.

God, I loved Double Dare.

Would you have been a contestant on there if you could have?

Maybe. Maybe.

Maybe. Maybe you loved it.

I loved watching it. I didn't say I wanted to participate in all of the physical physical challenges. I just I liked watching it. I liked other people. I watched watching other people do it.

Did they have the thing that was called physical challenge?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I only saw a couple of episodes of that.

Like I never really got into it, but I was a kid, like young kid of the 90s, so that was like perfectly right in my era. That was of course it was.

You were addicted as long as you didn't have to do the physical challenge.

Yeah.

As long as you were able to watch everyone have fun.

Man, that whole that was yeah, that was my era was Doubledare and then Double Dare 2000 and like Legends of the Hidden Temple and Guts and Global Guts, the Aggro Crag. Oh yeah. See, that was my time, man.

That's why we do this podcast, so that we can cover movies that force Peg to think about and look back with these wonderful memories.

Yes. I also again I loved Legends of the Hidden Temple, you know. I loved watching other kids do it. I'm you're not getting me running around in all next temple. It's too much cardio.

But cardio's one of the most important things if a zombie apocalypse hits. That's what we learned in Zombieland.

Which we actually haven't covered. But we have seen it and we've learned it.

Oh man. Another one that we need to cover. Oh God. Okay.

But yeah. Back to this. We've we've ended the movie, but that's not all that we have to talk about. Because we can circle back to Robert, who's look, it's Liam Neesons. Always a good time.

Liam Neesons? Why did you say Neissons?

As a Key and Peel reference?

Okay. Also, not something that I have seen. And don't tell me to get on it because I've already got a list of things that you told me to get on. And I don't have time.

You haven't got on any of them yet, so.

I have. I do watch Dimension 20. I, in fact, have completed several seasons of Dimension 20.

Several, as in two.

Three?

Completed three?

Yeah. Drag Queens.

Okay, okay.

Yeah. Cloud Ho.

Just one season of Drag Queens, right? You haven't watched both of them.

Right, yeah. You're just trying to find a way to hold me down and say push my excitement down. Why would you do that?

I don't know.

It's who you are. I'm used to it by now. So Robert Quinn.

Yes.

So we meet Robert. Kind of, you know, back almost 20 years prior, really. When he goes with Trini to this. I don't even know where it was.

Australia.

Out in the middle of nowhere, basically.

This is an Australian town that I will not attempt to pronounce.

Okay.

Alright. Well, they go out there because some they had gotten a call about this Skylight. Okay, so let me back up a little bit so we have a little preface to this situation.