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Guide to the Unknown

413: Batman (TIMBURTOBER)

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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You ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light? Batman 1989 is another Tim Burton classic. But some people say it's too campy. We say it's dark AF! Love that Joker! [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Version⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources & links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] Get this episode AD-FREE on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For more, cruise through our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources: We watched the movie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And then the main event, the big duk-a-roo.

0:03.0

I know.

0:03.4

I just love that.

0:04.6

Mano e-mano.

0:10.8

Hello, welcome to Guides the Unknown.

0:13.1

I'm Kristen.

0:14.1

And I'm her little brother, William.

0:15.9

And welcome to week three of Timbertober, where we are talking about Batman.

0:20.3

Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. How dramatic. How dramatic. week three of Timber tober where we are talking about Batman oh yeah

0:21.0

do not do you oh wow how dramatic thank you uh this is Tim Burton's third movie

0:28.5

so far we have gone lockstep yeah with every film that he's made as he made it right

0:35.2

and movie three is Batman.

0:40.2

Isn't weird? What a career in the beginning. Peewee's Big Adventure, then to Beetlejuice, and then to arguably like his most mainstream or,

0:48.3

I mean, superhero movies were not super gigantic back then. No. But Batman is a big deal. Oh yeah. At least in my world.

0:56.7

Totally. What is your history with this movie? With this movie in particular, I, as you know,

1:04.2

watched this thing on repeat. Oh yeah. On repeat on repeat. I loved this movie.

1:13.6

This was like the Batman movie for such a long time.

1:18.0

And then, listen, I am a product of my childhood.

1:23.1

In the 90s, the only thing that could possibly top it would eventually be Batman forever. Of course.

1:29.2

Famously, you were the riddler for Halloween one year. I was the ridler. I was Jim Carrey's

1:34.2

Ridler for Halloween when we were still living in Connecticut, I think. And so I was 10 or younger.

1:41.6

And I went to a house, the sun was still out. Dad insisted, like, well, let's go out now. And so, you know, I was busting the seams of this plastic green riddler suit. Yep. And I knocked on a door and somebody, and the person opened the door went, wow, you're here early. And then they looked at me from head to toe and went, tried to make sense of what I was wearing. There's a green Lycra outfit. I don't know what Lycra is. You know, it's a stretchier material than this was. This is probably like nylon. And the person looked at me from head to toe and went, huh, luck of the Irish. That's so, and they just thought I was a leprechaun or something.

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