LAPOCALYPSE (Live from Alamo Drafthouse)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Join Paul, Amy and special guest Hayes Davenport (Hollywood Handbook, Flagrant Ones) for this discussion about LA and apocalyptic films, with a special focus on the 1984 cult classic Repo Man! Learn about the strange history of LA urban planning initiatives, the inspiration for Repo Man's generic products, and a great party fact about "Ralphs." This episode was recorded live from Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	The year is 1984.
0:02.1	Reagan's a fascist.
0:03.3	We're all gonna die by the neutron bomb,
0:05.2	so why not eat a plate of shrimp?
0:06.9	The movie, Repo Man.
0:08.7	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:27.2	Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled.
0:30.1	That's right, I am Paul Sheer.
0:31.5	Amy Nicholson's not here.
0:32.8	I'm a little bit under the weather,
0:34.8	and we could not actually get our mash episode out in time
0:38.5	because I'm sick as a dog.
0:40.7	So what we decided to do was go into our archives
0:44.4	and pull out one of the episodes that we did
0:46.0	at the Alamo Draft House.
0:48.4	Every month we do a show at the Alamo Draft House,
0:50.5	we pick a film, and then we talk about that film
0:53.4	and the scope of a larger discussion.
0:56.5	It's really quite fun.
0:58.3	We actually have a new one coming up on March 23rd,
1:00.2	it's a Monday, so come check it out if you're in LA.
1:02.3	But this month we talked about Repo Man,
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