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Hi, this is Dick Miller.

If you're listening to Junk Fu Cinema,

who are these guys? Yeah. well, I'd sure like to welcome all the junkions here to this Mexican canteena,

where you find me hiding out, continuing Oates tober, a celebration in the films of

Warren Oates.

Oh my God.

Sorry about that.

I had something terrible in my throat.

This is, of course, our celebration of the films of Warren Oates.

And I'm popping in here.

This is Brian, of course.

Because Oats Tober took an interesting left turn that I didn't expect, but one that had I done a little more extensive planning for this series would probably be the exact route that I would have taken.

And I'm so grateful that the natural evolution of the series occurred.

So this week we were supposed to cover the Wild Bunch and Cargill was supposed to be my co-host.

But something happened. He was unavailable. So I started looking for a guest. And it was brought to my attention that my good

friend Noah Segan was not only a terrific actor and is now a director and writer in his own right,

but is possibly the country's leading oatesologist? It's one of those things that I always knew that

his moniker was Kid Blue. And then in fact, his character and Looper is named that. And I knew that

it was from a film. I just never knew that the film, in addition to starring Dennis Hopper,

also starred Warren Oates. So it was not even on my radar for Oatstober. But in talking with

Noah and just in the brief text we had about this particular episode before recording, it was clear to me how passionate and excited he was about Warren Oates as a performer and Warren Oates's place in the overall legacy of 70s cinema.

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