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This is Pretty Much Pop, a culture podcast trudging slowly toward you as you go mad with terror.

Today we're discussing the first wave of classic monster movies from Universal Studios, all from the early 30s, the Depression, your Dracula, your Frankenstein, your visible man, etc.

I'm Mark Lincenemeyer, not afraid of anything I can simply drive, etc. I'm Mark Linsonmeyer, not afraid of anything

I can simply drive away from. I'm Al Baker, always walking the line between cheesy and iconic.

Hello, children of the night. This is Sarah Lynn Bruck. This is Lawrence Ware, and I am really,

really, really slow, but I'm very beloved.

And we have a special guest.

Please introduce yourself.

Hello, my name is Brucker Nurse from Autopsy, the Horror Movie.

I'm here to say, what's all this?

Very excited to be on the show today.

Yes, so you can plug your show and Lawrence's appearance on it, which I guess directly gave rise to this.

Yes, I host a horror movie podcast called Autopsy Horror Movie. I love horror and that's also why I'm here today.

But also I had Lawrence on recently to talk about probably one of the better slasher sequels.

We talked about the 1981 Halloween 2 sequel. We had a ball talking about that and just how crazy of a lunatic Dr. Lumis is. So I'm excited for that

to come out and people to check that one out too. Yes, we have discussed that franchise on this.

And, you know, every Halloween, we try to do something in the horror space

and Lawrence was throwing out ideas oh we should do smile too because you should do the smile thing

but that's coming out too late it won't be out in time for us to record this and release it in time

for Halloween and then you came up and then I like Sarah doesn't really like horror movies let's think

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