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🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Quick! Go watch The Room and then get back to us. Not the Brie Larson one, the other one. Ok now doesn't it seem like that movie was probably made by an alien with no ideas of how human beings actually behave? The hilarious podcast host and stand-up Babs Gray stopped by to discuss auteur Tommy Wiseau and his possible extraterrestrial origins. Babs has a lot of evidence behind her, and along the way we also deal with what to call a group of eels, how aliens make money, where to buy a hyper-realistic baby doll, and why some people get horny for chocolate.
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0:00.0 | The I've been learning about the old Hollywood studio system and goddamn dude I wish I'd been here in the 50s because they would just be like |
0:24.5 | your name is Bertie Goobers and you're like an ingenue and then when you can't be an ingenue anymore you'll be a mommy and that's your life and then you would be done. |
0:36.0 | You like sign on the dotted line. |
0:38.0 | Yep, seven year contract's not a problem. |
0:42.0 | That is wild. Yeah, I mean it's it's I need to I need to look more into that |
0:46.7 | because that is a kind of a fascinating era. It's so interesting and it was like I |
0:51.1 | I shouldn't say I wanted because it was super they were like giving |
0:54.4 | Judy Garland you know diet pills and shit but. Oh no it's I mean it's very fucked up |
1:01.2 | it's like it's always been fucked up in a different way. I guess you know yeah |
1:05.7 | He posted a picture of like Shirley temple signing her contract at like three years old |
1:09.8 | Oh, it was very depressing. |
1:13.2 | Oh, it's like a funny, like, isn't it cute that she's signing a contract? |
1:17.2 | Right, and you're like, oh, this is bad. |
1:19.8 | I'm sure, I'm positive it was legally binding, and that they just let her. |
1:25.0 | Oh yeah. God was she okay didn't you have been like an ambassador or something? |
1:31.0 | I have no idea I think she was maybe okay. Yeah, I think like for a child |
1:37.4 | star she turned out all right. Did you want to be like an actor as a kid? |
1:42.8 | Like a comedian. |
1:44.1 | I knew I wanted attention, so that was the biggest thing. |
1:48.8 | But I think like I did want, I loved being in theater and stuff like that. I don't know if I thought of actor specifically |
1:57.1 | But I thought more of making stuff you know what about you? I definitely wanted to be an actor for the exact same reason. |
2:03.8 | I just wanted people to look at me. |
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