Greetings, Halloweenes. What you're about to hear is a clip from our latest installment of the rental,

which sees the gang tickled their funny bones with the iconic Mel Brooks blockbuster, young Frankenstein.

Special guest includes Vanity Fair writer Andrew Buss, who also authored books like I Am McLevin,

how Superbad became the biggest comedy hit of its generation, and top five, how high fidelity

found its rhythm and became a cult movie classic. He's a scholar on Brooks, and he's in good

company, and I don't mean the Tofer Grace and Dennis Quaid joint that came out in 2005.

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into the description of this episode, or you can visit patreon.com slash Halloween's pod. Hope to see you

there so we can give you one more laugh. So let me ask you all this before I continue. Have you ever

just written the title of something on the top of a notepad and then seen it all the way through to the end? Yeah. I mean, I was lucky enough to have done that. Not only that, but like the name doesn't change, you know? You know, I woke up today and I wrote on my notepad, curing all diseases. Did it happen?

You got to start small, Mike. Like, you know, do young Frankenstein tonight, you know?

Are diseases cured yet? Well, you know, it's been a day. I haven't really thought about how much education I'm going to have to get into to do this, and especially at the age of 40, almost 41, but I think I could do it. I think I'm ready to go out there and give it my college best, as you will, to cure every disease out there. And, you know, and if not, hey, I've got the not pad to write another goal after I've tried to accomplish that one. So I think it's a good

thing to lean on. I think it's a good approach. But yeah, no, can't say I've ever gone from

page to action. Oh, I like barely complete a to-do list, let alone, like, actually write entire

screenplay. At least, but you've written to- do and then like seen a list through, right?

Yeah, I've written the list.

Successfully at some point?

All right, that's kind of close, right?

Andrew has.

Because Andrew will sit there and go, hey, I want to do this.

And then all of a sudden he has a book for it.

Andrews actually completed projects, right?

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