Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 607 of the podcast that said “Fuck that shit” a long, long time ago.

This week: scatterbrains; the yoke’s on them; chews leaf; archeological horror show; now museum, now you don’t; practice three repetitions; kill your father; funny or why; black and white opinions; that’s the Spirit; insurance plagiarism; justifiable nursocide; Dave wins big with California Split; overlapping diagetics; two-thirds of a good movie; Altman’s ingenue; Ian is drawn to Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection; trivial trivia; I don’t wanna read some Chelsea; Dave is struck by Moonstruck; the downfall of Nicholas Cage; the Coens of comedy; talent novas; the Merry Moat; the problem with sub-titles; Dave goes down the bridle path; old-fashioned detecting; Dave gives Green for Danger a go; six Sneakers in search of an author; spoiled food; a momento mori of your time; who was that masked man; discourse of the werewolf; Maniac Mansion mania; sheeper-receiver; treasure seekers; and, finally, why didn’t we say “Ham-let”?

Question of the Week: What’s your favourite group of artists?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s a movie that you put off watching, but was totally great when you finally saw it?

Thanks for listening.

Here is the tape of Harry Nilsson rehearsing “He Needs Me” with Shelley Duvall:

I’m not sure if this was the episode of Maniac Mansion that Ian was talking about, but, not only does it feature David Cronenberg, it also features the amazing Andrea Martin:

Here is the trailer for the movie about the cartoonist Dave Stevens, who created The Rocketeer: