Join Maya, Trae, and Patrick in the basement of The Very Curious Curio Shop for another meeting of The "We Hate Uncle Lewis Club" and another uproarious romp through Friday the 13th: The Series.
In THE POISON PEN, Micki and Ryan must go deep undercover at a cloistered monastery to find out who has been using one of Uncle Lewis' diabolical doodads to deal out dastardly death to their fellow brothers with a simple stroke of a pen.
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- Gushing Gloryholes!
- Flagellating Friars!
- Queer-Coded Villainry!
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00:00 - Untitled
00:08 - Untitled
00:27 - Introduction
02:03 - Who's Who Behind the Camera?
03:10 - The Oracle of Doom
09:32 - Fun Monk Facts
14:13 - Weird Things Afoot
24:25 - Salute to Colin Fox
32:18 - A Torture Chamber With a Guillotine??
38:44 - Premeditating
42:48 - No Fashion in the Cloisters
48:26 - Good Monk/Bad Monk
52:59 - The Secret Loves of Uncle Lewis
54:53 - Wrapping Things Up
Patrick
Hello again, dear patron, welcome. Do come in. Do come in out of the rain and the cold. Welcome once again to my most unusual curio shop. I am Patrick Walsh.Thank you for joining me again in my emporium dedicated to the weird, the unusual, and the downright fabulous. Now I know why you're here. The 13th has come again on the calendar, which means it's time. It is time once again, for us to gather and discuss.Uncle Lewis. Yes, he left us this shop. He left us everything in it. On the surface, he was a very good man.But sometimes Uncle Louis does dreadful things, and we need to discuss what he's done this month.This is the podcast that is dedicated to Friday the 13th, the series where once a month, every month, we go through the next episode chronologically through Friday the 13th, the television series. And we are up to season one, episode two, the poison pen.And as always, I am joined by my fellow shopkeepers and enthusiasts of the weird, unusual and fabulous. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Maya Murphy and Trae Dean.
Trae
Hey, how y' all doing?
Patrick
Oh, I was doing great until Uncle Lewis got up to his tricks again. My goodness, that
Trae
keeps everyone busy.
Patrick
Not even stationary is safe.
Maya
You'd think stationary would be so mundane, so dry, and yet here we.
Patrick
By definition, it should be stationary. Stay in one place, do nothing. But no, no, no, no, no. Bringing doom.
Trae
And the devil ruins everything.
Patrick
Son of a bitch. Son of a bitch. So who's hiding behind the camera on the Poison Pen? Well, in the director's chair, we have Timothy Bond.Timothy Bond, one of the more Prolific Friday the 13th directors. He directed nine episodes, including Voodoo Mambo, Eye of Death, and Shadow Boxer.Timothy works primarily in Canadian tv, directing episodes of Goosebumps, Hercules and Sliders. And the Poison Pen was written by Dunford King.Dunford King wrote three episodes of Friday the 13th, the series besides the Poison Pen, he wrote the Great Montaro and Double Exposure. Dunford did work a lot. He only has seven credits, but his other credits do include a lot of children's tv. That's pretty cool.Including she Ra and the Real Ghostbusters. Who wants to give a quickie little summary of what goes on this episode? Who did it last time?
Maya
Oh, I don't remember. I think you asked us both to do it, and neither of us were great.
Patrick
So I think Maya just volunteered. I think I got my finger on my nose. And we can't see what Trey is doing.
Maya
So you can't see me. I can't hide. I have nowhere to go. All right.
Patrick
Nope, nope. Nope, nope.
Maya
The title.
Patrick
I learned that trick from you, by.
Maya
The way, hiding the nosegay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I taught that to my parents. I was very proud.Okay, so one of the cursed objects that has been sold is a pin that can make only evil things happen. And it has been used to murder several monks. Monks. Only regular people to think just monks.
Patrick
No, that's. they say the Oracle. Well, whoever's using this. Whoever is using this pen is causing quite a sensation because now he's.Like a tabloid headline. The Oracle of Death predicts another disaster. And he's predicted an earthquake and some other disaster and a fire and a plane crash.So it's been stuff outside of the monastery, but now all of a sudden, the focus is going inward. It's this monk in seclusion that's got the pen predicting disasters all around.And now all of a sudden, all the deaths keep getting closer and closer.
Trae
To home, and that's because the budget was low. So you just film on one set.
Patrick
But what a set. It was a great set. I got to say, I love the monastery set.
Maya
The set was good.
Patrick
Yeah, it was nice. It was dark, it was moody. It was everything I want. It didn't. Look, granted, there were ridiculous additions in the real world.
Maya
Allowed to use electricity, though. Like, these were some weird, like, Amish monks. Like, things were odd things. This was a different monastery.
Patrick
Yeah, well. Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You do not understand the comings and goings of the Eternal Brotherhood.
Maya
They don't allow women, so I just. I'd have a hard time learning, I guess.
Patrick
I'm sorry. The Eternal Brotherhood. Sounds like a group. Like a musical group. Ladies and gentlemen, the Eternal Brotherhood.
Maya
Oh, yeah, they do have a lot.
Trae
Of trees to pick up.
Patrick
And all the songs about their dicks and stuff would be terrible. Just a bunch of bros talking about our dicks. Yeah. But anyway, it's enough to catch the attention of our.Of our friends down in Curious Goods, because Ryan's going on. He's. Oh, The Oracle of Death has predicted another death.
Ryan
Did you get a load of this Oracle of Death, this monk? He claims to be able to predict people's deaths.
Micki
That's ridiculous.
Ryan
Not for people lying in the ground today. No, no. He's already predicted a fire, an airplane crash, and the deaths of eight people.
Micki
Nobody can predict the future.
Ryan
How can you predict that?
Patrick
He predicted the death of the abbot of the order that he's in. And when Jack looks at the newspaper article, he's like, I recognize that pen.
Trae
I wrote that down. It's like a black and white photo, and he's like, that pen. I know that quill.
Maya
I know that quill. Like, oh, sure you do. But. All right.
Jack
Oh, my goodness. No!
Jack
A pen.
Micki
What?
Jack
He's using a quill pen.
Ryan
A pen. Don't most monks use quill pens?
Jack
But not that particular pen. I picked that one up in Tierra del Fuego. It's made from a tail feather from a giant Chilean condor. They're the worst kind. Lewis loved that.Said he got a handsome price for it, too. Pens, pens, pens, pens.
Jack
But, yeah, here we are.
Jack
Quill pen set in silver. Number 46 295. Sold to one Rupert Seldom.
Patrick
I plucked that bird myself. But, you know, that's Jack.
Maya
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's. It was a Peruvian condor. The worst kind of condor. Like, don't be judging birds.
Trae
Jack's pretending like he's interesting.
Maya
Oh, he's trying so hard.
Patrick
Well, he can't compete with the hair.
Maya
He can't compete with the hair. But he. He gets a fighting chance this episode. Because we hide the hair.
Patrick
Yeah, we do hide the hair. Because. Surprising choices. There was some surprising choices for the second episode that right away, they're going deep undercover.Micki and Ryan have to go undercover at the monastery. Which means what?
Maya
Okay, so they make these bogus choices. They're like, not only are we gonna pass you both off as men, but you definitely came from England. For reasons no one tries to do an accent.They're supposed to be from Yorkshire, which, granted, is a difficult accent, but she doesn't pass for a man. Not for a hot second. And, oh, they do such a bad. Like, I wrote down in my notes, that is not how you bind.Like, he's wrapping her in Ace bandage, but she's still got this, like, tiny little 80s boobies frame. And I'm like, that's not. You are not helping.
Trae
Well, with the hood on, she looks like Tilda Swinton at times.
Maya
Yes.
Patrick
Yes, she did look like Tilda Swinton at times, which is not a bad. Oh, the cheekbones. Yes, those cheekbones were a giveaway.
Ryan
Hey.
Ryan
You don't have to put on your robe just yet.
Micki
Yes, I do. I look terrible.
Ryan
No. No, you don't. You're the cutest boy I've ever seen. The best. Built, too.
Patrick
Stop this. This episode had a high incest quotient.
Maya
Stop hitting on your cousin. And then I started making tick marks every time he did it again. Yeah.
Trae
Oh, you know he wants her.
Patrick
What? I enjoyed this One we open at the monastery and they're having this meeting and they're discussing selling the monastery.And the abbot is saying, absolutely not. No way. We're not in this for the money. We don't need the money. We need this for the monks. We're doing God's work here. We're not selling. Period.End of story. Next scene, you see somebody scribbling with the poison pen, like, elaborate calligraphy and scary whispers.
Le Croix
Brother Caballano has always marveled at the miracle of flight. And as he watches his engine take flight, he dreams of flying himself, but he will be sadly deduded.
Maya
Oh, yeah. And doing this, like, total Asmr version of sometimes he will take flight.
Patrick
Totally Asmr. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was effective, though. It was effective.
Trae
And he wasn't just writing it down. He was doing calligraphy with, like, the first letter in a little box and very elaborate.
Maya
Oh. Fully illuminated, but then also, like, they close the book right after they finished writing. I'm like, no, you have to let the ink dry.You've obviously never done this before.
Patrick
Well, clearly you've never written with a cursed pen before. You don't need a blotter with a devil pen.
Maya
Doesn't have to dry all.
Trae
It's an upside.
Patrick
And the calligraphy just happens.
Maya
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's just a handwriting trait, which is going to come up again later.But also, I want to bring up, if we're talking about the meeting at the very beginning with the abbot and the other monks. They say, oh, well, surely it's not what our founder would have wanted.They gesture to this painting of a monk taking something away from a Native American, and they never come back to that as a plot point. And I'm just like, why is there an Indian in the painting? Do you want to. That seems like a choice.
Patrick
Well, this is my thing. Like we said, this is an order undeterminate to church. Undeterminate. But the person that they gestured to is distinctly a Capuchin monk.How does Catholic boy know this?
Trae
How?
Patrick
Capuchin monks have that distinctive haircut that's like a ring around their head. By the way, that's why cappuccino is called that, because it looks like a little cappuccin monk.If you do the foam correct, it sticks to the rim of the cup.
Maya
Oh, etymology, you bastard. Yeah.
Trae
This is a very educational episode.
Patrick
Things I learned in Rome. Things I learned in Rome at the cappuccin monastery. They're like, have you ever drunk one of a little Me? I'm like, what Cappuccino. It's like a mayor.
Trae
Hey.
Patrick
I'm like, okay, I don't know what's happening, but yeah, but none of them have that. And yet they're handling animals like they're Franciscan. But they're clearly not because I've dealt with Franciscans.
Maya
Francis, the patron saint of vegetarians. I went to Assisi.
Patrick
Thank you, thank you. I went to a Franciscan college. And they are all about love, peace, pet the animals. Here's all the information. Process it all.Make your own decisions, man. I'm gonna be hanging over here smoking some doobies behind the. But yeah, they're very chill. Very chill. So this was totally not them either.But whatever. We're hearing the scary thing about how he always admired the miracle. Flyton wished it for himself.And now he's going to get a taste of it, but it's all going.
Maya
To go terribly wrong while he's working with carrier pensions. Yeah, like carrier pigeons.
Patrick
A very Franciscan thing to do.
Maya
They say the monastery is in the middle of the city. So he's sending the carrier pigeons somewhere else. Locally in this city.
Patrick
He has a pigeon coop. Maybe it's not carrier pigeons.
Maya
Just a pigeon pigeon. No, he was affixing something to one of their little legs. It wasn't just a coop on the roof. There was messages and maybe it was.
Patrick
Like an order to Subway.
Maya
Please send me the sandwich. I am so tired of brown rice.
Trae
So hungry. Because if he used the pen to get a order some subs and it would be like, no, no. Mustard, devil sub. Devil sub. Just like Homer Simpson.
Patrick
It'd be an actual sub. marine
Maya
Wait. But we get to the self flagellation later, there's a sub.
Patrick
He starts flying. He starts flying. He starts levitating in the air. And he's got his arms out. He's got this look at his face. Like, I feel happy.
Maya
I feel happy.
Patrick
I feel happy.
Maya
At last God has granted me the thing I want. And then they cut to this stuntman who you can see rotate in the air to land on the pillow
Patrick
Yeah, yeah. Well, hey, what are you gonna do? But no, he doesn't all of a sudden it just drop. He just gets dropped like a rock off the side of the bell tower.
Le Croix
One more obstacle has been removed from my ascendancy to appet of the eternal brotherhood
Patrick
on top of some occasional lawn furniture. And then he's getting.
Maya
But nowhere else. When we find him on the ground, like, I'm not really sure where the chest blood came from.
Patrick
And the blood from his mouth was going up.
Maya
Gravity.
Patrick
It was Going down from his mouth, which meant it was up because he was backwards. But whatever, whatever. It's a detail.
Maya
He's dead now.
Patrick
Bing Bong Patrick from the future here letting you know that the doomed brother Capilano was played by an actor called Lewis Gordon. Lewis Gordon was very interesting. He was an older actor obviously, but he didn't do a lot of work until late in the 60s, especially on film.What's curious about him is that most of his film stuff was for Canadian tv, specifically to doing Shakespearean adaptations. He was in the Tempest, as yous Like It, Romeo and Juliet, all these high class Shakespeare for TV stuff.But the other thing he was doing at the same time, the very few credits that he had are all Shakespeare or forgotten 3D movies of the 80s because he was in not one but two absolute stinker 3D movies. Both of which I did pay to see in the theater back in the 80s.And I'm talking about Treasure of the Four Crowns, which is a Raiders of the Lost Ark rip off and coming at you, which I don't remember what it was except that it was terrible. Because if you were a 3D movie and you couldn't keep a 13 year old entertained, that movie stunk. That is the of range I love to see in an actor.High art and complete shit. Rock on. Lewis Jordan, thank you for your contribution, but unfortunately you're done here on Friday the 13th because you're dead.Abbott is dead, the Abbot's dead. And it's enough to get Micki and Ryan's and, and Jack's attention. They send everybody undercover and disguise Micki as a boy.And to cover it up even more, can we talk about how not chill Micki is this entire episode?
Trae
Oh, she's a total bitch.
Micki
Well, I'm sorry, but sometimes when I find myself locked in a cell in a monastery pretending to be a boy, tracking down a cursed quill pen, the funny farm sounds preferable.
Maya
I mean, she's not uptight. She's uptight, but also she has nowhere to like pee in peace. Like I feel for her.
Patrick
Yeah, they have that scene where they're like. They find out. First of all, it's a bit. They're getting led into the monastery and they see some weird.Like I just watched it again before we started and there are things going on in the background, in the hallway. In a couple of these scenes we're going, what's happening? Was that a little person I saw just kind of like toddling towards somebody behind them?
Trae
I thought it was someone on his knees. I thought someone on their Knees.
Maya
I saw. There's the monk who's whipping himself. Yeah.
Patrick
Self flagellation, which went out with Vatican ii, by the way. Nobody does that. And if you're gonna do that, close your door.And the thing is, the guy who's leading them through, who I call Brother Louis Anderson.
Maya
Oh, I decided he was Dom Deluise when we recast it.
Patrick
Yeah, he's just like all sweaty and stuff and weird and stuff.
Maya
Real bad hair.
Patrick
He's giving them the tour and they pass this room where there's this guy, Brother, shirtless, beating himself with a whip of ropes.
Trae
And.
Patrick
And he's just like, hmm, doesn't close the door. Nothing like that would have been.
Maya
No, no, he's virtue signaling. He wants everyone to know how he suffers.
Patrick
Yeah.
Trae
Or he was just kind of looking at it like, you cool with this? Just to see, you know.
Maya
Hey, hey, hey. You want some of this? You want some of this?
Patrick
This is where you come. But also, this is the room for this kind of action. But if you want Glory hole action, you gotta go to the shower.But no, they get to the room, they have to share a room. Micki's not chill about this at all. Oh my God, I can't believe we have to share a room. Blah, blah, blah. What you expect?It's gonna be the fucking Hilton? Well, you have to share a room with your cousin. Big deal.
Micki
It's one room.
Ryan
What can I say? They think you're one of the boys.
Patrick
But the big thing is they asked, so where's the lavoratories? And the guy is delighted to announce.
Drake
Ah, yes, the communal bathroom and showers Are just down the corridor.
Patrick
So the monk who just gleefully pointed out the communal toilet is Brother Drake, or Brother Louis Anders, as I called him earlier. Brother Drake was played by an actor called A.C. peterson. He's had several name changes over the years.He had a different one when he shot the show, but currently he's going as A.C. peterson. He'll be back again for the episodes the Mephisto Ring and Jack in the Box. But this guy has an amazing resume.Like 225 credits and still counting, still alive, still working. And he has worked on absolutely everything. He's won a whole bunch of awards for a short film called the Last Christmas.And he was a regular on something called Pay youy Bill, which he also won every acting award on the planet. But he was in Shanghai Noon, Scooby Doo 2, Monster Island, Sucker Punch, He Never Died, with Henry Rollins and A Christmas Horror Story.A resume like that. So much work, so much clout, and yet he still appreciates the joyful simplicity of a communal toilet.
Maya
It's the only fun the monks get to have.
Patrick
And I'm thinking, I'm like, wait a minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Communal toilets. What does that mean? What does that mean?
Maya
Oh, maybe it's like the ancient Roman style, where it would just be like a bench with holes cut out to get down into the cestine.
Patrick
One big bowl and you'll have to face in and watch each other. It's all there, no?
Maya
Oh, yeah. See everyone else's faces. That sounds good.
Trae
Well, there was, like, a glory hole, like a peephole where someone's looking in. I was like, what's that for?
Patrick
Micki does it.
Maya
Yeah, it's communal, but there's also a peephole. Like, I don't know. That sounds voyeuristic and intentional.
Patrick
Uh huh. Uh huh. Totally important reference. But I was like, why is there people? Why is it at crotch height? And why is it in a monastery? Never mind.I just answered my own questions.
Trae
There you go.
Patrick
If you don't know whose dick it is, it's not a sin.
Maya
I don't.
Patrick
It could be Jesus.
Maya
I'm not sure about that.
Patrick
It could be a miracle. It could be a miracle dick coming through the wall.You don't know
Maya
miracle dick!
Patrick
But Micki, in order to help cover that she's a girl. They also say that she's taken a vow of silence. Bitch cannot shut up or stop yelling.
Trae
She talks the entire episode when people are right around her.
Patrick
She's the opposite of chill.
Trae
With them going undercover. I was hoping for, like, a Charlie's Angels type of episode, but she just ruined it. She was not having any fun.
Patrick
No, no.
Trae
I wanted some wigs going on or something.
Maya
Oh, yeah, some wigs or the. I was wearing a latex mask the entire time.
Trae
Yes, because you get that one guy with a mullet. So obviously their hair is. Their hair coat is very, very lax.
Maya
Oh, the hair was all over the place this episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't learn that monk's name. He was just Bad hair Monk in my notes.
Patrick
Yeah, that was Brother Drake A.G. peterson, and we talked about him already.
Maya
I. I liked.I liked some of the sneaking around when Micki wasn't complaining, when they were actually doing what they were supposed to do, which is go find this pen. Like, it was very Laverne and Shirley. Like, oh, no hijinks.
Trae
Yeah, very Shirley. Scooby Doo.
Patrick
Yes. Well, they know. They know that the. The Oracle of Death is this Brother Curry who's in seclusion at this monastery. So they have to find Brother Curry.
Ryan
We want to talk to you about your pen. No, no, the quill pen. We know all about it.
Drake
I'm afraid Brother Curry won't be able to be of much help. See, like Brother Simon, he too was taking a vow of silence to get the pen.
Patrick
So they've been sneaking around trying to get access to him and things like that. So that's their goal.
Maya
Oh, what, what are their, their monk names? I wrote them down, but I can.
Patrick
Matthew and Simon.
Maya
Matt, Matthew and Simon.
Patrick
From the Yorkshire office. Office, Office.
Trae
Office.
Maya
From the Yorkshire office. But no one's gonna do a Yorkshire accent. Cause shit's hard.
Trae
And also when Jack was writing in their little like, I guess, introductory message, he's like, it's a good thing I've got 14th century parchment.
Maya
And I was like, okay, why vellum? It's just goat skin. You don't. Why are they. Okay, so I get. So I don't understand why these monks are still using all this old stuff.I think God thinks it's okay if you use printer paper. But like, why would you have a 14th century technology for current invite? Like none of this monastery rules made any sense to me.
Patrick
No, it's just what people think a monastery is going to be like. Again, broadest pen, broadest pen.
Trae
And they just walk up to the gate like, here's our. Here's our invitation. Like, okay, great, come on in.
Patrick
Nobody calls.
Trae
Nope. New Yorkshire.
Maya
They can't call because they're not allowed to have a phone.
Trae
Oh, that's why the guy had the carrier pigeon early on.
Patrick
Oh, okay, there we go.
Maya
But later in the episode, I think we mentioned a telegram.
Patrick
Yes. They get a telegram.
Maya
Yeah.
Patrick
Regarding the real Matthew and Simon who meet unfortunate ends.
Trae
So telegrams.
Maya
I want to talk about that later.
Patrick
I gotta talk about that too. There's lots of problems here, but it's all fun. It's all fun. One of the things that I thought was off about the monastery is like, there's no chapel.Like there should be a chapel.
Maya
Is that not where we were? Where was the meditation?
Patrick
It was this weird fire pit. It's this weird fire pit which is super pagan.
Maya
There was some like quasi Gregorian chant going on.
Patrick
Uh huh. Is that happening? But it also, like this one point is everybody being reverent and this one guy's just like eating Cheetos out of a bag.
Trae
I saw that, I was like, what is he doing?
Maya
That's like eating in church.
Patrick
This is your chapel. Like, I'm Assuming this is your. What, you're substituted. Shooting as a chapel. This is your point of focus for your monastery.And you're just eating Cheetos looking at your sacred fire. Whatever. I loved it.
Maya
It's like God wanted him to have Cheetos.
Patrick
Whatever it was, he was some out of plastic bag made me happy. One of my favorite parts is when they're, they're out in the fields and they're being forced to work and Micki's bitching.
Maya
Yeah, she's very upset.
Patrick
One of the other brothers runs by one of the older, like, really old ones. That would be actor Gillie Fenwick, who has extensive, extensive credit, like 50, 60 years of movie credits.The one that really stuck out to me was the 1969 version of the Strange Case. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Oracle of death has made another prediction. That the Abbot is going to choke to death.Tonight,
Arrupe
the Oracle of death has made another pronouncement.
Ryan
What is it this time?
Arrupe
The Abbot is going to die today.
Arrupe
He is going to choke to death.
Ryan
That's impossible. You don't even have an abbot.
Arrupe
Good point.
Arrupe
Perhaps then our concern has been misplaced.
Patrick
But he's running and he's got his skirts hiked up past his knees like a Disney stepsister. Like a Disney stepsister. And it made me so happy. His legs are all buckled because he's old. I'm like, this is the most adorable thing I've ever seen.
Maya
He doesn't want to trip. He's just so hype.
Patrick
And he's old. He could die. I mean, he could just shatter.
Maya
Well, he will die.
Patrick
He will die. But you know, Micki's like, Ryan's like, well, hey, what's, what's the problem? That you guys don't have an abbot? You don't have a new abbot.There is no abbot. The Abbot's dead. You haven't picked a new abbot. Problem solved.
Maya
Well, that's a relief. Thank you.
Patrick
Uh huh.
Trae
Yeah, we don't have to worry about that anymore.
Patrick
Uh huh. I did enjoy his Ebenezer Scrooge pajamas.
Trae
Oh, those were crazy.
Maya
Yeah. And then like, he had the step stool for the bed, but he didn't need it.He kept swinging his feet around to the bed and he could like, touch the floor with his feet. It was like your set dresser tried so hard.
Trae
A dressing gown and a nightcap.
Patrick
Hey, that guy, he's like, I got gams and I'm gonna show them off. I hacked up my skirts before. I'm gonna show them off in the scene. I've only got two scenes. I'm gonna show off my damn legs at my selling point.They always have me.
Maya
Get in the bed.
Patrick
Eat your heart out, Betty Grable.
Maya
So he gets promoted by letter to be Abbott. There's no letter.
Patrick
As he's going to bed, he gets a memo. Oh, by the way, you're the Abbott.
Trae
Abbott.
Maya
Oh, by the way. And he's like, good night self, Abbott.
Patrick
And then he's like, oh, wait, but it's too late.
Maya
And then his canopy bed turns into this like collapsing tower of terror thing to get him. And he's trying to tear through all these membrane bits of bed to not choke to death.
Patrick
And it's bizarre and like the sheets are holding him in place. And I had. I actually when we used to have a housekeeper, whenever she. She came in once a week, whenever she did beds, it was like that.You would get on and you couldn't move. Just like the death trap of sheets. So that would have been me had Clara. Clara would have killed me. That way.We have canopy bed, come down and smoosh, smoosh. It's the oracle of death.
Maya
No, canopy is supposed to fit like this.
Patrick
It's fine, the whole thing. We're also having to deal with Brother Lacroix.
Le Croix
Why is it you were found sneaking around looking for Brother Curry the other evening?
Ryan
Brother Lacroix, we just want to see him in person.
Le Croix
That will be quite impossible. Brother Curry is a troubled man. His gift is his burden and his agony. And he'd just as soon be left alone with it. That's why he's in seclusion.In future, you will keep your mind on your devotions.
Patrick
Lacroix, can we get three snaps for Brother Lacroix?
Trae
Girl.
Patrick
Girl. Brother Lacroix was played by veteran Canadian character actor Colin Fox.Colin Fox, hugely respected guy, worked in every possible genre, did tons and tons of voice work, won all kinds of awards. He was a Genie award nominee for his work on the animated series Atomic Betty. He was nominated for Puppets that Kill as well.But he will be back two more times on Friday the 13th. The series both times playing exemplary villains in Heads I Live Tales yous Die. As well as the Butcher.He was also a regular on the Canadian series Psy Factor. He was in Tommy Boy in his time. On Friday the 13th, Colin Fox became one of my favorite Friday the 13th villains.And so I'm sad to learn, going back to do research, to do ads for this episode, that since you recorded it, Colin Fox passed away. He died in April of 2025. So thank you, Colin Fox, for everything and I will see you on the other side. Back to the show.I really got a kick out of this actor. Colin Fox, I think his name is. I wrote it down somewhere. Yeah, Colin Fox.
Maya
Every single line he had, he managed to get in this like, like sinister chuckle.
Patrick
Sinister chuckle. And also just like, just a little bit of. Just a little bit of old school Hollywood. Joan Crawford in every single one of.
Maya
The queer coded villain like Scar. Like.
Patrick
Well, if you can't tell who the villain is in this episode, I'm gonna say every line like Bill.
Maya
But.
Patrick
But it totally works. I love. His name is Lacroix. So of course now I'm calling her brother baby. Spew Lacroix.
Maya
Not. Not Lacroix.
Patrick
Lacroix, baby. Spew Lacroix, baby.
Trae
I got the reference.
Patrick
Thank you, Trey. Thank you, thank you.
Trae
I know that reference.
Patrick
They figured out that the pen was sold to Rupert Selden, who was some businessman who's been accused of killing his business partner and then disappeared. So they don't know how to be honest, they don't know how the pen got from this guy to brother to the monastery.
Trae
Brother Curry, Brother Tim Curry got me confused. I just gave up. Halfway through trying to figure out what's going on, I was like, okay, this is way too convoluted.
Patrick
No, no, no.
Maya
I made a chart because it was weird.
Patrick
Brother Tim Curry has a pen, but apparently he's an associate. It turns out the bra is actually Rupert Seldon. He killed some guy and they went into hiding.
Maya
They made offices and Brother Curry was actually some guy named Frank.
Curry
Those brothers from Yorkshire, they know about.
Le Croix
The pen, do they? Then we will have to write up another epitaph.
Curry
No, we must stop.
Curry
Too many innocent people have died already. Don't disappoint me, Frank. We made a deal. If it wasn't for me, you'd be behind bars right now. This is better than jail.
Curry
Cooped up here day in, day out, no one to talk to. Knowing that every time you write in that diary someone else is going to die.
Maya
And they. They had a book deal. And he agreed to be locked up in the monastery for a half a million dollar book deal.
Curry
Can't keep torturing me like this.
Le Croix
I wouldn't call splitting a half million dollar advance in the Oracle's life story exactly torture. I don't care about the money anymore. I care about the money.
Maya
This is the $8,000 advanced. Tiny sum, huh?
Trae
Huh?
Trae
And if you have a pen that lets you Kill people? This is what you come up with? This is your grand plan?
Maya
Oh, I also wrote down Lacroix in that. In that scene has an evil cigar. Back to your point.If you said if you couldn't figure out who the bad guy is, he's the one lighting a cigar and laughing about other people's deaths.
Patrick
Yeah. And his ultimate game is to become the Abbot so he can sell the monastery for $10 million and make off with that money as well.
Maya
Oh, yes.
Patrick
So that's what the whole game is. But did you recognize Brother Curry? This is a deep cut. This is a deep cut for Heart, for Canadian horror fans.Brother Curry was Mayor Hannigan for My Bloody Valentine.
Trae
Huh.
Patrick
The original.
Trae
Did not know that.
Patrick
Not again. It can't be happening again. It just. This can't be happening again. That actor has a name and his name is Larry Reynolds. He was also.He was also in Killer Workout, also known as a Robocide, which is another horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible movie.
Maya
Amazing. I'll have to keep an eye out.
Patrick
Oh, that one's dreadful. Not to be confused with Death Spot.
Maya
You're gonna have to make me a chart. I'm already lost.
Patrick
But no, he's, he's a. He's. He did tons of Canadian horror and it was, it was. I was happy when I finally recognized him going, I know, I know that face.I know I know that face. I know I know that face. But yeah, so he's being kept in seclusion. He's supposedly doing all the writing, but he's not.It's actually Brother Lacroix who's doing all the writing and pinning it on him.
Maya
Yeah. Blaming Brother Curry for all of it, so he can't trace the actions directly to Lacroix. Lacroix. See, now I'm confused. Lacroix. Rupert.
Trae
See, this just made no sense to me. I was just. I was. I didn't get any of it in terms of why they're doing it this way. Yeah, I did.
Maya
It didn't make a lot of sense even when I got it right. So I don't blame you.
Patrick
But fortunately, into all, you know, they're not, they're not, you know, another. Another brother has been killed and. Oh no, now Jack has to step in and he shows up as Brother Lucky Charms.
Ryan
Brother Jack.where from?
Jack
We're from the Emerald Isle, my boy. Oh.
Jack
Ireland itself. I think that's a fine looking crop.
Jack
Of burgundy grapes you got there.
Jack
I predict you're gonna have a vintage year. Not that we know an awful lot about it. Where I Come from?You know, we prefer something that put a little more hair on your chest and take the lighting out of your throat.
Le Croix
I'll leave you to it. Ah, thank you.
Jack
Bless you, brother. You're a darling man. Darling.
Maya
But Jack does anaccent. Jack made an effort. At least someone was doing an accent and trying to pass as from somewhere else.
Patrick
For no reason. For no reason. There was no reason for anybody to be doing accents, to be really honest.
Maya
They're supposed to be from. I don't know, maybe he got to Yorkshire from Ireland. But, yeah, he was. Brother Lucky Charms, definitely.
Patrick
But he's made it. He's. He's found a. A photo of the pen he found, like, the guy. Cause he actually bought the pen before it was cursed and gave it to Uncle Lewis.So he tracked down the guy he got it from, so he got a diagram of it. So he's made a copy of it. So the plan is to swap out the fake pen for the curse pen.
Maya
Yeah. We can do a switcheroo when they find it because they'll notice if we try to steal their object. Probably.
Patrick
Well, you know.
Trae
Well, once again, why do the switcheroo just take the object and leave? Like, what are they going to do?
Maya
Because then we don't get Father Lucky Charms.
Patrick
We don't get Father Lucky Charms. That's too easy. Yeah, that's too easy.
Trae
That's true. We need Father Lucky Charm. It was like Bosley coming in to help the angels.
Patrick
Thank you. Exactly right. Because, like, these two are hopeless. They're hopeless.
Maya
Hopeless.
Patrick
Micki can't stop bitching and Ryan just. Just can't stop hitting on his cousin.
Maya
If you think I'm taking a communal shower, you've got another think coming.
Trae
One can hope, can't one? What could have been worse?
Maya
How?
Trae
Could have only been one bit.
Maya
All he does is hit on it. He's like, oh, wow, you're a pretty boy. And she's like, get your hands off.
Patrick
Get your hands off me. We're related. He's like, it could be worse. There could be only one bed. Stop it.
Maya
So gross. Stop.
Patrick
Stop it.
Trae
And we need to talk about the dungeon.
Maya
We do need to talk about the dungeon. Why is there a guillotine? Why is it a very well lit guillotine in the middle of the room? Who put your toys away? And a skeleton.
Patrick
And a skeleton. A dead person in it. I mean, some of this track.Cause I mean, I know, like, certain things with monasteries are, like, if you go to Rome, there's, like churches where the altar is Built with the bones of its former monks.
Maya
Or you go down into the basement and they just have for display, like bones of several people who are important to the church. However, I kind of get some of that.
Patrick
A torture chamber seems really specific since that. For me, I would say I could see if we had that. If this particular order has been running since the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
Maya
Is not for torture. The guillotine was invented for a quick and painless death.
Patrick
Thank you. I know that. But there are other things in there that were torturous, that were those cages and stuff. I'm like, let's get to all this stuff.But okay, we get the quick and painless death for the French Revolution, which didn't happen again, nor did the Spanish Inquisition. Why do you have this stuff?
Trae
Well, they had a word.
Patrick
Why is it lit? Why are there 500 candles in here, lit all the time? Who's coming in here and lighting the torture chamber every day?
Maya
Well, maybe it's like a roommate chartwheel. Like, okay, well, it's Brother Francisco's turn to light all the candles in the guillotine room.
Patrick
Just in case we need my turn to put the shoes on. The carrier pigeons don't turn the light candles. Brother Lacqua is getting suspicious. I think some. Oh, he has to turn the table.
Maya
Oh, he has the fight with. With Curry. With Frank. So then he decides to get rid of Brother Curry, right?
Le Croix
Some of God's chosen ones are tormented creatures. Such is the case with Brother Curry, who will decide. His only recourse is to join the Holy Spirit in a most gross way.
Maya
Because he says, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to live it up. This is worse than prison. I don't want to do this. And then he just, like, is like, cool. That's fine.I'll just kill you right now. Like, no, no. Thought process. He doesn't look conflicted at all. He's like, fine, I will take all of the real estate money and the book money.
Patrick
Yeah, no problem. Well, technically, he doesn't need him. So the oracle of death is no more, and he commits. Predicts his own suicide by guillotine.If you got a guillotine, use that guillotine. I guess it's Chekhov's guillotine. If you introduce a guillotine, you gotta use it.
Maya
We didn't introduce the guillotine in Act 1, though, so I don't know. Sloppy Chekhov.
Patrick
Canadian. Chekhov, Canadian.
Maya
Chekhov.
Patrick
Canadian Checkup. Did we lose Trae? No, I'm here Okay, sorry, you just got quiet.
Maya
Just checking. He doesn't think we're being very funny.
Trae
No, no, no.
Patrick
Just fine. But so, yeah, so he chops his own head off, which is really dramatic. And everybody's fairly chill about all that too, which is kind of amazing.Oh, yeah.
Maya
Everyone's so normal about it. Like, oh, well, he's dead. And that's. That's confusing. We gotta solve this mystery.
Patrick
He was. He was a tortured soul.
Ryan
Yeah.
Patrick
You know, perhaps if you didn't have a guillotine, this wouldn't happen. Wouldn't have had ideas. But he. Now it's. Now. Now it's coming.Brother Lacroix is getting suspicious that Micki and Ryan aren't who they say they are or that they're. They're.
Maya
And that they're just talking about the outdoor scene. After we get Brother Lucky Charms. When we scare Micki with a spider, we learn that Micki is afraid of spiders.
Patrick
Yes, yes. Because she's a girl in a horror thing.
Maya
Oh, yeah.
Patrick
I'm not saying that girls are afraid of spider, but this is the thing. And it's Micki.
Trae
She's.
Patrick
Yeah. Ms. Satin Panties in the monastery.
Maya
Oh, my God. Can we talk about her sleeping vest?
Patrick
That's what I was going to go to. Because now, like, they're targeted.
Micki
God created creatures both great and small. And sometimes small ones have the power to triumph over larger ones. Such will be the unfortunate fate of brothers Matthew and Simon from Yorkshire.
Maya
She gets to see the scene and.
Patrick
She is in like this full satin nightie thing. And like, her hair is the pillow. She might as well not have a pillow. It's just all voluminous hair.And a tarantula comes in and crawls on her and scares her. But it turns out that wasn't a big deal.
Maya
Because, well, Brother Lucky Charms joins us and he goes, oh, not to worry. It's this kind of spider. It couldn't have killed you. Like, why do you know about all these animals? That's.
Patrick
Oh, you know what he said? I'm playing the clip right now. He said,
Patrick
what a cute little farrah faucid .
Patrick
To me it sounded like, oh, what a cute little Farrah Fawcett.
Trae
What a cute little Farrah Fawcett.
Patrick
I played it three times. I still hear Farrah Fawcett.
Maya
Maybe that's just what he calls fuzzy spiders.
Trae
And then it turns out the spell didn't work right because she's under a different name. So the spell had a spider go to her, but it wasn't poisonous. So the spell didn't know about that. But then the other people who actually had the name.
Patrick
Yeah. The actual monastery, they actually died.
Trae
So it seems like the spell just didn't really know what the hell it was doing.
Maya
We are really inconsistent with the rules of the poison pen throughout this episode. And I really want to talk about that at the conclusion also.But also, no one seems to care that they have caused the death of two brothers in the Yorkshire monastery. They're like, ah, whatever. We were getting our object back. Like, people died because you were bad.
Patrick
At your job because you just had to take a shower.
Trae
Oh.
Maya
And she was like, oh, I can't wait to be a girl again.
Micki
Oh, I can't wait to be a female again.
Patrick
What is all the time. Brother Louis Anderson's at the people. Like, that's not right.
Maya
Oh, yeah. Bad hair. Monk is like, aha. These people aren't who they are. I will only tell this one very corrupt monk.
Patrick
Yes. When the chase is finally on, the gig's up, and they're trying. They're trying to. There's a whole nonsense running around show. Who's got the pen?Where's the pen? Who's got the pen? But they're trying to swap out the pen. Or where Jack gets busted by brother Lacroix and brother Lacroix pulls out a gun.
Maya
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's holding the gun with the worst. Like, he has his little crooked elbow. And I'm like, I dare you to fire that. You'll break your arm.
Patrick
He's holding it like a 1940s femme fatale. Thank you very much.
Maya
You know, like the tiny little one that fits in your purse.
Patrick
He's holding it like Jessica Rabbit would have held it. But Jack looks at him and goes.
Maya
Jessica Rabbit doesn't have bones and can hold a gun however she wants.
Patrick
Jack looks at him and goes, I.
Jack
Thought you were meditating.
Le Croix
But I am. Premeditating.
Maya
Best line of the episode.
Patrick
Yes, But this is the whole. It all ends up with this honky dude. Like, he's. He's like, I'm going to. I've got my pen back, and I'm gonna write your death warrants right now.But he actually.
Maya
Oh, this piece of paper that happens to be right here on the skill team I was just trying to murder you with will be sufficient. I will write a story about the monk who assumes someone else's identity will meet a bad fate. And then it turns out his name's already signed on it.
Patrick
Now all I have to do is sign your names, which I could have done already when I just said this person is going to die. But now I have to sign your names and announce I'm signing your names so that you can catch me in my own trap.
Le Croix
The impostors came to the monastery posing as monks to meet certain death. They came to remove the sacred pen from its rightful owner. But tragedy will strike and this will not be accomplished.Now all I have to do is fill in your name.
Jack
Names. You should never write what you've already signed.
Jack
Rupert, stop. Your name on the original invoice, remember?
Maya
But we've never announced that. Those are the rules of the pen. We were always oblique about all these other monk identities when we were predicting their deaths.
Patrick
Like yeah, yeah.
Trae
And does your name have to be just on the paper? Not any kind of context?
Patrick
That's what it seemed like. That's what it seemed like.
Trae
Okay, okay.
Maya
They're like, haha, your name is already signed because. Oh, you know what we didn't talk about is how Jack identified his handwriting because he always writes in calligraphy.Yeah, Jack, because that's totally forensics. And also calligraphy is just handwriting. Not something that takes five times as long for no reason.
Trae
Jack's the kind of guy who has to one up everybody.
Maya
Oh yeah.
Trae
Whatever you do, he's got something better.
Patrick
This episode and the last episode we'll get in the wrap up because there's some things about the last episode I want to talk about in the wrap up as well that we didn't cover. But they were going to be for Patreon people only. But yes, we get a flying guillotine blade chasing him around with ridiculous 80s animation.
Maya
Oh, I love that. It's flying around the room like.
Trae
And it can fly, but it can't kill him. Exactly, exactly.
Maya
It misses him the first time and it like lodges itself in the wall like. Oh well, I guess we fooled that curse.
Patrick
I wanted it to like make that singing sound noise. Singing sword noise. And it was stuck in the wall like. But it's not. But it chases him down and he's got them got the.The your cast cornered by at gunpoint. And Micki goes
Micki
behind you.
Le Croix
Do you really expect me to fall for an old jo trick like that?
Maya
He's like, you don't expect me to fall for that, do you?
Patrick
Thwap.
Trae
I'm saying why tell him, let him die. He's trying to kill you. Micki.
Maya
The Blade is doing your job for you. Micki. Shut up.
Patrick
Thank you. What I also love too is that the blade came around the corner, saw him backed up.
Maya
Kinda gotta get that Extra momentum.
Patrick
Even.
Maya
Even real good.
Patrick
Even the guillotine blade was gay in this episode. It's like, oh, wait, hold on. Bam. I could just come hurtling around the corner. But I'm gonna make this dramatic. You saw y' all see me? Y' all see me?Hold on, watch this. See, I'm doing stuff on camera now that you can't see, but it's hilarious.
Maya
Oh, it's hilarious. I vouch for is.
Patrick
The problem with this episode is that we were robbed. Robbed of our fashion choices.
Maya
No sleep vest. Sleep vest all the way. It has this like little halter neck and it buttons down the front. It looks like the least comfortable thing to sleep in.And not like high waisted 80s panties.
Patrick
Oh my God, the panties. She was in like some Victoria's Secret, like, stack. What?I'm like, what happened if there was a fight and he was no better, to be perfectly honest, he was in some like surfer T shirt and boxer shorts. I'm like, what happened if there was a fire? You guys were gonna get busted anyway. You have to keep this up 24 hours. Micki, come on now.
Maya
Neither of them is very good at what they've set out to do.
Trae
So did they do anything in this episode? Jack did all the work.
Maya
Ms. Hearers, what did make you do the heavy lifting?
Patrick
Jack did the. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trae
They made things worse.
Maya
They found brother Curry the first time and that's when Lacroix was like, oh, he's taken a vow of silence and he can't talk to you. But that's it. That's all they did.
Trae
They were pretty useless.
Maya
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Patrick
They were there to complain.
Trae
Yeah. Especially Micki.
Patrick
And for sexual, for some sexual chemistry. Stop it. You're related. You are related. We have not forgot. But she didn't bring. At least she did bring up her fiance this episode.
Trae
You want to go back to Leonard, be my guest.
Maya
Lloyd. All I wanted to do was get married and settle down. And I'm here and I still don't understand.
Patrick
Why can't you. Why can't you get married?
Trae
Well, this is the second episode she seems to have given up her entire life to go work at the curio store. And the husband and the fiance is cool with it, doesn't want to visit her.
Patrick
There's a lot of issues. The stuff at the end of that last episode where Jack was like, I've always been fond of the name Curious Goods.And I'm like, so you just kind of waltzed in, you've taken over the business and you've decided you're living with them too. And they've had no say. And now I live here. And now in this episode, he's like, okay, there's a problem. There's a poison pen in the monastery.You guys are going in. I'm gonna stay here. Bye.
Trae
I think this was Jack's plan all the time. And he just manipulated Micki and what's his face to do that.
Patrick
Jack is really good at keeping himself out of danger, and I applaud him for that. He does it with a smile and charming. He's like, I'm so cute and fuzzy and I'm adorable and I'm huggable and I'm just goofy.
Maya
I also know better than you about everything. Oh, an artist can always recognize his own work. Oh, I can do an actual accent, like Jesus.
Trae
Yeah. And Ryan's trying to get laid and Micki's just whining because she wants to get married. This is, this is a good group.
Patrick
I mean, the fasting choices were hard, but I did note that in the opening scene, Micki was wearing a modified version of her award winning outfit from last time.
Trae
Oh, was she?
Patrick
She had that denim. The denim shirt, except it was. She had taken all the bedazzled things off.And it was cut to the waist like a jacket, but it was the same blousy cut up at the top is the mom's. The stepmom's hideous.
Trae
Oh, oh, they repurposed it. Oh, that's good. Uh huh. They repurposed it's not whatnot.
Patrick
Zach. I'm just gonna pick this off this corpse and make it mine. My Attico girl, Attigo girl, she had her eye on it the whole time.
Maya
They need to take it back.
Patrick
And at the last possible second, Ryan won the worst outfit award. When he's sitting there in the denouement scene, he's talking about ordering food with the poison penny.And he's wearing white pants rolled up past the ankles, loafers, no socks, orange print shirt, looking like he's going to Margaritaville. And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, honey, no, no, honey, no.
Maya
You need socks.
Patrick
No, no, no.
Trae
I knew guys back then, when in middle school, high school, that was the thing. Not to wear socks.
Maya
Well, I still see it now. I see it now in the the Finance Bros. They're like, it's the summer. I don't need socks. And I'm like, you need socks.
Patrick
You're in a dusty old antique store. You do not wear white pants.
Maya
Oh, yeah. But he's not a practical thinker.
Trae
He's not planning on working.
Patrick
Gross. Still, you just sit around, you're gonna get covered in crap. Gross, gross, gross. Okay, so for my alternate casting, mine's a little.Mine's a little off. Offbeat. Gender blind. I would like to see in the role of Brother Lacroix, Joanna Lumley from Ab Fab. Not. Not doing. Not doing Patsy.
Maya
Yeah.
Patrick
But just doing herself, because that woman can do cold. Like I said.
Maya
But she's the fairy godmother in Shrek two, right?
Patrick
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that woman does. That woman knows how to deliver cold and, like, she would be terrifying and fabulous.
Maya
Yeah, I'm here for that.
Trae
I've got one.
Maya
What's yours?
Trae
Okay, so the. The monk who's writing the. The curses and who ends up dying.
Maya
Brother Tim Curry, also known as Frank.
Trae
Sure. Have Veronica Cartwright do it because she can do crazy and just whining like nobody else.
Patrick
I am so happy with that. Just her going to pieces.
Patrick
It's like a dungeon in here.
Patrick
This is worse than prison
Trae
Yeah, there you go.
Maya
I mentioned my. The birds, they covered her.
Patrick
Oh, I love Veronica Cartwright. You could do it wrong. That'd be brilliant. I scared my husband.
Maya
I. I'm not scared. I'm.
Patrick
I'm.
Maya
I'm pausing. I'm. I'm letting you. You do that as long as you want. No, I. I want to see Dom DeLuise's Bed Hair Monk.He was already so close, and I'm just, like, seeing him like. Like interacting with Muppets doing the Mel Brooks, like, oh, you know who the.
Trae
The mol. Hair Monk reminded me of?
Patrick
Who?
Trae
This is a deep cut, but Rick Dukemon.
Patrick
Who?
Trae
The comedian from the. Rick Dukemon. He's a comedian from the 80s. He was in the burbs. He looks like a frat bro who's gone to seed.If you looked him up, you would know how right I am. Okay.
Maya
Oh, we also didn't talk about Bad Hair Monk coming back with an axe.
Le Croix
I will be happy to change this to include you as well, Brother Drake.
Drake
You're gonna burn in hell, you traitor.
Maya
Oh, yeah. We needed to establish that the show wasn't shitting on all monks, just the really bad corrupt one.So Bad Hair Monk, when he learned that Lacroix Rupert was full of shit and trying to sell the monastery for profit, came back and threatened him with a giant axe before the magic guillotine ended up up killing him.
Trae
Yes, he was a good monk.
Maya
Yeah, it was a good monk. Some of the monks can be good. Was a thing that we well, there.
Patrick
Might have been a less violent way to solve that confrontation.
Maya
No, I. I like ax murders.
Patrick
I know, so do I. But for as far as monks go, there might have been a better choice perhaps, you know, some meditation, maybe eat some.Me, eat some Cheetos in front of the meditation fire for a while. I don't know.
Patrick
I got nothing.
Trae
Well, all I think is with the monastery with a working guillotine and the axe, OSHA is going to have a heart attack if they ever walk in there.
Patrick
Well, that's why you just show them into the peephole in the shower, and they're like, oh, we get it now.
Patrick
All right.
Maya
So well lit. You need to have properly lit guillotine conditions.
Patrick
Also, the shower was all, like, fluorescent. Let everything else.
Maya
Yeah, like, everything else is candles. And then the showers. That was fertile.
Trae
That was one. Spent all the money in the shower.
Maya
I mean, that. That's a fair choice.
Trae
And there was also a hunchback in one of the background scenes.
Maya
There was a hunchback.
Patrick
There was a hunchback, but that was. That was actually Brother Bad hair.
Trae
Was it?
Patrick
Yeah, Yeah, I noticed that, too. I went back and looked.
Maya
He was sneaking around.
Patrick
Yeah, he was sneaking around, but for some reason, I guess he's like, no one will recognize me with this hump. What hump?
Maya
I mean, they all have the same outfits on. So a hump is an effort in a disguise.
Trae
It's something. Yeah. Well, it's better than the one who is walking on his knees.
Maya
I miss that.
Patrick
I'm gonna have to go find literally a half second. It's a half second. It's deep in the back shot. Yeah.
Maya
Okay.
Patrick
Yeah. It's just before they. They stumble on the flagellation guy. That's a hard word to say.
Maya
Yeah, No, I. I got stuck on flagellation Guy. I was like, is he really? Oh, he is. He's going for it.
Patrick
Yeah. So I don't know. Did you guys listen to the episode?
Trae
No.
Patrick
Last episode, Cece, there was a whole segment. I have to cut this all up. There's a whole segment I broke in the middle where I found this interview.Not interview, but it was a whole thing with Beauty and the Beast TV show.
Trae
Oh, Linda Hamilton.
Patrick
Not the other one.
Maya
Ron Perlman.
Patrick
Perlman. Yeah. He was doing an introduction for Friday the 13th, the series on, like, a Sci Fi marathon.And he's just talking about stuff, and he's all like, I just made a whole bit of it. But at one point, he's like, I want to watch Maya's Face for this.She's like, do you remember a song from the 80s which had a female voice going, I get my kicks above the neck. That was Robey. Oh, no, it wasn't.
Trae
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
Patrick
No, it was not. No, I don't remember that. No, it was not Robey.
Trae
And that's how we know Ron Perlman is straight.
Patrick
Oh, no, I know. And there was an interview with Robey also where she in this, where she had iron hair and she's just, like, really spacey and she's like.It was just total chaos. Like, her life became total, total chaos. I'm going, are you talking about Micki or are you talking about you? Because I don't know what's happening.I just decided that once he said that, I'm like, clearly, this was Uncle Lewis up there's Ultrix again, and they're emissaries of the devil trying to fool me. But I just wanted to see Maya's face. And it was totally worth it because your face just got really small. But you're just gonna say again.
Maya
Well, Patrick also knows that I cosplay Hellboy and I have an affection for Ron Perlman.
Patrick
And, well, you know what? It's not his fault. It was all. He was clearly reading a teleprompter. It's what was on the teleprompter. I get my kicks above the neck.What the fuck does that mean? I only get kicked in the face.
Maya
I mean, I haven't been going this musical theater jazz in a while, but I used to be able to get my. My foot up here.
Trae
She could throw both her legs higher.
Maya
No, one at a time need to stand on one of them, at least.
Patrick
Amateur.
Trae
But one of the things people said.
Patrick
Like, where's the queer in this show? I said, well, no, no. So I don't know yet, but if I thought about.I'm like, well, we have Uncle Lewis, who seems to be unmarried and is a, you know, older man.
Maya
The confirmed old bachelor is.
Patrick
Is confirmed old bachelor running an antique shop.
Trae
Oh, yeah.
Maya
Yeah. And he wants to tell you about all the little details and how, you know, this means that.
Patrick
Yeah. And his only relation is Jack. Jack, who taught him all this magic until all of a sudden, like, he took it in a different way.And now they're not friends anymore and they. Oh, gosh, there's the queer.
Maya
Yeah. No, you found it.
Patrick
Yep, I found it. I found it.
Trae
That's why he's. He's in love with Uncle Lewis and feels like he owes him One last thing. So that's why he's helping him.
Maya
Oh, and that's why he feels entitled to the shop. Even if they weren't married on paper, it was theirs together.
Trae
Oh, that was it.
Patrick
But yeah, so that's. That's this episode. And if you want gay from this episode. Hello, there's a.There's a glory hole in the goddamn shower and a monastery where women are not allowed even to visit. Come on now. Come on up.
Trae
Yep.
Patrick
And Brother Lacroix is the gayest thing. I just. I loved him. I loved him, I loved him. I loved him so much. And he's gotta be back two more times.
Maya
Oh, he is, is he?
Patrick
Yeah, both him.
Maya
I thought we killed him.
Patrick
Actually, all three of the brothers are back in other episodes as different people.
Maya
Oh, I love the shows do that.
Patrick
Cause there's only six actors in Canada.
Maya
Yeah, well, we've gone through them all. Can you come back? We'll give you a wig, I promise.
Patrick
Uh huh. Yeah, that's probably exactly what it is. You're in a wig.
Trae
Like on Star Trek. They just make him into a different alien.
Patrick
I can do an accent.
Maya
So can Brother Jack. Hello.
Patrick
All right, so I think that's gotta wrap up this episode of Sometimes Uncle Lewis does Dreadful Things. Maya, what you got going on? Anything cool?
Maya
I can't announce anything right now, but everyone should keep an eye on the social media for Brooklyn Theater Club. We're going to do a show in December and it's going to be fun.
Patrick
We are hanging with Baited Breath. It's always suspenseful with you, Maya. And I'm sure Trey's like, I didn't know I had chili.
Maya
Secret, secret chili with no vegetables in it.
Patrick
You got anything cool going on, Trey?
Trae
No.
Patrick
Excellent.
Trae
Okay, well, I'm not an actor. I'm not an actor. I don't have anything to plug.
Patrick
Well, you might apply just cool things in life, Trey. Anything cool happen in life.
Trae
I do, I do.
Patrick
God, you got what? What'd you do this weekend, Trey?
Trae
I went to see Nightmare on Elm street at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Patrick
Thank you, that's awesome.
Trae
Yeah, they're. They're doing a horror movie film festival the first year this Thursday through Sunday. So I'm going to that nice. 18 different movies.Ooh, yeah, and some direct. I think it's. The Lodge is going to be the showcase one.
Patrick
The Lodge is an upcoming movie. The Lodge. Is that the British one?
Trae
No, it's not. A woman snowbound in a cabin with her two stepchildren who hate her and things get really dark.
Maya
Cool.
Trae
Though they're also doing one called Porno about a Christian movie theater.
Patrick
That's a hoot. I've seen that. Yeah.
Trae
Have you? Okay. For showing that.
Patrick
Yeah. Fangori did a great bad. It's fun.
Trae
And they're. David isn't real.
Patrick
Don't know that.
Trae
But a boy who's his imaginary boyfriend or his imaginary friend comes to life when he's an adult and starts to screw stuff up.
Maya
A bunch of those lately.
Trae
Yeah.
Patrick
Yeah.
Maya
Like, I'm excited for Jojo Rabbit like everyone else is, but. But it started when there were a few detective stories where, like, they were hallucinating their partner who died in some tragic miscommunication.
Patrick
What was that movie from the 80s that did that? It's not right. Said Fred. It's something like that. Drop. No.
Trae
Oh, Drop Dead Fred.
Patrick
Drop Dead Fred. Okay.
Trae
Drop Dead Fred.
Patrick
Bright Said Fred.
Maya
That's different.
Trae
Well, Patrick, do you listen to how does this get made?
Patrick
Of course I do.
Trae
They did an episode on Drop Dead Fred that was their most contentious episode.
Patrick
I actually.
Trae
Because two of them loved the movie and two hated it.
Patrick
I haven't. I haven't seen Drop Dead fred since the 80s, so I would. I skipped that one because I don't know it that well.
Trae
You need to listen to it. It's fantastic.
Patrick
We're plugging other shows now, and of course, starting this Thursday is the countdown to Halloween Potathon here on Scream Queen. So, yeah, 15 shows in 15 days. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be crazy.
Trae
Patrick, go crazy.
Patrick
Yeah. Yep, yep. We've already got 300 in donations, and I just put the thing up today.
Maya
Nice.
Patrick
Yes.
Maya
Good job.
Patrick
Just 2300 to go. All right, thank you very much for joining me this month, and maybe we'll meet again next month.Unless, of course, you know, on the off chance that Uncle Lewis behaves himself. But really, what are the odds? Because I know he hasn't. Because next time we're going to be talking about A Cup of Time, episode three.
Trae
That's a good one.
Patrick
Rock and Roll. And Getting Old.
Trae
And Vines.
Maya
I like one of those.
Patrick
And tea.
Maya
I like one of those things.
Patrick
And tea.
Maya
Tea is good.
Patrick
Lots of tea. Not in this version. No, no. Don't drink.
Maya
Don't drink.
Patrick
Don't drink the tea. All right, thank you very much for joining me.So it is with that I bid my beloved shopkeepers, Maya Murphy and Trey Dean, a safe and uneventful night. And to you, my beloved listeners. Hey, if you're enjoying the show, let us know. Give me a call, 917-720-2047.Or leave messages down here on the Patreon board. We'll read them out on the show. I want some input. I want to know what's going on. What do you think of these episodes?What do you think of Friday the 13th this series? If you've an idea on what we could do to make this show better, let me know. I'm all open to all kinds. All kinds of.All kinds of things is what I'm saying. I'm just open to your opinion because you guys rock. Thank you for supporting Scream Queens overall. Thank you for being a patron.And I hope that you're enjoying this all the way down to the core. It's gonna be so much fun doing this. And hey, if you're planning on playing along at home, you need the DVD box set of Friday the 13th the series.Because most of the episodes have now been pulled from YouTube, so there's no place for you to watch them.And what better place for you to pick up that DVD box set of Friday the 13 the series is using that Scream Queen's Amazon affiliate link that's right down there in the show notes. Use it, support the show even more and get to play along at home for the rest of the series. It's a good use of your time and of your money. Yeah.And I hope that you are ready for the pod a thon, kids, because it's gonna get crazy.And of course, since you're Patreon folk, you're gonna be getting all kinds of inside details of what went on when the mics weren' supposed to be on when I was recording those sessions and things that were too, too scandalous for the main airwaves. You're going to get them right here on Patreon. So thank you for being a part of that. So until next time, kids, don't buy any antiques. Just don't.Just don't. It's a bad idea. Cursed or not, it's a bad idea. It's a bad. Why, why even take the chance?Just, just, just, just, just, just stay home and listen to podcasts. Because this particular cure shop is now officially closed. Have a safe and pleasant evening. Good night.
Trae knows way too much about 80s slashers for his own good.
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