Winning the Leprechaunathon with Jeff Knox (3xtC)
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AP Strange:You could do a lot worse because tonight on the show we're gonna be talking a whole lot of leprechaun. It's a third time's the charm episode in which we look at the third movie in a franchise, and tonight's movie is Leprechaun three. Now, there's a little backstory to this one because our guest tonight is in a Discord with me, and this might be a good opportunity to mention that there is a Discord for this show and it doesn't cost anything to get in. So if you ask me nicely, I'll let you in. There's lots of cool people in there.
AP Strange:But over St. Patrick's Day weekend, we were discussing Leprechaun and I was watching Leprechaun three. And I brought up the concept of the Leprechaunathon, which is watching all of the Leprechaun movies. And I didn't think anybody would actually do it, but tonight's guest did. He won the Leprechaunathon.
AP Strange:And not only that, before the show, he told me that he rewatched Leprechaun three and four. So he's really outdone himself. Today's guest is a UFO researcher. You can see him post all kinds of great on this day UFO tidbits on Blue Sky and the artist formerly known as Twitter social media page and on Facebook. He's all over with the UFO stuff.
AP Strange:He is a proud goose custodian and a all around great guy and one of the people in the UFO Sunset YouTube channel. Welcome to the show, Jeff Knox. Thanks for coming, man.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah. Glad to be here. I've done my leprechaunathon research, thorough thorough research.
AP Strange:You won the leprechaunathon, man. Like, you I got you. You really outdid yourself. You went above and beyond for leprechauns.
Jeff Knox:They they said it couldn't be done, and I just had to prove them wrong that you could watch them all. So I
AP Strange:did it. Yeah, the only one you didn't watch was the one that's not actually a leprechaun movie, but does have Warwick Davis playing leprechaun. Yeah. The children's movie, The Unlucky Leprechaun, it's called.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. He sells the same name Lucky, I think, but it's yeah, it's a family movie. Children's movie.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay, that's one inconsistency already with the Leprechaun movies is like his name is Lucky because I mean when when I kept looking up the synopsis for this he kept saying his name was like Dubin or something like that. Dubin Dubin. Yeah.
AP Strange:And I'm like did they ever use his name in the movie? Like I don't recall that happening.
Jeff Knox:I'm not sure they in the third one, I don't recall them actually directly mentioning a name. Right. I'm pretty sure they use the name Lucky in some of the other ones, though. I seem to recall they call him Lucky in some of the other ones. I couldn't tell you which ones, but
AP Strange:yeah. I did read somewhere that the guy that came up with with the whole leprechaun franchise, like the creator of it, mark Jones I guess his name is- I did read like a factoid somewhere and I'm not sure if this is true but it seems like it is- that he based the idea of doing like a horror comedy series on the Lucky Charms Leprechaun. So
Jeff Knox:the whole series is based on a Lucky Charms Leprechaun?
AP Strange:Yeah. It was like, what if the leprechaun from the serial commercials that is just trying to get his Lucky Charms back was actually killing people for it. And it
Jeff Knox:Hey, inspiration strikes in weird places. That's that's genius. Yeah. Yeah.
AP Strange:It really is.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. And they made a whole series of films out of it. Yeah. Guess they just call him lep like, he's just listed as leprechaun, like, an IMDB for, a lot of these movies. They don't actually do
AP Strange:it. But if you look on Wikipedia, I'm gonna look right now. But if you if you look at the plot, I think it says, oh, the leprechaun lubden or lubden. And like the the plot synopsis for like all these movies, it's like the leprechaun, Lubden, and I'm just like, ever calls him by his name.
Jeff Knox:I literally don't remember anyone saying Lubden in these movies. Yeah.
AP Strange:And you've watched all of them. Yeah. Well I'm gonna call bullshit right now because I've only seen the first four. But
Jeff Knox:So I think, like and they might have used Lucky in one of, like, the remakes that they've done, like, because they did Leprechaun Origins back in what was that? Like, 2014 or somewhere around that. And, like, that one, I barely consider a Leprechaun movie because it's, like, it's, like, got nothing to do with, like, the rest of the movies, really. Right? Like, it's more like a creature horror creature film where like the leprechauns are more like the Hopkinsville goblins than they are like the leprechaun.
Jeff Knox:Right? Like, they're just like killing people and stuff. Like, it's it's almost like entirely unrelated. But I I think they might have used Lucky in that one, and maybe in like the because the one that they did in 2018, Leprechaun Returns, is actually technically a sequel to the first Leprechaun movie from 1993. Right.
Jeff Knox:And even but they obviously, it's not the same actors or anything, but it's kinda, like, supposed to be a direct sequel, like, to the original. But, yeah, I I don't recall them ever calling him Lovedon in any of that.
AP Strange:Yeah. This is a very confusing franchise, I gotta say, because it it it's it's not if you decide, from the outset that you're not gonna put any thought into it. Like, if if you really want any kind of consistency, if you wanna say, like, you know, how do these all line up? Like, there is an answer for you, but it's a lot more fun if you just don't worry about it.
Jeff Knox:And I don't even think it's the same leprechaun per se in all the plots. Because I had some of the other movies, I think like in the Hood movies, like, there's actually more than one leprechaun. Like, there's like two leprechauns. And so, like, I don't even think it's necessarily like the same leprechaun. It's like just like a leprechaun from that species or leprechauns or whatever.
Jeff Knox:Because they actually kill some of the leprechauns in some of these movies, but they come back in other movies.
AP Strange:He dies at least in the first three, I think.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. And then like in the hood one, they bury him in concrete. And I guess like your ad about the lead, iron or
AP Strange:was it lead or iron? Iron. It was an iron spike in the second one. Yeah. And
Jeff Knox:I think, same kind of thing. And like the I think in the hood first hood one, I think he falls on some, like, iron piles, like into inside, like, a thing of concrete, like, and it kind of like turns them into like concrete. Oh. Yeah.
AP Strange:He hits the rebar and that kills him.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. He hits the he felt like he gets impaled on rebar and like a box of concrete that just happens to be still like wet underneath this building roof that they push that they push him off of.
AP Strange:Okay. Yeah. I mean, because alright. So I had to look into it like I had to look up the plot of number two just to be sure he actually died at the end of two because at the beginning of this one there's Leprechaun three, we're in Las Vegas. And what happens in Vegas obviously doesn't stay in Vegas for this movie, but because we get to see everything that happens.
AP Strange:But yeah, this man with a hook hand comes running into a pawnshop with a stone leprechaun wearing a necklace and he tells the pawnshop owner not to take the necklace off. But he's trying to sell them like this, you know, leprechaun statue. So our leprechaun has been turned into stone somehow, which immediately makes you think like, did they somehow turn him into stone at the end of the second one? I can't remember now. I had to look it up and no they didn't.
AP Strange:That's not what happened. So there's like a whole missing movie there. Like there's a something happened in between the end of two where he came back again and then was defeated with the necklace that turns him into stone, I guess somewhere between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. And that's just a movie we don't get to see.
Jeff Knox:Well, that's why I was kind of confused about like the Leprechaun and the Hood movie, like, because I thought like I thought maybe they were chronologically out of order, like, and the reason he was like basically stone or concrete was because he was immersed in concrete. But no, that movie came out years later. It has nothing to do with Leprechaun three. It's part of this series, but they're kind of a bit separate. Yeah, no idea how he got turned to stone.
Jeff Knox:What's the deal with you know, this magical kind of amulet or whatever you want to call it that he wears on his neck. And I guess as long as he's wearing it, it's stone, but the second they take it off the guy, he thaws and comes back Yeah,
AP Strange:he gets free. Like this amulet necklace thing is just it binds him somehow inside of stone. I think the reason for that is that the guy that wrote or directed this movie that did the pitch for it was given the title Leprechaun in Las Vegas and hadn't seen the first two and wrote a script real quick and got it. That's my understanding of how this movie came to be.
Jeff Knox:Yeah, that makes sense.
AP Strange:It does make sense, yeah. And as for the rest of it, it's just magic, man. Don't worry about it. It's glamour magic, it's leprechaun magic. But this is the first of this series that was direct to video, which is great.
AP Strange:I love direct to video stuff because it's like all pretense goes out the window if it's not gonna be shot in the theaters.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. They they don't have to try as hard. Yeah.
AP Strange:Well, I
Jeff Knox:I like how the guy just goes in there with the thing, and he's like well, he's settled for, like, $20 or something. Like Yeah. With a leprechaun. And and and he gives him a just the briefest warning, basically, like, don't take the thing off of it. But, like, you know, obviously, somebody's gonna take the necklace off.
Jeff Knox:Like, that guy had to know he was gonna kick off a whole shit storm in Las Vegas by dumping this, like, leprechaun off in a pawn shop. But he just wanted his $20 so he could get out of town and get some gas or something.
AP Strange:Well, he was probably traumatized. I mean, did have the hook hand. And given what we've seen from the leprechaun, the leprechaun might've been responsible for that hook hand in some So the guy was just interested in getting the hell away from the thing.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. That's kind of an element of a lot of, I think, of kind of like haunted object, like horror kind of movies or stories is like, you know, the one person just wants to get rid of it, pass it on to the next guy. Like any thoughts about how moral or ethical it is to pass on this evil thing to the next guy? Kind of goes out the window when you're trying to save your own ass from the consequences, and you're just looking to get rid of the thing as quickly as possible.
AP Strange:Well, yeah. I mean, it was like the old superstition. I I was told as a child that if you come across like the evil eye, one thing you can do is turn your back to it and throw salt over your shoulder and walk away. Then like the next person that walks by picks it up instead. Like and I'm like, but that's not cool for the next person.
AP Strange:Why don't
Jeff Knox:I just take I'll
AP Strange:take it. I'll deal with it, you know, because it's that's not cool. Yeah. Leaving Curtis's leg around in the sidewalk. What if it's a child?
Jeff Knox:And that's that's even the problem where just like if you're trying to like maybe just try to dispose of something. Right? Like like like, you know, the the monkey story. Right? Like, you can't just, like, get rid of the this evil object, like, because it'll pop back up other places.
Jeff Knox:Like, ultimately, if you're trying to be, like, responsible, you've gotta hold on to that evil object to keep it safe from people doing stupid crap with it like Mhmm. And hide it away somewhere. Yeah.
AP Strange:But then the problem becomes that you can't live forever. So eventually Yeah. Because I mean, that's the first one I think, is that the leprechaun is in a trunk or something in the guy's basement and he died and then they find it down there or something like that, right? Wasn't that what happened?
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And yeah, so you have you'd have to like that that have to be your tragic family legacy, like, in your will, take care of the evil leprechaun that I'm kept buried in the basement, you know, make sure nobody gets hold of it. But yeah. Yeah.
AP Strange:Don't open that box.
Jeff Knox:I mean, isn't that kind of like isn't that also one of the plots of some of those, like, the Warren those movies about, like, the Warrens, like, where they keep all those haunted objects in their house, like, in their basement and, like, people end up going in there and like touching them and like it sets off a whole kind of old ordeal. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. Or like The Conjuring movies.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. The Conjuring I think that's what I'm thinking of. Like The Conjuring movies. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. I I don't I think those movies were more just fictionalized versions of their investigations. Yeah. Yeah. I really but I think the nun movies off of that were kind of based on this idea that like Ed had painted this like demon nun or something and then the painting itself was possessed.
AP Strange:I think those movies kind of play with that idea where that painting goes to somebody else's house and then
Jeff Knox:Also the whether the Annabelle the doll movies, aren't they kind of like the other doll ends up getting from a place yeah.
AP Strange:And those ones crack me up because the real life Annabelle was a Raggedy Ann doll, which that wouldn't play so well in a movie. Don't think like
Jeff Knox:Somebody should make that accurate movie though. I think that'd be funny. Yeah. Yeah. I
AP Strange:mean, they If they make if they make the accurate movie, they'll have to have somebody that looks more like Ed Warren play Ed Warren. Well,
Jeff Knox:I've seen the I don't know if you've seen any of them, but there's been some Winnie the Pooh horror movies that they've made in the last few years that I've watched a few of them. Like, Pooh Bear is basically a serial killing psycho that just kill a bunch of people. So you you can take cute characters and turn them into psychos. Yeah. Well, yeah,
AP Strange:you can. But I mean, I actually think it might be kind of creepy if you just had a regular Raggedy and all that that was like murdering people or whatever. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah. You wouldn't even have to scare it up. Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:It would be uncanny enough on its own.
AP Strange:But those movies cracked me up just because they found like young, fit, attractive people to play the Warrens. And you're just like, I watched one of them with my son and then I was like, wanna see what they really look like? And I'm like, Google the picture. I'm like, that's that's what Ed Warren really looked like. He wasn't he wasn't this guy.
AP Strange:You know? Yeah.
Jeff Knox:It was like Vera from or whatever played and what's his face?
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. I can't but yeah. I wasn't prepared to talk about those movies. I I don't remember their names, but they're they're attractive people.
AP Strange:Well,
Jeff Knox:that's how it is pretty much for all all movies. You know? You you so a lot of times you look at the real people they're playing and it's like, yeah, they don't look like Hollywood A lister actors like that. Yeah,
AP Strange:right, right. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that John Keel was thrilled to have Richard Gere. Richard Gere in the Mothman prophecies.
Jeff Knox:Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. But now I'm thinking, like, imagine if the Warrens squared off against leprechaun. We need, a leprechaun versus Ed and Lorraine Warren movie.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Where they get their hands on it and yeah. Yeah. Crossover time.
AP Strange:It's it's a crossover.
Jeff Knox:Eight eight movies is not enough for the the Leprechaunathon franchise. We need we need nine. We need more.
AP Strange:We have to hold on to your title. So if there's another one added, that's definitely definitely gonna tip the scales because
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Did any of them ever go back to theater after the second one? Don't like, did any of the hood ones go into theater?
AP Strange:I don't think so. Yeah. That's a damn good question, though. Well, it it would be back to the hood, I think. Might have.
Jeff Knox:It says Leprechaun in the Hood was direct to video, and Back to the Hood was the first film to be released by Lions Gate, but it doesn't say if it went to theaters or not, Which would be shocking because, like, back to the hood, the the second in the hood one is, like, not very good at all compared to the original back to the hood or the leprechaun in the hood.
AP Strange:The Well, Leopard on the Hood had iced tea in it.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah. It was a much better movie than than the second one.
AP Strange:I love iced tea, man. That guy's just like, whatever. I'm just collecting a paycheck. Yeah. I mean,
Jeff Knox:I like Paige Kennedy was in Back to the Hood, and I I like Paige Kennedy. He does like some funny characters in movies and stuff, but Yeah. It just it didn't have the feel of the original Leprechaun in the Hood movie. Right. Yeah.
AP Strange:Well, I mean, I think it's important to note also that, like, the original Leprechaun movie was what kind of launched Jennifer Aniston's career.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah. When I watched that, I was like, wait a second. Like, that's Jennifer Aniston, like, really young Jennifer Aniston. And I think I think it was like her first, like, feature film or something like her first, like, major, like, film that, like, she was in was
AP Strange:Yeah. It was.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Leprechaun. That's crazy.
AP Strange:Put her on the map. Whoever
Jeff Knox:said starring a Leprechaun movie couldn't launch your, Hollywood career is a liar.
AP Strange:Right. Right. And then, of course, Warwick Davis is the leprechaun in just about all the movies except, I guess, the remake. Yeah. The newer ones.
AP Strange:Yeah. The the origin one. So is the origin one, is that, like, a reboot, would you say?
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I guess. I I think they were trying to, like, reboot it. Like, it's a weird title because, like, I don't think it really explains the origins of anything. Like, you would think that being called leprechaun origins, we'd learn kind of about the origins of the leprechauns.
Jeff Knox:But, like, I say now, I was just, like it's I think they tried to go more horror movie with it. Like, it wasn't really comedy. It wasn't like a horror comedy or whatever. Like, you might consider the other ones that are kinda funny with, like, the, you know, the jokes and the rhymes and stuff. But, yeah, it it kinda just went straight horror.
Jeff Knox:I think they were trying to reboot it, but, yeah, didn't work out. Then they went tried to like I say, with the the next one returns, they tried to go back and doing a sequel to the original movie, and it just, again, didn't have Warwick Davis in it. It's some other guy in it, and it just didn't have the feeling as well either.
AP Strange:That's a bummer. Yeah. I mean, I I imagine Warwick Davis has to stop doing it eventually. So you just can't play the same character forever, but
Jeff Knox:You could bring him in as the old wise leprechaun.
AP Strange:There you go.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I don't know.
AP Strange:Well, as we learned in this movie, leprechauns are very territorial. They so they don't like sharing. They don't like being in the same area. So if you put two leprechauns in the same place, you're asking for trouble, basically. But
Jeff Knox:Do you recall how the guy in Real Apecan three, now he starts to starts to transform, but because he's got a bite. Like, I've watched that movie three or four times now, and I don't recall him ever getting bit. Did they actually show him getting bit?
AP Strange:I think. Okay. So this was immediately apparent to me because leprechaun bites an awful lot of people. Like he bit gooped his toe off at the beginning of the movie, the pawnshop owner.
Jeff Knox:But why don't they turn?
AP Strange:Because it's not the bite. So that's the thing with this movie, just for listeners who aren't gonna go watch this movie, you basically have a were leprechaun in this movie and you're kind of led to believe because he got bit by a leprechaun he's turning into a leprechaun. In fact, what happens is he gets beat up fighting with the leprechaun and has open wounds and then he stabs the leprechaun in the forehead causing this green blood to gush out. So then the green blood gets in the guy's open wounds and they become like blood brothers and it starts turning him from a human into a leprechaun. So it's less the bite thing that does it and more just the fact that the leprechaun blood gets into his bloodstream I guess through an open wound.
Jeff Knox:That makes sense. Because like the scene where they show the bite, he kind of, was passed, he's passed out in the hotel room and he just kind of wakes up like, and just like looks around confused, he looks on his arm and you can see this bite, you can also see kind of like this greenish kind of like stuff, like goop or whatever that's kinda like over his arm where the bite is like so. Right. Yeah. Dripped in and changed him in some way.
AP Strange:Right. Leprechaun blood. Yeah. I mean, this is basic science, Jeff. I don't know what you don't understand.
Jeff Knox:It's vampire science. Like, you've got you biting isn't enough. You've gotta transfer some of the own blood into the person in order to properly convert them over to, the new creature, apparently.
AP Strange:Right. Yeah. Well, the rules are different in every movie, I guess. Like, we're kinda like you were saying before we recorded, like, the rules about what actually hurts the leprechaun and what he's invulnerable to are just kinda different every time.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I mean, like, in some of the movies, like, the guy will be shot several times and it's, like, nothing. Like, the guy's, like, oh, it's no big deal. And in other movies, like, that people beat him up with, a baseball bat or they kick him or punch him and, like, they temporarily defeat him anyways. Like, it's there's there's really no consistency on what injures, like, this leprechaun guy throughout the the movies or or even the same movie, in fact.
Jeff Knox:But Yeah. Consistency. Suspend your disbelief.
AP Strange:Well he's really good at bilocating and glamour magic too where you can make it appear like he's somewhere and he's really not over there or you know turn something into something other than it appears like in the second one he turns like a lawn mower that's turned on into like a hot lady and causes the guy to like walk right into it basically That's pretty brutal.
Jeff Knox:But Yeah. He mimics people in multiple, like, movies. Like, in the third one, in fact, there's a scene where there's like, the guy thinks he's about to engage in relations with a beautiful woman, and it turns out it's basically a robot thing that like, you know, the guy was glimmered into thinking was a woman and
AP Strange:Yeah. It's just it basically like the the skeletal frame of a robot with like a weird head on it and breasts.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. A primitive like sex bot of some kind. Yeah, pretty much. But that's almost even weirder though, like he's got these abilities that he could have used to save himself in many of the situations throughout the movies, but, like, he doesn't. Right?
Jeff Knox:Like, he seems
AP Strange:to Yeah. That's what I'm getting at. Ability to
Jeff Knox:buy locate, but, like, he doesn't use it to save himself, like in the space movie, for example, the fourth movie. Like, and if you can change, like, appearances and forms and sizes like that, like, again, why doesn't there's a in the fourth movie, there's a scene where he basically gets blown up into a tall person. Like, why why can't he just, like, magic himself back down to small again to make it more convenient to find the person he's looking for? Or why when he's getting sucked out into space, why can't he just bilocate himself to, like, a different location in the ship where he's not getting sucked out the hole into space? Like, there's so many inconsistencies like with his powers that like he could use to save himself, but he doesn't in certain scenes.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Well, think it's just lack of focus. Maybe that's the moral lesson of Leprechaun is don't be like leprechaun because he's so greedy. All he really cares about is is that gold or like pranking people into dying, you know, like pranking people to death.
Jeff Knox:And they they do tend to get the drop on him when he's like doing stuff like busy counting his gold. Like, you know, only in many cases, like in the Leprechaun Foreign Space, there's a scene where, like, he's counting the gold and she gets up behind him with a gun. But for some reason, like, the guns always seem to fail and not work. Like, they've got, like, the leprechaun dead to right, I think, in multiple movies. But, like, their weapon or whatever they're gonna use to kill a guy doesn't work.
Jeff Knox:Giving the leprechaun time to, like, turn around and be like, oh, okay. I got you now. And continue the long, drawn out kind of battle scene with the leprechaun. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah, I mean it's not consistent and yeah I mean I think leprechaun four leprechaun in space is is just a masterpiece like it might be my favorite of the series, but like I said, I've only seen the first four. I think I saw it in the hood, like, years ago, but I don't remember anything about it other than iced tea was in it. So
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah. Leprechaun in four space has got some interesting kind of scenes in it. As we've spoken up before, they kind of re they kind of borrow the alien chestburster scene, only it's not his chest. The the leprechaun pops out of in in four.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yep. It's yeah. He basically pops out of a guy's boner. It's it's real weird.
AP Strange:It's real fucking weird.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Yeah. But these movies, like like I say, being straight to video is like, they could just do they just didn't care. They just they just go with it. Some of these crazy weird weird places.
Jeff Knox:So
AP Strange:Yeah. I feel like the direct to video stuff either went, like, in a softcore porn direction or it just went to, like, balls balls to the wall. Like, alright. Practical effects, guys. What was something you always wanted to do, but you've never been able to because the script didn't call for it?
AP Strange:Just go for it. Like, give us ideas.
Jeff Knox:You know? You guys wanna make a primitive looking sex butt? Yeah. Okay. Cool.
Jeff Knox:We'll we'll add that scene to Leprechaun three.
AP Strange:That scene goes on for a long time, dude. That's a pretty drawn out one. Yeah. He's like the casino owner, I guess, or the manager. I'm not really sure.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I I'm kind of unclear on that kind of whole back plot. Like, what does he owe money for to these guys that so, like, he owes money to these guys that, what, own a clothing shop? But, like and and they're, like, you know, making threats to him, you know, for the money he owes. And I'm not sure, like, what this guy's actual job is.
Jeff Knox:Does he own the casino? Like, if he owned it, you think he would need to be borrowing money from some guy at a closing shop. Is he just the manager of the casino? Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah they don't really tell you what's happening there and I guess it doesn't really matter that much. We have a very small cast of characters considering we're in Las Vegas and you could bring like a ton of people in. But really the only people we're concerned about is this one kid, I guess he's on his way to college because that's what's happening and then he ends up picking up this woman whose car broke down and it turns out she's the magician's assistant at the casino. Yep. And he wants to go in and see a real Las Vegas casino, but he's not 21 yet.
AP Strange:So she sneaks him in under the pretense that he's not gonna gamble, but he does of course, and immediately loses all his money. So that that's what brings him to the pawnshop, and that's how he gets all mixed up with the leprechaun, who, as we already mentioned, is over there. So you got a couple characters established but then you have the casino owner who apparently owes money to this guy that owns a clothing store and his like big dumb bodyguard I guess. And then there's a woman that like runs the craps table or the roulette table rather. Now she's the only actress in this movie or actor in this movie that I recognize from anything else and I didn't even recognize her.
AP Strange:She was in Texas Chainsaw Massacre two. So she she's in another sequel. Caroline Williams. So have you ever seen Texas Chainsaw two? Maybe at some point.
Jeff Knox:Those kind of movies were not my favorite genre. So I probably watched them, but I don't really recall them. Yeah. She she she literally gets blown up in Leprechaun three.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Well, she was the final girl in Texas Jamestown too. She's like a radio DJ and she's the target of everything. But yeah, in this one, there's a whole lot of magic being used against people.
AP Strange:So, know, she obviously, I guess, I don't know if this happens in any of the other ones, but if you get a hold of a leprechaun coin, apparently you can like make a wish and it will come true. Because it
Jeff Knox:is I think that's a I think that's even part of the first one or it's at least part of multiple of the other ones. Like yeah.
AP Strange:Okay. I I just didn't know how consistent this was, but Yeah. That's Yeah. Some of
Jeff Knox:the whole lore. And they've actually got one of the things they did with leprechaun three is they had the the the guy in this pawn shop had a little computer, and they actually had these little animated videos explaining, like, how the leprechaun gold worked and, like, the leprechaun, like, lore basically, like Right. Where they explain, like, you know, if you have the the leprechaun wants his gold back, but you have a coin, like, it can you can make a wish. In one of the in the other movies, isn't it like if you've got the coin, it can actually hurt you?
AP Strange:Is that Well, that was what it was in the second one is if you had a coin, leprechaun couldn't hurt you.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. But, like, in the for example, like, the hood movies, again, it's they they're using the coins, like, to get, like, what they want, you know, so, like, they're making wishes on them and stuff like so yeah. You get a you get a wish with the coin, apparently, but it also means the leprechaun can't hurt you if you've got the coin. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. But that's obviously not true in this one. Or is it? Doesn't he hurt somebody that has it? He's able to hurt the magician when he has it at the end, I think.
AP Strange:Right?
Jeff Knox:Does he still have it on him, though? Oh. Because if you so one of the besides for the the character, that lady that's, like, works at one of the tables, like, really, the only other kind of main character is the magician who pops in for a little bit of the movie. And he actually before that lady dies, she gets the he gets the coin from her. I think that opens her up to being be able to attack by magic with the leprechaun is because she no longer has the coin on her.
AP Strange:Right, because he took
Jeff Knox:it. So I think it's still part of the plot. It's just they don't really, I don't think they talk about it or mention that's what's going on. Right.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, she she wishes to be thin and young and beautiful again. And then, you know, leprechaun makes her butt expand and her boobs expand and her lips expand until she blows up.
Jeff Knox:Some some practical effects guy had to make that model up with probably a little bit of explosives inside it to where they could blow it up because
AP Strange:Right.
Jeff Knox:They actually show, like, the body at one point, I think it's in between a doorway and, like, it just it gets to its maximum size to the point where it just, like, blows up into, pieces. But yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. That was a nice touch there because then the leprechaun has, an umbrella. He's, like, holding an umbrella so he doesn't get covered with color.
Jeff Knox:Something's splatter. Yeah.
AP Strange:So these movies are pretty darkly funny and just stupid, like really stupid. And I think Warwick Davis said that this third one in Las Vegas is was his favorite of the bunch because they were like it was the one where they were playing around the most and and tried to work humor into it the most. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Because the little rhymes and stuff, like, some of them are kind of, like, crude, but, yeah, they're kind of they're kind of funny and ridiculous. Like, one of my favorite rhymes is actually, like, from the third one, where it's, like, first, it's like at the beginning of the movie where they in the pawnshop, and, like, I think he first gets thawed, and he's like, there once was a man from a dress who had balls made out of fine brass. And when the weather was stormy, his balls clinked together and sparks flew out of his ass. Yeah. And it's like, I I just like that quote.
Jeff Knox:That's that's one of my favorite rhymes from the whole movie.
AP Strange:Yeah. I mean, he's he's full of dirty limericks in this movie.
Jeff Knox:Yeah, I can't quite remember what the limerick was after the lady blew up, but yeah he had some limerick about her ass, being grass or something. Don't know what it was.
AP Strange:Yeah, I think he's I think he talks exclusively in rhyme in this one, and I'm not sure if that's true of all of them. Couldn't I can't remember. But
Jeff Knox:Yeah. It it's not true in all of them, but yeah. I think that's true in this one. I think he pretty much does talk and rhyme this whole movie in number three.
AP Strange:Occasionally, yeah, you get a few limericks, but but otherwise, if he says anything at all, it has to rhyme. Yeah. Which actually makes me think. I'm just spitballing here, but did you ever read the comic book, The Demon? With Netragon and The Demon?
AP Strange:No. The DC comics. But there was a point where he like graduated to a class of demon, But in that class of demon, had to speak in rhyme all the time. So maybe it's a similar rule with leprechauns. It's like after a certain amount of incarnations, you have to rhyme all the time.
Jeff Knox:He's been killed enough times that, yeah, he got there. Right. Then I think in the fourth one, he doesn't rhyme, like, all the time. He talks a lot.
AP Strange:Yeah. Well, I mean Yeah. It starts over again, I guess. Yeah. That's Every third one.
Jeff Knox:That's that's also, like that's the thing with these movies. Like, they're part of a series, but, like, they're not really connected in any way. Like, except for the character except for the leprechaun. Right? Like, it's not like there's a consistent plot, like, structure from one to two to three to four to like, each movie is basically stand alone.
Jeff Knox:You don't have to watch, like, the other movies to, like, watch any individual leprechaun movie. Yeah. It really does not matter at all.
AP Strange:Like like this one just drops in with some storyline where he's encased in stone and we have no idea why how he got there. Like so and like you said, leprechaun in space. Why is the leprechaun in space? Who knows? He's just in space.
AP Strange:No question.
Jeff Knox:Who cares? He's
AP Strange:yeah. He's on a space station. What do you need a map? Yeah.
Jeff Knox:I don't even know how far in the future that movie is supposed to, like, take place. Like, I guess it doesn't really matter. Like
AP Strange:Nothing about that movie matters. It's just like a fever dream of, like, Roger Corman level sci fi.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Like like the humans allegedly know about this planet. Like, in that movie, there's this, like, lady from a planet Dominion that they supposedly know about, like, because this one soldier in this movie knows about the lore of the planet, you know, Dominion. Like, they find her necklace, and they're like, like, this is a necklace of the royal family of the planet Dominion. Like, okay.
Jeff Knox:You know that now exactly? But but they do. So, yeah, these movies, you just kind of have to suspend disbelief, accept the plot you're given at the beginning and not worry about the rest of it.
AP Strange:Yeah. And don't don't even look for, like, consistency in in how how leprechaun works or how any of the magic works because it's it's not gonna stay that consistent I don't think.
Jeff Knox:Don't try to make sense out of it just enjoy absurdity.
AP Strange:Yeah yeah and I mean because I mean in this one in leprechaun three you have the character that becomes basically a were leprechaun like he's turning into a leprechaun very slowly he has time to save himself with the help of the magician's assistant lady who obviously falls in love with him over the course of the movie because that's gotta happen.
Jeff Knox:Hey. He just won a lot of money, so he's got prospects, I guess. I don't know. Yeah.
AP Strange:That's true. But mean, you're not even
Jeff Knox:halfway into the movie when he wins and he tells her, he's like, this is all because of you. It's you and me. It's both of us. We're gonna share this money. Yeah.
AP Strange:Well, she seems skeptical about that, though.
Jeff Knox:At first. Yeah. But by the end of the movie, yeah, she seems all in.
AP Strange:Yeah. She's all in. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:They walk off into the sunset or the nighttime, into the dark together. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. The guy wins the girl. That's everything is right with the world. But, so I mean, in defeating the leprechaun, I guess that also cures his leprechaunism.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I mean, I think that's all that's just part of that's been part of like werewolf mythology, at least in fiction, is where they say and also I think, vampire, like, mythology, at least in fiction, is where they say, like, if you can, like, kill the guy before like, if you werewolves. If you can kill the werewolf that turned you before the next full moon, you won't change. It'll be like, you won't convert to a werewolf. And, like, same thing I've heard, like, in various vampire stories, like, if you can kill the guy that turned you, it supposedly saves you from being a vampire or whatever.
Jeff Knox:That makes
AP Strange:sense.
Jeff Knox:It's the same kind of thing in this this story. Like, apparently, they killed a leprechaun, he's saved, and he no longer converts. I'm not sure. I guess it's magic. Right?
Jeff Knox:Because, like, it must be, a virus or biological infection because like that wouldn't cure him, but magic. Magic. Yeah. Yeah.
AP Strange:I mean, well, their way of getting rid of them in this movie apparently is if you destroy the pot of gold because I guess this is where I was going with the greed thing too. It's like no human ever thinks to destroy the pot of gold because they always want the gold. Like people are just too greedy. Like they see gold and they can't can't bear the thought of getting rid of it. They want to take it.
Jeff Knox:And
AP Strange:that's what the leprechaun embodies. So then he ends up just killing you for it. But it was really funny when they came up with that because I think they were watching the same video on the computer disk in the pawnshop that the pawnshop owner didn't listen to all the way, but it's like if you destroy the pot of gold, you destroy the leprechaun. I'm like, how do you destroy a pot of gold, though? And why
Jeff Knox:why did this guy have a disc with leprechaun instructions on his computer? Where did that come from?
AP Strange:Somebody pawned it, man.
Jeff Knox:Or is that just more leprechaun magic? Did, like, the leprechaun put that in there to give them clues on to how to destroy him? Or
AP Strange:Right. Well, you think he would put a a wrong one in there because I Who think? He could he could project himself on TV and make, like, half assed lady sex bot crawl out of the TV. Like, why why can't can't he control the computer? But, yeah, that was the one thing I saw where it's just, oh, we gotta destroy the pot of gold to destroy the leprechaun.
AP Strange:And I'm like, how does one destroy a pot of gold, though? I don't and apparently, the answer is a blowtorch. You just hit it with, like, a flamethrower once, and it's it just it's gone.
Jeff Knox:We could just realistically melt it at best into a pile of larger gold. It wouldn't destroy it.
AP Strange:He barely touched it with the flame. He hit it once with the flame, the thing just vaporized.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I think that's actually part of the, one of the good movies too, is that, like, they talk about needing to destroy the gold, but like nobody, if I'm remembering correctly, but yeah, but it's even weird though, because, so they, he doesn't want to destroy the gold, you know, because he's turning into were leprechauns. So he likes the gold. He's like, oh no, you got to keep it. So magician assistant lady, you know, like, smacks him around a few times in the movie.
Jeff Knox:You know, eventually, like, Zay comes he saves himself, but but the movie literally ends with them with still a piece of gold. So they didn't destroy all the gold because they still had a coin. And despite everything they just went to they're debating whether they should use it or not to wish for something. Right. I mean ultimately they don't but So I
AP Strange:think that leaves the door open for another sequel for one thing but also that I mean again with the werewolf or the werewolf like leprechaunism that he's going through you'd think that if there's still one coin left like that could perpetuate his leprechaunism you know, like he needs to destroy that too.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. It means you didn't destroy all the gold. You just some of it like so.
AP Strange:Well, is it the gold or the pot? What if you just dumped out all the gold and destroyed the pot?
Jeff Knox:That would defeat the whole logic behind the greed of people not being able to get rid of the gold if you could actually just take the gold and get rid of the pot.
AP Strange:But he did keep the gold.
Jeff Knox:We're trying to come up with logical consistencies with a a leprechaun movie plot here, and I'm not sure that works.
AP Strange:No. No. I mean, it it's fun. It's fun to speculate, but, well, I guess we'll never really know. They do throw away the coin ultimately, you know, they
Jeff Knox:Which means somebody could find it, you And because I believe like once they make it's like making a wish on a coin, like just draws the leprechaun right to you. Right? Like, in this movie, he literally smells the like, when he wakes up, you know, the guy's long gone. So he he goes to the pawn shop, this kid that's, you know, driving through town after he's lost all his money at the casino because he's going to pawn his watch. And he gets to the pawnshop and he finds, you know, dead guy.
Jeff Knox:He finds the dead pawnshop owner, but he finds, like, that gold coin and whatnot. And I don't think he even knows, like he doesn't even know about the logic of wishing on it. Like, he just kind of, I guess, wishes, like, you know, he was back making money or whatever. I feel what his exact wish was. But he just instantaneously finds himself back in the casino, and he's winning a whole ton of money, like, at the table.
Jeff Knox:You know? And that's how he gets all, like, all the money that he wins.
AP Strange:But Well, it is that the computer program is still going, and it says something about making a wish when he picks up the Oh, yeah.
Jeff Knox:That yeah. Yeah. So that that program is just running on the computer in the background. And, yeah, he makes a wish, and he ends up back there, and he wins. And
AP Strange:yeah. Well, I mean, okay, this is another question I had. The Las Vegas police clearly went there and then, you know, removed the pawnshop owner Gupta's corpse and did some form of investigation, like they put police tape up, but they didn't lock the door because they end up going back to the pawnshop after because they figured there's gotta be something they can learn there to help destroy the leprechaun. But they they just kinda walk right in. Like, the police are like, no one will there's tape.
AP Strange:No one will cross the tape.
Jeff Knox:And this is literally the same night. So, like Right. Realistically, there'd still be cops there, you know, like they probably have somebody at least monitoring the location until the next Right. Yeah. So
AP Strange:You think there'd just be a cruiser on the street, like watching the place at least, you know? Yeah. Blankos, cops or something. But
Jeff Knox:But but, I was what I was getting at, though, so he ends up basically teleported back to the casino, but somehow the leprechaun knows the gold's there. Like, he can smell it. Like, he they they show him in the casino, like, and he's like, can you smell my gold? And, like so I guess once you've got the gold and make a wish, it's almost like a beacon that, like, the leprechaun knows about you. And now you're gonna be a victim of the leprechaun, or he's gonna try and make you his next victim.
Jeff Knox:Because you took his gold and used his magic.
AP Strange:Yep. Yep. I mean, have to say that's some of the most fun moments in the in the movie too is where he's just wandering around the casino, interacting with people, gambling. You're just seeing the leprechaun having a good time. Yeah.
AP Strange:Because he seems to realize like, oh wait, I don't necessarily need to murder people for fun. Like, there's other ways I can have fun. This could have been a whole different movie if when he meets the Elvis impersonator, they just kinda like walk off together and like start a band, you know? Yeah.
Jeff Knox:That would have been cool.
AP Strange:It would have been cool because they seem to really enjoy each other, you know? The Elvis impersonator is like, I like those shoes, man.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. He spends a lot more time having fun in in I think three than he does in, like, a lot of the other movies. Like, he's seems to be all business in like a lot of the other movies, but yeah. Vegas is the town of fun, so I guess he decides to indulge a bit.
AP Strange:Yeah, I mean, well, and like I said, Boric Davis said that it was the one he had the most fun making, so it it seemed like it was his his favorite one to do. Yeah. But I didn't even realize till tonight what right before we recorded, I I was like, so like how old is Warwick Davis? He's currently like 55 right now. And I'm like, that kind of blew my mind because I remember seeing him in movies like Willow, which came out in 1988.
AP Strange:And I'm like, so he was only like 18 in that. And then I was like, wait, wasn't he in like Star Wars? And yeah, he was in Return of the Jedi. It was his first movie at age 12, which blows my mind because he played Wicked the Ewok.
Jeff Knox:And so he was only in Leprechaun three twenty five and like Leprechaun one twenty three. Yeah, so
AP Strange:yeah, that's kind of crazy. Mean, I just assumed because I mean, if you're a little person in Hollywood, they tend to just you you have a pretty good career for anything back then as we were talking about this before the show because if you've seen like robots or small ish monsters or any kind of thing like that in 80s movies or before and even into the 90s before there was computer graphics imaging for everything you had to have a tiny person inside of a costume, like, moving things around. Like, our Godzilla movies.
Jeff Knox:Got the Godzilla movies. There's there's a person inside that Godzilla costume, you know? Right. Used to be people inside these things.
AP Strange:Yeah. This is for the kids listening that don't know, but yeah. R2D2 in the original movies was this guy Kenny Baker was inside there, like, operating it to to move it around, and movie magic makes it look like a robot but I don't know I just I guess I just kind of assumed since I knew Warwick Davis's name and he was in some of these movies in the 80s that like he was established or something at that point like as an adult Like I thought he was like 20 in 1982 when he was playing an Ewok, but no, he was 12. That's crazy.
Jeff Knox:Well, think, yeah, they they probably had, you know, reliable work like that, but you also probably got a bit typecast, you know.
AP Strange:Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I'm not saying it was like a privilege position to be in, but you probably could get steady work.
Jeff Knox:Has he been at anything recently?
AP Strange:Yeah you know what I didn't see I didn't happen to make note of what his most recent credits were but I was surprised to see that he was Marvin the paranoid android in the American feature length Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, which that is kind of old by now. I don't remember what year that came out. Like 02/2004 or something? Sounds about right. Yeah.
AP Strange:So twenty years ago. Yeah. So he he didn't he didn't do the voice obviously. They used Alan Rickman's voice, but he was the he was inside the Marvin suit. So
Jeff Knox:Well, you guys see I mean, he's been in a lot a lot of things like Harry Potter movies. Oh, right. Yeah. He'd been in a bunch
AP Strange:of the Harry Potter stuff. And a lot of
Jeff Knox:the newer Star Wars movies like Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi. Yeah.
AP Strange:Oh, yeah. You're right. Think he I think he actually played Yoda in one of the prequels just for the parts where he has to, like, walk into the scene and stuff like that. So Like,
Jeff Knox:he plays a lot of different roles. Like like, he played Wicked in Rise of Skywalker. In solo, he played a character named Weasel. Last Jedi, he played a character named Wodeben. Rogue Wodeben played a character called Weetief Sayubi.
Jeff Knox:Like, Force Awakens, he played a character named Wolovan. So yeah, he's been like different characters and I guess quite a few of the recent Star Wars movies.
AP Strange:That's crazy. I guess for Return of the Jedi, they just did like a general call in the public, like looking for any actors under four feet tall for Return of the Jedi and Warwick Davis's grandmother was like, just sign him up. She's like, oh, we gotta get you in there.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Hey, kicked off a career. Yeah. And that happens, you know, like just the general call like that. Like, there's I don't know if you've seen there's a new TV series on right now called Adolescence on Netflix.
Jeff Knox:That's kind of co written by the actor Stephen Graham They needed a 13 year old kid for that movie, like a young small kid that would play, the plot of the movie is basically a 13 year old gets arrested for murdering a girl by the police. And every episode is filmed in a single shot, single shot takes. So each episode basically approaches a story from that different viewpoint, like the parents, the kids at school, the kid, etcetera. And the kid's basically been radicalized by Andrew Tate and all that kind of nonsense. But in this movie, did an open call.
Jeff Knox:This kid and the kid they found for it does an amazing job. I wouldn't be surprised if he wins some awards for his role. Has never been in anything before. Like, they just did a call, they found him at some, like, local kids drama call that they did, And they thought he'd be perfect for it and gave him the role. And, yeah, that's some people are like that.
Jeff Knox:There's been some Doctor Who companions that were like that as well. Like, they they were they just did a call for it, and they were shocked they got a a callback. Like, you're gonna be the new doctor who companion. Like, what? Right.
Jeff Knox:Awesome. Like, what?
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy too. Because, like, you're instantly gonna either be loved or hated by the public. You know?
Jeff Knox:Well, you know, my favorite Doctor Who is Tom Baker. That's my doctor, as you would say. He was actually working in construction when he got the job to be the doctor.
AP Strange:And he
Jeff Knox:was on like his construction crew and like they came and told him like, you're gonna be the, like, the new doctor who. And I was like, what? Cool. Because he's, like, a goofy guy, but he was working normal jobs and stuff, like, at the time period and just kinda, like, tried out for it and ended up getting the role. And in my opinions, was the best doctor out of all the doctor Hughes.
AP Strange:Yeah. But he was also acting. I think he was doing, like, stage acting.
Jeff Knox:He had done some acting beforehand.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So There's a lot of actors. Not like they just pulled him off a construction site with no experience or anything.
AP Strange:But yeah. But yeah. I hear that's
Jeff Knox:where they pulled what's his face from? Jason Statham. Not at a construction site, but Jason Statham. They pulled him off the street. He used to be a street hustler that, like, in in England that were, like, basically selling counterfeit goods and stuff on the street corner.
Jeff Knox:And, like, I think, like, the lock stock and two smoking barrels director guy, like, saw him. I'm like, now he's, like, a freaking ablest actor.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, one I was thinking of just because of like the age of Warwick Davis for Return of the Jedi and, you know, the George Lucas thing is Key key he we. Kiwi Kwan the guy that played short round in the Indiana Jones and temple of doom.
Jeff Knox:Mhmm
AP Strange:that was like one of those deals like I listen to an interview with him somewhat recently. He was really young, like I don't know, like six or eight or something like that. But I mean, his family had escaped China and were refugees in like Los Angeles. He'd only been in The United States for like less than a year. And then they did a casting call at the school that he was going to and he barely even spoke English.
AP Strange:Then all of a sudden he's in like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Two, which is kind of amazing, you know. He's a
Jeff Knox:I I I like him. I think he's a good actor. I like a lot of the stuff he's been in recently. Yeah. It's it's kinda weird, like, you like, having watched him, you know, in those movies as, like, a kid, and then, like, you see him, like, as an adult.
Jeff Knox:Like, there's one of his new movies I just watched a few weeks ago called Love Hurts. Yeah. Which was pretty good. He does
AP Strange:a lot of martial arts and stuff in that one. But I mean, Everything Everywhere All at Once was an amazing movie.
Jeff Knox:Yeah, that was a great movie as well.
AP Strange:It was so cool to see him like grown up and acting and because he's recognizable, you still recognize him as Yeah, you can still
Jeff Knox:see that face, you know, those those manure stuff in him. But yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. Cool. But yeah, that is an amazing thing. Just imagine being like a little kid and somebody shuffles you off to a casting call and then it's like, next thing you know, you're in like the biggest movie in the world. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. And and some of those kids stick with it and continue to be actors. But some of those kids, you know, they're they're famous for a short period of time. You know, they're like, get a major role in a movie like that, and then you will never see them again. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Now after that, but
AP Strange:Right. Or, you know, they a lot of them end up having horribly tragic stories. Yeah. I mean, a lot a lot of child actors do not do well in adult life, which is just horrible and sad, but All
Jeff Knox:sorts of problems ranging from drugs to their parents stealing all their money to all sorts of like tragic stories. Yeah.
AP Strange:Well, there's there's laws put in place just because of an actual case of that. Do you know about that? The Coogan's Law?
Jeff Knox:No.
AP Strange:Oh, well this is actually a little interesting Hollywood history. Jackie Coogan was the little kid in the Charlie Chaplin movie The Kid. It's a short film. Charlie Chaplin becomes kind of like reluctant dad, adopted dad to the street urchin kid but then they have like the scam going and stuff like that. Where but Jackie Coogan was doing a ton of different movies and then his parents were taking all his money so he ended up having to fight them to get representation through the studio and eventually they wrote a law using his name that kids in movies have to like have a fun set aside that the parents aren't allowed to touch that they can have access to when they reach a certain age.
AP Strange:And that guy did okay for himself. Ended up playing Uncle Fester on the Adams family years later, so but interesting arc for him.
Jeff Knox:15% They have to set aside 15% in an earnings and a trust for child actors. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Didn't know about that law.
Jeff Knox:Signed into law all the way in 1939. You know, it still happens. And to be honest, 15% is a lot less than what about the other 85%? That's still a lot of money for your parents to or whoever your managers or whoever to keep.
AP Strange:Yeah, but at least you don't end up with nothing, you know. That's true. And, know, if you put it in the right kind of high yield trust fund, maybe it maybe maybe it'll work, but or make enough money doing it, know. But I don't know. That's just kind of interesting Hollywood history.
AP Strange:I always found that to be kind of an interesting arc for a career to start out with Charlie Chaplin and kind of end up on the Addams Family, but have a law named after you in between.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I think it's also, I think that one of the problems I've heard, you know, some are like I've heard from some child actors before is, like, it can also be a problem having too much money. Like, these kids, like, have so much money that they just end up partying and buying drugs and doing all this other stuff, and that leads to all these problems because, you know, they they did have all the money and resources to basically do whatever they wanted. Yeah. You still can't take their money from them, You know?
Jeff Knox:Right. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. There's a lot of unscrupulous people out there that will really just throw their own kid under the bus, which is freaking horrible.
Jeff Knox:That's crazy when you hear, like, a manager that does it that's unrelated, but then you're, like, manager, like, when it's their parent it's like really you just like ripped off your kid like what?
AP Strange:Yeah yeah something seriously wrong with those people. So I think I think Warwick Davis did okay for himself. He really kind of started out with Return of the Jedi and just kept working and he, you know, I mean, people like the Leprechaun movies generally, I think. Like, I mean, they're I don't I don't know if there's huge Leprechaun fans out there or fan clubs, but, from from my tastes, they're fun. They're fun to watch once in a while.
AP Strange:I couldn't watch all of them in a row. So
Jeff Knox:You could. You could do it. Trust me. It's possible. Oh, yeah.
Jeff Knox:See, that's the kind of thing with me with, like, a lot of movies is, like, like, the movie might not win awards or anything. Like, it it may not have the best plot. It may not, like, even be the greatest movie, but, like, it can be a fun movie that's, like, worth watching, you know Right. Every once in
AP Strange:a while.
Jeff Knox:Like, there's a there's a lot of movies I watch, like, where like, I'm not gonna be focusing a % of my attention on the movie anyways, like, because I'm doing other stuff that, like, I'll put on a fun movie, like like a leprechaun style movie where where it's, like, I'm I'm not all that worried I'm gonna miss something too crucial if I missed a few minutes of the movie. But, yeah, I I think they're, you know, they're worth a watch. You know, they're they're fun. They're entertaining. At least at least some of them are.
Jeff Knox:There's some that, you know, probably aren't aren't all that great. Like I said, like, the second back to the hood is it's alright, but it's, like, not as good as other movies are. Like, Leprechaun Origins, like, I'm not even sure I'd recommend that movie.
AP Strange:The So you said they're you said they're kinda like the Hopkinsville goblins.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. They're not really leprechauns. Like, they don't talk. Like, they don't wear It's like they're basically just, like, pointy eared, like, goblin creatures, like, that are, like, running around. Like I say, it's more of a horror kind of creature kind of like monster film than it is like a Leprechaun movie.
Jeff Knox:It's like the Leprechaun movie is like the whole thing is like, there was that, like, you know, it's going around killing people kind of element, but there were also comedy. Like, there's also jokes and the funny rhymes and, like it wasn't meant to be too serious. Like, Meprechaun origins, like I say, it's just more like it's it's trying to be a scary movie. I think they're trying to reboot the series, like, into, like, a more scary movie frame, but, yeah, I I don't think it worked.
AP Strange:Let's see that working.
Jeff Knox:Ultimately, then it returns, which tried to be a direct sequel to the original movie. But, again, even the original movie is a a little different than I think like the later ones. It's like a little different than two and three and four. The first one definitely goes more for atmosphere.
AP Strange:I think they try to the scary moments are supposed to still be scary, but we're we're supposed to kind of recognize this is a fun ride overall. Know, we're just take we're on a fun like amusement park ride here. This isn't like yeah, but but yeah, I mean, I think they they really tried on the first one and then beyond that it just steadily goes downhill in the most spectacular way, I think. And
Jeff Knox:like, you know, we mentioned before, the first one, bring us Jennifer Aniston, what I think was her first feature film role when she was quite young. That's interesting.
AP Strange:That's not nothing.
Jeff Knox:Yeah.
AP Strange:But it was funny that you you brought up the comparison of the Hopkins Hopkinsville Goblins because have you ever seen, like, the original newspaper reporting about the Hopkinsville case? I'm sure you have because you're like the
Jeff Knox:Probably in one of my threads. My Hopkinsville Goblins case post is like, I think one of my largest, if not my largest, like, case threads I've got posted. Like, it's either that or the Flatwoods Monster. Like, it's like so big when you go to Twitter to look at it, you get down to the end of the replies, you gotta see more replies a few times to get to all the stuff I've dumped in there. So it's probably somewhere in there.
AP Strange:Well, the newspaper artist they had at the time was this guy Larry Hill and like they pulled him in to do a sketch based on what the witnesses said and his sketch is really just looks like a little leprechaun guy. So it's kind of funny that there's this like this kind of reciprocity between you describing the leprechauns in the movie as being like the goblins and this sketch in the very first reporting on the goblins case looking like a little leprechaun dude. Yeah. But yeah, for listeners I'll have to post that picture on Instagram somewhere, but I always love that little sketch because it looks so different from every other picture you've ever seen of the goblins because I'm sure the guy that Larry Hill, his job was to do sketches for news stories mostly sports. He covered a lot of sports on there So he would do like sports cartoon drawings and things like that.
AP Strange:And he actually ended up designing a mascot for one of the college's basketball teams at one point after. So I mean, I can just imagine they're like, Larry, get over here. We need you to sketch this alien creature that these people's eyes. Like, what the hell?
Jeff Knox:I think I remember that sketch now that you mentioned it. I've always liked the sketch that they did for the Flatwoods monster case. Like, that was a big drawing too. Like, there's if you look like the original newspaper covers, for that, they show a picture of, like, miss May or whatever next to, like, this drawing. I'm like, like, it's it's like an easel board sized drawing.
Jeff Knox:Like, it's like a big tall drawing they did of, this at the Flatwoods Monster. Yeah. Or is like that?
AP Strange:Is that the drawing where like there's a guy standing next to it for scale? He's kind of holding up his hand like what the hell is this thing? Yep.
Jeff Knox:Big ass thing.
AP Strange:That's one of my one of my all time favorite UFO adjacent drawings is just like that is the guy the expression of the guy's face and the way he's holding his hands. It just.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. There's huge line So the, the, the, all that, that classic drawing, like that's, you know, that's really cool. I like cases like that. Like, like there's some places that I've made, I collect like, what's called designer vinyl toys, Daleks, like this. And there's a company that actually makes things like this for like the Flatwoods Monster and like the Hopkinsville Goblins.
Jeff Knox:Like, basically creatures that, like, you can collect that I would like to get at some point, for those guys.
AP Strange:Oh,
Jeff Knox:yeah. So a Japanese company, I think, that makes these little glass, like, creatures like that. Like, they have, like, a Pascagoula One. They've got like a Flatwoods one like a Hopkins one.
AP Strange:Those ones yeah yeah that would be pretty sweet yeah I just want a good like George Adamski flying saucer like one of those those mother ships there. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Yeah.
AP Strange:Alright. So as far as because you are actually the expert on this, at this point. As far as the entire franchise goes, how would you rate Leprechaun three in the grand scheme of it all?
Jeff Knox:I'd say it's up there. It's probably, I'd say leprechauns three and four are probably the two best out of all eight. I'm not sure which one I would put first between three and four. Yeah. I kinda like four, the sci fi space aspect of it, but I definitely put it up there as one of the top, probably top two of the eight series franchise.
AP Strange:Yeah, you know, I'd have to agree with you because I'm a sucker for any franchise going to space. Like, anytime you hit space, it seems like there's nowhere else to go. They often find a way to make more anyway, but but, yeah, leprechaun in space is is hilarious and stupid, so I love it.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Doesn't make yeah. The the whole plot is just kind of what does that have to do with anything, but you just go with it because it's fun. Yeah.
AP Strange:And and but, I mean, I think I think Leprechaun three is probably might be the best one. I don't know. It's certainly the most fun. It was I I had more laughs in Leprechaun three than any of them that I watched. So yeah.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Based on the idea of fun and comic I'd say it's the funniest one. It's like the the because they they like you said, I think we mentioned it probably I think they rhyme the leprechaun rhymes the whole movie, like, everything he says. Like, it's all just, like, and stuff. And and they're they're they're kind of funny.
Jeff Knox:Some of them are kind of crude and over the top kind of rhymes, it's the most fun movie I'd say. Yeah. Number four isn't as fun, but it's entertaining.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. Well, mean, and every other character in three is like a caricature that you don't like. Like, you have exactly two likable characters and they're the ones that survive at the end.
Jeff Knox:And even then, like their characters are just like,
AP Strange:I don't know. There's They're paper thin. Like, don't
Jeff Knox:have much There's not a whole lot behind them, really. But this is a Leprechaun movie. You don't need character development.
AP Strange:Right. But I mean, everyone else is actively a scoundrel. Like, you know, so, even when he goes to the hospital for his leprechaunism Yep. It's like the doctors are, like, find the huge wad of cash in his pocket, and they talk about running all these tests he doesn't need so that they can keep his money. Uh-oh, I think I lost you.
AP Strange:Listeners, this is a sad day. I think the leprechaun has claimed my guest, Jeff Knox. RIP Jeff. Are you there? Wonderful.
AP Strange:Oh, okay. Good. I had I had almost given up hope. I thought the leprechaun got you. Can you hear me?
Jeff Knox:I can hear you fine now.
AP Strange:Yeah. Oh, alright. Yeah. No. The computers the computer screen completely froze, and then all I could see was all I could see was your arm for a second, and then I assumed that the leprechaun had murdered you.
AP Strange:So I was starting to do a eulogy, and then you came back. So I'm glad to see you came back.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I don't know. It's yeah. Like, your thing froze on my end, but don't know. Maybe it's something I did.
Jeff Knox:For some reason, my keyboard is not working. Like, I can't type anything right now. So that's why I was trying to, change the batteries and I thought, but I don't know what's going on with it, but maybe it was me.
AP Strange:Oh, okay. Well, I I'm glad. I'm glad the leprechaun hasn't murdered you, but I've survived. I haven't wished on
Jeff Knox:my golden coin yet, so I haven't called his attention.
AP Strange:Oh, all right. Yeah. Don't do that. Just keep it on you so you can't hurt you because, yeah. I, I found But he can also find you because you have it.
Jeff Knox:I, I found the coin they tossed at the end of the third movie. It it was it it was in the pond out in front of the Bellagio, and I just I picked it up and took it home.
AP Strange:Yeah. There you go. And someday it will be in space on a ship somewhere.
Jeff Knox:Apparently. Yeah. Maybe an astronaut took it with him. Maybe a guy decided that he wanted to be an astronaut, didn't have the qualifications, used the coin to wish for it. Went to space.
Jeff Knox:That's how he got there. We'll never know.
AP Strange:There you go.
Jeff Knox:We'll never know unless they come out with Leprechaun three and a half where they provide clue as to how they got to space.
AP Strange:See, that's the thing. We need a two and a half and a three and a half. Just need to be absolutely bonkers and and rhyme a whole lot. So
Jeff Knox:I'm kind of surprised they haven't tried to do a straight remake of, like, the movies, like, at this point. There's so much, like, crap that they've remade, like kind of surprised that they haven't done a direct remake. I, I, I guess maybe that's what they, they were trying to reboot it with the origins thing, but that wasn't really a remake. That was kind of like a whole new, whole new deal. Yeah yeah I don't know would you remake it?
AP Strange:No I mean that's the thing it's like I don't like remakes in general because it's like it was a time and a place man it was a vibe like 1993 this movie is going straight to home video and like home video isn't even really a concept now, know, it's straight to screaming. Yeah, that's that's what I got, you know, but And
Jeff Knox:I don't even think these movies could get made these days. Like, I just don't think anyone would fund that for one. And two, like, just there's a lot of movies that, like, they could even make, say, 15 ago that, like, they wouldn't make now just, like, because of things just aren't considered politically correct or okay to do in movies a lot of the time anymore. Like the movie Tropic of Thunder, they'd never make that movie again these days.
AP Strange:Well, I'm kinda surprised they made it when they did. I mean, it just Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Because that was what? 02/2008? Like and they still still made a movie with a guy in blackface. But yeah.
AP Strange:I think that was part of the gag. I don't I never actually watched that movie, so I just don't I don't really know but yeah but yeah I mean I think a lot of what direct to video was was like tricking people into buying the movie because the physical purchase was like the whole point of it so as long as you could put like a recognizable name on it, it didn't matter what the content of the movie was because you're not trying to drive people to the theater.
Jeff Knox:That's why you would get directed video movies like, and you look at the box and they've got some big name guy in it and then you watch the movie and the guy's in it for like twenty seconds like they had a video with him and they basically just used him to sell this like video off on people to hock it off at the video stores. Yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. I mean I bought so many collections that were basically the same movies that had their copyright expired, you know, but like they lured me in with like one movie that that sounded like really good and then I'm like, oh man, it's just a bunch of movies I already have, you know. So yeah.
Jeff Knox:Okay. I got a bunch of those things like those, like they have, like, $5 bins at, like, Walmart or, like, the grocery store, like, 20 sci fi movies on DVD. Was like a because there's like a stack of DVDs in there with, a bunch of movies on each DVD. Yep. I buy those and watch those just because, but,
AP Strange:yeah me too and to the point where like I'd be watching Mystery Science Theater I'm like oh I remember this movie wait did I see this episode of Mystery Science Theater or did I just watch the movie? Don't know how many people that's true for, but there's a hell of a lot of those episodes that I'm like, oh, no. I've just seen the movie. I actually haven't seen this episode.
Jeff Knox:I'm convinced some of these straight to video movies, though, particularly these days, are just money laundering vehicles. I don't know how some of these movies get made. Even a cheap movie still costs these places a few million to pop out. Even these generic A company called The Asylum does all these knockoff films. So, like for Transformers, they had Transmorphers.
Jeff Knox:And even those cost a few million at least, make and put out. But some of these movies I watch these days, like particularly the ones you get, like, where they bring in, like, these old actors that just don't have a whole lot of a career anymore, like Bruce Willis, for example, putting out 10 straight to video, like, movies a year, you know, that are the most generic, like, crime flicks, like, ever made. And they basically all film them at the same time. Like, if you watch the movies, like, if you binge them like I will, you can see, like, they shot the same scenes for these different movies at the exact same time in the same locations. And like later on, they just kind of edit them together into like these different movies that they release.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. And some of them, I just I don't see how they're like viable business, like investments, like in these films that like people make some of these straight to videos I watch, like. I swear they're just passion projects with some rich guy. They found some rich guy to like produce like their, their hobby script and like they had these things made up and then they put them out to like straight to video. But yeah, I don't see how some of these end up making their money, to be honest.
AP Strange:Yeah. It's mystifying. I don't know enough about the process myself, but yeah, that that is that kind of stew that sometimes allows for something really fabulous to happen though I think where you know you know it's so bad. Not not just like so bad. It's good.
AP Strange:It's just like everybody involved is just throwing shit against the wall to see if it sticks. And you have these little moments in these movies where you're like, what am I watching?
Jeff Knox:There's quite a few movies like that. Like, I just watched the a new Bill Murray movie with Ed Harrison, and I'm like, the that one lady from American Pie, the Milf Mom. Yeah. What was and, like, I guess another movie. I'm just like, how did this movie even get made?
Jeff Knox:Like, you got all these, like, actors that had some pretty big careers, like, and but this movie is just like it's not much of a plot. Like, what? Who green with this? Like, how'd they get these guys involved in it? Like yeah.
Jeff Knox:I don't know. Movies sometimes confuse me, but sometimes you just gotta suspend all that disbelief and try and enjoy a a silly movie. And that's the thing about me is, like, I'm I guess you could say I'm easily entertained. I'll watch just about anything.
AP Strange:Yeah.
Jeff Knox:You you mentioned there's a Discord where we hang out. Pretty much all you gotta do is mention a movie, and I'll be like, oh, I'll watch that, and and I'll go watch it. Yeah. So I'll watch pretty much anything and can entertain myself with pretty much anything, even the most awful like movies because I can find entertainment in the awful ridiculousness of the movie.
AP Strange:So yeah. Yeah. The the only thing that sucks is if it's just boring. Like, I just don't like the you know, that's the only way you can go wrong there. But Yeah.
AP Strange:But even then, like you said, if you just wanna do other things and have it on the background, like, who cares? But
Jeff Knox:and that's the thing with me. I've I've usually got other stuff going on I'm doing, like, while I'm watching a movie. So it's a little boring. That's alright. I've been known specifically to put something on that I know is gonna be too boring for me to pay attention to because I need to get real work done, and I don't wanna distract myself.
Jeff Knox:But I'm kind of like like, I have, like, sleeping disorders, and so, like, if I don't have a lot of things, like, going on at the same time, like, I get really tired and just kinda, like, pass out. So, like, I've gotta, like, keep my mind constantly busy with stuff. So, I I've always got, like, TV or something going on while I'm working, but I I will put on boring stuff intentionally so I'm not distracted too much by it while I do my work.
AP Strange:There you go. Yeah. I enjoy that myself. Sometimes if I'm trying to write, it's like I'll I'll like try to encourage my wife to watch a TV show that I don't care about, but that she'll be entertained by it. I'm just like, I just need something going on.
AP Strange:Something needs to be happening in the background. You know?
Jeff Knox:So Sometimes I'm surprised, though. Like, I'll tell you, I put on a Wes Anderson movie, the what's the one? The hotel one? The Grand Budapest Hotel? Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Years ago, I put I put it on because I thought it was gonna be boring, and I didn't wanna pay attention to it. And I was actually trying to read a UFO book. I was like, I'm gonna put this on so I can get some reading done. I didn't end up reading a page of the book because I liked the movie so much. So there's times I'll put in a movie I think is gonna be stupid, and I'm completely shocked by, like, how amazing it is, and end up paying attention to the whole thing and not getting any work done.
Jeff Knox:It just kinda depends.
AP Strange:Well, that's the thing is you can't trust people too because I feel like a lot of people really didn't like that one. Yeah. So there we go.
Jeff Knox:I liked it, but yeah.
AP Strange:Well, I I well, I was just wondering if that influenced your your judgment about it beforehand where you thought it would be boring because somebody else had said it was or something. Because I remember a lot of Wes Anderson fans, I think that was kind of one of the movies where they just kind of started dropping off from Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Well, I I think I watched a trailer, and I thought like, I don't know. Like, I wasn't really, at the time, I, like, I hadn't watched a lot of, like, Wes Anderson films, to be honest. And, like, he's kinda got his own kinda, like, style. You know? It was kind of a stylistic thing, and I I wasn't sure I was gonna be into it.
Jeff Knox:But after I watched that, I I watched more of his stuff, and I was like, actually, I like this quite a bit. I like a lot the stuff he does. So
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a lot a lot of people do. People like him. But
Jeff Knox:then there's people will praise the movie too. They'll be be like, oh my god. This is the most amazing movie ever. And so I'm like, okay, cool. I'm gonna go watch that.
Jeff Knox:I go watch it. I'm just like, what?
AP Strange:Yeah. I mean, that was what that's what I'm really getting at is that, like, a lot of stuff that everybody loves, I just don't get or, you know and I hate to say it's bad I mean I don't want to like crap on anybody's favorite movie but there's a lot of things that are super popular that I it's just not for me as I'm not the audience for it and it's and and, you know, then there's a lot of movies that people hated that I I I love. So, I mean, maybe I just have bad taste. Sorry for wasting everyone's time that's listening to this show. I just have bad taste, I guess.
AP Strange:Hey. Well,
Jeff Knox:no. That's people can like what they like to like. You know? It's perfectly fine. You know?
Jeff Knox:Yeah. Their own opinions about movies, and people are gonna like different things. You know? Like, there's like I said, I watch pretty much anything. Like, I'll I'll watch pretty much any genre of movie, but there there's still genres that, like, I prefer over other genres.
Jeff Knox:Like like, I'll even watch a rom com, like but that's not, like, my favorite kind of movie to watch. Like, it's not what I pick up off the top of, like, the hat if I wanted to go pick a movie to watch. But yeah. Different movies for different people, and and that's fine. Not everybody has to like movie, and not everybody has to hate a movie.
Jeff Knox:Like like you said,
AP Strange:there's a
Jeff Knox:lot of movies that people think, like, suck that I actually think are pretty cool or great. Like, so yeah.
AP Strange:Yeah. I mean, I guess just ultimately, like, if I look up a movie, I rarely ever look at reviews. Like, I don't look at, like, the Rotten Tomatoes score that often unless I'm just, like, morbidly curious about it. Yeah. But They never look at reviews.
AP Strange:Doesn't influence my opinion of of whether I'm gonna watch a movie or not usually because I'm like, I don't really care what people think. I wanna you know? Like
Jeff Knox:Yeah. I'll watch a trailer. Like, I'll watch a trailer. I won't like, I don't read reviews really. Like Right.
Jeff Knox:I don't really care what other people say. Because I say, quite frankly, a lot of reviews, like, they'll bash a movie that I'll think is great, or they'll think a movie is amazing that I thought was like the most boring, like, movie I'd ever seen. So I really care what reviewers have to say about movies, to be honest.
AP Strange:Yeah. Yeah, me either. Especially since it's not even just critics anymore. It's like just anybody, like everybody on the Internet. Yeah.
AP Strange:So Yeah. That's I think I've heard enough opinions from everybody on the Internet for one lifetime.
Jeff Knox:That's pretty much all that's that's where I'll get movie opinions from. The only time I'll see people's opinions is when they're talking about it, like, on Twitter or face you know, Facebook or something. But, like, professional reviewers, people actually, like, review movies. Like, I've got no interest in that. And I don't even really like, I don't seek out even normal people's opinions.
Jeff Knox:It's just what gets shoved in my feed, you know, but the algorithms put before my eyes and force me to read. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff Knox:Alright. Well, I think we can probably start winding down now. If people wanna find you online and all of your wonderful UFO posts and everything, how how do they go about doing that? So you can find me on Twitter at Mr. Jeff Knox, and you can find me on Facebook under Jeff Knox, or you can find me on Blue Sky again under Mr.
Jeff Knox:Jeff Knox. I put all my posts there every single day. Again, you can find me. I'm part of the UFO Sunset show that I do with my wonderful co host Rachel that you can find us on YouTube under UFO Sunset. And we also have a WordPress blog that I believe is UFOsunset.wordpress.com, where you can kind of read the show notes and kind of like an article version of the lectures I've given on various cases on our show there.
AP Strange:Cool. Awesome. Well, how many of those are there? Did you do like a lot of the lecture case lectures? Or
Jeff Knox:There's
AP Strange:I'm aware of it.
Jeff Knox:It's like a The I don't know if the WordPress blog has everything. So, like, when we first started doing this show, I was originally not doing as in-depth stuff. I would basically be covering because we were when we first started going, we were doing it every single week. And so I would basically be covering some of the cases from history from that last week. And so there's not really drawn out transcripts or articles like that stuff.
Jeff Knox:But back at the beginning of last year or so, or maybe a little before that, I started to focus more on in-depth studies of an individual case. And so there's, I don't know, nine or 10 or a dozen or something like that of in-depth lectures I've given on specific cases, ranging from a case in Emerson, Poland, like I did a thing on. I did the Joe Pancake case. I've got Lexar on there. There's a case in France on Balancedhall I did a Lexar on.
Jeff Knox:So, there's several of them right now I'm working on. My next one is going to be on UFO sightings that kind of look like barbells or dumbbells. Basically, two spheres connected, like with a bar between them. And so we'll covering a variety of cases that kind of fit that mold. So that's what I'm working on now, and hopefully, we're gonna be recording that episode, and that should be up in about maybe a month, I hope, wanna say.
Jeff Knox:Yeah. So
AP Strange:Or since time isn't real, maybe around the time this comes out. Yes. So Alright. Well, I very much appreciate you coming on to talk Leprechaun with me, and I congratulate you once again on completing the leprechaunathon because it is no small achievement. I am really deeply impressed by your fortitude here.
Jeff Knox:That that I watched them not only once, but I watched three again after you asked me to be on last week, and then I watched them again, two of them again today. Yeah. I've Yeah. My leprechaun homework. So
AP Strange:Yeah. You're a madman. You're a madman, mister Knox.
Jeff Knox:Got a hard head is what people tell me. Yeah. Yeah.
AP Strange:Well, hold on to that gold coin and and I'll talk to you soon.
Jeff Knox:Alright. Sounds good. Nice to on. Alright. Bye.