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Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:00

‘80s Recommendations - ‘At Close Range’

article image placeholderAt Close Range 1986 Trailer HD | Sean Penn | Christopher Walken
In this movie, Sean Penn at the time, this was the first time he emerged as this completely jacked dude like he was skinny Jeff Spicoli before this and then suddenly resurfaces. And I think there was some steroids involved. If you ask me, I don't know. I don't know the guy. I'm not here to say what he did, but if I had to guess the story is true, everything you see is pretty d*** accurate to what really happened

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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:40
Average Joe. You never disappoint. Also very happy that you picked another movie that was released the year I was born. This feels special to me for some reason. Also, there's so much here. So Dutch Wonderland, I never heard of which I am upset about because I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, and I'm back here right now. And I had an aunt who lived in Lancaster for a while and we never made it there
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Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 2:43
I have to give you a warning. As an adult, I don't know that you want to go to Dutch Wonderland. It was I haven't been there in a really long time, but as I recall, it was just kind of children's rides are kind of really goofy, but it was cheap and you would take your kids there and they would take me there because you could get a day out and not really spend a whole lot of money. And I believe the total is in
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:58

Kennywood Memories

Oh, that just freaked me out so much. That gave me weird goosebumps. I didn't like it. It's also making me wonder if I'm gonna get really scared watching this movie tonight. Now I'm gonna have to hold my my dog and cat extra close. I really thank you for sharing that story, though it does add a lot. I feel like I guess you're not quite the director, but I almost feel like listening to these
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Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:28

https://youtu.be/T9kRwdfaB8M

I'm going to tell you the story now, since we're here, and since we're doing this about these kinds of things, there was a cat named Al Alberts in the Philadelphia area, and he used to be like a crooner in the 50s group called The Four Aces. But then he became like, a local television host. And he had a show where he would have the teeny Bopper contest. So kids would come on little Mr. Showcase. They would decide who was the most talented
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:24

https://youtu.be/bBkkZ1pE7oQ

First of all, your Albert story made me want to cry. That is terrible. What we would call Al Albert's in Pittsburgh is a Jaguar, and I feel confident saying Al Albert is a Jaggoff, rests his tortured soul. I knew immediately who you were talking about, and I just want to fact check myself that this is the Albert that you're talking about
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:48

Jagoffs, the best doc of our time, & Forbes Field

Okay. Even more importantly, you have now been introduced to Kennywood memories. You are in for a real treat. Maybe one of the best documentaries ever produced in our time is subsequent thing to behold. I am so curious what your reaction will be to as a non pittsburger, there are still moments from Kennywood memories. I remember vividly. I have not seen it in years
@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 0:55
Fool me twice, won't get fooled again I don't know, won't get fooled again, Albert. That's all I'm getting at, you silly b******. And yeah, I'm looking forward to watching this. This Kenny Wood dock. Cause I'm telling you, I love Cheesy stuff like that. I don't know why. I think I might be a low quality person
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:23

https://youtu.be/aWbqSYCZt3Q

Yeah, I have to. There may be a low quality situation happening here, Joe, because I now have not only watched The Shimokin Donut original source material, but I have just caught myself watching Remixes, and I need to put my phone down. Now. I got to go
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:34

16 mins in & am dying 👨🏼

I am 16 minutes into at close range and this is some of the moodiest s*** I have ever seen in my entire life. I am loving it and I've just felt really uncomfortable for an entire 16 minutes and I'm not sure I can handle 2 hours of this. And Christopher Walken's mustache is maybe the most beautiful thing I've seen in my entire life
@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 1:14
You're right. There's a lot of darkness in that film, and it is sad. So what I should tell you if you have watched it now, when he took them out to shoot them in that field, one of the guys, he had him dig his own grave, telling him that they were going to kill someone else. As soon as he finished digging his own grave, he would shine the flashlight in their face so they couldn't see and then shoot them in the face
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:41
I did finish it, and it was such an interesting experience because, yeah, I found it hilarious throughout, mostly because Christopher Walken is just such a genius. I don't understand how he exists. I think he's from a different universe or something. He's incredible. And I actually immediately texted my brother as soon as I started watching it because he's a big film guy and asked if he had seen it and he hadn't. So he's probably going to watch it soon, too
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Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:40
The real name of the people were the Johnston gang. And the young part of that gang were known as the Kitty Gang. And they were incredibly terrible people, not just with the tractor theft. I mean, that's. But they intimidated witnesses, people who were supposed to go on the stand and testify. They would just basically make it clear we're going to kill you if you testify. And so they wouldn't testify. And like I said, they murdered police officers who were investigating them
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Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 1:32
And so Norman made his way back to this area, and he turned himself in. He surrendered after a couple weeks. And the reason being this is kind of interesting. He had been in jail so long, he no longer recognized the landscape. He said he felt like he was on Mars, and he had stolen a car and he stole the guy's wallet, and there was no cash. But there was a debit card, and he didn't know how to get gas for the car
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:30
Wow. This is such a interesting true crime kind of a story here, Joe. And you got me deep in a Wikipedia hole now, which enjoying a couple of things first, though. Yeah, the ending, the thing where it's like, he's my father and the crying and stuff. I understood what they were trying to do there, like, I got it from a narrative perspective, but I think emotionally it was like a little too over the top
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