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Episode #724: Safe House (1998) (Patreon)

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2024-02-20 05:00:03
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“I think the beauty of [this movie], if there is, is that Patrick Stewart gets to act like a child through most of this! - Chris

On this week’s episode, this one’s a long-time coming as we finally chat about the ridiculous Patrick Stewart made-for-Showtime thriller, Safe House! What’s with this abhorrent Pool Man character and the impressions? How hilarious is it that the so-called villain’s name is pronounced like, “Michael Moore”? How many times has Patrick Stewart’s character almost been sued by maids and groundskeepers for all the ‘drills’ he runs around them? And why couldn’t we get a little more Hector Elizondo in this movie? PLUS: John Wayne tries to order lunch at a Wendy’s!

Safe House stars Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Hector Elizondo, Joy Kilpatrick, and Craig Shoemaker as Stuart; directed by Eric Steven Stahl.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Deitrich Tennin

If you told me the premise of this film beforehand, I wouldn't believe you... if you then told me it starred Patrick Stewart, I would have called you a fucking liar... but here we are. This was hilariously insane🤣

Gavin

Child of an extreme couponer here with a little "from the trenches" info on both the show and just the overall idea of it! Your average Extreme Coupon person is less the cheapest person you've ever seen and more 1. someone of lower-to-middle class who WAS poor and now has the impulse to stockpile non-perishable things. The post-2008 recession equivalent of people who grew up in the Great Depression keeping shitloads of cash hidden in their house because their generation refused to trust banks. or 2. a stay-at-home suburban mom DESPERATE for something intellectually engaging to do that feels productive. While neither myself nor my mom were on the show, she was immediately inspired by it and went as deep as most of the women A&E shined a spotlight on. Though, it should be said, we never pulled any stunts like the one lady in the show who was in the game so deep she would have the grocery store order an extra of mac & cheese just for her because she was bringing enough coupons that week she'd buy out the store's stock otherwise. Once you get into the rhythm of acquiring coupons and balancing where you shop for certain items (you maximizing the store's rewards program), it ends up being not that hard to maintain. Thus the Extreme Couponer ends up being a sort of walking supply depot. In my college years and most of my adulthood my mom had literal shelves of the basic items one uses every day. I didn't spend money on laundry detergent, soap, or shampoo for YEARS because she was actively trying to get everyone else in the family to take some. For what it's worth, my anecdotal experience is there's a not-insignificant amount of extreme couponers who once they have their dragons' hoard of toothpaste and shampoo built up, they become regular suppliers to local food banks, soup kitchens, and shelters. To share the quick and dirty secret of the hobby/part time job: there are two kinds of coupons: local and manufacturer. Local coupons are the classic "ten cents off a can of peas" ones you see in your junk mail and local paper, the ones with lawyer-level restrictions so you can never get too good of a deal. Manufacturer's coupons are the gold. You often see them in Sunday editions of the local paper as a little booklet of coupons all for one brand and they're oddly good. That's the parent company trying to shift old stock of a limited-time-only item or a discontinued version that's taking up shelf space they need. The second kind rarely has any restrictions about stacking them, so if you combine them with the local deals stores are doing to get rid of their stock of that product, you can get into a rhythm where you're stopping by a CVS once a week and walking out with a cart full of body wash, sodas, and funky versions of popular snack brands for little to no money. When my mom got into it she identified that the big limit to couponing was getting multiple copies of the manufacturer's booklets. Eventually she ended up in a clandestine legally-grey Facebook ring of women who knew a guy who was the guy who put the coupons in the Sunday paper in his town. He always had bundles of extras he was supposed to sell away, but he'd sell them for pennies per sheet. Women across the nation were paying this dude in Florida to send them coupons, some of which would then sell to their local coupon groups for a markup. Capitalism infects everything. And believe me when I tell you these people are STARVING for community and influencers to tell them what to do. My mom, a personable woman but with zero dreams of being an influencer, racked up 20,000 subscribers on YouTube in a few months just filming a table where she'd lined up everything she'd gotten while couponing that day, what she spent, and patiently explaining what store she'd gotten each item from and what methods she used to save the money. They weren't bad videos, but they were single-take unedited vlogs of a woman reading off prices, and her fanbase at it UP. And then one day she got bored of it all and walked away. A move I deeply respect to this day. I can only imagine the god-awful things she'd have to grind out on a regular basis if she'd continued couponing long enough to need to film TikToks and YouTube Shorts to feed the algorithm.

Dylan Korta
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Thank you, this was so lengthy and fascinating that I briefly forgot I wasn’t on Reddit 🧐😂