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Carl Salonen's avatar

How much therapy did this one cost ya?

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

Let's just say I shot my therapeutic wad, and we'll have to produce a few bottle episodes this season to cover the cost overruns.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

I recommend microdosing.

Not for you. I'll need it to get through.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

Lemme know if that works for you, Carl. For myself (and granted, this is FAR from from my first Maciste film), I'm Team Macrodose.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

It's your professionalism I respect.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

it's probably my most attractive Ism.

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Edward Kazala's avatar

Wow, according to Wikipedia, you weren't kidding about the early days of Maciste in cinema. There's also this nugget: 'According to William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology, Macistus (Μάκιστος) was "a surname of Heracles, who had a temple in the neighbourhood of the town of Macistus in Triphylia"'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciste

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

Ah! So it was yet another surname of Hercules, eh? Well, that's not surprising. If the guy hadn't had so many aliases, he couldn't have pulled off so much insurance fraud.

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Edward Kazala's avatar

Yeah, and all of those "sons" of his? Not related, but he still claimed them as dependents on his taxes.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

Like Matt Gaetz and "Nestor"...

HMMMmmm...

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