SPOILER ALERT! We will be spoiling all of 1998's THE FACULTY, right off the bat!Taylor Ortega, comedian and star of the new Netflix series "Bad Mistakes," visits The Pod Universe to revisit the 1998 sci-fi Scream-alike, THE FACULTY, and pitch her own contemporary remake! Let's take a look back at the surprisingly rad Robert Rodriguez flick that's essentially Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club, featuring not nearly enough Usher!This episode is sponsored by "Light Pursuit," the new album from Syracuse rock band Mosaic Mind. Find out more about mosaicmindband.comAnd as always you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/DylanAndDalton to get bonus episodes and help decide what classic film we'll reimagine next.CHAPTERS00:00:00 - Opening, and a little bit of dram00:02:58 - Introducing our guest, Taylor Ortega!00:06:12 - Looking back at The Faculty (1998)00:17:06 - Mapping The Breakfast Club parallels00:20:18 - Getting Taylor onto The Pitt00:22:29 - The Faculty says "Do Drugs"00:28:22 - A digression about White Nights (1985)00:30:27 - Themes and meta-text in The Faculty00:36:34 - The soundtrack, and some fun vices00:42:26 - How The Faculty altered film history00:45:50 - Sponsor: "Light Pursuit" by Mosaic Mind00:48:40 - Taylor's pitch for The Faculty00:59:27 - Workshopping the pitch01:30:35 - Picking a director01:36:23 - Taylor plugs her new show Big Mistakes!01:37:46 - What's next for the Pod Universe?

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