The Thing Minute

We're back!   In this very special crossover episode, Heidi Bennett and Molly Bailen from Cabin Minute Cast join us to talk about Philip Kaufman's 1978 sci-fi classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS! We talk about connections to THE THING, sound design and music, and of course the raw sex appeal of peak Donald Sutherland. We had a great chat and it's a great movie that clearly had some influence on THE THING, so check it out!

For the final episode, I have on lots of previous guests to give their two cents about the end of the movie! Please check out links to all our guests' stuff! For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 109: Credits pt. 7 Guest: Michelle Asci For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 108: Credits pt. 6 Guest: Michelle Asci For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 107: Credits pt. 5 Guest: Michelle Asci For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 106: Credits pt. 4 Guest: Michelle Asci For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 105: Credits pt. 3 Guest: Zachary T. Owen For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 104: Credits, pt. 2 Guest: Zachary T. Owen For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 103: Credits, pt. 1 Guest: Zachary T. Owen For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 102: Wait here for a little while...see what happens... Guest: Zachary T. Owen For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 101: Mac and Childs Discuss if they should survive Guest: Zachary T. Owen For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 100: The Two Survivors Meet Guest: Katie Mello For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 99: Mac Blows it All Up Guest: Katie Mello For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 98: Blair-Thing Attacks MacReady Guest: Katie Mello For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 97: Nauls (Presumably) Gets Attacked by Blair Guest: Katie Mello For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 96: Blair Attacks Garry Guest: Katie Mello For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 95: The Generator's GONE, MacReady Guest: Crystal Beth For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 94: The Descent into the Basement Guest: Crystal Beth For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 93: The Gang Begins to Blow Up the Outpost Guest: Crystal Beth For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 92: Things seem grim, but there's a big explosion! Guest: Crystal Beth For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 91: The power goes out, Mac wants to turn the heat on Guest: Crystal Beth For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 90: Childs abandons his post Guest: Mike Cummins For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 89: Blair's Tunnel is Discovered Guest: Mike Cummins For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 88: Blair's Tunnel is Discovered Guest: Mike Cummins For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 87: Garry Gets Tested, Doesn't Want to Be Tied to the Couch Guest: Mike Cummins For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 86: Nauls and Childs Get Tested Guest: Mike Cummins For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 85: Palmer-Thing is blown up, Windows-Thing is burned Guest: Rob Kelly For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 84: Palmer-Thing attacks and kills Windows Guest: Rob Kelly For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 83: Copper and Clark get Tested, Palmer's blood attacks Guest: Rob Kelly For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 82: Windows and Mac get Tested Guest: Rob Kelly For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 81: Windows finishes getting blood samples Guest: Rob Kelly For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 80: Prepping the Blood Test Guest: Blake Myers For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 79: Mac Shoots Clark Guest: Blake Myers For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 78: Spider-Thing Tries to Sneak Away Guest: Blake Myers For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 77: Norris's head slides off the table as his body gets torched Guest: Blake Myers For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 76: Norris's resuscitation doesn't go as planned Guest: Blake Myers For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 75: Copper and Windows Try to Resuscitate Norris, Mac Holds Everyone At Bay  Guest: Travis Bow For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 74: Mac Fights Off His Attackers, Norris isn't Breathing Guest: Travis Bow For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 73: Mac Gets Into the Base With Dynamite In Hand Guest: Travis Bow For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 72: Nauls Tells Everyone MacReady Has Turned Guest: Travis Bow For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 71: The Crew Seals the Outpost, Nauls Returns Guest: Travis Bow For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 70: Mac and Nauls go to investigate the light in the shack Guest: Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 69: Fuchs' body is discovered Guest: Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 68: Mac visits Blair Guest: Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 67: Fuchs Finds Torn Clothing, Mac Struggles to Keep the Group Together Guest: Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 66: The Lights Go Out, Fuchs Goes to Investigate Guest: Josh Horowitz and Brett Stillo For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 65: Mac Re-Records, then Visits Fuchs Guest: Mark Ybarra For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 64: Mac Uses his Tape Recorder Guest: Mark Ybarra For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 63: Mac Separates the Suspicious Guest: Mark Ybarra For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

In addition to today's regular episode, here's a special treat for Halloween! It's a dramatic audio reenactment of The Lost Ice Scene that was in Bill Lancaster's script but was deemed too expensive to film. While I did the sound design, the rest could not have happened without the extreme generosity of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company!

Minute 62: Burning the blood, Mac sums up the situation Guest: Mark Ybarra For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 61: Garry gives up the gun Guest: Mark Ybarra For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 60: Windows goes for a gun Guest: Alex Morrison For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 59: Garry and Copper On Trial Guest: Alex Morrison For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 58: Someone got to the blood, paranoia begins to set in Guest: Alex Morrison For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 57: Leaving Blair and discussing options for a test Guest: Alex Morrison For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 56: Talking to Blair, "I don't know who to trust" Guest: Alex Morrison For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 55: Taking down Blair and taking him to the shack Guest: Heidi Bennett For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 54: Blair Continues to Trash the Radio Room Guest: Heidi Bennett For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 53: Mac Hears a Gunshot, Blair Is Going Crazy Guest: Heidi Bennett For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 52: Mac Discovers the Trashed Helicopter Guest: Heidi Bennett For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 51: The fire roars, Fuchs tells Mac they can't find Blair Guest: Heidi Bennett For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 50: Building the fire pit, the nightmare is over...wait, where's Blair? Guest: Kyle Pinion For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 49: Bennings-Thing continues to scream and gets burned, the crew builds a fire pit Guest: Kyle Pinion For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 48: Windows gets Fuchs and Mac, The crew sees Bennings-Thing Scream Guest: Kyle Pinion For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 47: Fuch's reveals that the corpses aren't dead, Windows finds Bennings wrapped in tentacles Guest: Kyle Pinion For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 46: Windows asks about keys, Fuchs reads from Blair's notebooks Guest: Kyle Pinion For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 45: Fuchs Wants to Talk, Windows and Bennings Lock up the Bodies Guest: Ryan Haupt For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 44: Blair Finishes Using the Computer, MacReady Examines Underwear Guest: Ryan Haupt For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 43: Blair's Computer Simulation Guest: Ryan Haupt For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 42: Dirty Drawers Found in Kitchen Trash Can, Blair Uses a Computer Guest: Ryan Haupt For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 41: Grave Reveal, Conspiracy Theories Guest: Ryan Haupt For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 40: UFO Exploration Guest: Alan Sanders For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 39: Walking out to the UFO Guest: Alan Sanders For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 38: Checking the Map, Flying out to UFO Site Guest: Alan Sanders AJS Productions WBHF BK on the Air Jaws The Thing Score Albert Whitlock Silent Movie Effects with Matte Paintings For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 37: Watching the Norwegian Tapes Guest: Alan Sanders For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 36: Blair interrogates Clark Guest: Alan Sanders For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 35: Dog autopsy and explanation Guest: Spencer Perry For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 34: Blair pulls the skin back from the Dog-Thing Guest: Spencer Perry For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 33: Burning the Dog-Thing, Dawn at the camp Guest: Spencer Perry For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 32: Attacking the Dog-Thing Guest: Spencer Perry For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 31: MacReady sounds the alarm, the reveal of the Dog-Thing Guest: Spencer Perry For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

A bit of a different episode–this past Saturday, upcoming guest of the show Alan Sanders asked me to be on his Saturday morning radio show to talk about the podcast! We had a good time talking about the inspiration for the show, why I picked The Thing, and just general geeking out about our mutual love for the movie. Enjoy! If you'd like to listen to more of Alan's show, check out tunein.com and search for WBHF!

Minute 30: Dog-Thing Attacking Dogs, MacReady grabs a beer Guest: Martha Moore For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 29: The Dog-Thing Attacks Guest: Martha Moore For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 28: Clark puts the dogs away Guest: Martha Moore For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 27: More Gameshow, Clark Heading towards the Kennel Guest: Martha Moore For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 26: Cutting into Double-Face, Nightfall, Palmer and Childs watching a Gameshow Guest: Martha Moore Martha Moore Audio For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 25: Garry Wakes up Windows, The Autopsy Begins Guest: Jennie Law and Liam Grove For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 24: The Men of Outpost 31 React to Doubleface Guest: Jennie Law and Liam Grove For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 23: Flying Back, Dog Intently Watching Through the Window, Unveiling Doubleface Guest: Jennie Law and Liam Grove For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 22: Ice Coffin, Discovering Double-Face Guest: Jennie Law and Liam Grove For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 21: Discovering the Ice Coffin Guest: Jennie Law and Liam Grove For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 20: Discovering the Slit-Wrist Corpse Guest: James Stacey For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 19: Copper and MacReady Explore the Base and Discover a Trail of Blood Guest: James Stacey For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 18: Copper and MacReady Enter the Base and Find a Bloody Axe Guest: James Stacey For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 17: Helicopter Flies to the Norwegian Base Guest: James Stacey For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 16: Dog Explores the Base and Finds a Shadowy Figure Guest: James Stacey For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 15: Helicopter Leaves, "Superstitious," Ominous Move Through the Medical Room Guest: Todd Cameron For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 14: If Mac Doesn't Want to Fly They Don't Fly, They Fly Guest: Todd Cameron For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 13: Copper Wants to Go Up, MacReady Warns of a Whiteout Guest: Todd Cameron For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 12: Nauls Roller Skates, The Crew Discusses Options Over the Dead Norwegian Guest: Todd Cameron For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 11: Clark and the Dog, Windows and Blair Trying to Reach Somebody Guest: Todd Cameron For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 10: Clark Meets the Dog, Putting out the Burning Helicopter Fire Guest: Michelle Asci Check out www.thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about!

Minute 9: Helicopter Explosion, Garry Shoots the Norwegian Guest: Michelle Asci For links to everything we talked about, go to www.thethingminute.com!

Minute 8: Helicopter Dropping Grenades, The Dog Greeting the Crew Guest: Michelle Asci Visit thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about and more!

Minute 7: Dog and Helicopter Arrive at Outpost 31, "It's Norwegian!" Guest: Michelle Asci Visit thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about and more!

Minute 6: MacReady Playing Chess, The Dog Running Across the Snowy Field Guest: Michelle Asci Check out www.thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about!

Minute 1: Shooting at the dog, the rec room, introduction of R.J. MacReady Guest: Zachary T. Owen Visit thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about and more!

Minute 4: Shooting at the dog, the camp, introduction of R.J. MacReady Guest: Zachary T. Owen Visit thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about and more!

Minute 3: End of title, helicopter flying in snowy vista Guest: Zachary T. Owen Check these notes out on thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about!

Minute 2: More Credits, UFO crash, and the Opening Title Guest: Zachary T. Owen Check these notes out on thethingminute.com for links to everything we talked about!

Minute 1: The opening credits Guest: Zachary T. Owen Check these notes out on thethingminute.com for links to everything discussed!

Welcome to THE THING MINUTE PODCAST! In this inaugural episode, I give a little background on myself and my connection with John Carpenter's science-fiction horror masterpiece, THE THING, as well as explain why I chose this movie to tackle in the minute format.   Thanks for listening! Subscribe on iTunes so you'll never miss an episode, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates and discussions! If you like the show, give us a review on iTunes, and if you're interested in being a guest, email us.   Check out other podcasts like this one by visiting Movies by Minutes, and support the originals, Star Wars Minute!