Cultpix Radio Ep.82 - Something Weird Channel, Cannes, Price Cut and more

Cultpix Radio WCPX 599 - Episode 82 Summary

This episode brings massive news as Cultpix celebrates four years with the biggest announcement yet: the launch of the Something Weird Channel, a brand-new sister streaming service featuring the complete Something Weird Video catalogue in partnership with Lisa Petrucci.

We explore how this new channel emerged following Something Weird Video's decision to discontinue DVD-R production and download-to-own services in October 2024. The Something Weird Channel features approximately 1,000 titles with its own distinct aesthetic, categories, and exclusive content not available on Cultpix.

Despite adding enormous value with a second streaming service, the subscription price is actually being reduced from $6.66 to $5.99 monthly. The release schedule includes 50 new films twice monthly, with unique categories covering compilations, exploitation films, and works by legendary directors like Herschell Gordon Lewis and Doris Wishman.

Technical developments take centre stage as we talk about the new Android TV and Amazon Fire TV apps that have already achieved nearly 1,000 downloads without promotion. Upcoming features like curated box sets are discussed alongside the new membership pause functionality.

Recent Cultpix content gets attention including the popular French erotica collection from Pulse Store, Hungarian Cult Classics Volume 2 featuring a James Bond parody made without having seen any Bond films, and the unique Bronson Canyon theme month celebrating the iconic filming location.

The Cannes Film Festival experience features prominently, covering two positive Variety magazine articles, new distribution deals, and the annual cocktail party with special guest director Dan Wolman. The episode concludes with the trademark "Sorry to See You Go" segment, featuring amusing and bewildering cancellation messages from former subscribers.

Episode Highlights:

• Something Weird Channel launch announcement
• Price reduction to $5.99 despite doubling content
• New streaming apps available
• Cannes Film Festival success
• Recent themed content collections
• Technical updates and new feature

Transcript

Cultpix Radio WCPX 599 - Podcast Transcript

Introduction

Django Nudo: Welcome to Cultpix Radio WCPX 599 in the Pod Universe these days with me, your host, Django Nudo.

The Smut Peddler: And your disgusting sidekick, the Smut Peddler.

Django Nudo: It's great to have you on air again, Smut Peddler. We missed out on way too much podding in May, which is when we should have had our big episode talking about the fact that it was our fourth anniversary. But guess what? We were too busy doing to be talking about it—and especially as we have a really, really, really, really big announcement for this show, which we're going to get to in a moment. But how are you? How have you been?

The Smut Peddler: Well, it's been hectic to say the least. And I mean, we are now also very, very happy about a super constructive and busy Cannes Film Festival.

Django Nudo: Indeed. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about all the new features and functionalities that have come to Cultpix. We're going to try to cram a lot in, and we're going to be trying to mix it up with a little bit of music from some of our favourite films that we have had on the site in the last month and a bit. But first of all, let's get to the biggest announcement because today, it is the launch of something that we have been waiting for and preparing for for over a year. After four years of Cultpix, Cultpix is no longer the only streaming service in our stable.

The Something Weird Channel Launch

The Smut Peddler: That is so true. We have been planning this for, I don't know, at least 18 months or two years. But for a variety of reasons, this happened to be the starting point of it all. And that is our dear and old friend Lisa Petrucci from Something Weird Video, who in October 2024 decided not to make any DVD-Rs anymore for her customers because all the machines were falling apart. And also to stop providing download-to-own from the Something Weird site because she wants to focus on other things like books, like vinyl, like special edition Blu-rays together with different partners. And the vast Something Weird catalogue is now available as the Something Weird channel as a sort of sister channel to Cultpix.

Django Nudo: Indeed. It's been a long wait and we've kind of hinted at it. We've even had Lisa on the show talking about it, indicating that this is going to happen. But I know that a lot of people have been waiting for it. There was a great deal of upset when the announcement was made that she was shutting down the download-to-own and the DVD burning as well because obviously, there were a lot of people who had that as the only way of accessing the Something Weird films and they were prepared to pay $5.99 for a download-to-own title, but they were incredibly popular. So, of course, that's what they went for, seeing that there were no more VHSs or DVDs, original print ones, apart from what's circulating on eBay and other conventions.

The Smut Peddler: And all the others. Now they can watch the whole catalogue for $5.99.

Django Nudo: What better way of introducing Something Weird than playing the magnificent Something Weird trailer that goes before each and every Something Weird film.

[Something Weird trailer plays]

Django Nudo: We're going to be putting on a lot of films and in fact, there are a lot of films already on the Something Weird channel. Now, of course, we did have Something Weird films on Cultpix prior to this, but this is going to be very much its own thing and it's going to have its own films which will not be on Cultpix. And there will be categories. It's got a completely different look and feel. We've worked hard with our designers and our IT team to try to replicate the Something Weirdish aesthetic from their VHSs, from the website, from the catalogues. It really is a different beast to Cultpix, sharing a bit of DNA.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah. Lots and lots of garish colours and it looks beautiful.

Django Nudo: Pink. Pink, pink.

The Smut Peddler: Yes. Very pink. Now what it's really a labour of love for all of us and Lisa Petrucci especially has brought a lot of creativity in it with a new set of logos and categories that are beautifully illustrated. That would be the entry point to each genre or category.

Catalogue Details and Release Schedule

Django Nudo: She's been very hands-on throughout the process in terms of helping us with the design, look and feel, and also communicating the message, making sure that people who come to the Something Weird channel understand that it's a continuation. It's not an attempt to replicate what was there before, but it's an attempt to create a new form of enjoying the Something Weird films. And there are so many of them. By our own estimate, I mean, you've been busy since practically last year downloading everything—not just the films, the artwork, the vinyls.

The Smut Peddler: And their liner notes are so funny and so to the point and they will also be included as well as the original artwork from Lisa and original posters of the films and stills when we find them or anything pertinent to each film. So it will be a plethora of stuff to watch and read.

Django Nudo: And all of that is appearing on the somethingweirdchannel.com, which is next door to Cultpix and you will see some overlap in terms of the functionalities and the features of it. We're going to get on to those added features in a moment, but do you want to start us off by mentioning any of the particular films that are part of the first batch? How are we going to be sharing those films? When can people expect to find new films? And how much in total are we talking about?

The Smut Peddler: It's an insane number of films all in all in the great vast Something Weird catalogue. I think we're talking around 1,000 titles and I think we have already uploaded maybe 350 or 400 films on Cultpix that will be included here. But there's so much more and especially—and we see that also from Something Weird fans—are the big big number of compilations. And that have always been like a staple for Something Weird, like Nudie Cuties, loops and glamour girls, wrestling she-babes, which is one of the weirdest things I've heard of to see anyone getting off on watching women wrestle in the 1930s and 1940s, but those are also really popular.

It's a variety of genres. It's a lot of exploitation, but we also have horror, we have sci-fi, we have—my favourite genre is Classics from the Vault, which is basically stuff you can't put a label on. And that's awesome. And of course the mainstays of Something Weird that has really sort of defined the company are people like David F. Friedman the producer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Doris Wishman, Joe Sarno—they have their own categories on this platform.

Django Nudo: Yep. The audacious auteurs of exploitation film. I thought you were going to mention your favourite category being Super Boobs and Super Beavers. I know you're an animal lover, so...

The Smut Peddler: Yes, I think the beavers are so cuddly. It's quite something to watch these very specific loops—compilations of short films basically from, you know, I don't know if it was like carnivals or something you were watching in a little booth, but Something Weird have been collecting them for years and years and years and I think that I don't have the exact number here, but I think the Nudie Cuties series, which is basically just women walking around in their birthday suit. I think there are 350 of those compilations. So, you can imagine it will take time for us to upload them, but the plan is right now to start off on the first and on the 15th of every month uploading at least 50 films and compilations on each of those dates. So we can go on for at least I think 8 months, 10 months until we have everything uploaded.

Django Nudo: Yeah. So 50 films at the beginning and the middle of the month. And what I love about it, just navigating around the Something Weird channel already is how much there is already there. And some of it was on Cultpix, but on Cultpix it was mixed in, so it would be with other biker films, whereas here, you get it pure and unfiltered Something Weird. So if you click on for example, Untamed Videos—beautifully, I wanted to go for something non-sexy and non-specific. You really have such a rich choice there. You've got films like Ed Wood's Jail Bait, you get Shanty Tramp, you get The Sadist, you get She-Man, you get Swamp Fire with Johnny Weissmuller. And this is just one of the categories and we're talking about here is like what? 25 films, at least 28.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah. I think in each category there will be at least 15 or 20 films or compilations already at this moment and they will just grow and grow and grow.

Pricing and New Features

Django Nudo: Now, Smut Peddler, I have to ask you—obviously launching a new channel and all the new extra films and in the meantime, obviously Cultpix still keeps going and we have Cultpix specific films coming up. And this is a huge change. Obviously, this is all going to cost money. It's going to be more expensive for our members and new members joining Cultpix and Something Weird channel.

The Smut Peddler: It should really be twice the price, shouldn't it?

Django Nudo: It should be, really. I mean, they're getting more than twice the value of it.

The Smut Peddler: Definitely. Yeah. And I mean, the way of how much things cost these days, it's only reasonable that we would up the price quite a bit.

Django Nudo: But because we're insane, we're actually doing the opposite. We're actually lowering the price. So after four years of charging a satanically good $6.66 or whatever your local currency is, we're now dropping the price to a ridiculously affordable $5.99, which is even less in euros or kroner or whatever. So, four years of inflation, be damned. We're going to make it cheaper for you to watch not one, but two streaming services. This is like one of those used car adverts in the UK. We must be crazy.

The Smut Peddler: Yes, we are. And I mean, of course we do this for you guys because we know that the price of eggs has gone up so much in the US. You must use your money wisely.

Django Nudo: Yeah. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Don't feel you need to cancel your Netflix subscription to be able to watch Something Weird channel. No, seriously, we really want to make it as appealing. And look, $5.99, that was the price of one Something Weird title to download. So if you wanted Super Boobs Volume 2, that would be what you'd pay. You'd pay $5.99 and you'd get nothing else. You'd just get that one. You wouldn't get Twisted Sex Volume 2 or Nudie Cuties Volume 2, let alone Volume 20 or 18.

The Smut Peddler: That's so true. And I just saw—I mean, there are a lot of Something Weird fans that are very of course keen on what's going to happen now. And one person wrote so beautifully like, "I never streamed anything in my life. How does it work? Do I have to get a kind of gizmo for this?" And but still prepared to try it. I mean, even the most conservative collectors or, you know, they still feel that if I want to be part of the Something Weird universe, this is the way to do it and they are open to that. And I think that's beautiful and I tried to be very sort of didactic and explain, no, you don't need a gizmo. You can just become a member and you can watch the films. It's easy.

Django Nudo: Yeah. Watch it on whatever device with a screen.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah, and speaking of gizmos, we are actually also developing—even when we are lowering our price, we are now also creating apps.

New Apps and Technical Updates

Django Nudo: That is very true. Great segue because we do have apps now. We've got both an Android TV app and we've got an Amazon Fire TV app. And I think we've had something like 1,000 downloads. I haven't checked with our developers recently, but last I checked we were up to 800. And this is without any promotion or marketing of it. People have just found these apps on their own. And they're loving them. We've had a few minor issues, but given the sheer numbers, these are really trivial things. Things like apostrophes not working.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah, we had a sort of a beta test period now and still people have found it. So we haven't really started promoting them yet.

Django Nudo: No. It's going to come. And I know, I know, the question we always get then is Roku. Are you on Roku?

The Smut Peddler: A very American thing though. We don't get that question from anyone else but from people in the US.

Django Nudo: Roku is not a thing outside the US. A little bit maybe in the UK. But anyway, yes, we would like to have a Roku. Maybe we should start a crowdfunding for Roku. If enough people sign up for us, then we'll have the money to launch a Roku app as well. But these things are never cheap and never easy and just getting the Android TV and Amazon Fire TV over the line was a big undertaking. We got there.

The Smut Peddler: Yes. And it's been—you put a lot of effort and time into it along with the developers and very, very happy and grateful for that. It is tough. It is expensive. It really is. And we don't have any Silicon Valley money in our back.

Django Nudo: We don't pay ourselves and the money we get, we put back into the company precisely for developing things like the Something Weird channel, like the Android TV apps, like the additional features. In fact, we should give a quick mention to some of the other things. We're going to have a box set feature very, very soon, so you'll be able to binge on films instead of doing it by genre. They will be curated and selected and we will replicate some of the real life DVD and Blu-ray boxes so that you can decide if it is something you'd like to go out and buy, which we very much encourage—the Doris Wishman box sets for example.

The Smut Peddler: And we will also have or we already started with links to actual physical media to web shops. So we are happy for people to watch films in whichever format they like.

Django Nudo: Exactly. We have another function, which is that you can now pause your membership. So instead of quitting and then coming back to us in a month or six months later, you can simply say, pause my payments. I'm off on holiday or I've had a young child, whatever. And come back to us when you're ready. So, and it's working well. We seem to be having happy members with it.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah, yeah. And we're sorry to see you go, the ones that go, so we're really happy if people can just pause their memberships and come back.

Recent Content and Themes

Django Nudo: We're going to get to those in a minute. But before we do, let's have a quick talk about some of the recent themes and films on Cultpix before we get to Cannes, which was very exciting. And I'd like to begin by playing us in with a clip from one of the films which was in our recent and hugely popular theme month, which was Hot d'Or, classic French blue movies. And this is opening song from the very fine Olinka and Marilyn Jess starrer, Lingerie Fine et Perverse.

[Music from French film plays]

Django Nudo: So, Smut Peddler, how did you pedal this smut or how did you acquire the smut, the French smut on Cultpix?

The Smut Peddler: Oh, this it's actually quite lovely. It's a French company called Pulse Store that we have been in touch with for at least a couple of years on a very positive dialogue. But as we have noticed over the four years we have been up and running, these things take time. These negotiations, these contacts, these friendships, you know, whatever you want to call it. It always takes time until you actually are there. So we're truly happy that this could happen. We got the films, we got the English subtitles and they're beautifully restored. And now I also found I got a friend request from Marilyn Jess herself, the star of at least three of these films.

Django Nudo: Ooh. So we hope and pray that she might be a guest on our podcast later on.

The Smut Peddler: That would be fantastic. And these are great films. I mean, the French really knew how to make quality erotica in the 70s. 35mm, attractive sets, really well worth watching for a number of reasons other than the obvious one.

Django Nudo: Yeah, and also a couple of them really have a meta perspective. They're all about the shoot of an erotic film. So it's like they are making fun of themselves basically or satirising the genre. It's really more a sort of an intellectual way of making porn.

The Smut Peddler: And that is also very, very French. So, quite appropriate. But we like to mix it up with high and low. So, as well as French erotica, we had another round with our good friends from the Hungarian Film Institute for Hungarian Cult Classics Volume Two.

Hungarian Cult Classics

Django Nudo: Indeed, we call it that. And there were some pretty cool films in there. One that I have been especially looking forward to and that also became very popular—and this was because the people from the Hungarian Film Archive talked a lot about it—was the James Bond parody.

The Smut Peddler: Yes. Which is very interesting because the Bond films were banned in Hungary at that time. So they made a movie as a spoof of a Bond movie without actually having seen any Bond movies.

Django Nudo: Which is completely trippy when you think about it. But it's a cute film and it had a great response from our viewers. It really got a lot of people watching it. And why don't we listen to a little bit of the music?

[Hungarian pop music plays]

Django Nudo: Now, all the Hungarian films are fun in their own way and worth watching. I want to give a short shout out to two of them. One of which was Pheasant Tomorrow, which is a very sly political satire, which pokes fun at the Hungarian powers that be, the Communist Party. And the second one is the very, very trippy adaptation of a famous Hungarian novel called Trip Around My Cranium, also known as A Journey Around My Skull. They couldn't settle on one agreed translation, but it's effectively about a famous author who has a brain tumour but it manifests itself in various weird ways both in his senses but also in the film. So definitely worth checking out along with the other ones as well.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah. And as you say, there are a lot of sort of sly satires or criticism against the communist regime. There is also the film The Football Star, which is basically very, very much about authority figures but in the context of a big football championship.

Django Nudo: And researching this and also we published now reviews both on Letterboxd and on the comment page of each of the films. We discover great things like the fact that on this film, they had to reshoot half the film after the star, a football player, defected to the West in 1956. It's like, okay, tough luck. Who's the second best football player we can have instead?

The Smut Peddler: But it was a great season and we had lots and lots of fun with it and we are very happy about this collaboration. Maybe we should talk a little bit about our crazy theme month.

Bronson Canyon Theme Month

Django Nudo: Yes. This was all your idea.

The Smut Peddler: Surprise. I think that was a surprise to a lot of people. And I think I stumbled on it by chance, but we had a whole month called Bronson Canyon. Explain quickly to people listening what Bronson Canyon is and why it matters to B movies.

Django Nudo: Yeah, I mean most people I talk to, they don't have a clue, but the thing is that if you've seen the old Batman TV series from the 60s, you've seen the Batmobile drive out from the Bronson Canyon cave. So it's a cave system just a stone's throw outside of Los Angeles. And some cliffs and some caves and it has been Mars, it has been like a space station, it has been the Stone Age, it has been crazy scientists' lab. That little shitty piece of land has been in at least 500 films or more.

The Smut Peddler: It's truly a character in its own right for our kind of genre films.

Django Nudo: Yeah. And also, as we have talked about so many times, our members, our fans are the best. So a guy went to Bronson Canyon in his Cultpix t-shirt and took some photos of how it looks now.

The Smut Peddler: Yes. And we were going to post it to social media, which we still will. We just have to find a way to obscure his face and put the Gorilla Robo in its place. So, we don't want to out any of our members. They like to keep their anonymity, but...

Django Nudo: Yeah, but he had an interesting message because they have closed down the caves for the general public because someone got a rock on their head.

The Smut Peddler: On their head and they sued, I don't know, the parks and recreation authorities, LA County, whatever. Rocks fall from cliffs. Big, big surprise that one. But like I said, there were films, but we've also had serials, not television. These were the old cinema serials like Zorro Rides Again, which is a modern kind of Zorro with machine guns, which is wonderful, but...

Django Nudo: And of course the old Flash Gordon series also, I mean they could really take advantage of that environment.

The Smut Peddler: But there were too many films and serials. We've got 30 of them in total and you can still find it under themes, but if I may single one out and request a track from it, it would have to be the Phantom Empire. Which is an incredible serial, which is the famous singing cowboy, Gene Autry himself playing Gene Autry. And it's a bizarre mashup of science fiction and Western. So there's a civilisation underneath the ground, in fact, underneath his ranch. Super civilisation. And this civilisation, you got to remember, this is 1935. There are robots and there are death rays and there are ancient television. Ancient civilisation, who are at war with the surface people. But Gene Autry's there and he kind of fights them and in between recording songs for his radio show. And why they haven't done a remake of this? This is more originality and craziness than pretty much anything in the cinema today. Bring on the remake of the Phantom Empire. Make it a Netflix series again, please. Somebody.

Django Nudo: I wonder what the screenwriters were smoking.

The Smut Peddler: A lot and heavy stuff. But look, let's hear from the singing cowboy himself, Gene Autry.

[Gene Autry song excerpt plays]

Cannes Film Festival

Django Nudo: I can't think of a suitable segue from 20,000 miles below ground, below Gene Autry to Cannes, but maybe you can, Smut Peddler.

The Smut Peddler: Well, it's definitely a fantasy world, of course, going to Cannes. Still, as we also talked about in a world in turmoil, Cannes always looks the same. All the restaurant prices are always more expensive than they should be. The hotel rooms are too expensive. And people try to get in to parties where they're not supposed to be. But we went to a party where we were supposed to be and that was a perfect fit for Cultpix, I think.

Django Nudo: It was. It was the PJ party or the pyjamas party, which is a wonderful highlight of Cannes for us and for other people. I know it's very, very popular, but we also walked the red carpet.

The Smut Peddler: We did, in our tuxedos.

Django Nudo: Yes. And not for a cult film, but for a film, you know, retro film, appropriately.

The Smut Peddler: Yes, definitely.

Django Nudo: And we got to hang out with some cool people. And above all, we made loads of deals, meetings, and secured plans for more film releases in the future coming to Cultpix.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah, we're talking about a couple of brand new countries that we haven't had represented before, which is very exciting. And also, we brag about having the hottest ticket in Cannes is our cocktail party, which is basically in an apartment with a little terrace. But we had a wonderful, wonderful guest of honour this time, and who was also a super entertainer. And that was the director Don Wollman who made a movie in Sweden in 1971, under the name of Flock Jönsson. That's typical Swedish name for you. But he is in his 80s now. He still makes movies. He is famous for his art house films. He has been competing in Cannes, he has been competing in Venice. But it turned out that he also made two exploitation films.

Django Nudo: Yeah. And one we already have released on Cultpix and will see it in physical media as well. And that's Christina Lindberg's debut film made in Sweden.

The Smut Peddler: Indeed. So Don was telling us some pretty wild stories that we are not allowed to pass on because there might be a documentary about his life.

Django Nudo: No, no, no, no. Yeah. Definitely. But he's a great storyteller. Everybody just sat in a circle listening to him. And he really made the party. It wasn't just—but we had other cool friends there and models and actors, actresses and so, real fun mix of old friends and new friends as well.

The Smut Peddler: It was lovely. And but I mean the big, big thing though for us was that being mavericks, being outsiders, being underdogs, we had two major articles published about us on a very positive note in Variety.

Django Nudo: Yes. No, that was super encouraging. So first of all, the fact that we are having the Year of Christina Lindberg with two of her films launching on Blu-ray and more to come, which was of course, Thriller: A Cruel Picture, and Anita: Diary of a Swedish Nymphet. And it created good reactions. In fact, one very specific one, which we're not going to go into, maybe now, maybe later, but it was a delightful surprise. Leave it at that.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah, it was really, really something. And as if that wasn't enough, we thought, you know, getting one article published in Variety is a big deal. But four days later, lo and behold, there was an article about our new endeavour with the Something Weird channel.

Django Nudo: Yeah. No, that was wonderful to see that. And really nice place and way to launch it and get the word out there. So, busy, busy May.

The Smut Peddler: Yes. I mean, I think we are on a roll here. I mean, lots of good things are happening. We've had some speed bumps along the way, but right now it feels really good with the new apps, with the new channel. Our sister company Club Super 8 releasing films on Blu-ray. It's pretty good life.

Django Nudo: Yeah. No, no, definitely.

The Smut Peddler: And lots of hard work.

Django Nudo: And lots and lots of hard work. These things don't happen by themselves.

The Smut Peddler: And we should give a shout out and big thank you to our two new and wonderful colleagues who make so much of it possible. Kalle and Titsby. You guys rock. You make amazing videos, trailers, edits, subtitles...

Django Nudo: Blu-ray covers.

The Smut Peddler: Blu-ray covers. Whatever we throw at you. So, big thanks to you guys. Definitely.

Sorry to See You Go Segment

Django Nudo: And to finish off, we don't want to drag it on for too long. Shall we have our usual bumper edition of Sorry to See You Go?

The Smut Peddler: Oh yeah.

Django Nudo: Where we make fun of the people who have, for whatever reason, decided to leave Cultpix, and now they'll be leaving Something Weird channel too. But it also gives us a chance to talk about some of the aspects of Cultpix. So, here for your delectation are some of the choice selections from our mailbag. Now, first of all, coming from—I can't pronounce it—Senjondo, no surnames, wrote to us just saying "XXX XXXX sex."

The Smut Peddler: The answer is yes.

Django Nudo: Next comes my favourite, which was a question without a question mark. By Magona. Asked a question. You read the question.

The Smut Peddler: "Can I find blue movies for young white ladies?" Is that the right pronunciation?

Django Nudo: I think so. It is now.

The Smut Peddler: "Yes, I want to find blue movies for young white ladies." Of course.

Django Nudo: We should have said no, but you can find white movies for young blue ladies.

The Smut Peddler: To make them happy again. It's not all about porn though. Jackson wrote to us, again, maybe it's a question. "Bubble movie?"

Django Nudo: Okay. I don't know. There's no question mark.

The Smut Peddler: "Bubble movie. Bubble finish."

Django Nudo: Anyway, then we have the people who write to us and give a reason for either quitting Cultpix or deleting their account or just being, having anger issues in general. So, on the more polite end of the spectrum, Ernest, let's call him that, gave a reason, "Not my cup of tea." Nicole, who's very choosy, wrote and said, "Doesn't have the variety I was looking for."

The Smut Peddler: Oh lady, lady, did you check the genres? Did you check the theme weeks?

Django Nudo: I would say variety is our middle name.

The Smut Peddler: Yeah, variety is what publishes our articles saying just how much variety we have in the genres.

Django Nudo: And then we have this person calling himself AAAA. Maybe should just have been AA. And I hope this is a joke. Reason for not—I mean for quitting, "You're a bunch of disgusting degenerates." I mean, I would wear that as a medal on my chest.

The Smut Peddler: But then we have some really knowledgeable people who know their film history. So Vlad Mihai, he just wrote, the reason he quit was, "My name is Inigo Montoya." Respect. Respect to that, for sure. Chapeau.

Django Nudo: And I think this one is a good one. I'm going further down the list. It's from Helen Marie Matre who says, and this is sort of the sign of the times, "It has films I don't want to see." We're sorry, we will remove those films immediately. We are so sorry we hurt your feelings. I'm going to write to Paramount Plus and tell them, "You have TV shows there that I never intend to watch. Now you know."

The Smut Peddler: Oh Lord. Yeah. Sadly, Martin hits the nail on the head. "Currency not supported." It is true. GoCardless is great, but it is not universally available, not like credit cards. But if you're in a country which GoCardless does not support and you're listening to this, DM us. We'll work something out for you.

Closing

Django Nudo: Right. I think we better get back to uploading more of Something Weird filth and smut and general obscurities for the people who do want to watch this and are prepared to pay. So, with that, I'm signing off. You've been listening to Cultpix Radio 66.6 in the ether. With me, your host, Django Nudo.

The Smut Peddler: And me, the Smut Peddler.

[Closing music/jingle plays]

End of Transcript

Key Announcements Summary

• Something Weird Channel Launch: New sister streaming service to Cultpix featuring the entire Something Weird Video catalogue (~1,000 titles)
• Price Reduction: Monthly subscription reduced from $6.66 to $5.99 despite adding significant content
• New Apps: Android TV and Amazon Fire TV apps now available (Roku under consideration)
• Release Schedule: 50 new films added on the 1st and 15th of each month
• New Features: Box set functionality, membership pause option, links to physical media
• Recent Content: French erotica collection, Hungarian Cult Classics Volume 2, Bronson Canyon theme month
• Cannes Success: Two positive Variety articles, new distribution deals secured