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Mike Scholtz

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I’m a documentary filmmaker who lives in the woods of northern Minnesota.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 15/09/2026
Cleo (in a movie still from Cleo from 5 to 7) looks at her piano and the assembled collective around it.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
Y’know, I was just wondering, “What would Plan 9 From Outer Space look like in color?” And along comes They Came From Beyond Space! #svengoolie
Five old white men dressed in ridiculously colorful robes.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
I keep waiting for the Avengers to show up on this episode of #Svengoolie. And not those Avengers. THESE Avengers:
Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg pose in a publicity photo for the British TV series The Avengers
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
Are you kidding me? Is this another deadly phone booth? #svengoolie #phonebooths
A man looks up at a cylindrical black and yellow phone booth-like thing
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
Is that another deadly phone booth??? #svengoolie
A metal red structure emerges ominously from a pond
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
“They Came From Beyond Space” makes a strong argument against phone booths. #svengoolie
Two men lie dead in front of a red British phone booths
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
Why did our hero steal Archie Andrew’s car and paint it green? #svengoolie
A classic green jalopy parked in a screenshot from the movie They Came From Beyond SpaceThe cover of an Archie’s Jalopy issue, featuring a red jalopy and the cast of Archie’s comics
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
This looks like the kind of space science lab where a bank of computers might suddenly turn into a rotating bed. #svengoolie #swingingsixties
A very mod 60s-era science lab that kind of looks like a bachelor pad
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/09/2026
The title music for this film is far groovier than I was expecting! Are we in for a mod time? #Svengoolie
Title card for the film They Came From Beyond Space
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 29/08/2026
My 3-step plan: 1) Watched Coyote Vs. Acme; 2) Loved Coyote Vs. Acme; 3) Dug up my old Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote VHS tape and watched it
In the foreground: I’m holding up the box for a Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote VHS tape. In the background, a TV is playing a Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote cartoon in which the hapless coyote has strapped himself to a rocket.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 02/08/2026
Captain Kronos and Marcus give each other the traditional Han-and-Lando greeting. #svengoolie
After initially seeming angry to see each other, these two old softies give each other a warm greeting.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 02/08/2026
You can tell from the title card that this is going to be the coolest Hammer horror film ever. #svengoolie
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 07/06/2026
Is the demon in this movie from the hot dog finger dimension? #everythingeverywhereallatonce #svengoolie
The demon from The Curse of the Demon reaches towards the camera with his sausage-like fingers.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 07/06/2026
“Call it off, Coswell” is a phrase I need to start saying on the daily. #svengoolie
A screengrab from the film “The Curse of the Demon” featuring two guys facing each other. One of them is named Coswell.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 23/05/2026
The Mandalorian and Grogu skidding down a snowy mountain slope inside an Imperial chicken walker was the best skiing I’ve seen in a movie since Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me.
The cover of an old storybook record featuring James Bond in a yellow snow suit and skis chased by villains, also on skis.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 26/04/2026
How to Make a Monster makes a classic mistake that so many movies about Hollywood make: the movies that are being made in the movie look better than the movie we are currently watching. #Svengoolie
A bored werewolf and a bored monster stare listlessly at someone talking off-screen
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 26/04/2026
I’ve seen this movie on #Svengoolie before and it is NOT as instructive as you might think.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 15/02/2026
Dracula keeps armadilloes like Pablo Escobar kept hippos. #Svengoolie
Several armadillos crawling around a medieval castle. Which is weird.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 12/02/2026
The oldest American Olympian is on the ice!
Screngrab of my TV screen, featuring a closeup of Rick Ruohonen, a curler at tge Winter Olympics
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 06/02/2026
Snoop cheers for curling at the Olympics with Duluth, Minnesota curlers Cory Thiesse & Korey Dropkin making an appearance on his custom jacket.
An image I shot on my TV of Snoop Dogg in the stands, cheering for curling. He’s wearing a custom jacket with the faces of Duluth, Minnesota curlers Cory Thiesse & Korey Dropkin on it.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 24/01/2026
I can’t call myself an American anymore. I’m a Minnesotan.
The Rebel Alliance logo has been altered to include the Minnesota state bird, a loon, as well as elements from the Minnesota state flag.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 13/01/2026
In case people don't understand how our federal government has just completely declared war on Minnesota. This is a map of ICE activity today. See for yourself: iceout.org/en/ #iceout
A map of the eastern United States depicting ICE activity across the country. While other cities have a handful of reports. Minnesota and particularly the Twin Cities are inundated with reports.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 11/01/2026
Images from the anti-ICE protest in Duluth, Minnesota on January 10, 2026
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 28/12/2025
Were the robots in Creation of the Humanoids programmed to sound like radio announcers? Or is this what people who work in radio actually look like? #svengoolie
Three robots stand around in the 1962 film “Creation of the Humanoids.” These robots are bald with blue-green skin.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 28/12/2025
I would be less worried about our AI future if all the robots looked like this fella. #svengoolie
An early prototype of the robots in the 1962 film “Creation of the Humanoids.” This prototype looks like someone went to Menards and ran wild in the heating duct aisle.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 21/12/2025
Hammer horror films have the best fonts in the biz #svengoolie
Title card from The Brides of Dracula, the jagged red letters are dripping like blood
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 27/11/2025
Vintage Kermit balloon at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
In the background, but in focus: a giant Kermit balloon floats down a New York City street during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the foreground, out of focus: a deliriously happy woman has turned to the camera and smiles.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 09/11/2025
Both of my chihuahuas climbed onto my chest for the beginning of The Valley of Gwangi. Then the little one licked the inside of my nostril. It’s going to be a great episode! #Svengoolie
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 18/10/2025
Here’s the other side of Snoopy’s sign at today’s protest.
An inflatable Snoopy at the No Kings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Snoopy’s sign is a cartoonish word balloon and it says “Good Grief”
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 18/10/2025
Duluth, Minnesota City Hall / No Kings / October 18, 2025
Thousands of people fill in the plaza in front of Duluth, Minnesota City Hall on October 18, 2025 for the No Kings rally.Inflatable Snoopy at the Duluth, Minnesota No Kings rally.Creepy Trump mask and assorted signs at the Duluth, Minnesota No Kings rally.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 18/10/2025
A pre-protest protest in tiny Cloquet, Minnesota had 50 sign-wavers tonight. They’re expecting 400 tomorrow! #NoKings
A brown chihuahua regards the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.A protester holds a sign of the inflatable frog over her own face at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.2 inflatable penguins at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.Two inflatable dinosaurs at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 18/09/2025
When Donald Trump was seven, his older brother Fred dumped mashed potatoes on his head to stop him from being such a bratty little turd. I think about this every day.
An illustration of Donald Trump, crying, with an overturned bowl of mashed potatoes on his head. This illustration is designed by bag0fish.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 11/09/2025
The prompt was “melissa hortman assassination”
The results of my Google search:
melissa hortman assassination

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Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the
"Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. a
Key details about the fictional event:
• Date of Event: June 14, 2025 @
• Victims: State Representative Melissa
Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman. &
• Perpetrator: Vance Boelter, a suspect who had planned a spree of "targeted political assassinations". ®
• Context: The fictional events are described as a night of terror and politically motivated violence against elected officials and their families.
Important Note: The incident described in the search results is not a real event but a olot element from me Assassm" series of
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 11/09/2025
I searched for “melissa hortman assassination.” But thanks for calling me a liar.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 11/09/2025
I was trying to remember when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. So I Googled it. This is what I saw. Utter madness.
Some text from a web search that says:
Al Overview

Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the
"Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. o
Key details about the fictional event:
• Date of Event: June 14, 2025
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 07/09/2025
I walked into the dining room and found my chihuahua lying on the table in the sun. We normally use this table for things like eating and jigsaw puzzling. But not anymore.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 31/08/2025
Journey into Space in a space station simulator at the Minnesota State Fair
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 26/08/2025
Everything that is great about Minnesota can be found at the Minnesota State Fair. Including Steve Solkela, with special guest Kaylee Matuszak.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 21/08/2025
Here in Minnesota, it’d be Old Dutch Rip-L Chips. But you’d have to throw in some Top the Tater if you want that bribe to stick.
A container of Top the Tater sour cream dip.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 15/08/2025
Enjoy the Wiener Dog Races in Vergas, Minnesota
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 15/08/2025
My chihuahua enjoys Lake Superior on a chihuahua-sized surfboard.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 11/08/2025
Minnesota Historia, that TV show I make with @historyhailey.bsky.social is airing on PBS North tonight. (Right now would be a great time to make a donation to PBS.)
History Hailey, host of Minnesota Historia, introduces an episode in a screenshot from my Tv.This is a creenshot from my TV of the pledge drive during an airing of Minnesota Historia.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 25/07/2025
The new Fantastic Four movie was great!
In a vintage photo of cosplayers at a comic convention, one person bravely wore a bulky homemade Thing costume that makes me laugh every time I look at it.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 07/07/2025
Our PBS North documentary Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota got 200,000 views on YouTube in less than a week. Is it the Minnesota, the secrets, or the things that are cold that’s bringing people in?
The title screen from the documentary “Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota” featuring, the title of the film, a shot of the road between Duluth and Ely and the words “200,000 views’l
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 14/06/2025
It felt like the entire city of Brainerd came out for the “No Kings” protest. People were lining Highway 210 for more than a mile through downtown.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 26/05/2025
I just sent you some videos of you and your smelt family. Like this one.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 26/05/2025
Duluth’s Magic Smelt Parade delivers pure joy.
A man dressed in a Jason Momoa Aquamam shirt and a woman dressed as a Jedi with a giant smelt mask on her head hold a dog who doesn’t look like he wants to be there.A woman dressed as a Jedi with a giant smelt mask on her head, a man holding two cameras with a shark hat, and a woman wearing another giant smelt mask on her head.On a beach, a woman dressed as a Jedi with a smelt mask on her head and a boy dressed in a brown Jedi robe hold lightsabers and reach for the camera.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 15/05/2025
Our smelt heads (for Duluth’s Magic Smelt Parade) are coming along nicely.
Two paper mache heads sit on a table with a can of silver spray paint sitting between them. The heads vaguely look like decapitated Loch Ness monsters. But I can assure you, they will eventually be smelt heads.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 13/05/2025
Look at how filthy R2-D2 gets on Dagobah. This is how I feel whenever I go to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag.
My favorite droid R2-D2 is covered in dirt on the swamp planet Dsgobah.
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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 05/05/2025
I got this cool tattoo at Duluth Homegrown. But can someone please let me know if I’m now at risk of being deported? Thank you.
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