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a show we have you tonight. Wow, what a show we have for
you tonight. First, girls, I gotta let you down easy, if
I'm gonna let you down at all. No JJ tonight, No JJ.
He's moving from one castle to the other and he's just tuck it out,
he said, I can highly pick up my cup of tea. Think of
that. He's only been gone a little more than a year anyway, No
JJ tonight from the puddle. No cocoa save in the world. But national
correspondence, Switchblade, Steve, what is with us down there in the you
know, West Virginia. How are you doing there? Switchy? I am
beyond wonderful man. Good are you full of vim and vigor tonight? With
a lot of stuff to talk about a lot of him the vigor will will
click, will come with it, okay. Also with this curious is that
security chief Willie Club w C How you doing? You know, I'm doing
great, Mac, Just another big night for me. Yes, yes,
you know. I've been trying to figure out why lately, I really am
feeling better than usual when I come on the show. Okay, and I
realized that this is this is my therapy session. Really. My wife told
me that. She says, you know that when you go there. She
said, you know, you're relieving yourself of a lot of things. Huh.
And I said, yeah, you know. I never realized that,
but now I know what it is. You No, I'm and I'm looking
at switch Out all the time, and he looks like someone that you'd want
to relieve yourself with. Okay, well, okay, there's better words there,
but okay, yeah, Well, if I can prevent your anger from
boiling up and hitting somebody, some innocent I'm being nasty to something into something
out, I'll take the slings and arrows. Oh and I know. And
the nice thing is, you know you you're very good at that, and
because you know the things I say, you're accurate. But I don't,
you know, I don't mean to insult you would I would think that was
happening. But anyways, I'm really excited tonight because tonight is the switch show.
Switch Show? Is it really? Okay, you're really the guy that
didn't get that memo? But Okay, I want to sit back here tonight
and let him take over and enjoy myself, eat a couple of twinkies and
yeah, and so I'm really counting on your a nice switch. That sounds
great. You better past those twinkies. I think. I think that what's
concerning is that the club's therapy would be hanging around with five white, drunk
stone guys on one hot chick. Is that what the doctor ordered? Does
that on the prescription? Yeah? I guess it's you know, it's pretty
much the way of come up in life, So it's something new. I
had to show you something. I know the audience can't see it. But
as a product, these are twinkies, bounces they call him bounces. Yeah,
go ahead, individual twinkies, all right, little small mini twinkies.
Haven't had them yet, no wow coding on them. Yeah, And I
was going to have them during the show. If if Switch falls in his
face, then I think I'll have a couple of these because I'll be pepped
up flying the I am a lot more sugar and stuff on them. He
speaking of flying in the studio with us. Is you ould mechanic now right
now? Though? Well? Hello Mac, Hello, gentlemen high on life
and shugar. Yeah, there you go. I'm just gonna sit back and
have a few beers and watch this wow yeah, and then want to wait
for Steve to put the train wreck up from the background and put it up
now. Wow huh. And we're all in the Christmas spirit, you know.
Christmas was about two months ago that my friend, Sorry, we're ahead
of the game. Oh really, yeah, well I guess we're gonna hit
it out. Okay, well we'll sit He'll depend So anyway, well,
well listen, we can talk about a number of things tonight. I should
just promo that we have coming up, or you've probably already heard it.
We had a World Got To Trivia show and this is with the offices from
Home Stock Troops and it's always really kind of a nutty show. The questions
are really kind of we did on Wall Movies five the Wall Movies, and
you know, like how long one of the questions was? You know,
in the Longest Day, there's that very very long sequence of the French trying
to take this casine away from the Germans. It's two minutes long shot from
a helicopter. Fantastic movie. Longest Day thirty Seconds of a Tokyo was another
one of the movies, Saving Private Ryan, which I have a lot of
problems with that movie, and also Paton, which is also a really good
movie. Anyway, in the midst of all that, Okay, see,
these are the fun facts that I found out about war movies. You're ready?
Are we ready? We're ready. There's a movie that John Wayne was
in, The Green Berets. Remember that that moment, sure, okay,
came out in the sixties while we were still over the fighting. At the
end of it, I mean, and he just you know, does he
saves the world basically in Vietnam And at the end he has saved an orphan
kid. And the last shot is him on the beach watching the sun go
down and saying, don't don't worry, kid, you know, the United
States is going to save you, and so on and so forth. The
problem is you can't see the sun go down in Vietnam. You see what
I mean. It's because it's facing the east. Okay, okay, called
the wrong sunset? All right? Should I go on with you? Oh
no, I'm all right. I'm just trying to figure out why. Okay,
Well, we'll see we'll see ever see the movie to tour tour plenty
of times. It was half produced, half by the Japanese and half by
the United States. Okay, so the Japanese half is subtitled okay, but
in the hap and He's half, you know, when they're going back and
forth to the carriers and stuff like that, Right, the Japanese officers are
in white uniforms and the and the the captions are in white. So he
can't get on this thing. You can't read it, can't read it.
Yeah, a big mistake. Wow, Okay, remember the first scene of
we'll cut this out. Remember the first scene of Patten. The first scene
of pat where he goes up in the steps, he has the big flag
behind him, he gives the big speech, and he gives that speech.
That was the last scene they shot in the movie, not the first,
because George see Scott didn't think he could play Patent. He was and he
was the fourth choice farm Okay, he just didn't think that he would be
able to play it. So he said, if that's my opening scene film,
that last, because I'll be If I'm not Patent by then, I'll
never be Patton, you know. And he's that movie is great. Man.
You look at him, he's a movie style. He's been in a
lot of movies. But you look at him and he's patent, you know
what I mean, he's he pulls it off. He's the guy. Yeah,
really good movies. If you serve under me, you won't have to
tell your kids your shovels ship in Louisiana. Yeah right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Anyway, okay, so uh
let's see, yeah, yeah, Druggy Scott was the fourth choice. Okay,
the four the three people in front of him who turned it down.
Was the first choice was Rod Steiger. Does anyone know remember who he was?
He was in there? Oh yeah, you know, yeah and the
waterfront, right, yep, yep, let's see. He was the first
one. He thought it was too pro war. Uh So then they went
to britt Lancaster. Britt Lancaster, which is is funny because neither of those
guys like anything like Patten. He turned it down. Robert Mitcham turned it
down. Okay, I suppose he could have done it, but John Scott
looks like Patton, which yeah, out of the group, yeah, you
know, uh, let's see. So anyway, yeah, fun facts I
could see, I mean Lancaster right and kind of golong in the tooth for
that by then, wasn't he yeah yeah, sixteen, No he was.
No, he was in The Birdman of Alcatraz, that was a big part.
Was probably older than him. Yeah, are the Yeah, maybe the
same because they both kind of came out together. I just I guess you
just can't think of Patton as being anyone to drudg see Scott. You know,
it's amazing how many movies when they know you watch, when you say
that, when the guy really kills or the woman kills the part, and
you see, I can't see anyone else playing that, and then they say,
oh, they weren't at first choices, were at first choice, and
you go, I don't see any of them could have done it. I
don't really write you know that means they did a good job. Oh yeah,
they became the part. It's just this numerous ones like that. But
you know, you could take saving Private Ryan and just pulling a pot with
all the mistakes in that movie. It's amazing. It's amazing how but because
it's kind of a stop vehicle and you know, it's a Spielbird movie,
people are going to go see it, and I think it's great. I
would put that movie on. I would make it quiet viewing for anyone in
high school who wants to like during the Marines or the army or something,
because it's the most realistic battle scene you'll ever see in your life. It's
just do you remember that when they come up, you know, on Omaha
Beach and pupure and just the suddenness of death and stuff like that, and
just to horrifying that that part of it. But the story, once again,
all it has come down from the White House. Find this guy because
his other brothers have been killed. We don't want the whole family wiped out?
Okay, what is from the president? And they send seven freaking guys
out looking for this guy? Why wouldn't you send one hundred tanks out?
You know what I mean? I mean, why would you send simon guys
walking to fun? You know, you know, I gotta I gotta disagree
with your respectively. You got to enjoy it. That was entertainment, you
know, I know, you got your background and all that stuff, so
you're looking at it a little closer than the average person. But my gud,
that was a good entertaining movie. I mean if yeah, yeah,
yeah, I don't know you you're looking at it from a different angle.
And I know how I well, because I went to film skills and yeah,
we didn't go into combat either, right, right, exactly. I
would prefer a few came out and said I served three tours and you know
in the Second World War. Whatever. I listen to you. But yeah,
look, you're looking at it from I just see that. I know
how the sausage is made. As they say, I don't know. You
don't need any agree with that. I don't admit it very often, but
I do know someone who was the photographer in the water filming that scene,
his brother, right, yeah, he said it was pretty uh, pretty
interesting, Jeff. That whole the the the the longest day. You know,
it's probably the show will be coming up sometimes to this. Uh with
the two trivia contests has these long long shots. One of them is like
two minutes long. There's another one where the uh, the driven planes are
strafing the beach straight from the beach and there's thousands of people in the scene.
It's I mean there's thousands of people running around, right. How you
do that? You know what I mean, how you corral that, how
you wrangle that together to make it? The Longest Day is a great movie.
And it's in black and white. And I always thought that there's so
many stars that they had to spend the money just pay the stars, and
they couldn't afford the color. But it isn't. It's what it is is
that they have a lot. There's a lot of real actual footage in it,
and and they sneak it in every once a while, and they wanted
that to match what they were filming, you know, so uh yeah,
long stay clone. Anyway, why don't we do this, Why don't we
take a break now just to figure out what we're going to be doing and
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to Maclony's Militarck's on our show here in the Distant Thunder Radio Network. This
is Mac Malonney. Wow, what a show we have for you Tonight's Skeleton
Crew. Though, sorry, girls, I'm the one who has to break
this year. But no one one tonight, no one one. He's moving
castles and he's all talking out. I'm in the servants, all talking out.
But he'll be with us next week. No cocoa to night out saving
the world. But National correspondent Switchblade Steve Woard is here. What a switchy
and it is great to be here tonight. Okay. I feel like I've
heard you say that, well recently in the past, about five seconds and
five minutes ago or so, about maybe maybe seven or eight minutes. What's
your background tonight? I come to talk about his hair looks a little beatnick
tonight? Is it me? Does he have that kind of beat nick thing
going on? Oh? I just need to comb it a bit. Oh
okay, thanks. You're going to be giving report tonight, switch Yes,
I am. Okay. You want to tease it, as they say in
the business, Well, it's it's it's going to be about an amazing that
you can get into your hands and actually read it without reading it online.
And toward the end of this report, there's going to be a little tidbit
in there, kind of throwing a bone, a bone to club, so
to speak. Wow, throwing a bone to Club. Okay, I think
you might get really excited. I think I saw that movie next Stone,
So just to stay with it. There'll be a few different short stories more
or less short reports, yes, and then we'll get to the uh,
the chi the leading bit at the end once again. Okay, but look
talking about Club A security chief Willie Club is here with us, Willie WC.
How are you you know? I'm I'm doing excellent. But now I'm
excited. I really know. When Switch tells me that there's some exciting stuff
down the road coming from Switchboy, that's that's quite a challenge. So I'm
okay, really looking forward to and again I want to thank you for having
me for our weekly therapy session. We talked about that and I'm previous segment,
which we're probably not going to broadcast also with us in the studio is
Euful Mechanic gall right now? No, hell, hey mac gents, how
are we doing this evening? Okay? Good? Good? Now just go
very quickly throw it back to club. Earlier you had a new product by
Houstess you were showing it to us. Could you want to just do that
once again? Place, Yeah, these are individual packs of they're called bouncers
in there like a Twinkie cut up in the four pieces, okay, and
it has a sugar coating on the I'm really excited because you know, I
haven't opened them yet. I wanted to wait till the after party. After
the after party, but they're called glazed Twinkie mini cakes, and I want
to be close, you know, to the bed because I think probably going
to get me all wired and everything. Hey, okay, good, yes,
So I'll let you guys know what I think of them. I want
to try particularly nights when the show bugs down bogs down. Okay, So,
club, you're saying that these have actually more sugar on them. If
you put four them together, you'd have your basic Twinkie, but you'd have
more sugar than the average twinkie. Yeah. From what I'm reading here,
these have a sugar glaze on the top of them. So I don't even
want to look at the sodium content. No, no, no, But
let me ask you this. Did they break them up into four pieces because
it's just so tough to eat a Twinkie all at once? Is that the
angle? Well, you know what it's like. Hey, do you guys
remember screaming yellow Zonkers. I do remember the name that band band. They
were a magical butter glazed popcorn snack. Okay, according to the commercial,
that was a really funny commercial. So we got to win. That must
have been a virtual products. Well, so that's good to know. Is
that the temporary product you know the club or is it going to be around
that they just test my Yeah, I think I'm probably a guinea pig on
this. I'm not sure I can watch. That's offensive to some people.
That's offensive to l to use that term. Okay, sorry. What I
also saw Lois actually bought me the other day is Dunkin Donuts roasted about Dunkin
Donuts on the show. And I'm hoping everyone who's listening to us knows what
dunk dunt said. Massively successful and and uh dunk donut shop, coffee shop,
sandwiches, you know. But anyway, now they're in the candy market.
There's they have candy and super mixus. I think our area might be
a test, Michael where they it's basically it's a it's a it's a jelly
donut candy. It looks like a Reese's white chocolate peanut cup. Ever see
those the white chocolate peanut but a cup Reese's so, but it's that as
it is, and then the inside is the jelly like you're in like you're
eating a jelly donut. It was it was pretty good. Well there's we're
now seeing reese'sumb really between that and the empty re this package is here in
the basket in the studio. Man, I'm really long jones and one that,
as the kids say, well, so anyway, I had the junk
food, got the junk food over with. So switchy, let's go right
to you. Maybe this movie an all switch show. Who knows you?
You? You the past few three or four days, you've sent me pictures
of your breakfast, as if to mock me, show me all these great
breaches that you know. No, that's that's not why I when I when
I make comments about what I had at Tutor's Biscuit World, that's just so
you can kind of visualize what I'm what I'm eating. Not not to taunt
you, Okay, throw it in your face, all right? Or when
you say that you had these, uh, these saltines with no salt on
them, with a dab of locloriy peanut fu. Yes, no salt no,
no salt, no sugar, peanut related to the Hooters, the Hamburger
place, I would suggest not nobly. Okay, so anyway, so yes,
so Switch will send me these these huge platters, its pictures, huge
platters of uh breakfast food and I'm literally sitting there eating something on a salt
team, something that doesn't taste like anything. So any way, Switch,
if you're sitting one the other day and it was looked like three eggs,
six sticks of bacon, that's what they call the low carb you can have.
You can have bacon or sausage. Yes, three eggs anyway, three
eggs and either like a bread or a biscuit. Yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah. And that's the low cob low cob interesting that they would put right,
Okay, the high cob must be unbelievable. But so anyway, so
I'm guessing only because that you've been out a few times one or a few
times this week, I'm going to say you stayed in. I'm thinking I'm
getting a frosted Flakes vibe, maybe switching. Did I stayed in today?
What did you have for breakfast? Yes? Well, I actually went to
bob Evans today. I crossed the two rivers across the two bridges back into
bridge to the Silver Memorial Bridge. Yes, and it got into gallop withs
Ohio and went to bob Evans. Bob Evans. This morning, I had
a three meat omelet, bacon and sausage with cheese and you know other stuff
in it. But I didn't have any extras. I didn't have any HaShas
or any kind of bread or or you know, biscuit or whatever. So
it was just just the omelet. And that's pretty feeling. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that was nine bucks. You know, it was
more than that. It was No, it was more like twelve fourteen bucks.
Yeah, I thought I was in Massachusetts again. Uh all right,
wow, switching, thanks, No, Now, well I can think of
is like food, like really good food, you know, like six strips
of bacon and the big biscuit. Anyway, So I Sweitch, you ever
report for us tonight? So one? Then I put you one. I
put your bumper in right here. And now it's time for another story from
the Lost Animals of the pack Normal. It's time for Steve Ward's report from
the Fringe. So, switcheran, what do you have for us tonight?
Okay? These reports are from a magazine called The Gate to Strange Phenomena.
It's a quarterly magazine ten dollars US, twelve dollars Canada, fourteen dollars overseas.
It's about digest size. Back issues are available and it's something you can
order and open up in the envelope and actually read on, you know,
sitting down in a chair. You don't have to be by the computer.
Stan Gordon has a column in there every issue called the Unusual and Unexplained,
And in this particular one he has several reports from south western Pennsylvania and there's
a lot of recent activity. I'll just give you one of them. And
a lot of these are like i say, UFOs and bigfoot type reports,
which this area has been known for for years. In August, in a
Dairy township, a woman was walking her two dogs, and this was in
the Dairy Dairy Ridge area. Now, one of her dogs stopped and stared
into a wooded area about twenty yards away. Now, this is a dog
that never growls, but it started growling staring at something. There was something
large standing in the trees, partially camouflaged by the trees and by the foliage,
and it was maybe seven feet tall, black and brown fur arms hanging
down to its side. Now, the creature was staring at them, and
so she decided to get the heck out of there and ask what she did.
That was the end of that encounter. Now, the next article from
the gate. The source is from the Sun dot com. Remember nineteenth nineteen,
Yeah, twenty twenty three, and the title is Frightened perooving in villagers
report attempted face peeling by unknown entities. Now there's a title for you.
Of San Antonio de Pinto Yaku claimed that yellow eyed creatures attempted to abduct a
teenage girl and tried to remove her face. An American explorer named Timothy Alberino
and an ex marine gud Thornton, traveled deep into the Peruvium jungle to investigate.
It took a two day boat trip. The locals they met there were
terrified. They were patrolling their village, their area, having a watch every
night. They even burned down five acres of forest to give them a clear
view of anything that might be coming in and approaching. They have encountered,
according to their testimony, seven foot tall entities dressed in black body armor,
wearing helmets, having bright yellow eyes. They fly silently through the air on
lighted oval platforms. One man says he shot one point blank. It was
knocked down, but then got up again, apparently unharmed, and disappeared.
Said that the locals also witnessed UFOs the size of helicopters, but they were
eric acorn shaped, not conventional. The teenage girl that was attached was picking
fruit and one of these beings, while riding one of these platforms, grabbed
her from behind, along with another one of these these entities. She said,
a syringe was inserted into her nose and made her face go numb.
They took something that looked like a scalpel and made two cuts to her neck.
She heard one of them say, and there's no explanation as to why
she understood them if they are actually some kind of aliens. She heard one
say that he was using too much cream. It would ruin the flesh and
make her face difficult to remove, so she screamed. Her brothers heard,
and it came to her rescue, and they took off and left left her
alone. She was in a semi conscious state and she was bleeding, but
she recovered. Evarino thinks that they are, and not alien beans at all,
but some kind of an international organization of organ harvesters and maybe sex traffickers.
Again, he does not think that there are other worldly The next article
source p Pair Normalty Magazine, September twenty twenty September second, twenty twenty three.
Unknown men come, come knocking while UFO hovers in the background. That's
the title of this article. This occurred on September twenty seventh, twenty twenty
three, and it was captured on a doorbell camera in an unnamed California city.
Two strange men wearing dark suits sunglasses were seen knocking on the front door.
They were not recognized by anyone in the house. They were persistent.
They kept ringing the bell for a long time and it kind of unnerved everybody
inside. The thing is that when you look at this footage, that looks
like there's a black UFO suspended in the background in the air, just hovering
in the background. The next next article the source Inexplicica in Explicia blogspot dot
com. Here's another great title, frog skinned one eyed entities Frightened Eyewitnesses in
Argentina. Next toward evening, this is this goes back to nineteen eighty eight,
four teenagers encountered small entities that they described as two foot tall aliens.
This story was first covered in the newspaper La Opinion with the headline Aliens in
Peregino question mark Christian Cassio fourteen, Silvio Penna, Dario Duran, Javier Heringhi,
all nineteen years of age. They described these creatures as completely bald,
wearing some kind of clothes with a color similar to frog skin. They all
had one eye. The six creatures spotted them and gestured for them to come
close, and they were making some kind of gutteral growling noises, so they
decided they weren't going to approach. They just took off running and got the
hell out of there. Next story from paranormal authority dot com. What is
a fleshgate and stories of creatures that live deep in the forest that can mimic
voices of people you may know? And this is I've found this in like
Swedish folklore, the fairies that lived in the woods would mimic the children's parents'
voices and try and lure them into the woods. Now they could even According
to this, these flesh gates take on human likenesses. In their native form,
they are described as tall, very thin, and hairless. I'm usually
a white skin, sometimes it's almost luminous. They can walk on two or
four legs. They are said to lure humans into the forest, and actually
some of their calls are difficult to resist, a little bit like a siren
call. It is said that they are connected to thousands of cases of mysterious
disappearances. They are extremely fast and very strong in spite of their very thin
appearance. They are blamed on the disappearances are sometimes blamed on these creepy beings.
And the os factor also occurs sometimes around them. And that, of
course is a term coined by Jenny Randalls where a lot of people have experienced
this with paranormal phenomena or UFOs or whatever, whether forest or whatever, the
area gets deathly quiet. They can't hear insects, birds or anything. So
what is this a cryptid, a forest spirit or a complete myth? And
the other thing is that the kind of dovetails with the missing four one one
stuff. They say it's bad to wear bright colors, especially red, because
it'll attract these things. And they say to stay in groups, don't get
separated. It sounds suspiciously like missing four one one advice and now the last
part this is one for club. Okay, here we go, New York
Post October seventeenth, twenty three. That must be true. Are you ready?
Enormous devil comet heading toward Earth. Scientists report a huge horned comet three
times bigger than Ernest than the Mount Everest, named twelve P. That's got
to be one of the layest names of the is speeding toward Terra firma.
Is it expected to be a visual by April of the twenty twenty four It
appears to have two horns. Now, this may be caused by a by
strangely shaped get this cryovolcanic vents with some sort of blockage causing material to be
expelled with a weird flow pattern my words exactly sounds. This is according to
Richard Miles, who is with the British Astronomical Association. Okay, now it's
uh. The the scientists say that there is no need despite the trajectory right
now, there is no need to prepare for deep impact just yet. Oh
jeez, doesn't hit us in another seventy one years. Twenty ninety four it
will be back, So keep your eyes open. Wow, you'll have to
see this from the the naked eye at night. Well you yeah, you're
supposed to be able to by April. Yeah, wow, that's crazy.
That's it's like that movie. Don't look up respond to this that you discussed
this. We don't listen to my presentations because I brought that one up probably
a couple of months ago. So that's all right because I didn't indicate that
it was on. I didn't think that was necessary. It was a trivial
thing. But what was it? We thought you were asteroid boy, not
comic boy. Oh they're own on the same. Remember now they're pretty much
pretty much. Size is what would differentiates. But that's all right as the
common What was that I said? This is a comment? Damn yeah,
I'll send you some material to show you the difference. What was the name
of That's what I said, a difference. What was the name of that
comment? That's that? But I'm glad you brought it up. I try
to get in the middle of here. What was the name of that comment
that came around in the late nineteen nineties, Remember you could see it.
Hil Bob kil Bob Yeah, that's the one. Those people all got in
and poisoned themselves and they thought something like that was coming, yes, right,
yeah about that, huh. And they gave everyone twenty five cents when
they laid down and killed themselves because they thought they'd need change in the in
heaven. Yeah, they were okay, imagine to put people had to walk
in and find them, like, I don't know how long it took for
them to figure out there was something going on in the house. They knew
something weird, waspid, you know, you know how weird that group was.
Was the name of that that group, Heaven's Gate, Evan's Gate,
heavns Gate, something there was. I believe there were twelve guys and eight
women for some reason that sticks in my head that actually did this act.
And all the guys were Michelle Nichols brother Michelle Nichols from Star Trek. Really
yeah, huh. All the males had been previously castrated, you know that.
Yeah, because they didn't want to reproduce something at all. Nothing's that
important. Well maybe the leader wasn't He just make sure we didn't just didn't
have any competition. That's that's one way of doing it. Yeah, wow,
we have so so there is there is there some any kind of probability
this thing's going to hit us? Switch? Or is it just going to
fly by? They seem to say, I don't worry about it. Oh
that's not good. Yeah. So we just talked about that movie Don't Look
Up, which was around about a year ago. I saw it. I
thought it was terrible. A lot of people really liked it. I thought
there's like a lot of stupid uh overacting in it, and it was kind
of like that Mas Attacks type of movie, which I don't like. Well,
it turns out the guy who directed that also wrote it, I guess,
and I forget his name, but now he's like kind of, you
know, a big wig in Hollywood because that was a successful movie, had
a lot of big stars in it. As it turns out, some guy
wrote self published a book which is basically that idea about you know, a
coment is going to hit the earth or an asteroids is going to hit the
earth, and no one wants to believe it because we live in such a
screwed up society. He self published the book. Now he is suing that
production company saying they ripped him off for that idea, don't look up.
So this stuff happens all the time. You know, there's like frivolous lawsuits,
let's say, and you know they fight them off all the time,
and a lot of times people just trying to get money. However, in
this case, this guy took his self published book, sent it to his
daughter who worked for the production company who actually made that movie, and they
looked at it and they you know, gave it a pass, and then
two years later they make this very very successful movie. So this guy's in
for at least five million, ten million dollars. I guess basically, it's
a cut and drug case. I didn't really like the movie. I just
thought it was that isn't really how I mean, if you see it,
it's like three people, the only three people in the world would know this
thing. It believes this thing is going to hit, is taking on seriously,
and everyone else isn't. I understand. It's a you know, kind
of a comment on how we are these days, and I guess that hits
right. But I just don't think people would act so clownish when there's a
chance that this thing really was coming. So don't look up, just don't
go see it. Now, let me just remind you of when you're listening
to Backlonis Milt Treks, I'll show here on the Distant Thunder Radio Network.
We're here in pass of the Skeleton Gang. And see, hey, that's
a good name for a being, the Skeleton Gang. Excellent talking about movies.
Get ready, both all of us. All right, I have a
confession to make you know. Hold on, no no, hold on,
ralph Or. This past weekend was some inclement weather here up in the northeast,
so Leis and I decided to stay in and rent a movie, stream
a movie, as the kids say, and we streamed. We watched Bobby
Bobby. I gotta tell you this, Okay, all right, everyone is
believe me, they're laughing off. Can't have them mic. So it's not
a it's it's you know, I'm going to say it's not a bad movie.
I gotta say it's not a bad movie. Now. Having said that,
I also have to say I fell asleep halfway through. But the idea
of it is actually it's different than than a lot of other movies, and
especially people live in Bobby Land, and Bobby has to save Bobby Land.
So she has to go out in the real world and you do that.
It's every it's it's every sword and question movie plot that you can think of.
You know, you have to go on a fat trip and you'll save
the world. But it's done. There's there's there's a sense of human to
it. There's a lot of sense of human to it. It's talking about
castrating guys. Well, basically, if you watch this movie, you'll feel
that way walking out of it. But I think that was the intent.
But anyway, but but an interesting movie from a from a film from a
filmmaking point of view, it was actually a pretty interesting movie, though I
did fall asleep in the middlement. But anyway, have you seen anything recently?
Al movies? Clean ones, clean ones? I'm trying to think of
what that's a no, not really switch? Have you seen anything? What
do you do? What do you do? You go to movie? Switch?
Or do you watch my at home? Or do you even I've only
been to a couple of movies since I've moved down here. Yes, okay,
but were they were? They were the ones where the self won the
wall one of those things I went to that to the supposed to the last
Halloween movie. Jamie Lee Curtis. Oh, yeah, she came out of
you. Yeah, it was kind of I was kind of disappointed. Yeah,
and uh, I went to go see Idiana Jones. Did you really
know? Yeah, and something happened where I got Uh, I got nauseous
or something. I've never that bad happened. Yes, maybe I got some
bad popcorn or something. So I actually left smoked, maybe smoking a little
bit of him. I ordered it DVD so I know I can finally forget
what happens at the end. Is it that much action? You know?
It? Is it easy? Oh? Yeah, there's just actually it might
be too much. Well, I mean, is that it was just so
much motion on the screen that it makes you make emotionsick? Did you have
motion sick? No? Just I just think so come on, you know,
yeah, you're just overdoing it. Let's see. Here's the thing though,
here's here's the thing about those movies. Okay, first of all,
Harrison for was about one hundred and twenty years old. Okay, don't look,
don't look good. Jumba of airplanes and you're getting the girl and all
that stuff. Okay, that's past, right, But why do you take
I mean, I'm not saying they were great movies either, but they were
for their time. They were they were kind of cool because they brought that
nineteen thirty serials back into movies kind of and you know, that's that's that's
kind of exciting, you know, and they were good entertainment. Let's say
some of blockbusters. Let's say, okay, why do you why do you
go back and and and you know, rip up the whole thing again,
stop the machining, and then come up with a shitty movie. I don't
you know, why why go through that unless you come up with some really
really great story and everyone's gonna talk about, oh man, this is great,
not just that you know, this is a crummy plot and harrisonal for
it is like really old, you know, you know what I mean.
So before you were thrown up in your shoes switch, what did you see
of it? How much did I see? Yeah? Yeah, what you
know? What from what you saw? Were you impressed and not impressed?
I know? It's the the beginning was was pretty good. They it's some
kind of computer magic where they make them look young against for the flashback.
There's a bunch of evil Nazis and you know, fighting on the train that's
okay. And then there's you know, there's uh actually a plot gets a
little bit confusing. You know, all all these all the subterfusion people you
think you can trust, you can't trust, and uh, you know,
it just got a little bit too They were I think they were just trying
to uh be too clever. Oh that's a yeah, that's a common problem.
Yep. And there's this car chase that just goes on forever, not
not really a car, these little kind of cart things or whatever. Yeah,
And I don't know to stews hopefully, I don't know if the movie
will redeem itself when I actually finish it or not. Do you know,
do you anything about this movie the Marvels that has come out and is going
to like put Walt Disney into bankruptcy. I know that they stopped publishing the
figures on it because it was doing so bad. So so if I I'm
not an expert in this, but if I remember, right, Walt Disney,
Disney bought the rights to make the Marvel movies, right, they bought
Marvel Studios from Marvel and they and they figured, I mean, wow,
that's the Golden goose. You know, all we have to do is make
once again, make some reasonably good movies and people are going to go flock
to see them because people by the still by the comic books, like crazy
what Spider Man has done and they didn't do it. This movie is supposed
to be so bad. It's historically low as far as a Disney movie opening,
and you know, people going and seeing. How bad can it be
that people aren't going to see a Marvel comic bovie. Oh I did go
went to go see another one a while back. Uh, what was it
the Eternals? Oh? Is it? Huge cast? And it was my
god, I I kept myself from walking out about six times because it was
so bad, so boring, boring, A lot of people said, because
the subject matter, this is one of the things one of the uh sets
of characters created by Jack Kirby back in the day, ye a comic book.
So is it like a lot of people sitting around talking, you know,
a lot of a lot of talking, nothing really going on, that
type of boring. Well, there's some of that. I mean there's there's
action and they and they move all over the place and they have all these
different characters and a lot of it's kind of woll compolitically correct, you know,
you're just kind of groan and then uh, you know, it's just
uh well, it just didn't have it. They just didn't have a script.
The action are the action scenes filmed at night? Uh you mean,
like a Supermanagersman of Batman. What disgrace, the disgrace that they would have
a movie like that. And I can't even remember the get you know,
most of the scenes. I just yeah, yeah, it's it's gone into
that amnesia file because it just wasn't very good. Now, Superman Batman is
a perfect example of the I don't want to say stupidity of Hollywood, because
they still make a lot of money, but of the of the unawareness of
Hollywood that you would anyone who knows. I mean, it's too simplistic to
say if Batman and Supman had to fight, all bat all Suitman had to
do is just hit Batman once in the head and that's it, right,
fights over. But they actually crafted a whole movie around Superman fighting Batman,
and with Ben Affleck pulled out a rehab to join it, okay, join
in the fun. And what happened was I forget who the director was,
but the action scenes, which is basically you know, Suitman throwing Batman around,
Batman throwing Supman around, you know, buildings exploding, et cetera,
et cetera. Came out so bad that they did a few you know,
twists of the plot and they made the fight scenes at night and you can't
see them, you know, so all the bad and when I'm saying there
were so bad, the special effects were so bad. You could see stuff
around the edges and stuff, you know, and they just turned it into
night. That to me is so cynical for someone who's you know, paying
twelve bucks fifty and bucks worth, you know for a movie ticket and you
can't see it. Same thing with that latest Batman movie with that dopey guy
in it, which was actually had some really good stuff going for because he's
kind of weird and Batman. I think you know that the guy from the
Twilight series was in it, Robert Patterson and nine. It is so doc
you have no idea where you are, what's going on, who's in the
scene. It's just terrible, just terrible. But that's how they cover up
with bad special effects or not spending the money on ye know, really good
stuff. I him Superman versus Batman terrible, just absolutely terrible, terrible.
But Disney owns Star Wars right as well, So they're really loading up a
lot of Star Wars stuff, right because I know people will pay to see
it. But they're they've got a marketing juggernaut going. But even though Star
Wars movies that they've made or are they're making, have they Yeah, they've
made a couple. I guess they've been Okay, I guess they're the latest
ones. Okay, the Star Wars fans are okay with Disney owning Star Wars
apparently. I just read who's that guy Driver? Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I know, he said, Adam D. Driver.
I read an article the other day it said that to this day he still
gets confronted by people out in public that go, you killed Han Solo,
So yeah, you killed Han Solo. It's tough out there. Yeah yeah,
yeah, well, I mean that's the reputation he has now, so
you know, they goes his career. We also saw watched the third season
of the cod and if you're a Star Trek fan, I can't recommend that
more high. That is a really good Do you watch that at all?
Switchy no, but I'll tell you uh uh an really excellent. One is
Strange New Worlds. Yeah, yeah, I got I just got the second
season on DVD and hold your thought. But it deals with Christopher Pike.
This is before the original TV series starts, is what Spock is in it,
and and you know some of the some of the people that are going
to become somebody so and it it is really that. The first season anyway
was just absolutely superb interesting. I've never I've never watched Picard and I've you
know, I've seen the ads for what you were just you know series you
were just talking about. There's also a Star Trek Discovery and I started watching
that and I stopped because I thought they kind of went off the rails at
one point. But but Strange New Worlds man that I don't know about the
second season yet, but it is so well done. I was just really
impressed. One of the most impressive. Uh Star Trek. Actually this is
a PREQ, but you know, one of the ones to follow up the
original series. Interesting. You know, I remember as a kid the original
Star Trek coming out and being fascinated by it. And I've heard it at
the Star Trek conventions. The the groups are trek Os or trek Ease,
depending on which you like the original or you like the next generation, and
they really get into it. It's really kind of interesting. But Captain Kirk,
you know serious, well it's still you know, I watched some of
those and what they did was they remastered them and they punched up the special
effects just a little bit. They didn't want to overdo it to make it
not kind of fit the series. But their attitude was, let's let's make
them a little better. Let's make them the way they would have made them
if they had the time and money. So I'm not a purist, you
know. I think it's They didn't really change the dialogue or cut scenes or
anything like that, but made some of the you've got more angles of the
ship passing over the planet. Yeah yeah, yeah, just some things like
that. So they really really did a nice job. And man, you
can still get I can still get captivated by some of the original shows original
series, guy, you know, the ones are okay, But I'm completely
sold on the Star Attract the original series. I'm with you you yeah,
yeah, yeah. No. The thing about PICAD, though, which was
interesting too, is the first couple of seasons and now in this third season
and they actually, well what they were able to do is, you'll be
in if a cod is in, he's like the superhero in the galaxy.
He's around, he's kind of putting out all these forest fires, and you
know, he has to do this, he has to find this person,
he has to get in this rocket ship and stuff like that. And he
said, all these space opera adventures very much like Robert Heiland and Isaac Asimov
and those kinds of writers. And but what's cool about it is that he'll
be in a tight spot, you know, and he's surrounded and and you
know he's Outgune and everything, and all of a sudden, someone will jump
in and then someone from the series, let's say Wolf or someone it's someone
from another Star Trek series coming in and saving him. And they're kind of
cross pollinating, and it's very cool the way they do it. The problem
is is that the beginning, they these characters come at you as a surprise,
and it's really kind of cool. Oh wow, well there's uh,
you know, there's Jeordie, there's you know what I mean, you know,
and and it's very cool. There's data you know, it's very cool
how they introduce the characters. But at the beginning of every show they say
special guests, and they're gonna say it and you're going to know that what's
his name is in this we're going to show up? Yeah, yeah,
which is but they didn't do that in the third season. Very good.
I recommend that for anybody anyone who likes that old kind of space offer type
stuff and like Star Trek God is very very good. However, he's getting
very he's also getting very old. You know, he's running around he's about
nine years old for somebody who really wasn't that From what I've read in the
past, he was not that set on taking the job to the beginning because
he really he was a classically trained and Shakespeare and Shakesperian actor and he's like,
you want me to go play trick, come on? And he took
it very begrudgingly or you know whatever, reluctantly, and he's really turned into
the guy the face of the franchise. Well, you know what the reluctance
was or what what overcame the reluctance money, I'm not going to waste my
time, Okay, yes, yeah, let's look into this as you know,
Men's explanation. They do the same thing with Strange New Worlds, where
they start to introduce characters that are going to become somebody later. Oh that's
cool, yes, James, a young James T. Kirk shows that cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they stick to the yeah Kirk. Rather,
Spock has his girlfriend who dumps him in the second season of the original
dumb Spot. Haven't been jumped yet, So Spock gets dumped. Is that
what you're saying? Well, remember the fight them up time and oh to
Pring Spock has to go back to uh to make everything to make sure.
Yeah, the girl's name was to Pring. To Pring, Okay, yes,
to Pring played by a great actress. She's an actress. I've seen
her in other things, but I didn't realize it was the same woman.
You know how sometimes you have that shock like, oh my god. This
is usually I'm pretty good at that picking out people, but not always.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, so it's a it's the same
strange world. Yeah, the uh the Domen of Elas or what was it
the and another one she you talk about, you know, a beautiful woman
and she was in like I see her in another TV show era track episode.
Yeah, and this woman was stunning and I think it's Friends New again.
Yes, she's she's some time a million, like sixties and seventies shows.
You're watching the show and you see her and you go, wait a
minute, she's she's a star Trek. Yeah. I knew these guys in
college. They used to watch they'd have stat Trek binges put they were on
tape and every time and they had like four or five phrases, and every
time you heard that, you had to take a drink. One of them
was, uh, he's dead Jim. Yeah, I guess beat me up
must have been one. You know, he's dead Jim. You know that.
Yeah, he's dead Jim. Fascinating Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
You'll wind up a drunken mess after you know, the marathon, especially if
you knew the series well enough. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. So hey,
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to macloney's military saw show here on the distance. I never had down Noworriy,
this is mac maloney. Wow, what a show we have for you
tonight. No JJ girl, Sorry, no cocoa, but switch led Steve
Wood is here with us, Switchy. Great to be here tonight talking about
movies. Yeah, funny. Also, Secrety Chief is with us. A
few Twinkie bunces into the day of the night, Willie Club w c Hey,
mackiew. I'm really I keep looking at this package of Twinkies and the
show is pretty solid, so I haven't opened it yet. Okay, all
right, still time. Well, I'm on quickly. I wanted to correct
something that I discussed earlier with switch Yes. I'm big enough to apologize to
say that I was wrong. We talked about Wendy's yes and it would Lean
romantically rightfully corrected me. It was Tim Horton's. Tim Hortons his own and
they spun them off for billions of dollars, and so I just wanted to
correct that and also state that further say, Burger King ended up acquiring uh
Mortons after that. Wow huh about that? Tim Hortons was owned by Wendy's
and then they spun it off for twelve billion and then no, Burger King
bought them for twelve billion. So the hamburger industry loved them. So I
I just wanted to own up to the fact that I had given out some
misinformation. Really Switch kind of embarrassed about it because that's not you know,
I usually am pretty accurate, but I guess I'm human too. Let's see
how magnanimous Switch is gonna be. Uh really yeah? Oh yeah, okay,
waitning for Switches reply nothing. He said enough. I mean to have
him saying, you know, I'm big enough to take it. I mean,
I knew. I knew Bob, Bob Evans, Bob Evans and Eastern
Ohio many years ago. Okay, don't rub it in, Switchy, don't
rub it in. So anyway, we were talking early about that's okay,
we were we were talking earlier about movies, different kind of movies we've seen
you know what, most of the science fiction movies. A really good movie.
You don't hear it discussed very much, but it was very well done,
very intelligent, maybe a little too deep. It was Contact with Amy
Adams. Do you see that? That was excellent? Yeah, really deep
thinking type of a movie, but well done. I really well done science
or was it what's your name? Jody Foster? No, that was Jerdy
Foster was in the big one. There was Contact, first contract, Wait,
man, that is contact? What was the one with Amy Adams?
Just it was just about three or four years ago, first Contact. I
think it might be I'm not sure, but these people that might have been
Jody Foster. And then maybe there's another one, the Jodie Foster one is
listen. That's such a good movie. Stolen scene from that for about from
at least five or six books. That's a great movie. That's called Contact,
written by what's his name? The Billions and Billions guy and Sagan,
Yeah, by Kyle Sagan, And once again a good book done very well
into a movie. And they usually don't work that way, but there was
one later on with Amy Addams's Arrival. I'm sorry, yeah, it's called
a Rival and you have to kind of follow it because it it's one of
these things where you know, there is no time. You know, everything
is happening all at once. It's it's just time as an allusion to us.
And it really kind of explains that in a way that you can almost
understand. She's a good actress. So that was very good. The Contact
itself was once again, very good movie. Memorable movie, you know,
an entertaining movie, you know, and and even though that was thirty years
ago, you know, that turns out to be like something that would happen
these days. You know, where this person who you know, did this
heroic journey after all these trials and tribulations. You know, she comes back
in half the people don't believe her, you know, so you know,
kind of bell That was his favorite movie. Yeah, it was a good
movie. It really was. Watched that thing all the time. You'd always
talk about it. Another good movie was the one where from I've got the
name of it, we have Mad Damon is stuck on Mas. You see
that one, Yeah, a bunch of times. Maybe it was called The
Marsian, the Martian. Once you do on your game tonight, there is
switch you know that that's a movie with like a real sense of human to
it, you know what I mean. It seems like I mean, the
plot is basically someone who's stranded on mas and they can't get to him for
like years and they believe he's dead and so on. But there's a sense
of human to a is he he uses every little you know, Paul thirteen,
where they use all these kind of different you know, items and everything
to kind of survive, and that's what he does. And really good.
That's a really good movie. Yeah, it's a great Like I said,
I've seen it a bunch of times. Yeah, it's a go to,
like you if you're gonna watch something, but you I don't know, if
you stay awake for the whole thing, watch it again. Yeah, he
sciences the ship out of it, is what he says. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, really good. And a lot of disco music.
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, he just happens to bring
the disco music. One of the other crew members is big in disco and
he's always left. Yeah, and it's he's like, she has the most
horrible taste in music and that's all he has. And he's listening to I'm
sure the soundtrack probably didn't cost him a ton of money, but good for
those people. Who's who's you know song he had on it? Yeah,
that's the easiest way to make money in the world is to write a song
for something that's popular. Who's the guy who put on The Brady Bunch?
He was the executive producer. He's like very well known, you know,
Lenond Schwartzman or something something they did. Remember from Lives of the Rich and
Famous? Remember that show Leech. Yeah, they go and they visit this
guy and he lives in this incredible house in Malibu out over the cliffs.
It's probably flowing in the ocean now, but at the time, beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful, And they go, how did you you know what show?
What did you do to afford this? He since, I wrote the
theme song for The Brady Bunch and that paid for this place, you know,
because it's every time that was played, he got a check. He
got a check. Yeah, it's nice. Nice if you're in that business,
Go ahead, switch it. You look like you're about to say something.
No, I was just thinking about movies I walked out on and another
one was what was it the Riverboat Cruise or whatever. The one based on
the Disney rhyne with the rock Oh yeah, that was fair Yeah, yeah,
famously. Yeah, yeah, you want to see that. You want
to see that in the movies I went to see. In the movie,
I thought, oh, it's going to be just a put the mind down
rewind yeah, accident, it'll be fun. Yeah. And they got to
a point where they were trying to copy Pirates of the Caribbean. It just
went, it went so far off the rails. I thought, what is
this crap? And I watched it for a little longer and I thought,
no, I'm out of here. The Disney they were using Disney property.
They did the River Cruise. Yeah. I don't know if you ever been
on that, but that's what it was. And then they parted to the
Caribbean. You know, they just dig right down there in Hollywood and wow,
pick it up. But those are the kind of movies I would I
watch at home. I would wouldn't even waste the time. I take it
on either worth just for the popcorn. But once the popcorn is gone and
a stage left. If any of you watched the Disney movie up yeah with
Yeah, it's a cartoon movie, but I didn't go to see it.
I was watching it, like on Netflix or something kind. I think I
probably made I don't think I made ten minutes I shut it off. Yeah
it's depressing. Yea, it is depressing. It's a depressing, brutally depressing.
I'm sorry. Kids like such such big ratings. Yeah, I mean
everybody's raving about it. I thought this is absolute crap y. Yeah,
it's horrible. I got to say this lowest is toobic. For some reason,
kids like that movie. They they could identify with that movie, which
is, you know, when you looking at it in real life, when
you say the guy, you know they wanted to do something she dies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah, you know
it's it's horrible, you know the poor guy. Hell, that's what it
is. Let's see. There's I was almost watch for probably the fiftieth time
the other night. It was the Original War of the World. We've talked
about that before as compared to the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds, which
is also directed by Steven Spielberg. But the Original War of the World is
it's it's the original the book. The story takes place in Britain, but
in the fifty two to fifty one version of Why of the World. Gene
Kelly is in it, and they really kind of stick to it the way
that the story stuck to it. I mean, the story has lots of
detail in it, but they basically stick to the same kind of being of
the story. And what's cool in that movie is the special effects are really
good in the in the old movie, because the spaceships look good. These
walking there's those towers look good when the cut and the cellar and they they
see like the finger, you know that they first you first see when their
ends up close. It's cool. The way they at the end that they
all die is very cool. And I saw the tom Cruise one maybe two
years ago maybe, and it's not like that. I mean this there's not.
There's it's not a completely terrible movie that the latest version of Ae of
the World's. It's not. There's some really good good scenes and that lots
of action scenes, you know, kind of like battle scenes. But once
again, it doesn't make any sense. You know that the whole planet is
destroyed except Cambridge, Massachusetts where his in laws. We're up there. You're
having a crossan doing in the New York times, cross red puzzle. All
the stuff is going on around them, and if he turns the kids to
it. And I've said this so many times, it's in that book right
in front of you. Yeah. The only damage there is that they haven't
raked the leaves up yet, you know. I mean, it's really pretty
I don't know. The good thing about that was we had Jean Barrant and
Robinson right in there playing the in laws. That was pretty cool. That
was a nice touch, you know. Getting back to the original, I
have that on an audio, you know, I got it on a CD
or something. I really enjoy that. I don't know. It was good
watching it, you know, but now because it's so old looking and everything,
but I really enjoyed listening listen to it. Interested in the room.
You never be put the lights down low and just listen to the audio of
thatfort I can. Yeah. Yeah, the way he describes everything in detail
in the narration, narrator watch it. I have to listen to that talk
about the special record they made. Now it's I get all these audios of
old radio shows and everything, and one of them is the original you know,
the nineteen fifty two whatever movie. But it's just the and I just
I love audio anyways, I listen to old radio shows. But that movie,
to me, it adds so much to it if you just listen to
it, you know, without seeing any visuals. There's a narrator. There's
a narrator in in the movie itself, you know the movie right along then
it's all the voices. I mean, it's the same thing, but it's
it's so different when you listen to it versus watching the film version. You
picture things so much differently. Yeah, that's cool. They look like because
he describes what these warm light things look like. And if you hadn't seen
the movie and then you watch a movie, you wouldn't believe it's the same
one. Right, Yeah, that's cool, but could start a war of
the world's version where it's it's all narrated. It's it's the story is told.
Uh, Liam Neeson is the narrator. He's he's playing the protagonist.
And uh, you know the music, and that's where they use the music
from the Moody Blues. Oh yeah, sure, yes, yeah, yeah,
yes, that justin Heywood. Oh that movie that song something Forever Autumn,
Forever Autumn that's in there, and and other other music. I mean,
it's it's so well done. It's the scene where the uh uh,
the the the tripods are there and there's the the one of the ships kind
of gets the better of one of them and collapses, and you're thinking,
you know, the big cheer goes up, and then they come back and
annihilate the boats, annihilate the good guys. It's really really, really well
done. It carries you through the whole story. That's why people in the
book they love the radio. I mean before television, you know, you
know, you people gather around the radio and it's more of a you know,
you have to make up the visuals in your mind when you hear some
person a personal thing. It's all right in that one. You can picture
how the people actually were afraid of this thing. When you listen to it,
because it's the you know they broadcast, they bring a bulletin in.
You know, they're cutting the show. The radio show is just like on
the movie There uh well, the radio pot there there is. They're at
a dance hall listening to Vonn Monroe or somebody. People are dancing Saturday night.
All of a sudden they cut in with a bulletin that there's something going
on out in New Jersey. And then we go back to the music again
and they're dancing just the original one. Right. Yes they're cut in three
or four times, but that really adds to it. And I cannot a
stand why if someone came in after the first five minutes, when they explained
that it's only a ship, oh you wouldn't know, they could be very
concerned. Yep, yep. That that was Mills, New Jersey, right,
that was nineteen thirty eight. What's his name? Weuson Wells, the
only person they stay in Hollywood, started his way at the top and worked
his way down. But the way that they did that they knew. I
think I think they hoped that something would happen that night, just knowing Austin
Wells. And if you see the press conference that he gives like two or
three days later, where it's like, oh, we didn't know, Oh
we didn't know. You could tell that he's just inside He's saying, Wow,
I've just become you know, this is it. You know this this
gimmick made it for me, you know. And he wasn't, you know,
talented guy and everything. But I think that they wanted that to happen.
I don't think that really happened as organically as people you know like to
think, you know, And I don't know if it was as big of
an uproar. I mean, they said eight people died, but did they
really you know, I don't know. But as for a publicity stunt or
an unintentional publicity stunt, is one of the best ever. Well and he
said, there are a lot of phone calls to the police people all over
the country. A large number of phone calls were made. They're not more
than usual, right of people, you know, expressing concerns. So you
know that's that seemed to be factual. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
it was you know, well done. And I don't think they have to
do another one. The once again, the tom Cruise one has some great
action sequences in it. There's one and where you know, everyone is trying
to get away from these things and they're all kind of moving towards New England
and they're near Ferry and all of a sudden, everyone stops and an Amtrak
train goes by them and it's completely on fire. Completely be funny. If
it was on time, that'd be right, you know, but completely on
fire and everyone just cut waits for this thing to like pass them, and
then they continue this this kind of journey. Really really well done action scenes.
Great, we're Tom Cruise kills the guy in the in the in the
cellar. He has to kind of kill the guy so he doesn't give their
position away. How Tom Cruise brings the hand grenade up into the tower.
And I mean there's a lot of really really good scenes and that's filmed very
well. Two big mistakes once again at the end with Cambridge is how they
has its hair must And at the beginning they show Tom Cruise and he's one
of these uh operators of those cranes that take containers off of ships and stuff.
And you know he wants to day off because there's divorced kids of the
blah blah blah blah blah bah, you know, Spielberg stuff. And they
go in that this guy lives in a hovel. Those guys make about and
twenty thousand dollars a year. They make good money. Yeah they're not living
in hope. Bulkens depends on how how fast they can load and unload,
right yeah, yeah, yeah, they get good money. Can I say
again, you would not be fun going to a movie with most I was,
Yeah, you want to go in there and all you want to do
is critique it. I want to go to a movie, I try to
escape. I want to enjoy it. I don't give a ship about the
other thing. Wow, you were talking about Tom, I'm out of the
show, ready to blow my head off when you were talking about trying to
say that. But you know it is like it is. I understand.
I can't watch anything, you know without picking to the pond ahead out you
go back to the original My god, he went to film school. Well,
but now listen, hold on a second, excuse me, hold on
for one second. Here's here's the problem. Is like if you if you
went to the Culinary Institute of America right where all these top chefs you'll go,
and then you go into a restaurant and you can tell it's not good
to faking it whatever like that. You know you you you can't escape.
You see all the critical poles, But there are movies out there that are
actually almost perfect perfect that and I'll give you one to know. It's kind
of stupid. The movie that movie called Big with Tom Hanks turns into an
adult Okay, watch the movie. Consider that perfect. That's a perfect movie.
Yes, believe it or not, watch it from beginning to end.
And a perfect movie in my mind is that you started off, you introduce
what's going on, and then the character turns into you know, something happens
to the character. I mean, it's a fantasy and everything, but it's
it's literally perfectly paced and everything. The any well, the extended version,
the original version of The Good, Bad and the Ugly Same Thing, actually
three movies put together, perfectly paced, perfectly paced until the very very big
the ending, which is spectacular ending, you know. But you take these
movies like Saving Private Ryan for instance, okay, because we were talking about
that on the World or two Turia Show, and not only do my complaint
that you would send you know, a whole battalion or a company or you
know, a division to go and capture this guy. Not seven people walking,
one of which isn't even a soldier. And there's a scene in that
where they're walking. Now they run this mission for the President, for the
White House, and they come upon this random kind of machine gun nests,
you know, and then we have to attack that. We have to forget
the mission, attack that because they just want, you know, one guy
to be killed and they let the Nazi go and he comes back and stabs.
I mean, come on, that's bullshit, man. That stuff doesn't
happen in real life, you know. Platoon. Platoon is a very good
movie now talk about and it's not a perfect movie, but that's a very
very good movie because that really shows you what war is like and what some
of the people that you have to fight alongside with. You know, they're
now all your band of brothers, you know. I mean there was more
fighting amongst us over there than you're fighting the vietname sometimes, but a very
very make a lot of notes in these movies. I don't have to take
a lot of notes. I don't have to. It's got one of those
of the micro recorders where he makes mo Hey, listen, if you went
to school for three years, but you know a lot about finance, you
club right? Okay, all right? I mean you know so, uh
you're an expert on the correlation there at all. Using the big words.
You're going to say something I was going to while we were in movies and
uh, you know what's his name, Tom Cruise? That's the guy.
Yes, if I get yeah, well, you know, I was you
gotta go with Tom Hanks for some reason. So they did the original movie
The Mummy back in the thirties, yes, and then you know, probably
the nineties whatever Brendan Fraser did, yeah version which actually turned out pretty good.
First one and it was actually pretty good, and the second one was
general I'm not bad either, and then the third one fell off a cliff
good special effects. Right, So then Tom Cruise does a version of it.
He really late. Yeah. Now the thing with Tom Cruise is the
Mummy turns out to be a really really good looking woman. Was that she
shows what happened. She's not she's not your like really nasty, ugly guy.
This is the twist. And he's yeah, and he's in the military,
I believe because they went and got they went and dug it up and
he gets the psychophagus out, and you know, so I've never watched the
entire movie, but she is pretty killer. Does he hit it? As
the kids said, I didn't watch it that long, but I think I
think he dies, but she keeps him alive. I don't know. But
she wouldn't interest him, that's not But if you saw this girl, he
would say we even turn him yet? Oh yeah, okay, So you
know, I mean, as they remake movies, sometimes they hit it pretty
well, like the Italian Job done way back and it was yeah, and
then they did it Marky Mark does it with the you know, the new
crew, I don't know how many years ago, and I think they're going
to remake it again, but you know, yeah, and what is with
Willy Wonka? Why are they keeping there's a new version of it out and
I'm like, seriously, I wouldn't watch any of them. What was Yeah,
that's a strange one. But I don't know. I know, Johnny
Depp being William Wonka was like, what now there's a new guy doing it?
Where did that come from? Yeah? I mean it was written by
famous guy forget his name. And the first one is you know, uh
Wilder. You know, but there's another movie was that. You were just
talking about movies that they remade. I mean, you had to me remaking
a movie. It's just you're too lazy to come up with the new idea,
you know. I mean, you know at a certain point that you
know you're gonna make some money on it, Like when we're talking about the
Exorcist, movies. They remade The Time Machine, and I thought that it
was pretty good. Yeah in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, they gave
nods to the original film and then they gave nods to the original novel.
It was kind of a nice blend, and they told they told their own
story, but it wasn't so far away from the original that you wed grown,
so I, you know, everything was good. Klaus spelled out to
the music. Same guy that did the Pirates of the Caribbean, Okay,
yea, and it was I thought really well done. The original one,
the original time Machine with Rod Rod Taylor. Let me tell you about Yvette
Mi Mule. Okay, back then it was a little mac take your hands
out of your diapers, you know. Anytime she would appeared, she was
beautiful. She was beautiful, beautiful. She was on TV a lot then.
And then I remember going to see the movie and I'm saying, wow,
she's in this and she's kind of like in a bikini or a little
kind of short skirt or whatever. Flash forward many years to the early nineties.
I had him to be in business in Hollywood on business and we were
in the Beverly Hills Hotel, just like you hear, you know, on
TV having lunch with somebody, and who's sitting at the table next to us,
but yvettman mule. She looked great. Yes, she was probably I
mean, I hate to say it her fifties or something, but she was
still beautiful. And it's so weird. I mean, there's your childhood.
It's like, you know, meeting Donna Douglas or something, you know what
I mean, Ellie may or something. Yeah, it was she was,
she was really, she was really just a beautiful woman. Yeah. But
I'd like the original time machine. I liked it because it was simple,
you know what I mean. I like the original. I like the new
one too, I do, but the that's that the original one was.
It was simple. He just built this thing and he spun the disc and
back of it and that was this time machine, you know. And and
the way he saves him at the end, and when he goes back at
the end, he just moves the machine a little bit and yeah, I
don't know. It is a period piece, which was great, yeah right,
yes, yeah, yeah with the guy from mister Edward was yeah,
yeah, yeah, I was waiting for Hey Wilburg. Yeah, see Dave
Chappelle's The Racist Mister Ed. I'm not recommending it for anyone, but it's
a hilarious on YouTube. But yeah, yeah, I don't know. I
always I always kind of liked that movie. But when you really think of
it, what others? You know, there's like the Alien movies. The
first one was the best by fa and you know number thirteen was Alien,
you know versus the Simpsons or something that ran one wasn't bad. Aliens with
oh what's his name? Played the android Lance Henderson? Okay, yeah,
how about Arnie doing Predator and if some of the Ernie did a bunch of
movies back in the Predator, you know, Terminator, all those those were
pretty interesting movies, you know, for the day. The special effects are
pretty good back then for what The Red was actually really pretty good. Yeah,
and they've remade it, I believe I think they've remade that too.
I mean, I know this Alien versus Predator and Predator goes Hawaiian. Yeah,
right, Japan a movie that that we've talked about before, and I
think you guys seem to think as an improvement. I don't was the original
the thing? The original? The Thing is a great, great movie.
Black White movie. Yeah much blood, so much blood. I mean,
if you if you pulled the ketch up on too much, you know,
you're not gonna appreciate it. There's just my mother through that movie. I
had it on VHS. Was that Mother's Day good thing I brought my mother.
And when I was a kid, my mother and I used to watch
Creature Feature on Channel fifty six with with with what's his name feet feet little
guy, and we would we would watch, you know, the really bad
B grade movie. I love those movies. We've got Zilla movies and stuff.
And I said, again, my mother's you know, at the point
I showed it to her, she was not a young lady, and I
said, I get this movie. You gotta watch it. She sat through
that really yeah, and she liked it. Yeah yeah yeah. Attack on
Crab Island I remember them, you remember them? Sure? I think I
owned some of them. I can remember going out after watching that movie trying
to kill every d M man who could find. So this was so long
time. I used to take them, we used to burn them, yeah,
yeahs anything to punish them. But I don't know how long it was
that I had this thing with the ants. If I ever saw anyone.
So that movie was the middle of the fifties. James Whitmore was in at
The original was made like in the mid fifties, and it is basically one
of the first nuclear weapons have screwed up, you know, the environment type
of thing where nuclear waste has caused these ants to grow to tremendous size.
Right, and there's a Battle of Los Angeles stuff. But Swisch, there
were really some There's a lot of people in that movie who went on to
do big the better things, right. Fis Parker. He's the soldier who's
in the mental Yeah yeah, yeah, the guy was but he said he
was saying, uh, make me a sergeant in charge of the booze,
remember that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And and James
Whitmore was in it. Now you're saying it was Robin Lansing in that as
well. I don't remember that. No, Well it's a guy from Gun
Smoke is in it, James. You know what, he got the call
off to be Matt Dylan on Gun Smoke while he was making that film.
Is that where they kill him off kind of abruptly? Maybe that's why.
But why don't you make that movie all over again? Could you make imagine
doing that movie with special effects these days, with the big ants and stuff,
that would be kind of cool. They be back out there killing them
again. The tarantula, Yeah, yes, the rabbits, the rabbits,
ring mantis. They had all you know, all those nuclear things, you
know, and then driving back in the day, remember the U. I
own a lot of them on you know, on DVD. I bought a
bunch of them from some guy who was just yeah, I got I got
something that they bought like that twenty bucks, yeah, forty pictures remember from
getting a band with the Grasshoppers. Yeah, picture of the of the building,
the two dimensional picture of the building. Yeah, these grasshoppers. What's
the what's the movie? I mean, the Praying Mantis. It's called The
Deadly Mantis, The Deadly Menshis, okay, and it's about a giant praying
mantis. So I saw a lot of these movies on Mystery Science Theater,
okay, which was this yeah show from the eighties and nineties, I guess,
And basically it was it was this guy in these two robuts was sitting
in the audience and they're kind of you and you're watching the movie and they're
critiquing it making the movie right, and some of it was like really funny.
So in that in the then Deadney manshis I'll then forget this scene where
it's you know, this army officer and he's trying to figure out where the
big mantisays, and of course he got the beautiful scientist you know with him,
and they're out at night trying to find this thing and they're parking somewhere
and she says, you know, Dowling, how do you feel? And
the robot goes for his voice. He goes, I got a mantis in
my pants. That it was funny show mad scientists that sent uh Joel Hodgson
up into space, and he was we're going to make him watch these horrible
movies and test their mental reactions to them. Right. It was kind of
the silly premise, but it really worked. Man. It was funny,
funny, funny, funny, funny. Yeah. Yeah, and then they
then they just quit doing the show, which is there was made Minnesota somewhere,
and well it's it's still going on and I have other people doing it.
They're on YouTube or or something some special access. Yeah, it would
be some funny hilarious, some really bad movies that they would critique in such
hilarious ways, would do like a viru kind of like an a viral thing.
Yeah, that's right. And the thing was, it's the same thing
we all do when we sit there watching a movie, making those kinds of
equips, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really good. Hey,
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part of the Skeleton crew tonight. Yes, And go back in time and
talk about some of these old movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, also
UF Mechanic Alven. Now though in the house of us out right, Mac
folks, we're talking about like mostly old sci fi movies, but movies that
you know that were remade and I can think of there was one really good
science fiction movie that I liked a lot as a kid, and that was
the Day of the Earth Stood Still, which is an early fifties movie Michael
Rennie was in, and when you watch it these days, there's a lot
of uh, you know, academic stuff. He's in a house, he's
in a he's a he's in a boarding well. Basically what happens is a
flying slash of lands virtually on the White House lawn. Okay, and it's
obviously a flying sauce so obviously has a lot of power. It kind of
destroys the two tanks and stuff like that, and Michael Rainey comes out with
this robot and and it's basically a fascist message. It's like, you know,
if you don't do what we tell you, we're going to blow up
your planet. But he said it is if you listen to his speech at
the Yeah, yeah, it's like, okay, it's really you know.
So anyway, but the movie itself, so he didn't gets involved with Patrician
o'neils. She's get on the boarding house. He is, they gonna allude
that he's hitting her, and then he has to find this, you know,
this Einstein type guy, and he does, and so it's like that,
and then they get back to the science fiction pod towards the end.
Okay, but it's a real kind of thinking movie in fifties, very fifties,
very kind of filmed the wire in a what gritty Then they made it
again with Kenna Reeves, and I've never heard one thing positive about that movie.
It just blew from beginning to win. So you have to think,
where's the meeting that they sit down they say, let's do this. Let's
take this movie and put Keniano reason it and destroy it and destroy it.
You know, he's been in some pretty good movies. Nothing not him,
But why do you do that? No, here's another movie that I think
should be redone. But then you say they'll do it, they'll probably f
it up. And it's Close Encounters of the Third Count, which is like
a really flawed movie. The first one, the original one is a flawed
movie because it's it's an uneven movie. You've heard me talk about this before.
And movies have a certain pace to them, and they, whether you
know it or not, they rant acts. They're in three acts. And
in the original script for Closing Counters of the Third Kind called for the lead
character to be a junior officer, like a lieutenant or something in the army,
and he and it's kind of like the Skelly of the X Files.
He does not believe in UFOs, and he becomes a believer in UFOs.
Instead of the last minute, they bring in Richard Dreyfus, and he's this
electrical worker or of something, lineman or something, and it's his interaction with
the flying saucer which is the basis of the movie. Okay, first of
all, he sucks as an actor, and and he by his own admission,
he was coked out from the beginning to the end. The woman who
produced that that movie, her name was Kathleen Kennedy. I think she's she's
passed away now, but she said that movie started my million dollars coke habit.
You know. Now, I'm not saying that Spielberg. He doesn't seem
to be a coke type guy to me, but a lot of the people
on that movie were, you know, doing the blow during the movie.
And I think it's a I think Richard Dreyfus is the worst. Is not
a good trace of the movie if you notice the whole idea, the whole
section of him building the mountain in his house. First of the potato.
If anyone hasn't seen the movie, they don't know what we're talking about,
but it was a mountain on a mash potatoes. And then they'ret and stuff
in his house because he's seen this vision that takes up the middle part of
the movie, you know, and it does and you know, okay,
if he builds the mountain of Master teddies, you get it. You don't
have to see this forty minute see of him doing it in his living You're
right, they overdid that. They could have done shortened that down to like
a few minutes and done the same thing, but it just really the movie
was just completely off balance because of that. You know why they did that,
because Drives just wanted it that way. That was the way you want
to do his character. And then when you get out of that, you
get into the interesting point where they finally go to that mountain. But still
that is still a little kind of confusing. You know, what are they
doing there? What does no one ever says, Okay, we're going to
meet the aliens at you know, midnight on this night, and we're going
to show you. They never tell you that. And when you see the
acting, and this is another Spielberg thing, okay in that movie, and
I think that it was made maybe ten years before it's time because these special
effects that are just barely kind of new, and you know, some of
them are good, but some of them are out of proportion to it.
But when at the end, when the people are looking at the great ship
coming down, you can tell the gist. He told to go look at
your look, look at that ceiling, and put wonder on your face.
And that's like twenty minutes and these people say, oh, you know,
and you know they're not looking at anything. So that's why I don't.
I just don't. He's not a good storyteller. He just isn't, you
know. He makes these, you know, popular movies, but story wise,
so I, well, we'll just make it again. But who wouldn't
know, you know, if they made again, they would f it up,
you know, because the record is right they well they would, you
know, f up the Yeah, not the sequel, but the remake.
So one of the best things about that was John Williams soundtrack, very good
people listened to independently and back to Day the oster. Still I don't know
who did the remake soundtrack, but you're never going to surpass Bernard Herrman,
Theoremon Yep for that. That was a suggest a superb Moody soundtrack. Right,
I'll tell you, I honestly believe The Day the Earth Stood Still is
probably one of the best sci fi movies ever made. That that is the
first, the original, Yeah, I mean, for the time I remember
as a kid watching that came on maybe once a year. We didn't have
VCRs, right, and you know, and you know, we glued to
that thing. And then they came out with the new one with Keanu Reeves.
So I'm kind of watching it, going, well, they had this,
you know, in the original, they had this eight foot nine foot
rot Gort who you know, shot a laser beam out and just he could
destroy the earth. That was his his thing. And in the Keanu Reeves
version, he turns into bugs. He turns into little tiny bugs and flies
away, and yeah, the robot, he's monstrous, but they make them.
He comes apart into these little I don't know, nan nights. I
don't know what the hell's supposed to be. But I'm like, where's the
laser beams, where's the destroyer? Come on? Now, what what are
we waiting for? Just it was like a totally different movie. Now,
what about Dune? Dum No? No. I saw the first domoment,
it was like, oh my god, they're remaking it, and I watched
because I didn't realize they've only released half of it. I watched the second
one, but it stopped halfway through and they're saying wait, you know,
like wait for the Hobbit, wait for the next one to come up.
But when I was a kid, I read every science fiction book that would
was in my little library in Bruchester okay because as the Dutchester are very small
library as it turns out, but the Dune books were there, and I
tried like crazy to read them, but it was impossible to read those.
Frank Herbert was the guy who wrote them. Impossibly gets so far. Yeah,
it's just too cos and I couldn't get past it right right right,
Same thing with the the Hobbits, you know, the Blood of the Rings,
Oh my god, I got like floody pages of it. I mean
with the movies up, I don't know. The first movie was excellent,
the first movie. The second two movies weren't that good because once again,
you don't know what anyone is really doing. You don't know where they are
and where they you know where we are, you know, you see these
vast times he's going with where are they going? You know where they come
from? It wasn't that, it wasn't. I don't like that Peter Jackson.
I don't like what he did to the Beatles movie. I didn't like
the second or third one of the Rings. And did anyone see Peter Jackson's
King Kong, the New King Kong Switching? You must have seen that,
you know, not like twenty five years ago with what's your name Jackson?
Peter Jackson. Yes, not the one with Jeff Bridges. No, No,
that was yeah, right right? That was that was that King Kloon,
the you know Dean lo Rena said, when the monkey he died,
the people will cry, right. But this was the Peter Jackson one,
which was about three hours long, which was excellent. I don't like jack
Black. But there's scenes on the Mysterious Island where there that dinosaurs to chase
them. Unbelievable, unbelievable special effects, very very well done. Then they
bring Kong to New York and I wish he remember the actress's name, but
she's cute blonde, and the actually a scene you know now the original King
Kong basically he gets loose, and the girl who brought him back from the
island is in a hotel room in the Empire State Building for some reason.
What she's doing there, He climbs up, he grabs her, goes up
to the top of the tower. Right if the ray and people are saying,
what this is is? This is he's in love with her. You
know, he's in love with her, right, and that's why he's doing
that. In the new version, you're not gonna believe this. But Kate
Boswick I think is the woman's name. I'm not sure, but she's a
pretty big actress. They go to Central Park and they skate together. What
they There's a scene in the Peter Jackson King Kong movie where they go to
Central Park, the Big Eighth and the girl and they skate on the frozen
pond in Central Pi. I go, look, I'm sitting there going what
the is going on here? Where did he get the skates? Ware?
Did he get the big skate? So one thing, okay, it was
like why are they It was just bad. A lot of good special effects,
but the story was just, you know, terrible. All right,
I'm gonna throw one at you. Go ahead. How about the Apocalypse.
Now. Yeah, Well, I was just talking to friend Phil Odman about
that movie. I think that's a great movie. I think it's a misunderstood
movie. I know. I went out of my way to find the director's
cut, which is even longer, right, And that to me is an
amazing movie. I just stolen a lot of scenes from that movie from my
book stood Don't tell anybody, but you know, the whole idea of it
was based out of Joseph Conrad short story, not that I ever read in
his stuff, but it was called but I think the Ship of the River
something. And what it is is that the I mean the movie you haven't
seen. The movie is basically this kind of special forces guys in a boat
have to go deep into Vietnam, into into China to bring back this army
colonel who has gone rogue. The colonel is Malonbredo and and they have to
go and find him, and he's in this weird part of Vietnam. So
they put they dropped the boat in the river, and the and the the
further they go up to the weird things yet and that's the whole that's like
that, that's like a novel, you know, way to approach books,
right. I mean it's a it's one of the tropes that people use the
BB You get into something, the stranger things get. So they start off
just like fighting the regular wall, fighting Viet Cong and stuff. By the
time they get to the top of the river, I mean, the bridges
like fireworks and it was it's like madness. It was really really really good,
almost fantastic in a way. Then when they get to where the where
the Malabrando is, it gets completely oh, off the rails, off the
rails, just completely off the frigging rails. But still an entertaining movie,
just a crazy movie, kind of showing the craziness of Vietnam. I think
they did a good job. Good club. Yeah. You know, Martin
Sheen had a heart attack. We were talking about that. Yeah, yeah,
he did. He filmed the first scene where he's tearing up his room
and and he couldn't do it. Cople want him to again again. So
he finally got drunk and he does that scene. And then I think because
he felt he puts so much time, you know, he puts so much
effort and strain in it. He had a hot attack a few weeks later
and then when they went to the Philippines, they had a revolution and it
was it was screwed up, but they could make a movie about making the
movie. But Fishburn Lawrence Fishburn's and it was he was a kid. He
was like fifteen. Yeah, yeah, here's the answer. And they said,
well, you know, it worked on him so hard that he stayed
down there for like a year and he lived in fatigues. Yeah, he
was so engrossed in it, he he had a high time coming out of
character. Not so yeah, well those guys. I think that that might
be the only movie I think that he was actually credited as Larry Fishburn really
and Lawrence well you know, but yeah, they said he he went kind
of off the rails because he was so engrossed in the movie. Harrison Ford
was in it. He was then it f a little bit yeah, very
young Harrison Ford, like the intelligence officer or something. Yeah, what an
incredible movie. That's the combat scenes in it, the whole I love the
spell of napalm and the the morning when they attacked that villainch man. You
talk, we talk about Longest Day and probably have more people in it.
But to choreograph all those people running around at the beginning, the beginning with
the doors, yeah, yeah, the soundtrack, you know, with the
the end. Yeah. Yeah, it was the movie. Stunning, stunning
movie. Yeah. Yeah, the director's cut is even longer. But yeah,
I've I've gone to see that a few times on the big screen because
it's just it's really worth seeing it. Yeah, it is on the big
screen. Yeah, I agree. And and going back to the tomb for
a second, you know, once again kind of showing the Vietnam how it
really was. But that's a movie that has stayed with me for a long
time because it was it's like a lot of movies, like we're also talking
to you about they were men? What was that? Is that? What?
What the what? The mel Gibson not the really flawed movie, but
I won't get into that, but it would show, you know, it
showed that part of you know, they'll talk about Trump's movie Trumps. You
know. It was almost like Cust's Last Stand. You know, they were
men or whatever. The name of the movie was right, the story about
the Battle of the Eye Dragon Valley, which they get wrong anyway, but
it was kind of like, hey, we're all amost together. Platoon was
half the guys in the platoon hated each other, you know what I mean.
The tension within the group itself was as bad as you know, fighting
get klung. And I think that's probably more realistic than we're a bunch of
boy scouts with guns a full metal jacket. I start at once I did
my thesis on Stanley Kubrick. I couldn't watch that movie. That movie was
terrible. It was I mean, it's two movies. It's basically the Basic
Training and then the thing in Vietnam. Okay, take away the basic training
for a second. When they're in Vietnam, they're fighting in the city.
There's no cities in Vietnam. You know. They fought the Battle of Haway
and that was it. The rest ninety nine percent of the fighting was in
the jungle. So to have them in an urban environment for the first thing
was wrong. Okay, it's just inaccurate. Number two, that Matthew Bodine,
which was like his third or fourth choice to be in it, he
watched that through that like he's a boy scout in Vietnam, Like you know
what I mean. It wasn't like that. It just wasn't like that.
It's how we think it might have been like it, but I think Platoon
was the one that was, you know, the closest to it, you
know, the closest to what it was really like. Basically, you're trapped
here, and then you can make it through a year, you'll get out,
you know, having a victory victory or the feed or how many are
you gonna kill or it made no difference. Just make it through the year
and you get the hell out of them. Hey, sweitch to you dodged
the draft, right, yeah, and then you went in. That's right.
I forgot about that. Why didn't you get drafted there? I had
a deferment. I was in college. Oh yeah, right, okay,
yeah, me too. Well, I was in the in the draft,
you know. I mean we all had a lottery yep. And I think
in seventy one they that was mine too. They drafted like after number two
hundred. I was like number three hundred and twenty something. I was like,
and I wasn't you know, if they came for me, I would
have gone, yeah, but I wasn't gonna. I wasn't going to volunteer
and walk into it, thank you. No. I was one twenty nine,
but they only went up to one hundred that yeah, I was way
way out. I I've actually worked with a couple of guys who were you
know, who were in Vietnam, and just some of the stuff they've told
me, it's unbelievable, unbelievable, And it's you know, when you hear
it from from the horse's mouth, you know, when you hear it from
the guys who were there, and he tells you stuff, and like an
idiot, you you know, I asked him a couple of questions, and
he goes, what are you stupid? And he told me things that you
know, I won't repeat, but it gave you a whole different outlook.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was it was it was survival.
It was survival. It had nothing to do with the wall. You
know, are we gonna let's go win this wall? No, it was
like who was going to kill the most people? You know? And then
and they will take a body count of the Vietnamese until someone said to them,
you can kill as many as you want. The way that the population
is, they're always going to be supplying new soldiers forever. You're never going
to be able to do it the way that you're doing it, Okay,
And and when did it end seventy five? When did the wall come down?
Eighty eight? All they had to do was late like but ten years
and it would be no communism. So it's just that's just that that whole
wah is just a discretion. It's when politicians get involved in war. That's
the thing is like, you know, all right, you're gonna go walk
find but let the military do it. Don't say you can't bomb this city
on that day, and then you know you're just wasting your eyes doing that.
It's going to fight a why did you go fight it? You know,
no one wants to do it. But if you're gonna do it,
get it over as quickly as you can, and don't reduce the pin this
this guy lived, I mean, he kept going back because he couldn't stand
not to be with his buddies. Yeah yeah, yeah, right right,
And he went back like for four different tours, and I finally they threw
them out and said, oh you've had enough, get out of here.
Hey, club, you're in the service, weren't here You're in the reserves.
Yeah. I was in the National Guide, you know, And so
I had a choice was either going to Vietnam or going the National Guard.
But we always thought we were in the gods in those days, that we're
going to get called up anyways, gods at the beginning, and I unit
used to get activated to go down south and cover units in South Carolina that
got called over. And we did a lot with the riots when Kennedy was
killed and Martin Luther King. We spent a lot of time out in the
street. But fortunately, unlike the division that I was in today, they've
spent more time over in Afghanistan and everything else. My division was the first
division to fight in World War One? Is that right? Yeah? Yeah,
and that was and they used to send them out there in the front
lines with hardly any training and they and they had like ninety percent casualty rate
in France. But anyways, you know, my brother in law, I
think as I told you, he was in Vietnam. He was a company
clerk in the Rifle Division, Rifle Infanty division. Never fired a shot,
but he used to spend half the time out in the jungle because the company
clerk had to issue all the checks and everything. Oh today he's a good
job. He's suffering dearly with Agent Orange. And he said, oh,
really, so many different issues and he's never never fought, he never fired
a shot. Yeah, there's a there's five hundred thousand guys over there.
You know, four hundred thousand were basically in the rear areas supplying this massive
army in the jungle, you know what I mean, which is very hard
to do, a lot of helicopters and stuff like that. But not not
just just just what it did to not just the American people, what did
to the Vietnam These people they'll always hate this no matter what. And you
know, we destroyed their country and uh, you know, I mean,
I really don't want to get real back into it. But in the fifties,
they said that, okay, we're going to have an election here and
the people in Naunt and Self Vietnam can determine who's going to be the president.
And they elected a communist, isn't it And they you know, allies,
but it's a no, no, I'm sorry, we're gonna we're gonna
change the rules again. That's what created Noting and Self Vietnam. And that's
the start of the war. You know, if they had just if cooler
heads had prepared prevailed just for a few years, it wouldn't happen like that,
you know, but but it did anyway. This is Vietnam commentary on
Maclone's Military. I were gonna be wrapping it up soon. I'm just kind
of think of like the one really good sci fi with the movie I would
go see again. I would go see the original thing again. I think
that's one of the best movies the way that they Yeah, it was probably
made on the song, but it's just very atmospheric. You know. Uh,
what's the one where the kid falls through the sand duing mott uh,
switching invaders and mys that's the movie that stays with me as a kid.
Yeah, yeah, I think I just it was on a little while ago,
and they remade that too. But the original one is just so creepy
because it's a kid and then and all the adults turned into you know,
the kind of zombies. The black is it? Who's the Who's the girl?
Black? Was in the remake, the remake, I know, the
remake one. Then the Frystal was cool, and it was it was filmed
in a studio on a lot. You can tell his filmed in an interior
studio. But there was a once in an atmosphere when the fact that the
kid's parents every all the adults around him in time turn yeah. Yeah,
yeah, very cool. Jimmy Hunt and I met him at a few years
ago at one of the monster bashes in Mars, Pennsylvania. Really great guy
and he was known as the g whiz Kid Whizz Yeah. He told he
told me that the the British version, they had to have a happy ending,
they had to have an ending where they vanquished. They reshot part of
it. So I finally got a DVD that has both versions, and so
it's it was cathartic because when I was a kid, remember at the end
that they do, they wipe out the Martians. Everything's cool, and then
the kid wakes up and it's a dream. But then he sees the saucers
again. Yes the ground did I feel one of those those creepy Marshalls that
took over his father. His father was played by life Ericson Oh right,
yes, sure, High Chaparone Yah yeah yeah, and he plays you know,
this really crabby guy. Everybody could relate to their father being in a
bad mood. Yes, guy was was permanently in a bad mood after they
put that thing on back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
funny. Yes, and and and and just the way that well, the
the you can tell how they made the movie. They did the story and
then they filmed like the b roll as they say. And the big role
was like the Martians, like running through the tunnels. It's a lot of
that. And they're running this way, they're running that way, they're running
this way, they're carrying around the little head. Yeah, you can do
the zippers on the costumes. That's cool. Right. What about since we're
going back, what about Forbidden Planet? Oh? Yeah, oh the original
Francis Walter Pigeon, Leslie Nielsen. Yeah, yeah, it was in color
too, Yeah, Richard Carlson. Richard was based on the rapist. Yeah,
there were a lot of people in there that were like you'd look at
him and say, hey, wait a minute. That guy was the Virginia,
and that guy was this this guy was yeah, you know, special
effects by Disney, Disney's cartoon department. Yeah, I mean that the animation
part. Yeah, I was studying. It was an incredible movie for from
the Yeah yeah right yeah, how how deep is that? In Francis,
I'll talk about your Vetmim, you know, and Francis once again beautiful.
There was these actresses in the fifties and sixties. They're all blonde. Tuesday
Weld is another one. She was just so, so, so attractive even
as a little kid. Jeez, it was just beautiful. And then she's
on Honey West. Honey West, like about two years later. That man.
Yeah, she drove a real ac cobra and she had a pet ocelot
named Bruce. That's right, she had her home ostl Yeah, I mean
serious, I mean she was a private detective sort of thing. Yeah,
and she drove a real cobra. I mean, that guy's worked about a
million bucks, right now. That's good. Yeah, she was good.
Was a really good action. But they did they remake that? I haven't
No, I don't know. I don't know planet. No, I don't
think so. No. No, that's a really good movie. They've never
remade Forbidden Planet that I know of. But that was I mean I remember
watching that and saying, wow, that's yeah really because it was in color
color different swam you know. Earl Holloman was in there for comic relief.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, right, it was he the
guy who he created the booze that he like. Yeah, he gave the
robot rob a sample of the booze and he could he could recreate anything.
Yeah, Robbie the Robot, that was his first, like hundreds of bottles
of whiskey. I believe that Robbie the Robot sold at auction was the highest
price for a sci fi prop. Ever, it was like the last time
it sold was like a million and a half. I really, I was
in Boston Space had a lot of eyelage on that robot. He was also
the Invisible Boy. Okay, yeah, he was in what the movie?
There was a movie called The Invisible Boy and the robot was He was in
Gremlins. Wow was he? Yes? He showed up when when the Pelser
guy was at one of the conventions, he was talking to his wife on
the phone and Robbie the Robot walks by and says something about I think about
the oil. I don't use it, you know, I don't use it
myself. There being Robbie the Roadbout's agent trying to get him into dropping him
into these movies. So anyway, we'll listen, is it time for the
I'm looking at you. We're getting We're getting kind of close. Okay,
started to eighteen, so all right we got a half hour. Okay,
that's uh well, Switch has already put up the graphics, so that's his
way of telling it's just time to go. Well we can we can do
this. Yeah, whoa what's she does? She have a lady being attacked
by a triffid? Oh okay, all right, what was the name of
the the giant Rabbits? Was that dad Loopuspus? Yeah? Yeah, yeah
about gargoyles? Remember that movie? Ye? Yeah, after row was she
was a voluptuous, strongly She wouldn't need a life preserve she was anyway.
Okay, so listen, I'm going to thank let me thank club for us.
Thank you club for showing us all the junk food and uh for your
little uh well, thank you for it was good to be part of the
Skeleton crew tonight. Yeah yeah, the Skeleton tank. All right, we'll
talk to you soon. Also, switchy, thank you, Switch, great
to be here for bringing you into What part of the skeleton he was was
the femur Yeah, I'll tell you what part of the skeleton you were.
Oh wow, it's the season to be nice to you. Wow, thank
you. You must be the what do they call a funny bone? What
is that? Uh, it's going to be a real name to that beside
funny. I know what I call mine. I don't want to know anyway.
All right, thank you, well, thank you for joining us.
We appreciate it, glad to be here. Thank you the ghost and uh,
we're going to be off to the gallley. Right, we're going to
be off to the gallley. Yep, you know she was having there,
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Keep that in mind no matter what you here. Okay, he is
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And that's it. All right, that's about it. We hit the
mock. Uh, we're running right up to it. Okay, good to
know that was That was a happy accident. How about a happy ending?
Right? Wait, wait a minute, you gotta go to Is there a
massage polo nearby? Not that I know. We'll have to ask Robin Kraft.
I was going to say that, but I didn't go there. Chicken
wrap the thirty seven fifty Jesus and didn't even tip a come on anyway,
So why don't we Uh, that's it tonight So this is where this is
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