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Thanks for having having us. Okay, it's good to have you both
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tonight, Lois. Thanks for joining us. Hi everybody, it's nice to
be here. So what we have is we are going to talk about four
movies tonight. We have four questions for each movie, and you know there
are more hysterical questions, but also questions that have to do with the movie.
Excuse me, what, Eric, Okay, they they're historical questions,
but they also have to do with the movie. I was able to watch
Awful. I was amazed that I was able to do it. But talk
about different movies and different eras, I think we picked some pretty good ones.
So why don't we start, Okay, why don't we give ourselves a
round of applause for us, which we will sweeten up in post believe it.
Okay, take off the shades before we start the game, just going
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memories. Let's say sure, I appreciate it. Mac as always great to
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and you know they are official charity. Great people. We'd love to be
partnered with you guys, and so well, thanks very much, And we
should start the game right Yeah, ready to go? Okay, So here
we go. We're going to the four movies we're dealing with tonight from thirty
seconds Over Tokyo, the Longest Day Patent and saving Private Ryan. Okay,
So we'll start off with thirty Seconds over Tokyo. I've never done this,
read it off a laptop before anyway. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo was made nineteen
forty four was a film produced by MGM. The screenplay was written by blacklisted
Dalton Trumbull, which I didn't know. It was based on a nineteen forty
three book of the same name. It depicts the first retaliatory air strike against
a PN on April eighteenth, nineteen forty two, four months after the December
seventh, nineteen forty one Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the plan. The raid
was planned and led by, and named after the United States Army Air Forces
Lieutenant Colonel James new Littell. Notable people are in the movie, including Spencer
Tracy, who is the lead actor, but he's actually kind of like a
cameo appearances. I think he's act in about eight scenes, but also Blake
Blake Edwards who went on to marry Julie Andrews. He was a famous director
and actor himself. Robert Mitchum. First time he was ever on screen,
Van Johnson is kind of like the lead in it, and Alan Napia,
Alan Napia, who is the butler in the Batman series, also in the
movie. It's a very nineteen forty four ish patriotic at Sappi in places,
but it's very realistic in others, so realistic that MGM had one hundred and
eighty feet of carrier deck built inside its Studio fifteen in Hollywood. The Army
Air Force also provided three B twenty fives and pilots for the filming. So
basically what happened was, four months after Pearl Harbor, they came up the
US military came up with this idea to put Army B twenty five bombers kind
of medium bombers on a Navy aircraft, carry the Hornet, get it as
close as they could to Japan, and then take off and bomb Tokyo and
other cities around it. Now they knew what the damage wasn't going to be
great, but they knew from a psychological point of view, it was US
bringing the war back to Japan and it had a domino effect throughout the rest
of the war. But let's just get to the questions about the movie first
of all, So question number one, how many B twenty fives took off
from the horn at the day of the mission? All right, these are
all multiple choice by the way, how many bombers actually took off from the
USS hornet the day of the mission? The options that eight A is sixteen,
B is fourteen, C is eight, and D is a dozen twelve.
Right, okay, let's go first. I'll go first. Go ahead,
right, General, you go first. Well, since we're sav I
was gonna say sixteen. What about you? I was gonna say fourteen,
sixteen and fourteen. Okay, we'll call them Team one. All right,
that's okay. So Team two, well, let's say is fill and gym
Team two sixteen, fourteen, eight or a dozen? Yep? Well,
I think it's nine, but I'll say so if it's eight. If eight
is the only option, I'm going to say eight, Phil, it's a
sixteen, Okay, all right? Got that? Phil said sixteen. Okay.
I'm gonna wait until you say and then I'll give everybody points. Okay,
and okay. So the third team is Bill in acts Ax, what
do you say? I have to fully confess so I don't have to one
say an act of contrition? It's sixteen because I got this answer wrong on
a CBS similar type show, really similar to us. Interesting, I'll see
Bill, what do you say. I'll go with sixteen. Okay, sixteen,
Okay, we answer Bill. Everyone, Yeah, the answer is sixteen.
The answer is sixteen. I am a bashed. The corrected answer was
sixteen. And when you see the actual footage of what they did that day.
For them to put sixteen B twenty fives on the on the deck of
this haunt on the aircraft carrier and give them enough room to take off,
just amazing, just amazing, I think. I mean, that's not the
five that would have been over half the length of the carrier. That's right,
let's looking. But the well, whatever they had to they were.
It was bad weather, which was actually in their favor because the winds were
blown right over the top of the deck. But when you see the footage
of it, the first plane, wow, man, it looks like he's
going to hit. But then he takes off and then everyone else takes off,
so that's too little. By the way, who flew the first plane?
He was the first one to take off. Yep, that's right,
yeah, let him he let him In person Okay, all right, so
question number two. Uh, so who got points on that there? Okay,
well everybody got something. We have the General and one got one point,
Jim and Phil also got one point, and Tom and Bill got two
points. We can call it x X. Sorry, okay, here goes
only because Bill went second. Wow. Okay, rangers get paid to observe
and see what's going on before the maneuver Lewis lane. If you don't want
to say X, you can say Xavier. Now let's just leave it at
next Okay, here we go. Question number two. Uh, We've always
heard that the Doolottle raid was a victory for the nation's morale but actually did
very little damage. But in reality, how many buildings were destroyed during the
bombing raid? Okay, we always heard that the Doolittle raid was a victory
for the nation's morale but actually did very little damage. In reality, how
many buildings were destroyed? A fourteen, including two on the grounds of the
Emperor's palace. B twenty two structures, including an army barracks. C zero
No building was completely destroyed in D and D one hundred and twelve buildings.
Let me go over those again. A fourteen buildings, including two on the
grounds of the Emperor's palace, B twenty two structures, including an army barracks
C zero. No buildings were completely destroyed in D one hundred and twelve buildings.
Okay, why don't we go to fill and gym first? Well,
I have never heard this question before, but it's very it's very provocative.
That's that Will course was the idea behind the mission was to cause destruction and
make its thing for the Japanese. So I'll say I'll say D D and
twelve, Okay, Jim, let is say twenty two. Jim says twenty
two. B let's go to the general and one general. What do you
say? I'm going to go with twenty two as well. Yeah, it's
a load number twenty two one. Same thing. I counted them while they
were happening on the film twenty two other than one really big one, Okay,
I counted twenty two. Yeah, it wasn't a lot, Bill an
X, Bill, I would say twenty two. I don't think they ever
deliberately targeted the Emperor's place right deliberately stand away from that one an X.
I'm sorry, X. I don't know how many buildings, but I know
they hit. We were all led to believe they just bombed Tokyo, but
it was other cities and on the targets because they wanted to make all of
Japan fail. Right, what's happening? So I'll go with twenty two twenty
two? Okay, The really answer is d one hundred and twelve buildings.
It didn't work. More destruction than I don't know we were led to believe,
or maybe they didn't think one hundred and twelve buildings would be, you
know, a big number for them, But that's what happened, and it
also killed fifty five people on the ground. But the biggest victory to come
out of this is that it caused the Japanese to bring home almost a million
troops as their home god, and they really didn't have those people before.
And it took a lot of troops out of the field, you know,
so and fighter squadrons right yeah, yep, yep, all of a sudden
they had to protect Japan and they hadn't really come in on that, okay.
Lois the reason. The reason, by the way, that I guessed
out of thin air one hundred and twelve is because eleven of the planes I
think bomb Tokyo and the other five were each given one city to drop their
bombs, and they each had four bombs, and the buildings in Japan were
pretty flimsy, right there, four bombs and maybe each one took out two
buildings, right there was sixty Yeah, about fourteen tons of bombs in total,
sixteen tons. Well each plane had a ton a ton unless yeah,
okay, okay, here we go. So what are you making us compete
with the math major like Phil lois? What's the score? So only one
team scored a point for that, and it was Phil's team, So we
have a tie going on. We have X and Bill with two points,
Jim and Phil with two points, the General and one have one right now
one? Okay, all right? Still time question three? Really? Okay?
All right? Of the sixteenth bombers that took off, fourteen crashed in
China and one fourteen crashed in China, one landed safely. What happened to
the sixteenth bomber? A It crashed on takeoff, b, it was shut
down by Japanese fighters. C, it landed in Russia. D it was
never found. Okay. Of the sixteen bombs that took off. Fourteen crashed
in China. One landed safely in China. What happened to the sixteenth?
Plane crashed on crashed on takeoff, shot down by Japanese fighters. It landed
in Russia? It was never found? Go ahead? One landed in Russia?
Okay, general never found? All right? Okay, Uh, let's
say, Jim, what do you say? Those are two intriguing possibilities.
I'm gonna say it was never found. Okay, Phil The landed and blad
of Ostar? Right, is that Russia? Yes, that's Russia. Siberia.
Come on, get real? Landed in Siberia or Russia? Bill?
Russia? Did you ask Jim? I didn't write Jim's down, Yeah,
Jim, Jim got it wrong. Yeah, it landed in Russia. It
was It landed in Russia and the the crew was interned. But I think
they eventually got out somehow. I'm not sure. But the Russians. The
Russians conveniently let them escape from a train near the Iranian Oh okay, yeah,
yeah right. And the reason why the Russians just didn't turn them back
is because Russia had a neutrality packed with Japan. So according to the pack
they had to in turn America, and by the way, confiscate the plane.
Right sure, okay, all right, we want to let's just go
to one more question and then we'll update the score. Okay, so this
is a question number four. After the raid was over, do Letter was
rescued and brought to Washington, d C. Previous to this, he was
convinced the raid had been a failure and he was going to be court martialed.
What happened instead? Okay, After the raid was over, Dolota was
rescued and brought to Washington, d C. Previous to this, he was
convinced the raid had been a filiate. He was going to be court martialed.
What happened instead. A. He was busted down a colonel and returned
to the South Pacific as a supply officer. B he was promoted to brigadier
general and giving command of the eighth f Force in England. C and went
on savings upon drive towards until the war's end. D He resigned his commission
and took a job as a Hollywood consultant. Okay, A, he was
busted down to colonel. B. He was promoted to brigady a general given
commander of the A thes See, he retired and went on savings Born to
a drums until the war was end d he resigned his commission took a job
as a Hollywood consultant. Let's go to X and Bill, Bill, what
do you say? He was promoted and continued on. Okay X. Yeah,
it was a worldwide success for the West. And I think he got
promoted ye okay, Jim, Yeah, I think he was promoted. Phil
promoted, go ahead, wanting Yeah, definitely promoted. And General, Yep,
he's skipped a rank and was promoted to brigadiy General. He actually,
that's correct. He went up to ranks and he was also a ward of
the Medal of Honor. But he was also credited with turning the whole strategic
bombing campaign in Europe, turning it around. You know, there was a
lot of problems there before he got there, and he just said we're going
to do it this way, and you know it was the right way.
So he was quite a guy anyway. Okay, So we're at the end
of the four first segment, lowis please, So the scores are very tight.
We have Bill an X with six points so far. Jim and Phil
with five and the general and one with four. Okay, tight, okay,
okay, let's just go on. That's funny. I counted. I
counted five points, so I might have one on the first one of the
first one, no on the second. Did you both get tom and I
got on? Okay, that's what I Okay, the right answers there,
and then three and then two right answers on this one. Only one right
answer on the third one, only one right answer. That's what I had.
So that's why I have So you both got two of there were only
one right answers and then the other two. We had two right answers.
No on question two. Yeah, on question two, only Phil got it
right, okay, true, Yeah, that's okay, all right, yez
Lois, you have a tough crowd. Yeah, a hard time. Okay,
all right, here we go, Movie number two one more questions.
Okay, this movie, the second movie is the Longest Day. And I
can tell you we could have done a whole show about the Longest Day.
I mean, I saw it when it came out. I've probably seen it
maybe three or fourth time since, but I sat down and watched it again
last week, and it's just such an amazing movie. At the scale of
the movie is just unbelievable, and there's just a lot of elements to it
and not this it was it came out in nineteen sixty two, but there's
definitely a it's not a pro war movie, if I can say it like
that. There's a lot of kind of philosophical moments in it and personal moments
in it. I was just really kind of very impressed by it. I
think, you know, we saw it as kids, you know it's a
war movie, but as an adult it's a little deeper than that. Anyway.
So I was released in September nineteen sixty two. Claus seven point five
million to make, would eventually are in more than thirty million. Has a
wide array of big stars, including John Wayne, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchrim,
Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, and many more, including Paul Ankle,
who wrote the theme music, and teenage hot throb Fabian Fabian. The film
has an amazing scope and a number of set piece battle scenes that intricately but
realistically filmed, as well as a number of personal vignettes, many with a
distinct anti war tone. When the movie came out, it was praised for
its integrity, many noting that it was not a typical American movie, and
it went on to inspire nineteen ninety movies Saving Private Ryan. Okay, so
first question, I got a question for you, though, A tidbit ahead.
Why was it shot in black and white? That's question number one?
So it caught? So all right, okay, hang on ahead, well
thank you one one. Okay, here we go. What do I know?
I'm not developed open the game. I just it's a tidbit. I
always I always knew, even as a kid. Okay. The Longest Stay
calast seven point five million dolls making is considered the most expensive black and black
and white movie ever made, also the most successful black and white movie ever
made. But why was it films in black and white? A To save
money so they could spend it on paying the many celebrities in the film.
B to add grit to the true wartime drama CE. Originally, only the
German scenes were shot in black and white, while the Ally scenes were shot
in color, but this was later changed to the movie being filled entirely in
black and white d to act to match actual WAF footage from D Day to
be used in the movie. Okay, let's go over again. So it
cost seven point five million to make, but it's in black and white?
Why was it made in black and white? A To save money so they
could spend it on paying the many stars in the film. B to add
grit to the true war time drama ce. Originally, only the German scenes
were shot in black and white, while the Ally scenes were shot in color,
but this is had changed to the movie being filled entirely in black and
white or d to match actual WAF footage from D Day to be used in
the movie. Okay, so why was it shot in black and white?
Let's go to Bill first one one? Because he feels like, all right,
we'll go but he feels like, you know that that's not the answer.
None of those were the answer that I know will tell us in nineteen
sixty two number Daryl xx Darrel. Maybe it was just a a comment,
go ahead off the cuff comment, but something I always remember that the blood
was too red. Wow, that's what he said. That's what he said.
Maybe we'll give him a plate lit wikipedia it or yahhood or dog piled
it of the fortune of the fourth I didn't even dial up copy syrup or
America online to to find that I just can't remember it and I and I
remember seeing it at the Saxon Theater in Boston. Oh my god, there
was a program with it, and I wish I still had it. Okay,
So of the four answers, though, what do you done? One
one? It's just a memory, you know, It's a memory that I
always had. And that's what he said. It wasn't John Wayne saying.
It was Darryl EPs not saying. Of the four answers, what are you
picking? All right? Well, the first three are stupid. I'm picking
the d to uh blend in actual war footage. General, That's what I
was gonna say. Last one X Yeah, I thought that too, even
when I was young, Like one one? So what's your answer? What's
your answer? X? Oh D? Sorry? Ye okay, uh Bill,
what do you say? I'm on board with d? Also actual footage,
Phil Well? Which one was the grit? Yeah, to add grit
to the wartime drama? B that was b big Well. I know that.
One of the criticisms the twentieth century Fox had when they found out that
Zanak wanted to film it in black and white is they thought it would look
like a newsreel. And his comeback to that was, don't worry about that.
I'll have a star in every scene. I mean, he had like
thirty stars to pick from, right, So I think the worry was that
it might look too much like newsreel. So I'm going to go with B
the grit okay and Jim uh ge whiz. I'm going with D Okay,
dog, it's good. We ought to get one point out of this jump
and let's see this is this is a surprising because I didn't think anyone would
get this, But the answer is d. They have a lot of wartime
footage in that movie, way more than you would think, and it blends
in almost perfectly with what they shot. I thought he was trying to avoid
it, right, yeah, yeah, And I had heard for years that
it was just it was just too big of a movie and there was too
many stars in it, and they had to pay them and stuff. But
it wasn't they wanted. They wanted it to have that kind of I think
news written news footage. You don't look to it, you know. The
funny thing about paying the stars was there's many many people in it, and
Richard Burton and Roddy McDowell of all people were in each of filming Cleopatra,
and they were like just so bored because little bit Taylor took a thousand takes,
you know, for everything. They begs, Zen, it could we
be in this movie. We're just bored. We got to get out of
here. They paid their own way, they didn't get paid and they're in
the movie, you know. So yeah anyway, yeah, okay, So
you want to just give the scores there, run those from it. That's
what Sean Connery's appearance was the Killer. He's funny in it. Yeah,
he's kind of funny. Comic gown. Was he filmed that just before he
filmed Doctor No? Really? Yeah, this was not his you know,
this was his premiere, I think ye to be. It was before Doctor
Nor didn't like him. He thought he was a hack. He was wrong.
Okay, here we go. You want to just friend down the schools.
Sure, so we have Bill and Tom in the lead with eight,
well, Jim and Phil with six, and the General and one with seven.
Okay, still tight, Okay, everybody knows their stuff. Okay,
so there is one benefit too too with them adding in the real wall footage.
It does make it look grittier, you know what I mean. It
was kind of like a win win situation. But that was the reason for
it. It would look almost odd in color, I think. Okay,
here we go. Question three. There's a famous scene to us the end
the movie which shows free French troops attacking a German occupied casino in a place
called I think it's called Austrienden Austrien something. Well, it's called wish is
shun? Okay, even better? Right? It's a long shot film from
a helicopter, and it's perfectly choreographed. I think you all remember the scene,
right, probably? Okay, So keeping in mind, the average length
of a shot and a typical modern movie is two point five seconds. How
long is this particular shot in the Longest Day? Okay? Well two five
seconds? No? The yeah, the the The average shot in a modern
movie is two point five seconds. You know, some of them are twenty
seconds, some of them are half second. But just to give you an
example, how shot you know nowadays? Nowadays and even back then? You
know, okay, sot Stanley Kubrick. Keep keeping in mind the average length
of a shot in a typical modern movie is two point five seconds. How
long was this particular shot in the longest stay A one minute and thirty one
seconds, B two minutes and fourteen seconds, C forty four seconds, D
four minutes and eleven seconds. Okay, A is one minute thirty one,
B is two fourteen, C is forty four seconds, D is four minutes
and eleven seconds. And just to clarify, this is the shot from the
helicopter. Yep, yes, yep, one of the shots. Yes,
it's just the shot from on high within the context of the entire scene exactly.
Yep. Okay, good one more time, could you read them?
Okay, one minute and thirty one seconds, two minutes and fourteen seconds,
forty four seconds, and D is four minutes and eleven seconds. Okay,
let's go to Jim. This is this is tricky. What is it?
B B two minutes and fourteen Phil? What was the first answer? One
minute and what one thirty one? Well, like Jim, I think it's
b Okay, this is bing okay one and it was a long shot.
It was riveting. But was it four minutes? No, I don't think
so. I'm leaning towards four minutes, but I think it is B B
one long shot. General, Well, I don't even remember the shot,
so I'll go with long. If he's thinking be I'll go with it because
I'm thinking it was a continuous shot, right. It can't be like a
shot was according to continued right right, right? Bill? What is hey?
One thirty one X? What do you say? I gotta tell you,
I haven't seen the movie ten or twelve years, but I do remember
one scene when the German fighters are flying over the beach. That's the other
longest scene. Yes, yep. And the pilot said, das va the
costa ougan bleak the Deutscher look. So I'm going to go with b speaking
cleon again. That was a good scene. Next, Okay, so he
said, talking about okay, we all got I got everybody locked in.
The answer is a one minute and thirty one seconds right now. And when
you when you when you when you watch it, when you watch it,
you say, when you think about it, it just seems much longer.
Okay, but I got the movie and I timed it. But when you
watch it it basically what it is is these Germans are in this casino.
They're in a high point over a canal, and there's a little town and
just you know, someone yells action and and hundreds of these soldiers come running
out, you know, running along the streets, blowing up buildings, shooting.
Some of them are dying, you know, bridges are being blown up.
And then the camera moves over, and I got to say, a
general, because you're a helicopter pilot, I'm amazed in nineteen sixty two that
they could have this thing so stable, you know what I mean, It's
just so stable. It's still a helicopter, so that must have had a
heavy helicopter or something. But it's very smooth. And then the helicopter kind
of like rises and you see the Germans aligned on the top of this casino
and like all these big guns and stuff, and it just goes on and
on and on and on. Amazing. It's an amazing shot. It lasts
a long time, but one one point thirty one And so anyway they so
you timed it yourself. Yeah, I just got them and just timed it
myself. They must have had an extremely stable helicopter platform staging this. Thank
you. But I want to read because I had the wrong scene. Okay,
Mac, is that the one where they're building actually is blowing up at
the end at the end, yes, right, but but the scene itself
of the attack is one thirty one. And then there's another couple of long
scenes and in the middle of the battle, this troop of nuns comes walking
down the the road and they're not getting hit, you know, and they
treat the wounded, and there's this you know kind of thing going on with
that. And then finally what they do is they bring up a tank and
it turns out to be a real French AMX tank and they and they blow
up the casino and that's it. But great scene. And then the second
longest scene is what ex was talking about, is that they only had two
loof off of planes that day, if you could believe it, and they
straighted one of the beaches and that's all they had gas ammunition for. Now,
those two planes that were in the movie were actually m there depicted as
M E went On nine's, which was the premier German fighter, but in
the movie they were actually M E one O eight where two seed versions of
Measure Schmid's one O nine, and one of them was down Plum Island,
import where we lived for about fifteen years in the hangar. It was bought
by Cliff Robinson. Was that that actor's name, Cliff Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. We see it every one on nine, right, yeah,
right, yep, yeah, we see it out in the out in
the run. We never saw it flying, but you take it out every
once in a while anyway. So having to do with that with the scene
in the in the town though, they rehearsed the scene for several days,
but only took them three times to get it right. You know when they
said action and when you see it, that's amazing, amazing choreography, I
guess you could call it. There was so much going on, Yes,
it was like, it's incredible choreography. You know, how do you know
how does that guy know? How does this guy know when to drug up
and went to shoot and when to throw the bomb? I mean it must
be a lot of X's and O's meetings and that, you know, wrapping
it out on a chalkboard, if I remember, if I remember this trivia
question correctly, that building was not there when they shot the movie. It
had been demolished and they use scenes They used the black and white film of
its demolition in the movie. Oh yes, I can see. Yeah,
that's cool. Cool, Okay, So here we go to question number three
about the longest day. One line of dialogue is repeated twice in the movie,
once by John Wayne at the beginning of the film, and then a
German NASA towards the end of the film. What is the line? One
line of dialogue is repeated twice in the movie, once by John Wayne at
the beginning of the film, and then by a German towards the end of
the film. What is the line? A it's all because of this goddamn
weather. B it's time to wake up the funeral. C. I'd rather
be anywhere else but here. D. I sometimes wonder which side God is
on. Okay, we'll go it again. A. It's all because of
this goddamn weather. B it's time to wake up the funeral. C.
I'd rather be anywhere else but here. D. I sometimes wonder which side
God is on. Go to Phil. It sounds like it should be D
D for PHILM Jim say A, A, it's all because of this goddamn
weather. Okay, General y'am will go with the weather. Okay. X
Oh, I'm sorry one. What was the again? I think I'm leaning
on D, but I forget what is I sometimes won to which side God
is on? Oh yeah, I'm picking D because let's just I'm gonna have
it, okay, d X. I think D is well, hey Bill,
Thus of the guys that were there were probably saying C. But I
think in the movie it was D. Yes, okay, all right,
we got everyone Okay, yeah, it is D. It is D.
Yeah. At the very beginning of the movie, John Wayne is is you
know there a lot of the movie is actually a build up to the invasion,
all the stuff that's going on, you know, like behind enemy lines
and in England and on the ships and stuff like that, all different generals
involved. Yeah, and and and it's it's because of the weather, you
know, the weather. And and John, you know, when he gets
this bad weather, he play says, I went, which you know,
I wish he could do his voice. I went to which side God is
on? And then they get the go they're gonna go. And and later
on in the movie, when then when the Germans realized, you know,
that they're getting their asses kicked, the guy says one, which I had
got his one? You know, Wow, there's the questions, wasn't okay,
here we go all right? And I voted for Ashenhower too when he
ran for president. I'm sorry, go ahead, you voted for Eizenhowe?
Yeah, that old I did? Did you really? The kid? Yeah,
you was snuck in. I was handing out the voting cards. He
had a big office in the Cambridge near Harvard Square, like I was handing
out we'd like ike pins to people. And I was like about, I
don't know, really you get any of those around? There's the one.
You gotta be kidding. You didn't really do that? I did? I
did? I believe he did. The Commodore Hotel in Cambridge had a big,
big office there, a big campaign office. He wasn't there, but
obviously, but how old you? You're as oldest Mick Jagger? Then right,
all right, there we go. Question number four? Ready, okay,
uh, now we we We talked about the cast of hundreds in this
movie, and then there really is a huge, huge cast of very well
known people. Question four. Who is the last Allied soldier to die in
the movie? You know what? Actor? Who's the last Allied soldier to
die in the movie? A Richard Burton, B Paul Anchor, c Eddie
Albert d Dirk Bogott. Who's the last allied soldier, the last actor to
die in the movie, Richard Burton, Paul Anger, Anger, Eddie Albert
or Dirk Bogott. Let's go to X so many. Oh he's in it.
Yeah, he's in it. But the last you come up with,
Now, he's one one. You should have helped me out text something.
Okay, go ahead, I think I know this. Richard Burton, Paul
Anka, Eddie Albert, Eric Boga. I'm gonna say, just because he
was the most famous guy at the time, Richard Burton, who knows Bill,
I think it was Eddie Albert. One one, Eddie Albert, General
Albert. Okay, Phil, I'll say Albert, okay. In Jim see,
well, I'm not gonna go against popular, you know, I'll say
Eddie Albert. Okay, I say Boguard, but Eddie Albert. Let's say.
I'm not sure Dark Boga is even in the movie. But yeah,
the answer is Cee Eddie Albert. He takes up. He takes a bullet
at the very end, at the very very end of the movie, they
blow through the wall after all this and all that, and they're going,
okay, let's go. And at the end of the movie he takes a
bullet and the movie's over like thirty seconds later. It's just a weird,
you know, way to end it. But he was he himself was a
decorated now Wa hero during World War Two for his ashes during the Battle of
Tower and the South Pacific. I think he was a coast Guard guy and
in one of the landing craft and submarines were hung up on a reef and
he dissobate orders, went back and got them. So he saved a lot
of guys on Tower. Yeah he did. Yeah, and then he wound
up with a more well yeah, okay, Green Acres. There is no
god, he probably said, which that is got all right? So you
want to go with this, well, hey, listen, you know you
forgot the great Mutton Jeff line. What's up? Germans say, got me
in us? And and but says, uh, we got mittens too.
Okay. I wish I knew that. If you understand German, you get
that drug. What's there? Yeah? For sure? Okay. So at
the end of two rounds we still have a very tight game. We have
the General and one with ten, Jim and Phil with nine, and Bill
and X with twelve. Wow, huh Okay, well, why don't we
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one is here and he's close to the lead. Wanie, Hello everybody,
Hello Mac, thanks for letting me report aboard and participate in the show.
Former navy man make sure Undersea Warfare group even the two anti submarine warfare Little
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is agent X, Agent X. They have me. I'm having more fun
than I expected. Oh well, really had high hopes to jump, and
I thought one one went to sub marin. No, no, no,
if you can, if we can quickly tell the real story of wan service.
Basically, he was attanning himself in Guantanamo Bay for two years, and
then they transferred him to Newport Beach, Rhode Island, which only lets one
percent of the one percent is in. Okay, he was there, and
then they transferred him literally across the highway from where you grew up right to
the Charlestown Navy Navy Yard I spent my last eight months. That was a
short time when they said we need some extra people at the at the shipyard
to do an help do an et overhaul overhaul. Okay, so yeah,
I can do that. I commuted with everybody else. So you got a
sun Tian. You went to Newport No via Kong ever, reached Newport by
the way, and then you were basically home for your last year. Right,
yeah, but that's it. Yeah, I was commuting from home.
But then your parents say, we're just but he's still contributed. I did.
I did, Okay, so those shots were fired in my direction.
That's good. That's a good thing. You know that apartment rented the house
with a couple of the dudes in Virginia Beach. Wow, you were there
almost two years in Great Lakes, Illinois, between boot camping electronics school.
I was there like forever. Okay. I hung out in Chicago all the
time. Oh yeah, So that was my Navy career five years. Let's
move on. General Tom and I was editing films that I was doing a
Newport I was in the studio where they hand out movies to the troops,
and that was a checond for splices and watching movies and fixing projectors. This
is I would have ended it down Newport, but anyway you can tell he
was in the Navy. Yes, sir, General Tom Land, mamaia,
how are you Tom tonight? General doing great? Mac? Thanks for having
us as always, and only I got to stay to one is go Army
beat Navy? Yeah? I don't know. It's gonna be a close one,
you think. So it's tomorrow, right, isn't no week from Saturday?
Week from Saturday? Okay? What's the over under in that? About
five? Anyway, it's actually at Gillette Stadium this year, is it really?
Yeah? Oh man, they'll have a good game there then. All
right, so uh Jim Frankel supervision, Jim, how you doing tonight?
I'm better now? Why you have it's? It was, you know,
Thanksgiving was rough. We had a whole family here and not in our condo
but in our daughter's house and and the West Coast contingent. There's a one
and a half year old and an almost three year old, and that's you
know, that's that's chaos, really, yes, okay, works thrilling around
after kids, a lot of kids crying and screaming and giggling, and you
know, the giggling is good. Crying and the screaming get on your nerves
after a while. Okay, we did that already, you know we we
thought we were done with that. This is round two, but not quite,
not quite. Congratulations to you, Jim that you have that exciting experience
with your extended family. Yeah, it's a positive, very nice. But
it was a lot of energy. You know. You know, little kids,
babies are energy vampires. All right, think about it. If you've
ever been a parent, you know what I'm talking about. I do know
it. This is turning into a ted kids. I do know some grandkids.
So Phil albines, Phil, how are you tonight? I am just
fine. The pool Power of Winning Moves, which has all kinds of games
games that we grew up with, and also different variations of Monopoly and risk
and so on and so forth, and is known as missed the Monopoly around
the world. Are you considered Phil Stilton the world's leading expert on Monopoly?
Well, I think by default because Hasbro has really not done anything special with
Monopoly for about ten years now. Okay, I've already confessed on the show
I've never played Monopoly. Actually I did play a game and I couldn't.
I don't remember it because we're around the pool. There was a lot of
the well vodka. As it turns out, well, you certainly are in
the minority because I think it's I forget whether it's two billion people have played
it worldwide by this point, but the number of the hasbro published somewheres in
that. What are okay? Also with us Bill Ivey, who is an
executive officer of Home Spread Troops Range Ranger Army Ranges are the best in the
army. Is that right though? Is that what you were saying the way
Matt? All right? Yes, and this is still around right, I
mean they potted Delta Force or are they the same or can we sign no,
they're not. The Rangers are a special operations unit. They're got a
different mission mission that Delta does. But got the regiment three battalions, one
station two one, two stations in Georgia and one station in Washington, Washington
State. Okay, in what particular mission would you'd send ranges on as opposed
to Green Berets or is it that specially defined Rangers more direct action? Okay?
Green Bras spent a lot of time working with indigenous forces going do rage
assaults that sort of thing. M Oh yeah, cool, all right,
very famous X and the agent access here retired Lieutenant carooninl MI counterintelligence slash recruitment
right X, last recruitment. Yeah to my worst years in twenty two years
in the army. But yes, okay. Also I started out in armor,
thanks, and then went to tattle intelligence, ended up in counter intelligence
and that was the most fun I've had until I went into my second career.
Okay, and that was that was that a male model? Those are
everybody says that. Wow, I took the kid out of the hand awsome
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lovely lowist Lane let us thank you for joining us. You're welcome for having
me. It's lots of fun. I'm learning a lot. But I do
have a question for Phil about monopoly. I recently saw a Barbie Monopoly game
and your company has involved in that or would that be something to you?
I don't want to admit it Phili you involved in the Bobby Monopoly at all?
Was it Barbieopoly or Barbie Monopoly? Oh? Good question, I don't
remember. It just cut my eye because it was Pinkin's. Is in the
public domain and opoly games could be made by everybody, Okay. I just
don't think Hasbro has tried to help Mattel by licensing the official monopoly to them.
But I'd be curious if you can let me know via email what the
actual name is, what that is, I'll find out. There's also there's
also Chapel Phillopoly, is it right? Okay, which I just discovered a
couple of weeks ago, which is a strange okay, So are you ready
for the second half of the game World War Two? Prince Andrew Roppolie,
you don't want to don't be involved in that. Did you hear that he
got invited by Ronnie Wood to join him during the North American tour coming up
next year? Prince Andrew? Yeah, well playing tambourine, he said,
no. Prince Prince William, Sorry, Princes why have the Royal Why are
you going to have the royal family member on tour with you? I don't
get it, you know it's another show. Uh so when do we s
not the second half of the game. Okay, let's see if we can
break out of this almost tie that we have going on. So this is
World War two wall movie trivia. And the next movie we're doing is Patton.
Okay, I hang on please, I'm sorry. Patten was released.
Okay, here we go. The next movie we're doing is Patent. It
was released in nineteen seventy. It's an epic movie depicting wartime activities of General
George Patten, commander of the US American US through At Army. Patten was
a very controversial commander who cut results, but many times at the cost of
his men, some of whom called him blood and guts and others called him
our blood his guts. Patten was reprimanded several times during the war by Supreme
Commander Dwight Eisenhower and his transgressions at the time, and his transitions and his
transgressions are shown in the movie right along with his heroics. The film cost
The film cost twenty two million dollars to make, an eventually earn fifty million
dollars and won of SLEUV Academyic Awards that year. Including George C. Scott
for a Best Actor and Best Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola who knew that Wow
and someone named Edmund Nooth in the first scene to the Okay, here we
go. So question number one. In the first scene after the intermission of
the movie, it shows Patten first on Corsica and then on Malta. In
both cases he's talking to the locals, he's visiting ruins and so on.
Then Patten says, quote, Let's go to Cairo to see if the pyramids
are still standing. So the question is why was Patent traveling to all these
places in the middle of a war? And the first scene after intermission of
the movie shows Patent first on Costco and then on Malta talking to the locals,
visiting ruins and so on. Then his line is, let's go to
Cairo to see if the pyramids are still standing. The question is why was
Patent traveling to all these places in the middle of a war? A He
was on a thirty day leave for R and R B. He is being
punished by Eisenhower for his transgressions. See Eisenhower want him to be constantly on
the move as a decoy for the Germans ahead of D Day D. Patton
went anywhere he wanted, whenever he wanted. Okay, right again, A
was on a thirty day leave. B was being punished by Eisenhower. C.
Eisenhower wanted him to be constantly on the move as a decoy for the
Germans. They had a D Day D paton when anywhere he wanted and whenever
he wanted. Let's go with Jim being cere intriguing. I'm gonna go with
B that because he was being punished being punished, Okay, all right,
Phil, I'll also say B. Okay, general, Yeah, I think
I'm gonna go with BA. All right. One. Uh. The D
answer is kind of weird, but it sort of fits in with what I
thought he was doing. Is that he was a hardcore historian and he had
this always had this past life kind of thing like he was when he always
kept saying I've been here when the Carthaginians faced the etcetera, etcetera. Is
recalling these war ancient he believes he might have been in. He was like
walking the earth and kind of re exploring those past lives of those past memories
that he thinks he was part of he's he is the only answer that would
fit that what I think is the right answer. Okay, General, The
other answers are stupid. What was what was d D is Paton when anywhere
he wanted whenever he wanted, which is kind of weird because it's not where
he wanted it, but he seemed to be out and about a lot right
out about doing Yes, General, I think i'd already Okay, I'm sorry,
okay, X, please give me the premise in the first question again,
because go ahead at the there's a scene where, you know, after
the intermission, where it shows Patent on Corsica and then on Malta, in
both cases talking to the locals, visiting ruins and so on. Then Patten
has a line that says, let's go to Cairo see if the pyramids are
still standing. The question is why was Paton traveling to all these places in
the middle of a wall a. He was on iron I thirty day,
iron I B. He was being punished by Eisenhower for his transgressions. See
Eisenhower wanted him to be constantly on the move as a decoy. D Okay,
phantom, Mommy, come on, okay, Bill, go see Okay,
Okay, okay, we got everyone, We have everyone locked and loaded.
Let's see what's the answer. The answer is see oh. As part
of a deception campaign, Eisenhower used Patent's transgressions to send on his trip throughout
the Mediterranean and hopes the Germans would take the bait and think that wherever Patent
was, that's where the Allies were going to invade. Now would he have
done that if Patten was, you know, had played it straight all this
time? Who knows, But that's what it was. The Phantom Miami was
kind of a different thing. The Phantomami was a little bit different. They
wanted him, they want them to think that it was going to come from
the Mediterranean somewhere, and they always had people following him. You know,
they had Germanovs's studied Patent. I mean, that's all they were there for,
you know. So okay, what's the school right? Well, we
have Bill and Tom are really running away with it here, fellas. Sorry,
they have fourteen, okay, Gim and Phil have nine, and the
General and one have ten. Okay, there's still lots of those questions left,
okay, all right, Number three, About halfway through the movie,
pat is it Number three is okay, all right, here we go.
Number two about halfway through the movie, Patton is turning is touring a hospital.
Let me start that again. Number two. Number two, About halfway
into the movie, Patton is touring a hospital full of wounded American soldiers.
He sees one who looks unharmed. He so told that the man is suffering
from battle fatigue. Patten slaps the man across the face accuses him of being
a pallid. This is this is the first of Patten's big transgressions. The
question is where did this take place? Okay, where did Patton slap the
guy in the hospital called them a malingra because he was there for bal fatigue.
Where did it happen? Morocco, Belgium, Italy Sicily Morocco, Belgium,
Italy Sicily. Let's go to We'll go to Bill. That was in
Sicily x Morocco. Jim, I say Morocco, Phil sly one. I
asked Tom. I'm gonna go with what Tom says. Tom, I'm stumped.
I'm stumped on that or we host I thought it was Sicily too.
Okay, I'll go Sicily as well. Ok got everyone. The answer is
yeah, d sicily. Later later on, oh my, Bradley said,
patent slapping that guy was the best thing that ever happened to the American Army
in Europe. And I'm not sure what he means, but I think I
get you know, no more battleful t I guess that was a good say
as well done. Okay, here we go question number three. About two
thirds of the way through the movie, there's a famous scene where Patton is
acting as a traffic cop trying to get all his tanks moving in the right
direction. Omar Bradley arrives to tell him that while he's doing a great job,
he has to give all of the Third Armies ammunition, fuel, and
supplies to Bernard Montgomery, the British commander. This infuriates Patten, but the
orders come right from Eisenhower. Why was Montgomery getting these supplies? Start again?
About two thirds of the way through the movie, there's a famous scene
where Patton is acting as a traffic cop trying to get all his tanks moving
in the right direction. Omar Bradley rives to tell him, while he's doing
a good job, he has to stop because all of the Third Armies ammunition,
fuels, and supplies had to go to Bernard Montgomery, the British commander.
This infuriates Patten, but the order has come right down from Eisenhower.
Question three is what did Montgomery need the supplies fall A to drive directly into
Berlin B for Operation mackgotten ce to finally conquer the Germans around the city of
con D to attack the V one and V two bases. Okay, A
to drive right to Berlin B for Operation Market Garden C to finally conquer the
Germans around the city of con D to attack the V one and V two
bases. We'll start with General Tom. One of the few questions that I
think I'm actually fairly sure of, and it's Market Garden B one. Oh
man, I thought it was going to be too brilin because they were like
almost there. But I'm gonna have to go with Tom. I'm going to
go with Tom again. I'm hanging on his uh coattails. B Are they
in last place? Yeah? Yeah, okay, okay, I just wanted
to bring um Sorry, Ax, what do you say, Margan market basket?
Bill Malcom acid? Right? You know what a man? Yes?
Yeah, Bill? What you say? I say? Be as well?
I think conn was over with by that point. Okay, Jim Us,
I'm going with Market Garden, okay. And Bill did get yours. Yep,
everybody said, everyone said, B yeah, it is b it is
be yeah. And the thing is is that talk about another movie A Bridge
too Far. Operation malcam Gotten was just a failure. I mean, what
they tried to do was capture I think four bridges through this highway through Holland
which would lead right into Germany. I mean, on paper it must have
looked good, but this road was just surrounded by Germans on both sides,
and they landed I mean, you know, if you saw the movie,
you know the straight they landed a lot of bridge pass our troops in one
of the bridges in on them and they were stranded there. And I mean
just the fact that they were able to get out a lot of them,
we were able to get out alive, was you know, kind of like
a uh a victory in the in the face of the defeat. But it
was just a real overspending of these resources or something stupid, something done for
politics. More than anything. I felt that it was difficult to watch because
we knew it was going to result in failure. Right, yeah, you
know the end of the movie. But the point point is that Paton was
on a role. This was the second time, right, he could have
ended the war, could have ended the war because we all love President Eisenhower,
we all did appease the British. Well there's politics. It's politics comes
into the wall. He could have after Kalai then he could have gone right
into the heart of Germany and they turned the gas off. And that's not
a myth, that's not yeah story, that's true. Okay, oh yeah,
hundreds Well I don't know a hundreds, but thousands of people Germans,
American, French, English died because of that decision. Ye, yes,
right, But it just it just shows that politics comes into war like all
the time. You know, we always think, let's let's let's all just
sit down and figure out the best way to win this the quickest way.
But you know, you get a lot of people that you have to please.
Oh, here we go. Actually, it's cool about that movie is
that you saw the politics get thrown in there by virtue of whom I think
of the Walden Yes, right, yeah, And he's like he's like the
bearer of bad tidings every time you turn around Bimar broadly is busiting off baton
left and right. I'm sorry, Bill, were you going to say something?
Bill? Bill? What are you going to say? In the Bridge
too Far? Robert Redford played a child commander in the eighty second file of
Fourth Parachuting Regiment. The real guy came to a reunion at Bragg when I
was in the eighty second and we were talking to him, and he's talking
about things, and he said, hey, when you crossed the Wall river
and if you remember in the movie scene the machine guns going off, yes,
showry people are saying hell Mary, yes, paddling with oars, paddling
with rifles. And one of the guys asked him, was it really that
bad? And he said, you know, he had fought in North Africa
with the eighty second. He had jumped into Sicily, he jumped into Slanta
now five, the fourth state in Italy when the eighty second went back to
jump into d Day. So they were pretty much in combat all the way
right up until they went into Market Garden. He said, when he got
the farest side of the river, as a Chian commander, he personally killed
three Germans with his weapon. He said it was the first time in war
at this point giv him combat for over two years that he had fired his
weapon. Wow, weird. Yeah, yeah, well that's that happens.
You know. It's like a coop is a clap of thirty years and he
might take his gun at once. You know. It's strange, you know.
But it was that bad, right, it was that bad. Yeah,
it was pretty bad. Yeah, I remember that scene. Then when
he was asked, what does your wife think of Robert refre playing, he
said, thanks so much? By looking who I need something to cut the
act? All right, well, I'm sure you okay. Last question having
to do with Patten. During the Battle of the Bulge, Patton is told
that the US command inside the besiege town of Bestam, his name was General
mccauliffe, had a one word reply for a Nazi officer who suggested the American
forces surrender. When told of the American officer's reply, Patten said, a
man that eloquent has to be saved. Question for is what did General mccolloff
reply to the Nazi surrender request? You want to for this lowest? He
come on, there's the option, Okay, A balls, B, grapes,
C, nuts, D testicles during the Battle of the Bulls, Pattens
told that your brain is in the gutter. Mac. Wow, I'm just
reporting historical facts. Do I have to repeat it? I don't have to
read that again? There, Okay, okay? What was what was General
mccollough's reply to the Nazi uh off of for surrender in the and Circle time
the best on during the Battle of the Bulbs. Let's go to gym mister
big nuts nuts. I feel everyone's phil nuts, General nuts one, please
say testicles, wal nuts x, NUSA nuts and bill nuts. Everyone got
it right. The German commander did not know what it meant. It's right,
What does he mean? What does he mean? What does nuts?
Yeah, he didn't know what it means because of an American colloquial question.
Yeah, but when I think German commander knew what NUSA means, go ahead,
please Jim. Well, when I hear nuts, you know, I
mean in World War two, I wonder that there are people hearing nuts,
thought immediately of testicles. Really, I don't think so we're gonna have to
go really no, really, that's what I said. Your brain is in
the gutter, Mac. I thought, this is sudden sudden case, yes
exactly, or in this case, admit, screw you buddy? Do you
nuts? It's okay? All right, chat trace E screw you buddy?
Who's got that? Thank you? Jim? Here we go, movie number
four? Okay, Saving Private Ryan. Oh why don't we do the scores?
Uh? Do you want to do the scores again? Okay? Saving
Private Ryan? For a while I mented meant to bone up on it,
and I didn't, but I saw it a while back. Okay, go
ahead, all right, Well we still have a close game. People really
know their stuff war movie history. Maybe there reason questions the general. Maybe
the General and Juan have sixteen points, Jim and Phil have fourteen points,
and Bill and X are still in the lead with nineteen wow nineteen wow.
Okay, here we go, shooting along the way. You guys, I
have to check that Morocco versus Sicily. I think he hit him in Sicily,
but he got slammed and he wound up in Morocco. Great, he
hit him in Morocco and get slammed when he moved to Sicily. OK that's
what I thought. I'm sure you're right. Got the press conference. You're
in the lead. What do you bitching about that exactly. Don't question,
but he wants to be precise. He is important. Okay, we're on
the home turn. Here, here we go. Saving Private Ryan Saving Private
Ryan was made nineteen ninety eight. It's an American epic WAH film directed by
Steven Spielberg and written by someone named Robert Rode. Set in nineteen forty four
in France, during Roller who Had follows a group of soldiers led by Captain
John Miller, the Tom Hanks character, on their mission to locate Private James
Francis Ryan, who is played by Matt Damon, and bring him home safely
after his three brothers are killed in action. After a brutally shot sequence of
US troops landing on Normindy on D Day, the United States Department of War
receives communication that three of the four Ryan brothers have been killed in action.
The last of the James of the one and first Airborne Division is listed as
missing in action. The Chief of Army, George Marshall, orders that Ryan
be found and sent home to spare his family the loss of its sons.
Miller, the Tom Hanks character, is tasked recovering Ryan and assembles a detachment
of soldiers to accompany him. Question number one, how many men go out
on the mission to find Private Ryan, including Tom Hanks's character. How many
men go out on the mission to find Private Ryan, including Tom Hanks?
A it's a twelve man squad, B seven men, C eight D ten.
How many people go out looking for Private Ryan? Twelve man squad,
seven men, eight or ten? Let's go to x well. A squad
is typically twelve men. I don't remember. I didn't count them all,
but it's a movie, so eight I don't know. Okay, Bill,
I would go at eight, General, I think it's eight one. I
gotta go with the general. Jim, thanks forlot one one. Either either
doing well or we're going down and playing. No, that's what I'm surfing
with you, man, I'm on the same bard with you. Do you
go? That's the thing? U A lot to talk and believe me,
Jim, please, it's Phil first? Oh Phil, go ahead, Phil?
Yeah? Twelve men, seven men, eight men, ten men?
It's eight okay, Jim, I guess I'm going to go with eight as
well. Okay, we get everyone, we do, and everybody kicked the
same answer. Oh, it's B seven seven and has whoa wrong. Is
that including Miller or not? Yes? Including him? Yeah? Six guys
and tim? Wow, Now there is a question one A for no points?
How many survive? Wait? Wait, wait are you sure at seven?
I thought I thought it was eight? No, no, this I
counted it today, you counted it. They don't trust your counting. I
mean I read the I mean I read the cat frame the shot, and
then you counted the people that signed out. Now you read the cat saying
we're going after who? Question one A question one? How many survive?
You know? None? Seven two or one? None? Seven two or
one? And he guesses this is in the movie. Yep, yep,
it's just yes, yeah, I was gonna gets too. Also, yeah,
it is two. It's true. That's two two. Is that a
real question or is that just now that's just a fun fact. Okay,
we got that right, huh everyone, Yes, we did? Okay.
Number two. The brutally realistic sequence on Omaha Beach that opens the movie involved
up to fifteen hundred extras, thirty of whom were amputees issued prosthetic arms to
play soldiers who had them limbs blown off. God. The brutality of these
scenes in particular was so realistic. Many World War Two veterans had to leave
theaters during the D Day scene due to pt S Steve reactions. It's I
believe it. It's brutal to watch it, really is. It was tough
for me to watch it. Yeah, and that's why I think this and
I have comments on this movie when we get to the NTA, but I
think it should be required viewing for high school seniors. Do you know what
I mean? If you're going to go in, this is what it is,
man, this is what it is if you want to do it.
But you know it's not like in the time. Special effects were just amazed,
incredible, incredible, and was way short on its recruiting goals already.
I don't think okay, sorry, any good point. It made the longest
day landing scenes came in comparison, right right, Yeah, no, limits
were blowing aport not no, Okay. The question is where was this epic
sequence shot? Where was the shot at the four answers? First? Yeah,
I'm gonna do the four answers? Phil? Phil? Was that you?
Oh, here's the four answers? Okay? Balance, thank you,
AX to screw me up Bonesca Cove, Ireland Hamstruck Beach, Holland, Normandy
Beach in France, Manhattan Beach in California. Where was this incredible scene from
saving Private Ryan the landings on Omaha Beach? Where did they actually shoot it?
Was it in Ireland, Holland, Normandy itself or in California? Leaves
Phil for Phil? Please, I'll say a Ireland. Okay, all right,
go ahead, Jim. Oh goodness, I'm gonna say Manhattan Beach,
Jannie, Ireland, General Ireland. Bill think it's California as Ireland. Okay,
we got everyone Ireland, Yes, we do. The answer is Island.
Oh it is, okay, it was filmed in I can't say this
Bowen Nesca Cove, Ireland. Many of the extras were members of the Irish
Army Reserve. It costs more than twelve million dollars just to film that sequence,
okay, almost as much as long as they us. I was I
was just going to tie this question with the last one. I'm sorry.
This question was. You're right there were Irish Army reservists after the French would
not permit filming in Normandy. Yeah, that was that right, Yeah,
yeah, okay. The third question having to do with saving Private Ryane number
three. The vast majority of films quote unquote story boarded before they being in
production. This is a process with nearly every scene in the movie is like
a comic strip in chronological order. This storyboard is then matched with the script
before filming begins on Saving Private Ryan. However, Spielberg, Steven Spielberg,
the director, chose not to storyboard the movie. Why did he make this
highly unusual decision? Okay, you know they storyboard movies. They match it
with the script, and that's basically how they shoot the movie. They want
to see most of the scenes visually in front of them before they shoot it.
Okay, So why did he not storyboard such an important movie. A.
The film was rushed into production and he didn't have time. B A
Hollywood Union of Artist strike at the time wouldn't allow it. See he wanted
the movie to be ad libbed and look realistic. D. The storyboard was
stolen at Cork Airport in Ireland and never replaced. Okay. A. The
film was rushed into production and he didn't have time. B. A Hollywood
artist strike at the time wouldn't allow it. See, he wanted the movie
to be adlived and look realistic. Deed, the storyboard was stolen at Cork
Airport and never replaced. Let's go to let's go to X in this no
idea. What a not keen subject. But what did you say, B
was tell me again? A Hollywood Union of das strike at the time wouldn't
allow it. They also dumb. But I'll go with that one. Okay,
B Bill at least as well versed as my partner is. But I'll
go with C to spread there out a little bit realism. See, he
wanted the movie to be adlibd and look realistic, okay, general, Yeah,
I wanted to be spontaneously. Also, he also shot this thing write
in order. A lot of times they shoot scenes back and forth all the
time. You go to this scene, the last scene may get filmed first.
Shut this from beginning. Then that's that's the option C. Yeah,
yeah, he's right about that. It was his intent was filmed and continuity.
Mm hmm. Hey, Jim, I'm want to go with C.
Okay, and Phil, I'll also go with C for lib Okay. Yeah,
the answer is see, but you know, I'm gonna make my comments
on this movie at the end. I think that's He also filmed it in
this uh where you it looks it's not it's not smoothly. The the film
doesn't look smooth. It looks a little bit like a newsreel but not Yeah
that yeah, band band of brothers also the same way. Yeah yeah,
uh okay, like like stop, it's like almost free streams like the bullet
hit. Yeah yeah yeah yeah, it's like and the sound that goes with
it is just you actually feel it the couch. You feel like you're looking
at it. You feel like you got shot. Okay, here we go.
Wow, it is the last question that we listen to the movie with
headphones. Let's let's give the scores now, because this is the last question,
the deciding fact. There we go. Okay, here we go.
That's a great movie. Yeah, well, some people think, where do
you think of Steven Spielberg as a director? Let's let's yeah, let's get
the fourth question. Yes, here we go. Fourth question. The scores
are scores? Jim and Phil have seventeen, the General and one have nineteen,
yes, and Bill and X have twenty one. Wow, Okay,
I never know what's going to happen. Let's see we go. H question
four and this scene okay. At at the end of the movie, and
now elderly Private Ryan is visiting an American military cemetery, remembering the people who
died to save him. Question four. In this scene, what does the
now elderly Private Ryan say to his wife? Okay, ay, tell me
that I'm a good man. B six guys died so I could live.
See. I wish my brothers could be here with me. D What are
you doing in this shitty, overrated movie? You hot less? Go ahead?
X x A. What was it saying again? Tell me I'm a
good man? Is a okay, go ahead, okay, general, Hey,
tell me I'm a good man, lived a good life. One.
Yeah, I got the same answer. Their foot Phil, It's it's a
jim Yeah he yep, that's the line. Here's my Here's here's my little
Everyone got that. Here's my little take on Steven Spielberg. You don't let
everything up. Yeah. I think the movie, Like I said, I
think the movie should be required viewing for everybody. It's because it's such a
realistic wa movie. You know, they don't they don't cut any corners,
they don't you know, they don't sugar coat any of it. But let's
face it, and I'm glad we have some veterans here to answer this question.
If you get a order from the head of the army, which had
to have come from the White House, and you have to find this guy,
what do you send seven guys out for him? Why don't you send
you know, seventy tanks out for him? Why don't you do you know
what I mean, If it's so important, why do you send these guys,
you know, and on such an important mission? And that whole idea
of shooting in a sequence, I get it, you know, But there
are just sometimes in that movie where it's like these guys are on a hike,
you know what I mean, They're on a hike, and they're talking
about what it's like back home, and you know, Sally Joe is going
to marry me, and they're supposed to be very very deep in enemy territory.
I think it's a good movie for the reasons I mentioned. I'm not
a big Spielberg fan. I know he's very famous, but because I went
to film school and ruined me forever on his movies, and I mean I
appreciate the movies that he's made, especially this in Shindler's list. If he
never did anything other than most two movies, he's still a great director.
But he's not really a good storyteller. He really isn't. And I don't
know. That's my take on on Spielberg. You're against the concept. The
whole concept of the movie is sending out the squad, right, why wouldn't
you send the whole eighty second after this, he's like, he's, you
know, hold up in some village someplace, and they're knocking on doors and
saying, hey, have you seen this guy? Yeah? Sorry, you
know, holding up a picture. Yes, ahead. Place to go into
your your comment about them seeing walking across the fields. There is one scene
where they have one too many guys walking across the field because they've already suffered
one or two casualies. Count the guys in the field. There's one too
many. It's that's a continuity problem. Yeah, that's a flub. Yeah,
that's a flub. And and and just you know, so they run
this mission in there and it's it's it's highly secret but very very important,
and they come upon like this machine gun nest is just like out in the
middle of nowhere. I mean, would you really attack, you know what
I mean? Or would you just kind of well, yeah, and why
would you have this is the one thing that really got me in the movie.
Why would you have your medic be part of this attack and get killed
as a result? Right, Yeah, you need him left, Yeah,
you need him. Yeah, they're all by himself coming in throwing grenades and
they throw him back at him and boom, he's he's gone minutes later.
Yeah, it's there's a lot of reviews in it. It's it's widely praised,
but there's a lot of kind of native reviews and called it kind of
almost pornographic the way the violence is shown, and especially in the end,
the way they're fighting the Germans and the little town. And then someone said
the Germans wouldn't be out in the broad daylight like that. Moving for the
p fifty one the bomb, right, it's the planes don't come into the
last possible minute. You get the impression that this town with the paratroop presented,
is completely cut off, which stretches the imagination. And you know,
considering the fact that it wasn't that far from Omaha Beach, right, I
think we all of us, he'll probably know a little bit too much,
you know what I mean, how the sausage is made. And yeah,
so anyway, would you say that that movie is a good film school dissecting
move exercise? I asked you a question why they said some guys man,
Yes, please, they were all rangers. I got two things I want
to say about the movie. The first is that when I saw the movie
for the first time, I just broke up because my father in World War
Two wasn't five invasions. None of them were probably as bad as D Day
because they were in the Mediterranean, Africa, in southern France. But you
know a lot of times this landing ship was was not where it should be
and they were under heavy fire when they landed. Uh. And it just
got home to me what he went through for almost four years on behalf of
the country at me because you know, I wouldn't be here otherwise. And
then the other thing I wanted to say is that as a result of this
movie, I had a burning desire to actually see Normandy and especially the Omaha
Beach. And I got that opportunity in two thousand and five with an English
guide by the way, which was wonderful, and I walked up that beach
and I walked up the cliff, and then when you get to the top
of the cliff, behind it is the American Cemetery. When you stand at
the entry to the cemetery, you know it's completely quiet. Those white crosses
are perfectly aligned in diagonals and rows. And you start to look at the
names and the birth and death date on each of these crosses, and almost
all of them they're nineteen and twenty, maybe twenty one. A few captains
are twenty two, and they're all dead within like a week of unbelievable.
It's very poignant, experienced. I don't know if anyone else here has had
that opportunity, but it's since we all have an affinity for military history.
All I can tell you is if you go, just be prepared for a
very strong emotional reason. Right. Yes, it's like the Vietnam Wall.
We went to see the Vietnam Wall this summer, and I knew two people
who are on the wall. I knew them, but my emotional reaction was
I had to sit down, I had we had to leave the area in
I just yeah, it was very powerful. So anyway, okay, who
won lois? So the winners I'll say say the lose, I mean the
third place. So okay, so here we go, go ahead. Jim
and Phil came in third place. I'm surprised Rond very respectively, especially nineteen
when second place had twenty one. Okay, go ahead, and now general
and one and then Bill and X the winners. They are the winners switch
twenty three. So the scores are so close. That's right, that's good.
I know, uh, Bill will be gracious in victory. I know
X. Well, never let me forget this. That's got chest. There
you go. So, so the the prize tonight is one hundred dollars to
you two guys. Congratulations. How do you plan to spend the money.
It's giving Tuesday h five. Okay, right to troops. You've got good
plan. Please everyone out there. That's great, man, that's great.
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Ninety cents of your dollar goes right toelve veterans. And we've seen it
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And that you do twenty five homes a year, that's amazing. But that
the waiting list is a thousand people that's that's a hill decline, man.
Yeah, we've got a lot of work to do. We've actually got our
plan this year on our twenty four is our twentieth anniversary, so our playing
this year is to build thirty one homes and by the end of September,
that'll get us to a total of four hundred. Wow. That is great.
That is amazing. It is amazing. And Lowis and I went down
and we saw one of the homes where they gave it to one of our
veterans and it's a nice place. It was beautiful, beautiful. Yeah,
really nice. Who are your biggest corporate sponsors? We should throw them some
praise to our biggest outlet, Bill time in here too, because I've just
been talking the whole time. Our biggest corporate sponsor and probably most prolific across
the country gets report from them all over the place is ABC Supply Company.
Okay, all right, they've been with for a few years now. And
then the longest run in corporate sponsor that we've had is Texas Roadhouse that has
been with us since the beginning. Yeah, okay, very cool to them.
Yeah. On the building suppy side, we have a number of companies
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the people understood that what that means. That's that's great, And you've been
doing the twenty years. And I guess when we say there's a thousand people
on the waiting list, doesn't that waiting let's just grow all the time.
No, Well, for right now, the good news, knock on some
wood. We haven't added a bunch of these guys gals coming back injured recently.
Yes, but we certainly think it's going to grow in the future because
we tend to get involved in different things and see different things happening around the
world right now that we could be in Yep, yep ye fortunately true.
That's I mean, it's right, unfortunately true, is right. Let's just
please homespread Troops give them a round of the blanche. Thank you very much,
guys, and thanks everyone for joining us tonight. We have a lot
of fun doing these things. Let's do it again soon. Let me thank
everyone for us. Lois, Oh, thank you first. You're welcome.
It was a pleasure to be here and I learned a lot and you guys
are very very smart. Okay, and thanks for Lois and Mattress setting this
up. Well done. Yes, I'm thanking great time. I'm thanking Lois
first because you have to stop the cop right exactly and warm it up tonight.
I mean, who knows you're home Bill in general, Tom, thanks
very much you're joining us. You know, we're so happy that we're associated
with homespread Troops. We mentioned them every week. A lot of people that
listen to us talk about it, so thank you very much. We really
appreciate your joining us. Let's do it again soon some time. And thank
you for what you having us. We always appreciate being here. Thank you
for what you do is right, I mean it is. It turns people's
lives around it. It really makes a difference. Yep. And our veterans
don't get as much, you know, I hate to say it. Honor
you know, as they should. But that's another show. Phil and Jim,
thank you the dynamic door, pleasure, pleasure and honor to be here.
Okay, okay and Phil, we'll see you soon, okay down the
boat house? Yeah, okay, all right, great, Jim, we'll
talk to you soon. Can I give you a call tomorrow real quick?
Absolutely? Thanks a lot, Okay. At Wannie, thank you as always.
You're welcome. Always a pleasure. Okay, happy to be here,
X, thank you X. Thanks for having me. Okay, you're going
back to drinking your gurly beer. Now tell everyone what kind of beer you
drink. That's how you want to end. This really has two point four
alcohol, yes, and fifty five calories? Okay, and what do you
call it? Really? Masculine physical perfection doesn't happen? Can you imagine walking
into a bar with this guy? Walking into a sports bar and this is
what he wanted. Well, he has to maintain that figure as a male
model. I do recall saying that was his second career. He's losing that
battle like the Germans lost at Mormon Day. Frankly, Well, he's doing
a lot more walking since the subway is out running very well. All right,
on that note, we could walk faster than the subways on that night.
Guys, thanks everyone for joining us. We appreciate it, we said
at the end of every show. Remember John McCain was not a loser.
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