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Weird being way media night, mister
Walters can see that guy with it now,

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he's an actor at all. I'm
a driver and the only camp driver

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in his place. Good evening and
welcome tonight, mister Walters Taxi Podcast.

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I'm your co host HP and with
me as always is my co host,

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Father Malone. Father Malone, how
are you this evening? ESP? I

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need you to know something right now. I do not record on January the

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eighth. That's Elvis's birthday. That's
Elvis's birthday. Now that should be your

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clue those of this is not going
to be your typical episode of night,

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mister Walters. We're in that sort
of a time between season one and season

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two, so Father Malone and myself
thought we would do something a little interesting

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given that we haven't started season two
yet. We're going to be looking into

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a what I would call a taxi
adjacent movie called d C Cab. Some

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of you may be familiar with it, but this movie came onto my radar

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as a result of hearing a discussion
about the DC Cab soundtrack on the Amazing

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Billion Dollar Record Podcast, which I
would recommend anybody go check out. It's

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hilarious. Anyway, in chasing up
more info on the movie, I was

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struck by the fact that professional Andy
Kaufman friend and sometime Tony Clifton, Bob

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Zamuda appeared in DC Cab. He's
not featured prominently, but he's in it

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enough. He's in it enough to
make me hate him. The character.

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I mean, not Bombsa Moody.
He's doing a good job, but I

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hate that fucking character. The interesting
part of it is, I've been seeing

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this movie here and there over the
course of what the better part of thirty

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years maybe more and what are you
nuts? Eighty three? Brother, and

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all of this time I never put
together the fact that that was Bob Zamuda

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playing this character. So I was
really shocked to find out that he was

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in this. And of course the
tie in, as I said, is

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because Andy Kaufman is in Taxi,
of course, and they were buddies at

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the time of the production of this
movie, DC Cab Taxi, the TV

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series was still in production at that
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around the fifth season, the final
season of Taxi. Not to say that

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there was any sort of Taxi influence
on DC Cab, but it is sort

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of interesting, and there are some
parallels to be seen, whether intentional or

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otherwise. I think they're unintentional.
DC Cab was on cable a lot when

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father Malona and I were kids.
We saw it many many times. I

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probably I would have been about ten
when it was on, and certainly coming

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from a rather unsupervised childhood. As
far as watching cable, I probably saw

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this when I was far too young
to really understand a lot of the humor

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and certainly a lot of the sexual
situations. Let's say, in a box

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tucked neatly away, there is a
video tape with a handmade label that was

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typed by me that says DC Cab. Somewhere in my sphere. If I

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chose to find it, I could. But yes, I've seen this movie,

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not only from the onslaught that was
delivered to us by cable television at

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the time, which was again pretty
severe. This movie was on a lot,

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but I also video taped it so
I could watch it when it wasn't

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on. I'm almost certain I videotaped
it as well. But for me,

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I would videotape things and I would
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like the fish tank. It wasn't
necessarily that I'd watch it with great intent.

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I would just put it on while
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was a known movie. It was
a funny movie, at least for the

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time. In light of our examination
of Taxi the TV series, we thought

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it would be interesting to take a
side trip here and delve into a Taxi

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adjacent project like DC Cab. So
let's get into DC Cab a little bit.

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Now. The stars of this movie. This movie features one of the

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more prodigious casts of the eighties.
Oh it's an ensemble, baby, It's

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actually a remarkable ensemble when you look
at it. We have Max Gail,

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who, of course is best known
as Wojo from Barney Miller Mister t which

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we'll talk a lot about coming up. Adam Baldwin, who was in My

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Bodyguard. That's what I know him
from, Gary Busey, from just being

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Gary Busey, the nuts stop that
Gary Busey Academy Award nominee for Buddy the

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Buddy Holly Story. Yes, he's
in this movie. This is true.

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And I would actually say that his
role as Joshua in Lethal Weapon, I

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thought he was very very good in
that because it was playing against type,

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right, Are you implying that Gary
Busey is not a fucking phenomenal actor.

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I'm implying that the Gary Busey the
character has supplanted Gary Busey the excellent actor.

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Right. Well, I maintain that
up until I can't remember the title

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of the film with Rutger Howard,
the Surviving the Game. Up until Surviving

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the Game, we still get focused
good performances from Gary Busey. After that

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is when he becomes Gary Busey the
Wooo I'm crazy all the time guy,

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And I think that's fair. Actually
surviving the game that was? Was that

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the one with iced tea where it
was sort of like the most dangerous game?

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It was an update. Yeah,
that was a good movie. Ernest

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Dickerson directed that, goddamn right,
Spike Lee's long time cinematographer, frequent director

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of photography of Tales from the Dark
Side. Yes, he probably made his

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bones as a director on Tails from
the Dark Side, Right, certainly did

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so. In addition to Gary Busey, we have I would say a very

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young but let's face it, all
the actors in this are are really young.

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Bill Maher is in this. He's
so baby faced it's funny. Online

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and weird looking. And it's very
easy to forget because he's been Bill Maher,

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the talk show host and firebrand for
so long that he was a comedian

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and he was an actor. He
made a go of it, So it

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was shocking to see him in this. I forgot that he was in it

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House two, or he's in House
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was in Cannibal Women in the Avocado
Jungle of Death. Bill Maher was out

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there. He was working man.
His smugness has finally swallowed him up.

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But for a long stretch in the
eighties and nineties, I was a big

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fan of starting here. I think
I would totally agree with you there.

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For a time he was a welcome
sardonic presence in film and on TV.

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And I think you're right. I
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swallowed him up. And now it's
indistinguishable from the real person. It's become

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the person. So also we have
Charlie Barnett, which we'll talk about this

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really interesting stuff with Charlie Barnett.
Otis Day from Animal House. Otis Day

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in the Nights. He's in this
movie. Paul Rodriguez. Adriguez, remember

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fucking Paul Rodriguez. In the eighties, he had a sitcom what was it

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called Aka Pablo aka Pablo. Yeah, I remember that was like a very

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highly touted series. It went nowhere. So you have these really up and

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coming comedians like Rodriguez and Barnett and
mar but you also have Wittman Mail from

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San frances Son Grady, and you
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the Barbarian brothers David and Peter Paul. I could be wrong about that.

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Got love those barbarians. Man Marsia
Warfield is also in this movie. We

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could mention her Jill Shalen Scholan,
Shalen Sholin, I don't know. I

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think it's Scholin. I think it's
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she she's a huge eighties mainstay.
She's a horror maven, extraordinary. She

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never gets mentioned, but she's like
she was a big scream queen. One

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of my favorite sort of discoveries as
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Missus Floyd is played by an actress
named Gloria Gifford who you've seen her.

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She's been in a bunch of stuff, But for me and maybe for you

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father alone. I most fondly remember
her as the airport security officer in This

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is Spinal Tap who stops Derek Small's
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foil wrapped zucchini. When she says, do you have any artificial plates or

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limbs? That's that's Gloria Gifford,
which I love it. There's a few

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discoveries I made during watching this,
and that was one of them. And

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Devo and Salvos also in this movie. I'm sorry, I'm just remembering the

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cast and you're not naming a bunch
of the bunch of them, and I

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just need to mention some of them. They're all real good, Like this

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is a true ensemble movie, and
DeSalvo actually appeared in Taxi. Eventually we

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will see she plays. I believe
she's like Tony's fiance or eventual fiance or

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something. I think they get paired
up. That's right. They like she's

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his equal, Like she's basically the
female Tony. Yeah, she's very tough.

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I think that was her stock in
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a tough talking New Yorker. Want
to talk a little bit about Charlie Barnett

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because I confess I didn't know much
about Charlie Barnett before or even going into

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this movie, and then I did
a little bit because I wondered, he's

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so prominently featured in this movie,
but you haven't. I can't even think

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of another role that he's had a
prominent role, Are you crazy? Oh

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no, no, no, no, no, no no. I remember

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him very prominently on Miami Vice.
See I didn't watch Miami Vice multi episode

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and yeah, I and I thought
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huge star as well, because he
is prominent in this movie and he's very,

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very funny in this movie. And
I'm sure you're gonna spill the SNL

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beans here. You know exactly what
I'm getting into here. He was a

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young comic on the rise in the
late seventies in New York and he auditioned

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for SNL in September nineteen eighty and
evidently then producer, notorious producer Gene Dumanian,

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this is that Laurene Michaels has finally
left SNL after his four year run,

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and Geen Dom his assistant right at
the time. Yeah, yeah,

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she used to take over the show
and has to restock the cast and ends

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up. You know, some of
them were pretty good cast members. I

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mean, she did pick Joe Piscopo, who ended up being a good cast

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member. She picked Gilbert Godfrey and
who never got a shot on the show,

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but he would have been good.
And Tony Rizzano is that her?

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I think? So there it was. Denny Dillon was another one of the

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cast members. Gilbert right, Charlie
Rockett sadly faded. He'd like to know

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who the fuck did it? So, you know, I just that was

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the Charlene Tilton episode. I just
rewatched that recently. She came into SNL

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in a very unenviable position. But
anyone who's read any of the many books

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that have been out about the history
of SNL knows that I said she was

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notorious, and she really was.
I think the nickname that the cast members

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had for her was the Iyatola Domanian. Among other things. She was looking

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to hire as part of this new
refresh of the cast. She was going

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to high Charlie Barnett, But Barnett
was he had very poor reading skills.

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I guess he was next to illiterate. He must have been dyslexic or something

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like that. That's also a possibility. You know, it's possible. I

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mean this was we're talking forty years
ago, fifty years ago almost that it's

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possible that he who knows what he
had going on, but he had very

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poor reading skills and he was tremendously
self conscious about it, so he didn't

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show up for his second audition,
and lo and behold, Eddie Murphy gets

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hired in his place. Barnett would
harbor great jealousy towards Murphy for years and

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years because he always believed that his
spot on SNL and his eventual rise to

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fame should have been his. He
might have a case actually, because Eddie

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Murphy was going to explode no matter
what happened. It's an interesting what if

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because who knows what might have happened
with Charlie Barnett. So what I also

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found out was Charlie Barnett was Dave
Pelle's mentor. Dave Chappelle was also a

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young comedian, didn't have a lot
of experience, and Charlie Barnett's thing was

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he would go and perform outside.
He would perform at Think in Central Park

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and he would pack them out outside
and he actually brought in Dave Chappelle taught

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him the ropes a little bit,
how to you know. I'm not going

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to say he taught him how to
be a good comedian, but Chappelle has

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gone on record as saying that he
was a big, big influence on him.

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And in fact, before Chappelle walked
away from The Chappelle Show, there

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was a deal in place to do
the Charlie Barnett Biography, a film biography

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of Charlie Barnett that he was going
to be involved in, if not starring.

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When Dave Chappelle walked away from everything
and just quit the show, that

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project went away with him. I'd
like to watch that movie. It would

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have been interesting because I'm sure this
guy's life. I'm reducing it to just

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the paragraph, but it sounds pretty
amazing. Oh it's pretty harrowing there at

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the end too. So Barnett would
meet a very sad end. He died

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of AIDS. Dude to being an
intravenious. He was a heroin addict and

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he would die of AIDS in nineteen
ninety six. So it's one of those

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great what if questions about what he
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opportunity. He's fantastic in DC Cab. He's very funny, he's a manic

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presence, He's great. It makes
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I should mention that DC Cab was
written by top of Carew and Joel

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Schumacher, and it was directed by
Joel Schumacher directorial debut. It was not

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his directorial debut, well, no, he wrote He directed The Incredible Shrinking

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Woman before this, Yes, the
year prior. Yeah. Yeah. This

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was only the second major film directed
by Schumacher, the first being nineteen eighty

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one's Incredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin. He would of course become a prominent

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director in the mid to late eighties
and into the nineties. He directed Well,

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Saint Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Falling Down, many

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many others. Batman, So that
was Batman and Robin Did he direct that?

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And Batman Forever? Yes? And
Batman Forever. So he's widely credited

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with killing that Batman franchise, basically
unfairly. Yeah, that's it was always

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going to crumble in the nineties,
and once Warner Brothers figured out that it

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was a merchandising machine, there was
no way anyone was going to have a

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good vision for any of those movies
he was. You know, they got

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exactly what they needed at the time, which was a pop cultury, you

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know, candy colored looking thing.
Joel Schumacher. This is the second film.

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He's a very sure footed already.
I gotta say it's very well directed.

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He actually co wrote it as well, so it's sort of interesting.

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I knew him primarily from his eighties
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many times without realizing who directed it. But I was kind of surprised to

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find out that he was so prominently
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thought that was kind of cool.
We have to mention mister T. Mister

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T was hugely famous at this time. I mean, he'd just made his

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debut in Rocky three the year before, but he was still one year away

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from his best performance, which I
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eighty four. Is Be Somebody or
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he's so good in that one.
His performance of the song mother will bring

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a tear to your eyes. Other
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fool that you have to explain who
mister T is to you. It's really

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impossible to overstate how seismic Mister T's
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with the gold chains, with the
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like anyone else. The pop culture
explosion around mister T was tremendous. He

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was on different strokes. He was
on the eighteen was a tremendous hit.

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He was at the White House with
Nancy Reagan on his lap. God bless

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him. He's still around now.
He's not as active as he once was.

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The man must be in his late
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he's still got the mohawk, he's
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the you know everything. I mean, he's mister T is just one of

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those pop cul sure icons. And
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so that was kind of cool.
Right now. He was a huge star

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when this movie came out, and
this movie was made before I think he

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became mister T. What's interesting is
the character that he plays is this character

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called Samson. Out of all of
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lot of wacky characters we'll talk about, but Samson. You could make the

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case that Samson is essentially mister T. Oh yeah, they picked the right

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character for mister T to play in
this movie. He effectively is playing mister

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T. So I couldn't imagine Bill
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Bill Mahers. It really does play
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relentlessly positive, He's dressed just like
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is concerned about the drug dealers and
the pimps in the neighborhood, and he's

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trying to make something better. So
this is really the mister T, the

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public persona depicted in a movie.
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He's playing mister T that for all
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him for this movie, where the
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has so many young fans and this
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T vehemently agreed with her and said
that he did everything he could to talk

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to the director and the producer to
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what was getting them the R rating. But he's at least proud to know

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that his character was upright and forth
right, like he went through the mud,

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but I came out clean. That
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of Clubber Lang his debut in Rocky
three, the thing that put him on

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the map is probably the thing that's
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likes to portray himself as here's a
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first and he had blown up as
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cartoon series, would he have accepted
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like had Rocky three come after See
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and they said, we want to
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this, I bet he would have
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no because a cynic might say that
he's just doing this to portray who knows

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what he's like in real life.
But I actually really suspect I don't know

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the man, I've never met him, but I suspect that he is like

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that in real life. He's somebody
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in a certain light. And that's
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with you. I don't think he
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such a heavy character and a scary
character. Really. I mean, he's

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very much a villain in that movie. There's no doubt about it. He

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basically kills Mickey right. You know, people will say Drago, but I

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think Clever Lang was the most frightening
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He was, and it was like
the perfect time for that perfect actor and

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the perfect part. It was really
a lot of It was an interesting confluence

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events that took place that made him
into this superstar who is still known and

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recognized today. He well, he
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I remember seeing that movie. He
was a scary dude. He could,

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he would. You know, he
was tough, he didn't care,

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he was proudly defiant, and he
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a prediction for the fight. Pin. Do you remember when mister t first

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got celebrity before Rocky, he had
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like a big deal. It had
been televised and such. I heard that

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it was like a bouncer was It
was like a toughest bouncer competition. I've

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never seen it. Yeah, that's
what I mean. I don't maybe I

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miss mistitled it necessarily, but yeah, the world's toughest bouncer. Basically I

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knew that he was. That's what
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bodyguard and he was a bouncer.
And believe me, if I saw somebody

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being guarded by mister T, I'd
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looks tough and he's big. Separate
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I was going down a rabbit and
I found mister T famously did a

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WrestleMania I think it was it WrestleMania
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It was the original baby yeah,
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Piper and mister wonderful Paul Orndorf.
For Christ's sake, HB no, your

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history. I don't. But what
I do know is the night before Hulk

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Hogan and mister T were co hosts
on SNL. You Little Things there they

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go about me Fernando Hideaway. What
I had been curious about is the cold

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open for that episode was they had
just done We Are the World. They

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recorded it just recently. Oh my
god, yes, the Prince sketch right,

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I am also the World that's exactly
right. So Prince didn't make it

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to We Are the World. And
if you watch there's this documentary on Netflix,

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which is actually pretty good by the
way, fatherm Alone. If you

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have it's not long either. But
the word at the time was Prince had

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to bail out a bodyguard because he
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cold open for SNL was what you
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It featured Billy Crystal as Prince and
it was basically them recording We Are the

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World, but the bodyguards come in
and every time, like Paul Simon goes

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to the microphone or Willie Nelson or
any of these, the bodyguards come in

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and put him in headlocks and beat
them up. So everybody gets beaten up

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except for Prince. Basically Billy Crystal's
in blackface for this, you know,

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which might have been acceptable at that
time, but certainly now it's shocking to

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see it. But I did find
it. I thought maybe the Internet had

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erased all vestige of existence, but
it is there. You can find it.

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It's not very funny, but you
do get to see mister t and

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Hulkogan in their prime, which is
kind of cool. There's one good sketch,

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and that's Christopher Guest as a guy
trying to convince a family to send

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their child to Camp Crystal Lake for
the summer. I don't remember that,

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so it's a the thirteenth thing.
Yes, Oh, okay, I'll have

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to I'll have to try and check
that out. During Hulk Hogan is Jason

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at the end. Oh, he's
got the mask. Okay, point if

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you go and watch this clip that
it's the incorrect hockey mask. And even

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at a young age, I went, that's wrong. It's one of those

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triangle holes all over the entire mask, right, I know what you mean.

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Yeah, yeah, that was I
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of SNL. Also, that was
just I don't think that was still pre

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I think who. I wonder who
the producer was at that time. Dick

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eversall, you're absolutely right. Okay, let's get off and back to d

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C cam, shall we. That's
right. So DC CAB is really another

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in a long line of slobs versus
snobs kind of movies that were super popular

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in the seventies and eighties. You
have Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds,

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and so on. The film stars
Baldwin is Albert Hawckenberry, which is

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a name that I've never forgotten since
I saw this movie. Hackenberry. It's

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a great name. So he's Albert
Hackenberry. He's a young haysee who comes

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to DC to make his fortune.
His father served in Vietnam with Max Scale's

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character Harold, and he comes looking
for Harold to get his help to make

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his fortune in the cab business.
And is he Yeah, I have a

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theory. H do tell Albert Hackenberry's
father in Vietnam went by the code name

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Animal Mother. I was actually just
leading up because there's there's this great scene

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where Harold and Albert are catching up
their bonding over like pictures from Vietnam and

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relics from Vietnam and and this all
Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff is playing should be

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pointed out, yes, which which
is a It's a great scene because they're

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putting on gas masks and drinking beer
through them, and they have flamethrowers and

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helmets and all this, and uh, honestly it did it looked fun.

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I mean, they're drinking beers,
they're reminiscing. I wanted to pour through

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all that old surplus. No,
it looked like a lot of fun.

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Animal Mother is of course a reference
to the movie Full Metal Jacket, Stanley

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Kubrick's masterpiece, Full Metal Jacket,
which featured Adam Baldwin in the role of

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Animal Mother. So I actually,
I think that's a great tie in.

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I didn't think of it in those
terms. Father Malone, but yeah,

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you'd probably maybe his father was Animal
Mother. Animal Mother's last name was Hackenberry.

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We just never heard a fucking movie, that's all. He's good in

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it. He's very, very good
in it. But yeah, he's that's

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I'm gonna go with that. Hockenberry
was Animal Mother. That's perfect. Do

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you remember the first motion picture but
we attended to, or attended rather theatrically,

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that would be Beetlejuice. It wasn't
Full Metal Jacket, No, not

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at all. It was a sneak
preview of Beetlejuice. Oh, that's right.

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But we did see Full Metal Jacket
together, Oh, of course,

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absolutely, absolutely we saw it.
I don't recall the theater. It was

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that twin that turned into the Hollywood
theaters across from the Liberty Tree Mall.

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Yes, it turned into Hollywood Hits
you're absolutely right. Was it a general

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cinemas It could have been. I
couldn't tell you for sure. It's also

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where I saw the feature film Superman. I saw Superman as well, but

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I saw it there was a cinema
in Peabody near the North Shore Mall.

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That's where I saw that. Oh
yeah, another two screen. Yes,

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yes. DC CAB is filled with
broad and over the top performances by eccentric

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performers. I have to say Max
Gail gives such a grounded, soulful performance

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as Harold, it's almost like he's
in a different movie entirely. Don't you

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agree? I have one agree.
I think he's first of all, I

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think he's great in the ensemble of
this movie. But he's so good that

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it ends up hinting at a better
movie that's just out of reach. Like

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there, Look, we're gonna give
into the nuts and bolts of this goddamn

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third act eventually. But Manx Scale's
presence and gravity and genial. You just

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like him so much and you want
him to succeed. And there's a very

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sweet human story between him and Albert
and Marshall Warfield's character, and there's a

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lot of good human drama going on
here, and then there's a lot of

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crazy fucking bullshit, and the crazy
fucking bullshit really takes over the movie at

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the end, and the third act
whelms it overwhelms it too. It's yeah,

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you said it. You love the
character of Harold. He's just so

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likable, he's you feel the fact
that life isn't going his way. You

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feel bad for him, and you
want him to succeed. Like you said,

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he's he's great in this and that
the stuff that establishes his connection to

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Albert where they're talking about Albert's dad
and at one point Harold even calls Albert

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by his dad's name, and it's
interesting moment. It's it, really he

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keeps the movie, like I said, grounded. There could have been a

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very different movie had they had the
tone matched Max Gale's performance that he was

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giving. But he's never not welcome. It's just the movie goes off the

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rails despite him. Basically, the
movie is frequently going off the rails,

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and that's fine, but then it
gets too much. But Max scale there's

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a moment in the movie which has
always stuck with me, where Harold and

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Myrna have kind of a tiff over
the fact that Albert is there, and

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Albert suggests that he can leave and
go get a hotel, and Max Scale

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says, as long as you're in
DC, you're staying with Myrna and me,

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and he seems so heartfelt, like
you can always live in this house.

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That yeah, that's it's just part
and parcel to what we're saying about

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Max Scale and this sort of not
really DC cab performance going on a cab

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and he's the kind of person that
you would want as your boss, somebody

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who would go to bat for you. We'll talk about it, but he

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basically gives everything he has and more
to try and get the company to succeed

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and to bring everybody along with them
back. Scale is so underrated and he's

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really fabulous. In this movie.
Harold owns this ramshackle cab company and it's

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populated by the kinds of characters that
one only ever sees in movies. This

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is These are these actors that we've
been talking about. Gary Busey plays an

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unhinged tabby named Dell, but really
he's just playing himself, or at least

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what we've grown to expect from Gary
Busey, the kind of crazy ole.

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You know, you never know what
he's going to do, and it has

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to be said the language primarily that
comes from. And I'll just say the

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character of Dell is so offensive to
modern ears. I'm not going to go

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into it, but there's some really
offensive stuff going on in this movie language

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wise. Look, it's a product
of its age. We're not condoning any

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of the problematic dialogue or situations or
anything else from the bygone era of nineteen

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eighty three. Look, some movies
just did not age. Well. We

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don't want to revisit Revenge of the
Nerds at this point, and it's complete

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rapy ending. You know, it's
a little harder to watch. And this

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isn't that bad. I don't feel
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WinCE every once in a while,
remembering how casual some people were with some

401
00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:25.440
terminology. Mister t As we said, he plays a character named Samson who's

402
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:29.160
just a really He's a really muscular, tough guy that's trying to keep his

403
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:33.519
niece and the rest of the kids
of the neighborhood from worshiping these ever present

404
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.440
pimps and drug dealers. They always
seem to be turning up in the neighborhood

405
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.480
with these really fancy cars. So
he keeps saying, you know, when

406
00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.079
he's tied, it's the car,
it's the car. I got to get

407
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.400
the kids away from the cars.
He also holds the record for the worst

408
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:53.240
simulated driving of a car in a
movie, because there's a lot of driving

409
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:57.680
in this and they're all it's we're
not talking about the poor Man's process that

410
00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:02.799
we've grown to love and Taxi the
TV series. These are cars that are

411
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:07.559
getting towed and being filmed from the
outside, so it looks like the Cabby's

412
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.279
are driving, but mister t and
none of them are really that good at

413
00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.000
it. I disagree. Paul Rodriguez
is really good at it. You think

414
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.960
he's good. Maybe I didn't focus
on him enough. Paul Rodriguez is good.

415
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.599
Everyone else has been on low.
I will say either Peter or David

416
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:29.039
Paul driving backwards is doing a good
job because they never stop looking forward and

417
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:32.400
backward and forward and backward to see
where they're going. That's a good point.

418
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:33.599
I didn't give him enough credit for
that, because he does. There's

419
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.079
a scene where he's just the cap
can't drive forward, and the whole scene

420
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:42.039
takes place and he's talking to Albert
while driving backwards down the streets of DC,

421
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.440
which is actually a laughing at it
because it's kind of a funny scene,

422
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.359
a good scene. They're good in
it. They're charming, those two.

423
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.240
There's such a punchline because they were
the Barbarian brothers and they made all

424
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.920
these really bad direct to video movies
in the eighties and nineties. But they're

425
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.480
affable. That's the best I can
say. Affable. Bill Maher, he

426
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:06.799
plays I guess he's a frustrated musician
named Baba Yeah. And I only know

427
00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:11.079
that because there's a scene where he's
supposed to be playing like a synthesizer in

428
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.400
the garage to convey the fact that
he's got all this talent but he's wasting

429
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.960
it as a as a cab driver. He's like an electronic kind of a

430
00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.240
musician. He's like he's trying to
break through in the music scene, Like

431
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:26.000
I don't know, somebody like Georgiomeroder. We're going to get to him too.

432
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:30.640
Wittman Mayo, As I said,
he plays an eccentric street person named

433
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.480
mister Rhythm who speaks in riddles.
He'll go up to one of the cabbies

434
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.759
and they'll give him a dollar and
he'll tell them some sort of fortune or

435
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.599
a riddle. Don't let you dick
run your life right? Or the one

436
00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:45.359
that I always remember is he Albert
says, oh, what's the good word,

437
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:51.200
mister rhythm, And he says that
that can make you will also break

438
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:55.119
you. If you make it through
the night without committing suicide, you're doing

439
00:31:55.279 --> 00:32:00.359
okay. I guess nowadays he'd be
called an unhoused person. He lives in

440
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.359
a derelict cab outside the garage.
He's got it made right there. He

441
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.599
takes everything, all this, all
the forgotten, lost and found stuff out

442
00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:14.319
of the cabs. He's doing all
right. Everybody loves him. Otis Day

443
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.960
from Animal House, Like I said, he plays a Jamaica obsessed rosta cabby

444
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.680
named Bongo. Listen, he is
not not Otus Day here. He's Dwayne

445
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.720
Jesse still here. I think he
was credited as Otis Day, right,

446
00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:30.519
incorrect. Sorry, I gotta go
to IMDb. You're certain of this,

447
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:34.519
You're willing to stake your reputation.
I will bet you something or other on

448
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.599
that. Yeah, sos Otis Day
on IMDb. Oh as Dwayne Jesse Okay,

449
00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:42.519
you're right, I guess I watched
the actual movie with the credit.

450
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.880
Speaking of credits, Speaking of credits, yellow credits. There's a little little

451
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:52.599
taxi sort of tie in, but
it has one of my favorite credits of

452
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.920
all time, mister T's credit,
which comes up as mister and then it

453
00:32:55.039 --> 00:33:01.240
scrolls R S T and then stops
on T. The credits were interesting.

454
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:07.200
Some of them are like little stylized
stencils that will be spray painted and then

455
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:12.119
the person's name is left behind.
It was actually kind of cool. Yeah,

456
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.720
those credits are just like, we
are the eighties, motherfuckers. They

457
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:22.079
scream eighties absolutely went around the clock. Another amazing casting discovery I made was

458
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:28.559
at one point there's a ski masked
robber who keeps mugging Marsha Warfield's character who's

459
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:32.680
called Ophelia, and eventually Albert foyles
the robbery attempt and the robbers arrested.

460
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.640
The robber was played by a man
named Dennis Stewart. He was crater faced

461
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:43.319
from Greece. The Squaw is doing
here. It was I was like,

462
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.960
wow that because his mask is ripped
off at one point. He was all

463
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.720
over every eighties television series the action
wise. I know he probably tangled with

464
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:53.960
mister T a few times on the
eighteen. He probably did. He had

465
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:59.359
a sneer and he had a lane
that he was very good and he's there's

466
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:05.000
another tax he tie in because he
raced Danny Zuko for pink Slips in Greece

467
00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:09.639
with Jeff Conaway Bobby Wheeler from Taxi, so that the hits just keep coming.

468
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:13.679
See that, folks, We're not
just dicking around here with doing a

469
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:16.440
DC Cab episode. We're tying it
back to Taxi. This all works.

470
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:22.599
DC Cabs main competition in the movie
is the Emerald Cab Company. I hate

471
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.760
them. It's an upscale garage.
They're Emeralds, so they have green everything.

472
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:31.599
The cabs are green. They wear
these green satin jackets instead of the

473
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:36.920
traditional yellow checker cabs. And this
is where Bob Zamuda comes in. Bob

474
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.440
Zamuda plays a character named Cubby.
Perfect perfect name for that character right below

475
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.480
harm. He's the real Cliff Claven, Like if Cliff Claven actually existed,

476
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:50.480
he would be that guy. Oh
that's a good call. He's very officious.

477
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:55.079
He drives for Emerald and he really
delights in keeping the DC caves in

478
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:59.960
their place. He has a partner. But I don't know the other actors.

479
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:04.559
I've seen him in other things.
Jim Moody. I believe it's Jim

480
00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.519
Moody. Okay, what was he? What else was he in? You

481
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:09.400
know? You don't know. I
remember him been something where he was very

482
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:15.000
earnest and very nice, whereas as
opposed to hear where he's very not very

483
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:21.079
nice. Am Samudat Like when in
his opening scene like makes fun of Man

484
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.920
Scales character makes fun of Harold because
he was in Vietnam. He's he's singing

485
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:29.880
the fucking Green Beret song at him, like taunting him, Like what In

486
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:37.880
Dick, they're constantly trying to poach
Marsha Warfield's character Ophelia away from DC Cab,

487
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.079
Like they'll go to the equivalent of
Marios in DC Cab where they go

488
00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:45.880
to have breakfast, and these two
sort of slimy Emerald cabbies will come over

489
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.280
and go when Ophelia, when are
you gonna come over and drive for Emerald?

490
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.239
Get away from these suckers. And
she is under a lot of stress

491
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:58.599
because, as I kind of alluded
to, Ophelia is constantly getting mugged by

492
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:01.159
this one guy and a scheme,
and it's taken her to the breaking point,

493
00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:05.880
and at least in one case she
says she's gonna quit. I think

494
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:09.920
that's the scene you were talking about
fatherm alone, where yeah charms, Yeah,

495
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.239
I still have a drink and talk
about this. Harold is barely keeping

496
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.280
things together, trying to keep the
garage afloat. They're constantly under pressure from

497
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.440
the head of the hack bureau.
He keeps trying to shut the garage down.

498
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:28.039
The hack investigator, that's it.
And the actor I didn't I don't

499
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.719
have the actor's name, but he's
also he's this little sort of diminutive guy

500
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:35.800
with a mustache who's always trying to
stick it to DC cab. Here's the

501
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.239
thing, because now we're mentioning the
antagonists of the piece, right, these

502
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:44.400
are the antagonists. Where they go
in the third act of this fucking movie

503
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:47.880
is absolutely bonkers. It's like,
I know Joel Schumacher was totally sober at

504
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:51.159
this point in his life, but
what the fuck? Man. But up

505
00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:54.280
to this point, the plot makes
sense. The garage is under thread of

506
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.320
being closed down. There's cabvies that
are threatening to quit. Things aren't going

507
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:04.599
well, but Albert comes in and
he's bringing this fresh enthusiasm. He's trying

508
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:07.679
to get the Caves to make something
of themselves. Let me make a taxi

509
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:14.679
crossover possibility here. Albert Hackenberry.
If they had hired him instead of John

510
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:20.440
Burns, Albert Hackenberry would have lasted
five seasons. His name character. He's

511
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:24.800
a rube right up from the South
in the big city, trying to make

512
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.840
it in the cab company or whatever, like whatever thing they would have given

513
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.440
him. But this guy in that
role, stick him in the taxi.

514
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:36.159
I think it'd work. The difference
is he's a rube. But there's nothing

515
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:39.920
childlike about Albert Hackenberry. He's very
focused on what he wants to do.

516
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:45.079
He's come to DC to make his
way and it eventually he wants to break

517
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:50.119
into the cab business, so you
know, and he knows when he comes

518
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.719
in he's got to be realistic.
He's got to start from the bottom.

519
00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.360
He's got to get his hack license. A big part of the movie is

520
00:37:55.440 --> 00:38:00.639
almost episodic, where he's driving with
each and every one of these Caves and

521
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:05.760
learning from them and getting their perspective
and frankly, their perspective is usually about

522
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:09.480
where to pick up women or how
to do things the easy way instead of

523
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.559
the right way, but that's the
movie, being a comedy, what are

524
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.880
you gonna do? Eventually, good
fortune smiles on Harold's garage as they find

525
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:22.239
a rare violin that was left in
one of the cabs, and the cash

526
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:28.360
god so hacky, very hacky.
The reward is ten thousand dollars, but

527
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:32.840
Harold's greedy wife, Myrna, takes
the reward money for herself, and all

528
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:37.320
the cabbies are understandably upset by this. But Albert, being the good guy

529
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:43.920
he is, puts up six thousand
dollars of his own money with the stipulation

530
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:49.360
that they reinvested in DC cab and
they get some They fix up the cabs,

531
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:52.920
they get a new paint job on
the garage and everything. Now now

532
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:57.000
the thing of it is six thousand
dollars. It's a lot of money,

533
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.760
but it doesn't seem like the life
changing amount of money today. So I

534
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.679
did the research. In twenty twenty
four dollars, six thousand dollars from eighty

535
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:10.039
three is worth approximately eighteen thousand,
five hundred and seventy nine dollars and thirty

536
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:13.880
four cents, which is a good
amount of money. They could do something

537
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.119
with that, certainly enough to fix
up all the cabs and put up the

538
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:20.679
sign and paint the bit like everything
we see. That revitalizes the company.

539
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:24.480
Yeah, definitely, imagine what's done
with ten ten thousand dollars. I'm glad

540
00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:29.320
you asked. Would have been worth
thirty thousand, nine hundred and sixty five

541
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:30.880
dollars and fifty six cents, So
that would have been crazy. They could

542
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.599
have had division advertising for that kind
of money. That's true. But Albert,

543
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.480
because he's that kind of guy,
he's winning everybody over. He puts

544
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:45.639
up his savings back into DC Cab
and there's a great eighties montage of the

545
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:52.360
garage getting fixed up. They're getting
new fancy yellow satin jackets with DC calb

546
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:54.679
on the back, with the satin
jackets of the nineteen eighties. Man,

547
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.679
it look great. They look like
a gang. It was a fantastic sequence.

548
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:05.079
And they're finally are able to make
payoffs so they can drive customers to

549
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:08.320
the airport and it's great. They
upgrade the garage and the fleet. Things

550
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:13.000
are looking up for DC Cab,
but mainly beyond that, Albert's using his

551
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:19.280
youthful enthusiasm to motivate the Cabby's to
make something of themselves. Even Samson takes

552
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:23.400
his share of the reward and he
upgrades his cab. I think it's supposed

553
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:29.079
to be a Rolls Royce. It's
a Rolls Royce cab kind of smashed together.

554
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:32.960
And he drives it to the neighborhood
where the drug dealers parked, and

555
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.679
of course all the kids now flock
to Samson and he smiles because he's doing

556
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.679
good work or whatever. Yeah,
haven't mentioned the best feature of the car,

557
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:45.360
which is a little bubble dome on
top that says DC cab is shaped

558
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:50.000
like the Capitol Building and it has
a little airplane on a spindle that's spinning

559
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.519
around the Capitol Building. All the
rest of the gold filigree nonsense that he's

560
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:58.480
plastered all over the cab is unnecessary. All he needed was that plane.

561
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:00.840
So things are looking up, like
I said. But and here's where the

562
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.199
third act comes in. Trouble strikes. Now this is DC, and one

563
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:12.119
of Albert's roots is he has to
drop off I think it's Tyrone's grandmother or

564
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:16.039
aunt and cousin or something. He
has to drop off two family members that

565
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:22.360
work at an embassy school or something. They're housekeepers at the embassy and nanny's

566
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:27.719
and housekeepers and yeah, but we're
never told what country they're from, because

567
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:31.760
the kids speak perfect English. I
assume maybe it's Canada. I don't know

568
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.280
what country ambassadors children. Oh my
god, I hate every part of this

569
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:43.199
sequence. Through the movie, you
see him dropping these housekeepers off, and

570
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.920
these two little brats are always there, this boy and this girl, and

571
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.440
they're always there waiting with eggs to
start pelting the cab. It doesn't make

572
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:57.199
any sense. They're just kind of
assholes. But one time, Albert's dropping

573
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:04.199
off these ladies and the kids get
kidnapped by John Diegel from Fumyvice. Like

574
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.599
there's a Miami Vice connection here.
I don't know if they're supposed to be

575
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:13.360
radicals, because they seem like crazy
radical type people, but I think they're

576
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.079
held for ransom. I think that's
why. So they kid they kidnap the

577
00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:22.440
kids, and in the ensuing craziness, Albert gets kidnapped as well, and

578
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:28.280
they get taken to some farmhouse.
The police believe that Albert was involved in

579
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.920
the kidnapping somehow. I don't know
how they made that, because there's witnesses

580
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:36.559
to this kidnapping. Here's the tension
here, Here's the plot of the movie,

581
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:40.039
evidently, is that Albert gets kidnapped, he gets framed for the fucking

582
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.760
kidnapping, and then these cavvies have
to go save him while they're under suspicion.

583
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:52.079
It's a mess, man, It
is a mess because within this whole

584
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:57.119
thing that's happening is because Albert is
suspected of being in on it. They

585
00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:00.840
close down the garage so they're out
of They've reached their wits end. No

586
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.320
one wants to They just want to
give up. And it's mister t who

587
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:08.519
rallies the troops with this patriotic speech
that he makes. I think it's in

588
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:13.199
front of the Lincoln Memorial or something. Id damn right, truth is Mark.

589
00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:19.440
He marshals the troops. They finally
find where they're holding Albert, and

590
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.280
it's actually kind of funny because all
the cabs line up outside and through the

591
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:27.519
whole movie, Harold has this bullhorn
that he's using. I think it may

592
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:31.480
be another thing from Vietnam or whatever. When the kidnappers hear someone's outside and

593
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:35.559
what the cabbys have done is they've
all lined up. They have their headlights

594
00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:38.320
on so they can't see them,
but somebody has found red and blue lights,

595
00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:43.760
so to the kidnappers it looks like
they're surrounded by the cops. One

596
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:46.880
of the cars has like pylons on
top of it, like those are lights.

597
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:51.719
Okay, look. The third act
is a mess, but there are

598
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.159
some charms, including when he's talking
to them through the bullharn I think Gary

599
00:43:55.199 --> 00:44:01.239
Busey says, tell him you're Batman's
some funny interesting moments. There's even a

600
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:07.440
part where at one point Albert escapes
and gets to his the radio in his

601
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:13.159
cab, but no one's in the
garage because it's been shut down. But

602
00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:16.440
mister Rhythm intercepts the message and he's
talking to mister Rhythm and he's saying,

603
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:20.559
I don't know, I'm in a
farmhouse, is a windmill, and I

604
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:23.880
see Bruce Lee. Mister Rhythm gets
this message and then he meets up with

605
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.360
the other cabbies and he says,
yeah, Albert talked to him. He

606
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.519
said he's here and he saw Bruce
Lee. And they're all like, Bruce

607
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.960
Lee, what are you talking about? So like one one group led by

608
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.920
mister t finds a farmhouse with Bruce
Lee l E I G H on a

609
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:42.400
mailbox outside, and they're not sure. Look, this is the best part

610
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.880
of the entire sequence. These three
idiots pulling up to this house where it

611
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.360
says Bruce Lee l E I g
H. And one of the barbarian brothers

612
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:54.840
it says Bruce Legg. And then
the family just kind of calmly eating their

613
00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:59.320
meal when the three of them crash
in, one from the door and two

614
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:01.159
from the win windows on either side, and they just look up and go

615
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:07.199
wrong house and then leave. That's
a great sight. Gang. But eventually

616
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:12.639
Tyrone, who's also looking for Albert, he realizes that there's a drive in

617
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:16.280
screen, a movie screen not far
from there from the farmhouse, and you

618
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.679
see him. He's screening Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee, and you see on

619
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.760
the screen. I don't know what. I don't think it's a real Bruce

620
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:28.000
Lee movie. It's absolutely not a
movie. They realize that the farmhouse is

621
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:32.000
in view of a drive in cinema
not far so anyway, craziness, Hi,

622
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:36.719
Jenks and Sue. They end up
rescuing Albert. It's a high speed

623
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.719
chase. They pull him through the
window and the van that he's being held,

624
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:44.679
and eventually they rescue them, the
kidnappers get arrested, everyone figures out

625
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:49.719
what was really happening, and the
movie ends with it's a literal ticker tape

626
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:54.679
parade in DC to honor DC CAB, not the original thing. I understand

627
00:45:54.960 --> 00:46:00.079
if you notice the Barbarian brothers through
the whole movie, I have beard,

628
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.199
but for this parade they are clean
shaven. And it's my understanding that there's

629
00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:09.320
some parts of the movie that either
weren't filmed or are missing that explain why

630
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:13.599
they're all of a sudden clean shaven. But that might go towards what you're

631
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:16.840
describing. Yes, Evidently, the
original ending of the movie took place at

632
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:22.000
the White House where Irene Kara is
performing and has invited Tyrone, who invites

633
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.800
the rest of DC CAB, and
that was the sequence. So it was

634
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:30.440
her performing the title song while they're
all there together, and that's the end.

635
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:35.039
And then they decided they wanted something
more dynamic after the movie had been

636
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.840
already shot, so when they got
back, the Barbarian brothers were clean shaven,

637
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:40.880
and there's nothing they could do about
that. That makes sense, I

638
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:44.840
should mention we didn't talk about this. We'll talk about the soundtrack in a

639
00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:50.039
minute, but you did mention Irene
Kara. Irene Kara, who at the

640
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:52.960
time was red hot. She had
done a bunch of movie soundtracks. She

641
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:57.719
won an Oscar for the theme to
Flash Dance. I think she was the

642
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:02.360
star of Fame Man. That's true. She was super popular and she was

643
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:07.440
really she had all kinds of songs
on the charts. She appears in the

644
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:13.320
movie as herself. The character of
Tyrone is obsessed with Irene Kara and ends

645
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:17.000
up picking her up, taking her
to her hotel. And I guess to

646
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.480
your point, they have made a
connection. Maybe she would have invited them

647
00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:23.480
to the because she says, I'm
singing at the White House. But nothing

648
00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:28.559
else becomes of it on the cutting
room floor, like the famed ending of

649
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:31.760
the Shining was it film? Though, I guess it might be okay.

650
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:35.360
There is a still. I haven't
seen any footage of it, but there

651
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:37.960
is a still of Irene Karen and
like kind of a red dress performing that's

652
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:43.599
attributed to the film. Was a
promotional shot that was released. That makes

653
00:47:43.599 --> 00:47:45.760
sense. Actually, while we're talking
about Irene Carra, we might as well

654
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:51.880
talk a little bit about the soundtrack. The soundtrack for DC CAB was by

655
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:57.840
Giorgio Moroder, who really was on
a remarkable movie soundtrack run of his own.

656
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.679
At this point. He had done
Flash Dance, Cat People, Never

657
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:06.719
Ending Story, Top Gun. They
all either were spearheaded by Moroder or heavily

658
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:12.400
featured his contributions Electric Dreams. Also, he did My God Forever in Electric

659
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.480
Dreams. Yeah, I just heard
that the other day. It's Crazy danger

660
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:21.480
Zone, La Model's Never Ending Story. What a feeling. These are monster

661
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:25.719
soundtrack hits. Soundtracks were routinely in
the top ten of the charts. All

662
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:31.239
mery man, Georgio Moroder did that. Yeah, Yeah, call me from

663
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:38.480
the Richard American Jigglow movie. Yes. In addition to his contributions to electronic

664
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:44.000
music in general, he was super
hot as a soundtrack producer. We're always

665
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:49.039
in good hands, Georgijomroder's name and
the credits you know. In fact,

666
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.480
when the when his credit came up
here, I was like, I lost

667
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.960
my mind. I was like,
oh, what a treat. I had

668
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:58.960
no idea, I will say,
aside from the songs that are recorded for

669
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.480
the soundtrack, like you have like
El DeBarge does a song and a few

670
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:06.000
other bands, but the instrumental music, I don't know about you. I

671
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:10.880
found it really really shrill and kind
of annoying. There's a lot of like

672
00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:22.519
did like as cars are racing around. That was a little much. I

673
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:25.039
think it's totally in keeping with how
bullshit the fucking ending was. The lead

674
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:30.280
single for DC CAB was a song
called The Dream subtitled hold On to Your

675
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.719
Dream. This was Irene Kara singing
this was their big supposed to be their

676
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:38.360
big hit, and I remember it
being on MTV a lot because I recognized

677
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:43.400
the song. But apparently it peaked
at number thirty seven on the Billboard Hot

678
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:46.239
one hundred. It didn't really make
much of an impact. I think this

679
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:52.639
might have been the beginning of the
end of Irene Kara and Georgio Moroder's dominance

680
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.800
of the soundtrack sort of charts.
You know, it's weird and electric dreams.

681
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:01.400
On that soundtrack, there's a song
called the Dream Boy George performs,

682
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:05.480
Yeah. It's just so when I
hear the Dream I automatically think of that,

683
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:08.360
which is also tied to Georgia a
Moroner. That's just an odd coincidence.

684
00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:14.639
I really really liked the Electric Dreams
soundtrack. I remember at the time

685
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:17.920
watching that movie, and that's a
fantastic sequence. There's a sequence where the

686
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:22.159
computer, I think the guide brought
the computer so it would design an earthquake

687
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:28.760
proof brick. Yes, And while
the computer is working on this brick,

688
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:32.280
that song the Dream by Boy George
is playing. It's a wonderfully mellow kind

689
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.320
of ethereal song. It's beautiful.
It's a gorgeous sequence, and it's the

690
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:39.679
best part of that movie. Honestly. I mean, look, there are

691
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:45.719
the charms in that film, like
Bud Court clearly is just so wonderful.

692
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.360
He's tremendous. Yeah, that sequence
in particular, I agree, it is

693
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.760
just a delight. So that's the
movie in a nutshell. Like I said,

694
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.920
we've covered the actors and everything else, and I have to say coming

695
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:00.480
into it, we're not going to
rate this as we would that there's no

696
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.519
yellow lights here. We didn't talk
a little mentioned some things that I enjoyed

697
00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.800
about the movie, So I've given
I've talked a lot about the nuts and

698
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:09.519
bolts of the movie, but let's
get into some other things funable and what

699
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:14.079
else did you come up with?
In your research. No, no research

700
00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:15.559
at all. This is just something
I liked about the movie because there's a

701
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:20.280
this is an ensemble movie, and
I really liked hanging around with them.

702
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.519
That I will say that it feels
like and this is obviously not the case.

703
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:27.880
This was written as a feature film
originally, Liberty Cab. I did

704
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:30.400
research that was that was the original
title, and I got to read a

705
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.880
couple of the early pages of the
script, only a little sample. I

706
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:39.320
give them credit for setting this movie
in Washington, because it was It would

707
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:43.840
have been so easy just to say
that this was taking place in New York,

708
00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:49.239
because all you need is basically an
inner city, right right. But

709
00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:52.719
having said that, despite the fact
that I think it's cool that they went

710
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:54.840
with a different type of setting,
aside from the fact that these kids that

711
00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:00.719
are kidnapped are children of ambassadors,
it doesn't really figure you're in You could

712
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:05.400
very easily have said this is in
New York and no one would have batted

713
00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:08.079
an eyelish. There's nothing unique about
this. I disagree with you on that.

714
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:12.239
I like that it's set in DC, and I like seeing all of

715
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:15.440
this the sort of regular landmarks,
but then a lot of these sort of

716
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:19.199
local landmarks that you would seek out
if you were there. I think they

717
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.000
use those neighborhoods pretty spectacularly. And
the point I was making earlier about the

718
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:27.519
screenplay is that because the Thurn Act
is so goddamn jarring, what it feels

719
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:30.840
like is a pilot in a first
episode, but we never got a resolution

720
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:35.679
to the pilot before we got this
second crazy plot. You know, like

721
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:37.639
this seems like, if anything,
it could have been the sequel plot,

722
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:42.000
like had this movie been a hit, where we're just dealing with the Cabby's

723
00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:47.760
and whatever little problem they've come up
with that the Hack Investigator or the Emerald

724
00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:53.119
Cab Company, like some sort of
it's just so ooh. I'm sorry.

725
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:55.920
I don't mean to keep returning to
it, but here's something I did like.

726
00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:00.440
The sense of camaraderie and these characters
is really infection, including this game

727
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:04.480
that they all play with each other, the sort of hide and seek where

728
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:09.599
they're all dressed in masks, hunting
a particular mark for the night and while

729
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:15.400
all the time playing the Mission Impossible
theme on their shitty tape decks in their

730
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:20.440
cabs and singing along to it and
then singing over the mic to the point

731
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:23.079
where they can't, like the dispatcher
can't even find a cab to go pick

732
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:29.000
up an actual customer that I loved. I was thinking about this as I

733
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:32.639
was watching this movie This Now.
We saw this when we were super young,

734
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:37.239
and there were a lot of movies
like this where it's like in us

735
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:43.280
against Them type of thing where you
have a tightly knit group of people working

736
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:47.280
somewhere or friends like Revenge of the
Nerds, they're all in the same frat,

737
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:51.719
and this kind of in a weird
way, this kind of warped my

738
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:54.480
thinking of what it was going to
be like once I got a job later

739
00:53:54.519 --> 00:53:59.159
in life. Like in my mind, like wherever I worked, I was

740
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:01.960
going to be part of a crazy
band of people. We're all going to

741
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:07.480
love each other and support each other. And I had this impression that I

742
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:12.280
was going to be best buddies with
everybody that I ever worked with wherever I

743
00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:15.679
decided to work, and that's obviously
I learned later that's not the case.

744
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:22.039
But this movie conveys that idea very
well. These are very different characters,

745
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:24.360
but you can tell they all love
each other, they support each other,

746
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:30.199
and there's something spectacular about in nineteen
eighty three. The diversity on screen here

747
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:35.519
that is true. It's never even
really discussed as being odd or progressive.

748
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:39.960
They're just all friends and they don't
care. There's like the Rasta guy,

749
00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:45.440
there's the Gary Busey, crazy white
guy. There's but they don't really call

750
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:49.440
out their differences in any interesting way. They all go to this like at

751
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.079
one point, all the cabbys go
to like a male strip club to try

752
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:54.519
and pick up women. They don't
care. They're just going to have a

753
00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:58.880
good time. The only person that
gets excluded is Albert because he's the odd

754
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.400
man out, he's the new guy. And there's also we didn't actually mention

755
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:07.719
there's this subplot involving this waitress at
or this girl who works at a restaurant,

756
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:14.960
the Cabby Jill Scholin. I think
her, I don't what's what's her

757
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:20.320
name, Claudette. Her name is
Claudette, and Albert is it's love at

758
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:27.400
first sight. Albert is struck with
love, but dumb her aunt, her

759
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:31.320
controlling aunt, who runs the coffee
shop, will not let her deal to

760
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:35.440
date any cabby, and she's right
to do that. God. They're also

761
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:38.960
gross and crazy. They're constantly getting
into fights and jumping out windows in this

762
00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:43.840
fucking diner, standing on tables and
yelling at each other, like I wouldn't

763
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.280
let her date them either. A
bunch. She has conditions that someday someone's

764
00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:50.559
going to walk through that door with
flowers and chocolates and some other gifts and

765
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:53.159
going to ask properly, and Albert
fucking does it, man, And that

766
00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:57.679
box of chocolates look delicious, and
I want to look through that book of

767
00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:01.920
Great Homes of the South. Albert
is a good guy. He's fucking charming

768
00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:06.480
in this movie. Like, I
really like Albert Hawckenberry. I wanted to

769
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:09.440
be friends with Albert Hackenberry. He
was so good. In My Bodyguard,

770
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:15.559
he plays Linderman, the scary character
in the school where Clifford Peach is getting

771
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:21.039
bullied and Clifford Peach realizes he better
hire his own bodyguard to keep the bullies

772
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.039
away, and Linderman, being the
scariest dude in the school, played by

773
00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:30.280
Adam Baldwin, is hired and through
the course of the movie, Clifford and

774
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:36.000
Linderman they really they become friends,
and he learns about Linderman and why he

775
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:37.480
is the way he is. He
was really good in it. It's a

776
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:44.360
total one to eighty from Albert Hackenberry. He has to be sullen and depressed

777
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:49.400
and angry, and these are I
don't think any of those adjectives would describe

778
00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:52.719
Albert Hackenberry in the least. I
watched Full Mental Jacket last night. I

779
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:55.559
haven't seen it in twenty years.
Yeah, I mean neither, Yeah,

780
00:56:55.559 --> 00:57:01.360
a long time. He's terrified in
the movie. He's really good. His

781
00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:07.239
opening scene, the cadence with which
he's speaking to Joker when he first meets

782
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:15.320
him, this sort of weird,
laconic, threatening but soft. It's really

783
00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:19.679
off putting, like he throws you
way off kilter. And that follows through

784
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:22.519
the rest of the movie. Man
like, it just gets more aggressive and

785
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:28.920
horrifying. As I said, it's
a masterpiece anyway. But he is really

786
00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:31.199
good in it. Everything I've seen
him and I didn't granted I didn't watch

787
00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:37.599
Firefly. I didn't watch and I
understand that he's like a cult favorite from

788
00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:39.280
that TV show is a lot of
the anc He's a solid performer. I've

789
00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:42.880
never seen a bad performance by the
guy, but he's really good in this.

790
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:46.480
There's no subterfuge with Albert. He
genuinely wants to succeed and take everybody

791
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:51.880
with him. They all eventually because
he comes in and they're all they'll ignore

792
00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:53.079
him. They all give him the
cold shoulder, like, nah, you

793
00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:59.079
can't drive with me. But they
see what an earnest, hard working guy

794
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:02.079
that he is, and he nuinely
wants the company to succeed that he wins

795
00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:07.239
them over, even Tyrone, Like
Tyrone is the hardest nut for Albert to

796
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:15.760
crack. Everybody else eventually comes around, but Tyrone just there's something about Tyrone

797
00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:17.800
and that character that you learn that
he I think he went to college,

798
00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:22.480
but he realized that he couldn't make
it because the cards were stacked against him,

799
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:28.280
and he just decided to become this
crazy guy. But Albert doesn't care.

800
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.599
Albert's just trying to make something of
himself, and they eventually become friends,

801
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:37.480
and Tyrone is the one who leads
the charge effectively to find Albert when

802
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:42.440
he's been kidnapped. I have to
say, Charlie Barnett, we've talked a

803
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.880
lot about his sad history. He's
really good in this as well. He's

804
00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:50.480
really funny. He's not only really
funny, he's good in the dramatic moments

805
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.559
too. He's solid throughout this entire
movie, Like, I don't know why

806
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:58.159
he didn't just blow up immediately.
It sounds like he had already inked a

807
00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:02.039
three picture deal with a paramounter,
one of these companies. I just don't

808
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:07.119
know what became of it. Was
he just too crazy that maybe people didn't

809
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:09.559
want to work with him, or
I don't know, But I do wish

810
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:15.599
that Dave Chappelle's movie Bilepick of Charlie
Barnett had gotten off the ground, because

811
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:19.320
I think there's a really great story
there. There's a tremendous what might have

812
00:59:19.400 --> 00:59:22.639
been with this guy. Imagine if
he had if he had gone on to

813
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.719
start him on SNL, he might
have for all we know, he might

814
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.920
have still flamed out. He might
still have not amounted to anything. But

815
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:35.920
we'll never know. One of the
casualties in that season, most of that

816
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:39.480
cast got fired immediately. I don't
know. It's heartbreaking to see somebody who

817
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:45.960
has such a prodigious talent and to
hear what a sad end he came to

818
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:50.320
was was really a bummer because he's
so vital and so exciting in this You've

819
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:53.119
got the sense that he was making
the most of this opportunity in this movie

820
00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:58.559
because this was his first movie.
Everybody really is for what the movie is.

821
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.400
They're good and looking at this as
kind of a hangout movie. It's

822
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:06.559
not really a hangout movie, but
you do, you know, these are

823
01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:09.119
affable, funny characters that you would
like to spend some time with. They're

824
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:13.960
always doing crazy things. Like you
said, they're playing this sort of fox

825
01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:17.519
Hunt game at the beginning where they're
chasing each other in cabs and wearing masks,

826
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:22.599
and I love it a fucking blast. Yeah, it looks really really

827
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.000
fun. I want to play the
game that dell At wants to play.

828
01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:29.199
You take a beer bottle and you
spin it, spin the bottle, and

829
01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:31.119
then whoever gets that has to take
it and they shake it up. They

830
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:34.519
shake it up a real and then
they put it right next to their face.

831
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.280
You know, I don't think that's
in the script. I think that's

832
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:39.320
just Gary Busey bring in that.
You know, That's the thing. We

833
01:00:39.400 --> 01:00:45.639
have the benefit of forty years of
Gary Busey antics to look back on,

834
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:49.639
And honestly, I wasn't kidding when
I said that. It seems like he's

835
01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:53.559
essentially playing himself in this which is
funny because he's had other parts like he

836
01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:57.800
was in Like, I can't say
that about Point Break. He was fine

837
01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:01.559
important Break as the cop in this
one. It just feels like that's who

838
01:01:01.639 --> 01:01:06.159
he is, based on seeing him
in the public eye over the past twenty

839
01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:08.760
twenty five years or so. You
know, it's not a stretch. I

840
01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:14.239
could see that being something that wasn't
written. Maybe Schumacher's like, hey,

841
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:16.920
remember that story you were telling me
Gary about you know what you used to

842
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:20.639
do with the kids in the neighborhood. Whenn'd you throw that into the scene.

843
01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:24.400
I guarantee you it emanated from mister
Bussey in some way. I might

844
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:28.000
be wrong. Somebody will pull up
the script and tell me I'm wrong.

845
01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:31.199
But there's weird stuff. At one
point, Albert's having a conversation with somebody

846
01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:37.000
and he looks in the bathroom and
Dell is on his back in one of

847
01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:40.280
the stalls, and Albert goes like, well, what are you doing in

848
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:45.760
there? And he goes, ah, I'm doing some intestinal yoga. He's

849
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:50.960
a fucking lunatic. You know,
what's the only thing wrong with oral sex?

850
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:57.440
The view? It's good, it's
good I'm recommending this movie. There's

851
01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.679
a lot of problematic Huber in this
movie, a lot of a lot of

852
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:07.039
juvenile nonsense. There's a lot of
fucking funny stuff too, Gary Busey front

853
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:10.320
and center. Yeah, it's not
unlike a movie like forty eight Hours,

854
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:15.440
where a lot of people have contended
that you couldn't make a forty eight Hours

855
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:20.480
movie now because it's just so good. The way that Eddie Murphy's character is

856
01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:23.960
treated in the language is just so
offensive. Now, you couldn't make it

857
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:29.280
now because it's not now. That
movie isn't now that it's of its time.

858
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:31.599
I look at these movies and yeah, I WinCE when I hear people

859
01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:35.440
say some of the stuff they're saying. But at the same time, that

860
01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:38.440
was nineteen eighty three, and so
yes, you could not make DC Cab

861
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:42.440
now. You could not make forty
eight Hours. Now you could. You

862
01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:45.320
just would make it with the today's
sensibilities, and that would be fine.

863
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:49.760
There's some not necessarily precient stuff,
but just like as a wake up call,

864
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:54.159
like how long this has been going
on? When Albert and Tyrone like

865
01:02:54.760 --> 01:02:59.800
make their way back to the cab
company with the fucking thief who's been pestering

866
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.239
Marshall Warfield the entire time. When
Tyrone gets the gun from the guy,

867
01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:06.760
they pull up to the cap,
the cops grab Tyrone and wrestle him to

868
01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:10.760
the ground like he's the guy,
and he's like that he's not the and

869
01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:14.039
he's just like, yeah, of
course they're going to attack me. He

870
01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:15.920
says that. He literally says that
I'm here with the gun, of course

871
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.719
they're going to tackle me. And
that's kind of that's really sad that here

872
01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:25.440
we are forty years later and that's
not only is that still happening, but

873
01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.119
it's no much worse now. At
least everyone's woken up to it. Like

874
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:35.440
there, it was like a punchline. I think to alter or censor something

875
01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:39.119
like this to make it more palatable
to modern audiences, I think is to

876
01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:43.320
run the risk that you're going to
forget that these things were problematic in the

877
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:46.880
first place. I'd rather go into
it. And I'm not even suggesting you

878
01:03:46.920 --> 01:03:51.800
put on like I know some movies
have a little lead card that says we

879
01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:54.960
regret some of the language. Look, but it was fucking forty years ago

880
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:59.280
and everyone was an idiot out in
the open. I think people should understand

881
01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:01.719
that this is nice. Eighty three
things were different. Dell is there to

882
01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:04.840
let you know that the cops are
lace and the bullets PCP. That way,

883
01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:08.840
it looked like you were on drugs
the whole time. I didn't realize

884
01:04:09.079 --> 01:04:13.079
how much of DC Cab is almost
episodic, because a lot of it is

885
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:17.760
just Albert going on rides with the
various cavies and getting into sort of strange

886
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:25.119
almost like encapsulated adventures. He goes
with Dell and they drive a stripper to

887
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:30.800
a topless club and the stripper stiffs
them, so then Albert has to go

888
01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:33.000
in and try and get the money
and he gets kicked out. Then Dell

889
01:04:33.119 --> 01:04:36.480
has to go in and he it's
funny because he goes in there and he

890
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:41.719
rips off the bottom of one of
the waitress that stiffed him. I don't

891
01:04:41.719 --> 01:04:44.920
know if you noticed this, but
so he runs out. What else does

892
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:46.800
he grab? He grabs like a
handful of fruits. Right, well,

893
01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:54.639
look he runs out, he grabs
the bikini bottoms. Yeah you don't see

894
01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:59.599
it, but he dives into the
cab and he's holding this little white statue

895
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:04.320
and it's really funny. Magic of
Gary. It sounds like we're describing as

896
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:08.800
like an outrageous comedy, and there
are certain elements of that. It's pretty

897
01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:13.280
grounded for a lot of it.
There's a charm to a lot of it.

898
01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:15.000
And like I said, a big
part of that is due I think

899
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:19.280
to the direction, and I think
Max Gale adds a nice vibe to the

900
01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:26.800
picture. Adam Baldwin his characters is
great. We haven't talked about the cinematography,

901
01:05:27.320 --> 01:05:30.239
and for this I want to see
the floor because I'm sure you have

902
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:34.320
a lot to say about the director
of photography. No, who's the director

903
01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:40.719
of photography? Are you kidding me? No? This is one of the

904
01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:45.480
dingiest, dirtiest depictions of DC that
you'll ever see. Every cab it feels

905
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:50.239
like there's a funk inside of every
cab. It's dirty. There's like soot

906
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:55.920
over everything. You can practically smell
it all over the garage. But worth

907
01:05:56.039 --> 01:06:01.360
noting is the DP of this picture
was Dean Coundy. Oh my god.

908
01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:04.360
Yeah, I'm so sorry. I
feel like covered in shame here. Like,

909
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:08.880
yeah, I did notice in the
credits like this, I got so

910
01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:14.719
marvel I was marveling at like each
credit after another that Yeah, it slipped

911
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:17.840
my mind. Shame on me,
because it is a spectacularly well shot movie.

912
01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:21.880
You're right, yeah, like nobody
can shoot grime like Dean Coundy to

913
01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:27.760
make it look cinematic and beautiful and
authentic at the same time, Like how

914
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:30.639
do you make grime look wonderful?
It came back to Escape from New York,

915
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:34.719
which I would say is similarly.
I mean, we know that was

916
01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:40.920
not that was shot in Saint Louis, right, Yeah, And it looks

917
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:46.679
and feels so authentically urban and dirty. I know a good portion of DC

918
01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:50.119
Cab was shot on location, but
I also know that a lot of it

919
01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:54.679
was shot in Los Angeles. I
couldn't tell you which parts, probably some

920
01:06:54.719 --> 01:07:00.559
of the interiors, but there's a
gravitas to the it's shot. I'll give

921
01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:06.440
you another example when where we're talking
about Harold's house where Albert is staying,

922
01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:12.480
all you ever see is really just
like it's like the living room where Albert

923
01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:15.320
is just sleeping on the couch.
But it looks so real to me.

924
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:19.599
It's sort of dirty. There's a
part of the wall where the studs are

925
01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:26.440
exposed. You really, it just
it looks like a lived in crap house

926
01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:30.320
in you know, in the middle
of the city somewhere. I'm now thinking

927
01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:34.920
of like three different Dean Coundie movies
where he shot night scenes. So Escape

928
01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:42.000
from New York, which is so
spectacular and like bright in a way,

929
01:07:42.039 --> 01:07:45.639
like all of those streets are like
very well lit but realistic. And then

930
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:49.239
we have this movie, and then
we also have Back to the Future,

931
01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:53.239
which features a bunch of night scenes. Each of them are so delicate and

932
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:59.880
wonderful and perfect and of the movie. Like I couldn't necessarily say that that's

933
01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:02.840
Kundy's style on each of those movies
because they're so well suited to each of

934
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:06.199
the films. He's fucking fantastic,
man, Like, why is he not

935
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:11.000
more well sung? I mean,
I don't know what his If he's won

936
01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:14.559
any Academy awards, I would hope
so, But if not, at least

937
01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:18.039
he should be up for like a
Lifetime Achievement Award purely for his work with

938
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:23.199
John Carpenter of nothing else. Ay
man, he shot the Thing and Roller

939
01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:29.239
Boogie. You know what I'm saying. He's fucking fantastic, Like I don't

940
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:33.159
we should start a Cundy cast.
We were talking about Back to the Future.

941
01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:38.840
That's it. Couldn't be more different
than the Thing or Escape from New

942
01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:44.039
York, but it serves the picture
so perfectly, and I would say the

943
01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:48.479
same thing is true for DC Cab. It seems silly to be delving into

944
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:54.720
the aesthetics of a silly movie from
the eighties, but damn if it doesn't

945
01:08:54.720 --> 01:09:00.640
look really, really good and it
feels authentic, right, Absolutely, More

946
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:05.079
often than not we run into these
set bound things and the lighting is inelegant,

947
01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:10.720
and that's never the case with Dean
Gundy. He can make anything look

948
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:14.479
like you're in a real space,
and not just some sets somewhere. He

949
01:09:14.560 --> 01:09:17.279
shot fucking who frame around your Rabbit
Man. He made it seem like I

950
01:09:18.359 --> 01:09:24.279
felt transported to nineteen forties Los Angeles. It never felt unreal to me.

951
01:09:24.680 --> 01:09:29.720
They were fucking cartoon characters, right, the man that was a magician with

952
01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:32.199
light and with sets and with everything
it was. Let me think about this

953
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.760
for a minute now. In terms
of time frame, DC Cab, that

954
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:41.000
was certainly after the Fog and after
Escape from New York, So it's not

955
01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:45.840
as if he wasn't already an established
in well respected DP. So I think

956
01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:49.600
it's actually kind of marvelous that he
would do like a movie like dc CA.

957
01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:54.000
I mean, I'm sure it's a
job and he likes to get paid,

958
01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:59.159
but it's not like he coasted on
his abilities. It looked and felt

959
01:09:59.199 --> 01:10:01.680
great. Whatever the other shortcomings of
the movie are. I looked and was

960
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:05.560
shot beautifully. Clearly, here's a
man who just likes to shoot movies and

961
01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:11.600
fucking does not matter the genre or
the budget. If he's interested, he's

962
01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:16.039
gonna go, and thank god he
did for so many many of my favorite

963
01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:21.880
movies of all time. I came
into rewatching this movie and I feel like

964
01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:27.399
I've said similar things in our taxi
discussions, but I came in thinking,

965
01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:30.279
ah, you know, I'm sure
this is just going to be a juvenile

966
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.359
thing that I fondly remembered as a
kid. But maybe he doesn't hold up,

967
01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:39.399
and there's certainly aspects of that.
I'm not going to sit here and

968
01:10:39.439 --> 01:10:44.760
say that this is like a Citizen
Kane of the eighties, but I will

969
01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:47.359
say, and we started to mention
this a little earlier, is if you

970
01:10:47.359 --> 01:10:54.119
can see past some of the more
juvenile and offensive bits of this movie,

971
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:59.119
there is a charm and the cast
is wonderful. They're all young, and

972
01:10:59.439 --> 01:11:02.840
some of them really surprisingly good for
based on what they've done after the fact.

973
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:06.279
I was charmed by this movie in
a way that I wasn't expecting to

974
01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:11.520
be. And I don't think that
was just purely nostalgia. I think looked

975
01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:15.439
at on its own merits, I
think it was actually kind of a successful

976
01:11:15.439 --> 01:11:17.640
movie for what it wanted to be. What did you think faught them alone?

977
01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:21.279
Yeah, I agree one hundred percent. I knew even as a child

978
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:27.920
there are portions of this movie that
were ridiculously juvenile, sub animal house,

979
01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:32.439
like let's shock the audience because that's
what they like. But there's also,

980
01:11:32.680 --> 01:11:38.760
like you and I have spoken on
a Christasher's podcast of a culture cast about

981
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:44.319
the film Heaven Help Us, similar
kind of thing where there's a sweet movie

982
01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:47.399
in there and then it's kind of
surrounded by Porky's like humor because that was

983
01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:51.760
the style of the time, and
this film suffers a lot from that.

984
01:11:53.079 --> 01:11:59.479
But there is a very nice human
drama going on here between Max Gale and

985
01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:05.920
Adam Baldwin and just I don't know
that there's a comfortableness with this film,

986
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:10.800
Like there's a nice it's got a
nice hangout vibe. Yeah, that's what

987
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:15.239
I was alluding to earlier. It
is it's fun to spend time in this

988
01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:17.800
garage with these characters, some of
them off the wall, but it is

989
01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:20.359
fun that they felt like they had
to, like there had to be a

990
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:25.159
plot at some point, Like we
really didn't need it the movie. The

991
01:12:25.239 --> 01:12:28.560
problem is the actual ending to the
movie is the end of the second act

992
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:31.000
when Albert gives them all the money
and they revitalized the cab company. That

993
01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:35.359
should have been the fun finale,
Like, I don't know why they decided

994
01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:40.399
they needed to have intrigue. You
said it, it really went off the

995
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:45.119
rails when you have when you introduce
these ambassadors kids and Albert getting kidnapped and

996
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:48.600
now it becomes a race to save
Albert. It didn't need that. That

997
01:12:48.680 --> 01:12:54.079
to me, in a movie that
isn't all that realistic necessarily to begin with.

998
01:12:54.680 --> 01:12:59.039
This just takes it that unreality to
a whole other level, which I

999
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:04.880
don't think it really. The spectacle
of them driving down whatever street in Washington,

1000
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:11.359
DC as they're throwing a ticker tape
parade for them was so unbelievable to

1001
01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:15.479
me and so silly. But even
despite that, there's one moment where the

1002
01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:19.800
hack inspector whatever his name is,
gives Harold the plaque, and he picks

1003
01:13:19.880 --> 01:13:24.199
up the plaque and he kind of
shows it around. I don't know,

1004
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:26.840
it felt real to me. It
felt like, wow, you know,

1005
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.239
this is how somebody who gets an
award would re I don't know. In

1006
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:34.039
the midst of all of this story
of man scale man, he's so good,

1007
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:39.279
like he's so good. I confess
I didn't watch a lot of Barney

1008
01:13:39.319 --> 01:13:44.880
Miller as a kid, because if
it wasn't it wasn't an action packed thrill

1009
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:48.000
a minute. It seemed boring an
adult to me. And there's really nothing

1010
01:13:48.039 --> 01:13:51.600
action packed about your average episode of
Barney Miller, like a bunch of the

1011
01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:57.159
built world wordplay like who Cares?
Right, No, But it's been so

1012
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:02.880
highly touted as a good show and
the actors is absolutely a great show.

1013
01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:06.439
It's just not for ten year olds, right. And I could say the

1014
01:14:06.439 --> 01:14:11.319
same thing for Taxi. When I
was a little kid, I remember it

1015
01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:14.319
would come on just as I was
getting ready to go to bed to get

1016
01:14:14.359 --> 01:14:16.359
ready for school the next day.
And there was a time where if I

1017
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:20.680
heard that end theme of Taxi or
heard the start of the mash theme,

1018
01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:29.119
I got this stomach of melancholy.
Yeah, because you knew it's time for

1019
01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:30.800
bed, it's I'm going to wake
up and it's going to be school again

1020
01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:35.520
tomorrow. So there was a time
when that was anesthetical to fun for me.

1021
01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:40.960
But maybe I should go back and
watch Barney Miller and catch up on

1022
01:14:41.039 --> 01:14:44.960
hol Linden and the rest of the
group. You know, Steve Landisburg,

1023
01:14:45.079 --> 01:14:50.079
wasn't he in that? Sure was
he was Steve. That's right, Fish,

1024
01:14:50.159 --> 01:14:54.520
he was in it. You know
ours over at weirding Way Media have

1025
01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:58.760
a Shabby Detective podcast about this.
No, that's the Columbo podcast. That's

1026
01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:03.880
Colombo. Have a Barney Miller they
do. Oh okay, I will have

1027
01:15:03.960 --> 01:15:10.279
to consider checking that out again if
it's not already clear for whatever passes for

1028
01:15:10.359 --> 01:15:15.079
yellow lights in this particular episode,
we're giving DC caaba recommendation. He should

1029
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:17.760
definitely check it out. It's got
nothing to do with Taxi the TV series,

1030
01:15:17.800 --> 01:15:24.880
of course, but as an adjacent
depiction of the Cabby lifestyle, it

1031
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:29.720
was pretty good between seasons. So
we're doing taxi things. We might do

1032
01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:32.359
a taxi driver who knows. I
think that I'll do it for this particular

1033
01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:41.199
special episode of Night mister Walters follow
alone. When you're not discussing obscure eighties

1034
01:15:41.279 --> 01:15:44.800
comedies, where can people find you? You can hear me over at weirding

1035
01:15:44.800 --> 01:15:47.880
Way Media. I host a show
called Midnight Viewing, the Horror Anthology podcast

1036
01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:51.920
with Mike White and Chris Dashu,
where we discuss, well, we're now

1037
01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:57.119
starting to discuss tannels from the dark
Side. We've got our first Taisman Dark

1038
01:15:57.159 --> 01:16:00.000
Side episode coming up where we have
an interview with Robert Drape who's the director

1039
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:04.239
of photography for like sixteen episodes.
And that's where you can find me over

1040
01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:09.399
at the Midnight Viewing. I am
also proud to be part of the weirding

1041
01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:15.760
Way Media network. You can hear
me on the Noise Junkies podcast with myself,

1042
01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:19.239
Father Malone, and Mondo Heather's Heather
Drain. You can also hear I've

1043
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:25.239
done a few things here and there
for Father Malone's Dark Destinations podcast, which

1044
01:16:25.720 --> 01:16:29.760
I would encourage you to check out
if you love great audio drama. I

1045
01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:33.279
have a band campsite hpmusicplace dot bandcamp
dot com if you want to check that

1046
01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:36.640
out as well, I'd appreciate it. But otherwise, thank you so much

1047
01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:41.840
for listening. Please feel free to
subscribe to the podcast, write a review,

1048
01:16:42.119 --> 01:16:45.359
rate us. We would love to
hear from you and any manner that

1049
01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:49.159
you choose. For myself and for
Father Malone. Thanks again and we will

1050
01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:57.439
see you again next time. Ni