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is the clockwork Man. The band is Warhog. This is Matt Connorton unleashed,
and we have Warhog with us via Skype. Hey, guys, hey
going on, Hey, welcome back. I was looking. It's been over
a year since the last time we talked, but you guys have been You
guys have been doing some some great I love the new songs. I especially
love uh the Cybertooth one Uh Hunt of the Cybertooth, which is what we're
gonna play later. What a great song. But I really like all three
of these tracks that you sent us. And uh, well done, well
done, gentlemen, thank you, thanks absolutely really good, really good.
Now you guys are for people who aren't familiar. You are from is it
Dallas, Texas? Yes, that's correct, very good. And when you
were on with us last time. I think you had how many albums did
you have it at that point? Did you just have the one or did
you just have the singles? Like I forget now it's been a while.
I think we just had the one. We might have had a live album
too, but we definitely just had the one, the one, our first
studio album. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, definitely, you've definitely
this is this is great stuff. By the way. Now, so,
so who do we have with us? Is the full band with us?
Uh? Via Skyper? Who do we have? Yeah, we've got her,
Scott's here, Eric I play guitar, Robert drums, and Justin on
bass. All right, it's great, great to have you all here.
Are you? Uh? Is it early? There? Are you an hour
behind us? You're not the same time zone, right, so you're yeah,
So I'm really I'm really driving Justin crazy because I'm a I'm a morning
person and he's not. And I've had two mimosas and he is barely waking
up. So he's he's cut the coffee and I'm still like irritated. He's
ready to he's ready to kill me, right right. I'm glad you guys
are all able to able to join us today. So how now are these
songs, these tracks that you sent us here, these already out and available.
One of them is the Clockwork Man that you just played is out and
has been out and and that song has kind of a funny story. We
we we put that together. I guess at the very end of twenty twenty
two. I've got some friends that do YouTube content on a channel of theirs,
and they had written that song the Clockwork Man as a sea shanty for
like a an episode that they do of their of their they do Star Wars
parodies. It's I could go down this whole rabbit hole, but I won't
because I want to. I want to make sure we talk about us.
But yes, yes, I I collaborate with them on a lot of stuff.
I sang on this sea shanty about called the Clockwork Man, and when
they sent me the lyrics, I looked at him and I was just like,
man, this reads and in my head sounds just like an Iron Maiden
song. And so before I even did my vocals for the pirate version,
this shanty version, I sent the guys back basically the fully baked version of
Clockwork man with me doing all the midi drums and everything. Wow. And
it turned out so good that they used it in the episode Oh Wows that
as the credits music. And then Eric kind of was like, well,
let's just do it as a whole band thing, and we started playing it
live and people really liked it, so we recorded it properly and got the
live drums and everything, and so that the version you just heard is the
Clockwork is the version that we released of our version of the Clockwork Band.
So it's a little bit of a cover, but all that music is original
to us, and it doesn't the real the real version doesn't sound anything like
that. Really. Yeah, literally, it's a it's it's four part alcapella.
It's ridiculous. Just send this to me. I need to hear this.
Yeah, yeah, I'll send it to you. What what's what's their
YouTube channel we can give them? Are called the r notts A you r
a l n a u t S. They've been around for years. They
do a lot of really funny parody stuff and sound editing things. They're great
and I love those guys. I'm good friends with them, and they they
brought me in on a lot of their stuff and really kind of expanded our
visibility. But I love them and so anytime I get to work with them
is a real treat. Yeah, yeah, very cool. By the way,
what does that mean? What is a clockwork man? What does that
mean? Yeah? So basically in their version, what they do is they
take existing media, like a Star Wars movie, and they strip everything away
but the video, and then they redo all the audio. So they redo
the dialogue and the music and the sound effects and they edit it up into
something entirely different. And in their version of the Star Wars saga, yeah,
C three Po is this kind of deranged, bloodthirsty, murderous monster.
And because they started with the first with phantom menace where he doesn't have an
outer covering, he's obsessed with getting skin and being human. And yeah,
I will send you some stuff. It really is a rabbit hole that you
have to go down. But if anybody is listening that thinks that this sounds
at all remotely funny, it is. It's worth your time. I'll send
you some stuff. But yeah, CEE three p O in their version of
Star Wars is the clock. He is a mythical monster that people sing songs
about. The song is kind of like an urban legend song. Yeah,
kind of like Bloody Mary. Yeah, you be careful, don't don't talk
about the clockwork Man because he'll come and take your skin. Yeah. Yeah,
it's great, that's great. Yeah, I've gotta I've gotta see that.
Yeah. So anyway, that's the clockwork Man. That's awesome. And
what is uh, we're gonna we're gonna play it later. But Hunt of
the cyber Tooth what what? What? What is that? What does that
mean? What is that about? I love I love the song by the
way, it's very you can you can sing along to it. It's it's
so it's so good. But what is what is the meaning behind that?
So that was my idea. So, you know, when we're you know,
we have our first album, Call of Voyager is essentially a barbarian quest
type song, and we said, let's let's go the opposite direction and like
do a bunch of dystopian and futuristic like eighties theme songs. And I literally
came up with this idea of a future kind of like the Purge, but
everybody goes into their house at night and they hide because the government has built
a cybernetic tigers, criminals at night, and if you're out on the streets
and you have any kind of like criminal history, he's basically gonna kill you.
Yeah. Okay, Okay, so now we I think we talked about
this so when we talked the last time. You know, because of the
way Eric and I write, we have so much material kind of just in
the hopper waiting. I think this song was actually written the last time we
were on the radio with you guys. Oh. But Eric explained it to
me just like that. He like messaged me one day and he was like,
Hey, I'm writing the song. It's it's called the Hunt for the
Cyber Tooth. And I was like, that's the dumbest title, and I
think it's I think it might be the greatest thing you've ever written. Yeah,
And he explained it just like that, and I was like, without
even hearing it or seeing lyrics, I can't wait to see what this is,
yeah, because it's it's amazing. And yeah, and the song turned
out great, which is hilarious that it's like, it's a pretty fun song
to play, but yeah, it's it's one of those ridiculous things we just
pushed hard into you know, just fantasy at one time live and the reception
on it was everybody was like, you have to play that every show?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, our friend Melanie from the
Great State of her Mind, she's in the chat room. She says,
nice Government Cybernetic Tigers are fantastic. Yeah, yes, yeah, we're excited
about it. Yeah. And by the way, you sent us another track
to a self titled that track called Warhog and uh and and I like that
too. We might actually end up playing uh both that and UH Hunt of
the Cyber Tooth if we have time, but any any particular meaning behind that.
It's always a bold move when a band uh puts out a song with
the same title as the band it's it's it's been done, but rarely has
it been done. Well, A lot of the bands that I like to
listen to do exactly that. Iron Maiden has Iron Maiden true, Black Sabbath
has Black Sabbath right like there, Hammerfall has Hammerfall right, like a lot
of the power metal and like old eighties kind of big arena metal bands do
that. And I just said the same thing to Eric one day. I
was like, there's actually a Halloween who has their own song. Yeah,
true, And I said, I told Eric, I was like, we
we should do a song that has our name in the title, like all
the cool eighties bands to and Eric was like okay, And then literally just
the next day was like, here it is. That's awesome. Part we
played this one. And I have I have a lot of friends and family
that come and support us that don't like metal, and everyone that I've showed
this song to is like, I love this song and I hate metal.
Yeah that's really cool. Well you've convinced me we're gonna we're gonna play both
of those today. Absolutely absolutely that that song features all of us on vocals
in the middle. So that's that was a fun thing to do. Yeah,
awesome, awesome. You guys, do you play out a lot?
Are you playing a lot of shows these days or what's the live situation?
Yeah? We so we started this year kind of strong. We played a
metal showcase in Dallas at a at a venue called Trees, which is a
big, kind of really well known venue definitely in town, but like lots
of bands have played there in their earlier days, like Nirvana played their tool
played there. It's a it's a big national yeah, and we played a
metal show show case there with a bunch of our friends bands that we knew,
and had a really good turnout. So if our friends are listening and
they came to that show, thank you so much. Because that show got
us a gig in front of a band called Crypta, who was a metal
band from Brazil. They were coming through three weeks later, and so we
played that show on a set. We played our show on a Saturday and
Monday, I think I had an email from the owner of the venue that
said, Hey, we've got a band coming in from Brazil. Would you
like to open? Can you open? Are you available? And we're like
yes. Now, keep in mind Robert joined the band like that the week
before we played that show. Wow, because because Ben had to quit our
original drummer, Ben, you know, we he made the decision to leave
the band in the summer of twenty three and so going into Christmas time,
we were contacting other drum looking for you know, getting auditions started. We
had talked to Robert and you know, we said like after the new year,
let's learn some songs and get you in the in the room and see
how it goes. And then the the gig showed up for this showcase and
we were like, well, instead of three songs, can you learn six?
And he jumped he jumped in and a working audition yeah wow, And
and it went so well, I mean, it was going really well that
we were like, this is the guy. We don't need to audition anybody
else. And then the next big show at the same venue happens. We
played twice at Trees back to back, like less than three weeks apart,
and we did that, and then we immediately were like, all right,
this is good Robertson, Let's get in the studio and start recording stuff because
we've got all these yeah, like cyber Tooth are ready to record, Warhog
is ready to record. We've got a bunch of stuff we've got. We've
got three EP's that are all written and essentially produced minus the drums. Oh
okay, yeah yeah, And these three epi's, essentially when we released them
through this year, will become on one album. Okay, just because of
how the current state of music is, people want like instant gratification. So
we're not going to do one album and make everybody wait a year where we
decide to piece meal it through through the year and put a single here,
an EP there, that kind of thing, and then wrap it up in
a nice package at the end of the year. Yeah. Yeah, very
cool. Yeah, that does seem you know, we live in an era
where you've got so many different options. And we may have even talked about
this the last time you were on with us, but I have noticed,
especially in the last couple of years, that seems to be what a lot
of the artists that we talked to on the show are doing now, is
they'll release, you know, they might release a series of singles that eventually
become an album. It's it's kind of the inverse of how it used to
be, you know, growing up, you know, a band puts out
an album and there's a several singles or maybe one or two singles, depending
on how it you know, how it's selling, and and and now it's
kind of it's it's kind of been flipped flipped around. So but it's nice
to have those options. Yeah, it is. And I think also to
your point, you know, you used to get an album and there might
be three good songs on it and then six of them are okay. Yeah,
and I feel like now the pressure is like every song has to be
a banger, you know. That's that's an interesting comment. I never thought
of it that way, but you're right, that's a really good point.
Yeah, yeah, I mean even I think you could go all the way
back, right, like Black Sabbath's Paranoid was was I mean? And Tony
Iomi's own words like that was supposed to be a filler song. They just
needed two and a half minutes of something to fill the other side of the
record. Yeah, and so he he like farted out Paranoid, right,
and that's a classic, like of all time heavy metal song. Rights,
But to art on our end, then every song needs to be a paranoid,
right, that can stand on its own and work without the rest of
what's going on. So it's funny. I didn't know that. I didn't
know the story behind Paranoid, But that's interesting because that kind of explains why.
You know, because bill Ward on that song, you know, he's
it's such a basic drum pattern for him compared to everything else he does.
You know, Paranoid is so simple. Yeah, Tony I saw an interview
at Tony Oman was like they were at lunch, and I sat down and
wrote that riff and just put words to it and they came back and we
just recorded it like that song was never intended to be really anything more than
the song between two other ones. You know, yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah. I didn't know that I was in a band that we actually covered
Paranoid, and the reason because we wanted to do a Black Sabbath song,
but none of us were, you know, we didn't quite have the chops
to tackle something really complex, or at least our drummer didn't because the drums.
You know, Bill Ward is such an interesting drummer, and but Paranoid
it's like so easy. I mean, it's just easy. I played,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you guys influenced by you know,
you mentioned iron Maid of course? Are what what are some of the
other artists that you guys are influenced by? Is it? Is it a
lot of sort of sort of power metal stuff or Scott is definitely the power
metal guy, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, that kind of stuff. I don't
want to speak for one too much. I like, I'm kind of all
over the spectrum. I grew up loving death metal, I love Pantera.
Being from Texas. Uh, I like Mastadon I mean, I tried so.
I when I write songs, I try to take influence from everybody.
But at the end of the day, I love Iron Maiden and stuff just
as much as Scott does. Yeah, I wouldn't say justice is Yeah.
We all grew up in the nineties, so you know the zeitgeist of metals.
You know, Metallica, Mega Death, Pantera, Ozzy, all those
bands end up in the mix somehow, and then you know, as we've
grown older, just certain things sink in a little bit more. Yeah,
it's all there, right, Like I think, well, you know in
cyber to that and we'll play it and you'll hear it. That last chorus
is like I totally did Sound Garden. I totally was like, oh,
I should do a Chris Cornell vocal here at the end of people won't be
expecting grunge at the end of Cybertooth. Yes, really good. Yeah,
you know, so like it's it's it's all in there, right, it's
awesome. Yeah, No, you're right, I did. I didn't think
of it quite that way, that the Chris Cornell thing, but you're right,
yeah, and yeah it does it. It totally works for the song
Are These is what you do in the studio. Is any of that difficult
to replicate live? You know, because you've got a lot of like these
these big vocals and whatnot. Is any of that a challenge or or do
you even worry? Maybe you don't even worry about it. Maybe maybe you
know, if it's a little bit raw live, that's okay. I don't
know. I mean, how do you approach that? Which, well,
that's I mean, I I can pretty much pull off all the stuff that
I'm doing on the record live. Yeah. And then to that point,
the boys, Eric and Justin have gotten really good about stepping up to the
plate and the microphone. Yeah, and Cyber we played it live and me
and Justin did a lot of the backing vocals, and I thought that went
really well. I mean, the crowd reacted to it, especially at the
end. Yeah, and we're hope doing it. And then Scott comes in
with that Chris Cornell part. Yeah. Yeah, they're they're, they're they're
doing really good with with jumping up and sharing some of the vocals. And
I think it's it's fun for me to have them doing it as well.
But I think from the audience perspective, when you have the three guys across
the top, all on microphones shouting stuff at the audience at once. Like
it's a powerful kind of experience and interaction. You'll hear it in Warhawk,
like you'll know what part it is that we all yeah, and people react
to it. So we're we're working really hard to kind of pull some of
that stuff in as much as we can. Yeah, Yeah, Where do
you guys record? So I'm the engineer and producer, and honestly, a
lot of the stuff that we do, thanks to technology, we do from
the comfort over our own home, So I mean you can, like I
don't even capture live amps anymore. I use amp sims exclusively, So we
literally plug into a computer and record our parts. Scott records literally right where
we're sitting right now. His vocals, he has a little vocal dampening feel
he puts around him and belts out files. We usually use Dropbox to exchange
stuff. The only thing that we really have to do in any kind of
like special setting is the drums, and we do have, you know,
a rehearsal space, and honestly it's soundproofed and it's the perfect size to record
drums in. So right now, Robert's kid is there all miked up,
and when we do practice, we're very careful to not knock any mics over.
But I mean that's pretty much our how we do it. And I
take it and put on my headphones and start mixing and mastering in what you
what you hear is essentially what I what I get. Yeah, yeah,
it is. It is remarkable. You know, we live in a time
where you can do it that way, you know. I mean, I'm
old enough to remember when there was no such thing as drop box and file
tasking. Maybe, I mean, Scott Scott and I joke all the time
that our eighteen year old selves would just be blown away with what we can
do now. Where we used to use a tape recorder to like overdub guitars
and stuff, you know, to boom boxes sit next to each other so
I could do like a playback and then play over it, yeah, exactly,
singing in the shower, yeah yeah, yeah. Yeah. Poor Robert
though, I mean, he's, like I said, he's new to the
band and we're really putting him through the grinder, because as seems, we
played those shows, it was like, all right, let's pack up the
rehearsal stuff and get the the kit in here and to start recording. And
he's been just learning songs and recording them like every couple of weeks. It's
just a cycle of like learn practice record, learn, practice record. So
yeah, having you having fun with that, Oh, it's a blast.
I look forward to recording love it. I have been a good luck turn
for us too, because we were all of a sudden he shows up in
the band and we get two shows immediately at Trees. And I know we
were talking about live stuff earlier. You didn't mention going down to Austin.
Yeah, we're going to Austin and we're going to San Marcos, Texas.
There were Yeah, so we got some shows on the road, and and
then we're actually this summer we're coming when we when we play the summer,
we're opening for Drowning Pool. Nice. Yeah, So we have a lot
of really cool stuff going on on top of releasing all the music that we're
releasing. Yeah yeah, yeah, oh very cool. Yeah, you guys
got a lot going on. But by the way, do you have any
videos, because your your songs certainly would lead themselves to some sort of fastical
video. Do you have any So, we actually just had a lyric video
made for Warhog and we literally before we got on your show this morning,
approved the final product. I use an artist on Fiver that does a lot
of videos for like Century Media, Nuclear Blasts, a bunch of other labels,
and uh, it's it's spectacular. Really. We're working with the PR
firm right now and I think we're set next week probably to release it.
And uh once once we do, we'll sing all the link. It's we
we all giggled with how how it came out. It's pretty awesome. It's
pretty good. Oh cool, cool, Yeah, I look forward to uh
look forward to seeing that very nice, very nice. Well, guys,
Uh, the time does go so fast. We want to get those songs
in and then, of course, for those of you listening live, we
have Eric Pilter's classic film review coming up, and then in uh then in
the third hour, we're joined by another great band, dot Conduit. We're
gonna be here with us live in studio. But uh, but before we
uh, before we let you guys go, and we're gonna I'm dying to
share share the song Hunt of the Cyber Tooth with everybody because I love it.
So much, and we're gonna play Warhog too. But what should people
know in terms of, you know, because we have a lot of listeners
locally here, but also you know, just all over the place. What
should people know about where to find you online to keep up with everything that
you're doing and uh, and and find your music and the video when it's
out and all of that. What should people know about where to find you
guys? Facebook and Instagram. We are Warhog DFW. We've got a website,
warhog band dot com. We've got band camp which is warhog dot com,
bandcamp dot warhog dot com. But yeah, we're we're really active on
Facebook, We're really active on Instagram. So follow us there and keep up
with all the stuff that we've got going on and putting out and releasing and
sharing. So that's the best way to keep up with us. Yeah,
and we we're on every streaming platform that's right. Uh. And then if
you want to buy physical media like anything from shirts, mugs, whatever,
we have that on our website. And then we have the availability to buy
and download MP threes as well. Yeah. Very cool. Oh, by
the way, Melanie said in the chat room, I bet the next band
doesn't have a government made cybernetic tigers. I would not think if they do,
we might we might have to talk. It's a real it's a real
niche kind of song topic. Yes, we we wanted to corner fast and
earlier. Yes, yes, good god, Yeah, you're you're ahead of
the curve. That's if anybody in Dallas comes out with any animal themed cybernetic
monsters in the next twelve months, we're gonna be pissed, absolutely all right.
Warhok gentlemen, thank you all so much for joining us this morning.
We appreciate you. We will do this again in the future, especially as
you continue to release new music, great great stuff, and so I'm gonna
I'm gonna hit this track. But guys, thank you so much. War
Hug, Thank you, Thanks Jen. We appreciate you. Guys. All
right, thank you, take care, bye bye. All right, without
further ado, here it is. This is We're gonna play both of them.
We're gonna play this, and then we're gonna play uh the Warhog,
the song Warhog by the band Warhog, and then we're gonna get to Eric's
film review. But here I love this. Check this out. This is
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American legend, is the origin of the Cane fortune. How to boarding housekeeper
Mary Kane, by a defaulting border in eighteen sixty eight, was left a
supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mindshaft, the coloradolone. Fifty seven years later,
before a congressional investigation, Walter P. Thatcher, grand old man of
Wall Street, four year's chief target of Caine Paper's attacks on trusts, recalls
a journey he made as a youth fain come and been appointed us tea by
missus Kine for a large fortune which he recently acquired. It was how wish
that I should take charge of this boy, this Charles Foster Kane. Is
it not a Johnson that all lister case dunce that boy Charles Foster Kane personally
attacked you after striking you in the stomach with the slaves, musham. And
I shall read to the Committee of Revents statements which I have brought with me,
And I shall then refuse to answer any further questions. Mister Charles Foster
Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, and by the dangerous manner
in which has persistently attacked the American traditions of private property, initiative and opportunity
for advancement, is in fact nothing more or less than a communist. That
same month in Union Square, in the words Charles Foster Kane, anus,
do every working man in the slave he is today what he has always been
and always will be? Attachiest and still another opinion, and urged his country's
entry into one war appaus participation in another swung. The election to one American
president at lease spoke for millions of Americans, was hated by as many more
for forty years appeared in Kane your sprint no public issue on which Caine papers
took no stand. No public man whom Kane himself didnot support or denounce,
often support then denounce. Wee married vice divorce, first to a president's niece,
Emily Dawton, who left him in nineteen sixteen died nineteen eighteen in a
motor accident with their son, sixteen years after his first marriage. Two weeks
after his first divorce, Kane married Susan Alexander Singer at the town Hall in
Trenton, New Jersey, a wife to one time opera singing Susan Alexander Caine
built Chicago's municipal opera house cost three million dollars and see for Susan Alexander Kane
have finished before she divorced him. The still unfinished Sanadu cost no man,
can say. Caine, holder of mass opinion, though he was in all
his life, was never granted elective office by the voters of his country.
But caine tapers were once strong, indeed, and once the prize seemed almost
his. In nineteen sixteen as independent candidate for governor, the best elements of
the state behind him. The White House seemingly the next easy step in a
lightning political career. Then suddenly less than one week before election. Defeat,
shameful, ignominious. He heat that set back for twenty years the cause of
reform in the US, or ever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane.
The first year of the Great Depression, Okaine paper closes Ocaine in four short
years collapse, eleven can papers merged, more sold, scrapped. Is that
correct? Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. Read the inquirer.
How did you find business conditions in Europe? How did I find business conditions
in Europe? Mister bones, with great difficulty. I'm glad to be back,
Decay. I'm always glad to be back, young man. I'm an
American. I always been an American. Anything else, and I was a
reporter. We asked them quicker than that. Come on, young fellas well,
what do you think of the chances for war in Europe? I've talked
with the responsible leaders the great powers England, French, Germany and Italy.
They're too intelligent to embark on a project which would mean the end of civilization
as we now know it. You can take my word for it. There
be no war. Kin helped to change the world. What Kine's world now
is history, and the great Yellow Journalist himself lived to be history, outlived
his power to make it alone, and is never finished Already Decaine Pleasure Palace,
aloof seldom visited, never photographed, an emperor of newsprint, continued to
direct his failing empire, vainly attempted to sway as he once did, the
destinies of a nation that had ceased to listen to him, ceased to trust
him. Then, last week, as it must to all men, death
came to Charles Foster Kane. No, the words you just heard are the
words that bring us into the world of Charles Foster Kane. It is a
part of the opening scene from Citizen kan At nearly ten minutes and it's long.
It attempts to encapsulate the life of a media titan, mogul, failed
politician, and a man that had everything but in reality had nothing that was
real. Last week we looked at the making of Citizen Kane in the controversy
in pitfalls that surrounded it. This film was released in nineteen forty one and
tells the story of Charles Foster Kine, played by director Orson Wells, a
man that as a young child inherits a fortune and then amass his wealth,
fame, prestige, and notoriety as a national media mogul, but is missing
love and is emotionally broken. Our next two clips show what makes Kin such
a compelling character in cinema. First, in a conversation with his conservator,
mister Thatcher, we hear the new newspaper man Kin explain his view on running
a newspaper. Then, in our second clip, a middle aged Caine,
while running for governor, shows his over the top delivery and extreme self confidence.
These scenes are important because they establish what makes Caine so endearing and charming.
Also, notice the commanding presence Caine carries off jersey. He's that very
good idea how to run a newspaper. I don't know how to run a
newspaper, mister Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of you.
Oh perfectly. Well, there's not the slight this proof of this. I'm
mad's off the jersey. I'd like you to meet mister Thatcher. I'll just
cleland. Mister Thatcher, my ex guardian. We have no secrets from our
readers, mister Burnstein, mister Thatcher is one of my most devoted readers.
He knows what's wrong with every copy of the Mployer since I took over read
the cable girls delightful in Cuba. Stop could send you prose poems about scenery.
But don't feel right, Fenny, your money stopped. There is no
war in Cuba, signed Wheeler, any air, Yes, deal Wheeler.
You'll provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war. That's fine, mister
Cares. I rather like myself away. I came to see you about this
campaign of Jaws. He's in crade campaign against the Public Cleansit Company. Mister
Thatcher, Do you know anything we could use against them? Still the college
boy on too, No, mister Thatcher. I was expelled from college a
lot of colleges, you remember, I remember, Charles. I think I
should remind you of the fact that you seem to have forgotten. Yes,
that's why yourself one of the largest in the JOSS in the Public Clensed Company.
Trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people as Charles Foster
Kane, who owns eighty two thousand, three hundred and sixty four shares of
Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have a general idea of my
holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundreul His paper
should be run out of towner committee should formed to boycott him. You may,
if you can form such a committee, put me down for contribution of
one thousand dollars my time. On the other hand, I am the establisher
of the Inquirer. As such, it's my duty, and I'll let you
in on a little secret. It's also my pleasure see to you at the
decent, hardworking people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of moneymad
pirates because having anybody to look after their interests. I'll let you in on
another little secret, mister Thatcher. I think I'm the man to do it.
You see, I have money and property. If I don't look after
the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any
money of property. Yes, well, I happened to see your financial statement
today, Charles, how did you now tell me? Honestly, my boy,
don't you think it's rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise, this empire
that's costing you a million dollars a year? You're right, mister Thatcher.
I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million
dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You
know, mister Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year,
I'll have to close this place in sixty years. And now, Kine's campaign
speech. Now a complete control of the government of the state. I made
no campaign promises because until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of
being elected. Now, however, I have something more than a hope.
Jim Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. Every struggled, every independent
poll shows that I'll be elected. Now I can afford to make some promises
the working man, the working man, and the slung child. No,
they can expect my best efforts in their interests. The decent ordinary citizens know
that I'll do everything in my power to protect the underprivileged, the underpaid,
the under fed. Mother is pop government not yet well, I'd make my
promises now if I weren't too busy arranging to keep them. You have one
promise I'll make, and Boss Jim get His knows I'll keep it. My
first official act is Governor of the state, will lead to appoint a special
district Attorney to arrange for the indictment, prosecution and conviction. Boss Jim W
get his The main theme throughout this film is not Cain in his life,
the power, fortune in fame that he carries. It is that this man
is emotionally bankrupt. His quest for control and love has disastrous consequences. That
is because he is emotionally unavailable and unwilling to commit to anyone emotionally outside of
just token things in gifts and money. In one of the most heartbreaking scenes
of this film, Cain confronts longtime friend, supporter and reporter Jedediah Leland played
by Joseph Cotton, for writing a poor review of his current wife's opra.
In this scene, Leland explains what love is too Charles Foster Kane, and
how it is unlike what anyone else in the world would view as love.
What you are unable to see in this scene due to audio only is the
way Orson Wells and Greg Toland shot the scene to make Cain appear as a
giant. To do this, they cut a hole in the floor of the
scene setting to lower the camera all the way down and shoot it upright for
a larger view of Cain. Well, thank you God drought to it.
Talk to me about mis Alexander, don't, father, I'm not interested.
I've set back the sacred cause of perform Is that it all right? That's
the way they wanted the people who have made that choice. It's obvious the
people preferred to Jim get his to me. You talk about the people as
though you own them, so they belonged to you. Goodness, As long
as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as
if you can make them a present of liberty as a reward for services rendered.
Remember the working man, I'll get drunk too, Jedediah, don't do
any good. I won't do any good. Besides, you never get drunk.
You used to write an awful lot about the working man. Or go
on turning into something called organized labor. You're not gonna like that one little
bit when you find out it means that you're a working man expects something as
his right, not as your gift. Charlie, when you're precious, underprivileged,
you really get together. Oh boy, that's gonna addup to something bigger
than your privilege. And I don't know what you'll do. Sail away to
a desert island probably and lord it over the monkeys. I wouldn't worry about
it too much. Jet I'll probably be a few of them there to let
me know when I do something wrong. You may not always be so lucky.
Yeah, very drunk, it's wrong. What do you care? You
don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you
love them so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want
love on your own terms. I promised it would be divulged if the influence
of William Randolph Hurst hindered this film. Sadly it did. Radio City Music
Hall refused to take part in the premiere. Many cinemas, fearing that Hurst
would sue them for defamation or refuse to advertise their theaters just outright refused to
show it. Hearst papers, radio stations, and magazines would not advertise the
film. This led to the film losing an astounding one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars following its initial release. It nearly bankrupted RKO Pictures and led to Wells
being labeled as troublesome in never wielding the power he had on this film creatively
for the rest of his career. Despite this, the film did receive critical
acclaim. The Washington Post called it the single most important film ever made.
It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Wells was nominated
for Best Actor and Best Director. The film only won one award for Best
Original Screenplay for Herman Mankowitz and Wells. When the Oscars aired on Hurstoned radio
stations, the award was edited out of the broadcast. However, in the
sixties, this film began to have a major resurgence. This allowed the film
to gain the widespread appreciation it did not get upon release. That appreciation carries
through to today. It is widely considered to be the greatest film ever made,
and in my opinion, it is. On a personal note, this
film led me to have an admiration for Wells and his works. It also
led me to seek a film minor while I was in college. I'm such
a fan of Wells that one of my most prized possessions is an autograph from
Orson well That is why I have chosen to honor Wells this month. My
birthday month, because without him in this marvelous, beautiful, heartbreaking, compelling
film, it's safe to say there would not be classic film reviews with Eric
Pilcher. I hope you join me next week, when our month long tribute
to Urson Wells continues with one of his most heralded performances ever in Carol Mann's
nineteen forty nine film The Third Man. To close this review for WMNH and
Matt Connorton Unleashed, this has been a classic film review