Speaker 1: You are listening to the biggest all night show in
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Speaker 2: Of biggat all night show on American radio.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the only reason that mattaas Boom Boom from
Speaker 1: Hollywood would agree to come on this show when he
Speaker 1: confirmed through Nielsen that it was the biggest all night
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Speaker 1: as Matteas Boom Boom from Hollywood rights, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure to stage the information in a professional and
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Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm fat. Nielsen has adjudicated this as being
Speaker 2: the greatest all time show in all night radio.
Speaker 1: So see, I don't I don't say greatest, I say biggest.
Speaker 2: Well, and and you know great in size and big
Speaker 2: in heart and biggest big is great. It's stupendous. What
Speaker 2: more experts are necessary? Well, perhaps we should get to
Speaker 2: the core I'm here for, because otherwise we'll just be
Speaker 2: repeating what is well known. Right.
Speaker 1: But one second you hear about Hayden Pannetier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was really sad, I mean young, too young.
Speaker 2: Of course, I think she's most remembered for her movies,
Speaker 2: the screen movies. But that's just very sad to die
Speaker 2: so young. It's just criminal to hold her whole life
Speaker 2: ahead of her.
Speaker 1: So, my friend, yes, please give us an update and
Speaker 1: then I'll quiz you later.
Speaker 2: Great Well, first of all, you piqued my interest at
Speaker 2: the beginning of this program by your curiosity, which is
Speaker 2: for such a great driver of this program, which speaks
Speaker 2: so many fascinating conversations about these amusement parks that seem
Speaker 2: to be abandoned, and there's so many of them, and
Speaker 2: the connection between railroads that go to them, and I
Speaker 2: immediately thought of salt Air. Now, of course, salt Air
Speaker 2: was on the south shore of Great Salt Lake. It
Speaker 2: opened in eighteen ninety three, and there was a train
Speaker 2: that used to go there, forty five minute train ride
Speaker 2: beginning at nine thirty in the morning. People would go
Speaker 2: out every forty five minutes to do this. They'd burst
Speaker 2: into song when they'd go out. There was a big
Speaker 2: thing on the south saw of the Salt Lake, and
Speaker 2: that was a place that by the nineteen fifty eight
Speaker 2: season had just closed. It was sort of forgotten, old,
Speaker 2: run down, and it lasted another twelve years and eventually
Speaker 2: it was demolished after an arson fire in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: But how this connects to movies is that one of
Speaker 2: the all time creepy horror films was filmed at this
Speaker 2: abandoned musement park, which is probably why if you're an
Speaker 2: old movie buffer the late night movie show, you have
Speaker 2: this inset idea that these abandoned amusement of parks not
Speaker 2: only exist, but are creepy haven's for ghosts. And the
Speaker 2: name of the movie was Carnival of Souls. It came
Speaker 2: out in nineteen sixty two. This is a really low
Speaker 2: budget movie and the eerie abandoned pavidion that burned down
Speaker 2: is photographed in this movie, and it's the ghostly focal
Speaker 2: point where the main character in the movie is drawn
Speaker 2: to dance with phantoms. So I think this movie on
Speaker 2: the Late show or in the sub run at the
Speaker 2: lower half of a double bill, and now it's a
Speaker 2: cult classic, certainly adds fire to the flame of this
Speaker 2: abandoned amusement park fascination that runs everywhere. And it's really
Speaker 2: it's an interesting movie, and it is very interesting these
Speaker 2: old amusement parks because when you think about places, and
Speaker 2: it's true of theaters or children's playgrounds, when you see
Speaker 2: them out of context, especially in movies. They use this
Speaker 2: as a wonderful device where something isn't right, or they
Speaker 2: make it black and white. Suddenly the mundane and normal
Speaker 2: become scary or weird or out of place. And that's
Speaker 2: all part of the imagination of these filmmakers and storytellers
Speaker 2: that have brought that to the fore.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to me that the economics of an abandoned
Speaker 1: amusement park, even six Flags in New Orleans. Six Flags
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, an abandoned amusement park, there's no mechanism,
Speaker 1: economic mechanism or rules in townships and cities to take
Speaker 1: them down. They okay, they're abandoned, and that's it. We
Speaker 1: don't know anything about it. But wait a minute, you're
Speaker 1: six Flags. You must have a few bucks to take
Speaker 1: these down, just for the safety element. Some wacky kid says,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to go up on that roller coaster,
Speaker 1: and it's two in the morning, and they're drunk, and
Speaker 1: it's wet and slippery, And it is amazing that there
Speaker 1: has not been more any accidents I know of of
Speaker 1: kids hanging out in abandoned amusement parks.
Speaker 2: It's true, and of course there's always the popular insurance
Speaker 2: fire aspect of it too, so parts of it can
Speaker 2: burn and they can collect on that too, so they
Speaker 2: can still make money from these well.
Speaker 1: As Michelle Gibson. As Michelle Gibson said, a lot of
Speaker 1: from eighteen fifty to nineteen hundred, there were a lot
Speaker 1: of things that were destroyed by fire, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: for insurance because it didn't work like that then it
Speaker 1: wasn't established enough. Then it was just to get rid
Speaker 1: of it, to put in the New World Order. And
Speaker 1: the New World Order had electricity that came with a
Speaker 1: bill that was the New World Order. You want all
Speaker 1: this energy, you're gonna have to pay.
Speaker 2: For indeed, Well, let me get back to movies, Walter. I.
Speaker 2: I just am so fascinated by everything that's discussed in
Speaker 2: this program. I can't help myself.
Speaker 1: But it's a very compelling program. It's a very compelling program,
Speaker 1: and it deserves many awards.
Speaker 2: I agree. You know, American movie going just had the
Speaker 2: single biggest weekend it's ever had. That North American theaters
Speaker 2: took in four hundred and twenty nine million, one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy two thousand, six hundred and fifty six dollars
Speaker 2: between July thirty first and August second, which is the
Speaker 2: highest grossing domestic weekend on record. It broke the four
Speaker 2: hundred and two million frame that Avengers Endgames set back
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. So here today, gromestic grosses stand at
Speaker 2: six point two billion through Monday, the earliest crossing of
Speaker 2: the six billion mark since twenty nineteen. Four films have
Speaker 2: passed a billion worldwide in twenty twenty six, the largest
Speaker 2: such class since before the pandemic. So this is exciting
Speaker 2: times for the movie industry. Look at Superman right now
Speaker 2: at two billion, twenty one million, eight hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: one thousand, six hundred and seventy dollars. Just last weekend alone,
Speaker 2: from the fourteenth through the sixteenth, it did seventy million dollars.
Speaker 2: Other movies, The Odyssey's in the second place right now
Speaker 2: with five hundred and five total aggregate in US and Canada,
Speaker 2: The End of Oak Street, which is sort of a
Speaker 2: new dinosaur, not Dinoshore, but dinosaur movie twenty one millions,
Speaker 2: Paw Patrol, which is a cute comedy for the kids
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars, and Kat's Eye Wildhearts, which I've not
Speaker 2: seen four million dollars in place number five at the
Speaker 2: box office right now.
Speaker 1: Now, what would you say is the reason for this
Speaker 1: astonishing volume of business.
Speaker 2: Well, it's got to be Zendaia.
Speaker 1: That's right. It's got to be Zendaiya. And it's got
Speaker 1: to be Zendaya. And that kid who's Spider.
Speaker 2: Man, that's right, Tom Holland, who is mister Zendia.
Speaker 1: Mister Zendia. And that's how he'll be the rest of
Speaker 1: his life, just like Travis Kelsey've been mister Swift the
Speaker 1: rest of his life.
Speaker 2: There is Those are the two highest now grossing actors
Speaker 2: in the history of the movies.
Speaker 1: That's amazing And I'm so glad Lauren Bacall isn't alive
Speaker 1: to hear that. I is there. What are you going
Speaker 1: to watch this week? What's coming up? Matteas Boom Boom
Speaker 1: in Hollywood?
Speaker 2: A movie that I sort of teased last which has
Speaker 2: got Willem Dafoe as an old New York poet that
Speaker 2: has gone to work in the post office. No one
Speaker 2: remembers him to a bunch of rich kids that feign
Speaker 2: the fact that they're sort of artistic and hangout in
Speaker 2: these rather bohemian places sort of rescue him and bring
Speaker 2: him back and try to make him part of their circle.
Speaker 2: It's an it's an interesting thing, but it's a really
Speaker 2: great Dafoe is a fine actor, and it's it's really great.
Speaker 2: Martin Scorsese produced this thing, and it's it's really quite good.
Speaker 2: I'll talk about it some more this coming Friday morning
Speaker 2: on this program.
Speaker 1: You're a terrific contributor to the program. Have you seen
Speaker 1: any of the low level television that I've urged you
Speaker 1: to watch? No?
Speaker 2: You know, I keep asking for it, and the people
Speaker 2: at Apple have said they were going to send me
Speaker 2: our look at the Russian program and of course the
Speaker 2: wonderful program with the young teens, but I haven't. I
Speaker 2: have yet to see those two, but I have. I
Speaker 2: was just sent a program called Zorro as Jean Doujardin,
Speaker 2: famous French actor. This is a French take on Zoro,
Speaker 2: which is a small mini series that's going to start soon,
Speaker 2: and their little half hour episodes, and they're really quite funny.
Speaker 2: They sort of update Zoro. It's almost tongue in cheeks Zoro,
Speaker 2: and since it's French, it's very sexy, very sexy and
Speaker 2: very fun. So it's not the Zorro of our childhood.
Speaker 2: It's a more hip Zoro for today.
Speaker 1: The childhood. The childhood Zora was a horrible television show.
Speaker 1: It's just a crappy television show. Any anybody who's romance
Speaker 1: about that show hasn't seen it in seven hundred years.
Speaker 1: It was terrible black and white, it was cheesy acting.
Speaker 1: I saw one or two episodes as a mere child,
Speaker 1: and it was almost as bad as another show that
Speaker 1: nobody remembers. See if you can remember this, Did you
Speaker 1: ever see a show about trucking called Cannonball?
Speaker 2: No, it must have been a spin off of Cannonball Run.
Speaker 1: Huh, No, it was way before Cannonball. Oh, and it
Speaker 1: was here's the subhead of the title in any catalog
Speaker 1: that would make anybody run. It was sended syndicated Canadian
Speaker 1: production in black and white. In black and white, a
Speaker 1: syndicated Canadian production in black and white. And it was
Speaker 1: about the day to day life of being an eighteen
Speaker 1: wheeler and about dealing with other eighteen wheelers. And they
Speaker 1: always seemed to be a fistfight. For some reason, when
Speaker 1: these guys got to a parking lot, they needed to
Speaker 1: have a fistfight, and then there was always the tension
Speaker 1: between what was in the back of the truck and
Speaker 1: the police, always tension about that it was go ahead.
Speaker 2: Perhaps that burning smell that you had coming from Canada
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago may have been the only copies
Speaker 2: of that being offered up into the sky.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I had forgotten about it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was looking at some TV catalog for shows or something,
Speaker 1: and I saw it. I said, oh, really, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: How many episodes of this were Canadian syndication. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It could not have gotten lower. It could not have
Speaker 1: gotten lower than Canadian syndication. Now, of course that's very exalted.
Speaker 1: Many people like Canadian syndication, like that Shit's Creek show
Speaker 1: that was Canadian syndication. But this was long before any
Speaker 1: of the levies were involved. All right, how do we
Speaker 1: find you online?
Speaker 2: Matias Bomball's Hollywood on Facebook, m A t i as
Speaker 2: Bomba lapostrophe s Hollywood just like the City. Mattias Boomballs
Speaker 2: Hollywood on Facebook. Thanks so much, Walter.
Speaker 1: No, thank you, thank you. Mattias boombom in Hollywood. The
Speaker 1: Other Side of Midnight, Walter sterling,