Speaker 1: Welcome back, midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 1: I am Father Malone, the pug who never lets me
Speaker 1: finish a game of Mad Max on Xbox because something
Speaker 1: on screen will eventually make her freak the fuck out.
Speaker 1: Yeah you is, mister Ripley Jean? Is it December already? Christ?
Speaker 1: We're well into it? What have you been into? Folks? It,
Speaker 1: by any chance beIN correspondence.
Speaker 2: From around.
Speaker 1: This is from listener Rich Dorta. Just listen to the
Speaker 1: Search for Spock pod. The thought of Maltz sitting there
Speaker 1: thinking I hear Wales had me laughing out loud at work.
Speaker 1: Funniest thing I've heard in a while. Keep up the
Speaker 1: good work. Let me just say you continue to have
Speaker 1: excellent taste, Rich in both podcast choice and humor appreciation. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm just fucking around. Thank you, Rich. I know I
Speaker 1: can crack up HP. It's nice to hear it works
Speaker 1: on other humans. And he's talking about our Search for
Speaker 1: Smock episode we're doing Star trek Fest, and of course
Speaker 1: he's talking about the Klingon character Maltz, who is kept
Speaker 1: prisoner at the end of Search for Spock and then Dude,
Speaker 1: they just don't do anything with him, we never see
Speaker 1: him again, and well, it can be theorized that he
Speaker 1: just remained on that klingon bird of prey and has
Speaker 1: now probably drowned at the bottom of San Francisco. If
Speaker 1: you want to reach me here on the roundup or
Speaker 1: the anthology podcast or whatever crossover craziness I'm doing with
Speaker 1: Paul Waller, send it to fatherom Alone seven to one
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com and we'll do our best to
Speaker 1: answer you right here. Oh, like the one I got
Speaker 1: from author Marie Grillo, who sent along a copy of
Speaker 1: her book Dreams with the Stars, The Celebrity Dream Book. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're team Freud or team Jung
Speaker 1: when it comes to our subconscious I'm YOUNGI in myself,
Speaker 1: I believe in the collective unconscious and universal symbols rather
Speaker 1: than a personal dumping ground of our mental detritus. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't blame my mother for everything, but we can
Speaker 1: all agree what we see in our dreams is its
Speaker 1: own language, and it's our brains trying to tell us something.
Speaker 1: But what do those symbols mean? I have devoured dozens
Speaker 1: of dream interpretation books starting around nineteen eighty five. Is
Speaker 1: it a coincidence that I had recently seen both a
Speaker 1: nightmare on Elm Street and a dreamscape. No, don't be stupid,
Speaker 1: I was obsessed. But one thing those books could never
Speaker 1: begin to exp plane where the celebrity cameos. We've all had.
Speaker 1: This is no joke. My late wife Jessica persistently dreamt
Speaker 1: about Jim Carey, started before we got together, continued right
Speaker 1: through to the end.
Speaker 3: I know this.
Speaker 1: She kept a journal. The obvious thing we think when
Speaker 1: someone tells us that a celebrity showed up in their
Speaker 1: dream is that it was pornographic. But that is never
Speaker 1: the fucking case. So what do their appearances mean? Well,
Speaker 1: here's Marie Grillo dreaming of Jim Carrey. Reveals the paradox
Speaker 1: of humor and pain. The clown who sees beyond the curtain.
Speaker 1: He represents the soul's desire to break through illusion, to
Speaker 1: drop the masks, and to find meaning in chaos. His
Speaker 1: presence may appear when you're overthinking. Well if that isn't
Speaker 1: on the fucking spot, that was Jessica all over, and
Speaker 1: it makes so much sense. I'm going to put a
Speaker 1: link to the book in the show notes. I highly
Speaker 1: encourage everyone to go check it out, and because it
Speaker 1: deserves a description that doesn't involve me saying fuck every
Speaker 1: second word. Here's a bit of the ad copy. This
Speaker 1: book draws you into the quiet inner architecture where those
Speaker 1: un expected visitors originate. It is a dream dictionary that
Speaker 1: guides your subconscious and higher self through the shared pop
Speaker 1: culture psyche that influences us.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 1: Open the doorway to your own dream world with this
Speaker 1: coffee table companion dream with the stars. Step into the
Speaker 1: center of your story. AD copy. That's kind of like
Speaker 1: on mad Men.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I said I wasn't going to bring up mad Men anymore,
Speaker 1: but there seems to be a Madman renaissance occurring right now,
Speaker 1: thanks to its recent HD debut on HBO and the
Speaker 1: not at all planned for releasing of an alternate take
Speaker 1: of Roger Sterling vomiting with the effects crew in full
Speaker 1: sight of the camera, just hunkered down and pumping out vomit.
Speaker 1: Oh No, that most certainly was a programming error that
Speaker 1: has catapulted Madmen back to the top of the public consciousness.
Speaker 1: Enjoy everybody. When I've been hollering about for a year now,
Speaker 1: I myself am done rewatching mad Men. Because yesterday, while
Speaker 1: I was watching season three, the cables started glitching, so
Speaker 1: I backed out to test to see if it was
Speaker 1: the whole network or that particular show, and then I
Speaker 1: put on Boardwalk Empire. So now I'm on season two
Speaker 1: of Boardwalk Empire. Fuck. What a good series, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're going to be hearing all about it from me.
Speaker 1: What else is going on in the world of advertising?
Speaker 1: Have you seen that Supergirl trailer? Here? It is.
Speaker 3: I cars are old. You're right, it's clear the twenty
Speaker 3: three will be the best year yet. Yes, let's be honest, babe,
Speaker 3: it's not a very high bar to clear. I didn't
Speaker 3: know any of you were still alive.
Speaker 2: What was it like, Sluice?
Speaker 3: Everything in the.
Speaker 2: Table her time didn't die to day.
Speaker 3: The gods are not that kind of okay, this does
Speaker 3: not look like this is gonna end well.
Speaker 1: For you guys. All right, that's enough. I think it
Speaker 1: looks great and everyone's in a tizzy for that shadowed
Speaker 1: millisecond of Lobo. Are you excited for Lobo? Here's a
Speaker 1: hint about the performance. It will be remarkably similar to
Speaker 1: the most recent portrayal of Aquaman or Conan or cal
Speaker 1: Drogo or whatever the fuck his name was on Stargate
Speaker 1: or Baywatch. He does not have range, is my point,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna seem like he does when this fucking
Speaker 1: movie comes out because he is Lobo. Also does James
Speaker 1: Gunn think he invented the Walkman? I hate when creators
Speaker 1: imbue their young characters with the trappings of their own youth.
Speaker 1: This was really evident in every teen movie in the
Speaker 1: early adds. You're telling me that they're listening to Devo
Speaker 1: and not my chemical romance, okay, or say Blondie, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Star Lord was from Earth in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: so he owned a walkman. What the fuck would a
Speaker 1: Candoran with access to every technology in the universe want
Speaker 1: with a shitty analog audio device from Earth's past? Not much.
Speaker 1: I'd say, all right, let's get to it. This week
Speaker 1: is weird because I was way too lazy to go
Speaker 1: out and see anything at the theater, because five Nights
Speaker 1: at Freddy's Part two has zero interest to me. I
Speaker 1: want to know what your thoughts are on Disney. We've
Speaker 1: all had experiences with Disney to some degree or another.
Speaker 1: Remember Disney's Golden Age, snow White Cinderella Sleeping Beauty, or
Speaker 1: the Silver Age with Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book
Speaker 1: and one hundred one Dalmatians, and who can forget the
Speaker 1: Disney Renaissance with Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
Speaker 1: and Lion King. And that's all there, ever, was just
Speaker 1: varying degrees of reigning over the entertainment landscape. Except there's
Speaker 1: a twenty year period there that seemingly no one likes
Speaker 1: to talk about. And it has a name. You read
Speaker 1: the title of this show, It's a Disney's Dark Age,
Speaker 1: and it lasted from approximately nineteen seventy two just about
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. People like to categorize Disney from animation
Speaker 1: cycle to animation cycle, which accounts for the arbitrariness of
Speaker 1: this epoch. That's The Aristocrats in nineteen seventy, which is
Speaker 1: the last film Walt Disney had any involvement in, to
Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid's release in nineteen eighty eight. I'd say
Speaker 1: that what happens in between is a series of failures
Speaker 1: and generally downward trend of the company. But if there's
Speaker 1: a switch, it doesn't really come until nineteen eighty and
Speaker 1: it ends in nineteen eighty four. Is it any coincidence
Speaker 1: that those are the years that Ron Miller was president
Speaker 1: of the Disney Corporation. Absolutely not when I think dark
Speaker 1: age is a compliment. Miller gets his Disney association because
Speaker 1: he married Walt's daughter, Diane. He was a tight end
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Rams until Walt attended a game
Speaker 1: where Miller was knocked unconscious for several minutes. Afterwards, he
Speaker 1: was supposed to have said to Miller, I don't want
Speaker 1: to raise your kids. You should come work for me,
Speaker 1: and he did, bouncing between Disney's film and television divisions
Speaker 1: as a co producer or associate producer on flicks like
Speaker 1: The Monk's Uncle and Son of Flubber. One of his
Speaker 1: first films is a full on producer was from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight. It's called Never a Dull Moment. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've never heard of it. The film is a lightweight
Speaker 1: heist comedy starring Dick Van Dyke. Happy one hundredth birthday
Speaker 1: to Dick Van Dyke, by the way, everybody, let's give
Speaker 1: it up for that man. And Edward g Robinson. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, have you seen the footage of Edward
Speaker 1: g Robinson? Testing for Planet of the Apes in full
Speaker 1: ape makeup. YouTube is Your Friend never a dull moment. Interestingly, enough,
Speaker 1: is based on a novel by John Gottie. That's good
Speaker 1: E Y, not the Gangster. His novel, adapted here for
Speaker 1: the family to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon, was titled
Speaker 1: The Reluctant Assassin, just one of a string of crime
Speaker 1: novels from the author of the Taking of Pelham one,
Speaker 1: two three. Look, it's not like Dick van Dyke starts
Speaker 1: pistol whipping bank tellers or anything. This is a Disney movie,
Speaker 1: but it points to a yearning in another direction for Miller,
Speaker 1: a perhaps a more mature direction. Let's call it a
Speaker 1: seed planted in nineteen sixty six, to before the first
Speaker 1: ever performance of Disney on Ice occurred. I'm joking that's
Speaker 1: when Walt died. I mean he might be on ice.
Speaker 1: The problem there is the thawing correctly, not turning a
Speaker 1: solid into a liquid when you thaw it out anyway,
Speaker 1: Walt's death. Walt's death left the company in a free
Speaker 1: fall creatively. I think they were already out of touch
Speaker 1: by this point, and we're going to need a new direction,
Speaker 1: whether or not Walt was breathing. The fact is, for
Speaker 1: the next decade, everyone in the company kept limping along,
Speaker 1: trying to make what they thought Walt would. And while
Speaker 1: there were occasional gems like bed knobs and broomsticks, which
Speaker 1: I've already discussed in an earlier roundup and you can
Speaker 1: hear it if you just scroll back anyway, more often
Speaker 1: than not the output was like Million Dollar Duck and
Speaker 1: Snowball Express apologies to Dean Jones. The exceptions kept coming, though,
Speaker 1: flicks like Freaky Friday and Hot Lead and Cold Feet,
Speaker 1: and then, in nineteen seventy nine, the ultimate example of wait,
Speaker 1: this is a Disney movie, The Black Hole. I was there,
Speaker 1: I saw it. I heard those words in the theater,
Speaker 1: and the common denominator for all these swings toward a
Speaker 1: more adult themed Disney is you guessed it, producer Ron Miller.
Speaker 1: Let me just note that the films I'm talking about here,
Speaker 1: the Dark Age Disney pictures, are live action. There's plenty
Speaker 1: to be said for what happened to the animation department
Speaker 1: under card Walker's reign, and as such, there are docs
Speaker 1: and books and articles of plenty. Since we're talking about
Speaker 1: Ron Miller, mainly we're talking live action features. In nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty technically nineteen seventy eight, same year as The Black
Speaker 1: Hole win into production, Ron Miller became president of the company,
Speaker 1: and almost immediately the slate of films took a decidedly
Speaker 1: modern turn. First out of the gate was Midnight Madness,
Speaker 1: the Disney version of Animal House, with several college teams
Speaker 1: competing in a scavenger hunt around the deserted streets of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I love this flick, notable for being the
Speaker 1: big screen debut of Michael J. Fox, and it has
Speaker 1: an entire sequence set in the perhaps Blue Ribbon Factory,
Speaker 1: and it's going to killer Arcade sequence and it's got
Speaker 1: fucking trick down vans Man. Next up was Watcher in
Speaker 1: the Woods Why Not? A horror movie starring Betty Davis
Speaker 1: and Kyle Richards shot at the same location as The Haunting.
Speaker 1: That's the Robert Wise film, you know, the classic. Am
Speaker 1: I really going to list all of his films? Yes?
Speaker 1: I am, because so far they're all classics to me.
Speaker 1: Next was The Last Flight of Noah's Ark. Do yourself
Speaker 1: a favor. This is a movie about a degenerate gambler
Speaker 1: pilot played by Elliot Gould, who agrees to fly a
Speaker 1: plane full of animals to a remote island compound which
Speaker 1: serves as a wildlife preserve. Along the way, they got
Speaker 1: off course and crash on an uncharted island, where they
Speaker 1: discover two Japanese soldiers who don't know the war is over.
Speaker 1: And then they have to come together to convert a
Speaker 1: B twenty nine super Fortress into a boat. You know,
Speaker 1: with everyone obsessed with IP, you guys already own this, Disney.
Speaker 1: This is so fucking high concept and it is so
Speaker 1: fucking cool. You know what, maybe don't rem just re
Speaker 1: release it. Noah's Ark was the first of two films
Speaker 1: Elliot Gould did at Disney for Ron Miller. The other
Speaker 1: was The Devil and Max Devlin. Have you seen that one?
Speaker 1: It was written by Jimmy Sankster, who was the main
Speaker 1: screenwriter for Hammer horror films during the nineteen sixties. In fact,
Speaker 1: the script was originally intended to be done back in
Speaker 1: England with Vincent Price in the lead. It's the story
Speaker 1: of a corrupt businessman who makes a deal with the
Speaker 1: Devil as he's dying and definitely going to Hell to
Speaker 1: return to Earth and shepherd three souls to the dark
Speaker 1: side in exchange for prolonged life. M I see seial soon,
Speaker 1: k E why why?
Speaker 3: Because your soul is damned for all eternity.
Speaker 1: Featuring Bill Cosby as the Devil Perfect. And then there
Speaker 1: was Condor Man Condor Man, the Future Phantom of the Opera,
Speaker 1: Michael Crawford as Woody Wilkins, a mild comic book artist
Speaker 1: recruited as a courier by the c I who eventually
Speaker 1: becomes his most popular creation, Condor Man. This movie's batshit crazy,
Speaker 1: and it's more of a parody of James Bond than Batman,
Speaker 1: more like The Rocketeer, if the Rocketeer had zero charm. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: the villain is played by Oliver Reed, which is a
Speaker 1: weird thing to reveal before saying I recommend seeing this
Speaker 1: with a child. It is a very silly film. You're
Speaker 1: only really gonna dig it if you're nine years old.
Speaker 1: All right, We've only got a few left before Miller
Speaker 1: gets the old heave ho Night Crossing. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a family movie, I suppose about two East German families
Speaker 1: attempting to sneak over into the West by using a
Speaker 1: hot air balloon. It's got families and adventure and the
Speaker 1: threat of the iron curtains slamming down on that balloon.
Speaker 1: It may be at this point that the shareholders are
Speaker 1: starting to look a little ass skance at our man Miller.
Speaker 1: But that's just one of a trio of nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: two disappointments. There was also Tex, the least interesting se
Speaker 1: Hinton novel gets adapted because there was an SI frenzy
Speaker 1: thanks to Coppola making the out and then Rumblefish. I
Speaker 1: guess that makes Matt Dillon the se Hinton actor, having
Speaker 1: been in three of the four outsiders, Rumblefish and Tex. Sorry, Emilio,
Speaker 1: you should have taken a small part in Rumblefish. He
Speaker 1: would have killed it in the Vincent Spano role. Wow,
Speaker 1: now that I think of it, that would have made
Speaker 1: that movie a thousand times better. That is a great film, actually,
Speaker 1: and we'll need to cover it here sometime anyway. Tex
Speaker 1: is the uplifting tale of two brothers desperate to keep
Speaker 1: the family farm after their mother passes away. Woo, give
Speaker 1: me that popcorn. I don't think I have to say
Speaker 1: too much about tron Do I visionary classic that was
Speaker 1: under Miller's regime. At the Mousehouse. I'm not saying he
Speaker 1: himself was a visionary. That's Steve Lisberger. But the ability
Speaker 1: to say yes when everyone in the universe says no,
Speaker 1: while more often than not, can be disastrous, Sometimes it
Speaker 1: results in a creation we're still trying to get a
Speaker 1: handle on. As cool and interesting and exciting as the
Speaker 1: follow up films to Tron have been, has there been
Speaker 1: a single moment in either where you thought, what the
Speaker 1: fuck am I watching? And I mean that question in
Speaker 1: the greatest way possible, The answer is now, which leaves
Speaker 1: his final contribution. I'm recommending each of the films I've mentioned,
Speaker 1: but if there's one one that I think actually showed
Speaker 1: the potential of Disney as a family studio, still making
Speaker 1: live action features with a level of maturity commensurate with
Speaker 1: contemporary times and values, while still showing and ultimately I
Speaker 1: hesitate to use the word wholesome, look at the natural world.
Speaker 1: It's never cry wolf? What have my provision that bigs
Speaker 1: the hell of it?
Speaker 3: His name is Tyler Powell. He's come three thousand miles
Speaker 3: to spend six months in the Northwest wilderness. He's done
Speaker 3: everything he can to prepare himself, but nothing could prepare
Speaker 3: him for this. Now, the director of the Black Start
Speaker 3: brings you another story you will never forget. Never cry Wolf,
Speaker 3: but not lead out there.
Speaker 1: Now he was done with ice and snow.
Speaker 3: You would be the only freshman joy a story that
Speaker 3: will dazzle your senses and show you the secrets of
Speaker 3: a world you've never seen before. After finish. Never cry Wolf.
Speaker 1: Based on environmentalist Farley Moet's nineteen sixty three fictionalized account
Speaker 1: of his time working for the Dominion Wildlife Service when
Speaker 1: he was tasked with determining why caribou populations were on
Speaker 1: the decline, the popular theory being wolf attacks. Never cry Wolf.
Speaker 1: The screenplay was written by Future Batman eighty nine scribe
Speaker 1: Sam Ham, with passes by La Confidentials Curtis Hansen, and
Speaker 1: tells the tale of Tyler played by Charles Martin Smith
Speaker 1: over the course of six months in the Canadian Arctic,
Speaker 1: where he battles the elements and hunger and isolation with
Speaker 1: the sporadic help of two Innick natives played by two
Speaker 1: Innock non actors, and eventually a trio of wolves then
Speaker 1: accept Tyler into the pack. This might not sound scintillating,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you This movie is exactly what
Speaker 1: you need right now. Made Mike Carol Ballard, who I'm
Speaker 1: sure you heard in the trailer, was the director of
Speaker 1: The Black Stallion, another fucking magnificent, unblinking nature film, but
Speaker 1: before that he had spent twenty or so years making
Speaker 1: nature documentaries. They took two years to make Never Cry Wolf,
Speaker 1: and it shows Ballard is a known perfectionist, which when
Speaker 1: you add nature, you've got an investment in time. But
Speaker 1: what he gets is just breathtaking. And it operates as
Speaker 1: an adventure film, as a nature documentary, as a polemic
Speaker 1: about modern man, as a portraiture of the Arctic at
Speaker 1: its most beautiful. There is a sequence laid in the
Speaker 1: film where Tyler aids the pack in a running down
Speaker 1: a herd of caribou. This sequence took a month to film,
Speaker 1: a month of sometimes twenty hour days. It is a
Speaker 1: harrowing sequence that absolutely boggles the mind with how they
Speaker 1: did it, because they fucking did it. More to the point,
Speaker 1: Jonal Smartin Smith did it. I hope you recognize the name.
Speaker 1: A true journeyman character actor. Got a film, he's in
Speaker 1: TV series, in a play he's in Go Off to
Speaker 1: the Wilderness for two years where for months at a
Speaker 1: time he's the only actor on set. He's in. He's
Speaker 1: had a career for over fifty years now. He was
Speaker 1: Terry the Toad in American Graffiti and More American Graffiti
Speaker 1: for that matter. He played bass for Buddy Holly and
Speaker 1: The Buddy Holly Story. He directed the Fucking Horror classic
Speaker 1: Trick or Treat. That's Sam Kerr Baby, not that baby Sam.
Speaker 1: And most importantly to me, he was Agent Oscar Wallace
Speaker 1: in Brian de Palma's The Untouchables. You remember Wallace killed
Speaker 1: ignominiously and hung in an elevator. Wallace who actually provided
Speaker 1: the means to convict Capone. Okay, no secret, My last
Speaker 1: name is Wallace. Back when I was a tour guide
Speaker 1: at the Haunted Museum, one afternoon I was delivering a
Speaker 1: speech in the ed Geen Room. This room holds a
Speaker 1: giant cast iron pot. Some called it a cauldron, which
Speaker 1: ed Geen himself used to boil flesh from bone. The
Speaker 1: room itself is tricked out like a barn. It's not
Speaker 1: universal quality, but it does the job, and the object
Speaker 1: on display does have a certain gravity given its history.
Speaker 1: My tour group is in a circle around the cauldron,
Speaker 1: and I'm turning, making eye contact with everyone as I
Speaker 1: detail the horrible aspects of Edgean's life, and suddenly I'm
Speaker 1: eye to I with Agent Wallace, Charles Martin Smith, who's
Speaker 1: hanging on what I'm saying. I know I finished that speech,
Speaker 1: but I was no longer present for it. A little
Speaker 1: later on the tour, there's a celebrity memorabilia section. It's
Speaker 1: the least gruesome room in the museum, and it's where
Speaker 1: the least or occurs. You just let the guests take
Speaker 1: their time and inspect the various displays. And I got
Speaker 1: to talk to him, and I told him that it
Speaker 1: might be a trivial thing that his character was named Wallace,
Speaker 1: but it was a huge deal to fourteen year old me,
Speaker 1: who was feeling particularly adrift at that age. But then
Speaker 1: I brought up how magnificent Never cry Wolf was, and
Speaker 1: it was like Charles Martin Smith's birthday forty years later,
Speaker 1: and you could see Caribou in his eyes. He was
Speaker 1: very sweet. He talked to me way longer than he
Speaker 1: needed to, and even found me at the end so
Speaker 1: he could get a picture together. I will try and
Speaker 1: post it in the show notes. I don't know, not
Speaker 1: really sure how to do that, but I will never cry.
Speaker 1: Wolf was the final nail in Ron Miller's coffin as
Speaker 1: far as feature films go. The other nail was the
Speaker 1: Black Cauldron, which maybe we should talk about in a
Speaker 1: future episode. But the fact is, no matter how well
Speaker 1: or not Miller was doing, he was from a different age,
Speaker 1: too shaped by Walt. To bring the company properly into
Speaker 1: the eighties. For that, you needed the TV guys who
Speaker 1: resuscitated Paramount. Thus it begins the Eisner era, and the
Speaker 1: Magic Kingdom just keeps on a growin. Don't now. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying Disney hasn't done important work or interesting work
Speaker 1: in the following three decades. Hell, if they didn't make it,
Speaker 1: they'll just buy it eventually. But any level of daring
Speaker 1: you see him coming from the company, any attempt to
Speaker 1: revitalize or rejuvenate for a new age, started back with
Speaker 1: Ron Miller. They call it the Dark Age. I agree,
Speaker 1: like mister Dark the villain of another adaptation that found
Speaker 1: its way onto the screen under Miller's tenure, Ray Bradbury's
Speaker 1: Something Wicked This Way Comes, But that is another podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you everyone for joining us once again Friday is
Speaker 1: Star Trek fest Star Trek for the Voyage Home Save
Speaker 1: the Whales. Damn it. I hope you dig that one
Speaker 1: HB and I had a blast recording it. If you
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Speaker 1: free trial. A for Ripley Gene and from me, Father Malone,
Speaker 1: and from Agent Wallace, and from the Wolves, and from
Speaker 1: Ron Miller. Long may he reign. Here is Charles Martin
Speaker 1: Smith giving another fucking great performance in John Carpenter's Starman.
Speaker 2: I helped put this package together. You know, this was
Speaker 2: designed so that an intelligent species could get a working
Speaker 2: knowledge of English enough to get by anyhow a couple
Speaker 2: hundred word vocabulary rough idea of syntax. Think of what
Speaker 2: it would mean to talk to a being from a
Speaker 2: civilization like that.
Speaker 3: Think of what we could learn members States, who represent
Speaker 3: almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet Earth.
Speaker 1: I sent greetings, greetings.
Speaker 2: There. See that's what he said to High Mueller out
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 3: It is also what the cannibals said to the missionary
Speaker 3: just before he ate him.
Speaker 2: Now, well, the question in this case is who is
Speaker 2: the missionary and who are the cannibals?
Speaker 3: And shot.
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