BONUS - "Six Pack" (1982) with Chris Adams & Ben Carpenter

You won’t find this forgotten 80s Flick archived in the Smithsonian or on any list of Oscar-winning films. However, for thousands, maybe even millions, of Americans who grew up in the 1980s, it still holds a significant place in their cultural memory. It may be where they learned to curse, learned about love, and were introduced to the charm of country music superstar, Kenny Rogers.

The premise may seem absurd in hindsight. A washed-up race car driver, looking for a second chance, catches some kids stealing auto parts in a small Texas town. After giving chase, he discovers they are orphans who are better at repairing race cars than staying out of trouble. A corrupt local sheriff then pursues Kenny and the kids, leading to a healthy mix of humor and drama. 

So load up the camper, turn down your belt-buckle radio, and shake the dew off your Lilly as Tim Williams and guest co-hosts Chris Adams and Ben Carpenter discuss “Six Pack” from 1982 on this special bonus episode of the 80s Flick Flashback Podcast.

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Episode Transcript

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This is a special bonus episode of the 80s flick.
Flashback Podcast. You won't find this forgotten

(00:24):
80s flick archived in the Smithsonian or on any list of
Oscar winning films. However, for thousands, maybe
even millions of Americans who grew up in the 1980s, it still
holds a significant place in their cultural memory.
It may be where they learn to curse, began to learn about
love, and were introduced to thecharm of country music superstar
Kenny Rogers. The premise may seem absurd in

(00:47):
hindsight. A washed up race car driver
looking for a second chance catching some kids stealing auto
parts in a small Texas town. After giving chase, he discovers
they're orphans who are better repairing race cars and staying
out of trouble. A corrupt local sheriff then
pursues Kenny and the kids, leading to a healthy mix of
humor and drama. So load up the camper, turn down

(01:08):
your belt buckle radio and shakethe dew off your Lily as Chris
Adams, Ben Carpenter and I discuss 6 pack from 1982 on this
special bonus episode of the 80sFlick Flashback podcast.
Nice Car Driving Mr. I. Used to be, might have been
again if I. Hadn't run into you guys.

(01:29):
He's Brewster Baker, a dirt track demon whose racing career
was going in reverse until he ran into 6 pint sized grease
monkeys. Hey, turn it.
Over. Hey bro, what do you pay your
crew with all day sucker? Kiss off Mr. They're determined
to help him. Out, everybody out.

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We was only trying to help. Hey, stealing the stealing
pallet, I don't want any part ofit.
OK, yellow bell gutting slow push off the same mouth you eat
out of. We got no choice but to stick
with you till the better thing turns up.
Gentlemen, Doctor Andrew. I'm taking my charge ease.
To Atlanta 500. Most unusual story in years.

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It's a Grand National race. Brewster Baker, who's been off
the circuit, has been burning upthe smaller tracks for the last.
Four months with the help. Of a pit crew of kids.
What are we? Going to do for a call I don't.
Know maybe we could steal one. God can't believe.
Me, Mitchell Man Kenny Rogers. In six pack, they're going to

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everybody. So glad to have you on this
special bonus episode of the 80sflick Flashback podcast.
And boy, do we have a good one for you tonight.
So hopefully you've heard of this movie.
You've seen this movie, if you're like me, it was the one
that you grew up on and I'm gladto have two wonderful Co hosts
with me to talk about why they love it so much as well.
So welcome back from Retro LIFE for you Chris Adams.

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How you doing Chris? I'm great, Tim, Thanks for
having me back as always. Yes, and make sure you go check
out Chris's episode on 6 Pack that I was a part of.
So you get A2 Fer on this one doubleheader.
I guess you could say double feature and listen to both
episodes. We'll probably cover some of the
same stuff, but I'm sure new stuff will come out as well.
And then back again, Third in a row, I think Ben Carpenter,

(05:35):
who's been very popular with us here lately, but glad to have
Ben back as well. Hey, you can't get rid of me.
And no. No, don't want to.
No, I'm glad to be back and I'm sorry I don't have a podcast of
my own to plug here. I'll maybe it maybe I'll come up
with one. There you go.
Just just make one up. It doesn't matter.
Everybody's got a podcast now. So all right, we're talking

(05:55):
about 6 Pack from 1982 with Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane.
So Ben, when did you see six pack for the very first time?
May have gone to see it in the theater.
I mean, I was, I was but a wee lad, so I don't remember.
Yeah, I do remember renting it acouple times, you know, back in

(06:19):
the early 80s, and that may havebeen when I first saw it.
What about you, Chris? Definitely a rental at my aunt
and uncle's house when I was a kid.
I would have been 9 when this came out, I guess.
And my uncle would always rent movies when we came over to
visit on the weekends with him. He'd get a couple of westerns
for himself and then he would find something that he thought

(06:40):
the kids would like and this onestuck out to him.
So because Kenny Rogers, he knewKenny Rogers was obviously on
the cover. So he grabbed it and it'd be
good and we loved it. It was great.
Definitely. It's one of those movies where
it's like a good feeling movie. It's a comedy movie.
I just got a good story to it. Yeah, I saw this in the theater

(07:02):
twice. I don't remember seeing it the
first time, but I remember the second time because for some
reason, I don't know if me, my mom and my dad, if we went and
saw it together without my sister, because my sister hadn't
seen it. So my mom and I went to take my
sister, one of her friends, and I remember because the scene
when Kenny Rogers comes in and pretends to be the sheriff,

(07:23):
we've got on like the Boy Scoutsof America.
I remember right before that scene, my mom, because my sister
and her room were sitting in front of us.
My mom was like tapping my sister like this, This is funny.
You got to see this part. So and my mom kept doing that
through the whole movie. My sister was like, I probably
would have liked it better if you hadn't kept telling me when
the funny parts were coming. So I I have that, you know,
distinct memory in my in my mindof seeing it the second time,

(07:44):
but I don't remember seeing it the first time.
But obviously it was good enoughto see twice.
And then I don't remember if this was like heavy rotation on
HBO, but I know I saw it so manytimes.
I watched it, you know, again and again and again.
So it could have been a rental that could have been something
that was just shown on TV a lot and caught.
Because I, I do remember seeing like the TV version a few times

(08:06):
and how they kind of had to editsome of the language and stuff
out. But yeah.
So how long has it been since you've rewatched it before
rewatching it for the podcast? I know Chris just watched it six
or seven months ago. We did our episode.
So today. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Before that, like before you did
your episode on how long it had been since you watched it.
Oh, before we did my episode on it as you.
Oh, it'd been since probably since I was a kid because it

(08:29):
wasn't anything that I owned. And it's not like you see it on
TV right now. There's it it's in a category
with a lot of other movies in that time frame that were good
and they were great. I mean, really, in my opinion,
were great, but but they don't play them on television.
It's like it's like Tank with C Thomas Howell and.

(08:50):
Garner. Yeah, James Garner.
I mean, great movie, but you don't find it on television
anywhere. This gets right in the same role
with that. So I mean, it was definitely
when I was younger, it was rented that we were the last
time I'd seen and maybe not in my aunt and uncle's house.
So we rented it many times afterthat, but sometimes.
What about you, Ben? Yeah, I was just looking at the
DVD here to see it came out in 1982, so probably the last time

(09:13):
I saw it was 1984, I'm guessing like, yeah, you know, when it,
whenever it came out on VHS, we rented it a few times.
I probably watched it several times back then when, you know,
when we rented something on VHS back then, you didn't just watch
it once if you're like, you watched it eight or nine times
until you had to go return it. Exactly.
Yeah, especially if you got thatFriday night rental because you

(09:34):
got it Saturday. It was usually closed on Sunday,
so you had until Monday. So yeah, if you watched it
Friday night, you were watching it again Saturday morning when
you got up and had breakfast, and probably Saturday afternoon
and just watch again Saturday night and then Sunday, yeah.
So yeah, you get a good four or five views out of it for sure.
So. But yeah, I haven't, I haven't
seen it since, since way back then.

(09:54):
So it was it. There was very little about it
that I remembered. Yeah, it was probably 10 or 15
years ago. Yeah, probably closer to 10
probably. And we were on a trip to
Chicago. I don't know if I heard the
song, you know, Love Will Turn You Around by Kenny Rogers.
I heard the song. I remember I was Oh my gosh.

(10:15):
That was from a movie called 6 Pack.
And I just remembered the movie.And so I tried to find somewhere
to stream it and I found a, a version on YouTube.
I think that I was able to watchit or, you know, somewhere on
the somewhere on the interweb, that's probably, you know.
Found the bond location. Right, Yeah, yeah, so but I
watched it on my phone. It took me right back to my
childhood, like just the the songs and the scenes and

(10:37):
different things that I remembered.
So, and then I was able to find it on found to get a copy of the
of the DVD about probably about a year ago or maybe less than
that. So, so Ben, you said you found
the DVD. Is that one that you already
owned? Did you buy it for this podcast?
No, I bought it for the podcast.Look at you spending money to be
on the podcast. Well, I couldn't.
It was not on YouTube. Right, right there.

(10:58):
Was no legal way to watch it other than buying the DVD and it
was like it was like 15 bucks I think.
Yeah, I'm just saying it's a, it's a, it was a good fine.
Like, I think when I found mine on Amazon, it was probably like,
yeah, 10 or 15 bucks, which was like, you know, for a movie that
you can't find streaming anywhere, I'm OK paying that for
that, you know? So I am surprised that you can't
find anywhere. Like, I'm really surprised it's

(11:19):
not digital somewhere, but yeah.Yeah, I mean, yeah, you would.
It is surprising 'cause it is good little movie.
So who and your family watched it with you this time?
Anybody. Or is this AI could?
Not get anyone to to watch it. Couldn't convince the.
You know, the kids are the kids looked at the cover, I'm sure.
And they're like, no thanks, I'mgood.

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And yeah, I don't know. I, I haven't, I don't think I
talked to my wife about it. I don't know if she even really
remembers it. She's a couple years younger
than me, so I, I guess she probably remembers, remembers
it, but I don't know that she ever watched it as many times as
I did as a kid. So yeah, it's a solo watch for

(12:03):
me, right? We may have had this discussion
before Ben, but are you like, are you A, because we're Ben and
I are both in Georgia. Did you grow up in Georgia?
Was this is this your home or where?
Where did you grow up? Yeah, so actually I grew up in
Kennesaw and I, that's where I lived when this was filmed.
And so that was a big part of why I was so excited about it.

(12:25):
And to see it and to and watchedit over and over was because I
reckon, you know, the first timeI ever like watched a movie and
recognized places. Yes, Yeah, I want to say the
same thing, yeah. Very question.
Since you said that, I wanted toask you that so you recognize
places from the movie. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah, it's the it's the same for
me. Do you remember the part where

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they are sitting in what looks like a little park sitting area
and there's a small waterfall? Yeah, high falls.
Yeah. Right, that.
What'd you say? High falls right.
Is that, is that what it is? Because it looks just like
Loretta Lynn's dude ranch in in the Tennessee.
It was just, it was just after the Nashville race they went to
Oh. OK, well I I did.

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I noticed that I didn't rememberthat because I didn't know what
high falls was as a kid, but nowI live pretty close to it.
So when it came on, I, I looked at it, I was like, I think
that's high falls. And I I googled it and it said
it was but you know, OK. There, you know I've.
Heard there is some faulty information on the Internet so.
Every now and then there is. I will tell you, it looked just

(13:28):
like it. But that doesn't mean there's
not other places out there, right?
It won't look like what she had set up or anything, you know?
Yeah. Yeah.
It just, it just seemed so convenient.
They left the Nashville Raceway supposedly well for the race and
I don't know where they would have went after that.
I don't know where they were going after that.
But if they were going past where her where Loretta Lynn's

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dude ranch is, that would have been going West toward Memphis
from Nashville. So I don't know where they would
have been going if they had wentthere toward there, then dropped
down and went S somewhere possibly or what.
I think a lot of the filming wasprobably done, you know, it
wasn't where they said they werebecause I know, I know like
Texas and where were they? Are they in like Missouri or

(14:15):
something? Is that where the motel was?
Like that was all Acworth, GA, which was one town over from
Kennesaw where I lived. And so that's that's where I
recognized a lot of the places when I was a kid was the stuff
they shot in Acworth. Yeah, and the research that I
did, it's prime, it was primarily filmed in Georgia, so

(14:36):
all of the Raceway scenes were done at different tracks in
Georgia. So I don't think they actually
filmed in Nashville, but they made it.
They made it look, they made it look like it was.
You know what? I'm saying, right.
I just, I remember they mentioned this, right?
I remember they mentioned this, where they were going.
And I wondered, I wondered, did they actually film the Nashville
race? Yeah.
Now, I'm sure they did some, Yeah, I think they might have

(14:57):
done some B shots where, you know, the the campers driving
through Mississippi or whatever,they probably didn't change all
those signs. They just took the van out there
and got some wide shots. But all of the, you know,
primary filming was done in Georgia, I'm pretty sure.
There is one shot when when Kenny Rogers makes the rash
decision to go to Nashville and swerve.

(15:19):
Yeah, it's it's clearly just a sign that says exit 3.
And they just sort of put a little Nashville arrow at the
top and screwed that on there for the shot.
You. Know, yeah.
Yeah. The reason I asked about where
you're from, because you know, knowing that I knew Chris, you
know, grew up in the South and I, you know, Ben doesn't have a
quite the, OR me and Ben don't have quite the accent that Chris
does, but that won't hold that against him, but.

(15:41):
I don't know what you're talkingabout.
I can have an accent too. Right, I don't have the accent.
Y'all have the accent? Right.
But I wonder if this whole like,like for the Southern kids, like
if it had more, we have more nostalgia for it than maybe like
people that grew up in the Midwest or people who grew up in

(16:01):
the North. Cause of course, at that time,
yeah. You know, NASCAR and, and stock
car racing was just part of our culture.
I mean, it was country. Music too.
Country music too, Yeah, so. It was more of a Southern thing.
It's, yeah, I think that's maybepart of why it's not so widely
available. It's because it was just kind of
a regional movie almost. I bet it did a lot Better

(16:24):
Business down in the South than it did in other parts of the
country. Yeah, very possible.
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on the other side of the page. Well, let's jump into story,
origin and pre production. Once again, as I was telling
them before we start recording, there's not a lot you can find
about the movie online for much research.
I was able to pull a few things,so this is what I have.

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So executive producer Edward S Feldman brought the project to
the studio in spring of 1981 under a development deal he had
with 20th Century Fox. The project toiled in
development until late July thatsame year when it was announced
Kenny Rogers would now produce through his recently formed
company, Lion's Share Productions.
While making his motion picture debut in the film starring role

(19:22):
in June of 81, Marvin Davis, a Denver oil man known as Mr.
Wildcatter, he actually bought 20th Century Fox.
This was one of the first films made during his time at the
studio. According to Susan Merzbach, a
production vice president at Fox, He didn't pay much
attention to the hierarchy. He would often call the
production department with his ideas for movies.

(19:44):
Although he wasn't involved in daily operations, he did have
influence. For example, he was a huge fan
of Kenny Rogers, which led to the production getting the green
light to begin shooting. So we have a Mr. Wildcatter to
thank for six pack being made. Thank you, Mr. Wildcatter.
Yeah. Yeah, so it was good that he was

(20:07):
a fan of Kenny Rogers. So as we talked about earlier,
it's primarily filmed in Georgia.
So the Dixie Speedway in Woodstock, GA, was the track
used in the film for several dirt tracks.
Parts of the movie were filmed in Jefferson, GA, at Jeffco
Speedway, also known as Georgia International Speedway, and
Peach State Speedway, now known as Gresham Motorsports Park.

(20:28):
Some local Jefferson teams were used as extras extras in the
film. The film crew worked from the
Holiday Inn Powers Ferry in Atlanta, GA.
At least one scene was filmed ina guest room there.
Another scene was filmed at a pub located in a strip mall up
the hill from the Holiday Inn. The jail and Sheriff Carr
sabotage scenes were filmed in downtown Beaufort, Georgia.

(20:49):
The scene with the van going in the river was filmed in Suwanee,
GA at Settles Bridge at the Chattahoochee River.
And of course, the movie features the Confederate
memorial sculpture at Stone Mountain.
In the scene where Brewster wakes up just hours before the
final race, which so I think when I saw this, we were living
in North Carolina before we moved to Georgia.
So that was my first time ever seeing Stone Mountain.

(21:09):
So then I remember going to Stone Mountain, we moved here
and like, oh, I've seen that in a movie before.
So that was so it was it was funny to see that show up again
here. And I'm thinking especially now,
like how do they get on the parkto dump him there?
Like, like if they just make it like it's just a random piece of
woods somewhere in Georgia, but.And then the end is Atlanta

(21:31):
Motor Speedway, right? OK, Yeah.
Because I. Did recognize a an intersection
near there? Yeah.
And and knew that that was that that's what it looked like,
yeah. In the scenes at the beginning
where he's supposed to be in Texas, I mean, it's clear
Georgia foliage on the trees. Like there's, you know, there's
not much, you know, it still looks very much if you're from
Georgia, you know what Georgia looks like.

(21:52):
So it was. Well, yeah, a little bit of a
side topic, but, you know, we live in Georgia and so we
recognize what what it looks like around here and now that so
much stuff is filmed around here.
Oh yes. For sure.
I watched that movie Civil War acouple weeks ago and I was like,

(22:13):
it was clearly it was that was Georgia, you know, that they
were driving through and they said it was Pennsylvania.
And you know, it's like, you know, that's yeah, the same.
I've been up there too. And that's not what it looks
like, so. I remember when we moved to
Georgia and would watch the reruns of like the Dukes of
Hazzard, they used a lot of, youknow, the film, the shots of
them driving the cars where it was clear they were in a studio

(22:34):
and there was a screen behind them.
Like we would drive around Stolen Mountain, like this is
the road they were on. Because I've seen the scenery so
many times on the Dukes of Hazzard, Like I've passed that
patch of trees before, like the OR you'd see like the rock
formations behind them. So.
Yeah, that's so cool. When you're a kid, it's like the
Duke boys were here. Yeah, the car and touched the

(22:55):
ground. Yeah, generally drove over this
dirt. No, but a production van did to
get the to get the footage. All right, well, let's jump into
casting. So this a few of these are a
little bit lengthy, but most of them are pretty short.
But we haven't talked about a lot of people in in this movie.
So but of course, we'll talk with the star Kenny Rogers as

(23:15):
Brewster Brewbreaker. If you don't know much about
Kenny Rogers, in the 1960s he helped form the 1st Edition, an
eclectic styled rock band whose repertoire included rock'n'roll,
R&B, folk and country. The group decided to disband in
1976 and inevitable as it was, Kenny went solo.
It didn't take long before he started chalking up a string of

(23:36):
country teamed top 20 pop hits such as Lucille, Don't Fall In
Love with The Dreamer with Kim Carnes through the years we've
got Tonight with Sheena Easton and his two number one hits
Islands in the Stream with DollyParton and Lady which was
written by Lionel Richie. By the late 70's the now silver
fox had sold over 100 million worth of record, sorry $100

(23:57):
million worth of records. Into the 80s he began to feel a
downswing in a singing career and he wisely branched off in
other successful areas. In 1980 he touched off a modest
lightweight but highly appealingacting career starting with the
southern style TV movie The Gambler, based on his Grammy
winning hit song. The feature had Kenny starring
as a poker playing card shark Brady Hawks, who attempts to

(24:21):
unite with a son he never knew. This led to four equally popular
sequels. The Gambler.
The Adventure continues in 83 The Gambler Part 3.
The Legend continues 87, The Gambler Returns The Luck of the
Draw 1991 and Gambler 5 Playing for Keeps in 1994.
Two other old fashioned western TV movies followed.

(24:41):
The first was also based on a hits country song, Coward of the
County, in which he played a town preacher who tries to
mentor his young cowardly nephew.
The second Wild Horses in 1985 had him starring as a has been
rodeo champion looking for personal fulfillment hurting
wild Mustangs. Kenny Rogers was 43 when he
starred in Six Pack. It was his first and only top

(25:04):
build movie role to be released in theaters, so everything else
he did was pretty much on TV. Were you a fan of his acting
career? Did you watch the TV movies that
he did growing up? I saw the the The Gamblers, the
movies. I've yet to see Coward of the
County. I want to see it, but I've yet
to watch it. I like the song.

(25:25):
Yeah, I've yet. To see the movie though, yeah,
I. Feel like I have seen that one.
I I remember nothing about it, but I feel like I have seen
coward of the county. Yeah.
You know, yeah, He's he's not a he's one of the better examples
of country musician turned to actor, I would say.
Yeah. I mean, there's other good ones
too, like, you know, Dwight Yoakam and Kris, Kris

(25:48):
Kristofferson. Right, but McIntyre has done
pretty good for herself. Randy, Randy Travis had a few, a
few roles, yeah. Yeah, I want to put him up
there. If I remember he he was a better
singer than an actor. If I.
Remember, he was not a great actor by any means, and he
didn't have starring roles either, mind you.
It was always now the closest thing to a starring role.

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I think he might have had might have been the movie Texas
Rangers where he played a higherup officer in the in that Texas
Rangers movie along with I thinkit was Dermot Mulroney.
Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, it was like a lesser.
Young ones, it was a well, it was the start of the Texas
Rangers. Yeah, but it was all like young.
It was all young Cowboys kind ofthing, yeah.

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And, and they, they wanted you to get the feel of young guns,
right? Because young guns are still a
very popular thing at the time. And they wanted to play off of
that. And they did.
It did pretty, it did fairly well.
I think it didn't do awesome, but it didn't really.
And I liked it because I like that kind of Western, the new
modern Westerns. This movie towards the beginning
especially I thought it had a a feel of ATV movie so.

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Yeah, it does have that feel in a few spots.
Yeah, right. But then I, I felt like it kind
of worked its way out of that and it felt more cinematic a
little bit towards the end. But so yeah, that doesn't I, I
didn't realize he had a a stringof TV movies like that, but that
kind of makes sense. Yeah, I I actually found Coward

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of the County on a streaming service probably like seven or
eight years ago. I don't think, you know, it was
on for a little while and it'll pop up on Tubi, I think maybe
every once in a while so you canfind it.
It's it's in the song is better.Than the movie you.
Know I think I saw the first gambler when it came on the

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other ones I think were more like miniseries that there were
multiple night movies like it wasn't just a 2 hour was like a
you know so and they'll replay those every so often on like
certain like basic cable channels for like a during the
weekend or whatever. So but yeah, I thought he was
pretty good. I what I didn't mention at the
beginning, why I went to, why I'm sure I saw this movie in the
theater, was my family or my momand dad were huge Kenny Rogers

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fans and I was too at the time. So we had a bunch of his albums.
We listen to him all the time. So I would see him on different
TV specials he was on. He'd been on The Muppets a
couple of times, The Muppet Show.
So, so it wasn't, it was easy for me to like enjoy this movie
as being a big fan of his already.
So I'm, you know, even now that he's passed, I'm still a fan.

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I'll, I'll throw in a good KennyRogers, you know, album in a
minute. So, you know, I like, like the
old, old Kenny. The it's funny to me, like they
talk about all the songs from the 70s.
Like those are the songs that I remember.
I wasn't even I was barely alivewhen those songs came out.
But I think because they had like a Kenny Rogers greatest
hits album, which is probably the one we listened to the most.
It's probably why I know those more so than the the stuff he

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did later. But even some of the stuff in
like the mid 80s wasn't too bad.But you could tell he was trying
to be more pop and it wasn't. It just didn't crossover as
well. But.
I I did visit his grave site. Oh.
Really. Yeah, not.
My wife really loves Oakland Cemetery in downtown Atlanta.
It's a historic cemetery. Where all the old, all the ex

(29:05):
mayors are buried there. And Bobby Jones the golfer is
buried there. And Margaret Mitchell, yeah,
he's buried there now. And he has the hugest, most
ornate like mausoleum in the whole.
Oh yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize, still
doing the the research for this,that I didn't know that he was

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living in Georgia when he passedaway.
Like I didn't know he was in like Sandy Springs.
Yeah. So I was like, I didn't realize
he was even in Georgia, like theend of his life.
But yeah. So Burt Reynolds was rumored to
have turned down the lead role of Brewster Baker.
I kind of saw that little bit oftrivia but when I was re
watching it yesterday. But he could have played it, but

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I would have seen him more as the Turk character.
Like I thought that would have been if they could have got Burt
Reynolds to play Turk. I'm like, what a great, you
know, pairing to see the two of them kind of play off each
other. You know, I think I think he
would have done a really good job in that role.
Absolutely. All right.
Next on the list, Diane Lane as Heather Breezy Aikens.

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This is a little lengthy but I've I've never really followed
Diane Lane's like I've known I've seen her a bunch of stuff
but like how her career started so.
It it's OK, just talk slowly, OK, But you talk take all night
talk about Diane Lane if you want to.
I can tell you're a fan OK as hegives me a thumbs up that nobody
can see. So Diane Lane was 13 when she

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was cast by director George Roy Hill in his wonderful 1979 film
A Little Romance, opposite Sir Lawrence Olivier.
The film only did so so commercially but all Olivier
praised his young Co star, calling her the new Grace Kelly.
After her well received debut, Diane found herself on magazine
covers all over the world, including Time, which declared

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her the new young acting sensation.
However, things quieted down quite a bit when she found
herself in critical and financial flops.
She made several TV movies during this period, but was in
1983 that she finally began to fulfill the promise of stardom
that had early been predicted for her.
Acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola took note of her appeal
and cast her in two youth oriented films based on Essie

(31:15):
Hinton novels, Rumblefish and The Outsiders, which both came
out in 1983. Walter Hill's glossy rock'n'roll
fable Streets of Fire in 84 was not the huge summer success that
many had thought it would be, and the massively troubled
Coppola epic The Cotton Club in 1984, Co starring Richard Gere,
was also a hope. A high profile flop, the

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back-to-back failure of both of these films could have ended her
career there and then, but thankfully it didn't.
Possibly burned out by the lambasting these films received
and unhappy with the direction her career was taking, she
retired quote UN quote from the film business at age 19, saying
that she had forgotten what she had started acting for.
She stayed away from the screen for the next three years.

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She returned acting to appear inThe Big Town and Lady Beware,
but didn't make another big impression on a sizable audience
until 1989's popular and critically acclaimed acclaimed
TV miniseries Lonesome Dove and was nominated for an Emmy Award
for her role. She was now re established in
Hollywood and started to appear in higher profile Co starring
roles in some big budget major movies like Walter Hill's Wild

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Bill in 95, Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone in 95, Jack
with Robin Williams in 96, and Murder at 16197 with Wesley
Snipes. After the worldwide success of
The Perfect Storm in 2000, she was in more in demand than ever.
She was in The Glass House in 2001 with Keanu Reeves and
Hardball in 2001 as well. However, her greatest career

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moment was her lead role in the enormous critical and
commercials hit Unfaithful in 2002.
Her performance won the respect of critics and audiences alike
as well as many awards and nominations including Best
Actress, Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
Her follow up films included Under the Tuscan Sun in 2003,
Must Love Dogs in 2005, Hollywoodland in 2006,

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Secretariat in 2010 and the blockbuster Man of Steel in
2013. She was actually 17 years of age
when she appeared in Six Pack. She had a long career, like a up
and down career. But you know, she's been in a
ton of stuff and you don't thinkabout it until you kind of go
through her filmography and think about all the movies she
was in. But.
She's still getting roles down Ibelieve.

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Yeah. Oh yeah, she's still acting.
Yeah. And she's still going at, I
believe, believe it's 57 or 58, one to two.
Yeah. Just saying she's not much older
than me, that's all I'm saying. So you still got a shot?
Right, right. Well, you're saying I still got
a? Shot yeah, it's like I I think
when I rewatched The Outsiders two years ago, I think I'd

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forgot that she was actually in it till she popped up on the
screen. I was like, Oh my gosh, I
totally forgot Diane Lane. And same with this movie.
When I rewatched it a couple, you know that when I found it on
YouTube, I didn't remember that was Diane Lane in this movie.
When I watched it then I was like, Oh my gosh, a young Diane
Lane. I wouldn't have even.
Yeah, Lonesome Dove Benny serieswas pretty good too, in the
Western setup and everything. So yeah.

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Anything to add then? I I didn't realize she was only
17 in this that that does add some creep factor to a couple
scenes like where she's trying to seduce.
Herc Yeah. Yeah, that's.
That's very. Cringy to watch now.
Bobby E Lee. Yeah.
They named me after the General.Yeah.

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It's an 80s movie. There's always going to be, at
least. 1. Cringy scenes, you're like this
did not age well. All right.
Moving along with Aaron Gray as Lila in 78, she was put on a 7
year contract at Universal Studios, which led directly to
taking the role of Colonel WilmaDeering and Buck Rogers in The
25th Century, which was first a theatrical release movie, then

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became a weekly TV series. Shortly after Buck Rogers ended,
she appeared in the first seasonof Magnum Pi where she played
security expert Joy Digger Doyle.
The role was intended to become recurring and even possibly spun
off into a separate series, but never happened.
She then took the role as Kate Summers in the TV sitcom Silver
Spoons, which lasted from 82 to 87.

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In 1993, she had a featured rolein Jason Goes to Hell, the final
Friday the 9th entry in the Friday the 13th Century, I'm
Sorry, Friday the 13th series. She took quite a turn there in
her roles. The one you just mentioned, the
last one, is that the one where at the end of it the mask is
laying on the ground and you seeFreddy Krueger's glove come up

(35:36):
from the dirt and pull it down with him?
Honestly, I've never seen it so I do not know.
OK, I think I think it is for some.
Reason it might because they were trying to set up the whole
Freddy versus Jason thing aroundthat time.
So yeah, very possible. But yeah, yeah, I was a huge fan
of Buck Rogers. That was like, I mean, I was
watching it every week. Love Buck Rogers.

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Yeah. Went back and watched it on
Netflix probably like 15 years ago and it was like this show
was not good. I mean it.
Yeah, it had its own. Standards, but today's standards
of shows, you see, you're probably thinking it's not good,
but put yourself in your mindsetand a young kid again and it's
like, man, there's there's one of my favorite.

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You know, it's like, I like StarWars, I like, you know, the Star
Trek and all that. But the last, you know, we got
Buck Rogers. I mean, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Did you like, did you like it
better than Battlestar Galactica?
Were you more of a battle? Yeah, you had the movies.
It was Star Wars versus Star Trek, right?
With with TV Land, you've got Buck Rogers versus Battlestar.

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Galactica. I never watched Battlestar
Galactica. I never I like, I think I tried
to get into it once and I never even when they did the reboot
like like what 20 years ago, a friend of mine was like, oh, you
got to watch it. It's so good.
I just I just couldn't get into it.
So I. Don't the one, the one thing I
remember at the original was Dirk Benedict being in it.
Yeah. And was his name Starbuck or

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something like that? I believe it was.
And there was a little throwbackon the A-Team when they did the
A-Team. One of the the creatures, I
think they were called Cylons, walk past him as he's reading a
newspaper. He's like, yeah, no, no.
You know. I always thought that was kind
of funny. But yeah, I, I, I, I watched

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both of them because I, I was into that kind of stuff.
And I always like fuck Rogers better, though.
It always do that more to me. Yeah, I I guess I didn't realize
I'd forgotten that she was in silver spoons, which I loved.
Oh I love. Silver.
Spoons. Yeah, Big.
Ricky Schroeder fan Everybody wanted to live the Ricky
Schroeder life in silver. Oh yeah.
Your dad played video games all day?

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Yes. Yes, please.
As a train going to his living room.
Yes, please. Yes.
I'll take. Yeah, I think I asked my parents
could we please build a train? For the house like.
I thought it was, at least for the arcade.
Could really be the house. Yeah, yeah, I'll, I'll settle
for the arcade game. Please just give me one of
those. All right, and then we've got
Barry Corbin as Sheriff Big John.

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He's best known for a starring role as Maurice Minnifield on
the television series Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995,
which I was a big fan of. His other notable credits
include Urban Cowboy in 1980, Stir Crazy in 80, War Games in
83, No Country for Old Men in 2007, as well as the television
series Dallas Lonesome Dove, OneTree Hill, The Closer the Ranch,

(38:29):
Yellowstone and Tulsa King. So he is still.
I remember when he popped up on Yellowstone, I was like, man,
he's still alive, but I. Said I just said the same thing
recently. I just just got into Tulsa King.
Yeah. Oh yeah, finally.
And I saw him. I was like, wait, is that the
dude from Morgan? Yeah, Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, he's been in a, I mean, he's been in a ton of stuff.
I mean, he's, but he he always plays those roles so well.

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So and then Terry Kaiser as TurkLogan.
I mean, of course, we just talked about him this early this
year with Weekend at Bernie's. That's what he's most known for.
So I won't go too much into his his filmography.
So most of the kids didn't do anything else besides this
movie. Like a few of them were actually

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from Georgia, like born born here.
So they're probably like a localcasting kind of a thing.
So Tom, I will bunch of their names.
Tom Abernathy played Lewis. He didn't do anything else
besides this Robbie Fleming as Harry or little Harry.
This was the only movie he did. Robbie still a Swifty who I
thought for sure I like. He's had to have done other
stuff since this movie because he was one of the standouts to

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me. But he really, I think he was in
one other like small role and like a side role and something
Benji Wilhoite as Steven had more of a career than most of
his Co stars. His credits include Sleep Way,
Camp 2, unhappy Camp unhappy Campers in 88, where he actually
dressed up like Freddy Krueger in that movie Fast Food in 89.

(39:54):
He played a young soldier in Glory in 89 with Matthew
Broderick and Denzel Washington.And he also had a small role in
career opportunities in 1991. Yeah.
So those are the ones that. Kind of the other kids and of
course the one that we most recognize, Anthony Michael Hall
is Doc. This was his for his film debut.
This is the first time he did this before he did vacation,

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which he's known for that as well as 16 Candles, Breakfast
Club and Weird Science we just covered a couple months ago.
Was there a favorite of the kidsthat you?
Had maybe. I always thought Swifty was kind
of funny, no? He was.
He was the funny. Because he had just because he
had the mouth on him, you know, right.
Always getting in trouble running that mouth.
So he kind of said to be funny to me.

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And other than that, I mean, obviously I am lame.
But yes, 50 is probably the one that just kind of what I think
of 6 Pack. If I'm thinking about the other
kid actors, honestly, I don't think about Diane Lane because
she's been so many other stuff. But he's the one that always
comes to mind first and foremost, Yeah.

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Anthony Michael Hall really has his role is not that big.
Like he doesn't, he pops in every once in a while, but he
doesn't have like memorable lines or anything that's like
makes him stand out as much as like Swift he does.
The thing is, the reason why I don't think Anthony Michael Hall
is because I think there's so many other movies he was better
in that. Stick out.
Yeah, Yeah. I mean, he's much better in

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vacation, which came out a year later.
So vacation you got the what thewas it was 16 candles or pretty
in pink, one of the 216. Candles, yeah. 15 candles in the
You got, of course, weird science, Johnny.
Trying to be good. Trying to be good, Yeah.
I mean, just some of the others he stands out in versus that
one, so. What about you, Ben?

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I, I thought all the kids, most of the kids did, did well.
I'm, I'm surprised none of them or not, not many of them other
than the two that we know went on to, you know, have much of A
career. But right.
Yeah, they were, they were good little child actors.
That's usually, I mean that's it's challenging to get good

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performances out of kids. I think makes a certain certain
kind of director, I think to getgood, good performances out of
kids. Yeah, I agree.
I think that yeah, I think Swifty stands out to be, but
they gave him more to do than anybody.
Him and him and Breezy I think were the two that they had more
of the character arc for for, you know, lack of a better term

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in this sense. But they both had a more of a
story to tell. The other kids were just your
typical, you know, Doc was the smart one or, you know, as far
as like mechanics. And then Steven was the money
guy. Like he was, you know, I would
say they call him the financier or something like that.
And then Lewis was just, you know, what's what's his line?
That ain't no lie that that's just his line the whole movie.

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So and then little Harry's just there to be cute and make make
you want Brewster to adopt him. Like that's that.
That was his role. Like stand there and look cute,
you know? So.
So two more of the cast, and then we'll talk about Buddy
Baker as himself. He was one of the announcers at
the end. He's an American professional
stock car racing driver, and he was a commentator at that time.

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And then who I didn't think I'd see in this movie, Chuck
Woolery, who's listed as race narrator, but I agree.
From it too. Yeah, he's he's one big line and
it is. We haven't even started the
race, and Brewster's already making a pit stop.
Making a pit stop, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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I I was surprised by that, too. I did not remember.
I mean, I guess I, I don't know if I knew who Chuck Woolery was
when the movie came out. I don't know if you had started
hosting game shows by then or he.
Actually, he actually had. He was the original host of the
daytime Wheel of Fortune from 75to 81.
So before it went to prime time and Pat Sajak take took over, he

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was the host he was. Well, what do you remember him
from? When you think?
When you hear Chuck Willery's name, what's the first thing
comes to mind? Love Connection.
Exactly. Everybody, everybody's always
thinking is that the movie? He said something pissed off.
He should have said that. Bruce should be back in two and
two, Right? Right.
Yeah, the two and two with his fingers.
Yeah. Yeah.
So he did. Yeah.

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So he was Wheel of Fortune, the original incarnation of Love
Connection from 83 to 94. He hosted Scrabble from 84 to
90. He was going Greed on Fox from
99 to 2000. He did Lingo on Game Show
Network from 2002 to 2007. So, and as we talked about in
The Running Man, he was the first choice to play Killian

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instead of Richard Dawson I. Didn't know that.
That's awesome, really. He couldn't get out of his love
connection contract, I think or there was something else he was
already obligated to. He couldn't, he couldn't get out
of to do that so. Always love to Scrabble.
I thought it was a good game show.
Gravel was a good game show. Yeah, yeah.
All right. Anybody in the cast that I might

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have forgot or didn't talk about?
There might have been a few others that might have
recognized but didn't discuss. Did we talk about Diane Lane?
I did. Oh, OK.
Extensively so. Just checking.
You can go back and listen to itover and over again once you
post it. All right, let's talk iconic
scenes, favorite scenes. I know it'd been so long since
you watched it, but if someone says the movie 6 pack, what's

(45:17):
the first thing that pops in your head?
The number of scenes, really. I mean, for, I guess, I guess
because it was filmed in Acworth, one town over from
where I grew, grew up. I remembered the scene when
Breezy went like ran away and Brewster was looking for her.
Because that was all around Macworth and I remember

(45:39):
recognizing that. But you know, it's not a very
remarkable scene. I will, I will say I think the
most exciting or the the this movie contains the most exciting
chase scene between an RV with, you know, pulling a trailer and
a milk truck. Yes, yes, I would agree.

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I would agree on that statement.Yeah.
What about you, Chris? Iconic scene or the scene that
sticks out to you the most, Diane?
Lane showing up? Well, of course, Diane Lane
turns out, yes, all the breezy scenes that were in the movie
are in in my brain. They no, seriously, though, you

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know what? It's it's funny.
It's not like he mentioned a moment ago, it's not a very
iconic scene or anything. But they're in the RV, They're
going down the road and they're looking for the next place to go
to. And he's reading off the list of
places in the paper and he comesacross Nashville and he says
there, stop, stop. What's that?
Nashville. That's where we're going and

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we're going to Tennessee and thelittle kid in the back start
singing Rocky Top. I hate this because I am not
about a UT Vol fan. I'm sorry if y'all are.
I'm not, I'm not. But I mean, you know, this is
fine. It's OK.
I have plenty of family friends that are.
I heard Rocky Top so much growing up that I'm.
Probably sick of it. When I hear it, I just want to

(47:05):
go. So I mean that's that's but that
that stands out for me because Iremember in the movie I seen
that a little bit the one of theverses for Rocky Top and and I
hate to say it is a catchy song as much as I hate it.
And then of course, they like you mentioned the chase scene,

(47:27):
pulling a trailer with the with the frame of a car on it now, I
guess, and chasing that big giant milk truck looking
whatever it was, you know, snap on tool truck down until it
flies off in the river. I mean, those two, I mean really
kind of stand out to me as far as memories, so.

(47:47):
Yeah, I think the one, the one thing that I think I remember
that kind of when I think a six pack is when they show up, when
all the kids show up and he thinks that he left them.
Yeah, it was a Shreveport I think was the the last stop when
they bought an ice cream at the baskin-robbins little counter,
which I'm sure that kid given selling ice cream was one of the
extras in Jefferson was like we only got rock, one rock.

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We only got Rocky Road or some. I remember what his line was he
has for Rocky Road. We only got vanilla Brewster's
working on his car and then Doc drops the stethoscopes down,
down and then he he comes out and like he's standing there and
then all the kids like go under the car and start working on it.
He's just like standing like what's going on.
So I think they played that a lot in the trailer, So it must
have been why I remember that scene a lot.
But. Your scene is funny because he's

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laying under there and they justgot done telling him one of the
race car that I was told him what was wrong with his car.
Yeah, yeah. And he's like, oh, it's cute.
That's real cute. And then he sees this thing
dangling in front of him and he's like, no.
Right. Oh no, it can't be.
And then as you see him peeking over, going.
Welcome to your nightmare. And I love how, you know, it's

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obvious that Lila is the one that got him there because
they're like, you know, she's in, you know, that's what Lila
said, you'll be good for you, whatever.
So, you know, she's not in the movie a whole lot, but they keep
her involved in the movie, whichI thought was good.
So. But yeah, going back to like
scenes, I think we talked about the milk truck scene when it
goes into the water and Brewsterhas to go down and try to save,
you know, save them from the water.

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I love how it's supposed to be Texas, but you can see the
Georgia red clay in the water. You know, when he he gets in the
water, it's like I'm like that's, you know, it's Georgia
because the red the red clay down there.
So, yeah. What about favorite scenes?
What's what you have any favorite scenes in the movie?
No, don't think too hard. We love I.

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Know I know Chris's answers. Anything with Diane Lane?
Right, right, right. When Diane Lane is walking in
the rain, all sad and confused. I imagined I was Kenny Rogers,
picking her up in the van and comforting her.
I was Kenny Rogers, yes, but no,seriously, I, you know, I, I

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like the part where one of the funniest things for me he was to
pick them up at the jail. Yes, yeah, that's what he was.
First taken away I'm. Here to pick charges he's.
Talking just like if he says theexact things he would say, if
they focus on the badge and behind it, you see Boy Scouts of
America. And.
And just like he tells the womanthat she's so cute, he'd like to

(50:18):
just pick her right up and kiss her right in the mouth and walks
her across the state of Texas. He's just all flattered and
everything and going with it. And then the other guy comes in.
If he's just right behind him, he says the exact same thing.
Right. Exactly.
And she looks up with this horrified look on her face.
Like, no. Yeah, that's definitely one of
the funnier parts. What I thought.

(50:40):
I don't know that I had a favorite scene that stood out,
but I did have some things that I, I thought of or that sort of
made an impact on me. But when at the beginning, when
they when they steal, you know, they basically strip Brewster's
car and steal all the all the stuff out of it.
His entire means of livelihood has just been stolen from out

(51:00):
from under him. And he he basically goes out and
kind of pounds his first down a little bit like, shoot, yeah.
You know, it's like, I don't know, very subdued reaction.
And also it's it struck me as odd that he seemingly can walk
into any bar in the Southeast. Oh yeah, walk up into a.

(51:21):
Waitress and French kiss her. Yeah.
All the waitresses know him. I was like, this is a family
movie. That he's, you know, it's pretty
much implied that he's been intimate with every waitress in
every bar and he's just. Popular.
He's a race car driver. He's popular.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess that was that was
just a friendly way of saying hello.
Oh, OK. I mean, that's why I'd forgotten

(51:43):
that. About didn't you?
Did you guys watch, you know, when they did the Beverly
Hillbillies movie and they learned about the California
Howdy? They were just being nice to
people when they did that. I mean, they didn't know any
better. So as we were growing up and we
watched him walk into all the bars and these planning to be
able to kiss someone, we're like, oh, he just say hello.

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He's being friendly. Is this why you kiss all the
waitresses when we go out to eatChris?
Yeah, I'm, I'm overly friendly alittle bit.
I've been told I'm a little too friendly.
They may call the cops, but no, I'm just kidding on that.
For anybody listening, I do not do that.
Oh, no, no. I don't even live with this man.
I know we're we're in 27. We've met each other in person

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once. So that's it.
So yeah, yeah, I was going to bring up about, you know, he's
very promiscuous. Brewster Baker was.
But also I'm surprised that he doesn't have a concussion
because he's knocked out severaltimes in the back of the head,
which he always wakes up the same way with like this grimace
on his face and his head, his hand touching the back of his

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head. So but I love it when he gets
thrown in, you know, with I'm sure he's in Stone Mountain.
They throw him in the woods or whatever and he's all hurt.
He gets up and his T-shirt says Ford tough on it.
And like, I just thought that was funny.
Like he's obviously not that tough because he got beat up.
But I will say he did really well in the fight scenes like
that. The fight scene he has in the
parking lot of the the Holiday Inn I think is where he was

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leaving and the guys, Turks guyskind of corner him.
They had a pretty good fist fight, so he he was pretty,
pretty good with his fight choreography.
Yeah, I guess it was just good stunts, but there was one shot
where it looked like he really got hit in the face.
It looked like he really took a punch to the his cheek and.
There's a few things I wondered who his stuntman was, like the

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scene at the beginning where he gets locked in the bathroom and
has to climb out the window and he falls as he's as he's on the
tires. So it's like, that's clearly a
stunt stuntman, but did pretty good.
Yeah, they just got one of the guys from, well, I guess it
didn't exist at the time, but the dudes who looked like Kenny
Rogers website. Do you guys remember that?
There was a it was in the early days of the Internet.

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It was one of the first just like, you know, let's just make
a, a web page for something really stupid.
And it was it was just a web page of you could submit your
pictures of dudes who looked like Kenny Rogers.
And there was an amazing amount of of guys out there who looked
like Kenny Rogers. So maybe that was one of one of

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the early. Ones they got to.
Fall out the window instead of the real Kenny.
That's awesome. The only thing with that I can
think of that brought so much notoriety to Kenny Rogers was
Seinfeld and the Kramer episode talking like Kenny Rogers
roasters. Oh yes, the restaurant he had,
Yeah. Yes, the lights were so big.

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The lights were so bright. It was in his window.
He couldn't sleep. Right.
Yep, There was a Kenny Rogers Roasters.
I don't I don't think there was ever one near where we live, but
we would travel somewhere. We would pass.
We would pass one. I think I ate there a couple of
times. It was it was decent.
It was we. We had one in Nashville for a
while. I don't, I haven't been down

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there in a while, but still there or not.
But in, yeah, not quite downtownNashville, but 5 minutes away
from it and they had a chicken there.
It's rotisserie chicken pretty much.
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the scenes and Trivia. I it had very little, but the

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the race at the end of the movieused real race footage from the
NASCAR Coca-Cola 500 race held at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in
1982. So that was said they basically
repaint that it was a real race.And then while the spectators
were there, they repainted some of the cars and did some close
up shots. But they used they used a lot of
footage from the actual race. The theme song in the film which

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earlier Love Will Turn You Around was performed and Co
written by Rogers. It was a #1 country and adult
contemporary hit. It peaked at #13 on the pop
chart. It would that is still probably
one of my favorite Kenny Rogers songs.
I always like that song. I always like a lot.
And then probably my favorite, which I I I need to, I need to
scour the Internet to find this.But it did spawn ATV show.

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Are you aware of this? I think Chris and I talked about
this. On the you talked about it
before the other one. I don't think I ever saw the TV
series. No.
So in 1983 there was a spin off TV series pilot of the same name
which featured Don Johnson as Brewster Baker, Marquee post as
Sally Ledbetter and the show also featured a young Joaquin
Phoenix in his second role. Wow.

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Yeah, which I was going to mention in Buck Rogers.
That's another early marquee post.
Like she was in a couple episodes of Buck Rogers in her
early career. And early she did that.
She did some fall guy. Yeah, she was in the fall guy
for a season or two, I think, before she was made her claim to
fame on Night Court, which is what I remember it was from.
But you said pilot. I mean, how did it run?

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It actually ran on TV. I don't know.
That's what they said it was. Yeah, it was.
Yeah. It just said a spin off
television pilot of the same name.
So it might have just been a pilot that never got aired.
It's probably why you can't findit anywhere.
OK, so. But there are some shows that
get a pilot episode and do get aired just to see what the
people would think about it, what kind of ratings he got.
All right, let's talk about box office at Critical Reception.

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The film had a limited release on July 16th, 1982, and went
wide a week later on July 23rd. On July 16th, it landed at #11
at the box office, being beat bythree other new releases, A
Midsummer Night, Sex Comedy, at #8, Young Doctors in Love at #3,
and their re release of Raiders of Lost Ark at #2 ET.

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The Extraterrestrial remained at#1 in its sixth week of release,
so it wasn't going to beat ET, that's for sure.
And then a week later, on July 23rd, it moved up to nine behind
new releases The World Accordingto Garp at #4, and The Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas, which dethroned ET from the
number one spot that week. Really.

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Wow. That's what That's what finally
knocked ET. Off, I don't know if it stayed
in #1 the whole six weeks, but that in the 6th week it was in
the number one spot. So week 7 it it got dethroned.
So. But yeah, interesting enough on
Rotten Tomatoes, there is no tomato meter because it only has
one review from a critic, which did give it a tomato.

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So it wasn't, you know, it wasn't rotten, but it has a 71%
on the popcorn meter, which is the audience score now on IMDb,
66 out of 10 with viewers and a 45 on Metacritic.
Where does it land for you guys?Is it on a scale of one to 10?
Where would you rate 6 pack? I give it 8 because I like it a

(59:36):
lot. As I said, I felt like it got
off to a sort of a shaky start with the kind of TV movie feel
that there's a scene in the diner where every character is,
is just very cliched and and like they've got the the high
school jock walks in and yeah, but it it, it kind of grew on me

(01:00:01):
as it went along. And by the end, I thought it
was, it was pretty solid and. You know, it was a, it's a, it's
a cute little movie. I'll give it a six.
Yeah, All right, all right. Yeah, I think like the critic
side of me would probably give it like a six.
I mean, that's pretty, pretty fair.
But the nostalgia factor is veryhigh.
So I'm I'm with Chris. I'm giving it an 8.

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It's not a nine or A10 where it's one I'm going to want to
watch, you know, over and over and over again like I did as a
kid. But it's fun to put in.
It's a good just if you just want to watch something kind of
mindless and silly and kind of heart warming too for a cup for
an hour and a half. It's not super long or super
complex, but just to have something playing, it's
definitely watchable. So yeah, I give it like a 8.5,

(01:00:43):
maybe closer to 9:00, but. Do you know what would have made
of the 9? Or Diane Lane.
You go, there you go. See, I got you guys broke in
already. All right.
Well, thank you guys so much forjoining me on this episode about
6 Pack. It's always a pleasure to have
you guys on the show. Chris, what's going on with

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Retro Life for you? What you got coming up in
November? I got a interview with Sam
Furstenberg. If you don't remember the name
Furstenberg, you'll know the movie he did because he was one
of Canon's directors at that time frame where they did the
American Ninja, American Ninja 2, Revenge in the Ninja Ninja 3,

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the Domination Breaking 2, Electric Boogaloo.
Believe me, you've directed thatwhen Delta Force I believe.
I believe the no, I'm sorry, Delta Force 3.
Right, he didn't direct the 1st.One, not the first director
force no Delta Force 3 then he did some off some B movie type
things with David Bradley and somebody else during that time

(01:01:50):
frame. So I got an interview with him
unless something happens where it gets rescheduled, hopefully
it will not and now we'll get that done and then just a couple
of odd end things until Decembergets here and then we're going
to do the month of Christmas like we did October.
We did all horror movies. So tonight we're going to
record, it's just like a top five kind of thing.

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It's we're picking our, we're picking not maybe our exact top
five, but five of our favorite heroes and five of our favorite
villains from the 1980s movies. OK, that'll be cool.
Yeah, top fives are always fun. Very cool.
I would definitely go check out Retro life for you podcast with
Chris Adams. Always a pleasure to have him on
the show and always a pleasure to have Ben Carpenter, whose

(01:02:33):
podcast is yet to be announced, but we'll be looking forward to
that announcement any day now. It's.
Still in the trying to think of an idea stage.
We we refer to that as pre production, yeah.
There you go. Let's call it that.
He's still shopping the right market.
There you go. There you go.
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