Driving Through Dystopia: The Last Chase (EILFM Crossover)

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A former race car driver'scar is confiscated.
He rebuilds it and drives to freeCalifornia with a teen's help agents
dispatch a jet pilot to stop him.
Fearing his autonomy.
Threatens their control.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was wrong.
Did we watch the same movie?
That's the official read for this movie.

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That's lies.
It was never confiscated.
He hid it in his basement the whole time.
I cannot fact check everything on IMDB.
Okay.
You were fact checking two lines also.
I was told there wouldbe no fact checking.
That's super fun facts.
That's your guys' job.
I think he even said it an hourand 20 minutes into the movie.

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But yeah guys, oh, we are in the yearof the apocalypse on our podcast.
Everything I learned frommovies, maybe you've heard of us.
Wow.
This is a perfect fit because wehave apocalyptic, dystopian future.
Yeah.
We have cars, we have jets, lasers,Burgess, Meredith, like we are

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going full out for 1980 ones.
The last Chase.
Yes.
Excellent.
Oh, but babe, we're notalone for this one either.
What do I need to put a bra on?
Nah, we're, we're going withoutSand's video on this one, but, uh oh.
Thank God we have with us the GrandTouring Motor Sports Break Fix podcast.

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Welcome.
Mm-hmm.
We are excited to be back with you guys.
And this is, like you said, Steve Special.
This one has been hiding in thefiling cabinet for quite a while.
I'm looking forward to breakingthis one down with you guys.
And of course, the voicesyou're gonna be hearing.
Sorry, I should have been more specific.
We have Eric, Tanya, and Mountain Mike.
I'm sorry.
Mountain man.
Dan, he is ForeverMountain Mike from now on.

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So what are you guys gonnahut down Mountain Mike's
Pizza and try the mountain.
Mike's Pizza.
Dan, you've been spendinga bunch of time out west.
Have you gone to a Mountain Mike's yet?
I have not seen one.
I'm gonna have to try to find one.
There's gotta be one in Colorado.
Do it.
I highly recommend the Everest.
It is basically a mountain of meat andcheese on a pie, and it's delightful.
I like it.
I like it.
So are we drinking tonight?

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Oh, of course we are.
I don't know, Steve.
I'm still sober.
Well, let's see, from, uh, you wentto brewing in Salt Lake City, Utah,
we have their yard sale, winterlager, because we need to drink.
We as we're in the heart of winter.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's snowed today.
That is true.
Welcome to Life on the Mountain.
Oh, our tops.
Nice.

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I'll see your beer and I'll raiseyou from the Highlands of Scotland.
Ooh, the one and only Urn Brew.
Caffeinated.
Quain bubbly.
It tastes weird, but it'sgood at the same time.
I don't know.
It's pretty awesome.
I got this from an import store.
I've had it before.
If you've never had Iron Brewis another way to pronounce it.
This stuff's pretty cool.
It's pretty good because this iswhat Eric needs is more caffeine.

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A hundred percent.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
A hundred percent caffeine.
Watch this.
Not stop at real time.
Have those downers on standby.
You know what it tastes like.
You remember the CreamsicleDdus from when we were kids?
Yeah.
This is that in liquid formwith a ton of caffeine.
Wow.

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Ooh, pardon me.
Threw off in my mouth.
Alright.
Intrigued.
I mean, as somebody who still drinksall of the Mountain Dew flavors.
Yeah.
Interested.
Was it the, uh, Henry Wein hardsor whatever orange sodas we love?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good stuff.
How about you, Tony?
Are you drinking sourced froma hundred to 500 feet below me?
I come to you with dye hydrogen monoxide.

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She's got her own wellor something out back.
Apparently somebody should havewarned me about this chair.
It is lethal.
Holy shit.
Oh, I just figured outwhy it lost the wheel.
Kind of like this movie.
I have to stop on the side of the roadand repair this thing really quick.
What about Dan?
What's he, oh man.
Dan, how about you?

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Much like Tanya justdrinking some odd oil.
Mine's 350 feet below thehouse, so I know that for sure.
So, yeah.
Nice.
Is this uh, your guys' firsttime watching this movie?
I know it was for us, so yeah.
Yes, it was not for me.
This movie was recommended tome and I gotta give a shout out.
To one of our friends, ScottyB, if you're listening, he sent

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me this movie a long time ago.
You're gonna love it.
It's got a car chase and it's got Leemajors and race cars and da da da da.
And I'm like, okay.
And I watched it and I'm not gonnasay my opinion on it because that's
what we're here to talk about.
But I was delighted to revisit it with youguys again and get your perspective on it.
'cause I have seen it before.
You've watched it numerous times.
This is your trading paint.

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No, no, no.
We're not, no, we never,you never go trading paint.
You never go full mountain Mike.
Never go full trading paint.
We need like the billboard ofthe movie so that we constantly
reorder their goodness because youknow, we'll get to it at the end.
But I dare say this, this isstill leagues above the stuntman.
The poster's quite misleading.

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Like, I mean, there's some facts in there,but a lot of times like, wait, that, but
that never really, so we'll get into it.
1980 one's.
The last Chase, we watchedit on the Blood bank.
You may have to pirate this movie.
It is not readily available or Iguess it was on YouTube, right?
Yes, it was.
Oh, okay.
It's on YouTube from time to time.
But it's Steve, what's the blood bank?

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Oh, well, if you go to uh,patreon.com/bloody bits of the Bloody
Bits Horror Show for $10 a month, you getaccess to A VPN that has thousands of hard
to find obscure, mostly horror movies.
But this wasn't a horrormovie, but it was on there.
Check it out.
Oh, but this comes fromwriter director Martin Burke.

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Who's he?
Steve.
Oh, I'm glad you asked.
You might know him from Carnivals 1973.
No.
How about the clown murders?
I'll pass on that one.
No.
How about Power Play?
No.
No.
It is a porn, I'm pretty sure.
Right.
This Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Oh, I know that movie.
Mm-hmm.
That was like his next one.
Avenging Angelo America.

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A Crossroads and Under Fire.
Colon Journalists in Combat.
I like that.
You read the colon?
Of course.
Nope.
Nope.
And nope.
This is my first movie by him.
Yeah.
Did we watch S of Silicon Valley?
Is that the Yeah.
One I'm thinking of.
Okay.
Yeah, that's the Bill Gates,Steve Jobs, dramatization.
Anthony Michael Hall is one of 'em, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
There's that same one.
One more before we get into the actors.
We have to go to the screenwriter.
Oh boy.
Christopher Crow.
Does that name sound familiar to anybody?
It does sound familiar actually.
Yeah.
Who's he?
Steve?
Well, he has 20 plus credits, includingthree episodes of Beretta, nine episodes
of the Hardy Boy slash Nancy DrewMysteries, but he's the creator of.

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The misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, thisBJ and the Bear Streets of Justice,
BL Stryker, starring friend of thepodcast, uh, William Shatner lasted
The Mohicans The Untouchables TVseries, the watcher TV series, fear.
He skipped over Miami Vice.
What?
He did, Miami Vice Anepisode at least, I guess.
Oh, an episode.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
But babe, he's alsomarried to Christina Rains.
Does that name sound familiar?
Who's she?
Steve.
Remember the Sentinel?
Yeah.
The main model chick.
That's her.
She basically retired after marrying him.
I mean, who would, oh, andthe act, we lost another
great actress from that movie.
Not really.
She basically spent thewhole movie passing out.

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It was great.
The other screenwriter, RoyMoore, he wrote Black Christmas
10 episodes of The Adventures ofTimothy Pilgrim, whatever that is.
And then he gets credit on allthe, uh, black Christmas remakes.
That's about it.
Oh, wow.
Makes a lot of sense.
Right.
But our beloved eightiesAction Hero though.
Oh yes.
The one, the only LeeMajors as Franklin Hart.

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Who's he?
Steve, uh, let's see.
Over 130 credits, including.
The Virginian, he's SteveAustin from The $6 million Man.
Uh, the Secret of Bigfoot Steal this.
The Fall guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Scrooged Musketeers, forever Out.
Cold, big Fat Liar.

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Eight episodes of Ash versus Evil Dead,A Gettysburg Christmas, and of course.
The Fall guy, the movie from last year.
You know what I appreciate, Steve,is out of 130 credits that Lee Majors
has, you've listed Scrooge in there.
He's in it for all of 45 secondswith that best one liner.
You've been a good boy this year,Lee, but it's like epic, right?

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It sets the tone and I'm, I appreciatethat you singled that out on the list.
Steve only picks the most iconicmoments in actors storied careers.
I like to pick things.
They've actually been seen in,you know, like the 15 seconds.
He was in the fall guy last year andyou know, Musketeers Forever, which I
know we all have a DVD copy of, right?

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I mean, some of us do.
It's on the shelf with my Sinbad movie.
Yeah, it usually comes in one of thoselike 12 action movie packs or whatever.
Also starring in this movie,of course, legend of Phil Man
screen, Burgess Meredith hasCaptain JG Williams, who's he?
Steve.
Well, he has over 180 credits, buthere are the ones you've actually

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seen him in Burned offerings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, he's Mickey in the firstthree Rocky movies and then like
voice clips, the rest of them,the Sentinel popping up again.
The Manitou Magic Guys, if you've notseen Magic, please, please go watch Magic.
Anthony Hopkins is a ventriloquistwho may or may not be insane
and or have a possessed doll.

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And Burgess Meredith is hismanager and Margaret's in it.
Ugh, it's great.
What else is he been in?
A clash of the Titans, Santa Claus Colon.
The movie Grumpy Old Man.
Grumpy old man.
And uh, of course he passed away in 1997.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did we skip the biggest thing, the mostimportant thing about Burgess Meredith,
1966 to 67, whatever, he was the penguin.

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In Batman.
In Batman.
Yes.
Yes, yes.
How is it that in this movie, which tookplace 20 years later, let's just say,
does he look younger in this than hedid when he was the Penguin and Batman?
Good makeup.
Yeah.
Makeup, yeah.
When you have Lee Major'smakeup team on, on your side.

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Oh, and uh, a couple.
Just two more.
Chris.
Make peace as, I guessthe kid's name was Ring.
I never caught that in the movie.
He had a name.
I caught it at the end during the credits.
That was us too.
We were like, alright, whatis the name of shit kid?
I was like, wait, did theteacher say it earlier?
Because I totally missed it.
Like, oh, ring James,whatever his name is.
I don't know.
Could have been young.

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Egon Spangler was the same thing.
Yeah, right.
25 or so credits including meatballs.
This Mazes and Monsters.
Oh shit, y'all lost out last year.
Falcon and the Snowman, and of courseIzzy's favorite movie of all time Vamp.
I do really like that movie.
It's a rare movie where it startsout as a, uh, college comedy of

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like, oh man, get into this frat.
We have to find a stripper by8:00 PM but it's already five
and town's two hours away.
And then it becomes just likea bond girl eating people.
It's Grace Jones starringin from Dusk till Dawn.
It's great.
Ah, okay.
She has zero lines and isphenomenal the whole time.
Wow.

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Yeah.
Billy d Dragos in it.
Check it out.
Yeah.
Guys, I, I really can'trecommend this movie enough.
Like I'm not even being sarcastic.
It's just one of those things youhave to sort of experience because it.
So bonkers and it wildly shifts,tones, and yet somehow it just works.
Does it involve a van?

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They, they, they borrowed Long DuckDon's, uh, drop top, tell, get to town.
That's awesome.
That's right.
But on Van News guys, sorrySteve to break up this movie.
Oh yeah.
I bought a Ford Econo line2008 Long Body Big Girl.
You bought a church van?
Yeah.
For $400.
No.

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That's awesome.
Yeah, it did require a new transmission,
but for four grand webasically have a van.
Yes.
Added a zero there.
I heard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Basically.
So did you name her?
It's not Van Nessa.
You didn't go that easy.
Yeah, we definitely did.
It's, it's Vanessa, Steve,what's her last name?

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Van Gogh.
Oh, but it's the French spellingwith the EAUX at the end.
Oh, very nice.
Very nice.
We're classy.
We classy bitches.
Speaking of classy,Alexandra Stewart has Eudora.
Who's she?
Steve, 150 plus credits, but most ofit's French stuff, so who gives a shit?
But.
Babe, she's been on the podcast before?
No, she is Mrs. Sharonin Under the Cherry Moon.

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Oh.
Oh man.
And she's also Catherine Lagreein two episodes of Highlander.
Ooh, okay.
Oh my.
Yeah.
It's the season two unholy alliance,like the, uh, season finale there where
McLeod confronts Joe Dawson about Horton.
The man who killed Darius.
Darius Darius then.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
And then follows the trailof Xavier St. Cloud to Paris.

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And of course, Xavier St.Cloud is played by the lead
singer of fine young cannibals.
Yeah.
We're really doing a good job ofprocrastinating talking about this movie.
We need to fill some time.
She was the last one.
It's so rare we have someonefrom under the Cherry Moon
pop into one of our movies.
It, it's true though.
Alright, so we hit play.
Oh my gosh.
See a racetrack and we see a carsputter out because it ran out of gas.

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I, I'm assuming this was likea, like a test run or something?
'cause the e the stands were all empty?
No, this was already inPostapocalyptic or dystopian world.
He took his, was it okay?
He just took his race car outof the basement to go for a
ride and then ran outta fuel.
I'm imagine he bury it in the garage.
I think it was stilltogether at this point.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, because I, I feel like thiswas like supposed to be, let's
say the late eighties or whatever.
What, uh, as we find out,they say there's no more oil.
Like it was a beautifullyupkept racetrack.
If it's been sitting aroundfor the last five or six years,
I'm also gonna argue all of theblacktops than this our pristine.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And I do believe you need oiland petroleum to make asphalt.

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I mean, I might be wrong.
I've been known to be wrong before.
You are correct.
Now, I did try to pinpoint whichracetrack it was, and I did not do
a very good job of finding a result.
But based on the fact that the moviewas filmed in Canada, it has to be
one of the Canadian racetracks, evenone of the smaller ones up in the
Ontario area of that time period.

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There's not many that exist anymoreother than like Mosport, which
is now Canadian Tire Motor Park.
It wasn't filled in Canada at all.
It says at the end that it was,I also read that it was filmed
in like Flagstaff, in Sedona andprobably for the airplane scenes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Definitely.
Definitely.
Anytime there's an airplane involved.
Yeah.
Clearly, because thatlooked very not Canadian.

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Yeah, they're talking about like WestPennsylvania, that it's like showing
Southern Utah for what it looks like.
This like, yeah, but, well,where are they now then?
It's in the, uh, the after after time.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ohio's a wasteland at this point.
You know what, it's moss port.
It is Mosport.
Okay.
Just found it.
Oh, gene Heckman's downthe street from that angle.
I didn't recognize it.

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'cause most ports really long as a track,so they only used one section of it then.
Very cool.
And then we also get, I swear, asolid minute of ominous music staring
at a gas pump product placement.
Okay.
I guess that was an Exxon commercial.
That's what that was, but it was ominous,so it wasn't like a good Exxon commercial.
Yeah, maybe it's paid for by Shell.

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Oh wait, no.
A shell station gets blownup later in the movie too.
Yeah.
Maybe this is paid forby the electric car.
It's very much like looking at the gaspump, like this is why there is no future.
I just like the fact that he can cut openan Exxon gas pump with a set of tin snips.
It just baffled me like.
Cut through the outer wall.
That made sense to me.

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But when he knocks it over to theside and like the pipe inside and
everything just falls over with it.
Nothing was connected.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry.
The $6 million, man, knockingout a gas pump was confusing.
And then suddenly he had like asiphoning device and he's like,
squish, squish, squish, squish.
Like what?
He had it in the back of his car.
I guess.
I don't, some people keep, you know,jumper cables and the professionals

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keep the little siphon ready to go.
So we go from his lone track day, youknow, stealing gas from underground,
which actually is foreshadowing for laterin the movie as we come to find out into
this very long exposition monologue ofjust Lee Majors talking for like the
next, what seems like forever about what'sgoing on and did anybody really understand

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other than there was a disease and therewas a pandemic that killed everybody.
Yeah, an epidemic, a plaguethat killed his wife and son.
And then of course that ledto gas, not existing anymore.
Hi.
His buddy fetch kind of filled us in.
You know what's sad?
I literally watched thismovie three hours ago.

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Like I started it at like five and Ialready can't remember what happened.
I, I do like during his thing, hewas like, I like to help out at
the hospital from time to time.
Of course, I don't wear a mask'cause why the fuck would I
do that during a, an epidemic?
I'll be all right.
I'm Lee fucking majors, I'm half robot.
But then cars areoutlawed, but they're not.

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But I was so confused.
Like all transportationis like gone because.
I don't know.
That was polluting the earth also.
I didn't get it.
And this disease too, it could bea form of Legionnaire's disease,
it could be chemical warfare.
I don't know.
Fake news.
There's so much foreshadowing.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
From 1981, the first part ofthis movie, I'm like, oh my
God, had we not see it coming?
But he was like, well, he just kindalearned to live with the panic and
the fear and until it becomes normal.
And I'm like, fuck.
All right.
Okay, so this is where two thingsI kind of wanna diverge on.
One is super fun.
Carfax, maybe I can save thatfor later if you want, but you

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guys just hit on something.
We're talking about 1981.
We're talking about foreshadowing,you know, things that happened
only just a couple years ago.
Really.
The film felt older than it was, andI wanted to ask you, Steve, and if
I'm spoiling one of your fun facts,is this like the stunt man where it
took this guy 10 years to make thismovie happen because it feels like a
seventies film and not an eighties film.

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There's just somethingoff about the whole thing.
I don't think I have anythingin the fun facts about it.
Like, you know, sitting onsomebody, was it Christopher Crow's?
You know, like, oh, I gottamake like 15 TV shows.
Then I can make a movie.
It releasing in 81.
It's.
Conceivable that he started makingit obviously in the seventies or at
least the thought process was, andwith the oil thing they'd just gone

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through not even a decade before thewhole gas crisis in the US Right.
So like they're probably pulling stringsfrom that because I think now I remember
the thing with the cars, they weretrying to preemptively stop some bigger
crisis that they assumed was gonnahappen with like people's use of planes
and boats and cars and all this stuff.
So they out like outlawed it alland rocket ships and makes no sense.

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And the reason I bring that up isbecause the car itself, when I started
digging into its fun facts is from1972, it sort of triggered this,
when was this film actually made?
Because that car looked super new andvery futuristic compared to the Grand
Marquee with the Woody Family Trucksterthing that he was driving around to go
help the medical people or whatever.
And I was like, okay.

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And then I dug into the car a littlebit and we can talk about that later.
But that was my pinpoint to say thismovie feels like it's off by 10 years.
And, and the thing that got me themost is 'cause like basically after
the scene we cut to 20 years laterand I think it's supposed to be
2010 or 2011 or something like that.
Yeah.
Like, you know, in thefuture, oh, I missed that.
2011. Oh, okay.

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Yeah.
It's what takes place at 2011.
And the pandemic thingwas 20 years before that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's 20 years later.
'cause now Lee Majors doesn'thave as much makeup on.
He looks a little more LeeMajorish and uh, he's taking
the subway to work and all that.
Yeah.
So the pandemic broke out in 1991,but I think he stopped racing from
what you learned later before that.
But that would still maybe have puthim stopping racing in the eighties.

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So that's still the eighties.
A decade, yeah, after that car came out.
So who knows?
So you talked about Lee Major'smakeup, what do you call his hairdo?
Was that a perm or is thatlike a fro Like what was that?
The shatner.
The sha.
Oh shit.
This chair,
Eric.
Don't gimme a goal of makingyou fall out of your chair.
Legitimately.
I have to sit up straight orI'm gonna die in this chair.

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This is like that episodewhere the spider came in.
Remember?
It was Oh yeah.
Like, well, Eric's fighting ghosts now.
This chair is brutal.
So talking about other old stuffat this point, after the whole
car thing and cutting open the gaspump, we cut to the computer room.
No.
No, we watch him tow that thing home.
No, we learn about how it's this policestate that it's turned into with cameras

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everywhere and cars are outlawed.
The M fers going down the road in thisbig ass wagon with a trailer with a
bright orange race car on it goingdown the highway and nobody knows.
He has this secret carhidden in his basement.
What?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
See Tanya gets it, his boldness of itwhen he goes to help out at the like
hospital or whatever, he drives right upand the guy's like, Hey, this was supposed

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to be turned into the impound water.
Yeah.
And then he just gets out andit's like, so was it gone now?
Okay, cool.
He lived in the middle of nowhere.
How is he getting to work every day?
Bicycle.
Well, you know, the amount of timeit used to take to go from A to
Z is the time it now takes to goto A to B or whatever the heck.
He's speech he made.
Yeah, he brings that up later.

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Yeah.
He wasn't complaining.
He's like trying to explain cars to a kidand that's what he pulls out and I'm like,
oh god dammit, Lee, or what's his name?
Frank Hart.
Frank Hart?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he works at theDepartment of Transportation.
That's what I'm getting to.
Is this computer room at the DOT?
Yes.
He's the spokesperson forthe Mass Transit Authority.
Yeah.
And he pops up like he works inthe fucking Trump administration.

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Just like, yeah.
So, uh, yeah, he usedto be a race car driver.
And uh, now they want me to talk abouthow, uh, riding bikes is cool as shit.
Yeah.
Any questions?
No.
You guys don't evenknow what a race car is.
What are you kids that havenever seen such a thing?
I wish I had a PowerPoint presentation.
I could give, eh, you know what?
Next scene.

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And see I got from that scene,I got more of the Simpsons.
Hi, I'm Tom Hanks.
Government's lost all credibility.
So the borrowing, some ofmine tole my hair, Mr. Hanks.
Okay.
Oh.
So this computer room mastercontrol, like a scene outta Tron.
I was waiting for Sark to come out orsomething, but what got me again, talking

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about this movie feels really outta place.
Did you all get the same vibe?
I did.
When you first saw the computerroom, it was like this marriage
between Willy Wonka and Dr.
Strange love.
It was totally strange.
Love.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
Boop boop.
Well, and here's thebest thing, like what?
Two people run that wholething and it's like.
This cavernous cineplex of beeps andboops all over in a giant fucking screen.

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Like if this were the taking a poem, 1,2, 3, there'd be 40 people from the Bronx
running all the levers and shit in there.
But no, if there's just one balding guyand some chick observing him, the great
thing is the one guy that's runningit sits in the center and there's no
access point for him to get in or out.
Yeah.
I assume he just jumps in and jumpsout like the Dukes of hazard, right?
Yeah.
But I was also thinking, what is RobertVaughn gonna show up in like a tower,

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like in Superman two looking down andthen suddenly Richard Pryor runs in
from the side, or I'm not with them.
Superman.
Oh, so cliche.
The lady in this room apparently pullsthe spokesperson aside and is like,
Mr. Hart, we've got you on videotapegoing to one of the confiscation yards.
We used to call 'em ajunkyard back in my day.
Like, yeah, same thing.
Confiscation yard is what we call it.

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Sir, looking into your record.
I understand you quit racing carsafter a crash where you killed
someone back in the eighties.
And he's like, Uhhuh.
Yeah.
Thanks for filling in the explanation soI don't have to, what are we doing here?
When do we talk aboutthat flashback scene?
That was real footage.
That was Andretti in that Lotus,by the way, the Formula one cars,
they're talking right, and they'relike, and he lost it in the corner.

(24:51):
They're on a straight uhhuh.
They're on a straight, butthey lost it in the corner.
What corner?
And then flipped like eight or ninetimes and ended up in the straight.
It's like being drunk in public.
I wasn't drunk until you put me in public.
Right?
This exposition dump is nice and all.
So then we cut to a nerd and anattic hacking the government.

(25:15):
It's like the Goonies.
Meanwhile, in war games, like,what the fuck are we doing?
A young Neil Breen is gettinghis first taste of the internet
hacking all the government secrets.
This is where we get introducedto radio free California.
The rebel state?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They do the interruption ofthe, like when he goes home.
Because, 'cause he, they're talkingabout sending him to rehab center,

(25:36):
like you mean jail rehab center.
We're gonna deport El Salvador.
It's perfectly fine.
Fucking does.
Is it too soon or is it too late?
Uh, so yeah, so he is at home watching thereplay of the crash for whatever reason.
I think he likes to watchhis wife crying or something.
That's, that's how he goesto bed every night, I assume.

(25:57):
Usually in this scene, like you havesomeone like looking at their wedding
footage or something like that.
'cause anyone has ever done that inthe history of forever and no, no one.
All right, but yeah, he is watchinglike the crash and his wife's
like, oh my God, is everybody okay?
God so terrible.
Oh, and yeah, this is when his replaysinterrupted by, hello everybody.

(26:19):
Uh, this is free California.
San Francisco has returned to machinesand we have our land back and we're not
under the government's thumb, so pleasecome on out here and blah, blah, blah.
Then they lose the signal, like it's very,they live kind of vibes like, you know.
Yeah.
Obey, put on the glasses thatthat'd have been great actually.
So this is where we also learnedthat the car was disassembled

(26:42):
and buried underground.
Right.
Because he's gotten the notion thatnow he wants to go to California.
He wants to break away from the monotonyof his Department of Transportation life
and everything that's oppressing him.
And I think he's in New England.
I heard Boston, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think he's in Boston.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he starts digging in hisgarage like someone killed his
fucking dog and he needs his guns.

(27:04):
John Wick referenced.
Yeah.
But during this rebuild montage thathappens over the course of 15 minutes,
it feels like in the film there'salso that moment where his coworker's
like, we'll just call him Lee.
He's like, Hey, come on Lee.
We're going to the bar.
You're coming out to the bar with me.
Right?
And I was like, did anybody else feel likewe suddenly stepped into a Kubrick film?

(27:24):
Oh, totally.
What was going on in this bar?
So his buddy slash speech writer,whatever, walking to the bar where the
walls are covered in aluminum foil.
And I'm like the future.
But then, uh, you know, theygo in a back room and Oops.
Orgy, oops.
And, and apparently in the originalversion there was a lot more
nudity and stuff in this scene.
Like an extra minute, minuteand a half, something like that.

(27:46):
I think I read somewhere.
Yeah.
Out of fucking nowherein this movie, like.
But the next day he's uh, youknow, talking to kids again, you
know, in his spokesperson role.
We know one of the kids isthe nerd that was hacking the
government secrets earlier.
He starts going off scriptand he is like, yeah.
So, uh, you know, normally I get uphere, tell him a race car driver and
how not having cars is great and greatfor the environment and great for,

(28:08):
you know, your duty to your country.
But, uh, it's all bullshit.
It's all rules and guilt.
And guys think for yourselvesand of course the one nerd kid
gets up like starts clapping.
Yeah.
Everybody else is a dead silent.
Yeah.
Like think for ourselves, wasit just me or did they all look
like they were from Hogwarts?
Very Harry Potter vibes.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(28:29):
JK rolling.
You hack.
They hint at the fact it's like aprep school that a kid got sent to,
I guess to try to straighten him out.
'cause Yeah, he's.
Rebellious what they try tohand at, but he didn't seem it.
He's one of them free thinkers and soyou know, the jocks slash other nerds
have to like beat him up and likehang him from a statue upside down.
Oh wait, he did that himself.

(28:50):
All right, nevermind.
I wish I could do thecarradine laugh, right?
You're talking aboutrevenge of the nerd deck.
I've never seen that movie.
Is it good?
No.
I've literally seen it athousand times as a 5-year-old.
It shaped who I am to this very day.
Yeah, especially the second one.
Nah, nerd's and Paradise isn't my bag.
Oh yeah.
And also his, uh, speech writerbuddy basically says like,

(29:10):
look dude, you're an idiot.
You're gonna get fired.
I don't know what they're gonna do withyou if they don't have a use for you.
You're over 40.
We're in like the Logan'srun timeframe or something.
Oh yeah.
We see the kid, they set up for like aclass photo and he blows the head off
the statue as they're taking the photo.
That was awesome.
Great stuff.
What's the next thingthat actually happens?
Uh oh Yeah.
He sends a message to Hart like an email.

(29:32):
But you know, it's one of those earlyeighties emails on a matrix printer.
Yeah, you are not alone.
And I was expecting heart to be like, belooking around like he's all listen sudden
transporting to like black Christmas.
Like the call is comingfrom inside the house.
By the way, kids today willnever know the joy of peeling the

(29:53):
edges off the dot matrix paper.
Oh.
And folding it into little accordions.
Right.
And then just like seeing how long youcan like stretch that a hundred percent.
Simple joys is these simple joys.
So the next day, Hart gets amemo and he is basically like,
yeah, you've been suspended.
Probably gonna go to jail.
So then the police golfcarts show up at the school.

(30:13):
Oh my God.
These are the funniest recurringjokes in the whole film.
Like every time I saw these, whatlooked like they were reused for
Johnny Cabs later in total recall,I just kept cracking up because
they're like cyber police vehicles.
Like Tesla designed these things, right?
Yeah.
I mean, that's what they look like andI'm just cracking up the whole time.
Like, this is so hitting close to home.

(30:34):
They didn't even know what they weredoing, you know, 44 years ago now.
This is incredible stuff.
But yeah, they're tracking the,this signal that apparently
this kid sending out, you know,hacking the government secrets.
But then it's like, wait, whyare they outside of Hart's house?
And then we see Hardee'sinside, you know, sipping his
whiskey whatever for the night.
And then you hear someone like break inthrough the front door and I'm like, well,

(30:56):
illegal search and seizure right there.
Oh no, it's just the kid.
And he is like, Hey, thecops are following me.
Can I hide here for the team?
He is like, what?
And knock, knock, knock.
Who is it?
And the part about that, that, you know,they found the signal emanating from Lee
Majors house, Frank's house or whatever.
And I kept thinking, this is themoment this kid is gonna open his
jacket up, like data from the Gooniesand he's gonna be wired up with

(31:19):
electronics and he's carrying aroundsome mobile emitter or something.
And it was like totally benign.
It was, it was such a big plot holethat they found him in the first
place was emanating from the school.
Because the one teacher's like, what?
There nothing like that could be here.
When they were going up steps andthe cop popped his head up into the
attic where the equipment was at,I think they were following the kid
and he went running that direction.

(31:40):
That's why they just stopped at thehouse and hey you, oh, that makes
more sense because I thought for aboutthree seconds he was living in Lee
Major's fucking attic for a second.
Like wait.
This whole time when the kid getsthere and he breaks the window,
the cop comes up to the front door.
Wouldn't you notice broken glass?
Yes.
There was no broken glass.
And that's where I'mlike, fire that gaff guy.
You know the, they added the scene later.

(32:02):
They had to fire the sound effect.
Like during that scene, while thecops are talking to him, you see
Lee major looking off to the side.
Mm-hmm.
And any normal circumstance that Iwould imagine if a cop is there and
someone's looking off to the sideand you can obvious movement from the
lighting when the kid opens the doorto the garage, I think a cop would be
like, well, what's going on in there?
Outta curiosity, but theydidn't seem to care at all.

(32:23):
And then a kid goes in and sees therace car just snowballs from there.
Yeah, it does.
And he adds the, uh, horseracer for what, 1972.
Like Eric was saying.
Whoa, wait, I got, I gotta interject.
If we expect anything more fromthese Keystone COP characters,
they're not coming backlater in the movie.
Dang.
Nope.
Not at all.

(32:43):
But the, the kid's like, Hey,you, uh, you going to California?
Uh, no.
Why?
Why would you think that?
No, I'm totally going to California.
Can I come with, I don't know, man,that's kind of weird going on a Smokey
and the Bandit run on roads that haven'tbeen used in 25 years and it's okay.
I got chemicals and like electronics andstuff like, well, shit, I don't know.

(33:04):
Hop in shotgun.
Let's go.
Hold on, let me change my outfit.
Puts on his racing suit.
Hell yeah.
What?
Yeah, less drag that way.
And the kid, no helmet, but he's got hishelmet and he's got his racing suit on.
Yeah.
How did he blow the garage door up?
When did he have time to rigthe garage with explosives?
When he was hiding from the cop?
Yeah.
Did I miss the scene?
No, no, no.

(33:24):
We just assumed that in theeight seconds it took Lee Majors
to be like, Nope, no kids here.
I guess he was already rigginga plan B into the garage door.
Oh, okay.
Again, if this was the Gooniesdata would've hit a button on
the box and it would've shotout and attached to the door.
I, I can totally see a scene wherethis kid's like in the garage, like
this motherfucker narks on him.
I'm gonna blow up his whole goddamn house.

(33:46):
Yeah, it said they, uh, youknow, they get in the car.
Keystone cops are back.
So, uh, your neighbor said akid was just here, like, or No.
Was the, was it securitypeople that like told 'em?
Yeah, like, yeah.
Yeah.
That have similar golfcarts to the police.
They hop in the car, blow the garagedoor and you're like, take me with you.
Okay, cool.
Get in.
Well real quick, what?
The garage door blowing.

(34:06):
I'm amazed with the 30 seconds.
The kid was standing there looking in.
He managed to put whatever this goo isall over the garage door to lock it shut.
It's explosive, Mike.
That's impressive.
This kid's ability, he's a genius.
He's Batman, he's raceor whatever his name is.
Ring, ring, ring.
Like the doorbell.
Yeah, ring.
Yeah.
It's one of those.
Yeah.
So you know how I'm sensitiveto car sound effects, right?

(34:29):
We've talked about this.
Yeah.
Never forget, right.
And this will go into my super funfact about the car when he fires it up.
That is the sound, actual soundof a Porsche flat six idling.
And it sounds so good 'cause it'sstraight piped and it's amazing
what they use for the action scenes.
Is not quite right and I don'tknow why they did that, because

(34:49):
that car is so naturally loud.
It just, to me, it didn't make sense.
But I was really impressed.
I was like, when he fires it upand it's idling and they're dying
from carbon monoxide in that scene.
Yeah.
I was like, that's thereal thing right there.
That's awesome.
I have a fun fact aboutthe car that I found.
I have some fun facts too.
I'll interject it at theappropriate time, I suppose.
Alright, we're gonnahave a lot of fun Facts.

(35:09):
Good, because I don't, Idon't think I have that many.
So, yeah, they drive off and you know, thekid holds like the million candle power
flashlight or whatever to do you rememberthose flashlights from the eighties?
They sucked.
It was barely enough to light the topof the hood in front of the, the lights.
Yeah.
And it only took like 18 D cell batteriesand you know, and you're plug it into

(35:29):
the cigarette lighter in my race car.
Like what?
Like, okay.
I love the fact that there just happenedto be a passenger seat in it as well.
Yeah.
But then they, uh, they take thetunnel outta town, but, oh no.
There's a roadblock.
How are we gonna get out of this one?
Hard pull to the right, explodesagainst the wall roll credits.
Guys.
What do we think of?
Chase.
At first I thought, I waslike, did he just u-turn in?

(35:51):
Like 'cause you couldn't see anything.
Yeah.
I was like, did he just likedo a 180 in this tunnel?
He is gonna drive back the other way andthen all you see is noise and blackness
says, oh, we made a a right turn inthe middle of the straight tunnel.
Really?
What tunnel does that?
The big dig does that, I'massuming this would be like an
older tunnel for water stuff.
'cause I do like have it where it'llshoot off at a 45 degree angle.

(36:12):
A lot of older tunnels and especiallylike older places like London
that had tunnels underground.
Yeah.
We weren't in London, but I knowwe're not, but we're in New London.
AKA Boston.
We're in Canada, folks.
Flagstaff, it was Looney Tunes.
It was straight up Looney Tunes.
Yeah.
Oh, when he popped out thesign, it was Smokey the Bear.
Yeah, yeah.
Pop out the smokey poster,and I thought it was weird.

(36:34):
Earlier in the movie, he madea Smokey The Bear reference.
Yeah.
He said, I, I got a friend inSmokey The Bear or something.
You're like, what?
Yeah, I got a friend that'sgonna help me out here.
Who is it?
Smokey The Bear.
Okay.
Old man.
Whatever you say.
Okay, boomer.
Yeah.
Then we're uh, driving inthe autumn in New England.
So we see the leaves falling and they'regoing upwards of a hundred miles an hour.

(36:59):
No, not really.
But then guys at thesecurity council from Dr.
Strangelove or whatever theycall in Hawkins from dc.
This guy, I guess he just kind of showsup and he is like, well, what's going on?
Like, oh yeah, he is going 130 miles anhour on this brand new road he's driving
on that hasn't been used in 25 years.
How are they tracking his speed?

(37:19):
Exactly.
That's what I wanted to, because theyhave cameras out the middle of the woods.
Oh, okay.
You didn't realize that?
Oh yeah.
Okay, got it.
You're reading the script.
That's how they're doing it.
But, uh, but then, uh, I was like, uh, hejust gotta run outta gas any minute now.
And then kins is like, well, there's afew inches of gas they can siphon every

(37:41):
pump, every gas station in America.
And I'm like, still, really?
No one's done this in 30 years.
Okay.
It gets go bad for like18 months or something.
Also that.
I mean, after 20 years, itmight be suspect 25 years.
It might be turpentine at that point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, turpentine does burn.
So it's a race car could run on anything.
Exactly.
This was probably fuel which would last alittle longer than the new ethanol fuel.

(38:04):
So, oh, here we go.
Back in my day, we ran the cars on shine.
Look, my parents have this story aboutnow they're divorced, but when, uh, when
they got married for their honeymoon, theytook their, uh, CJ four out to the middle
of the BlackRock Desert in the middle,in the seventies, and were camping.
And my dad did not notice thatthe fender had rubbed a hole

(38:25):
in the gas tank on the Jeep.
So they're in the middle ofthe desert, like 30 miles from
any civilization with no gas.
My dad didn't know about the hole yet.
He was just like, why are we outta gas?
So he dumped all of their lanternfuel into the Jeep and apparently
they just blasted right into town.
And they pulled up to thegas station like puck.
It a puck it up.
My dad started filling it up.

(38:46):
My mom went to the bathroom.
She came out, gas was just pouringoutta the back of the Jeep.
They ran into the bathroom and got thebar of soap, rubbed the bar of soap over
the hole in the gas tank to plug it.
Finished their honeymoon andapparently my dad did fix it for
three or four more, uh, Jeep runs.
That's some good soap.
I do not recommend you do this at home.
These are also the people who, whenmy radiator had a hole in it in my

(39:07):
1975 Ford Micro pickup, they said justput some uh, raw eggs in the radiator
every so often and drive it around.
The eggs will cook in the radiatorand get stuck in the hole.
And it does work, but I don'trecommend it for months on end.
Wow.
It works until it works too well and closeup the passage and overheats the motor.
I mean, it's a 1975 Ford Courierthat ran on three cylinders.

(39:28):
That was not its biggest problem.
That's 'cause the fourthone was full of eggs.
But you know, we'll just leave that way.
Eggs probably.
It's poaching the shit outta those eggs.
Hey, the truck was freefrom a crazy hippie.
So you're starting to establisha pattern for us, Izzy.
That's all I'm saying.
Then I like to buy shitty oldcars and drive them around.
Yes.
And you guys are wondering, Hmm?
I wonder if I boughta car from Izzy's dad.

(39:50):
No, no, no.
My dad runs them to the ground.
Yeah.
See there's dozens of you out there.
I'm sure.
Probably lost it in apoker game or something.
No, no, no.
My dad has never sold a car, sold a car.
He's taken people's money, but they'venever actually ended up with the car.
So my apologies if my dadowes any of you any money.
There's only like a 20% chance.
So then, uh, speaking of free California,we start getting a signal or we started

(40:13):
like hearing on the radio and they'relike, alright, we're getting reports
of a car on its way to California.
But it, you know, showsthem like stuck in the mud.
So this is vanishing point.
The same thing, right?
And I'm like, oh my God, here we go.
Stuck in the rain scene too.
I was just like, oh man, this is pathetic.
But this is the fun part.
We cut back to DOT headquarters.

(40:34):
The penguin shows up forthe first time, right?
Eh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We see like his whole like expositionvideo about jets and like, ah, JEG
Williams, the, the one guy that runsall of the boop boops at the security
thing is Santa to pick up this JGWilliams who's, you know, Burgess
Meredith, a 85-year-old man or whatever,because you know, it's the future.

(40:57):
And I guess he flew in Nam and so thisis like 50 years later or whatever.
He's basically like.
Would my wife send you?
No.
All right.
You wanna go fly a kite?
So weird.
Give like a Chinese history lesson ashe's drinking Jack Daniels and talking
about how he flew 138 missions in Nam.
And then, uh, the guy's like,well, do you wanna fly a jet again?

(41:19):
What?
What the fuck are you talking about?
I don't think they havethose anymore, but yeah.
Then we cut back to Harting.
The kid, they're drivingalong, they got outta the mud.
We see our first fox hunting posse,like it's just a bunch of yokels
in West Virginia or whatever.
Like we, we gotta find thisguy on the race car and put a
bullet in them or something.
Is this the part wherethey're on the dock?

(41:39):
Right after they passed thepeople, they wound up at the dock.
Okay, okay.
They like pull off road.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
So I was wondering at this point, Idunno if anybody caught it, there was
a reddish orange object in the water.
It was a boat, like a rowboat, andI couldn't tell if it was a boat or
if they had crashed the car or not.
But then obviously they got backand I was like, well that's the
end of the movie right there.

(41:59):
So that was a little strange.
But that whole scene was alittle strange because it was
like a bonding scene, right?
Like they're coming to termswith this adventure that they're
now really committed to goingon and getting to California.
So I was like, okay.
Well it was for the fact that asLee Major's standing on the kid,
like after he'd been pushed in, heactually, he's gonna lift the dock.
The dock doesn't move at all,but Lee Majors goes flying off

(42:20):
like he got thrown off on mic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He like damn near does a backflip on his own or whatever.
Like I think he was supposed to be shakingit, but he realized he's like a 45 pound
kid trying to shake a dock or whatever.
And so Lee Major's improv, that'sthat fall guy stuff right there.
Exactly.
Probably my favorite part ofthis whole movie, I'm not gonna
lie, we cut back to the securitycouncil or the DOT or whatever.

(42:44):
And Hawkins is like talking to the, theother two people in this department.
Like what do you see?
Uh, just two guys driving acrossthe country, like, no, no, no.
This is dangerous to thebalance that we've created.
It's a metaphor.
It's an allegory.
Yeah.
And for our system of protectionand tranquility and keeping people

(43:07):
under control so they don't docrazy things like drive cars or have
opinions or chop up billionaires withguillotines or anything like that.
No.
This is how we keep them complacent.
This is the time where I wrote it down.
I made a note, I underscored it, Ibolded it, wrote over it several times.

(43:27):
This is the first time in along time I've heard the word
defecate be used in a movie.
Yes.
And I could not stop laughing because youhave the penguin talking about defecating.
And I'm just like, wait, what?
What just happened?
And so yeah, he goes on a rant and thenyeah, this is where, uh, he talks about
defecating on flowers or whatever.
Yeah, exactly.

(43:48):
Yeah.
So then, uh, yeah, we cut to Williams.
He's put on his outfit to be,I don't know, train Rocky.
Like he's got his legit mickeyoutfit on and he goes to see his
jet plane and it's dusty as fuck.
And we get a nice little fixed team comingin and cleaning it up and stuff for him.
There's a nice quote in there too.
Remember, he walks up to theplane, he is by himself, touches

(44:09):
little, he's like, never fear.
Papa's here.
You're like, oh God.
Oh, oh, you think, oh God,until it's all fixed up.
It's got its new paint joband he goes flying off in it.
It looks awesome.
That's a good looking plane.
The process where they're rebuildingit, he's very involved in that.
Maybe Vietnam veteran pilots hadmore knowledge of the aircraft.

(44:31):
All of the pilots I dealt with inthe military had like no knowledge of
anything mechanical in the aircraft.
So it was amazing to see a pilotactually putting it back together.
It was a missed opportunity forall those mechanics to wear a
black t-shirt and a bowler hat.
And on the t-shirt it says goon becausethat's what I was expecting, right?
Just like seeing out a Batman.
Yeah.
Wha wha wha wha wha tellingthem all what to do.

(44:52):
And they're just runningaround like idiots.
I mean, it's perfect.
Oh, but he's flying in thatjet plane and he's talking to
it like it's his lost love.
And he is like, oh, that's okay, baby.
I'm just gonna take it nice and easy.
Oh.
Oh, I wrote the quote down.
Here we go.
And Tanya's already cringing.
Oh baby, that's it, baby.

(45:12):
You're better and sexier than ever.
And then he starts going andhe's like, howling like a wolf.
How whatcha doing?
Like a fucking Tex Avery cartoon So bad.
Cringe.
This is where he came.
It was like 1970s audiofrom a porn or something.
It was terrible.
So then, uh, we got a roadblock setup in West Pennsylvania for 'em,

(45:33):
and I'm like, that's all they'vegone in, like those last three days.
Okay, that's cool.
That's exactly what I wrote down too.
I was like, that's as far asthey've made it to this point.
Like, holy hell.
That's how it is in all ofthese movies between New York
or Boston, wherever they start.
And western Pennsylvania, that'slike a four day drive and then it's
18 hours from there to California.

(45:54):
Yeah, it's nuts.
Yeah.
We see, uh, har and the kid, they goon like the railroad tracks to like.
Try to get around thisroadblock and they're like, oh
man, how are we gonna do it?
The kid starts going off, like,I, they got like a satellite
hookup and I can mess with that.
So that night, I don't know, a Coketruck pulls up and like, as part of
the roadblock and it's still good, andsomehow the kid like blows it up and

(46:17):
they drive the car right on through.
I'm like, what the fuck ishappening in this scene?
Right?
And then there's that onemilitary guy who's like, you think
this stuff is still any good?
So now you're like, this is an oldCoke truck that was never unloaded.
You think gas goes badafter six months, right?
Yeah.
But also, uh, fallout, you hacks

(46:38):
also.
I did just have a thought.
Ohoh.
I know I'm scared too.
We're talking about how they don't seemto know where states start and end.
It is in the future.
Maybe they've changed the linessince we're talking about the
root and how long it takes.
And at one point they're like,they're going a hundred miles an hour.
We estimate that that's goingto be, that they're going to

(46:58):
run outta fuel in 300 miles.
What was the fuel economy on the nine 17?
Yeah, it was not thatat wide open throttle.
It is not that.
That's why they only have to get gas.
Like what?
Maybe once in a 500 mile race, right?
According to Google,it's two miles a gallon.
Wow.
So a van gets better mileage than that?
Oh, far better.

(47:18):
Far better.
We get like 14, this escape sequence.
We talked about the Smokey The Bearone from earlier was like Looney Tunes
level and the Keystone cops to includethe military and the security guards
haven't gotten any smarter or any better.
This was straight up Smokeyand the Bandit Chicanery.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, I busted out laughing 'causeI forgot how cornball this scene is,

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and especially the fact that he'spushing his own car dressed like one.
I was like, where did he get the clothes?
Like who did he mug?
And the kid got one too.
So the satellite that was up onthe tracks they flashed back to.
And the two guys that Igot, oh, that's right.
They're like hog tied intheir tidy white and T-shirts.
You know why it didn't register?
Because it's such a cartoon trope thatit just doesn't stick in my brain.

(48:03):
Like how many times have you seenthat before where the guy gets knocked
out and they steal his clothes?
It's like Star Wars.
All those movies do the same thing.
You're like, all right, whatever.
It's so cornball.
But guys, now we cut to the best part.
They've just got past theWest Pennsylvania checkpoint.
We then cut to a jet flying over theAmerican southwest near Flagstaff.
Well, and they made a referenceto Kansas at one point.

(48:25):
Yes.
They said they're in Kansas, cut tothem driving in the mountains, and
I'm like, there is not one fuckingmountain in the entire state of Kansas.
What the hell has happened inthis post apocalyptic future?
Well also, how slow is thissupersonic jet that he's flying?
Well, what do you mean?
He's flying in Arizona already.
So Lee Majors and this kid.
Race ring, whatever his name is, they'restealing gas wherever they can find it.

(48:48):
Mm-hmm.
Okay, fine.
We, we will, we willsuspend disbelief here.
Where is the plane getting refueled?
I wondered that.
Yeah.
Well the one time he landed, theguy was like, well, you couldn't
refill while you're there.
Right.
And it's like he's themiddle of nowhere, but Okay.
Apparently there was a fuel station.
What's the, uh, fueleconomy on that jet again?
Is it, uh, similarly, two miles to gallonor It is a negative number, I believe.

(49:12):
Yeah, it's gallons per mile.
Yeah.
Many aircraft burn,almost half their fuel.
Just taking off.
Good lord.
Or in the air is actuallyreally efficient.
But on the ground is when they'renot, not the way he was flying,
that thing wasn't efficient.
My God.
Yeah.
Eight feet off the ground, half the movie.
Yeah.
So yeah, they're flying in Americasomewhere and uh, you know, that night

(49:33):
hearting the kid, they stop, have alittle campfire, and, uh, the kid's like,
well, what do you do besides race cars?
What.
Oh wait, did you have a son?
About my age?
Yeah.
A little older, but whatever.
And that conversationgoes fucking nowhere.
Yeah, it was so dumb.
I feel like they didn't get the script,like the day they were shooting it, they
were just kinda like trying to improv, butthen it's like, I can't talk to this kid.

(49:57):
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think I'm the fall guy in this onebecause I think it was before the
boat or the water on the dock thing.
We already passed the time wherethe kid is like whining, like
a little bee about Oh yeah.
Not being able to drive.
And I'm like, how do youeven know how to drive?
You do trust me, cars have been outlawedsince you've been born and you're
gonna get in race car and drive it.
If memory serves me correctly.

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When he is in the garage,he's like, what is this?
It's a car.
It's a little before your timeand not 12 hours later, he is
like, you won't even let me drive.
And I'm like, you don'tknow how to start this dude.
Like, you're lucky I let yousit here instead of in the
trunk, which doesn't exist.
Oh.
Which is where he stores histransfer pump, don't forget.
And his helmet.
Yeah.

(50:38):
All this extra stuff that they have.
Okay.
So where were we now?
We we were the hell, ohwell we're 18 hours later.
'cause they had the onenight they're in Kansas.
Mountains of Kansas.
So now we're in themiddle of southern Utah.
Oh, we're in Utah.
Okay.
We left the mountains of Kansas orArizona, I don't know, like it's
all kind of blurs Castle Rock orwhatever that's called out there
where he flies through the first time.

(50:59):
I was like, that looks like Utah.
Yeah.
It all looks like the, what was it,monument Valley or, yeah, monument Valley.
That's it.
Grand Escalante staircase.
Like all that.
Yeah.
So it's like, okay, cool.
Well they're in Utah.
Where?
Where's the car?
Oh, I guess the car's there nowtoo, because they hear the jet and
it's like, all right, that's cool.
You get a little fly by andnot just a fly by though.
It's ba as he's going by.

(51:20):
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
This is where they shoot up theshell station and everything.
That's right.
And uh, heart gets hit in the shoulder.
Oh fuck.
They pull off into the tree.
So the jet has no idea where they are.
Uhhuh.
'cause it's not like ithas a, uh, what's the term?
Bird's eye view of everythingfor miles in every direction.
And that car is so camouflagedin the woods too, you know?

(51:42):
Yeah.
This bright, like Ferrari, red,orange, whatever, race car in an area
where the trees are very sporadic.
Again, plot holes galore.
The only tracks for a thousand milesbecause there's no cars out there.
Various points up to this.
They've taken it on terrainthat I wouldn't imagine be
very comfortable in that car.
You know, this is thestuff Dan thinks about.

(52:03):
That never crosses my mind.
This thing's crossed my mind too.
'cause have we made it to wherethey were suddenly in snow?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And these m fers arein an open cabin thing.
It's cold enough for there to be snow.
You would be dying.
Yes.
And then they say something like,we need to get to lower ground.
And I'm like, like in a river, isthat what you're looking to do?

(52:25):
And so they park in a field Yep.
Where a jet could possibly see them.
Nope.
And then he is like, all right kid,you start driving and then like the
kid can't start it because you know.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
Probably also is probably outta gas also.
Oh shit.
Is that guy dead?
He started it and he startedgoing, he stalled out.

(52:48):
Well, I was like, did you stallit or did it run outta gas?
Because I was like, okay.
He stalled it, but then it'slike it wouldn't turn back on.
I'm like, so is it out of gas?
Like, and, and then it startszooming in and heart, he's laying
in the chair like he's fucking dead.
He's like, passed out ortaking a nap or whatever.
Losing all that blood.
Oh, what?
What's going on here?
Cut to them just back on the roaddriving like, okay, where's that?
Not only are they driving, but thisis the first time we see the plane

(53:10):
like almost in land condition.
Chasing.
It's a dream.
It was a dream.
Was it a dream?
Was it Yes.
If you paid attention.
Because I was like, what's going on?
There was only a single person inthe car and they were wearing a
helmet, so, and then he woke upin the bed, so he was dreaming it.
Oh, okay.
But still, we had some stunt flying'cause the plane was like near

(53:30):
touchdown conditions chasing the car.
That was a really cool shot to see thecar coming and then like the heat waves
coming up, the asphalt and the plane.
And that was, I thoughtthat was pretty epic.
Yeah.
But then we cut to him waking upin a bed on an Indian reservation
and I'm like, god dammit movie.
But we do see the car gettowed in by the horses.
I think it is exactly why I'mlike, then is it out of gas on

(53:52):
the facts of being outta gas?
Because other than that, had he stalledit, anybody who's ever stalled a manual
vehicle, it kind of bucks a little bit,but it was like just tapered off like.
Shutting off and being totowed in by the horses.
I do think it was, it ran out of fuel.
There you go.
I don't know how they gotthe fuel to leave later.
And then the horses must havepissed in the tank, I guess.
I don't know.
Yeah, methane.
They made it on the res.That's what they did.

(54:13):
Yeah.
Yeah.
They, they all, uh, keep theirpoop for methane and, you know,
use it usually for campfires.
But isn't that the science?
Right.
If you leave poop and waterlong enough, it'll create nitric
acid, then that's volatile.
You know, the whole, I don't know.
I'm not a chemist, butI heard that something.
Yeah, that's where the whole shipHighend transit thing comes in.
They could have had a still inthe cave where they had that car.
Oh, there we go.

(54:34):
That's true.
Guys, we finally decided, you knowwhat, we should have a second female
character in this movie because we havethe chick from the DOT or whatever.
Oh babe, this is the third one.
'cause the teacher.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
There was mistake.
I guess that counts my mistake.
Yeah.
Yeah, that counts.
Lucky Third.
Well, we had his wife for like30 seconds crying on a video.
Oh.
I mean, okay.

(54:55):
Gosh, I guess there, there's somany women in this film, guys.
I think this passed the back till test.
We've actually got like a fairly earlyon credit at the end of the movie, which
amazed me for the fact that I thinkit was just like a video of her and it
wasn't live action of her in the movie.
It would've been betterif it was Farrah Faucet.
That would've been perfect,but you know, anyway, whatever.
Well more on that and fun facts, so, soyeah, that's uh, lady that, I guess at

(55:21):
the Indian reservation though, I thinkshe's late to be one of Charlie's Angels.
She was basically like,Hey, how, how's it going?
You feeling better?
Sure.
Where the fuck am I?
Oh yeah, you're on the Indian reservation.
We reclaimed it after everybody leftand I've been out here for like eight
years, exposition, blah, blah, blah.
And then, yeah, theysore the car in the mine.
So then we cut to Captain Williams andhe's at the Pima airplane junkyard in

(55:44):
Arizona now looking at all the old jets.
He's like reporting back tothe DOT, like, Hey, I lost him.
And then he is like flying a kite,just kind of toying with him like, oh,
I don't know, it's gonna be, take mea while, flying around to find him.
He, he's just, just dragging it outso he can fly around in his plane for
like the rest of the movie, right?
Yeah.
And then, yeah, the widow backat the Indian reservation, she's

(56:05):
giving her whole backstory.
Oh, that's right.
The DOT we think they might be at, uh,this Indian reservation or whatever.
Do we have anyone in the areathat can like go check for us?
Like, well we could talk to Utah.
I don't know.
They're tough to deal with those,uh, goddamn Mormon Zionists.
And I'm like, wow, this is the future.
The not too distant future.

(56:27):
I think this is the part where we cutback to the point where I wrote down in
my notes, hoedowns and hot air balloons.
Yeah.
We cut to a fucking hoot.
Nanny.
Yeah.
That was what was missing the whole time.
This is what this movie needed.
Yeah.
Part starts giving his head backstoryor whatever, and then it's like.
Smash cut to them at a bar

(56:49):
square dancing and shit.
Did you notice there was noaluminum foil anywhere in that bar?
No, but cut to post coitus.
Oh my God.
It was like one day I'mlike, wow, that's fast.
And then the kid, you love her.
I'm like, what?
You just met her so mandatoryof movies of this period.
Terrible.
So yeah.

(57:09):
Then uh, the kids like trying toadd like the radio to the car,
so yeah, so we can keep tabs onthings, but then he overhears like a
walkie-talkie transmission about 'em.
Uh Alright.
Execute Plan Alpha.
Oh yeah.
Plan Alpha.
We've labeled the plan.
We've got a mission, you know, all set up.
Where's Beta Charlie Delta.
Right.
There's gotta be multiple plans andthey must be in escalation form.

(57:31):
Hell no.
Plan Alpha, shoot up the village.
Let's do it.
Yeah, just, just massacre everybody.
Things escalated.
Quickly, I assume Plan B was Nepal.
That's my point.
If Plan Alpha was thatsevere, what was Plan Beta?
Add the words or else like demolition Man.

(57:53):
You don't know how to use the seashells.
Yeah.
Right.
Oh, by the way, the security for thisIndian reservation is, what was it?
Her dad or grandpa used to be like aNew York cop, but like the oldest man
you've ever seen, they should havehad Don Knotz play the character.
Yeah.

(58:13):
Yeah, Barney five sees thislike SWAT team coming in and
he is like, what motherfuckers?
And of course like shoots one of'em and they just Robocop his ass.
Worst thing is therewas no words exchanged.
It was just he sees them, pulls thegun outta the holster and fires.
There was no questions, no conversation.
It was just like open fire.
Yeah.
This is so much betterthan the imagery I had.

(58:34):
I kept thinking aboutEarnest goes to jail.
Remember the old guy that's thesecurity guard and every time he fired
the gun he get knocked backwards.
Yeah, of course.
Mayhem and sues as this elitesquadron comes in and starts
taking out unsuspecting women andchildren heart's running around.
He is like, where's your Dora?
I need to find Eudora.
And I love how like the oneIndian guy like is like.
No, just leave.

(58:56):
They're looking for you.
If they ask me, I'm gonnatell them where you are.
So just go.
Yeah.
We then cut to them on the road andI'm like, wow, we missed a really
daring escape somehow how They gotthe car out of the mine refueled got
it on the road, passed the elite SWATteam threw a field onto the main road.
You couldn't even throw a dreamsequence in there to cut it up.

(59:18):
Nope.
Alright.
Plan Alpha.
It was all plan alpha.
I'm like, yeah, that was easy.
And then, okay, now back at the DOT.
Not only do they have access to everysecurity camera ever, and satellites
and all that shit, apparently they haveaccess to the Star Wars program and lasers
all over the American Southwest desert.
This was such a Doctor Evil moment.

(59:39):
I was like, I literally wrote down lasers.
I was like, this is awesome.
Yeah, they had the guy playing aroundwith it, you know, see him blow up a
bunch of cactus, and then, uh, Hawkins,you know, the, the evil guy from dc He's
like, can you set that to automatic?
Cool.
Why don't you give me the key now?
But, but if it's automatic,it's just gonna shoot anything
that goes through that area.
Exactly.

(01:00:01):
And of course that's the roadthey're about to pass on or whatever.
And Babu ba, even though I know thismovie predates the one I'm about to
reference, if you guys remember theJames Bond film, or Sean Connery
came back after being retired fromJames Bond, never say never again.
There's that scene where he's playingagainst the villain and that video game
and it's like electro Shocking them.

(01:00:22):
Yeah, but they're,they're flying the nukes.
They're sort of realmissiles, but they're not.
And like this whole scene, I was like,that's where they got their inspiration
from for that bond film was fromthis, because it reminded me of that.
Very, very much so.
They park.
The jet lands by them.
You know, Williams flies in bythe jet, wherever lands, and they
just sit there like perfectlystill staring at each other.

(01:00:42):
And this is where heart's justlike, he just wants to chase.
He's not even concerned aboutwhatever, blah, blah, blah.
He is like, all right kid, you'regonna stay here and I'm gonna play
chicken with this goddamn jet plane.
The kid like tackles heart and he is like,Hey, we're gonna be driving blah blah.
Whatcha doing this?
So we can just keep going.
Of course we get the whole tearything, like, I don't want to lose you.

(01:01:04):
Barf.
Is that what's going on?
All right.
Then they, uh, play chicken.
Oh my god.
The guy, the DOT is like, oh,150 miles an hour, 160, 170.
Get up to like 250 likeit takes for fucking ever.
It's the equivalent of inspeed two cruise control.
When the guys count down the knotsas the ship is going through the
port and the town and everything, heis like three knots, like for four

(01:01:29):
minutes of destruction, two knots.
Fucking dumb.
Basically the, uh, jet ends up swervingout of the way and cheers, I guess,
from the Department of Transportation.
Okay, cool.
I must not be that vestedin this movie anymore.
Sorry.
It's, I don't know.
And then we cut to thekid being back in the car.
Yes, yes, yes.
At full speed.

(01:01:49):
And I'm like, when thefuck did that happen?
Okay.
But the real quick thing,when they're playing chicken.
You see that hesitationfrom him shift gear.
And I think that was like the purposeof that point in the movie was him
overcoming his fear that he mentionedabout the accident with the racing
when he, oh, because he kind ofhesitates and then he is like the
hell and he throws into the next gearand just hammer down towards the jet.
It was very anime esque.

(01:02:10):
I must give it my all and thengoes super say and, and does
250 miles an hour is amazing.
You could do a speedracer kid back in the car.
Blew my mind as well aslike, yeah, that was weird.
Was he running behind him?
Like Speedy Gonzalez the wholetime he was having there the whole
time he was on his hoverboard.
That's what it was.
He tethered on a hoverboard.
Well, uh, so yeah, the jetschasing him behind him.

(01:02:32):
Again, they're trying to likecommunicate like with the radio
and he is like, Hey, am I good?
Kay, are you, you're doing all right.
Hey, you knew I was bluffing or whatever.
I, I don't know.
They're talking on the radio andBeckett, DOT Hawkins is hearing and
he is like, jam that signal and makesure the lasers are ready to go.
But bridge Meredith.
I don't think he knew untilafter the radio signals jammed.

(01:02:54):
But then he is like, you gottalook out, there's lasers up ahead.
Hello?
Can you hear me?
And they're like trying to communicatewith like once for, yes, twice for no
kind of like shit with the flashlight.
It takes too damn long.
It was awful.
And then the jet blows up a trailerin front of him and they're like,
oh no, he is opening fire again.
Like, no.
Otherwise he'd be shooting atus instead of random trailers.
Hmm.

(01:03:14):
Blowing up the trailer, like gothim to stop like momentarily.
Yeah.
But then I wrote down the followingsequence because Go for it.
Go for it.
Yeah.
To your point, this took way too long.
Mm-hmm.
In a movie that was already too long.
I wrote laser attacks, plane,plane attacks, laser eventually
kamikaze into laser ground station.
No.
Hold on because planeattacks, laser misses.

(01:03:37):
Mm-hmm.
Plane drops two bombs simultaneously,hits two different targets
on each side of the road.
Exactly.
Yep.
He was using the machinegun to stray the laser.
He used the bombs for the singlewides that just so communally people,
I guess were living right next tothe road in the middle of the day.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He, the bombs on the laser, it mayhave been effective, but who knows?

(01:03:59):
Everything we described here was way moreinteresting than what we actually saw.
I just wanna point that out.
He got Burgess Meredith, likehowling at the moon as he jet
pedos into the laser and explodes.
And the only thing like, uh, to my, mychance to wear my medals after 30 years,
what of you guys might understand that?
And I'm like, no, probably not.

(01:04:20):
No, that's cool.
So I picked up on that line,and again, we were talking about
chronology earlier, like what timeperiod, what year is this set in?
And if he fought in Nam and afterI get to wear my medals after 30
years, so is it the nineties then?
Like, yeah.
When is this taking place?
It's actually 50 years ago, but hethinks it's 30 because he may have a

(01:04:42):
little bit of dementia because he's 112.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He thinks Batman was, was 15 years agoand it's like, oh no, not in this movie.
I figured this took place latenineties, early two thousands.
'cause a comment that's been made later bythe one guy back at the DOT or whatever.
Bite your tongue.
Yeah.
According to fun facts.
I just looked it up.
It is set in the year 2011.

(01:05:04):
The year 2000.
This last part.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
Lasers down.
And then this is when hard andthe kid decide to stop the car.
Yep.
I don't know.
They go to check the crash rubble.
'cause I don't know what they'reexpecting to find other than
perhaps a charred corpse.
No body, no death.
That's what I wrote.
I'm just amazed that the flask wassitting there and he picks it up.

(01:05:27):
Yeah, that thing shouldhave been nuclear hot too.
Oh yeah, totally.
But guys, it's okay.
You know why the kid says theline, I think we're there cut to
them at the California border.
I assume it's zizi on a bridge somewhere.
There's surrounded by a dozen people thatare like, Hey, welcome, blah, blah, blah.

(01:05:48):
And then we cut back to Hawkins of the DT.
He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on.
Oh, hold on.
No, no, no.
Please go for it.
Go for it.
Did anybody else.
Notice that California lookedlike munchkin land very green.
Suddenly it was wild.
And buildings are fuchsia and stuff.
Like if you pause and look, you'relike, it looks like munchkin land.
Oh, are you talking about thematte painting or whatever?

(01:06:08):
Okay.
Yeah.
The matte paintings in this are great.
'cause they're like literally, I thinkcut from like sci-fi novels or whatever.
I, I was waiting to see likethe Jetsons car flying around
or something, but it was wild.
All right.
So we cut back to the DOT and uh, Hawkinsis there and he is like, well, that's it.
It's a symbol.
There's gonna be cause fuckingeverywhere and we're gonna

(01:06:29):
lose our whole grip on society.
'cause this old dude in thiskid drove 3000 miles over
the course of three months.
Who knows?
The time is a construct.
It's gonna set us back to thenineties that he says to the eighties.
To the eighties, becauseI re-listened to you.
He goes, this could setus back to the eighties.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh, the eighties.
Oh, I swear.
Okay.
He said that.

(01:06:49):
But then it shows the presidential seal.
Roll credits.
Oh my God.
I was like, what the fuck?
Literally I was like, it's over.
That's it.
Yeah.
This is like Stephen King wrotethe ending on this fucking thing.
'cause it's like, oh look, we're here now.
Oh, well I guess that's the end.
This is the shortest longmovie I've ever watched, dude.

(01:07:10):
So fucking rough.
It was an hour 45 that flew by andthat ending just cemented it as well.
It was like, that's it.
It's over.
Seriously.
Yeah.
See it guys.
That's the last Chase.
Tanya, would you recommend it?
Oh, with a big sigh on that one.
Over some of the other movies Yes.
That we've watched.
She's specifically talkingabout the stuntman.

(01:07:31):
No, but I think I would.
Over the stunt man overtrading paint over senior trip.
Yeah, I think I'd recommend it.
Like it wasn't totally hateful.
Somehow it kept moving even though itwas so long, shortest, long movie ever.
I don't understand.
Alright, how about you Eric?
I actually like this movie.
It's sort of charming.
It's stupid.

(01:07:52):
It's fun.
Escape Familiar.
I really like the car, obviously.
Talk about that in the fun facts part.
But I like a good car chase, right?
I mean the seven Ups andVanishing Point and all those
movies are kind of a similar ilk.
So for me, this brings back thosememories and they're kind of fun as a
kid, you're like, yeah, it's cartoony.
Just like Cannonball Run is in away and it's got all these aspects,

(01:08:13):
but it doesn't take itself to theextremes that those other movies do.
It sort of sits in the middle, and ifyou can find it and you can watch it, I
would say definitely take a peek at it.
It's a Lee Major's treasure outof his 130 credits, you know, it's
definitely one right up at the top,right up there with Musketeers forever.
How about you MountMan, mountain Man, Dan?
Mountain Mike.

(01:08:34):
I think for Eric, the reason helikes it so much is he didn't have
to like flip out 'cause the auditorysounds, 'cause if those sounds were
wrong, he would hate this movie.
I mean, there's plenty of things tohate about this movie, but in general
I like it as for recommended to people.
If they want like the nostalgic1970s feel movie, I'd be like, yeah,
it's a cool older chase concept.

(01:08:55):
I even don't even hate theoverbearing government aspect of
it too, 'cause that's kind of cool.
'cause there's tons of movies that arelike that where the rebellion against it,
you know, no matter what movie it may be.
So it's worth watching.
But yeah, it's definitely notthe worst one we've watched.
But it's definitely not the best either.
You heard here, first Mountain Man.
Dan likes an overbearing government.

(01:09:16):
I know.
I like the rebellious part.
Oh, totally.
They rebelling against it.
Oh, okay.
Like people breaking severalfelonies in cars is what he likes.
Come on.
Oh, okay.
Excellent.
Come on.
How about you, babe?
Would you recommend this movie?
Look, this is definitely notthe worst movie we've watched
even with these nice folk.
That's true.
Yeah.
This movie felt like it wasfour and a half hours long.

(01:09:37):
The pacing is rough on this, andI am a fan of seventies movies.
I'm usually a fan of seventiespacing, but also loses stars because.
There's no hand grenades.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It is very death race,2000 and blah, blah blah.
Is death race.
2000 without the fun.
I was thinking of this likethe entire goddamn time.

(01:09:58):
It's basically over the topwithout the fun or the charisma.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's basically just an old dude and akid just driving along, having stupid
conversations to go fucking nowhere.
And then occasionally you cut toRobert Loja trying to kill them.
Yeah.
Kill one of 'em, I guess specifically,but it's like at least in over the top,
you have all the guys like chuggingoil or whatever in their little

(01:10:20):
wrestling promos for arm wrestling.
But, uh, yeah, it, this is a toughrecommend because it's, if you wanna
see one of those movies of likeRacing Across America for whatever
reason, I feel like originally thismovie was like two and a half hours
long and they're like, God help you.
If it's over an hour and 42 minutesand they're like, well shit, I guess
I can just cut out the third act.
Really?
Who really needs that shit?

(01:10:41):
That's easy.
That's Lee Majors in Munchkin Land.
That's what the third act is.
Oh, it looks like we're here.
I assume that line was 80 Yard.
I gotta go back to my home planet now.
Boop boop.
Where's Poochie?
Well then Don, we're gonnatake quick commercial break.
Oh.
But when we come back, we have more beer.
What's fun Facts?
Yeah.

(01:11:01):
And what we learnedfrom the last Chase ba.
We need more beer, don't we?
Yeah, sure.
Right.
And we're back.
Oh my God, Steve, those arethe greatest ads that I've ever
added in the history of adding.
Oh, she said it.
They're better thanarguing with my mother.
Alright.
Hey babe.
Uh, would you like a beverage?

(01:11:24):
Oh, please.
For the love of God, please.
Well, luckily from 21st Amendment Brewery.
Ooh, in San Francisco, California.
Yeah.
Munchkin Land hell or hightwilight citrus weed ale.
5.6% alcohol by volume.
Guys, the time of this here recording.
This is in fact our firsttime trying this beer.
We love The Hell or High Watermelon,which is a watermelon wheat

(01:11:45):
ale that is not terribly sweet,but it's just crazy refreshing.
Mm-hmm.
And this is an ale Brewedwith Sweet Orange Peel.
There we go.
Ooh, my top.
Top.
Nice.
And the pour down my throat.
Yeah.
Smells really bright andcitrusy right on the nose.
Like it smells like mandarin oranges.
Oh yeah.

(01:12:05):
This is like orange juice.
Pretty smooth.
And yeah, this tastes like a mimosawhere, uh, pouring the champagne and
it'll just like a splash of orange juice.
It's a bru.
Moosa.
It's a bru mo.
So you know what?
I'm not opposed to it.
Yeah.
This on a hot day.
Heck yeah.
Hmm.
Not bad.
That's the, uh, 21st Amendmenthell or high twilight.
Highly recommend guys, 21st Amendmentbrewing is, uh, is really good.

(01:12:27):
You guys, uh, still drinking from yourwell or whatever, or, oh, this iron
brew is just mm, no, no, no, no, no.
Is something wrong with your camera?
It looks like you're vibrating.
Pretty much has set his body toblur outside of the fact that
the chair's trying to kill me.
Every time I move around, the hairson the back of my neck are literally

(01:12:50):
standing up and I've gotten super warm.
So it gives me the sameeffect as having a beer.
He feels the money has on the backof his neck going, woo woo woo.
You heard that too?
Yeah.
Guys, watch Congo.
It's the 30th anniversary.
It's the greatest movie ever made.
Would anybody be interestedin fun facts about this movie?
Abso Freak.
Absolutely.
Are they fun facts?
Super fun facts 'cause of fun, fun facts.

(01:13:11):
Well, let's find out.
All right, first off, rotten Tomatoes.
There is one critic review.
From Tony Crowley of Starburst.
Apparently that's apublication July 26th, 2022.
It has a few delusions ofgrandeur, but the pace is fine.
It's not the effects.
Very special, and the footage shot inthe Arizona desert is simply terrific.
I. Fresh.

(01:13:31):
There is one critic review andit is fresh, but what do you
think the audience score is?
Abysmal.
Is that a number we can choose is abysmal?
I, I think that's a Izzy.
Super generous.
17% for abysmal.
I, I do believe that is my super generous17% because you're being generous at 17%.
Any other guesses?
I nine.

(01:13:52):
Did you say nine?
Yeah.
That's brutal.
That's Savage.
Is it the audience or the critics?
Percent?
It's audience.
There was just the one criticreview, but it was fresh.
I think the audienceliked it more than 17%.
So 18% or what are we?
Thirties.
Okay.
32. We need a specific number.
You saw Game played.
Oh, you need a specific number?
37. Alright, perfect.

(01:14:14):
Eric, I'm gonna go with abysmal as myfirst guest, but I am sort of leaning.
I'm gonna go 23.
23. Bob, I. Tanya wins43% with the audience.
Just under half.
Wow.
Yeah.
Congratulations, Tanya.
I couldn't find anything about theworldwide gross, but any guesses
on the budget for this movie?
Is it in Looney or in dollars?

(01:14:34):
I, I think I have it in dollars.
I. Dues.
1981. Mm-hmm.
How expensive would that planehave been to rent and shoot?
'cause everything elsewas pretty low budget.
Those golf carts and thesmoking The bear poster.
Yeah, that was probably a PSAtax write off or something.

(01:14:55):
How much did they spend?
500 grand?
No, that low.
Yeah.
Lee Majors don't roll outof bed for less than that.
This was earlier in his career,so he wasn't as expensive.
Gotta take that into, yeah.
Yeah.
It wasn't the fall guy yet, right?
He hasn't really made it.
Oh yeah.
He wasn't making that TV stunt money.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm really bad with this.
I don't know how much movies cost.

(01:15:16):
Get the last one right?
She got close like horseshoes andhand grenades, but you know she won.
Give it to her.
Alright.
What do you got there?
Mountain Man, Mike.
I mean, God.
I'm thinking around like 680.
Oh, you don't want that load still?
I'm gonna go two and a half million.
It's seventies dollars though, right?

(01:15:36):
So you gotta adjust for inflation.
In today's world, that's like $13 million.
Alright guys.
$4.9 million budget.
Wow.
Yeah.
What is that in today'sdollars, Moses Again?
30, 40 million.
Like for anybody that cares.
$31 million by today's standards.
Yeah, it was pretty high budget forthe time the film takes place in 2011.

(01:15:59):
Did you guys wanna do your funfacts and then I'll fill in
with anything else I might have?
So, super fun facts withrespect to the car, right?
Normally I would throw this in somewhereearlier when we were talking about it.
I held it to the end.
I wanted to respect the everything Ilearned from movies, fun facts, and
the fact that I learned something.
When I saw this the first time,I was like, oh yeah, it's a
Porsche, it's a race car back.
I always thought something wasoff because it sits a little high.

(01:16:22):
Like the Porsches don't look likethey're off rotors generally.
And then there was something wrongwith the geometry of the car.
It's a little too small.
And so I started digging into it, dida little research, and it turns out.
That this is not a Porsche, but itdoes use Porsche body panels that were
shortened to fit a 1973 Chevron, butit does have a Porsche engine in it.

(01:16:46):
So it's this whole X Can-Am seriestwo car, just bastardization.
So I have a conflicting side really,and I don't know the validity
of it, but there was an articleabout the car and everything in
somebody for what it's worth.
In the commentary section,they said it's a replica.
I worked on the film asa production assistant.

(01:17:08):
It was shot in Toronto, Canada,Tucson, Flagstaff in Scottsdale,
Arizona in October, December, 1979.
Maybe.
There were a few shots of an actualPorsche nine 17, but any shot with
Lee Majors driving is a replica.
Majors insisted on doing his own driving,even when getting driven to the movie set.
In a normal car, he would drive it.
Himself with his assigned filmunion driver sitting in the

(01:17:28):
passenger seat next to him.
He skidded and crashed the replicacar a few times as he tended to be
pretty reckless behind the wheel.
Nice guy though, ego wise, for a moviestar, the jet aircraft was an F 86 saber.
Yeah, that was in the, even in thecredits that That the plane was the plane.
What got me about this though is, and I'mwondering if this is why the film can only
be viewed in the deepest, darkest partsof the interwebs, out of these strange

(01:17:53):
vaults and blood banks or whatever youguys called it, is because Porsche's
really, really tight on stuff with theirname on it, and if it's not the real deal.
They probably have put the kiboshon this film and that's why you
can't get it in a normal way.
A Ferrari's very similar and they're verysensitive about the use of their emblem
and their name and all that kind of stuff.
So again, to your point, I think wehave an agreement, Tanya, that the

(01:18:16):
car is not a real Porsche, althoughit has a Porsche engine in it.
It's a Chevron, is what Ifound out is the under chassis.
And then, you know, as yousaid, it's a replica of a nine
17 slash 10 from that era.
So it's possible there was actualshots, but I couldn't tell if there
was no, but a replica had donewell, you wouldn't be able to tell.
Well if you look at like the MarkDonahue nine 17, it's much bigger.

(01:18:38):
This thing is really small.
It's like trying to fitnine 17 body on a golf cart.
It was, it looked wrong proportionally.
And that's to me, what made me startdigging into it because now with
older and much wiser encyclopediceyes, I'm like, you know, when I was
younger I was like, oh yeah, Porsche.
Now I'm like, that's somethingain't right about this car.
So there's our super fun fact.

(01:18:58):
Nice.
Is that the only one you got?
I mean, car related?
Sure.
Got a couple.
Oh, was there a squarebody in this film, Dan?
No, there wasn't.
Was a Pontiac though.
So that's a gm.
Does that count?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There you go.
You got, you check something off the list.
You're good.
Uh, well other than that, just with alittle, uh, research I did, the golf
cart is actually a Davis 500 golfcart that they made to be what it was.

(01:19:19):
Only you would spend the timeto look something like that up.
I didn't purposely look forit, but it came up when I was
looking for some other stuff.
So for the F 86 Saber being an aircraft.
Top speed on that is 650 mile anhour air speed or ground speed.
Not a hundred percent sure on that.
When I was looking up, it just said650 miles per hour for top speed was
introduced in 1949 and retired in 1980.

(01:19:41):
Dang.
Yeah.
So it had a pretty lengthy lifefor what it was during that time.
And then this being a chase across thecountry, one of the big things that
I wanted to throw out there for allthe people, which I'm disappointed in
how slow it took them to get across,because in 2020 there was a record set.
It took 25 hours and 39 minutesgoing from, I believe it

(01:20:03):
was New York to California.
In this movie, it shouldhave been wide open.
'cause the average speed for thatrun in 2020 was a, uh, average
speed of 112 miles per hour.
During that run run,he was hitting one 50.
He should been able tomaintain that the whole way.
And it would've taken what, like 12 hours?
No, but see it couldn't because hehad to like spend, stop for the gas

(01:20:23):
12, sip out siphoning fuel out oflike the bottom of a derelict fuel
tank with no extra jerry cans either.
Right?
I mean what?
What is Postapocalyptic Bs?
Is this, you know what I mean?
But there's a couple of tidbitsthat I had to throw out there.
That's, SARE is a goodlooking plane though.
Ooh, that black?
Yeah, it's nice man.
Yeah, the black with the yellowracing stripe or whatever on it.

(01:20:45):
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So good.
And what was the dragon?
Who cares?
Looked awesome.
That's all that matter.
Yes.
I'm just saying the dragon onthe tail it like made it pop
even more, but I'm just like.
It just seemed outta place.
No, it didn't.
It looked epic.
That was for all of us kids that grewup in the eighties that watched Mask.
You remember that Cartoon series mask?
Yeah.
That plane was straight out of mask.

(01:21:05):
Well, uh, it was expected that LeeMajors was to break into theatrical
roles beginning with this film.
However, it is believed that throughthe film's Poor Box Office performance,
along with his wife having anaffair while he was away filming it.
That's right.
This is when Farrah Faucetand Ryan O'Neill got together.
Majors decided to stay in televisionand never return to movies as

(01:21:27):
a headlining star oh dot, dotdot Until Musketeers forever.
Yay.
That that's never beenplayed in a theater.
I guarantee you.
Straight to DVD.
This movie was RIFed by MSTMystery Science Theater,
3000 in its initial season.
That aired on KTMA.
Where is that again?
Porsche Put the kibosh on that.

(01:21:48):
That's where that is.
Okay.
So it's one of those thatyou can't find anywhere.
All right.
And the DVD released by Code Red in 2011and currently long outta print as of 2024,
contains the director's cut of the moviethat has all the nudity scenes that we
didn't see or what, yeah, running abouta minute longer and restoring nudity to

(01:22:08):
the sex club sequence and other momentstrend by the producers to get a PG rating.
Most versions shown on streaming orillegally uploaded to YouTube are
the shorter version of the film.
What?
No, but ladies and gentlemen, we'vereached the most important part.
Yes.
What did we learn from the last Chase?

(01:22:28):
Eric, would you like to go first?
No, I would like to go last.
I'll say mailman.
Dan, how about you?
It was way over budgetis what I've learned.
Holy hell.
The budget I, I was still tryingto wrap my head around that.
'cause the quality of the movie is nowherenear what that budget should have been.
Well, 2 million went to Lee Majors.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then like 500,000 wentto Burgess Fuel for the jet.

(01:22:53):
It adds up, you know, and thenthere was another whatever for
how many of these replicas.
He must've skied and crashed, allegedly,including that one in the lake.
I am telling you there was a car inthat water drug out por with them
flying around, burning up jet fuel.
That must be where the money went.
So now it makes a little more sense,but still, no, it was the lasers.
Would you have laser technology?

(01:23:14):
It was that dream sequence.
That was some good flying thatfour second dream sequence.
H how about you Tanya?
What?
What did you learn from this movieto help you in the future Apocalypse.
So I learned that in a future dystopianof apocalyptic world that had been
previously plagued by a pandemic andthe government decided that nobody
should have any form of transportation.
They can have laser turret, satellitethings in the middle of the desert,

(01:23:38):
and yet can't figure out how peoplecan travel other than on a bicycle
or by foot and electric golf carts.
There go, yeah.
And electric golf carts.
Yeah.
Outside of the obvious that we alldiscover, I think we all learned
the kid's name at some point.
Yeah.
And the credits, that was alearning moment for everybody here.
But outside of that, I discovered thataluminum foil is both good for protecting

(01:24:01):
you from alien, but more importantly,it protects you of against big Brother
government seeing your debauchery.
Boom.
Yay.
I thought you were gonnasay venereal disease.
Well, that's it.
I mean, that's it.
Because some people believe youcould wrap something in aluminum boil
like that and create a Faraday cage.
Hey, worst condom ever, guys.
This is the seventies.
That's still tin.

(01:24:22):
There you go.
They may be having some points.
How about you babe?
What did you learn in, besides tin?
Sorry.
Chair is the paint of my existence.
I learned that Eric has a vendetta, getsto share and that I think we're gonna
have to crowdfund him the 140 bucks fora new one because he's too busy importing

(01:24:49):
caffeine drinks from Ireland or Scotlandor something like somewhere in Europe.
And those tariffs are reallygonna catch up a hundred percent.
But from this movie, Ooh, there's so muchthat you could learn from this movie.
But I guess what I learned is in thenot too distant future that a ban of
gas stations still have 25-year-oldperfectly fine fuel and race cars

(01:25:14):
will run spectacularly on it.
Perfect.
I was wondering when somebodywas gonna mention that, but,
uh, I am still angry about that.
That's like, I am angry at everymovie where cars drive in reverse
more than 40 miles an hour.
Yeah.
I learned, I say this all thetime, but I just scream out.
It's a metaphor.

(01:25:37):
Like, I don't think I've ever heardHawkins rant before, but like I say
it the exact same way and I haveno idea where you get that from.
You, the kid, because you a hundredpercent say that all the time.
Yeah.
It's about a system ofprotection and tranquility by
taking away rights and Yeah.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Ugh.
But guys, thank you so much for joining ushere on everything I learned from movies.

(01:26:00):
I understand you also havea podcast, is that correct?
We do indeed.
We have several of them now under thebanner of the Motoring Podcast Network
Break Fixes our flagship podcast.
So if you wanna keep up with all of theupdates from our shows, you can find us
on the social medias to include all ofeverything on the Metaverse and Blue Ski
or Blue Sky at Motoring Podcast Network.

(01:26:22):
And if you wanna keep up with me, TanyaMountain Mandan, and all the characters
over Grand Touring motorsports youcan do at Grand Touring Motorsports.
And then be sure to check outour Patreon and also our digital
magazine over@gtmotorsports.org.
Woo-hoo.
Tanya Mount man.
Dan, can we find you anywhere?
Nope.
They're hiding from the government.
These are my bunker people.
That's right.

(01:26:43):
Look at Tanya.
She ain't even got lights on.
Yeah, right.
So which one of us that are gonnabe burying the car underground?
That's you, my friend.
You're like, Marvin Boggs from red.
That's the only imagerypeople need, right?
Are you on social media at all?
I am.
You can find me everywhere atUntidy Venus, that's a goddess
who's bad at housekeeping.
I'm on all the socialmedias at Untidy Venus.

(01:27:05):
I will also be up and down the stateof Utah selling my goods and wares for
all of the foreseeable molten summer.
Yeah, that is coming.
Okay.
I compiled the list.
Still a lot of shows, not as many aslast year, but no, we're taking easy
this year, but we did just get approvedfor 22 weeks of farmer's markets.
You gotta make sure you add in there.

(01:27:25):
Izzy Tariff free goods.
I do have tariff free goods.
I mean, really do try and sourceas much stuff, honestly, guys
like as local as possible.
And I've actually decided this year,honestly, I decided around January for no
reason whatsoever to cut back on some ofmy other products and just really focus
on some of my handmade stuff and reallyjust lean into more of some of my, like

(01:27:47):
women anarchy, terrorism, and cute animalsand insanely accurate potato cannons.
Don't know why.
And of course me.
Oh, I'm everywhere onall the major podcasters.
Interesting.
I learned from movies.
First up directly on Twitter, Facebook,Patreon, and bluesky at EILF movies.
That's everything I learned from movies.
Eric, take us home.
I don't have a closeout for this one.

(01:28:09):
What?
Just like the movie.
We're gonna pan to the Crest of America.
And stop guys.
I guess we're there.
It's a symbol.
Roll credits.
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