NCAA Playoff. Picking on Booger. 80's Cruise Tunes. Weird Wizard of Oz Facts.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two point four million dollars for the hat. It's funny
they did that story. Last Friday, I came across some
interesting facts you never knew about the filming of the
Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, and I will have those later.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
For some reason, that movie will not go away. And
I guess when you do redos like Wicked or not
a redo, but a you know it's kind of a
spinoff or a spinoff like prequel if you will.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, I guess so, but it just won't go away.
I mean.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
And again, when there was just three television channels, everything
came on once a year.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It was around Thanksgiving time where it was Yeah, I
think so.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Then everybody watched the Flying Monkeys scared everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It was another great story about appreciating what you have. Yes,
all right.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
College football playoff is set in Indiana. Hoosiers are playing
in two weeks against Notre Dame at Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That's no accident, no, not at all.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's a home game basically, I mean, Indiana fans are
going to get a chance of getting tickets, right because
right now Notre Dame's gonna scramble. They're scrambling on how
to sell these tickets. This is a new thing. Playoff
games are a new thing. They usually were getting ready
to go play a bowl game, and now they're gonna
play for a championship, which, by the way, a little
bit more difficult these days. Now Smooth got in and

(01:15):
Clemson one. You're gonna have the here kind of like
the NCAA basketball tournament, where you could have a five
hundred team. Yes, that gets hot in a bad division
and ends up in the playoffs. That's exactly right. That's
what's gonna happen, dude. Now here's the other thing. I
will get to the bowls in a second.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
But Louisville.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, it's hard to get excited about flying to
l Paso for New Year's Eve when you know most
of your running backs aren't going. How many defensive players
aren't going because they're transferring. How many kids have already
said I'm transferring, man, But are they going to play
in the bowl game?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't know. It's such a weird time.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And the committee did save some credibility by not including Alabama. Correct,
I'm sorry, you don't lose to Vanderbilt in Oklahoma five
hundred teams and then convince the committee you could win
four games against better teams than those Nick in a row.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Nick Saban tried to make that.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
He did a very poor way of describing what happens
in the NFL. You know, he was like, look, man,
Pittsburgh Steelers lost to Cleveland. He didn't say, look, you
have an eight and eight team in the same position
in the playoffs on their side of the conference as.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
A as A, as A as A.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, fifteen in two teams, right, So it's like,
that's the point, Yes, you can get into the playoffs
at eight and eight and fifteen and two depends on
your division. Alabama did not even play in the title
game and they lost to Vanderbilt in Oklahoma. Teams that
aren't great this year, they're okay, yeah, but Alabama should
have handled them if they wanted to get in. So

(02:41):
we watched because obviously for years we were enamored by
the college basketball bracket, you know, release like how they
have changed it over the years, right mm hmm. We
were wondering how they would handle it. Did you watch
it yesterday?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, Kirk Herb said, there were actual football games on
that I was watching.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh yeah, yea.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I switched over after Kurt Hurbstreet looked like, uh he
hait rbf oh like he looked. He sat there, his
face was stone just stone cold until they got to him,
and then he shot an insult at one of the
guys on the panel. So Booger McFarlane said, you know,
I hope they well don't pick on Booger and he said,

(03:24):
you know what, that's low hanging fruit. That's what Kirk
Kirkstreet said about what Booger said. Booger said, Hey, I
hope they go for for substance over brands. And I
was like, yeah, that's true. And then Kirk Kirkstreet goes,
he goes, you know, I just wanted to say, you know, Booger,
that that's that's low hanging fruit, that's internet stuff. Just

(03:44):
leave that off because that's cheap. You should say that's
such a left go move then and it's just like
what and like and here's the thing Bol's take and Booger, right,
that's on the same show show with you, So do
you do that from a different show make fun of him?
And by the way, but Gribrick Follland handled it well
when he got back. He goes, hey, he goes, man,
I'm sorry, I was just trying to make some levit

(04:05):
day and talk about what's going on here. There's only
certain amountain talking points. I'm sorry your dog died. Okay, dude, literally.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Relax and you don't have to do every job they
offer you.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Kurt, No, right, correct, No. Plus, I think Kirk kirk
Street is losing it a little bit because he sees
Pack McAfee and Nick Saban have taken over college game Day.
It's not Kirk kirk Street is a is an extra
on that show now and he was the face of
college football for ESPN, and he is now way down

(04:34):
the list. Well, you're doing the NFL right with Al Michaels. Yeah,
you got some good gigs, Kirk. Yeah, you can't. You
can't spread it too thin. Not in his business, all right,
So Louisville will play. Oh, by the way, in the
college football playoffs, it's it's January twentieth is the National
Championship game. So that is in between the NFL playoffs

(04:58):
and the Super Bowl. No, it's a couple weeks before.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's January should be, and it should be in the
off week that the NFL has before the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Don't you think, Yeah, no NFL games, it'd be a
great idea, too logical.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I don't know if these teams stay healthy enough
to go through this gauntlet. And then they rewarded Oregon
with the toughest paths. Yeah, I mean, it's just like, dude,
they're the number one team by a wide margin. Everyone's like, well,
Oregon's number one, then let's discuss everything else. That's how
good they are, or at least how we think they are,
and they they rewarded them with the toughest path being.

(05:36):
All right, So two Louisville stories Louisville, well three, Actually,
Louisville plays Washington in El Paso and the Sun Bowl
in New Year's Eve.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I know nothing about Washington either.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
They were a different, completely different team than the badass
juggernaut they were the year before they got themselves in
the Nation Championship.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
That was de Bor's team before he went to Bayama.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Louisville Athletic Board will meet today to discuss pending litigation
and personnel matters.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Do we know the specifics?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Knows, It's just like another here's another day on Floyd Street,
pending litigation and personnel matters. I thought this had settled down.
What's left what is still dangling out there?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Knows who knows? So there you go.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, as soon as we know what happens with this board,
this Louisville board, and.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's pending litigation and personnel matters.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
So there's no inside scoop from Nick Coffee or anybody.
Let us know what's going on. I haven't heard. This
was a surprise. Look, they dumped that yesterday. We have
scandal fatigue though, it's like, okay, whatever, let me know
when it's over. It's like, it's like the homicides in Louisville.
We just normally like that thing that happened on Friday,
there was a road rage where there was a literal shootout.

(06:52):
Two people got out of their vehicles and side shooting
at each other. So somebody's probably on their phone and
they got sideswiped and by the way, the Simplebodyshop dot
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And then they got out of their vehicles and tried
to settle it that way. So instead of getting an
accident report and doing things normally, you're gonna go to
jail for attempted murder or assault yeah, yeah, And I

(07:15):
drive to Purdue all the time. We'll see John or
pick him up or do whatever, and I stop at
that exit all the time. So when they were showed
it on TV, I was like, oh my god, it
was standing right there.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
And by the way, it's not Kentucky, so you're not
getting an ankle bracelet.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, you're gonna go to jail. So these two cars
minivan and a Bronco sideswiped each other. They got off
of the exit together, I guess to discuss it and
they pulled pistols on each other and started shooting like
it's the OK Corral.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that was Friday afternoon. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Light Up Louisville was a huge success. Saw the mayor
yesterday at the Saint Matthew's Christmas party. Him and his
lovely wife was there. Before they went to take off
to go see they were in their louisvill gear and
I was like, well, you were in Louisville for it,
and they were like, the Duke game is tonight.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And kudos to the banged up cards for hanging around
in that. Yeah, playing tough.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well here's how far I'm off, he goes. Well, the
Duke games tonight, I go volleyball. He goes, no, Tony's basketball,
Duke's in town. I went, oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm kind of with you on that. This one, I know,
this one I knew though I didn't even know.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uh. So they used drones for the first time. I'm sorry,
mister Mayor. So huge show. They used drones for the
first time. And then they have this laser show. If
anybody's been to Disney, they project this laser They project
these images onto the castle at night that looks so

(08:46):
real it's unbelievable, like a three D craziness that I
can't even my man brain can't even understand. They did
that Saturday down out downtown for the lighte up Louisville.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Huge success. The weather had a lot to do with it.
And no incidents of any kind. No, no, because anytime
we have big downtown events. Now I'm curious, yeah, I uh,
we'll talk more about a little bit later. But I
got after UK fans on Saturday night why I felt
like it.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
The guy that didn't even know his team was playing
correct And then you're taking.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, that was a lot of takes.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
People are like, look, we like Evan Eddie, but dude,
you just don't care, because don't care. Louisll sucks. And
I was like, well, yeah, Louill sucks, but you suck worse.
I keep you know this because you were there. I've
been banging this drum for college basketball for fifteen years.
This isn't anything new. I basically made the point of
it was an amazing night of college football, and to

(09:40):
a top ten matchup with Kentucky and gonzag is being
played at like midnight and no one cares.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I've gone over this.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
You've got to delay the best college basketball games until
after college football. Don't hit us with the same conference
matchups every single year and all the good. Now, well
Kentucky played Who when did that happen?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh what happened during the NFL? Okay, never mind, didn't
see it, and neither did anybody else. And we talked
about the demise of college basketball. Becky asked me the
other day when I talked about Louisville being banged up,
and she goes, who's hurd and what's wrong?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Said, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
I don't know their names yet, and now they were
in for two games and they got her.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I still don't know their names.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
But Kentucky has kept their passion. I mean they I
was I made a joke and it was I don't know,
it was like fifty thousand views on it. I just said,
you know, when we go back to the moon and
we land and crawl out of the spacecraft, why are
we crawling? Because you crawl out of a spacecraft, you
just don't walk out. So I wait a minute, Armstrong.

(10:38):
Then he crawled down.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
She had crawl out. It wasn't one giant it was
wasn't a giant foot. No for man, he had to go.
He crawled there. He left. Listen to me. No door
opened up.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
He's walked out of there, crawled out of the hatch,
climbed down the leg of the limb, and then stood
on the little pad and.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Then stepped off. I thought he had stairs.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
He had to climb down then jump onto the little pad.
He didn't jump onto the moon. He jumped on the pad.
The little cushion thingy was on the leg of the limb.
It's like a mini tramps. And then said, okay, I'm
gonna step off. There's a process, bra I'll have to
watch it again since it had well, of course it

(11:23):
happened in the desert, Mahabi desert.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Stop it. I will put you in the face.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
There's nothing that try to be crazier than that we
didn't land there. Oh, I will punch you. There's astronaut
poop on the moon.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
So I made a joke.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, true, I made a joke and said, when we
finally go back to the Moon and crawl out of
the spacecraft, some guy's gonna walk up with the UK
hat and go cou cuts. Well, you probably saw Dwight's
picture on Facebook. What Susan wearing in Mexico? Go UK shirt?
You case, you could go to Mexico and the First

(11:59):
Universe any gear you're going to see And this applies
to anywhere on planet or any beach in America, any
gin joint and Mozambique. There's a are you wear a
Kentucky shirt in Nepal?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Okay, dude, man, even the yetties where you just can't
convince people that are trapped in the bubble that the
rest of the of college basketball is broken, right, They're
in their bubble.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
They're like, well, of course we care. It's awesome here.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I saw somebody last night at the same ask these things.
You're like, oh my god, we live and die for it,
like her and her husband. She was like, we live
and die for UK basketball was like what would we do?
I don't know if she goes like you like, you
go home watch the game, like what game? No, it
used to be like that for us, you know, loeus
of them Marquette. On a Wednesday, we got the food
in the oven where all the families gathered. We're ready
to go now we don't even know if they're playing
or not. This reminds me every trip I went to,

(12:49):
like Panama City or desdin You walk, grab the chairs
a little half cooler, you walk out to the beach
for the first time. You're there on a Saturday afternoon.
The first guy that walks up to you, damn, you
can't have. The one time we drove to Deston, one
of the two times we drove to Deston, we kind
of took.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
A wrong way. But we're along and the houses on
the water to the right. We're driving along. What's the
first flag that we see that represents a university, big
ou and a big old K.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Because just one of those windows flags they're not good enough. No, yep,
the bumper sticker got four windows and the.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Truck is blue.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh, I cheerfully cast really yeah, really, you know it's
it's a middle of summer. Huh, John, do you have
the joke of the day?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
But I do, And I'll have some catskar on my
eighties cruise.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm sure you already have blue one today. Who is
on this eighties cruise?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
This one we've got warrant. There's also for their career.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah no, Janie Lane. Thankfully I got to see him
when they had Janie Lane.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wait a minute, it's Warren's with a different singer.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, well, Janey's gonna have to mail it in via
seance if he participates in.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
This warrant with a different singer. Oh boy, yeah, well
there's no choice.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
But what do you mean we get to like the
rest of the band of warrants, like we get the
cruise for free. Awesome, we'll play.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's like seeing someone pretending to be Frank Sinatra Junior.
I know we got squeezed this one. We've got squeeze.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Adam at Christopher Cross, Sheila e min at Work, the
lead singer from Eraser Warrant, Docking and Firehouse are going
to be on there Curtis Blow who was just here, yeah,
doing a hip hop version of Christmas.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Ye a local band? No yeah, I saw Warrant Trickster
and Firehouse. Firehouse was local local. I have to look
it up, David, Am I crazy? They played I don't know?
They played Toy Tiger a million times.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Powe and the Alarm are going to be on there
as well.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Who's the band with the chainsaw? Oh? That played here
all the time? Played their song The Greatest Leads.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
The lead singer is hilarious and brilliant, made all those movies,
he produced all of those high school football shows on ESPN.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
He jumped into that game. The heck is his name.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
And literally the lead singer's microphone stand is a shotgun.
Half our buddies are yelling at the radio and he
at the end of the show, I'm like, is that real?
He's like, yeah, it's really. At the end of the show,
he loads it and fires it in the air. That's
a chainsaw, is it? No, that's an electric electric chainsaw.

(15:37):
It's electric chainsaw. It handles branches less than three inches
in dinameter.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Was the joke of a sweet wasn't corn? Was no?
No corn? Had more than a little prickly.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
All right, here we go for a Monday, and this
is kind of in honor of where Louisville's going for
their for their bowl game.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's an Arizona joke, a Texas joke to the El
Paso paying attention.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Hey fellas, Hey John So a rough and tough cowboys
at a bar.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
He finishes his drink and gets up to leave.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
He walks out the door, comes back a minute later,
and he's looking really really mad man. He says, I'm
gonna sit down right here and have one more drink,
and if my horse isn't back whey left it, I'm
gonna have to do what I did in Texas.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh, and I really don't want to have to do
what I did in Texas. San Francisco. Trudea's wordy. He
goes back up to the bar.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Don't laugh, don't laugh at that, don't make me, don't
give in the middle of your joke.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yes, so true to his word, he bellies back up
to the bar.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
The bartender pours him a nice shot of bourbon and
he drinks it in silence, finishes the drink, gets up,
walks outside. What do you know, his horse's back tight
up right where he left it. He gets on the
horse and just he's out to ride off, somebody comes
out from the bar and kind of tugs him on
it on his pant leg, says hey.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Mister Jackal. Jackal was the name of the band? What
was the other? What would you have to do?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
What would you've had to have done in Texas if
your horse hadn't come back? And the cowboy kind of
look gets this thousand yards stare on his face and says,
walk home.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
I was hoping that wasn't the joke.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
If he says walk home, I'm gonna that is Johnny
responsible for the joke of the day.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Should San Francisco four.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
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Speaker 2 (18:59):
No, I didn't have turets or don't have turetts and
yelled Jackal out randomly. That was answering a question. In
case you just joined us, This is as rock and
roll party in.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
The streets coming back News Radio eight forty w h as.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I have some answers to our questions from your dero,
and I have the facts that I promised as well.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Some todd He said, I'm fairly sure it was fire department,
not firehouse you're speaking of that played at toy.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Taga for so many years. Gotcha? Also Jesse James.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Dupree from Jackal who we were thinking of one of
the greatest songs ever sung.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yes, the History of Mankind.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I promised because the slippers, one of the paths
of slippers was up for auction and we would do
Crazy Wizard of allse facts.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
But the hat went for mo more, it did did it? Yes?

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Evil always wins, Yes, which just had went for more
than the Riby's Ruby's Slippers.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Fact.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Speaking of the slippers, yes, they were actually silver, just
like they are in the book. At the time, the
studio execs were so excited about this new technicolor they
changed them to bright red because it would pop pop,
you see, damn off over the yellow brick iron grow.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Fis days old. Knowing this now, they were always red
ruby slippers. You date.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
If it would have been a black and white movie completely,
they would have been silver.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Damn damn them.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Judy Garland was only sixteen at the time of filming Crazy.
She claimed the studio execs gave her stimulants and sleeping
pills so she could keep up with the fast paced environment.
I heard that her biographer said she was given the
pills to keep them on their feet long after they
were exhausted, to knock them out with sleeping pills. Then
after four hours they'd wake him up, give us the

(20:58):
pet pills again so they could work seventy two hours in.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
A row called coffee and adderall today. Yeah really.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Judy was also struggling with her weight and eating disorder
throughout her life. MGM execs reportedly called her a fat
little pig with pigtails.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh boys.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
She was put on a strict diet of chicken soup,
black coffee, cigarettes and diet pills to stay thin. Okay,
do you want to know what fat was in the
nineteen thirties, well she's not fat now, yeah, you fat
little pig.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Do you remember the size too? I should be killed.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
What was the movie it was? Is it White Christmas
where they had the two actresses? Yes, are doing a show, misters.
She has she has that freaky thin waist. She had
the smallest waist in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
And that's right. That was a thing to go for.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, it's exactly right, mostly mostly because they probably wore
corsets at that time.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Could be yeah, because it was. It was Bing.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Crosby, George Clooney's aunt Rosemary Rosemary, and then I can't
remember the other two.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
But that's one of the greatest movies of all time.
It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, got second
degree burns on her face and third degree burns on
her hand.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
After a stunt went wrong no way. In the scene she.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Was supposed to make a fiery exit from munchkin Land,
but when the trap door didn't open, oh no, she
was engulfed in flames and spent six weeks recovering.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh my gosh. Later she returned to production.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I said, I know how this business works, and I
would never work again if I didn't get back at it.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yep, but I said, no more fireworks. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
These actors and actresses today get up on their awards
and they demand for respect and pay and all this stuff,
and it's like, dude, you know what these people went
through before you got here. Okay, they almost burned to
death and again then they had to apologize, sorry, and
it gets better.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
The makeup used for the Wicked Witch of the West
was toxic, so she needed to be on a strict
liquid diet. One of the makeup artists confirmed that the
paint was toxic because there were copper oxide in it.
He said, every night, when I was taking off the
Witch's makeup, I'd make sure that her face was thoroughly clean, spotlessly,
so because you don't take chances with green.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
She said, they had to be extremely careful because she
was already covered in those burns. Oh my god, she's
her face has burned and they're putting toxic.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Makeup on well, she said.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
They also said, ironically, she was the sweetest lady ever.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
I think she was a teacher or something, she says.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Said she was the sweetest lady and she played the
role of like everyone, everyone hated her yep, and Betty
Danko played the Wicked Witch's stunt double. She also landed
in the hospital after a pipe and her broomstick exploded.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh my god, I blew her off the broomstick. Wow,
why is there a pipe bomb in your broomstick?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't know to make it vibrate? Well, that we're
talking about, David. If it wasn't naughty, I'd give you
fifty cents. But it's too naughty.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Give me a quarter, all right.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I was commenting yesterday that the Fox girl that played
in the first Transformers, the first two Transformers.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
J Fox.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Now, she's super hot, Megan Fox.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Megan Fox.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
She can actually act like she's good in those movies,
Like she's good.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Tony said, pretty girls can act damn right. Most of
the time.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
They can't get past the pretty face. But she's She
quit where she got into a fight with the director
Michael what's his name bayh Yeah, because he was like, look,
he's trying to kill us, like these explosions are real
and they're trying to So they replaced her with that
silly secret Victoria's Secret model, and she was terrible. She

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was terrible, and that movie bombed just saying weird Wizard
of Oz facts you never knew. Buddy Ebsen was originally
cast as the Tin Man, but the aluminum dust from
the silver makeup made him extremely sick and killed it.
He was hospitalized for nine days after filming began and
forced to be replaced by Jack Hayley. Years later, he

(25:07):
claimed to have breathing problems for the rest of his
life because of quote that damn movie.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
According to the Sun Sentinel, he woke.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Up one night screaming from violent cramping in his hands, arms,
and legs. Oh my god, he couldn't breathe. His wife
called an ambulance and rushed him to the hospital. He
was in an oxygen tent for two weeks because he
breathed in pure aluminum.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh my gosh. Then they switched to aluminum paste for
the new actor.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh they almost killed him. They almost killed almost every
actor on the set. They're pumping drugs into Judy Garland.
Broomsticks are exploding, witches are catching on fire. Are drunk,
midgets are drunk. Little people are Yes, Okay, here's the deal.
If I get a time machine, Yeah, we're going back
and partying with them.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
You think mini me is fine. Multiply that by one hundred.
Where do you want to go?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
The set of Wizard of Oz, They're all trust me,
trust me, hit the button, trust me.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
This is kind of gross.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Bert Lar's cowardly lion costume was made of real lion
skin and fur. Of course, it weighed about ninety pounds.
Made him so hot on the set he had to
take it off completely after each shot. I guarantee it,
and each shot took forever forever. A real lion, of course,
it was what do you mean, a fake lion?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We don't do that around here. Just hire somebody, go
kill a lion. Okay, I'll be back.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
One day, an actor playing one of the Wicked Witch's
soldiers accidentally jumped on the dog who played Toto killed it.
They had to get a K nine double because the dog,
whose name was actually Terry, sprained her foot.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Terry, are you serious?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Toto returned to the set a few weeks later. I
never noticed. I'm gonna have to go back and see
if I can recognize which one's Terry and which one's Toto.
You might be able to tell, because you're pretty good
with the dog. I know, Terry Terry sounds of boring,
which one, Terry, Terry really your little dog, Terry Too's right.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Your dog, Kevin.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
The MGM studio execs were against using real paint to
color the Emerald City horses.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
So they used jello powder. Okay, purple jello powder. Yeah right, Uh,
that's not bad. That's not bad. One.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Oh, so they took care of the horses, yeah, because
they took care of the people. They put real aluminum
on Buddy Ebs, right, oh my god, for God's shakes,
you can't do that to the horse. And they put
jello powder on mister Springs. Oh, don't damage the horse.
What about the actors? Who cares about the actors. We'll
just get another one. So Judy Garland, who's now considered
one of the most famous entertainers of the twentieth century,

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was paid what for the Wizard of Oz?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Nothing? Probably nothing, nothing.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Nine six hundred dollars guarantee it. But the pills were free,
so two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars today. Yeah right,
oh well, okay, well, well that's a good point. But
I thought they were also on contract, Like they just
signed a contract and you basically made a salary and
you just did how many films?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Eight? Now I go over to this film. You're doing
this part? What you go where we tell you? Yeah,
well go where we tell you.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Though she was on the screen a less time. Margaret Hamilton,
the wicked witch who got burned up, got twenty one grand.
That's four hundred and seventy six thousand to Terry. The
dog that played Toto. Yeah, got one hundred and twenty
five bucks a week. No way, twenty eight hundred dollars today.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Good for her, Mark, Terry.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Margaret PELLEGREENI one of the Munchkins, Yeah, got fifty dollars
a week, Terry. Not even Toto got one hundred and
twenty five. The Munchkin actor got fifty. The Munchkins like
I got. The dog made three times what I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey,
the horse got purple powder, and the horse got purple powder.
We tried to kill the other ones, tried to kill

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Buddy Ebsen. Pipe down and sit down. Oh wait, yr
yar uh, you'll like this one.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah. Wizard of Oz. Fact.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Because of an incident, wear an act got stuck in
a toilet for forty five minutes. MGM hired attendance to
help the Munchkins.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Use the restrooms. No way, stop it.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Billy Curtis, one of the actors, remembered that event, saying
they had to clean him off like he was a baby.
Margaret Pellegreeny we talked about her, one of the last
surviving actors, said it was the first time I've ever
told anybody to help me go.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
To the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
But the costumes were so unhandy, we didn't have a choice.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Clean me off like I was a baby. Dude. I
can't get that visual out of my head. And here
you go.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
The male Munchkin actors would harass Judy on set. Some
of the actors sexually assaulted her by putting their hands
up her dress.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
No way, they said. The older male Munchkin actors were naughty.
He said.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Many of them spent their downtime at bars, were disorderly
as hell, yelling and then screaming. He said once the
next day on set, hungover, they'd make Judy's life miserable
by putting their hands all over sixteen by the way, Mmm, okay,
and I know it like they tried to save that
narrative not too long ago, because some of them, some

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of the little people came on like in some whatever.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Documentary and said, no, that happened. There's search stage. Know
that happened. Of course you did, because that's your grandpa.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
A couple more, some of the Munchkin actors were arrested
in between shoots and needed to be bailed out so
they could appear on set. The studio had to hire
a lieutenant.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
To watch over them, dude.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
And finally, I kid you not, the snow from the
movie's poppy field scene was actually asbestos. No, so they
tried to kill the actors individually.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
The miracle insulation of asbestos. Then, just to make sure.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Asbestostem uh, that miracle insulation they put it in because
it was fireproof, and they thought, oh, this is great,
but the theres weren't fire proofs. We're gonna stay, We're
gonna save live with this. And by the way, there's
and they used asbestos up until the.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Mid nineteen seventies.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, seventies seventies, he said, yes. And by the way,
if you find it in your basement, all you have
to do is seal it and put carpet or another
layer of tile on top.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
You'll be fine. Are you sure about that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
You don't have to the problem with asbestos and like tiles,
is that the only way it's dangerous is if you
cut it up, like if you're removing it and it
goes into the air, breath you brother it and you
breathe it in the air. It's not toxic. Just sitting
on the on the on the ask any installer or remodeler,
they'll tell you they're like a do they're asbestos. And
every damn basement based you know, built four seventies Barket

(31:44):
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we will be doing that soon because we are knocking
a wall out and building a bigger kitchen because we
were tired of running into each other, like our kitchen
too small, and I'm just like, why are you in
my way? I don't know, you're in my way. Just
want to get a cup of coffee while I just
wanted to get the eggs. I don't know, Well, you're
in my way. You're in my way, Jackie, Jackie. So

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we are knocking out a wall and we're gonna make
that damn thing bigger. We're gonna pick out new appliances,
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Speaker 2 (32:19):
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Speaker 1 (32:23):
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You won't believe the prices that Bargains Supply.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
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Speaker 1 (32:35):
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It's got its own parking lot. Bargain Supply this holiday
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