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On today is Many of the Apes. Boys, this is it. It's
the last recording session that gets usto the end of this movie. I'm
not gonna drinking Hello and welcome toMany of the Apes. The Daily podcast
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where we break down every minute ofthe play of the Ape movies one minute
a time. I am taught andthe two ding dong is on the other
end that are so excited that theytalk over the open and then seeing me
open the mic was love. Andyou know, I've said a thousand times
this board, it's kind of old, and it's one of those this was
a little cheaper, and it doesn'thave a mute function. The one thing
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that any good audio person wants isa mute to mute the mics and all
that, and I mute all itdoesn't have it. Now my big board
that I would use for my band. Oh yeah, but I'm not bringing
that bitch over here. And it'salso because I want to capture the spontaneity
of Gertie snorting, Sean talking,and Richard singing. I was gonna say,
I'm not gonna believe this is overuntil you hit save on that last
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episode. Well, I think we'reall that way. You know I was.
I was kind of talking to Seanbefore you got here, Richard that,
you know, trying not to justfind the negativity in this movie,
and I was trying to build somenotes for what we're going to talk about
it. We'll get to them.And even when I'm reading the reviews,
you could read the positive nature ofthem that turned negative and I'm like,
oh my god, I gotta it'snegativity. So I think the only way
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for us to do it is todive into this movie and just blaze at
it. So here we are atminute one to eleven. We are going
to do ten episodes in our recordingsession today, so the next two weeks
are done today. Let's just crashLand in these minutes. Just do me
this one favor. Are we ready? Promise me that we're gonna eat afterwards?
And there's alcohol in my future.I can do both. Okay,
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done? I love you both forit. Here it comes, tell us
what's going on? A minute oneto eleven? All right? We start
a minute eleven with more switches andends with Davidson crashing again. I thought
there's gonna be more to that.Okay, Here it comes a minute one
to eleven. Leo crashing on theaway from the plan of the apes or
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traffic controls on identified aircraft? Justwhat's your radio? One? Two one
point five biggers ZDC don't identified aircraft? Do you copy or trolly that identified
aircraft? You are entering restricted airspaces? Milan, You're way off target,
way off target. A barn.I can as a man one love may
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have no barn's worth of apes andhumans to displace POD's worth of humans and
apes, so many wild humans andapes, City minus two girls and a
peace among humans and apes. AndTodd doesn't know what's going on. You
were very excited for that minute.I got so into it that I did
not give my cue to Sean,just to remind him that here we come.
I know he's watching it as well, but I just was watching details
and I'm sitting here this like,I'm so baffled by whatever from the audio
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end I did. I alway wassurprised. So let's go through this visually.
Basically, we were inside the capsulewith Leo. It starts with him
looking like he's pinching one off,and then we go through he flips a
few switches, we see the day, we see the date in the year
counting down, so we're going backin time. According to this, We
burst out of the nebula and suddenlywe start seeing Leo looking at star charts
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and whatnot, and we passed bySaturn. We see the levers that were
mysteriously there and vanished before. Inthe very first of the film, the
redout tells us that we are approachingEarth orbit, so the alpha pod can
approach Earth's orbit. We see thatit comes in. I assume that's the
Earth. It looks very crescent moonlike. He comes in, flips a
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few more switches. The redout tellsus that apparently he has hit His trajectory
is right towards Washington, d C. They are not going to any words.
They're telling is exactly where we're going. We approach the Earth, we
start going through the atmosphere. Itcrashes down. In that one shot right
here we see the Washington Monument,we see the Lincoln Memorial, and yeah,
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nothing really else that's completely discernible aboutWashington, d C. It does,
you can very much tell where you'regoing. We fly through the crowd
clouds and the very tip top ofthe Washington Memorial as it approaches the pond,
leading to the link of oh well, well, Gertie, and then
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we crash down. So here weare with Leo in the pod and Sean's
going to help us make sure thatGertie, yeah, that we don't lose
power because Gertie loves power strips.I don't know what her fascination with them
is, but um, okay.So the first thing that stands out coming
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into this is the dates, right, and they start about I tried to
get it as close as I couldto it. They started about October twenty
six of twenty six eighty eight.Okay, Um, there might have been
you know, it's one of thosethings where I can't scroll just the right
close as I could get to itwas October twenty six to twenty eight to
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twenty six eighty eight. Um,the countdown the closest I can get to
is twelve thirty one of twenty onesixty eight. So it doesn't go back
to today today, right, it'sa future point. And clearly if he
was five thousand years in the future, I think the time frame from his
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ship landing or the pod the crash. What's the name of those what was
the name of the Oberon crashing.That was not a five year, five
thousand year period, right, didn'tthey say at some point that it was
a shorter period of time like acentury. I don't recall that. I
don't recall a time frame being saidit like hundred two years ago. But
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it may be something from a rebodto evolve to human proportions, if nothing
else. I mean, that's gotto be thousands of years. Well yeah,
if not millions, unless it's acceleratedby some kind of experiments to do
and that we're undefined, and therehave been so many things that are undefined
within this basically a six thousand yearperiod between when he would have left Earth
and when he was there. Howdoes the computer know that we we base
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our time on a sun or acalculation of a second equals this, a
minute equals this, twenty four hours? You know, they're really good GPS.
How does it go backwards? Howdoes it know he's going backwards in
time? Do you know how itknows? Somebody said we need to tell
people were calling back in time?What says I have? I mean it
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doesn't make sense. I mean wecould, we could, we could guess
that this particular system is trying toextrapolate time based upon what it's known in
that particular area familiarity, because ifit's no star charts, right, it
could probably figure out time on somelevel. It could. But it is
a very convenient plot technique to showus for going back in time. This
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is a nebula that sent him inthe future, then sent the pod that
was in front of him farther intothe future that was in front of him
Pericles. Pericles went into the nebulabefore him, but came out after him,
So there's different things. But nowit's all of a sudden sending him
backwards in time, but it's alsosending backwards in time and across the universe
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because we at the very Yeah,he's not near Earth, so and on
top of that, the speeds thatthis pod is moving at. It takes
at current time to go from Earthto Mars a year and a half.
To go from Earth to Saturn isthree and a half years, but he
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can go from Saturn to Earth inmatter of second seconds. So the speed
that he is moving out and thedeceleration that he has to do would kill
him. Yeah right, sorry,no, are those are all really really
good points. I was just goingto talk about that. But that's all
right. Well again, it's allvery convenient. The thing that amongst that,
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the one that bothered me the entiretime, is when Earth shows up
and I'm like, what has allowedme to say that this is the Earth?
Is even attainable from there? Andit's just so convenient that he goes
up and comes down and it's Earth. He pops right back where where the
obraun landed. That's off of Saturn. Well, right, here's here.
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Suddenly he comes re emerges from thesame place he was right, he's there.
We see his display screen, itdoes his weird like zoom in to
show us Earth, and then suddenlyhe's in Earth. The one thing I
like about those display screens this timethat there you're not leaving anything open to
what am I looking at? Itis you're trying to tell him that,
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And it's pretty clear. I atleast appreciate that, because this could have
been even so much more confusing ifthey haven't. Heaven had not Heaven are
usual words heavily handed approach to this, you know, telling me so I
appreciate it, But at the sametime it's so obvious. But this the
time his approach to Earth. Allof this stuff I can kind of forgive
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in a sci fi aspect, Right, it's when we get to Wednesday that
I'm gonna have some problems. Ithink we're all gonna have problems. It's
when we get to the next coupleof days, I'm gonna have more problems.
I can forgive a little bit ofthis kind of wonky science math and
how quickly he can get there withoutyou know, decelerating and not dying.
But he approaches Earth right then thatwe zoom in and we see what's Washington,
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DC area. And in that momentas he approaches Earth, to Sean's
point, why couldn't he be likefrantically trying to decelerate. It's so damn
you know, and something like thatwould have helped that idea, because it
is almost absurd how fast he's traveling. And once he gets there, once
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he gets it, he seems tocalm down quite a bit, like there's
a there's a very brief moment aboutmidway through where he's just kind of relaxed.
I get I understand why he's atEarth. Why the the nebula didn't
put him back in the past wherethe Oberon is supposed to be. I
know why they're sending him at Earthfor the plot reason. I'm talking about
the scientific reason. Agreed, heshould be showing back up there and then
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there's no Oberon because he's in thepast and so he has no rescue and
then he has to go to Earthor something like that. But they're just
dump him at Earth for a plotreason and just a space rescue. The
reveal that we know with the lastlittle bit would have been cooler, you
asked me. So also with himbuilding the Oberon and that's where he's there
and now he has to and maybethat's your plot twist, is where that's
where all these things occur. Washe this bloody when he left? Because
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now both sweat he almost looks likepretty Giliani and his hair dive. He
remember he took that big old falland now but but he got punched all
the time and never got Suddenly he'ssweaty, bloody. It's only, you
know, convenient when they want himto look distressed. So I had to
look this up because I didn't knowwhat ZDC was. ZDC is the wash
an aerot traffic Control center operated bythe Federal ACHE. Your commissionally called ZDC
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because I thought they were making itlike zais District of Columbia or nothing like
that. RTCC ZDC FA Washington AirRoute Traffic Center. UM. So it's
the air root Traffic Control Center forum uh, Leesburg, Virginia over the
Washington DC. Give me a favoriteangle your micup toward your mount just a
little bit. So zdc's down withthe acronym stands for but is the thing.
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He wouldn't be unusual to him.He wouldn't be familiar with this.
What I don't understand is why he'sable just to go fly to DC and
land. I mean, well,and I thought that too. He's just
like, hey, I'm coming toshit, I'm coming in. They would
have scrambled jets and we see these, but the speed he's going, how
could they got a jet? Typicallywhen we see spaceships like his in modern
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sci fi, he approaches a spacestation of some kind of orbiting space station
above the Earth, some docking stationsomething like that. The fact that he's
literally just going into land that wasa little weird. And n DC like,
why hy DC? Because we knewhe can get the pot to its
true true, it's not you know, Texas's well Florida, and if he
had landed in Kansas, that wouldhave made him you know, well,
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Mark, Well, here's why heknows how to crack up? Would that
be he doesn't know how to fly? He might better, he don't know
how to fly. He only knowshow to crash, that is true.
And bodies of water, so hefound that, that's rightful, which is
also part of the most shallow bodyof water he could have found in that
air. So my question is,why the fuck is he training Pericles on
how to fly anything when every timewe've seen him fly he crashes. But
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he gives the shit for crashing stuff. Dad, I've learned it from you.
Well again, you know that theZDC says unidentified aircraft or entering restricted
airspace. Why does he think hecan land and not get shot down?
Yeah? Why does he think hecan just land in DC? Why does
this point? Why does he say, I don't have any controls. You
don't understand I've lost all controls,I'm coming down. Navigation coming in hot.
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Well, that that's the other thingthey do say, you know,
landing gear malfunction at some point whenshould have happened you should the landing year
was fine, he took off withit. Why is it? It's just
for convenience. This landing year isnot land We're not working. We'll talk
about the landing year in the nextminute. There's is that the next minute?
Yeah? Okay, it's just it'sjust it's a it's a jumble,
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a jumble of of what's I mean? There are good things about it and
there it is convenient storytelling that doeswork. It's very convenient story zone.
You do tell me what's happening whereI am, so I don't have those
questions. Those things work, butwhy how there are just too many questions
then that come up like that Negateall that, and I do like how
we start with him pinching one offand begin with but as he crashes,
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he's he's taken another dump. It'slike request mission and your way off target,
way off target, after just sayinghe's not allowed to land, like
Richard, can I remind you ofsomething? Yeah, it's almost over,
Okay, no, but it's justit's a it's ah, we're getting to
something exciting, something's about to happen, and we're building all of this some
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just basic unusual nature of sci fithat he just emerged out of the pod.
He can get to Earth that quickly, he can land wherever the fuck
he wants. Yeah, um,well crash land wherever the fuck he wants.
It's just right. Well, technicallyanybody can crash land wherever the fuck
they want, because you're just crashlanding and nobody can stop you. They
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would, they would, they would, undenefit aircraft coming straight for watching the
DC would get shot down. Granted, I know how long it took us
to take out a Chinese air balloon. But yeah, they have to wait
till he gets over an unpopulated areaand then they'll shoot him down. Make
sure that he's crashing right in themiddle of the city. Oh, here
we are, we're crashing. Shouldwe move on to the next minute?
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We're crashing? There have been nobetter ending to an episode. There it
is so for Richard Sean, I'mtodd. Everyone have a great day.
Bye bye, everybody.