East Bound and Down with 'Smokey and the Bandit’

Breaker, breaker, podcast listeners! What’s got 400 cases of bootleg Coors, a screeching black Pontiac Trans Am, and the most magnificent mustache in cinematic history?

This week on ‘Entertain This!’, we are putting the pedal to the metal and crossing state lines to revisit the undisputed king of 1970s vehicular mayhem: ‘Smokey and the Bandit’.

Join us as we ride shotgun with Burt Reynolds at his absolute peak-swagger, cheer on Sally Field as the ultimate runaway bride, and marvel at the sheer, unadulterated comedic genius of Jackie Gleason as the relentlessly frustrated Sheriff Buford T. Justice. We're breaking down how a movie with a plot that essentially boils down to "fetching beer very quickly" became an absolute cultural phenomenon.  In this episode, we discuss…

 The Power of the Stache: Analyzing the undeniable charisma of Burt Reynolds and his iconic look.

 The Lost Art of the CB Radio: How handle names and trucker slang became the original social media.

Buford T. Justice: Why Jackie Gleason's legendary improvised insults steal the entire movie.

Fact or Fiction: Is it actually mathematically possible to drive from Texarkana to Atlanta and back in 28 hours?

Whether you're a classic car aficionado or just someone who appreciates a good old-fashioned police chase, this movie still fires on all cylinders. So grab yourself a Diablo sandwich and a Dr. Pepper, hit play, and listen in. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:08

We are new intro for anything. The outside was taken.

unknown 0:18

We've got it all.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Let it all hang out called we got the bigger dinner. We kept it under the minute, Mark. Alright. Entertain this. Podcast about movies, TV shows, and video games. My name is Hayden. With me have Mitch and Tom. Hello. Today we're discussing a movie called Smokey and the Bandit. I don't know if you picked up on that yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

It's a great movie.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Because if you hadn't, we're gonna go home and punch your mama right in the mouth. At one point, I was like, whoa. Domestic violence. It was back in the 70s.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Okay, I thought you were taller.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

On the radio, you sounded like you were taller. Yeah. I I, you know, everybody's seen this movie. I think it's like a requirement, especially if you're in Georgia. Yeah, you live in the south. You have to have seen Smokey and The Bandit. I I watched it one time as a kid, and I was like, this movie's damn. And I watched it again as an adult yesterday, and I was like, this movie's damn. This movie's still dumb.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Could you imagine trying to get away nowadays?

unknown 1:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

They even had a helicopter at one point. It was like one of the helicopters from MASH.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

At what point are they gonna like call the national?

SPEAKER_02 1:47

What does he have? Five stars. Yes, the Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, he has a five star rating. This is Grand Theft Auto in the 70s. This is when being a lovable rogue was like okay. Like you could do this kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Because everybody's just like, he's the bandit.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

What what I hate the most about this movie is I feel like most truckers on the road that are just absolute jerks, just taking up lanes, driving slow, being a pain. Yeah, they're not doing this cool stuff. Well, that, but there are they think they are. They've watched you know every trucker out there has watched.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

They got a handle their C B in their way up the upper 85.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

They're they're talking to each other in their stupid lingo. You know, with their dumb call. No, man.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

I'm gonna pull off here with a choking pew because it's like, shut up. Yeah, just shut up. Let me around, you jerk. The only person who was cool in this movie was Bert Reynolds. Because it's Bert Reynolds. It is Burt Reynolds.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

I like how in the movie I read some of the like the trivia at the end that said that C B cells went up drastically when this movie came out.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

My mom had like a 1986 Mustang that had a C B in it. Why? Who was she talking to? She used it at one point.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

What was her call sign?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Flower Power 55.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

Yeah, yeah, Flower Power 55, whatever it was. Isn't that isn't it funny how basically like screen names are just call signs?

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Well, no, she she's like, I used it once because she was getting like tailgated on a highway and she saw a bunch of semis and like asked them for help and they were like, We got you. And like she's like, they're like, like, go ahead and gun it past me. And like as he did, like, should do the rocking chair maneuver. Yeah, they did the rocking chair. Like, they just like blocked this dude out and they were just like, Alright, have fun. And she just like kept going. She's just like, Woo, all right, thanks.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Okay, that's like the one time. Yeah, that was it. That's when it paid for itself. I guess. I don't know. I don't know. You could like what year was this? This is probably like 1989. Okay, so no phones were invented yet.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

Uh I guess you know nobody uses a C B radio. This is before cell phones. Like you just had a C B. Yeah, not doing that.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Well, I mean, because even the police have their own radio now.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Yeah, everything's like much more digital. Because the everything's like within the um Bluetooth frequency. Yeah. So you can because it's like the the wavelength is much more I can get into a whole thing about radio theory. We're not gonna talk about that. That's not what this podcast is about. This podcast is about smoking the bandit. Smoking the bandit. Color is beer, not union. So uh yeah, uh this movie was made for originally it was like pro projected to be like budgeted out for a million dollars. Yeah, this was supposed to be a B movie. B movie. Needham was the guy, right? He's a director. He was a former stunt man, and I guess he still did some of the stunts for the movies. You know, and he fancied himself to be a whole uh you know, a nice big-to-do film director, and uh he had written his script in a professional manner between napkins and uh you know uh yellow sketch pads and three different, you know, avenues of here's his script. And so Burt Reynolds happened to be his fan.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Well, here uh Jerry Reed, who plays Snowman, was a really supposed to be the bandit.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Because they were they were good friends at that time. And that's but so was Bert Reynolds. Bert Reynolds was like, I guess, uh like he was Needham, the director of Smoking the Banham, was supposed to be well, he was Burt Reynolds' like stunt man at some point in whatever previous movies. Whatever movie that was. Nobody knows Rifles, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

Yeah, that's like the only other movie I could name. I I couldn't name it. And Deliverance. Well, that was well Deliverance came later after Smokey the Band, didn't it? No, so uh Deliverance was 1972. This was 1977.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Oh, okay. Well, anyways, so Needham was like, hey, Bert, read my Hey Bert, hey Bert. Would you like to read my script? His head probably didn't go up that went like that to fly. Hey, Bert. Uh and Bert Reynolds was like, okay. And so he read it between all of its different parchments and scattered cocktail napkins and was like piecing them together on the wall. Quote, in his Burt Reynolds autobiography, quote, this was the worst script I had ever read, but I agreed to do it because Needham was a cool guy. So Universal Studios ended up bankrolling it for 5.3 million. But they gutted a million out of it. Yeah. But they sent a man to Atlanta, Georgia to tell him you're you're down a million dollars now.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Yeah, they it was a$4.3 million budget, but the box office retur return was$127 million. The movie made a lot of money.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Yeah, it did it did okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

It did for 1977, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Also, like Georgia blew up. It was a movie about like the South that wasn't in a like a stupid like red. You know, screw like a piggy. They were all like friendly with each other, race and stuff asides, and you know, they weren't beating on women, things like that. They weren't just a bunch of you know, like New York depicted, but this is how the South people must be. Right. Yeah. So how Wall Street would imagine. Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

So I'll be honest, it's not how I would depict the mountain folk to be up in Hell in Georgia.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

They weren't mountain people.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Well, I know in the in the movie they weren't, but where they filmed it, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Are you talking about deliverance?

SPEAKER_00 7:01

No, they filmed the movie, some of the movie in Hell in Georgia.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Oh, for deliverance, or for uh Smoking the Bandit?

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

I mean, I know that's not where the movie took place, quote unquote, but I will say when he's like racing against the cops and he's like in and like you know 85. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

There's no way you could do it now. You'd be bumper to bumper. There was not a car on those energy. I was me and Rachel were watching, I'm just like, God, look at that. It was just wide open. The left leg.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Where is it going as fast as you want? Yeah. But what's funny is like if you look back at that car now, it has no power compared to cars nowadays.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

They got up to 110 miles an hour, Mitch. That thing had what it was like a six point something, because it said on the top of the hood scoop.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

But I want to say it was like 180 or 200 horsepower.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

Yeah, catalytic converters. A lot of horse choked.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Four-cylinder car that had 180 horsepower.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

Yeah, my V6 Mustang had like 210. When it worked.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Yeah, when the battery wasn't dead. I'm so glad you got rid of it. Uh, but anyways, so yeah, the movie got greenlit. For some reason, the powers that beat because Burt Reynolds was the thing. He was a marketable guy. And and uh, you know, 90 like a lot of the script was improvised. Uh who's the uh the sheriff Beaufort T justice was. Oh, Jackie Gleason. Gleason. He he did a lot for that movie.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Yeah, they said the hit like 99% of his lines were improvised.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

Yeah. That's because that's how he rolled on the honeymooners. Yeah. Like they would do like a walkthrough. One of these days, Alice, bang, zoom, straight to the moon. Because he would like never rehearse or like barely do anything. Like he would just stroll in and just like get the gist of what the show was gonna be that night and just go for it.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Can I ask you guys a question? Have you ever met a person or seen a character with that pencil line mustache that you were like, that's a good looking dude. In real life, no. That's a good guy right there. That's trustworthy.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

The only guy that ever got away with it is Clark Gable. When what what what uh with the wind? Even then he's slapping, you know. Hey, someone had to slap someone had to smack Vivian Lee around. She was out of control. If it wasn't gonna be him, it was gonna be Lawrence Olivier. That's true. And somebody would just nodding like, he knows. He does know. He knows his history. Good for that guy.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Wow. Yeah. But uh, I don't know. Uh yeah, you this movie was made purely off of miracle. Like the the amount of money, the gutting of the money, you know, like the I'm sure like it was the 70s, so you the way you did um location releases and stuff was completely different, but they probably didn't have the authority to shoot on interstates like they did.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Well, and you know good and well, like a lot of these stunts were probably just Leroy Jenkins at Leroy.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

You saw that one shot where that like pylon is laying down across the interstate, and Buffer T. Justice's car quickly becomes a convertible when it slides under it, and there was an actual dude just pops up, yeah, just leans over it.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

And you're like, nope, they wouldn't do that today. No, there's uh another movie, The Seven Ups, Roy Scheider from Jaws. He plays a copy of his chase, and he rear-ends the back of an 18-wheeler and doesn't have like that drop-down bumper. Yeah. And they did this stunt for real, like they crashed a 73 Pontiac Ventura into the back of it, and he just pops out like his like all of his veins are like pulsating in his head, his nose is bleeding, and you're just like, and like the guy that like the truck driver that runs out is actually an EMT pretending to be the truck driver, just like checking him as they're doing the shot live, and they're just like, Yeah, all right, all right, yeah, just sit up, okay, okay, all right, yeah. All right, we're good. Are you alive? We're good, we're good. He's still breathing. We can keep filming the movie. But this movie had everything you needed. You had Burt Reynolds in the 70s. Yeah, Sally Fields in her 30s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was others, there was other better looking women in the 70s.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Who could have she wasn't bad looking, I'll say that.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Who could have filled these shoes? Who? I mean, hell, they could have got Olivia Newton John to do it.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

Yeah, but she's not country enough.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Sally Fields has that like kind of Or they could have got the girl from Taxi, the red-headed girl.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

To me, Sally Fields has that girl next door charm.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Yeah, she she does. She has that like like country kind of girl.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

She's not like.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Did you notice like she had like a mole on the top of like her forehead, and then like halfway in the movie, it's gone. It's just gone the entire time. And I was sitting there watching, I was like, wait, what? She has a scope. When did that happen?

SPEAKER_01 11:17

I did not know that. I was distracted another time. I have noticed watching Mad Men that I I think January Jones has herpes. She has this cold sword that moves around her mouth as the show migrates.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Yeah, it's like the uh the king in uh Men and Tites. Where he's like the sheriff's like, Sarah, wasn't the mole on the other side? And he just looks and goes, I have a mole.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Yeah, but like the makeup job for January Jones and Mad Men is so bad, it almost draws more attention. They might as well put like a neon sign that says looky here. Look right there. Look right there. Yeah, and then you're like, you're like, I don't even know what's going on in the scene right now. All I can see is this weird growth. And and she's so beautiful, too. Yeah. So it's all you can see. It's like a she's she her acting is stale. January Jones? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

I thought she was fine. The only time it her acting is good is when she's upset, like when she's mad at Don. And she you'll see it later. But we're getting sidetracked because we're talking about Smoky and the Power. I would call it reserved. We're talking about a mustache and a smaller mustache.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

January Jones, if you're listening, I'm sorry if you have herpes. But I approve of your acting. I think you're a wonderful actor.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

I don't think she's a bad actress.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Yes, you did. And her acting is kind of stale.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

I'm saying his bad. It sounds like Neil Green is bad. Neil if you're listening.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

The bar is low.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

We gotcha. Holding eight cell phones that have you all on conference call.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

That's not the bar low, that's the bottom of the barrel.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

That is the base. Like it does not go low. Don't challenge our listeners. They will find a way to break through the bottom.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Samurai. No. Keep it warm for me.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

I forgot about that. We're uh we're spiraling. What are we talking about? We're talking about smoking the bandit. We haven't even got to the first scene yet. This this this movie has 70s Burt Reynolds, you have Jackie Gleason, who's still the great one, and you have a an awesome car. Yeah. You have a 77 Pontiac Transam. Jackie Gleason's. Which fit has the flaming chicken on the hood, as it was known. And the Firebird does it. It's supposed to be a Firebird. I never understood that. It was a Firebird. No, it's a Transam.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

Oh. Is it really? Yep. Okay. Well, I remember them saying it black Transam over and over again. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

I thought the Transams actually had that on the hood.

SPEAKER_02 13:32

Yeah, the Black Transams have the Firebird on them, but the Pontiac Firebird never had it. And that's what it was named after.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Oh. Oh, okay. Now you're saying that's kind of interesting.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

And if I'm wrong, write in. Because I I bet you won't. I bet you won't. I bet you won't do it. So this film stars obviously Burt Reynolds, Sally Fields, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

And this is an interesting movie for Sally Fields because she's 31 when she's shooting this. Burt Reynolds in his 40s. And um she has done three movies throughout her twenties that uh probably most people in that time didn't know about. I don't know any of them. You know, that I I looked through her IMDb and I was like, I don't know any of those movies. Um so she was basically a no-named uh actress that that they just found for this movie, and this launched her career.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Well, supposedly she had played uh Burt Reynolds' girlfriend in another movie before this, and that's why he asked for her.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Oh, did they like four movies together because they dated for like five years? And they were and Sally Fish. Him and Sally Fear.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

Yeah, they were they were either dating or married in just about all the films that they did together.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

No, they never got married.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Well, I'm saying in I'm talking about in the films they were married to each other or something like that. Because I was looking at her.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

Um because I remember this is like her first movie that I remember, and then the next one's Forrest Gump. Yeah, and Mrs. Doubtfire. Yeah. Like whatever happened from 78 The whole time. The whole time. Like I missed the 80s. I don't know what she did from 80 to 89, if anything.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

And then she was uh She did Moon Pilot, The Way West, Stay Hungry, and then Smoking the Bandit. So I have not heard she wasn't even she wasn't even uh uncredited for one of those movies. So for all the 60s and most of the 70s, she was not known as far as I can understand. And then she did Smoking the Bandit, which is this is early Hollywood era, right? And to have an actress get her start in their 30s was like oh she's uh you know a spinster.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

She's already she's a willow withered husk of a woman. Too far gone.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

When did she get her Oscar? And do you remember you love me, you really do love me. Where's that from? Um I don't know. Let me I'll pull it up.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

I feel bad we don't know enough about Sally Field.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

She got uh best actress for Norma Ray in 1979. So two years later.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

Two years later, she's an Oscar winner. Boom, just like that. Thank you, Burt Reynolds. Thanks, Burt Reynolds, and your mustache. That mustache carried her a long way. The the scene that steals it for Bert is where he ditches the cops at the beginning and he drives like between the tree and the house and he stops and he just like looks up at the camera. Like he fourth walls the crap out of it. He just looks, smirks, and then just turns and drives away. He's just like, oh yeah. He's like, I'm Burt Reynolds.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Fourth wall breaks work if your movie's like good enough.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

And if you don't do it too much if you're Burt Reynolds.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Yeah, if you're Bert Reynolds. Which, by the way, Burt Reynolds looks shockingly too much like Pedro Pascal.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

He does. Doesn't he?

SPEAKER_01 16:32

He's Pedro's real father. I thought about that.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

It's like if they ever made a remake, that's the only person they could play.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

It would be him. You know? Yeah. Pedro Pascal is Burt Reynolds with a little bit of seasoning. He's a little bit of chili pepper. A little little little bit.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Like if his name was Bert, his last name would be Reynolds would be Burt Culpipa. This is a stupid show already. We're 15 minutes in of nonsense. Oh yeah, it's only gonna get better. This is what happens when we do a live event. Oh, by the way, if you guys can't. To all the you that got turned away. We're very sorry. That was not in the control, that was the venue people. So we're gonna blame them.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Okay, we can blame them. There are volunteers, and they're like, you know, mainly teenage girls that are like, I don't know, it's good. But they are also responsible.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

They did try to turn your wife away, and she was like, No, I know he's in there.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Yeah, he's in there doing the show right now. They're like, No. No, he's not. And they're just like, yeah, we are. If you were at this conquest event, which was formerly a free comic book day, right? So, like, if you were at this event, we do this every year and we uh do a live show and we um you know do the trivia and uh raffle prizes and stuff like that. We pretty much had a prize for everybody that was there today. Except your family. Well, I don't count.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

But everybody else got something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Well, yeah, that's because everybody got anyone who anyone who participated.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Yeah, shout out to Deacon. He got good job, Deacon. He got the blades of chaos and his dad won the Halo Sword. Man, Deacon won away a champ today. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

I wonder if he broke him already. Probably. Um, but yeah, so if you were expecting us to be there, you know, to have this event and you got turned away. I'm really sorry. We did have the event. It was great for those who showed up. Well, they kept going outside to like look for like the crowd, like, oh, is there people?

SPEAKER_02 18:22

We did.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Well, they had an emergency at the other building. So that they had you know, we couldn't use the building we were supposed to be in.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

The stage that we were supposed to be at, that whole building blew up or something. I don't know. There was an event like a pipe or somebody had too much tacos or something. Somebody had some too much cheesy gordue to crunch.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

So the the location got moved, and then the people in the lobby were turning people away, so it kind of killed the crowd.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

To be fair, I love Lawrenceville and all that like they allow us to do there. But sometimes when they get a little bit of a monkey wrench thrown into their plans, everything glances goes crazy. The microchip is compromised. They should subscribe to the entertain this method where we just let it ride and see how this goes. Let's see how it goes.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Overcome Adept. That's right. That's how we roll it.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

Just give us microphones. We'll stand out here in the middle area, the you know, the road or something.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

We'll do the parking lot in the bathroom. We don't care. We will. You show up, we will talk. Anyway, what are we talking about?

SPEAKER_02 19:16

Smoking the bandit. Oh, smoking and bandit.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Let's get to that first scene.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Yeah. Wealthy Texan, big Enos Burdett, and his son, little Enos, frequently bet notable truckers in Atlanta to bootleg 400 cases of coarse beer from Texarkana, Texas, to Atlanta in 28 hours. But all have failed with many being arrested. They find local legend Bo Bandit Darville at a truck rodeo in Lakewood Fairgrounds and offer him$80,000, which is equivalent to$322,000 in 2024, to take the bet. The bandit accepts and recruits his best friend Cletus Snowman, Snow, and Fred. That the Cletus's basset hound. Fred was funny. To drive the truck while Bandit drives a black 1977 Pontiac Transam as a blocker to divert attention away from the trucks and its illegal cargo.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

I just want to say that little Enos was born in 1940 and big Enos was born in 1927, so he's only 13 years older than little Enos. Weird marriage. Weird, weird father-son.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

It's like uh what's his face? Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. Yeah. In Last Crusade. Yeah. Well, it works. Because Sean Connery is only 20 years older than. Because for those who don't know or understand why this is important, is that Coors Beer was not union beer. It was made in the Rockies. So it was actually illegal. Like you could not get this. Like my dad told me he's like, you could not, like, you was rare to find coors beer in New York City. Like in the 70s. It's like everybody heard about it. It's just like some people maybe have had it, but it was like a mythical thing because they would not distribute it past like the Mississippi. It's not that good of a beer. No, it's not. It's not. The Banquet Beer and anything.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

But at the time it was something you couldn't have, so you wanted it.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

You wanted it.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Well, let me ask a question. There was demand. Why did it have to be 28 hours?

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Well, because that's when he was having his big he was having his big uh hoorah thing with the race.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

We'll have it the next day.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Well the race was already scheduled.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

And he wanted he wanted that beer for the celebration. It had to be coors, huh? Yeah. It was warm by the time it got there. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Well, because this was Or broken.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

He said 28 uh 28 hours and it was 900 miles. They had two in back or there and back. So that that's a lot with Holland.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

900 miles both ways.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

Yeah. So like there and get to get back to the room. Yeah, let me know.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

And Snowman never stops at a way station. No. At all. They only fill up the the the Transam once.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

I do like when he you know he meets them and they're trying to hire him to do the stuff. He's like, I need a car. They start doing out bills, he's like, speedy car. They turn pour down more bills. He's like, speedier than that.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

Faster than that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Well, it's just it's like what he really needed was a Corvette. So that's 32 miles an hour.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

Oh, really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

900 divided by 28. Okay. So you you could do that.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

I I I didn't know, but it's just 900 miles in pretty much a day.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

They didn't show them doing all the blow off camera in order to stay awake the entire.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

This is 1977, was meth a thing. Uh were they doing speed? They call it speed back then. Smack. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

What kills me another part is like right after this, Bandit is like drawing cops away. They haven't picked up beer. They're not speeding yet. He's just like leading cops away from the truck.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Is that a real thing? Like, was there a what do they call himself? A blocker? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Oh, I'm sure there are.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Like some guy that would run cop interference.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Like if the cops are chasing you, they're not looking at the drugs in the truck. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

I I don't know. I mean, like that's like uh some dude I saw on YouTube, like he used to do drugs, he got locked up anyway, and like they put him in prison. He got out. He does a podcast now about it. But he's like, when they were running dope between states, he's like, I would get in a car, he's like, I get like a you know, stare like a old white ranger. He goes, and I drive that, and I would as soon as I got, I would go put like you know marine stickers and stuff on it. And he's like, cops would pull me over, and I got like 28 pounds of dope in the back of the flatbed that they can't smell yet, and they're just like, you know, oh hey, thanks for your service. And he's like, I would just remember a few things to just say to him. And he's like, hey man, like all right, he's like, Who's your MOS? Oh, yeah, I was this, I was over here. He's like, All right, man, he's like, you know, drive safe. He's like, they wouldn't even check my license.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Well, well, Smokey and Snowman had this elaborate plan to like talk on the radio, right? Well, went out the window, like the next scene. Yeah. Because you know, they're talking normally, and then like he's like, if I say go to 19, we're going to 17.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

And he's just like, Yeah, he's like 19, 17 now. And like if Burt Reynolds just look at him like, we're not doing any of that. Yeah. He's like, no one's gonna stop us. I'm Burt Reynolds. Look at this mustache. Yeah, I have a cowboy hat on for this movie.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

He only takes it off for one reason. That's how he feels. But anyway, um understandable. Um, so but like if the way he's talking to Snowman, he's talking to him in a way that the audience will understand, yeah, right? So, like Buford T Justice, who's listening the entire time on those radio channels, he would totally know that hey, maybe this snowman guy that's driving you know the 18 wheeler, yeah, he's probably got something in there that we should stop. So instead of sending a thousand cops after bandit, you could have one cop pull over snowman. The truck.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Well, technically, he was after him because of Sally Fields later on.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

And he was out of jurisdiction, so he didn't really he was whoa but he's bailed for too justice.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

I'm a law enforcement agent of 30 years. The way he rolls up is hilarious at the beginning of the movie.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

I'll have you not use profanity around me and my boy, my boy, who's like 40 holding his hat.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Daddy, wait! Daddy, daddy, daddy.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

He was always throwing his kid out of the car. There's no way you came from my lawn. I go home and I want to hit your mother in the mouth.

SPEAKER_02 25:06

Some of those other ones we just can't say. You know, hot sauce. Punct your mother. The pair arrives in Texarkana an hour early to unload the truck, but as they begin their return journey, Bandit is intercepted by Carrie, a runaway bride, who suddenly jumps in his car. That was very abrupt.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

It was. Could you imagine like driving down the road and seeing like a bride with her flowing gown just waving you down? Got a car that says just married. Yeah, what would you do, Matt?

SPEAKER_02 25:32

But she wasn't already just married. Why'd she have the car?

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Well, she stole it from the church.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Yeah. To get away.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Yeah. I mean, if I But if you're driving down the road and there's a pretty bride with her flowing dress and she's waving you down, what would you do?

SPEAKER_00 25:46

If I'm not married, I'm taking the chance.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

I'd be like, well, good luck, lady. I already got one as you go by, like pointing at the wedding ring. Like, I got a wife already, but uh clearly whatever circumstances led her to that position is not something you want to be a part of.

SPEAKER_00 25:59

Well, like I said, if I wasn't married, I'll give it a chance. Well nowadays, no, I'm a bad guest. Sorry!

SPEAKER_01 26:05

It's a good thing. This is obviously a trap. Mitch would have been dead a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

But if it was Sally Fields, I'd die.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Okay, Mitchell. You're drooling on the table again.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Well, I like how when they get to the to get the beer, he kicks the door in.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Yeah, he just hops on the forklift too, and he's just like, you know, he's like, I got it.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Whose beer was that? They have Bill Enos, Enos, or Enos. Yeah. The Enos is the Enai. Bird it. He can't spell it.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

B-U-R.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Well, uh he kicks in the door, they take the beer after crashing into it with the forklift, and then he's like, here, leave him a message. And he's like, starts writing, hey, I gotta go, just drop it.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

He's like, I ain't got time for that. He just like throws the notepads so basically they didn't pay, they stole it. Yeah. I mean, they are felons. Are they though? Or are they just lovable 70s rogues? They're lovable 70s felons.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

Yeah, back when you could just be a lovable felon to the city.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

When you've tried to murder cars because you've run them off the road.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Yeah, nobody roots for the cops in Scarface. You know? Nobody rooting for the cops and smoking the man. Nobody rooted for the cops and smoking the bed. They just like it was like uh it was like a a uh you know, a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon. You know, where like all the wacky stuff would happen, and you're like, ah, yeah, those silly cops. And then I love when B for T Justice shows up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:29

Because he like gets out, he's got like the gold, and like he's got like a Rolex on the car.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

His car was nice. Yeah. Except for those weird uh light rack that he had on top. Oh, the bubblegum lights? The giant knockers he had on top of it.

SPEAKER_03 27:41

Those two big old hooters. Boom! Big old lights.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

So he pulls up and you have all the like the teenagers look like they were about to break into the car.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Yeah, like they're about to like take the tires off and all this stuff. Yeah, what was that? Like waiting in the woods for that. He stands there and he holds up his hand like with the two fingers open, his son's like fumbling with the cigarettes. Puts the wrong way in. And he's like, he just stares at him and he flips it. Yeah. And he like opens the letter and hands it to him, and he's like, and then he's like, and clicks it, and all I'm like, and he's like, now, ho right now.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

He just starts kicking the crap out of these kids.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

He's just smacking them around. Like he knees the one kid in the nuts, and he's just like, hands on the car. And he's like, now I don't want you boys to go nowhere. Make sure no unsavory characters come and touch this vehicle. And he gets in the car and leaves, and the one kid's like, he's gone. And the guy's like, I'm not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

He's like, I'm not moving.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

All I gotta say is he's like, my associates will be here any moment. All I gotta say is if you're in Texarcana and you have to get out of your car for five minutes to go pee on the side of the road or whatever, some kid's gonna pop out of the woodline and take your kite.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

It's like billowy from the knee down. Tight, tight, tight, from the knee to the waist.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Extreme bell bottoms.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

But they didn't have phones or any of that stuff that they had to carry around. It's like you had maybe two keys, one to a car, one to a house at a quarter to call someone. Have you ever heard of Texarcana in any other context? Besides smoking.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Like old West movies, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

No, I've like I've heard of Texarcana mentioned in this and in Yellowstone. Yellowstone. Yeah, that's where Tater was from.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

And then maybe Tex Arcana, uh and then maybe like uh maybe tombstone or young guns or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

Is that like the most eastern part of Texas? Yeah, it's like right there between Texas and Arkansas. Arkansas. Is that why they call it Tex Arcana? Tex Arcana.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Fancy.

SPEAKER_02 29:35

It's like they tried to you know tell you something there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

You know what else? Is that crazy? When they were driving to Texas, right? There was a song playing. It felt like that song was actually written for that movie.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

I don't know what the song was.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Westbounded Down.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Oh, okay. Westbound and Down.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

Kind of like it, but it was.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

And you know the funny part about that is uh who's the dude that plays Snowman?

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Jackie No, not Jackie uh something Reed. Yeah, Jerry Reed.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Yeah, the the water boy coach. Anyways, he he uh he wrote that song on One Night because he's a he's a I guess a pretty famous musician from that era. And uh he wrote that song on One Night and played it for Needham, the director. And he's like, that's it, that's what we're gonna use. Well he he he like he did an emote when he played it, and he was like, Oh, I'll uh I'll rewrite this song and have something new to you. And he was like, if you change that anything to that song, I'm gonna choke you outright. And he's like, We're doing it as is it helps that you have a lot of people in this movie that have different hats. Like Bert Reynolds probably didn't do much besides just be Burt Reynolds. But because you had Burt Reynolds, you got five million dollars to make this movie, four point whatever. You got four million dollars to make the movie. You had five, but they took they took a million away because it's like it is all it is also just Bert Reynolds.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Universal's like, we gotta make an ET or something. So you gotta think this came out the same year as Star Wars. Did it really? 77? Oh, I didn't think about that. That is true. Jaws was only two years old. Man.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

So Harrison Ford, because Burt Reynolds is auditioned for the role of Han Solo. Yep. Yeah. What could have been?

SPEAKER_02 31:13

What could have been? Harrison Ford could have been. We could have had Han Solo with a mustache. Harrison Ford could have been the bandit. Yeah. But he already played a bandit-esque character in uh American Graffiti. That's true. And driving that 55 Chevy. That's a great movie. That's not a good movie.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

It's a great movie. Have you ever tried to watch American Graffiti? No. We'll let Mitch be the decision.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

I'll tell you it's bad. I'll just tell you it's bad.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Yeah, it's from the 70s, I don't want to watch it.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

I think it's from like 1972.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

That's Lucas' first film.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

I thought THRE1138. No, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

That is his first movie, which is an even worse movie. And I love science fiction. That movie made no sense.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

But I think American Graffiti is like the movie he wanted to do. You know, Where Were You in 62.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

I think Star Wars is legitimately what Lucas wanted to do. Yeah. You know, like that's where he's like saw himself.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

He just didn't see Burt Reynolds' on solo.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

No. Who could? Nobody. No, that stash. That stash isn't there. I think Al Pacino tried to do it too. They had all sorts of weird people. Um who's like Donna Vader? Bad guy. Hooah, the force. Luke, shoot him in the face. Who was Magnum P.I.?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Tom Selleck. Yeah. He's supposed to be Indiana Jones. You know what? Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones probably would have still been a good movie. Well, they both have the same, like, you know, register when it comes to how they talk. Well, uh, Tom Selleck has a higher voice. But he also has like a lot more charm, I think, than Harrison Ford does, where he could like actually like fourth wall break and stare at the camera through the eyebrow, like he did in Magnum. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Although, like, have you seen Shrinking? And I mean, granted, this is Harrison Ford in his 80s. Uh, with him and what, Jason Siegel? Yeah. But he meant like the the old man Harrison Ford dying from Parkinson's disease and just like telling people to go ahead, get on with life, let love and win, and all this other stuff. You're just like it's not real Harrison Ford. Stop it. You're playing with my emotions.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

Like uh Mark Hamill talked about. He's like, hey, he's like, you know, we're doing the garbage pactor scene. It's like, hey, shouldn't our hair be wet since we just did the thing? And Harris Ford's like, listen, kid. It ain't that kind of movie. Yeah, that's pretty much Harrison Ford. Anyways, back.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

I want my family back.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

What are we talking about? I want my movie back. I want my wife.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

Backsmoking the bandit. Unbeknownst to it. Hold on, hold on, hold on before we go further. What what person in their right mind gets picked up on the side of the road and then starts stripping as they're going down the road in this other person's car?

SPEAKER_02 33:40

It's the 70s.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

It's the 70s. You could do that. The decade of free love. No, that was the 60s. Okay. I don't know. What were they doing in the 70s? Vietnam was over. Yeah, the NAM was over. Yeah, so like they're just living life.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Well, I like how the snowman he's talking to Bert on the road on the radio.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

He's basically telling him everything.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

Well then you see like the wind dress fly by and he goes, What's she wearing? And then when the dress flops by, what's she wearing now? Her mind? Her mind.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Her mind.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Remember that stupid dog. You leave Fred alone. Fred is a good boy. Fred didn't bar anybody.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

I read in the trivia on IMDB that Burt Reynolds actually chose that dog for uh Jerry Reed because the dog would not listen to anything. And when he ran and jumped in the pond, that actually happened, and they told Jerry to go get him. Go get it.

SPEAKER_02 34:29

We're gonna film this. This is gonna be great.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

Keep the cameras rolling, everybody. This is what we want to see. This is Hollywood material right here.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

Alright, so the bandit is intercepted by Carrie, a runaway bride, who suddenly jumps into his car. Unbeknownst to him, this makes Bandit an indirect target of Sheriff Bufa T. Justice.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

Beaufort T Justice.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

Named after a real person.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

That Burt Reynolds knew. Yeah, it was like a douche cop that he ran into Florida Highway Patrol. Which tracks.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

Because they are they are awful. A seasoned Texas lawman whose dim-witted son 30 years Jr. was supposed to marry Carrie. The Justice father and son engage in a high speed, hot pursuit, doggedly chasing bandit all the way to Georgia, retrieve Carrie and arrest the bandit. Successive comical mishaps cause the Justice's cruiser to experience increasing damage along the way.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

How much of that movie do you think was not filmed where they're driving actually that fast and it was just film jacking? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

Yeah, you can tell like an S turn where they're going like the physics don't quite line up. That's sped up. Yeah. Because I'm like, there's no way you're doing that in that 18 wheeler, like at all. Like he's doing 90. That 18 wheeler was whipping.

SPEAKER_01 35:39

Whipping. And if it is going that fast, that coors in the back is not.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

Well, I mean, you saw when they closed it, there was not a lot of room for that beer to go. He was still so it was like it was probably just rattling and shaking.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

That first dude that cracks open a cours is just right in the face.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

It's like you brought foam.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

You bought a trailer of foam. That'll be$300,000.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

I like how when the bandit, like the the uh smokey, starts talking to him on a radio, and he's like, Where do you happen to be?

SPEAKER_03 36:07

I'm telegramming your right behind me. He's like, huh. And he just put his foot just goes, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

I love that. The dude uh Gleason, he he was dead like ten years later. Yeah. But this was like a career revival for him.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Because I mean he had the honeymooners, which is like the greatest like TV sitcom. He was a TV actor, that was it.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Well, then he got he got uh part two of this movie as well.

SPEAKER_02 36:37

He had his own TV show for a little while. That wasn't the honeymooners, and then he did a couple of big movies. Uh he does one with Paul Newman, where he's like a pool player, the hustler.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Oh man, that's a great movie. Yeah. I haven't seen that movie in forever. I think he would like that movie. I don't think I've seen that one. It's it's old, okay. It's old, but it's edgy comedy. It's really good though. Paul Paul Newman, you know, he's still got comedy though. Um it's kind of little you got Jackie Gleason, you're gonna have comedy. It's it's good.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

See, old comedies are great. It's it's the the some of the serious stuff.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

I did not know that was Jackie Gleason. Yeah, yeah. Oh, a little pinstrip mustache can do a lot for a person.

SPEAKER_02 37:17

And you know, 50 years of heavy drinking, eating, and chain smoking. You know that dude. That dude was like six packs a day.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

You know.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

Oh, yeah, he was like a bacon. Half a carton a day, or if not a carton a day.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

Because he died when he was let me pull it up.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

He died in the 1980s, like the late 1980s?

SPEAKER_01 37:38

He was born in 1916, died in 1987, a month before I was born. So how old was he? 71? I mean, that's not bad for a dude smoking, you know, a tree a day.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

So I I like how in this movie, like as soon as he starts running, is when he's like uh when he's running from the the cops smokey or the band is like running off the road stuff. This is where he like jumps a driveway and takes out the six or seven multiple.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Yeah, and I'm and not a scratch on that trans hand.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

Mitch, I have a trivia question for you. Oh, great. Who is uh Jackie Gleason's grandson?

SPEAKER_00 38:14

No idea.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

His name is uh Jason Patrick from a movie you guys might know as The Lost Boys. He was the main dude in Lost Boys.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

Well, everybody, I'm thinking of that book.

SPEAKER_01 38:31

He was the Keanu Reeves character in Speed 2.

SPEAKER_02 38:36

Really?

SPEAKER_01 38:36

Yeah. Hey, you know, yeah, he's not doing too bad. Another trivia question about speed two. The most expensive shot in cinema history is when the boat crashes in the game.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

Yeah, when it crashes, it's just like plowing over stuff.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

Yeah, well it wasn't, it was all CG. Yeah, it was like forty-seven thousand dollars or frame. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Well, because that they had some detail to it. It was still bad, but it was detailed.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

It was all CG back in like the early 2000s.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

Anywho. What are we talking about again? Smoking the bandit. Uh the engage uh increasing uh mishaps. Let's see, the bandit attracts more police attention across Dixie as Cletus barrels towards Atlanta with the contraband beer. They are helped and route by many colorful characters via CB radio, which is kind of annoying at some points.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Yeah, like uh what were the what were some of their names?

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Silver tongue something.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

Yeah, Silvertongue. There's the silver tongue devil, there was like the whorehouse on wheels.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

Right, right. And you like the Chinese guy.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

Every highway cop they passed was peeing against the door.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

I'm just like, God, all of them? It's like they all gotta pee at all times.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

They were super hydrated. One of them you had like this old lady that has the CB. She's like getting pulled over.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Yeah, the grandma, and then they cuts like she's in like a traffic accident. And it's like you were so like, you know, you could you know turn the wheel and she goes, Oh. My bad.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

I like how when Snowman is driving, he he's got the 18-wheeler, and when uh when Buffer T Justice tries to cut him off, he he just runs basically runs him over, and he's like, That Texas man just tried to drive up under my truck.

SPEAKER_01 40:06

Yeah, that Texas man. Which is a wild stunt too, right? So like like and that was legit.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

You can you you could tell from the like this is before like the old like the today where like you had to do it yourself.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Yeah, right. So he's one wrong move and he's fish tailing an 18-wheeler, and somehow, like like okay, in the movie Magic, you know he's gonna be fine, but like in the shot though, they're fish tailing this 18-wheeler, and there's nothing that's keeping him from this 18-wheeler just to drive over the side of that like one catch, and that whole thing just right over. I would not you couldn't pay me enough money.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

No, and some men in the 70s probably weren't getting paid anything.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

Yeah, they're like, We'll give you 60 bucks.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

Well, this is the same.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

We'll give you some of this coarse beer because it's real beer, we got it.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

And a credit in the in the movie.

SPEAKER_00 40:54

This is the same like area of the movie where he does like the bridge jump too, where like he just he's driving down, he's like, Oh, the bridge is out, that's bad. He turns around, he's like, Oh, but that's worse.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

He's like, That's worse. And he just turns and guns it, and then they jump the bridge. And Sally feels just like we just jumped the bridge!

SPEAKER_03 41:09

Let's jump jump up. Let's jump jump the gun.

SPEAKER_01 41:12

You could jump me. But it did a dukes of hazard jump where it's like there's an invisible ramp that launches the into orbit.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

But it destroyed that car when it landed. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

I wonder how many transams they went through.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

They said they only used three.

SPEAKER_01 41:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Because I doing the IMDB stuff, they said they used three, and one was totaled on the jump.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

On the on that jump, the bridge jump?

SPEAKER_00 41:33

But that was also one of the last scenes they shot, they said.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

Yeah. Did they did they do that intentionally?

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Well, yeah, I mean they jumped.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

A lot of times, if you were doing a higher action movie with cars and you had, you know, let's say you had three cars, all your crashing scenes you shot at the very, very end.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

Interesting. Yeah. Um nowadays they they usually shoot some of your more risky stuff in the beginning. Just because that's a redo or something. Well, just in case, like let's say, like, I don't know, you're Tom Cruise and you break your ankle trying to jump across a movie. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:02

Trying to jump across an entire movie.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

And he's just like, ah, he just goes and falls a piece, and his head goes through the drywall.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

He's like, he's running and jumping in all these movies. Anyway, so trying to run from his gay thoughts. If he if he folds himself up and breaks a femur, right? Those shoot a lot of the like the B kind of you know unit stuff and all the other things in the three weeks that it takes for him to drink his milk and get back on.

SPEAKER_02 42:34

To drink his like baby fees, like blended protein shake to stay young. That's what Scientology that's what they do in Scientology. They just find like a young woman and he just like sucks her soul out. That's why Madonna got younger. Drink from the fountain of youth. We know the secret. We're wealthy. But uh like the first Mad Max. The first Mad Max movie, the car chase at the beginning, that was the last thing they shot. Yeah, but that's probably smart for a low budget movie. And the car chase got re-altered as they did it because like they were wrecking out these cars, these uh like 73 uh Ford Falcons. Yeah, and in one scene, the guy's like trying to fight like the hood's gone, the engine compartment's just crumpled in, and he gets it started, and he's like, Ha! Because he's like, we get to film more, he just throws it in the drive, and he's like, We still mobile! And he's like on there, like the police are like, yeah! And they're just like and then they crash it through like another car, like the director's uh van. They they totaled it driving through it because they were like, we need him to go through something. They're like, have him go through my van.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

What's the hell with it? What came first, Mad Max or Smoking the Bandit? Uh Smoking the Bandit. Mad Max came out in 1979. I wonder how much uh off of Smoking the Bandit Mad Max was 'cause like They probably saw it in Australia and they were like, Oh yeah. We can do that because post apocalyptic cops, cars.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

Yeah, that's a movie. Mel Gibson, get him down here.

SPEAKER_01 43:50

When they're in Georgia and he like sounds the alarm and all these rednecks get in all their goofy trucks, it's anything from like a like a T you know, whatever four T model truck from like the nineteen. Yeah. To like these like, you know, just mudding drugs. DeLorean. Yeah. And they're all just like getting on the roads to go run interference to the cops. It looked like Mad Max. It did. So it was just chaos in the streets.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Well, I like how during this time this time in the movie is when uh they run into each other at the bar.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

That was the funniest thing.

SPEAKER_02 44:20

Give me a Diablo sandwich and a Dr. Peppa.

SPEAKER_01 44:22

Make it fast I'm in a goddamn hurt. He was inhaling that sandwich.

SPEAKER_02 44:26

And everybody was like, I was like, I'm like, what is a Diablo sandwich? I don't want to know. Apparently it's like a like a local thing. It was like kind of like a sloppy Joe from what I read. It's like what hot sauce or something? Something.

SPEAKER_00 44:37

I'll be honest, I got distracted to the fact that it was$1.50.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know. That's true. I wonder how it remember, like he filled up the 18 wheeler and he was like, it'll be$75. And I was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

I paid more than that for my truck.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

How many gallons of gas do you think goes into an 18 wheeler?

SPEAKER_00 44:54

Too much.

SPEAKER_01 44:56

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 44:57

I don't know. I mean, I don't know what the seven 1977 standard was versus what it is now. Honestly, looking at those 18 wheelers compared to today, not much has changed.

SPEAKER_01 45:05

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

I can see it as they're just a plyhauler, that's all.

SPEAKER_01 45:10

We added AC. Yeah. Yeah, they got AC and Wi-Fi.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

And then they also uh the uh was it the cop car gets turned into a convertible during this time period? Yeah. You've got him holding his dad's hat and then his flies off.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

I lost my hat, daddy. Daddy.

SPEAKER_01 45:26

Daddy. I've lost my hat.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

Oh man. The uh kidnapping? That's the man act.

SPEAKER_01 45:34

The man across the man act state lines. What is the man? I meant to Google it. What is the man act?

SPEAKER_00 45:40

While you're looking that up, this is also the time that uh she takes the car when they're leaving the bar and she's driving, and when they jumped onto the football field, they said that they accidentally almost hit some people because they had watered the field, and when they hit it just slid and started going towards the bleachers, and they had to like overcorrect to try and get back.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

Oh man. The Man Act, White Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a US federal pro law prohibiting the interstate or foreign transportation of individuals for prostitution, debauchery, or other immoral purposes.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

So you're you're you're you're taking a woman that you're gonna sleep with across state lines.

SPEAKER_02 46:15

That you know, that you're going to prostitute, debaucher, or use for immoral purposes. As a court, you have to That's a pretty broad stroke. We're gonna go to Mississippi and she's gonna lick my toe. It's like lock them up.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

Bufertee Justice was a little stuck in his ways when he met the black sheriff, and he was like, they'll just kids these days.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

Yeah, he's like on the radio, you sounded like you were taller. And the sheriff even just looks at him like you piece.

SPEAKER_00 46:45

Eventually he runs into the other cop that's like, I said, wait, and then he gets out of his car. Do you know who I am?

SPEAKER_02 46:52

I'm Bufate Justice. And the guy's like, Oh, he's like, You can close an umbrella.

SPEAKER_01 46:58

I like that line. You could close an umbrella. Yeah. He did have some pretty good one-liners.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

I did like later on, they're they're sitting at the gas station and they're like cursing each other out on the radio. Yeah. Not realizing they're just around the corner from one another.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

I know, they're just next to each other pretty much. We still got like three more paragraphs to read. All right.

SPEAKER_00 47:16

That's like I got another page of notes.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

Let's see. Bandit attracts more police attention across Dixie as Cletus barrels towards Atlanta with the contraband beard. They are helped in around by many colorful characters. Neither Buford nor any other lawman know of Cletus's illegal manifest, while Bandit is likewise unaware that Buford is chasing him because of Carrie, whose jumpiness inspires Bandit to give her the CB handle frog.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

Jumpiness. She was very jumpy. She was very jumpy.

SPEAKER_02 47:41

Just after re-entering Geolja. Or if you're an idiot, Georgia. Cletus is rescued by Bandit after being stopped by Georgia State Patrol, Motorcycle Trooper.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

By the way, GSP's cars have not changed that much.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Yeah, they kept the paint scheme pretty much. I was looking, I was like, it's still the same. Good for them. Look at that. Holding on the tradition. Keep it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. GSP's motto.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

A lot of the GSP in this movie.

SPEAKER_02 48:14

If it ain't broke, pit it. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 48:16

Well, that was the same model they had in this movie. They were basically instead of like, you know, just crashing, they were like yeehawing it up and down like ravine. Yeah. Following him.

SPEAKER_02 48:23

So they're like he like goes off-roading in the transam like through like a like a meadow. Not even through a meadow. Well, he does that too, but like through like a like a river. Yeah. Where there's like a short area, and he's just driving through and water splying up the T tops. And I'm just like, man, because he's the bandit. He's the bandit.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

We have the one GSP car that jumps like off the bridge and lands on top of the other 18-wheeler. Yeah. And it fits Georgia. Because he's just like, hey, drop me off at the next exit. He's like, hi! And the guy's like, huh? Like, you know, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

You got it, trooper.

SPEAKER_00 48:54

But isn't this around the same part when they uh they get out of the car and the other he's talking to like one of the uh truckers and the other trucker comes by and knocks the door off. Evidence in the car!

SPEAKER_03 49:05

You did that on purpose!

SPEAKER_02 49:08

Evidence! Put the evidence in the car!

SPEAKER_03 49:11

And then it comes to Junior instead of the back scene just holding it in front of him. And he's like, put the evidence in the back scene.

SPEAKER_01 49:18

You know, the that character, Junior, for being he he was not planned at all for this movie. Uh Gleason was like, you know, he needed somebody to like say his crazy lines to, so he invented this character and they they got this actor. I think it was only one one scene originally in the script, or whatever the hell the script was. And uh there and he was like, No, I want him with me the whole movie. So he just like made that dude's career.

SPEAKER_02 49:44

He was already in movies.

SPEAKER_01 49:45

Well, he he was probably a lot more prominent after this movie.

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Yeah, he was in the Green Parades with John Wayne, he had a substantial role.

SPEAKER_01 49:51

The the the junior? Yeah, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

And he was a pro football player.

SPEAKER_01 49:56

I'm sure he was happy to have more work, though. Yeah, I'm sure he was. Thank you, Gleason. Whatever your name is. Jackie Gleason.

SPEAKER_00 50:02

During this period, you also have Snowman when he goes into the bar, gets beat up, and then runs their bikes over.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

What was that about? Like he stops to get gas, goes in there, and then like those guys know him. Because then you also have like the funeral procession guys that like held them up. And it's like like you see a funeral procession, they just see the bandit, and then the guy's like, This is Undertaker. And I was like, nice. Yeah, but like I don't know where he's getting his his buttons.

SPEAKER_00 50:26

Well, because they didn't evidently his dog came in and they but the tone of the movie just shifted. Well, they were just being jerks because they're like, Your dog bit me. He's like, No, he didn't.

SPEAKER_01 50:35

I'm gonna kill you now. But like he they friend didn't bite nobody. They beat him and and like he throw him outside, and you're like, Why do I feel sorry all of a sudden for this this dude? You know? And then like he and that guy like hug and he's like, Alright, man, I'm gonna go get on down the road. What was that all about?

SPEAKER_02 50:53

Well, you also had And then he's like, he's like, he's like, Did you win? He's like he's like, How'd it go? He goes, about as most as you know, about how they go. And he's just like, you lost. And he's like, Yeah, I lost again.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

Well, then you also have the part where this other cop gets in the RV with like the prostitute, like Foxy lady. Yeah, foxy silver-haired prostitutes.

SPEAKER_02 51:11

Yeah, some of those ladies were like looking old, and I'm like, that's like 70s old. Like and they have like just the pink winnebago.

SPEAKER_00 51:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:19

And like the cops, like they like he brings out like the one guy, he's like, I caught the band. It's like, sir, it's our captain. And he's like, my apologies.

SPEAKER_01 51:27

You need to have your badge when you're doing things like that.

SPEAKER_02 51:33

Because in the 70s, I guess that was okay. Like they just did like a sting and like bust in. It's just like, hey, I'm a cop. Why are you banging some some trauma?

SPEAKER_01 51:42

Okay, he's working investigation right now. Yeah, this is a big investigation. He's acquiring evidence.

SPEAKER_02 51:47

Detective John Kimball, you idiot. I've been on this case for four months. Get out of here. With four miles remaining, Bandit, discouraged by the unexpected mounting intention, is ready to relent, but Cletus, who initially thought they would fail, takes the lead and smashes through the roadblock at the fairgrounds main entrance. How many felonies was that? A lot. They reach their destination with 10 minutes to spare. However, instead of taking the winnings, Carrie and Bandit accept a double or nothing offer from Little Enos, a challenge to run to Boston and bring back clam chowder in 18 hours.

SPEAKER_01 52:23

No, you haven't slept in three days, man.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

So well, I like uh at the end of the movie, he's like taunting him, and he's just up the hill, and he's like, you know, Smokey, I can't lie to you.

SPEAKER_02 52:36

I respect you too much.

SPEAKER_00 52:37

Look over your left shoulder.

SPEAKER_01 52:40

And in these Enos, the little and big Enos, like what job do they have where they make that kind of money?

SPEAKER_00 52:46

Yes, an elephant coming in, all sorts of stuff. That's in the second one. Oh, the second one, okay. I couldn't remember, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:52

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:52

I read the uh Smokey in the Bandit 2, Bandit Reloaded.

SPEAKER_01 52:56

More bandit or more bandit. But I I read the synopsis for the sequels, and I was like, oh my god. Reading it, I was like, this is a terrible movie. Yeah. I'm glad. This is why Burt Reynolds's career just wasn't what it could have been. Well, he they couldn't get him for the third movie because he was so A-less they couldn't afford him. That's what that's what they uh they said that they made it around Jackie Gleason. They shot it from his point of view. That and you thought he was chasing Burt Reynolds, but it was really uh snowman. But they said it was like one of the worst movies ever made.

SPEAKER_02 53:28

Because Burt Rounds' career was pretty much in the gutter until Boogie Night. And he had like a career resurgence because of it.

SPEAKER_01 53:34

The third one was um uh was in the eighties, right? So Yeah. I think it was uh honestly Here, let's finish this movie.

SPEAKER_02 53:44

Go ahead. Uh they do the double or nothing run, they quickly escape in Big Enos's 1974 Cadillac El Dorado convertible as police flood the racetrack. Buford arrives at the fairgrounds, his cruiser now a barely functioning wreck. When Bandit passes him, he uses CB to contact Buford and the pair briefly exchange some mutual respect before Buford demands to know Bandit's whereabouts. Bandit initially directs him to the burdettes, but he then respectfully gives his real location right behind Buford, who continues his chase, leaving Junior behind, with more parts falling off his cruiser as he limps off after the bandit. Yeah. End of the movie.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

Real quick, the the double or nothing. I I read somebody said broke it down to where it's a thousand and seventy-five miles in eighteen hours. They would have to average 120 miles an hour.

unknown 54:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:32

Because when when I moved to let's say Atlanta from New York, you know, Long Island, you have to go through New York City to get down here. It was 16 hours. Wow. And that's one way. Good luck. Which means you have to make it from Atlanta to Boston in eight.

SPEAKER_01 54:54

In eight hours in order to get the clam chowder?

SPEAKER_00 54:56

Well, yeah, because they had 18 hours.

SPEAKER_02 54:58

So you have to feel well you have to be there in eight hours, an hour to load up, and then eight hours back.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

And that clam chowder is gonna be gross no matter what.

SPEAKER_02 55:07

And who the hell wants clam chowder from Boston? That bad in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_01 55:12

It's the most expensive bowl of clam chowder. So Smoking the Bandit came out in 1977, Smoking the Bandit 2 came out in 1980.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

Those were the same year as uh the second Star Wars movie.

SPEAKER_01 55:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:25

Smoking the Bandit Star Wars? Is there a connection? We don't know.

SPEAKER_01 55:28

What year did Smoking the Bandit 3 come out? Uh 1983. The Return of the Jedi? I'm just saying. Same universe. That's why the prequels and the sequels sucked. There was no more Smoke and the Bandit. If they'd only did Smokey Four action. There was a TV show. Hang on, that's right, there was. Smoking the Bandit TV show.

SPEAKER_00 55:51

And it was bad, so so was the other.

SPEAKER_01 55:53

Was it anime or was it live action? It was live action. It only lasted for four episodes. There's a reason.

SPEAKER_02 55:58

That's more than it should have done.

SPEAKER_01 55:59

Who played The Bandit? Uh I'll tell you. It was let's see here. Franchise. Uh TV series. Okay. It was just called The Bandit. It was starring Brian Bloom. Remember him? Yeah. As a younger vo version of the Bo Bandit Airville. Sure, why not? This was uh Oh, he played the bad guy in the 18 movie? I don't know. The new one. This was in 1994. That dude? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:35

And they learned that he was gonna be the bandit?

SPEAKER_01 56:38

Yeah, out of control. Um yeah, so Jackie Gleason did uh Smoking the Bandit in uh uh what did we say, '77? Yeah. And then he did his next movie. He did he did no more work until 1980 where he did Smoking the Bandit 2. And then he had two more movies and he did Smoking the Bandit 3, and then he had two more movies and then he died. So he went out with that character. So I mean, look, Smoking the Bandit is like I said, it's a miracle movie. It it should not have been good as good as it is. And it and you can tell they had fun making it, probably too much fun because there was a lot of safety weirdness going on in that. And uh the fact that they got through that without anybody dying is a miracle in a few.

SPEAKER_00 57:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:31

I mean, all the stunts they were pulling off, you can just tell from the shots, they're like, ooh, they should not have done that. They got lucky. They got very lucky, and uh, you know, they they made it work, and the movie did obviously well. It's a good culture piece for like, you know, uh how the South really views itself, probably in that era, and it's not as racist and redneck as they're putting it out to be. So um, but after that, franchising it though, yeah. This was just this would have been a good one and done. One and done.

SPEAKER_00 58:02

I didn't mind the second one, but I never saw the third.

SPEAKER_01 58:04

A pregnant elephant in an 18-wheeler that's something they found they happened to find a gynecologist that knows how to do it.

SPEAKER_02 58:10

Oh well, how does it deal with an elephant's pregnancy?

SPEAKER_00 58:13

I don't remember that part. I just remember them having to get the elephant from point A to point B.

SPEAKER_01 58:16

It sounds like AI wrote that, man. It's all over the place.

SPEAKER_02 58:20

It sounds like the redneck version of like free willy. They had all transporter.

SPEAKER_01 58:25

They had all like the right moves. They got Burt Reynolds back, they got Sally Fields back. There was like a love loss relationship between the two of them, you know. You kind of got in the second one that you kind of got like a deeper understanding of that Burt Reynolds really can't be bandit without Sally Fields because he loves her and she doesn't want anything to do with him because he's he's the bandit. He's he's supposed to like go off and do his own thing or whatever. But he was willing to hang up his hat, so to speak, for so there's like a good like plot, the through plot for all that. And then they throw in this elephant nonsense and like the plot just goes off the rails.

SPEAKER_00 58:58

You know, a crossover they should have done that they never got to do.

SPEAKER_01 59:01

What?

SPEAKER_00 59:02

Burt Reynolds, a smoke or as the bandit and fast and the fury.

SPEAKER_02 59:06

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 59:06

And like Fast and Fears 2.

SPEAKER_02 59:08

Oh, yeah, they just like work him in, like like Dominic Toro just gets smoked by a trans am. And you just see a kind of cowboy.

SPEAKER_00 59:17

As he comes by and just turns and smiles at him.

SPEAKER_02 59:20

It's like, you're pretty fast, kid. As he just like, like then he looks at the camera and just like winks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:25

And just, you know, that Burt Reynolds mustache just goes, Yeah, he's got his oxygen tubes like hanging out of his nose and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 59:32

His facelift, like at that time he was okay, because that was before the Dukes of Hazard where he played boss hogs. Yeah. He was still healthy enough.

SPEAKER_01 59:40

So this was not like the first quintessential uh like Dukes of Hazard is basically the result of Smoking the Bandit.

SPEAKER_00 59:48

Was Dukes of Hazard the show out before that? Or was it?

SPEAKER_01 59:51

Yeah, what was Dukes of Hazard? Alright, I got it all right for you. Hang on. I I actually researched all this. So smoking the bandit. He doesn't remember any of it. I don't. I have to read it. But um so let's see here. Keep talking.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:05

I'm keep talking while I Google what I was gonna tell you about. As he tries to type in.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:12

It said most of this film was made in Helland, Georgia, Jonesboro, and Atlanta. Which, you know, that makes sense. Country areas.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:20

So the first movie was called Moon Runners in 1975, which is the precursor to the Dukes of Hazard 1979 to 1985, from the same creator with many identical concepts and settings uh from Smokey and the Bandit. So similar that the bandit was actually mentioned in Dukes of Hazard.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:42

Okay. So I didn't know which one came first.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:44

I knew they were around the same time, but so there was like some sort of theme and there's the bones of like a kind of genre in there, but it never kind of got off the ground. I I do think that like Fast and Furious is like essentially the the the evolution of whatever that is.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:01

To me, Fast and Furious was a good one and two movies, and then after that it was it's it's Smoke and the Bandit 3, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:09

Yeah, yeah. Smoky goes to space. Yeah. Or Bandit goes to space, I guess. I don't know. Space police, he's got a Beau for T Justice to the moon.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:21

I was like Beau for T Justice like the third. Yeah. He's like a space commander driving a lunar rover after the bandit. You bandits.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:31

Yeah, and just pulls him over in his space cop ship. He has a gold spacesuit on with a cowboy hat. It's more of an Martian pulls up.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:43

Well.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:45

Alright, well, there you go. We reviewed some of the things.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:47

That was a drunken ramble about uh a movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:50

Yeah, not my favorite movie. I get the appreciation for it, the cultural appeal. It wasn't as bad as it really could have been.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:59

The 70s are not my favorite decade for film. It takes some special films for the 70s. Some films in the 70s were fantastic. This is not one of those movies, but this is a enjoyable it's an entertaining film.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:14

I feel like the 70s is is a jaded decade because they don't have any tragedy to really like make something to distract people from. You know? They're just like, everything's great, we're gonna make movies about rebellion anyways. So you know, it's like movies today. What do people have to complain about today? A lot. A lot. They they though though they will. They will no matter what, but you're you're like, come on, this is cool. Remember like right after 9-11 happened and like Hollywood got great? You know, like all these amazing movies came out.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:50

So too bad that COVID didn't have people sit home while they were there and just think of good ideas.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:56

Instead, they just Well they did for TV. I think TV really skyrocketed after COVID.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:00

For a little while.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:01

I think it's I think TV's the best it's ever been.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:04

Yeah, there's there's there's a few good shows.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:06

Okay. Mr. Pessimist over here.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:09

I mean, I consume more media now since COVID than I ever did. Everybody does. And I only find like three or four shows that I want to watch. Now I'll watch other things, but there's only three or four that I'm like, oh I gotta catch the new episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:23

Do you think people are are willing to slog through more kind of dribble when it comes to shows to get to the good stuff? Like, do you think people are more patient with TV today than they they have been in a long time?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:33

Well, yeah, obviously, because they have like three and four years between seasons and people will still go back to the season.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:39

That's true, but I mean, like, even if the season's coming out. And they can release it every year.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:43

They just don't do it because they're lazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:45

That's not true.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:47

It is okay. It is. Lord of the Rings came out every year for three years straight.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:52

Because they shot it one, if they shot all three movies.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:55

Shot them at the all at the same time. They could be shooting these things in two years. They do and I get five years of content. No, they don't. They just sit on their hands and do nonsense.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:06

They they they do like uh what's that? They're lazy. I can't think of the TV show. They already have season five like shot. Oh, it's uh it's uh uh Star Trek um um Strange New Worlds.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:17

Yeah, but how long do we wait for the last uh bit of Stranger Things? And then you get like the mind player thing, and it's just like a vagina way. Because AI wrote that show.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:29

Well, see, my whole thing is like you've got things like X-Men 97. The old X-Men cartoon, you would have like 30 episodes a year. Now they have seven 30-minute episodes? That's the best thing. And it's been two years since the last season. They're lazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:41

They're bumps. Are they hand animating it?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:43

I don't know, but either way, they did back then.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:45

They did back then because they had more people to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:48

But see, if you're not hand animating, you can have the animation, those characters and stuff saved, so you don't have to go back and hand draw them.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:54

Yeah, but then it would take away from the spirit of the show, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:57

Shut up.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:59

That's enough of this episode. That's been five minutes. We'll see you later. Get out. Go on now. Get on!

SPEAKER_00 1:05:20

I love this movie. It's a good movie. I mean, not that it's great, but it's it's a lovable movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:25

I watched it work like everything.