Smokey and the Bandit (1977) vs Cannonball Run (1981): Part 1

<v Speaker 1>Welcome everybody back to the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast.
<v Speaker 1>I am here with my cowboy hat and my Coors beer,
<v Speaker 1>and Jason is here with his trucker hat and his
<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventies mustache.
<v Speaker 2>Cheers Jason, What are you drinking that curs beer for dye.
<v Speaker 1>Because I'm thirsty dummy.
<v Speaker 3>Hello everybody, and welcome to the Surely You Can't Be
<v Speaker 3>Serious Podcast, discussing and debating the iconic and the forgotten
<v Speaker 3>of eighties and nineties.
<v Speaker 1>Pop culture with your co hosts James D.
<v Speaker 2>Graves and Jason Caliphic Mercy Sakes. Mercy Sakes like Lester
<v Speaker 2>and Earl and Fred and Ginger together again. Today we're
<v Speaker 2>going to be talking about two fantastic buddy movies. I
<v Speaker 2>mean two favorites, right, maybe Got Smoking the Bandit versus
<v Speaker 2>Cannonball Run.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This is not an easy contest. This is going
<v Speaker 1>to be in the realm of Bold Durham versus Major League,
<v Speaker 1>where you get two movies that are so stinking good
<v Speaker 1>it's hard to pick one as the best.
<v Speaker 2>They are guilty pleasures to the core. I love these movies.
<v Speaker 2>I can put them on any time, and I guaranteed
<v Speaker 2>to laugh.
<v Speaker 1>So with two great movies like this, we have to
<v Speaker 1>ask the question, why are we doing this? What is
<v Speaker 1>our purpose on going to this impossible mission to decide
<v Speaker 1>which of these two movies is the best.
<v Speaker 2>We're doing this for the good old American life, for
<v Speaker 2>the money, for the glory, and for the fun.
<v Speaker 1>Mostly for the fun, right because money, no money.
<v Speaker 2>There's no money involved here.
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<v Speaker 1>All right, well, let's talk about these two movies, because
<v Speaker 1>these two movies defy reason. You know, we've talked about
<v Speaker 1>the Greek structure of Raiders of the Lost Arc and
<v Speaker 1>Back to the Future and the hero's journey and the
<v Speaker 1>depth in Bull Durham and all of these things. And
<v Speaker 1>these are two movies that don't really have a plot,
<v Speaker 1>should I do?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you guys going to pick up some beer
<v Speaker 2>as fast as possible, loosest loosest of terms.
<v Speaker 1>So I guess maybe maybe our story begins back in
<v Speaker 1>the eighteen hundreds when Adolph Cours stows away on an
<v Speaker 1>oil freighter across the Atlantic, ends up in America, travels
<v Speaker 1>his way out west where he ends up in Golden Colorado,
<v Speaker 1>and is the only guy with any beer making experience,
<v Speaker 1>so he becomes the local brewer. And what do they get?
<v Speaker 1>We get Coors beer. And that is the impetus for
<v Speaker 1>the first of these movies. Come out Smoking the Bandit.
<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about Smoking the vandit for a second. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>Smoking the Bandit was released on June twentieth, nineteen seventy seven.
<v Speaker 2>The budget for this get this five million dollars, okay, five.
<v Speaker 1>Point three don't forget three hundred thousand dollars is a
<v Speaker 1>lot of money.
<v Speaker 2>Well, okay, five point three million dollars right. One million
<v Speaker 2>of it went to Burt Reynolds, so that left four
<v Speaker 2>point three right, And then they brought in a hatchetman
<v Speaker 2>at the last minute. Yea, he knocked off a million
<v Speaker 2>dollars off the budget, right.
<v Speaker 1>So how need him bent thirty hours redoing the script
<v Speaker 1>to get it to where they could shoot the movie
<v Speaker 1>for the money that they had to make it with.
<v Speaker 2>So let's talk about how this movie came about. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so how neat him is a stunt man. He was
<v Speaker 2>arguably the best stuntman in the business for quite some time,
<v Speaker 2>had been doing it for years and years. And he's
<v Speaker 2>good old boy, and as good old boys do, they
<v Speaker 2>drink beer. And so somebody got him a gift of
<v Speaker 2>some Coors beer, and he wasn't a big drinker, but
<v Speaker 2>he noticed that he seemed to be going through a
<v Speaker 2>lot of In fact, he seemed to be going through
<v Speaker 2>cours whenever he wasn't drinking, And so he realized somebody
<v Speaker 2>was stealing his Coors beer, and lo and behold.
<v Speaker 1>It turned out to be the maid. The maid stole
<v Speaker 1>the beer, and when he confronted her about it, she
<v Speaker 1>was just like, well, my husband just loves this so much.
<v Speaker 1>He just says it's the best beer that's ever made,
<v Speaker 1>and we're not allowed to get it out here, And
<v Speaker 1>so that's why I was sneaking it from you, And
<v Speaker 1>that little thieving maid was the inspiration for the whole plot,
<v Speaker 1>if you will call it, that of Smoking the Bandit.
<v Speaker 2>That's interesting. This happened on the set of the movie Gator,
<v Speaker 2>which was shot in nineteen seventy six, right before Smoking
<v Speaker 2>the Bandit. And in Gator you have starring Burt Reynolds,
<v Speaker 2>Jerry Reid is the bad guy and how Neatam is
<v Speaker 2>the stuntman. Yeah. So he just thought, well, bootlegging Coors
<v Speaker 2>would make a good plot line for a movie. And
<v Speaker 2>you know what, he was right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Well, so while they're making Gator, he's trying to
<v Speaker 1>write the script for this movie idea that he's and
<v Speaker 1>he writes it all on the legal pad and some
<v Speaker 1>years earlier, I don't remember what the circumstances were, but
<v Speaker 1>he was out of home for a bit and said, hey, Bert,
<v Speaker 1>can I crash on your couch for a few weeks?
<v Speaker 1>And Bert said sure, and then they were roommates for
<v Speaker 1>the next eleven years. Right, So he's writing this script
<v Speaker 1>on the legal pad and thinks he's got this great concept,
<v Speaker 1>got the whole movie written on the breaks of Gator,
<v Speaker 1>and he shows it to Bert, and Bert Reynolds says,
<v Speaker 1>this is the worst script I've ever read in my
<v Speaker 1>whole life, but I'm gonna do it.
<v Speaker 2>You know, originally they wanted Jerry Reid to be the Bandit.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I had to wait for Smoking in the Bandit
<v Speaker 1>three for that one kind of mentioned that the same
<v Speaker 1>way we mentioned Superman four. Yeah, and Crystal Skull. Hell.
<v Speaker 2>Needham had a lot of trouble getting any studio to
<v Speaker 2>get involved in this or have any interest at all,
<v Speaker 2>until Bert Reynolds said, you know what, I'll do it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Burt Reynold was the biggest star of the day,
<v Speaker 1>the biggest Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Burt Reynolds said that after he agreed to do this,
<v Speaker 2>he had friends that got down on their knees and
<v Speaker 2>begged him not to do this movie.
<v Speaker 1>You got you gotta just think about that for just
<v Speaker 1>a second. Okay, he's the biggest star of the day.
<v Speaker 1>You look at the movies that he was doing, and
<v Speaker 1>you look at this movie that nobody wanted him to do,
<v Speaker 1>that he said, was the worst script ever. That was
<v Speaker 1>being written and directed by a stunt man who had
<v Speaker 1>never done any of those things before other than as
<v Speaker 1>a second unit guy, and you got to think, how
<v Speaker 1>the heck did this movie become the movie that everybody
<v Speaker 1>remembers and practically nobody cares about Gator, right, or whatever
<v Speaker 1>that movie he was in with e Liza Minelli, or
<v Speaker 1>any of those other movies that came in.
<v Speaker 2>Right, name five Burt Reynolds movies. And I guarantee you're
<v Speaker 2>starting off with smoking the Band at Canniball, Run Yep,
<v Speaker 2>Deliverance probably you know something like that, right, Okay, So
<v Speaker 2>as they're putting this together, Burt Reynolds says, yeah, I'll
<v Speaker 2>do it. And I got my buddy Jerry Reid, who
<v Speaker 2>we just shot Gator, and he's going to play my
<v Speaker 2>buddy Snowman in this. And he said, I need my
<v Speaker 2>love interest. And they said, okay, well who are we
<v Speaker 2>going to hire for this? And Burt Reynolds had always
<v Speaker 2>kind of been smitten with Sally Field, the flying Nun. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and she was not really looked at as a sexy actress.
<v Speaker 1>She's kind of a I didn't think she was attractive enough.
<v Speaker 1>I mean she was cute, you know, yeah, baby baby,
<v Speaker 1>that's a cute.
<v Speaker 2>But he really wanted her to do it. And when
<v Speaker 2>he talked to her. She thought, you know what, I
<v Speaker 2>want to be a little more mainstream. I want to
<v Speaker 2>be seen as attractive and sexy. And if Hollywood's number
<v Speaker 2>one leading man thinks I'm sexy, then maybe everybody else
<v Speaker 2>will think I'm sexy. Sure, So she was like, you
<v Speaker 2>know what, I think I will do this, And especially
<v Speaker 2>since she just got done doing a movie called Sybil,
<v Speaker 2>which is about a woman with multiple personalities.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it's her age and on this they were like,
<v Speaker 1>you need to do a big movie. You need to
<v Speaker 1>do these you know, you've you've been the flying Nun,
<v Speaker 1>you've done these TV bits, you've done the weird Sibyl thing.
<v Speaker 1>You need to be a part of a movie that's
<v Speaker 1>got some big stars in it. And so how nice
<v Speaker 1>that Burt Reynolds is the one that's knocking on her door.
<v Speaker 2>So then they they're looking for the role of who's
<v Speaker 2>gonna play Sheriff Beauford t Justice of Texas. And so
<v Speaker 2>they originally looked at this guy, Richard Boone. Are you
<v Speaker 2>familiar with him?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? He was on the have gun We'll travel, Have Gun,
<v Speaker 1>We'll travel. It is the heart of them man. A
<v Speaker 1>night without armors?
<v Speaker 2>Nice?
<v Speaker 1>Then I'm getting it all from stand By Me. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't watch that show.
<v Speaker 2>That's where I know it from to stand by Me.
<v Speaker 2>But Bert wanted somebody a little crazier, a little more dangerous,
<v Speaker 2>and a lot funnier.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you got him.
<v Speaker 2>Jackie freaking Gleason.
<v Speaker 1>Jackie freaking Gleason, man, amazing. I said it just a
<v Speaker 1>little bit earlier tonight. I was talking to our friend
<v Speaker 1>Arlen about this movie. These are two of his favorites
<v Speaker 1>as well, and I said it without Jackie Gleason smoking
<v Speaker 1>the band, it doesn't become the thing that it is.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I totally agree. I totally agree. In fact, for
<v Speaker 2>this podcast, I went through the movie. I watched the
<v Speaker 2>movie and I wrote down every funny line, and I
<v Speaker 2>basically wrote down everything that Jackie Gleason says.
<v Speaker 1>Right, he's hilarious. These are the two movies if you
<v Speaker 1>pick two movies from the seventies and eighties that you
<v Speaker 1>think of when you say Burt Reynolds, it's these two movies.
<v Speaker 1>And in both of the movies, he's along for the ride.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, he's great, but he's not the guy that
<v Speaker 1>makes the movie. He's just there giving his star power
<v Speaker 1>and letting everybody else make you laugh.
<v Speaker 2>I call you the band Okay. We talked about this
<v Speaker 2>briefly the other day, but I asked you who is
<v Speaker 2>the best at their role in this movie. Burt Reynolds
<v Speaker 2>plays Bandit to a t. I mean, people love the
<v Speaker 2>bandit and he's cool and he's smooth, and he's funny,
<v Speaker 2>and he's out.
<v Speaker 1>The mischievousness and the laughing at the situation that makes
<v Speaker 1>his part in this movie. It's not that he's done
<v Speaker 1>some great acting performance. He does. We talked about Eddie
<v Speaker 1>Murphy breaking the fourth wall. He does it in both
<v Speaker 1>of these movies. Yes, and freakantastic because he's letting you know, hey, guys,
<v Speaker 1>come on, let's go for a ride, seriously letting the
<v Speaker 1>audience in. It's great.
<v Speaker 2>He's like a redneck James Bond. I mean he's cool
<v Speaker 2>and funny and laid back and come on and party
<v Speaker 2>with me. We're gonna have a great time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So Bert does a great job. Jerry Reid as the buddy,
<v Speaker 2>as the trucker snowman, likable, funny, He gives this the
<v Speaker 2>flavor of the movie with the trucker talk and the CB.
<v Speaker 1>Knowing that he's the villain in Gator seems weird to
<v Speaker 1>me because I just he's just seems like such a
<v Speaker 1>nice guy. It's hard to imagine him as the villain, right,
<v Speaker 1>He's actually, I mean, kind of a tough guy. You're
<v Speaker 1>kind of scared of him in that.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, at the beginning, you see this friendship when
<v Speaker 2>Bandit shows up at his house and basically just moves
<v Speaker 2>his wife out of the way and goes into his bedroom. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we got a chance to make a lot
<v Speaker 2>of money, and Jerry's like, well, we got to do
<v Speaker 2>kidnap the pope or something. That whole the friendship is great,
<v Speaker 2>you get you I buy their friendship. But then you've
<v Speaker 2>got Jackie Leeson as the sheriff.
<v Speaker 1>It's just fan freakantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Everything is funny.
<v Speaker 1>Sally Field is acceptable in the part. She's pretty enough
<v Speaker 1>and sexy enough, and she's engaging. There's just something enticing
<v Speaker 1>about her. And Bert Reynolds we've talked about, Jerry Reed,
<v Speaker 1>we've talked about, but Jackie Gleason is the man in
<v Speaker 1>this movie.
<v Speaker 2>You know. And Jackie Gleeson was originally just supposed to
<v Speaker 2>be in the car by himself, but he's like, you
<v Speaker 2>know what I need somebody to play off of. Put
<v Speaker 2>somebody in the car with me and Mike Henry Junior Justice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Mike Henry, who's just I mean, he's like a
<v Speaker 1>Greek god. I mean, he's just. He was Tarzan, he
<v Speaker 1>was a football player. He was in the longest yard
<v Speaker 1>and was one of those tough guys. And he plays
<v Speaker 1>that goofy who Daddy the top came off to a
<v Speaker 1>tea to a tea he does. I mean, his the
<v Speaker 1>entire dial that he has during this movie probably doesn't
<v Speaker 1>fill up an entire paragraph, but it is essential for
<v Speaker 1>all of Jackie Gleeson's comedy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, basically, his direction is to stand there
<v Speaker 2>and be a punching bag for Jackie Gleeson, and Jackie
<v Speaker 2>Gleeson is like, you want something, He's like, hush puppies, Daddy,
<v Speaker 2>we ain't got time for that crap.
<v Speaker 1>Hilarious hush puppies. Why. So, that's the other thing about
<v Speaker 1>this movie. We talked about the fact that Burt Reynolds
<v Speaker 1>read hol Needham's Legal Pad script and said, this is terrible,
<v Speaker 1>worst I've ever read. Right, they didn't have a script
<v Speaker 1>that they stuck to, Like number one script was just
<v Speaker 1>an outline and then number two, the first day of
<v Speaker 1>filming they find out, oh crap, we've got to eliminate
<v Speaker 1>half of our scenes because of our budget cut. And
<v Speaker 1>so it was really just okay, guys, here's the situation.
<v Speaker 1>Make up some.
<v Speaker 2>Stuff, right, and who better to do that with than
<v Speaker 2>Jackie Gleeson. In fact, I mean, well, I know we'll
<v Speaker 2>get in all this. But the restaurant scene where Bandit
<v Speaker 2>and Beauverty Justice meet was not in the original script,
<v Speaker 2>but it was suggested by Jackie Leeson. And it's gold.
<v Speaker 2>It's gold.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, it's absolutely fantastic. Cleans his tie off with his coffee.
<v Speaker 1>Jackie Leeson is spitting in his face.
<v Speaker 2>You mean dieblo sandwich and a great big doctor pepper
<v Speaker 2>and make it fast. I'm gonna hurry.
<v Speaker 1>And I don't know what this is a mystery to me.
<v Speaker 1>And if you've got the answer, I'd love to hear,
<v Speaker 1>because I couldn't find it. So Jackie Gleesion says to
<v Speaker 1>Helen Edam, we need to have this scene where Smokey
<v Speaker 1>and the Bandit meet. They set up the scene. He
<v Speaker 1>comes in, He's brilliant. Burt Reynolds is really just reacting
<v Speaker 1>most of the time. But at some point, either while
<v Speaker 1>they're filming the scene or just after they film the scene,
<v Speaker 1>Burt Reynolds goes to hell Needam and says, I'm not
<v Speaker 1>doing any more scenes with Jackie.
<v Speaker 2>I know that drives me insane. I wish I know
<v Speaker 2>what the reason was. Yeah, So what I read was
<v Speaker 2>there was no explanation and there was no insinuation of anything.
<v Speaker 2>Bert was just like, I'm not doing that anymore. And
<v Speaker 2>maybe it was because he knew Jackie was killing it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, maybe, yeah, maybe he felt like he was getting upstaged.
<v Speaker 1>That's certainly possibility, kind of.
<v Speaker 2>Like sharing a scene with Robin Williams. I mean, you
<v Speaker 2>just got to get out of the way and let
<v Speaker 2>him go to work, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, right. And I can understand if you're a huge
<v Speaker 1>star like that having that concern, But I mean, we're
<v Speaker 1>talking about Jackie freaking Gleason. Man. Maybe it's because he
<v Speaker 1>didn't like getting spit on.
<v Speaker 2>I got some Diablo juice in my eye here.
<v Speaker 1>All right, everybody please stick around. We will be right
<v Speaker 1>back after these messages.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Jackie Gleeson, I don't know if you know this
<v Speaker 2>or not. Jackie Gleeson was offered a percentage of the
<v Speaker 2>gross box office versus a straight salary. But he took
<v Speaker 2>the salary and it cost him millions of dollars.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, Well, I can't blame him. Looking at the situation,
<v Speaker 1>I cannot blame him, right, but ouch, that sucks.
<v Speaker 2>Just to stick the knife in a little bit further.
<v Speaker 2>This was the second and biggest movie in nineteen seventy seven,
<v Speaker 2>second only to Star Wars, which you know, might have
<v Speaker 2>heard of that one, Yeah, yeah, did pretty well the
<v Speaker 2>box office for Smoking the Bandit one hundred and twenty
<v Speaker 2>six million dollars on.
<v Speaker 1>A budget of five four four four point three then
<v Speaker 1>a million going to birth right. That's right. Just think
<v Speaker 1>about that. Just think about your entire budget. A quarter
<v Speaker 1>of it goes to one actor in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>You have three, you have four point three left to
<v Speaker 2>pay Sally Field, Jerry Reid, Jackie Gleason and buy about
<v Speaker 2>five trans ams and five cop cars and chase them
<v Speaker 2>all over the world. It's it's it's insane.
<v Speaker 1>So, in addition to being in the movie, Jerry Reid
<v Speaker 1>wrote east Bound and Down, which is the key song
<v Speaker 1>in the movie. Right, huge, huge for the movie came
<v Speaker 1>in played it for how Needham and how Needham just
<v Speaker 1>kind of stared at him for a second and he
<v Speaker 1>was like, it's okay, I can go I go rewrite it.
<v Speaker 1>I'll go rewrite it. And how Needam says, no, this
<v Speaker 1>song is going to be a hit. Do not change
<v Speaker 1>word of it, and he was absolutely right. It was
<v Speaker 1>Jerry Reid's number one song.
<v Speaker 2>Oh it's huge. You walk up to somebody on the
<v Speaker 2>street and you say, what do you remember about smoking
<v Speaker 2>the Man and they're like, well, bird's mustache and eastbounding
<v Speaker 2>down yep. You know.
<v Speaker 1>They do a part where they say westbounding down, like
<v Speaker 1>when they're headed Oh.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, when they're headed to text Arcana. That's brilliant
<v Speaker 2>westbounding down, which sounds a little bit funny. They make
<v Speaker 2>it to text Arkana and like the first fifteen minutes
<v Speaker 2>of the movie, right, yes, they have no trouble making
<v Speaker 2>it to text Arcana.
<v Speaker 1>Right yeah? And why why is that? No?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you have less concern when you don't have a
<v Speaker 1>semi truck full of bootlegged beer. It was Cores that
<v Speaker 1>didn't want their beer going out anywhere other than the
<v Speaker 1>eleven states they had distribution in because they didn't put
<v Speaker 1>additives in their beer, then put preservatives in there, and
<v Speaker 1>so if you let them get hot, they would go
<v Speaker 1>bad really quickly. But they didn't want to spend all
<v Speaker 1>the money on the refrigerated trucks. So it was Coors
<v Speaker 1>who was fighting the nationwide distribution. They just wanted to
<v Speaker 1>deliver to their eleven states and that be it. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they got sued in a couple of different circumstances and
<v Speaker 1>finally just had to go, well, I guess we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>have to spend the money because people want us to
<v Speaker 1>have They had become in eleventh they were in eleven states,
<v Speaker 1>and they had become the fourth most popular beer in
<v Speaker 1>the US. Number one was Budweiser, the other one was
<v Speaker 1>Phapsed and the other one was like Schlitch. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>it's like two other beers that just nobody drinks anymore.
<v Speaker 1>And then Coors, which I'm almost done with my second one,
<v Speaker 1>so yours?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you are thirsty. Do we want to talk about
<v Speaker 2>the plot now or do we want to talk about
<v Speaker 2>Kenniball run?
<v Speaker 1>No? I mean we can we can do the plot.
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's gonna take about thirty seconds.
<v Speaker 2>To Okay, So the plot of the movie. The plot
<v Speaker 2>of the movie is Bandit, whose actual name is Bo
<v Speaker 2>Danville Barville.
<v Speaker 1>Sorry, sorry, a quick shout out to warm Bowled because
<v Speaker 1>he's the other part of the reason I'm drinking a
<v Speaker 1>beer while we're doing our podcast when we did our
<v Speaker 1>podcast with the thirty something guys. Shout out to the
<v Speaker 1>thirty something guys. Shout out to Bo for drinking a beer.
<v Speaker 1>You've inspired me to have a beer while we're doing
<v Speaker 1>our podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Right, all right, So Bandit's real name is Bo Darville.
<v Speaker 2>They don't say his full name at anytime in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>They do mention it. His real name is Bo. He
<v Speaker 2>mentions that, but he his handle, his cebe handle, is Bandit,
<v Speaker 2>and he is a truck rodeo superstar, okay, because there
<v Speaker 2>aren't such things as that, exactly. He's a legend, a legend,
<v Speaker 2>and a nautiwork bom look a lot of leg daddy.
<v Speaker 2>So big Enis and little Enis are our father and son.
<v Speaker 1>And they stop and talk about their name for just
<v Speaker 1>a second. Let's just this whole big Enus and little Enis.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure there was just purely coincidental that they were
<v Speaker 2>going to do that.
<v Speaker 1>It was actually not their original names they had, they
<v Speaker 1>had different different.
<v Speaker 2>That was like Kyle and Dean or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, not funny enough.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, not funny at all. Speaking of Enus, I think
<v Speaker 1>Enis and bo right, I think John Schneider might have
<v Speaker 1>been been a cameo.
<v Speaker 2>Both Duke Cooter and Enism Dukes of Hazard.
<v Speaker 1>All three of those guys are in this in in
<v Speaker 1>a little bit parts that's it?
<v Speaker 2>You got yea, and Burt Reynolds plays Boss Hog in
<v Speaker 2>the remake of Dukes of Hazzard.
<v Speaker 1>It all comes full circle.
<v Speaker 2>Are we back on the plot here?
<v Speaker 1>Did we leave? I thought we were down with the plots.
<v Speaker 2>We're not quite done with the whole thing.
<v Speaker 1>Running beer the end, that's all.
<v Speaker 2>No. No, So Big Enis and Little Lenis are Texas
<v Speaker 2>oil bearings, as we think, and they just go around
<v Speaker 2>and put people up to these weird, strange bets. And
<v Speaker 2>so he wants Bandit to get off his butt and
<v Speaker 2>accept a real challenge and go pick up four hundred
<v Speaker 2>cases of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas transport him back
<v Speaker 2>to Atlanta for a rodeo in twenty eight hours or less.
<v Speaker 1>Why Cooors beer?
<v Speaker 2>Because he's thirsty dummy. The kicker is is that transporting
<v Speaker 2>Coors beer east of the Mississippi is bootlegging, and so
<v Speaker 2>it's illegal what he's doing. And not only is it fast,
<v Speaker 2>but it's illegal, right, So he gets his buddy Snowman
<v Speaker 2>to drive the truck. They're gonna put the four hundred
<v Speaker 2>cases of Cours in the truck, and the trans am
<v Speaker 2>is running blocker, which basically means he gets all the
<v Speaker 2>attention from the cops and he runs all over the
<v Speaker 2>place and lets Snowman in the clear. Along the way,
<v Speaker 2>he picks up a runaway bride, Carrie played by Sally Field,
<v Speaker 2>who's running away from her marriage to Junior Justice, who
<v Speaker 2>is Sheriff Beaufort Justice's son, and Beaufort Justice is the
<v Speaker 2>type of man who is not gonna lit some koozy
<v Speaker 2>walk out on him, whether Knocker's bouncing around, poondanging was wiggling.
<v Speaker 1>Two.
<v Speaker 2>She insulted my towne, she insulted my son, and she
<v Speaker 2>insulted my authority. And so she jumps in the car
<v Speaker 2>with Bandit while he's transporting this beer, and he makes
<v Speaker 2>it his life mission to catch and put away Bandit.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so they get this challenge by Big Nis and
<v Speaker 1>Little Nis right with me so far?
<v Speaker 2>I believe you're just a little bit scared. Oh that's great.
<v Speaker 2>Why don't you just say something about my mother? Your
<v Speaker 2>mama is so ugly?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So can you name me the artist that has
<v Speaker 1>had songs sung bye? Ready for this? Okay? Elvis Presley,
<v Speaker 1>Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbara streisand Willie Nelson, Kermit the Frog,
<v Speaker 1>Luther Van Dross, Neil McCoy, and Diamond Riot. To me,
<v Speaker 1>it's Paul Williams, the actor play in the part of
<v Speaker 1>Little Enis and he is a pastic prodigy. It is amazing.
<v Speaker 1>I mean he and I throw the carpenters in there
<v Speaker 1>as well. He's responsible for just an old fashioned love
<v Speaker 1>song out in the country, family Man, Rainy Days and
<v Speaker 1>Mondays and Rainbow Connection and this this might be the
<v Speaker 1>best the love boat theme.
<v Speaker 2>That's amazing.
<v Speaker 1>It is right. He is a flipping genius and he
<v Speaker 1>was one of just to throw this in. He was
<v Speaker 1>one of the apes on one of the Planet of
<v Speaker 1>the Apes movies that John Landis was a part of too.
<v Speaker 2>Really, Rainfall Circle. When you say Rainbow Connection, I immediately
<v Speaker 2>why are I mean, that's incredible.
<v Speaker 1>If anybody's gonna if anybody's gonna pick up anything from
<v Speaker 1>this part podcast, it's that we love the Muppets.
<v Speaker 2>We love the Muppets. We absolutely love the Muppets.
<v Speaker 1>We haven't yet had a Muppet movie episode, but we will.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, for sure, we have to. Yeah, well you want
<v Speaker 2>here's my Muppet tie in. You ready for this? Other
<v Speaker 2>than Rainbow Connection, Cannonball Run, Huh, which is the second
<v Speaker 2>movie we're going to cover. Yes, was released June nineteenth,
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty one. Yes, We've talked about this on our
<v Speaker 2>Superman episode. Right, in my opinion, is the greatest two
<v Speaker 2>weeks in nineteen eighties movies history.
<v Speaker 1>Okayb in movies history overall, right, it is freaking fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>So let me let me read you.
<v Speaker 2>It just blows my mind. So June twelfth, nineteen eighty one,
<v Speaker 2>you had during this weekend, you had Clash of the Titans,
<v Speaker 2>History of the World and Raiders of the Lost Stark. The
<v Speaker 2>next week, June nineteenth, you have the Cannonball Run Superman two.
<v Speaker 2>The week after that you have Dragonslayer for your eyes
<v Speaker 2>only great Muppet caper and Stripes.
<v Speaker 1>And as John Reid would say, no, kid had any
<v Speaker 1>money in June of nineteen eighty one, No Eloys, all right, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>please stick around. We will be right back after these messages,
<v Speaker 1>he as Sam never been heard.
<v Speaker 2>So Cannonball Run was released June nineteenth, nineteen eighty one.
<v Speaker 2>Budget was eighteen million, and it made seventy two million
<v Speaker 2>dollars yep and over one hundred million worldwide, but seventy
<v Speaker 2>two here in the States. And that was sixth best
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen eighty one. And I just read that Murderer's
<v Speaker 2>Row of awesome eighties movies.
<v Speaker 1>So we talked about the inspiration for smoking in the
<v Speaker 1>bandit being stolen Coors beer by the maid. The inspiration
<v Speaker 1>for Cannonball Run was an actual race. Brocky Eights is
<v Speaker 1>the guy who put on the race. He wrote for
<v Speaker 1>a magazine called The Cannonballer, and he was He's a
<v Speaker 1>car and driver guy. He's very into cars. As we know,
<v Speaker 1>how neat him is as well. How need him, by
<v Speaker 1>the way, was in the first attempt to break the
<v Speaker 1>or not the first attempt, but a famous attempt to
<v Speaker 1>break the sound barrier on land by driving a car
<v Speaker 1>seven hundred miles an hour and at six hundred and
<v Speaker 1>twenty miles an hour. He pushed his shoot and nothing happened.
<v Speaker 1>And then he pushed his second shoot and nothing happened.
<v Speaker 1>And then he pushed his third shoot and nothing happened.
<v Speaker 1>And he was like, oh, crap, I guess I'm just
<v Speaker 1>going to have to push on the brakes with my foot.
<v Speaker 1>And he fortunately wasn't injured. But when he went to inspect,
<v Speaker 1>and this is all that said. This is crazy to me,
<v Speaker 1>he says in his autobiography. And some individual who will
<v Speaker 1>remain nameless, had poured battery acid all over my parachutes.
<v Speaker 1>How do you not name the guy who tried to
<v Speaker 1>murder you? I don't know, I don't what.
<v Speaker 2>Views pay justice poured battery ascid all over it.
<v Speaker 1>So Hal Needham was great friends with Brockyates. They he
<v Speaker 1>had been doing the Cannonball Run race for a while.
<v Speaker 1>This was back whenever fifty five the speed limit across
<v Speaker 1>the United States, and so they thought, okay, well we're
<v Speaker 1>going to do this race and it's just going to
<v Speaker 1>be from coast to coast and everybody gets to pick
<v Speaker 1>whatever their own vehicle is and how and Rocky Yates
<v Speaker 1>drove a Dodge Van that they camouflaged as an ambulance,
<v Speaker 1>had had a Hemi engine in it. You could put
<v Speaker 1>ninety gallons of gas in there. They had four holes
<v Speaker 1>to put the gas in so that they didn't have
<v Speaker 1>to sit too long to fill up ninety gallons. You
<v Speaker 1>got four hoses going at the same time. And then
<v Speaker 1>whenever they hit the road, they were just going until
<v Speaker 1>there was a traffic gym, and then they turned on
<v Speaker 1>their lights. And he said the cars would part like
<v Speaker 1>the Red Sea.
<v Speaker 2>I heard him say this. He said the cars would
<v Speaker 2>part like Jesus partying in the Red Sea. I'm like, any,
<v Speaker 2>I guess not.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, so yeah, this is an actual thing that
<v Speaker 4>he actually did with his buddy Brockiades.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, the this van would go one hundred and forty
<v Speaker 1>five miles now and that's how fast Hal drove it.
<v Speaker 1>Like when how was driving, it was going one hundred
<v Speaker 1>and forty five miles an hour. And the scene where
<v Speaker 1>they get pulled over by the cops, that actually happened
<v Speaker 1>to him, Like he and Brockiates are driving this thing
<v Speaker 1>dressed as EMT's driving across the country. They get pulled
<v Speaker 1>over in Pennsylvania and he's and they get out and
<v Speaker 1>they're like, well where are you you know, where are
<v Speaker 1>you going? Well, this lady's sick, Well where are you
<v Speaker 1>taking her? California? California? Here Pennsylvania. And he was like, well,
<v Speaker 1>you know that she's got to go to California. There's
<v Speaker 1>something wrong with her. And they're like what is Why
<v Speaker 1>didn't you meta flight her? And they're like, I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>asked the doctor, And as it turned out, they had
<v Speaker 1>an actual doctor in the van with him who brought
<v Speaker 1>his wife. And when they opened the door, he's back there,
<v Speaker 1>just like Jackie Elum and they're like, hey, why why
<v Speaker 1>didn't couldn't you fly this lady over to California? And
<v Speaker 1>he goes because she has got a serious lung infection.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, it's so serious we couldn't even take the
<v Speaker 1>northern route to California.
<v Speaker 2>That it's amazing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, hal Needham said he thought about getting those guys
<v Speaker 1>to play the part of the cops in the movie,
<v Speaker 1>but then thought better of it, which is probably a
<v Speaker 1>good idea.
<v Speaker 2>I don't getting the actual cops to play the cops.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's awesome, So I got wrong.
<v Speaker 2>Dun dun, dun. Okay, So Cannonball Run. They thought about
<v Speaker 2>making an action movie was Steve McQueen, but he died.
<v Speaker 2>Then they decided, hey, let's call Burt Reynolds to make
<v Speaker 2>it a comedy, and they paid him. Listen to this,
<v Speaker 2>four weeks of work five million bucks.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the four weeks more than the entire budget for
<v Speaker 1>Smoking in the Bandit.
<v Speaker 2>Burt Reynolds said after doing the Smoking the Bandit movies,
<v Speaker 2>after he did Smoking the Bandit too, He's like, I'm
<v Speaker 2>never driving a car over thirty five miles an hour
<v Speaker 2>ever again. And they said, oh yeah, how about five
<v Speaker 2>million dollars for four weeks. He's like, done, Yeah, I'm in.
<v Speaker 1>Hal Needham said when he gave him a call, he
<v Speaker 1>was like, all right, I'll bring this over to you.
<v Speaker 1>I just want you to read the script. But they're
<v Speaker 1>willing to pay you five million dollars four weeks. And
<v Speaker 1>Burt Reynolds said, did you say five million dollars for
<v Speaker 1>four weeks? And he says yeah, And he says, I
<v Speaker 1>don't need the script. I'm in.
<v Speaker 2>The actual correct full name of the Canniball Run race
<v Speaker 2>is called the Cannibal Baker See to Shining Sea Memorial
<v Speaker 2>Trophy Dash. Should we go through the plot on this one.
<v Speaker 1>Sure, I've got forty five seconds go.
<v Speaker 2>JJ McClure played by Burt Reynolds is an adventurer who
<v Speaker 2>decides to partake in an illegal race across the country, using,
<v Speaker 2>like you said, an ambulance as cover. There's other racers
<v Speaker 2>including Farah Fawcet, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior, Roger
<v Speaker 2>Moore as a very James Bond life character, and Jackie Chan.
<v Speaker 2>They'll do anything, break all the rules to outrun all
<v Speaker 2>the difficulties and win the race.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you've you've forgotten your foil, right, We've got viewfort
<v Speaker 1>Justice as the foil for Smoky in the Bandit as
<v Speaker 1>much as he is one, because he's really ineffectual. And
<v Speaker 1>our ineffectual foil for this movie is Arthur Foight, Mister Foyight,
<v Speaker 1>who is brilliant played by George Firth, whose other memorable
<v Speaker 1>part is from Blazing Saddles, which shares the commonality with
<v Speaker 1>these two movies in that completely politically incorrect.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, mister Foyd, every time he takes on the cannonball
<v Speaker 2>or something bad happens to him.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, he is such a good part of
<v Speaker 1>this movie. I love him and I'm gonna give a
<v Speaker 1>shout out to Arlin again. When we were discussing this,
<v Speaker 1>he's like, yeah, you know what, I'm pretty confident he
<v Speaker 1>was named after a race car driver. And I was
<v Speaker 1>like what. And it turns out there is a famous
<v Speaker 1>race car driver from this time period named AJ Foyight
<v Speaker 1>who did some amazing things but also had a very
<v Speaker 1>memorable like race car toy set. You remember seeing the
<v Speaker 1>AJ Foyight Racing team. I bet some of our listeners
<v Speaker 1>out there will remember that one.
<v Speaker 2>I don't remember that, but I've heard that name before.
<v Speaker 1>So AJ Foyt was the only driver to win the
<v Speaker 1>Indianapolis five hundred, which he won four times, the Daytona
<v Speaker 1>five hundred, the twenty four hour Daytona, and the twenty
<v Speaker 1>four hours of Lamon's. That's pretty freaking impressive.
<v Speaker 2>That's impressive.
<v Speaker 1>There's no question that George Firth's character is named after
<v Speaker 1>this guy as kind of a wink and orknot mister Foyight.
<v Speaker 2>So you have this cast of crazy characters, right, You've
<v Speaker 2>got Jackie Chan and Michael.
<v Speaker 1>Qui and it's probably not something anything close. It's probably
<v Speaker 1>like Smith right exactly.
<v Speaker 2>You've got Adrian Barbo and Tara Buckman in the Lambo
<v Speaker 2>the Lambeo Girls.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. Tara Buckman, by the way, was also in Sheriff
<v Speaker 1>Lobo and bj and the Bear, which of course were
<v Speaker 1>TV things that were kind of spawned by Smokey in
<v Speaker 1>the Bandit. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>You have Seymour Goldfarb, who thinks he's not James Bond.
<v Speaker 2>He thinks he's Roger Moore.
<v Speaker 1>Right, because you can't say James Bond in the movie
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna get.
<v Speaker 2>Sued, That's right. You have the Shekh played by Jamie Farr.
<v Speaker 2>You have Mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw. Yeah, you've got
<v Speaker 2>Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior as priests in a
<v Speaker 2>Ferrari doing the Lord's work. Just faster.
<v Speaker 1>Be Ferrari. By the way, is how Needam's car that
<v Speaker 1>was his actual car?
<v Speaker 2>So was the ambulance?
<v Speaker 1>Right, So the ambulance that they use in the Cannonball
<v Speaker 1>Run is the same ambulance that Brockyates and how Needam
<v Speaker 1>used to do their actual cannonball race. Say bitch one
<v Speaker 1>they okay? So I said that it goes one hundred
<v Speaker 1>and forty five miles an hour. They averaged eighty miles
<v Speaker 1>an hour average That means including stops and phillips and
<v Speaker 1>all of that averaged eighty five miles an hour. Were
<v Speaker 1>completely in the lead, and then the transmission went out
<v Speaker 1>and just like in the movie, they had to get
<v Speaker 1>loaded up on the back of a semi truck bed.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, according to which car dot com, America's most illegal
<v Speaker 2>record has been obliterated. This is May fifteenth, twenty twenty.
<v Speaker 2>The Cannonball Run, which had been the record cross country
<v Speaker 2>from Connecticut to California, was twenty eight hours. Now it's
<v Speaker 2>less than twenty six hours. And the reason why is
<v Speaker 2>because everybody was off the road in quarantine. Oh man,
<v Speaker 2>the Cannonball run record has been beaten seven times in
<v Speaker 2>the past five weeks. So apparently the Canniball Run is
<v Speaker 2>still alive and well time to be twenty six hours.
<v Speaker 1>All right, everybody, please stick around. We will be right
<v Speaker 1>back after these messages. So a couple other folks that
<v Speaker 1>are a little less known. You've got Mad Dog, who
<v Speaker 1>is played by Rick Aviels. But then the other guy
<v Speaker 1>who was riding with him, the no breaks. It's the
<v Speaker 1>no breaks gag. It gets him every.
<v Speaker 2>Time you got the brace.
<v Speaker 1>That guy was played by Alfie Wise. His character's name
<v Speaker 1>was Batman. I don't think I even knew that. But
<v Speaker 1>you know what else? Alfie Wise was in No Smoky
<v Speaker 1>in the Bandit what you get that piece off my
<v Speaker 1>high way?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? Are you serious?
<v Speaker 1>Yes? Yes, he was like, and it's O there's evidence
<v Speaker 1>in a crap? Oh no, give a crap? What it
<v Speaker 1>is you.
<v Speaker 2>Get that pieces off my highway? Don't you raise your
<v Speaker 2>voice to me? You know who else? Okay, So we
<v Speaker 2>got Burt Reynolds and Don del Luise, Farah Fawcett and
<v Speaker 2>Jack Elam in the ambulance. Okay, hold on, hold on,
<v Speaker 2>hold on, Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.
<v Speaker 1>Can you say Farah Fawcett.
<v Speaker 2>Again, Farah Fawcet.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's just dwell on that for a moment. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>did everybody just think of the poster? Because I'm pretty
<v Speaker 1>sure everybody just thought of the poster right now? Is
<v Speaker 1>that what you thought of? That's what I thought of.
<v Speaker 2>She doesn't want to bra the entire movie either.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think you wore brought her entire life. God
<v Speaker 1>bless her.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you've got Adrian Barbo and Tara Buckman in the Lamborghini,
<v Speaker 2>you've got Roger Moore and a different girl every five seconds.
<v Speaker 2>In the aston Martin, you've got Dean Martin, Sava Davis Junior.
<v Speaker 2>In the Ferrari, you've got Jackie Chan and Michael Hui.
<v Speaker 2>And the Suzuki, you've got the Sheikh in a Rolls Royce,
<v Speaker 2>You've got mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw in the Hawaiian
<v Speaker 2>Tropic Car.
<v Speaker 1>Sorry you take this, keep it. The change leaves comes back,
<v Speaker 1>get a physical.
<v Speaker 2>I will be back for you, my desert flower. The
<v Speaker 2>cast in Kenniball Run is amazing. When I was watching
<v Speaker 2>the commentary, they talked about how at the beginning of
<v Speaker 2>the movie, you've seen the Lamborghini just scream down these
<v Speaker 2>roads and it's like Burt Reynolds and then Dom Delawise.
<v Speaker 2>It's these single name cards, right that when it was
<v Speaker 2>first played like opening night, people started to cheer. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>the cast in this movie is amazing.
<v Speaker 1>Right, And it was. I mean, it was another one
<v Speaker 1>of those that they had these big plans, but it
<v Speaker 1>wasn't until Bert said five million for four weeks. I
<v Speaker 1>don't need to see the script. Once he was in,
<v Speaker 1>everyone else fell into place. You had your rat pat guys,
<v Speaker 1>and the part of Sammy Davis Junior was actually supposed
<v Speaker 1>to be played by Don Rickles at first, but because
<v Speaker 1>Dom Delauise was in the movie and Don Rickles had
<v Speaker 1>this kind of competition going about who was the best
<v Speaker 1>in Las Vegas at the time, he's like, nah, I
<v Speaker 1>don't want to be in that movie. And so Sammy
<v Speaker 1>Davis comes in. You know, it was a Jewish name,
<v Speaker 1>Samuel Wurk and uh, because you're small, sam mall.
<v Speaker 2>God is our co pilot. Where is he gonna sit?
<v Speaker 2>We only got two seats.
<v Speaker 1>So they make the movie. And after the movie comes out,
<v Speaker 1>Frank Sinatra, who wasn't in the movie, is like, why
<v Speaker 1>didn't I get to be in the movie? Everybody else
<v Speaker 1>got the movie. I don't in the movie, So they
<v Speaker 1>put him in. They put him in Part two, which,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, Hall Needam said, I was always the
<v Speaker 1>first guy on the set, But when Frank was there
<v Speaker 1>for his shooting, I arrived to the set and he
<v Speaker 1>had he was already done with makeup and waiting for me.
<v Speaker 1>He's really been on his own little private jet. Did
<v Speaker 1>his scene and out like a pro. The chairman of
<v Speaker 1>the board Okay, so one super famous guy that you
<v Speaker 1>haven't mentioned yet is Peter Fonda, right right, right right.
<v Speaker 1>Peter Fonda was the leader of the Motorcycle Gang, which
<v Speaker 1>is perfect because not too long before this movie he
<v Speaker 1>had done Easy Rider, the motorcycle movie. Right right right.
<v Speaker 1>How Needham's cameraman was actually a friend of Peter Fonda's,
<v Speaker 1>and Peter Fonda heard about the movie and said, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>could I be in the movie? I mean, this movie
<v Speaker 1>is just about a bunch of these guys getting together
<v Speaker 1>and having a good time.
<v Speaker 2>It really is.
<v Speaker 1>It's just fun. You don't have to come in with
<v Speaker 1>any expectations. You just get in there and you see
<v Speaker 1>them all having fun together, and you're along for the ride.
<v Speaker 1>It is wonderful.
<v Speaker 2>I have fun every time I watch this movie. It's
<v Speaker 2>like being a part of a you know, something special.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 2>It's They talked about how at the hotel they stayed
<v Speaker 2>in every night as a group, they'd wrap up, they'd
<v Speaker 2>get some drinks, they'd watch dailies.
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh. He would invite the crew to watch the dailies,
<v Speaker 1>which was uncommon. Usually it would just be the actors
<v Speaker 1>watching their own performances in the dailies. But he invited
<v Speaker 1>the crew because he figured, Hey, if the guys who
<v Speaker 1>spent you know, eight hours shooting this scene the day
<v Speaker 1>before are laughing at it, that means that we did
<v Speaker 1>something right. Right exact, if he went into a bar
<v Speaker 1>and some of his crew was in the bar, he
<v Speaker 1>would never let him buy a drink. He was really
<v Speaker 1>a very down to earth director. And then he you know,
<v Speaker 1>we talked about the famous people that he put in there.
<v Speaker 1>He had his secretary was in there. She was one
<v Speaker 1>of the people taking the entry cards. The other lady
<v Speaker 1>was Brockiates, his wife. He put his business manager in there.
<v Speaker 1>She's the one at the end screaming, help help my baby.
<v Speaker 1>He's drowning. And then you remember the scene where the
<v Speaker 1>two priests where Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior are
<v Speaker 1>over there talking about how to pick up the girls
<v Speaker 1>in the bar. Yeah, I was just listening in and
<v Speaker 1>eventually does a spit take. That was his accountant. That
<v Speaker 1>was the accountant for the come on, let's come on,
<v Speaker 1>let's just be a part of let's all do this
<v Speaker 1>fun thing together. That is what defines these movies to
<v Speaker 1>me is we're not looking at some sort of marvelous, cinematic,
<v Speaker 1>epic thing. We're looking at people getting together and having
<v Speaker 1>a good time and in biting us along for the ride.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, that's right. Here's something for you to look
<v Speaker 2>for the next time you watch Canniball Run. Okay, the
<v Speaker 2>continuity errors with Adrian Barbo zipper. I'm not kidding. When
<v Speaker 2>she's pulled over in Pennsylvania, it's up, it's down, it's up,
<v Speaker 2>it's down. She end zips it once. It's it's funny.
<v Speaker 1>Makes she liked to play with her zipper a little bit.
<v Speaker 2>That guy who played the cop in Pennsylvania, the guy
<v Speaker 2>that she's dazzling with her zipper is Burt Reynolds stand
<v Speaker 2>in Yeah, and you can tell just by looking at him.
<v Speaker 2>He looked He's got the same mustache, same kind of
<v Speaker 2>dark hair, and that was his stand in. Oh, you
<v Speaker 2>know who else is in Cannibal Run. You've got Bianca Jagger,
<v Speaker 2>who is Mick Jagger's wife, right, she's sister. You had
<v Speaker 2>Joe Klecko, who played nose tackle or nose guard for
<v Speaker 2>the New York Jets.
<v Speaker 1>He was the guy who's lifting up the van instead
<v Speaker 1>of using the jack and he was actually lifting that van.
<v Speaker 1>That guy was a big mother effort. He was huge.
<v Speaker 2>He's huge. You have Jimmy the Greek.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, story there along with the political incorrectness of these movies, right,
<v Speaker 1>you get Jimmy the Greek.
<v Speaker 2>I love it when Sammy Davis Junior comes up and says,
<v Speaker 2>Sir James like calls him, Sir James.
<v Speaker 1>For some reason, We've got God is our coke pilot.
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna need him.
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about twenty big large ones. Sammy Davis Junior
<v Speaker 2>is hilarious in this movie.
<v Speaker 1>Oh brilliant, just brilliant. Oh all right, everybody, please stick around.
<v Speaker 1>We will be right back after these messages.
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's flit back smugging to Bannon. Okay, So
<v Speaker 2>they make it to text ar caanaon in like ten minutes,
<v Speaker 2>right right, Which is funny because this was not shot
<v Speaker 2>in Texas, Canada, Texas. This was shot in Jonesboro, Georgia. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>Cletus's house the place where they shot Cletus's house, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the warehouse where they pick up all the beer. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>where they use the forklift where he can drive any
<v Speaker 2>forking thing around. That was about half a mile from
<v Speaker 2>that house. Nice, but The first scene I really want
<v Speaker 2>to talk to you about is when Sally Field leaves
<v Speaker 2>the wedding, her own wedding. She leaves Junior at the
<v Speaker 2>altar brand it picks her up, they take off, and
<v Speaker 2>the car left behind says just married on it. There's
<v Speaker 2>some vandals that come and show up. Right, my favorite,
<v Speaker 2>Jackie Gleason shows up.
<v Speaker 5>Don't you leave, don't get no lunch, don't play with yourself.
<v Speaker 5>You can think about it, but don't do it.
<v Speaker 2>I'd like, he's such a respected bad ay. He walked
<v Speaker 2>up to the first guy and he's like, you look tired, boy,
<v Speaker 2>rest yourself, bars around like immediately spreads him, you know
<v Speaker 2>the nuts. Yeah. Then he walks up and kicks that
<v Speaker 2>guy in the butt and he's like, that wasn't attention
<v Speaker 2>get her? That part is hilarious and it establishes that
<v Speaker 2>Jackie Gleeson is somebody who's serious and not to be
<v Speaker 2>messed with, right.
<v Speaker 1>Right, but also hold out of the car and his tucks.
<v Speaker 1>And it's at that point, you know, it's weird to
<v Speaker 1>me that they explain the illegality of transporting Coors beer
<v Speaker 1>across state lines about three times in this movie. Right,
<v Speaker 1>make sure you understand it, but they just kind of
<v Speaker 1>cruise on over the fact that Junior's in the tucks
<v Speaker 1>and that's his bride. It takes. They don't give you
<v Speaker 1>that explanation. You just got it. You got to kind
<v Speaker 1>of get there, right, which is good. I mean, that's
<v Speaker 1>good that they don't dumb it down for you. But
<v Speaker 1>it's interestingly decided to dumb down the cores things. And
<v Speaker 1>as if anybody couldn't figure that part out.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, there's a scene where the cops are onto Bandit
<v Speaker 2>and he takes them down a country road and he
<v Speaker 2>realizes all the craft the bridge is out, so he says,
<v Speaker 2>that's not good. Turns around, cops are coming, he said,
<v Speaker 2>and that's even worse. When he wheels around, he's going
<v Speaker 2>to jump this bridge and they hit the spectacular bridge
<v Speaker 2>jump in the movie. Yeah, that jump when you see
<v Speaker 2>it on film, that car is so high in the
<v Speaker 2>air it's freaking unbelievable. It's dukes of hazard times ten.
<v Speaker 1>Right, So how Needham has this deal with rockets like
<v Speaker 1>that's his special deal. One of the first movies that
<v Speaker 1>you see a car flipp it like they had to
<v Speaker 1>try to figure out how to flip a car over
<v Speaker 1>on the beach, right, And you know, normally when you
<v Speaker 1>flip a car over, you're going to have to have
<v Speaker 1>like a bush or another car or something like that
<v Speaker 1>to create the ramp so that the car can be flipped.
<v Speaker 1>But they're out trying to do this on the beach
<v Speaker 1>and they don't know how to do it. And so
<v Speaker 1>how Needham says, well, why don't we just put a
<v Speaker 1>rocket in the floorboard. And of course how need HM's
<v Speaker 1>the stunt man at this point, he's going to car.
<v Speaker 1>They put the rocket in the floorboard. He's driving his
<v Speaker 1>car and he says, they hit the rocket and all
<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, I realized I was sixty feet in
<v Speaker 1>the air and going backwards, and I thought, this is
<v Speaker 1>not going according to plan. He said the pain was
<v Speaker 1>something that morphine didn't seem to have any effect on.
<v Speaker 2>This guy is an amazing guy. Like I don't know
<v Speaker 2>if we talked off air, Ora, but hell need him
<v Speaker 2>is a guy that I would love to have his
<v Speaker 2>life for like a few days. So he man director
<v Speaker 2>tons of Hollywood friends and girls and parties and right, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>well that's.
<v Speaker 1>The interesting social connection because most of the people who
<v Speaker 1>were in Cannonball Run. He got to know through like
<v Speaker 1>these Hollywood parties that he would go to with his wife.
<v Speaker 1>Like his wife was this actress named Danny Crane who's
<v Speaker 1>just absolutely gorgeous. I mean, she potentially is another Marilyn
<v Speaker 1>Monroe or Jane Mansfield, but she goes to these Hollywood
<v Speaker 1>parties and that's how he ends up meeting half of
<v Speaker 1>the people that are in Cannonball Run. And I said
<v Speaker 1>to you earlier, I don't you know, I got nothing
<v Speaker 1>to prove this, but I got a strong impression that
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of there's a lot of swinging.
<v Speaker 2>Happening to Swing, right, Yeah, for sure, a lot of swinging.
<v Speaker 1>Did you just say this to Swing Yeah, singer Sona.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I get the impression that there's some cocaine and
<v Speaker 2>swinging for sure. You know, Pontiac gave them four trans
<v Speaker 2>ams to use during the course of the film. In
<v Speaker 2>this movie, on that bridge jump, they totally destroyed one car.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they had four Pontiac transims. By the way, about
<v Speaker 1>four years ago they introduced a bandit special trans am.
<v Speaker 1>Do you know about this?
<v Speaker 2>You send this to me, I want one, I got out.
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, they only made seventy seven of them. How
<v Speaker 1>awesome is that it's seventy seven because the year bandit
<v Speaker 1>came out with seventy seven, it was supposed to be
<v Speaker 1>a seventy seven transam, although I think what they did
<v Speaker 1>actually is they put the the front of the seventy
<v Speaker 1>seven on the back or on the car of a
<v Speaker 1>seventy six. But Yeah, by the time this movie was
<v Speaker 1>over all, of all of the four that they had received,
<v Speaker 1>plus a couple of other extra cars had been totally
<v Speaker 1>demolished and like three of them became the parts for
<v Speaker 1>the fourth one that which could still drive down the road.
<v Speaker 2>Right. I wanted to talk briefly about Fred the bassett Hound.
<v Speaker 1>And the beauty contest, Yeah, or is it the ugly contest?
<v Speaker 2>Ugly contest?
<v Speaker 1>Yes.
<v Speaker 2>So before the movie started, they had a contest to
<v Speaker 2>bring your dog up for a chance to be in
<v Speaker 2>the movie, and Burt Realds was the judge, and he
<v Speaker 2>picked Fred the basset hound, who is actually named Happy.
<v Speaker 2>Picked him chiefly because it refused to obey any commands.
<v Speaker 1>Free get on back here.
<v Speaker 2>Beauverty Justice was the name of a real Florida Highway
<v Speaker 2>patrolman known to Burt Reland's father who was once the
<v Speaker 2>chief of police in Jupiter, Florida. And I also thought
<v Speaker 2>it was funny that Burt Reynolds dad use the term
<v Speaker 2>some bad all the time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, some where are you you so much?
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember when Jerry Reid was in that episode
<v Speaker 2>of Scooby Doo. It's like the ghost that haunts the
<v Speaker 2>Grand old Opry and they kidnapped.
<v Speaker 1>Jerry Reid and might actually kind of remember that he
<v Speaker 1>just like opened a drawer and a small cabb on
<v Speaker 1>the mental mansion that has not been opened in about
<v Speaker 1>thirty five years? Is what? What did? Yes? I think
<v Speaker 1>I do remember that.
<v Speaker 2>What the way they found him in Scooby Doo was
<v Speaker 2>They just they told him just to sing and so
<v Speaker 2>is a chance for him to have this song montage
<v Speaker 2>while they looked around for him?
<v Speaker 1>Well it looks like that, does it? For this episode?
<v Speaker 1>Jason just send the bill to big enis burdett.
<v Speaker 2>Uh big big enis verdet uh b uh bu b
<v Speaker 2>be hell I got to go. We