1996: Twister

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These are the movies of nineteen ninety
six. What's up, everybody. I'm

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Jeff Johnson from a Film By podcast. I'm hoping you're down for our latest

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dope new series. We've broken down
the fresh films of nineteen eighty six,

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we examined the gritty cinemascape of nineteen
seventy six, and now it's time to

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check out the hella good flicks of
nineteen ninety six. We're talking about tornadoes.

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We're talking about Oklahoma, which means
we're talking with a guest that keeps

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hearing that we're glad he's back.
I am obviously talking about the extreme.

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The extreme Jason Colvin of these,
surely you can't be serious podcasts. Jason,

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Hello again, my friend Jeff.
How I do Man? I am,

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I'm glad to be here. I'm
doing great. I am loving that

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you are continuing You're a Film By
residency for the nineteen ninety six series.

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I'm the Tom Hanks of the Film
By podcast. You Are you Are?

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I think we got one more,
which we'll get to at the end of

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this one. But yeah, great
to have you back. Thanks for having

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me man. Yeah, Jason,
you can't deny this so things go wrong.

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You can't explain it, you can't
predict it. I think it's time

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we head into the suck zone for
Twister. The critics are blown away,

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a one of a kind experience like
Jaws and Jurassic Mark truly amazing. You

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get out of there. You have
never seen anything like it before. Grandma

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Twister Gritted, pg. Thirteen.
Now playing time is running out for two

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storm chasers on the brink of divorce, who find themselves working together once more

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to prove the advanced weather alert system
they created, aptly named Dorothy actually works.

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Doing so will put them in the
path of several extremely violent tornadoes.

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Jason, this is a movie that
I loved in nineteen ninety six, still

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love. This is a movie you
kind of live though, right, I

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mean, yeah, yeah, So
this is the deal with this movie.

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First of all, I was filmed
in the town that I live in.

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Yep. I grew up. I
went to college in the University of Oklahoma,

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which is in Norman, which is
just south of Oklahoma City. This

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is where everybody stayed while they were
filming Twister. They stayed in Norman.

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All lots of parts of Oklahoma were
shot, you know, in and around

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the Oklahoma City area for this movie. And then I myself have lived through

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at least two F five tornadoes that
I know of, and tons of f

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two threes, fours. So you
you just casually say F five without a

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whisper, without hesitation in your voice, like like the characters in this film.

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Yeah, you've lived it. I
gotta imagine how I can't imagine how

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scary that is, though, I
mean, you're this is for you.

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This is another day, another day
at the office in Norman a little bit,

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a little bit. So I live
just south of Norman, Oklahoma,

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and I live so Norman is just
south of Moore, and it's just east

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of Bridge Creek and Newcastle. And
I sent you the two F five tornadoes.

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One is known as the More F
five and one is known the Bridge

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Creek F five. And my house
is about five miles from both of those.

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So if you're drawing a bullseye,
my house would be in the center

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dock. That's that is that's fascinating
to me. It's also frightening to me.

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You know, one of my good
buddies is that close. You know,

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you're in the eye of it.
Let's go back to nineteen eighty six,

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though, you know, this whole
production comes to town. Like you

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said, everyone's staying here, they're
shooting it all around you. Where were

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you at nineteen eighty six? Were
you were you in town? Were you

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around this? Do you remember this
coming to town? Well? I was

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aware that it was happening. I
was in my last year of college.

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So the fact that they were,
you know, the production crew and the

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kind of the storm Chaser guys are
from ou you know, guys about my

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age, that kind of took them
in and around. So all that stuff

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was going on. I don't really
remember the specifics. I do know where

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Helen Hunt stayed while she was in
Norman, which is a couple of blocks

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away from my church, you know, so okay, not your dorm room,

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a couple couple blocks away, unfortunately, not my dorm room. Right.

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Well, let's let's talk about the
nineties culture influence for this film,

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because the music is a big one, which I know we're gonna get to

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here in a minute, but I
mean these giant cell phones that they're carrying,

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especially Jamie Gertz's character. The laptops, like those bulky, chunky laptops

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that we that were seeing, you
know, in the in the nineties,

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and Jason, I gotta ask you, how bad did you want to install

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a CB radio in your truck after
watching this movie? Because I still do.

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Yeah, for sure. I had
a buddy who had one. He

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had his own handle and everything,
and I was always jealous of that.

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I think that would have been really
cool. I wish I would have done

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it. Talking about the film's box
office and what the critics thought. So

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this opens number one on May tenth, takes in a worldwide gross of four

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hundred ninety five million dollars after twelve
week after a twelve week run, and

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you gotta keep in mind, this
is a budget of ninety two million,

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I think, and I think that
that ballooned to ninety two. Yeah,

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I know there was some reshoots and
Yondubant was, you know, spending some

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money. He probably didn't have a
little out of control is what I read

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on Yon Depac reckless, abandoned.
But but look, I mean, you

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got to give the guy credit because
this becomes the second highest grossing film of

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nineteen ninety six, directly behind Independence
Day, which you and I talked about

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a couple weeks ago. We did
that was fun too. This is a

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great summer popcorn movie, right.
It is the epitome of summer popcorn blockbuster

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movies. It's just it's just a
fun time. And uh, you know,

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you can't go wrong with a film
like this in the summertime, at

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least I don't think so. This
also, this becomes the most successful Warner

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Brothers release of all time, surpassing
nineteen eight nine's Batman. WHOA Yeah,

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I mean, if anything was going
to beat the back of a tornado,

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yep, yep. The tornado blew
the bats out of the Belfray, I

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guess. But you know it was
short lived though, because two thousand and

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one, Harry Potter arrives and he, you know, he takes the crown

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from Twister. That's pretty. That's
pretty. It's good company. I mean,

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Batman, Harry Potter, and Twister. I mean those are Twister's a

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big time. Yeah, Twister's in
good company as far as I'm concerned.

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I had great company. Critics and
audiences in ninety six mostly favorable. You

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know, I was looking. I
saw a lot of a lot of phrases

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like high concept, blockbuster, exuberant
roller coaster ride, visceral thrills. But

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the did you happen to see Roger
Ebert's review? I have this one?

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So so Ebert gives it two and
a half stars, and his quote is,

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you want loud, dumb, skillful, escapist entertainment. Twister works,

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you want to think think twice about
seeing it. That's kind of like a

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backheaded compliment, right, like,
yeah, I really think it is.

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I think that that he nailed it, right, he did. It's just

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fun. Put the accelerator down,
We're gonna chase storms and yell look out

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how Yeah. Yeah, I mean
there's there's one or two like like,

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okay, there's there's a couple of
scenes that are genuinely they're outside that popcorn

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vibe. Like think about this,
Like the beginning of this film is terrifying

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to me, you know, as
an adult and and you know having like

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you know, we've we've had our
share of Twisters come through Ohio. I've

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been on several crews where we did
like tornado recovery, you know, going

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through towns, going through neighborhoods.
The devastation is just it's catastrophic. And

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you know, watching this recently and
seeing them, you know, like young

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Joe and her mom and dad,
and they're running to the the tornado shelter.

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I'm panicking, and I'm panicking for
you because, you know, my

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first thought is why are these Why
is the shelter like one hundred yards from

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the house, Like, who designed
this? You know yours? I'm glad

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that. I'm happy that you're you
know, you're right there in the garage,

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as I recall. But yes,
yes, the film, it opens

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with a terrifying scene as far as
I'm concerned. Quickly, little nugget about

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that opening scene. So number one, the shelter, the little cellar that

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they have is one hundred yard run
through the hail and the rain. Yeah.

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Uh, they still have those type
of shelters around here. So thankfully

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mine is in my garage. So
I do have a storm shelter. I

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do. I mean it's necessary when
you live here. Yeah, you have

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to, you right. But one
little nugget. The newscaster that they're watching

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before they make a break for it, Yeah, that's actually an Oklahoma City

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newscaster. Like when he came on, I recognized him. Yeah that's a

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real Yeah, he's a real guy. Very cool, very authentic of de

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BoNT to do something they went back
like to the seventies and got an old,

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an old clip of him. I
like that. I absolutely like that.

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It was a neat little nod to
Oklahoma people. Well I think so,

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you know, and like like I
said, like you know, I

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think you know and that kind of
paraphrase it having fun with it when we

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open. But that moment with Bill
Paxton and Helen Hunt when he's trying to

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get her to move on with her
life, and you know, he even

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has like the you know that we
get that big reveal, like you know,

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she's like, what do I have? He's like, you got me?

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And I know we're gonna get to
Jamie Gertz here. You and I

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have had some had some you know, fun conversations leading up to this,

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but I genuinely my heart's breaking for
in that moment where she's that's a good

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moment for Jamie Gertz because she is
she is in the middle of a rainstorm

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and you can still see that she's
crying and she's not sobbing. She's just

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you know, very very very sullen
looking. I'm sad for it, but

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that's it's a great moment. I
love the dialogue there I love the moment,

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you know, Bill grabbing Helen Hunt
and her pushing him and you know

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kind of kind of fighting back,
and you know, you've never seen it,

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miss this house and missed that house
and hit you know, it's it's

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it's great. It's great dialogue.
I think, Yeah, you know,

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missed an opportunity there to uh to
somehow drop in the term game over.

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You know, oh, how great
would that been? Like, well,

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like when it choos up as his
his brand new Dodge Dodge Ram that's you

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know, that's that's what he should
have been, like game over? Man,

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what are we gonna do? What
the are we gonna do? Well,

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you know, talk about the production
history on this one, so we've

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got that great, We've got the
good dialogue. That's that's Michael Crichton and

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Anne Marie Martin Jason. They were
paid two million dollars at the time,

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which made this the most expensive screenplay
ever purchased. You gotta think this is

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right after Jurassic Park. Yeah,
Michael Crichton could walk into a studio and

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say, all right, boys,
start breaking out the check book. He

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basically calls a shot, right,
I've got a I've got a cool little

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nugget for you. I want to
share with you. I'm hoping that you

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can go down this rabbit hole.
Bring it, bringing on, what do

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you got? Okay? So Michael
Crichton and Anne Marie Martin were married,

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helped him write this screenplay, all
right, you know I mean Mike's wife

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team Okay again, Michael Crichton,
you know May Martin, Hey, and

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my wife. She's helping me.
You know, she's helped me with punctuation

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or whatever. So she was actually
an actress. She actually starred and she

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didn't start, but she had roles
in the movie prom Night and the Buggins.

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Really, I mean, I'm a
prom Nite guy. I now got

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to look her up. I gotta
figure out who she played. So she's

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in prom Night. She actually had
a cameo in Halloween two. What Okay?

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Her name she went by Edie Benton
back then. If that rings a

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bell for you, Uh not really, but okay, I mean I love

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Halloween two. Also, this is
now you really got me? That's two

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Jamie Lee Curtis movies she's in that's
right. And get this. She auditioned

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for the role Princess Leah. Wow. Okay, Well, you're not gonna

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beat Fisher. But if it's if
it's who I'm thinking it is from Halloween

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two, she's definitely she's definitely a
looker, so I get it. But

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yeah, you know, we we
mentioned Yon Debant. Jason, I know

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you're gonna appreciate this. He chose
the only reason he chose to direct this

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film because this was kind of batted
around for a couple of years. I

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know, Spielberg was in the conversation. John Carpenter at one point, was

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Roberts a mechis, Yeah, they
were, they were. Everyone was kind

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of like, you know, the
disaster film hadn't really come back just yet.

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Sure, because you remember this is
before this is before Independence Day,

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because this is a release. But
he specifically wanted to do this because he

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felt it was an opportunity to create
one last large scale practical effects film before

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CGI took over and changed everything.
You know, you and I talked about

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that. You know, George Lucas, you know, hooded, cloaked George

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Lucas in The Shadow is waiting to
you know, change change the game for

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and uh yeah, I mean Twister. It's fantastic for that. I mean,

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because we get some CGI obviously,
you know you have to have it

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in this film. But I think
this is a great, great example of

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like a good blend of practical and
digital. So I definitely appreciate that Yon

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DuPont for his crazy, reckless production. He did have I think the right

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idea in filming it in Oklahoma in
storm season. You know they talked about

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do you know stowns doing it on
a sound stage or do it in British

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Columbia. You know, there's reasons
for that, and they actually had to

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finish up in Iowa because of storm
season. Oh wow. So the actual

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you know, the last scene where
Bill and Joe are, you know,

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fighting it out, you know,
against the storm, that was all filmed

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in Iowa. But they actually wanted
to be here in Oklahoma during storm season.

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I debon is just he's just you've
we've said reckless that that is a

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reckless decision. Like I I don't
know how this guy gets away with what

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he gets away with. Speaking of
reckless, did you did you hear the

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did you read the story about his
his uh suggestion that that led to a

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lot of surround surround sound speakers being
destroyed in theaters worldwide. Oh no,

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tell me about this. Apparently the
film the so the real show up personal

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suggestion from Debat turn it up.
The problem. The problem with that is

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that because of the loud, bass, heavy surround channel that the film has,

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it blew speakers everywhere. Like it, it was destroying speakers everywhere across

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America, you know, theater theater
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bet. Yeah, Well it's one
of those movies Like I remember seeing this

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in the theater and it was one
of those where you're sitting there and it

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just the sound just shook, It
just vibrated you in the chair, you

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know. And I remember this is
nineteen ninety six. We don't have the

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blush leather recliners and stadium seating that
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that stuff was kind of just starting. Yep. So the sound of this

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movie just rattled you to the core, you know, in ninety six,

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and rightly so. I mean,
a real tornado sounds like a train going

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through the middle of your house.
Terrifying, absolutely terrifying. Now, the

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sound of it. I read this
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I thought about a specific sound effect. You and I You guys on,

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surely you can't be serious. Have
this incredible, this incredibly fun? What

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went wrong that you've you've allowed me
to be part of many times? Yes?

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You have? You want? Can
you remind our for for our listeners

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that haven't maybe you haven't heard that
some of these episodes yet. We we

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did a great one for Jawls the
Revenge. Yeah, do you want to

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remind uh? Do you want to
remind people or or or fill people in

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on on the noise used for for
the Shark. The The noise used for

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the Shark was a a cartoon Jerry
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Yea where he got super mad at
Tom and has this big bellowing r.

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Yeah, because because when you think
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know, a shark rar? Jason, I I saw that the the sound

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they the tornado sound that they use
for Twister is actually a camel's moan that's

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been slowed down. Okay, so
the next time, god for God forbid

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a Twister touches down to Norman again. But the next time, when if

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you could just keep a listen out
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mooning record it. Please just head
for cover. But yeah, I gotta

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I gotta kick out of that slow
yeah, slowed down Camel's moon. I

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got I got one more nugget for
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you know we we know the the
early warning system that they have. They

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they've they've created Dorothy. That's actually
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used by real tornado researchers, only
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known as TOTO. Yes, yes, I love it. That's really cool

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and apparently it worked about as well
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say what you will. It's it's
a trash can full of gumball. You

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know, it's like a gumball sheet. So I was watching every time you

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watch this, I'm like, it
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the gumball things. So before I
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before we get to that, like, can we just jump real quick the

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first time we see Dorothy in action, or that we're about to see her

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inaction Bill packs. Now keep in
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the right time when Bill Paxton has
to climb through the middle window of Helen

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Hunt's pickup truck, and he is
climbing all around it, and he's having

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to flip all these switches and turn
these dials. Right, that's that's a

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lot of work to get this thing
up and run, and at a very

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small, dangerous amount of time.
I didn't understand that because like later,

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like for like Dorothy three, I
think the third attempt, Helen Hunt just

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leans out the back and just hits
one switch. So what what the what

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the heck happened with the Dorothy one
is what I'm gonna ask. That's a

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good question, man. Yeah,
did you I mean, did you?

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Did you pick up on that?
Like he is, he's worked over time

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to to get that thing ready.
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get in front of the tornado,
and and uh yeah, there's a lot

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happening here, a lot of a
lot of bells and whistles to get this

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thing working. Yeah. Not not
the greatest uh, not the greatest design,

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I don't think, but uh,
whoever designed this soundtrack? Jason,

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I'm gonna I'm gonna run. You
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but I'm gonna I'm just gonna run
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it's a nineties murderers role right here, man, it is, it's and

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it's something for everybody here, Uh, Tory Amos, Eric Clapton, Stevie

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Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, The Red
Hot Chili Peppers, Shania Twain, Lisa

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Loebe, Soul Asylum, The Goo
Goo Dolls, Deep Purple, and last,

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but certainly not least, Van Halen. I gonna ask you how how

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excited were you uh when the film
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Being, because it's so subtle.
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think it's like the Second Twister there. You get that that that panoramic shot

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overhead, all the all the vehicles, and the score just just slowly,

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softly goes. It's there, and
all of a sudden you're like, wait

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a minute, what's what's happening?
Yeah? I love it. I love

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it. The cool thing is,
you know, the Van Halen Brothers,

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I think contributed three songs to this
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I had, I had I read
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little bit. So there's two songs. So you get obviously you get humans

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being and then the the the instrumental
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that's Van Haelen. But uh,
here's what here's what makes me sad.

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Remember in the eighties we had these
these soundtrack these movies that were fueled

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by soundtracks from like one band,
you know, like Queen. Queen gives

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us Highlander, a CDC gives us
Maximum Overdrive. Yeah. So Van Halen

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was originally contracted to write five songs
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gonna be it was gonna be like
a Van Halen soundtrack basically. But Alex

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and Eddie both and I tried to
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I couldn't really find much more information. But Alex and Eddie both were recovering

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from injuries that they had sustained.
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Look, I'm heading to Hawaii.
I'm gonna spend quality time with my family.

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They're ready to record. Sammy's not
ready to come back. But then

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he says, hey, I'm I'm
on my way back. He purposely,

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you know, allegedly, he purposely
misses, you know, a recording date.

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this is allegedly this, this whole
situation with the Twister soundtrack is what creates

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the initial arguments that lead to Sammy
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just breaks my heart, man,
I mean yeah, So I read a

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little bit on this as well.
So Sammy's wife was getting ready to have

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a baby, oh okay, and
that changes things. And she was having

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it, I think naturally, so
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up and she didn't want to you
know, they needed to hunt her down

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where they were living at the time, which was in Hawaii. And so

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Sammy's like, look, guys,
can I record the vocals here? Okay?

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And the brothers are like no,
right, They're like, no,

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you got to come back here.
He's like, guys, I'm gonna have

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a baby. I mean, I'll
do you know, I'll do it.

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I just need you guys need to
flex a little bit. So they said,

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so he comes back. He finally
says, okay, I'm come back,

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comes back. He records the vocals
for humans being okay, anything else

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all right? Am I good?
Okay, I'm going back Okay. So

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he leaves and when they after he
leaves. They're like, wait, we

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need more stuff. He's like,
screw you, guys, I'm not coming

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back. I told you here we
have the sol and then that is the

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first. Then David Lee Roth comes
back for about five years. So that's

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the end of this. Listen.
I know you're a big Van Hanil fan

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like I am. That just bumps
me out man to hear that. And

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I know we talked a little bit
about you know them kind of great on

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each other's there's a's got another shout
out. But you don't mind show you

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Keep Me Serious podcast. I got
to do the OU eight one two s

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right episode with you guys. You
guys had a great if I remember right,

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the showdown was eight one two versus
Cinderella's Long Cold Winter, Right,

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yep, yeah, I love Yeah, it's a great album. Yeah,

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listeners, I have to believe you're
already listening to surely you Keep the Serious

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podcast. But if you're not,
you got some homework. Start with Start

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with OU A one two. That's
an awesome episode that Jason and d let

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me get part of. And obviously
the What the heck Happened series where we

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just have a lot of fun taking
bad movies and asking the question, what

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the heck happened here? That's right, Jeff is our resident, what the

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heck happened? Expert? Thank you, Thank you. Let's talk about this

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cast now. It's my understanding.
You know, we don't have you around,

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and let's we get a Colvin cut
of a film, or we get

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a Colvin cast like a recast.
So I have to believe you've got a

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couple suggestions for us. I got
some suggestions, man, I got some

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suggestions. All right, I'll tell
you what. Let's let's uh, there's

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a couple of people I want to
talk about. Let's uh when we when

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we cover them. Let's let's hear
you the suggestion, because I know you're

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gonna have a good one for us. Okay, well, let's start with

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the principal roles. So Helen Hunt
as Joe Harding now Laura Dern was initially

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considered, but when Yon shows up, he famously did not want any big

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name actors in the film because he
believed they had a demanding behavior. He

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didn't want to work with divas,
so he was always trying to go for

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like the B listers. You know, he fights for Helen Hunt, who

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at the time is known for TV
sitcoms. The studio is like, why

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her, I don't think, we
don't think, so hold auditions. And

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I love the fact that after they
insist that he has, he holds auditions.

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He later admits that this was a
very embarrassing process for him because he

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opened every audition by telling the actress
I already made my choice. You're not

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going to get it, but go
ahead, could you? Could you imagine?

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You know, You're like, hey, I you know, got this

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Tornado movie and it could be my
big break. And the director just says,

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it's not you, but go ahead. You know, we'll put it

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on tape, but you're not lash. That is not reckless right now,

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He's reckless with with people's feelings,
right Uh does a great job. Man

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is awesome, Jason. This is
peak Helen Hunt. This is this is

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Helen Hunt at at her best as
far as I'm concerned. And I saw

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her. I saw her a couple
of months ago. She was at a

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con that we went to a couple
of months ago in spring. You would

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think she was filming Twister today.
Really she incredible, She looks incredible,

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absolutely incredible. I'm kind of curious
if you know, I know the story

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is under wraps, but you know, I'm wondering if we'll see her pop

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up in a cameo in the sequel, but which i'd be, I'd be,

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I'd be up for. But uh, I don't know, what do

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you think? I think she's really
strong, She's a She's a very strong

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character. And I'm leading with Helen
Hunt because I kind of feel like this

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is her film. Honestly, totally, totally. I think she does a

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great job. I buy her,
which for me is important. I buy

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her as an Oklahoma Right's midwestern.
I feel like she's Midwestern. I buy

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it. She doesn't have the overly
obnoxious, uh misplaced Alabama accent that we're

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going to talk about here in a
second. Yeah, but she's Midwestern.

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I totally buy it. I would
not recast her, but okay, but

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if but if I did, It's
tough to rain myself in on these things

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because like, if I had my
brothers, I'd have Steven Spielberg at the

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Helm and I'd have Tom Hanks and
Meg Ryan in the first two slots.

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Yeah, but I'm gonna be real
for a second. Okay, Okay,

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that you got so I'm using native
textan Sandra Bullock, and that's is that

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perfect? Well? I mean he'd
worked with her on Speed where she knocked

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our socks off, right, She's
the Rise in It girl, America's sweetheart.

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YEP. I buy her as Midwestern. Obviously she's from this area.

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Yeah, okay, so I absolutely
love that choice. With the condition that

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she does it doesn't work with her
and Bill Paxton. I don't see I

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don't see that as a match.
I don't see that working. However,

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I'm guessing that you're gonna have a
have a have a recast a Colvin cast

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for Bill Paxton when we get to
get to him. So let's let's get

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to Bill Paxton. He's playing Bill
Harding. You mentioned Tom Hanks. You

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said I'd have Tom Hanks uh slotted
for this. Tom Hanks, I'm sure

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you already know, originally was cast
in the film. He dropped. He

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drops out during pre production. They've
already liked the clothes that Bill Paxton is

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wearing. Tom Hanks's close like he
had done the wardrobe fittings and everything.

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Oh wow, that's great. But
yeah, but he he drops out during

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pre production and it's during during filming. Of Apollo thirteen is where he helps

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Paxton take over the role for him, Hanks said. Of the role,

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Hanks said his reason for dropping out
was quote, it needed an eccentric man

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with a Southern flare, and that's
not me. Okay, I you okay,

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sure. I mean Tom Hanks can
play anything he wants, and he

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can. I think he was just
like, I mean, maybe you know,

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he's he's coming off a poll of
thirteen. He's maybe he's talking to

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Steve and they're they're they're cooking up
saving Private Ryan. So well, I

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think you know, at one point
Spielberg was was slotted to direct. I

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think Mechus was slotted to direct,
both of whom you know he'd had a

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relationship with MHM. When when Yon
DuPont steps in, maybe Tom's like,

405
00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:08.119
yeah, maybe I step out.
Maybe this is this is this is an

406
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.559
amazing Bill Paxton role. Though like
I love Bill Paxton, we we love

407
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:16.680
Bill Paxson and everything right right,
and and like you said, like you

408
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:22.000
buy Helen Hunt as a Midwestern you
got to buy Bill Paxton absolutely. I

409
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.880
mean he's got he's got the southern
flair that Tom Hanks's is lacking. Allegedly.

410
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:30.599
Definitely. I mean I think he
was born in in the in the

411
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.839
Dallas area, so he's from this
area. He's already played in Oklahoma and

412
00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:39.440
in Near Dark, where he's ye
chewing up the scenery and chewing up other

413
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:46.440
things. Absolutely, Bill Paxon is
great. I would not recast him,

414
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:52.640
but but if I did, okay, And once again, I'm going for

415
00:32:52.799 --> 00:33:06.480
that that southern flair. Need somebody. Patrick Swayze whoa Swayze and Bullock in

416
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:14.359
Twister. We think I think it's
I think it's a It's another perfect choice,

417
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:19.039
I mean to Texans. And let's
talk about Patrick swayzey for a second.

418
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.319
We've seen him look great in the
rain in Dirty Dancing. We've seen

419
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:27.799
him look great in the rain in
Point Break. I'll watch him for ninety

420
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:34.039
minutes in the rain and hail and
cows and tornadoes. Yeah, I'll tell

421
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.039
you. I'll say this. The
last time you were here, when we

422
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:45.119
did Independence Day, your most controversial
recasting. Probably the listeners responded, They're

423
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.200
like, well, hold on,
I took it off on that one,

424
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:51.680
man. Yeah, you took a
beating on that one. But so far,

425
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:57.880
I think you're bat in a thousand
so let's move on. Let's move

426
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:02.119
on to the supporting players. And
to do this, Jason before, I

427
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:10.360
want to talk about your expert opinion
on the Oklahoma accents. And uh so

428
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:15.519
let's let's let's let's go ahead and
get to it. Jamie Gertz, who

429
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:19.920
we've always loved, you know,
eighty six, she's the Queen of eight

430
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:27.000
nineteen eighty six as far as I'm
concerned. Yes, she's playing Bill Paxton's

431
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:32.000
fiance, doctor Melissa Reeves, who's
fish out of water, a little little

432
00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:38.320
whiny, a little, a little
too much, little overbearing. Yeah,

433
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:45.119
we almost didn't get Jamie Gertz this. Uh it was. It was supposed

434
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.760
to be Mirror Sorvino. So let
that sink in for a second. I

435
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.880
got her, you go with that
her, Yeah, Mirror would not go

436
00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:58.679
with it because they told her she
had to dye her hair brown for whatever

437
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.360
reason. If she won of the
roles, she had to have brown hair.

438
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:07.599
And Serviana said, nope, I'm
passing. So interesting. Okay,

439
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:15.440
Well Jamie Gertz, this this accent, Okay, So I'm Jamie Gertz.

440
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:21.000
If you need beautiful socialite less than
zero, she's your girl. If you

441
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:29.280
need seductress, vampire, Runway Murder, runaway star from the Lost Boys,

442
00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:32.079
she's your girl, right if you
need New York, you know, like

443
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:36.800
Brooklyn, you know, just off
the streets, a little too pretty for

444
00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:40.880
her own good, big silver,
she's your girl. Yep, she's not

445
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:47.360
your Oklahoma doctor. No, let's
not forget crossroads like she she excels at

446
00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.199
the from the streets, a little
too pretty to be from the streets,

447
00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:58.159
but you know, can take care
of herself to a degree. All her

448
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.559
roles do that. Yeah, I
love your h I love your missmash of

449
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:05.360
all those movies. By the way, thank you, thank you very much.

450
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.360
The Jamie gertzty that was a popular
one on our nineteen eighty six series.

451
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.400
But she's doing something here that just
it doesn't work, man, like

452
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:22.840
the nineties, the nineties pantsuit and
the hair. The hair is ridiculous.

453
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.800
What's going on? Like she she's
sporting like a can I speak to the

454
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:34.639
manager? Haircut twenty twenty years before
we're ready for that. It's a it's

455
00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:37.159
a question of whether the hair is
worse than the accent. It's hard to

456
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:43.719
tell. I don't know where to
go on that one, but it's a

457
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.639
shame because she is. She's a
talented actress, she's she's great at most

458
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:53.639
things that she does, but not
in this one. Who do you got?

459
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:59.840
Because Mirror Serveno's out and we maybe
need to look at someone else other

460
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.760
Thanjimmie Gertz. Who you Okay?
All right, So I'm gonna change the

461
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.719
tone just a little bit. I'm
going away from the princess, you know,

462
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:12.199
scared of spiders, have no idea
what what happens when a thunderstorm,

463
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.039
you know, happens. Uh huh. So I'm I'm going more confident.

464
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:21.880
I'm going more toe to toe with
your lead character of Sandra Bullock, and

465
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.119
I'm going with somebody who's played in
OK Clumbing before. Okay, all right,

466
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:32.400
I am going with the beautiful and
talented Diane Lane and your hitch Street

467
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:36.679
continues. Man, do I do
we even need to mention it or talk

468
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:38.880
about why that's perfect? That?
That's another one? Man, You're you're

469
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:45.679
on fire today with the reach she
played Cherry Vallance and the Outsiders. You

470
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:50.199
need somebody who's who's a little too
pretty for their own good. She can't

471
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.280
be more than a generation or two
away from the trailer you know what I

472
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:59.440
mean exactly. That is it if
you're Patrick Swayze, now you you're you're

473
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:02.920
engaged to Diane Lane and but but
you got a history with Sondra Bullock.

474
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:09.440
That's a tough choice. That is
a very tough choice. Yeah, I'm

475
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:15.239
loving, I'm loving I'm loving the
uh, the the alternate universe uh copy

476
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:20.199
of Twister with with his cast sover
Man. It's it's fantastic. I can

477
00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:23.400
see Dayton Johnson typing furiously at this
moment. He's he's yeah, he might

478
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:30.719
not be happy. But another uh, another guy doing an accent, questionable

479
00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:35.719
accent, but but better than uh
than Jimmy Gertz. Uh Carrie Elwis,

480
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.159
who's playing we gotta have a we
gotta have someone to play a little bit

481
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:44.159
of a villain. And that's that's
that's him doing Jonas Miller, the smarmy

482
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:46.760
we went to we all went to
school together. But I'm I stole your

483
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:52.760
design and I'm got my high tech
team with with all our our Dodge Vans,

484
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.559
caravans. And right, how's his
accent? Terrible? It's terrible,

485
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:01.800
but it's better than Gertz. It's
better than Gerts. The problem with Kerry

486
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:05.719
elways is. He has such a
beautiful voice, and when he speaks with

487
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:10.639
his English accent, you know,
he sounds brilliant and you know, smart,

488
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:14.920
and you know he's the dread pirate
Roberts and that's who we love,

489
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.760
right. Yeah, when he tries
to slow it down a little bit and

490
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:22.360
come in, no, it didn't
work at it And his his American accent,

491
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.480
it's not bad. Like you know, if you think about his character

492
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:29.920
in the Saul franchise. You know, we just played doctor Gordon. He

493
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:35.880
sounds like a normal American guy.
But here I'm always doing But I knew

494
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:37.599
it wasn't right because, like I'm
watching this recently, I'm like, you

495
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.880
know, I talked to Jason all
the time, I talked to d They

496
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:45.440
don't they don't sound like this.
What's he doing? Who is he?

497
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:49.519
Who? Who's he supposed to be? Yeah? Yeah, all of these

498
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:53.400
people, Oklahomans have a little bit
of a draw. Yeah, but they

499
00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:58.480
don't have the Southern mail thing,
you know, I mean that el Wes

500
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:00.840
was doing. They went a little
overboard, I think with the accent.

501
00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:05.119
Yeah, this is my favorite pick, by the way, My my my

502
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.880
recasting of Carrie Okay, aside from
it, well before you before you recast

503
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:15.280
him, uh expertly. Uh as
far as his role, Like one thing,

504
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.840
I will say this to Michael Crichton, I don't think I cared enough

505
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:21.960
about him. So when he did
get you know, sucked up into the

506
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:27.119
twister and destroyed, yeah, see
you later, you know. Yeah,

507
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.599
I didn't really care enough about him, Like it would have been nice to

508
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.719
have a little more interaction between him
and Bill Paxton, just to see the

509
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.920
rivalry. I think. But uh, but who do you got for for

510
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:42.880
for Carrie? Okay, So like
you, I didn't really care that he

511
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.960
got killed. It really didn't bother
me. I mean, oh too bad,

512
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.159
you know whatever. Exactly. So
I'm ramping up the douchiness, I'm

513
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:57.800
ramping up the obnoxiousness, and I'm
going full bore with adversarial, you know,

514
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:02.480
bad blood between these two guys.
Okay, I'm also pill forering the

515
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:07.119
The Outsiders cast one more time,
one more time you got, And I'm

516
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:16.679
going with the little billy bastard Emilio
Estevez. Oh laugh, the the Turney

517
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:23.079
the Turny Nests. Has a Melio
ever played a villain or a guy we

518
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.960
don't like? Though? I'm trying
to think. So I've always I've always

519
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:31.360
enjoyed a million like he's always he's
always the fun guy, like you're you

520
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:36.360
want you want a Millio the turn? Huh, Yeah, it would be

521
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:37.440
fun to see It would be fun
to see him play a bad guy,

522
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:42.039
you know what. I'm I'm with
you still, I could I could get

523
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.920
I can get on board with that
one. Uh do you know since we

524
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.320
use the word turd, do you
know who was supposed to play this role

525
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:55.320
before carry Eus No, I don't. Christopher McDonald and uh he had to

526
00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:00.480
back out because he was contracted,
uh contractually obligated to h Happy Gilmore to

527
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:07.119
play shoot McGavin. So well,
I tell you he breakfast, there's your

528
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:14.000
turn. You know. Yeah,
that would have been good. You know

529
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:17.559
that's a great kind of Yeah,
he's got to be formidable. You gotta

530
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.079
kind of dislike him. He's got
to have a little bit of authority.

531
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:28.440
He's gotta Yeah, So, Emilio
is hard to dislike. He is,

532
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:31.840
but he could be obnoxious, I
believe. So I feel like a Milio

533
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.840
could be dislike. I could dislike
him in the way I disliked Don Johnson

534
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:44.039
in Tin Cup where he's still cool, he's still he's still the guy.

535
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:45.960
Yeah, but we we see it. We're okay, he's the bag,

536
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:49.719
he's the villain. We know we're
not supposed to like, Okay, I'm

537
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:52.760
with you on that. I got
three I got three three names here to

538
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:57.400
give you cameos and or before they
were famous. We always like to talk

539
00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:04.000
about the heart of the movie.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing Dusty Jason. This

540
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.800
is one year you know, he
had, he had done, he had

541
00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:09.119
done a couple of movies, but
this is this He's in Twister, one

542
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:13.840
year before Boogie Knights. Wow.
And I think that's where he kind of

543
00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:16.679
launches into the stratosphere because you know, he's got Boogie Knights, the Big

544
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:22.960
Lebowski almost famous, and then he
he's Phillip Seymour Hoffman, right right,

545
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:29.320
right, So I love I love
his character and this he's He's the guy

546
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:31.800
I want to hang out with.
If if you know, this is the

547
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.400
guy that you work with, this
is the guy used to see on the

548
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:37.679
weekends. You're gonna have a good
time with Dusty. He's just fun,

549
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:42.800
right. I feel like this is
the character that most people in the audience

550
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:46.119
kind of identify with. He's just
having a great time being involved in this.

551
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:50.280
We're chasing tornadoes. It's a roller
coast ride. We're having fun.

552
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:53.280
He's the one that I I hang
and you know, I see I die

553
00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:58.159
with. I think. I think
one of the flaws from a from a

554
00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:01.440
writing perspective, one of the flaws
is that we're supposed to be following along

555
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:08.960
with Jimmie Gertz because she's the outsider
who doesn't understand the beauty and the destructive

556
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:14.400
nature of these of these storms.
She doesn't understand the passion that they have,

557
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:17.559
and and that's us. We don't
We're not storm chaser. So we're

558
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:22.480
supposed to be along for the ride
with her. But to your point,

559
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.480
I don't want to be her,
you know, it's Dusty like I want

560
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.280
to be like you know, I
want to I want to be there for

561
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.440
Bill and helping him out. You
know, I'm happy that Bill's back,

562
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:37.400
like like Dusty is, and he's
just he's he's he's just he's just fun.

563
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.639
You know, he's lovable. Even
when they go visit a aunt Meg's

564
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.000
you know, I buy like with
the whole the whole thing where she's like

565
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.760
packing him extra take and he's like, thank you, sweetheart and gets another

566
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:52.079
cheek like I I feel like that's
just very authentic, Like I would have

567
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:55.719
believed that he has known that woman
for the past twenty years, ever since

568
00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:00.079
he's been chasing storms with with Hellen
Hunt. Honestly, Yeah, I'm with

569
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:02.519
you, come with you. That's
that really is one of the great sort

570
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:07.360
of slow down, let's have a
moment of character development. It's almost like

571
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.000
the locker room before the football game. You get to know the players,

572
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.119
but they're sitting around talking about the
gravy and and they're just kind of having

573
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:21.599
a great time. Yeah, at
at Meg's house in Wikita, Oklahoma.

574
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:27.159
Well, yeah, now, I
know, Dusty, I know you're you're

575
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.079
proud of this. He's wearing a
no you hat throughout the whole film,

576
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:34.559
Yes, he is. Do you
know why he's wearing that hat? Why?

577
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.519
So, initially they went to the
university and they wanted the OU logo

578
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:45.280
on Dorothy. University said no.
So they said, yeah, I don't

579
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:47.880
talk to your alma mater. Man, I don't know what's going on with

580
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:50.880
Wow. Okay, so you know
what they said, You know, they

581
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:52.599
said, that's fine, We're still
going to see the logo I'll just wear,

582
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:54.679
you know. So they had him
wear a ball cap throughout the whole

583
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:59.599
thing, which but again, you
know, whether it's you know, I

584
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:02.159
know that it as a goof on
the university, but it it makes the

585
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:06.079
film more believable. We know we're
in Oklahoma. We would assume that these

586
00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:09.400
guys are from the university, right, yeah, I mean they they talk

587
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:13.960
about that. You know, their
grant money's running out, so it has

588
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.119
to be ou right. I think
it does, no doubt about it.

589
00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:21.360
That's where the National Weather Service is, you know, the people the headquarters

590
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:24.320
where they study tornadoes is about six
miles from where I'm sitting right now,

591
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:30.199
So that's right there. So now
we're gonna you know, we're gonna get

592
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:34.079
a little more before they were famous. I can't even tell you his name,

593
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:36.880
the name of his character, but
he's part of Helen Hunt's crew.

594
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:44.159
This is a very young Jeremy Davies
that we're seeing a right among the cadri

595
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.320
This is two years before saving Private
Ryan, when he really launches, you

596
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:51.639
know, becomes becomes a big star. Doesn't do a whole lot in this

597
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:58.360
movie. But I mean the crew
here of Tornado science nerds. It's a

598
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:00.000
who's who of you know, we
got we got cam run from Ferris Bueler,

599
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:05.440
Alan Ruck he's there, the guy
from Fast Times, the originally High

600
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:07.840
and you know, police Academy.
I can't remember the apologies that I don't

601
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:10.920
remember. He's one of them,
you know everyone that one's showing up.

602
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.280
But Jeremy Davies is uh is there
in the background hanging out. So and

603
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.639
then lastly, I was not prepared
for that one. I just I'm like,

604
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:23.039
oh, that's the guy from Lost
and you know, yeah, yeah,

605
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:27.480
well and this last one is a
blink and you'll miss it. But

606
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.719
uh, looking on Jonas the side
that Jonas with his like his lab,

607
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:37.880
his mobile crew. Yes, Jake
Busey is in there. Oh really,

608
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:42.079
he's one of the lab techs.
Uh. Now this is this is kind

609
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.800
of the year where he starts to
blow up because this is the same year

610
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:50.039
that he's in The Frighteners playing the
playing the main killer, and it's one

611
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:55.000
year before Contact and Starship Troopers.
But yep, there you go go back

612
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:58.760
and watch watch Twyster. Every time
Jonas calls back to the lab and they're

613
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.880
they're in there running their analysis.
See there he is Gary Busey of Oklahoma.

614
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:06.159
You know. So there, Yeah, well you got to you gotta

615
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.719
have Abusy if you're gonna do something
with Oklahoma, you know, give me

616
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:13.840
Abusy in there, right. That's
it. That's it, Jason. Let's

617
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:16.159
take a let's take a quick break, and then when we come back,

618
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:25.840
it'll be time for keeping it real. Welcome back, Jason Colvin. Been

619
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.199
chasing tornadoes with me on this one. We've been talking about Twister from nineteen

620
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:36.119
ninety six, and it's time for
keeping it real. Three questions, Jason,

621
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:38.400
we you know love answering these.
Love love asking these because I love

622
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:43.599
hearing your answers. Let's start with
with the first one. One of our

623
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:50.199
favorite actors, Billy Zopka. He's
dominating Dojo's high school cafeterias and college swimming

624
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:54.320
pools and some of the best movies
in the eighties, and then he's notably

625
00:48:54.360 --> 00:49:00.599
absent from Hollywood for most of the
nineties. The question is what about zob

626
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:06.760
Jason replaced one actor from this film
with williams Zopka. This is easy for

627
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:13.840
me. I put williams Zobka in
the dusty role. Whoa, He's Wow,

628
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:16.719
I didn't see that coming. I
drop him right in there. The

629
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:21.159
easy choice would be to put him
as Jonas, because we all know that

630
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:25.119
williams Zob has played the bully his
entire career. Let's make him likable,

631
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:30.639
let's make him crazy, Let's make
him a goofball, slap the ou had

632
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:34.119
on him, and let him run
around and be the tour guide through the

633
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.079
roller coaster. All right, I'm
with you on that. You might I

634
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:43.400
think you might have won me over
because uh, I took the obvious road.

635
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:45.280
I you know, I got him
as Jonas, taking taking carry all

636
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.920
what's out of the you know,
because I'm gonna believe he's into a better

637
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.760
accent obviously. Yep. And in
nineteen eighty six, while he was on

638
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:58.480
the diving team and back to school, he probably majored in meteorology. So

639
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:01.239
well, there you go. I
had it. I had him as as

640
00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:05.960
my Jonas. But I like what
you're doing with Dusty there. You know,

641
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.199
maybe Dusty isn't the clown, the
goofy clown, so much as he's

642
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:14.159
just the fun loving guy that you
know. Maybe, uh, maybe Helen

643
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:19.360
Hunt was was okay chasing storms with
when Bill paston wasn't around, So I

644
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:22.800
like that. I don't know.
I think I think the easy choice is

645
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.119
Jonas and so I don't thought at
all for that. I think that's a

646
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:29.400
great choice as well. All Right, we know he could be that guy.

647
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:34.079
He can't be that guy this one. I don't know how much we

648
00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:37.960
can talk about this one. But
sequel, prequel, remake. You know,

649
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:39.960
if you control this ip, what
would be your pitch to the studio

650
00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:46.360
to revive it? Obviously, Twisters
is in theaters this weekend. It's it's

651
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:52.280
out today, So I mean,
we got our sequel. My question,

652
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:54.679
you know, unless unless you've got
a hit, you know, a hit

653
00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:57.840
thing here for a sequel, for
a prequel, or a remake. My

654
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:01.960
question to you is does this franchise
have potential to become a trilogy? Yes?

655
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:08.480
Okay? Now sub question do we
stay in Oklahoma or is it time

656
00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:13.400
to move somewhere else in the US
or in the world for the third one?

657
00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:15.599
Wait? Wait, what's your what's
your thoughts on that? I mean,

658
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:20.000
I think you stay here. I
think that Oklahoma is a character in

659
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:24.039
this movie. It is, you
know, I think maybe you change your

660
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:29.599
mission. I don't think you're trying
to put the gumball the gumballs out of

661
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:34.760
the machine into the twitter. But
I think there's a chance to I mean,

662
00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:40.760
listen, every first week of May, there is drama happening at home

663
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.199
here because what are we gonna do? Everybody bunker down, everybody ready for

664
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:49.599
this. Oh my gosh, the
sky is green. Everybody below ground.

665
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:53.559
There's plenty of drama to be had. Okay, all right, we'll look

666
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:57.760
for We'll look for the trilogy there. I'm assuming this one's gonna make a

667
00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:00.920
ton of money. I think and
Glen are anxious to go back. Yeah,

668
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:06.199
is Glenn Powell, like when you
have a legacy sequel from the from

669
00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:08.280
the eighties or nineties, Is Glenn
Palell just the guy that's gonna do it

670
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:15.079
for you because he's top Gun Maverick, He's Hangman and now he's now he's

671
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:20.000
the Tornado Twister or the Tornado Wrangler, you know. And this new one,

672
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:22.320
Yeah, I think he was following. Hey, he's awesome in this

673
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:25.000
one. I think he I think
he looks good. I'll tell you he

674
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:29.199
did. He did say something today
that really made me like him even more.

675
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.880
What's that? So if you know
even just a little bit about him.

676
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.079
He's a big Texas longhorn guy,
right, okay, And during the

677
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:43.000
U text the OU Texas football game
this year, he and McConaughey and all

678
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:45.840
those guys are you know, they're
holding the horns up and really didn't care

679
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.519
for him a whole lot on that
day, you know, I guess not

680
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.559
right. But he was asked at
the premiere, which was in Oklahoma City

681
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.320
last night, and they're like,
hey, you spent a lot of time

682
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:59.119
in the state. Have you warmed
up to, you know, being a

683
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:02.000
Sooner fan? Uh huh? And
he's like, listen, that's my favorite

684
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:05.800
day of the year. I look
forward to it more than Christmas and my

685
00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:09.280
own birthday. He goes, I
am not going to be a Sooner fan

686
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:12.800
because I'm a long arm fan,
and he goes and I think, I

687
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:16.320
use fans appreciate that, so ready
to get it on in October or whatever,

688
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:20.440
And that just made me feel a
lot better about him. Yeah,

689
00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:23.760
because you know, yeah, I
appreciate that he's just because of where he's

690
00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:28.119
at, he's not gonna play the
honest Oh yeah, I'm a super franzy,

691
00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:30.320
you know, because then you think, oh, come on, you're

692
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:35.000
you're not real, right, it's
not real. Yeah, I shifted inside.

693
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:39.519
No, but yes, I can
see him continuing the franchise. Okay,

694
00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:46.039
all right, interesting, one more
question for you DVD extras, Jason.

695
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:53.360
This was the first movie ever to
be released on DVD. Twister was

696
00:53:53.400 --> 00:53:59.760
the first what yep, nineteen ninety
six the DVD format, you know it

697
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:04.960
comes out. This was the first
one by the and in the end of

698
00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.599
the year they were they were manufacturing
it. Wow, I didn't not know

699
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:13.159
that. Yeah, so you know
the simplicity of the compact disc. We

700
00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:15.000
love it. You know, it's
high definition, it's wowing us. We're

701
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:20.599
tossing our VHS tapes away. But
you know, the centophiles like like like

702
00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:25.079
us, we want those those exclusive
special features. So the problem is in

703
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:30.559
ninety six we got the bare bones, no frills packages of a scene selection,

704
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:37.159
French Spanish subtitles. Maybe you got
a trailer. So let's uh,

705
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:40.719
let's add something to that DVD.
Jason. Here's your choices for your extra

706
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:46.920
on the DVD. Would you want
an end character audio commentary? So pick

707
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:51.440
one of the characters from Twister and
like that that actor or actress will play

708
00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:55.920
that role. And clearly the best
choice is Dusty Phillips, Philip Baker or

709
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:01.440
Phillips Seymore Hoffmann playing Dusty giving you
a audio commentary. You can have that,

710
00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:06.400
or you can have a making of
documentary, which, let's be honest,

711
00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:07.960
like some of your some of the
stuff you guys put out on YouTube,

712
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:12.159
like where you're you're on the scene, you know you're on location,

713
00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:15.280
some of the some of these movie
things that you guys have have captured.

714
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.280
Yeah, I mean, if we're
if we're gonna have a making of documentary

715
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:22.519
about Twister, I would hope that
it's Jason Colevin directing and producing story,

716
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.679
thank you, thank you. Or
lastly, you can have the Amber Lewis

717
00:55:25.719 --> 00:55:29.519
Actors round table, or we can
get two or three of these these actors

718
00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:31.159
just to sit around the out with
the round table, talk about the movie,

719
00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:35.840
talk about their experience. Which one
do you want? All right?

720
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.960
So I love this question, and
I love that you saved the best for

721
00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:44.840
last, because I'm I'm picking team
Amber almost every time. It's every time

722
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:47.039
with you. I know, I
know I love Amber. Uh the voice

723
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.760
of the reason, She's insightful.
Yes. So here's the thing, though,

724
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.639
I'm gonna put a little little twist
on on what Amber is talking about.

725
00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:59.960
Okay, so the actor roundtable is
what I what I really want,

726
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:05.840
Okay, But what I really want
to do is invite the big four,

727
00:56:06.039 --> 00:56:09.880
right, Ellen Hunt, Bill Paxton
while he was alive, Jamie Gertz and

728
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:15.480
carry Always, and let's go storm
Chase come down the first week in May.

729
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:22.039
Let's storm Chase for real, and
then let's talk roundtable about their experiences

730
00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:27.679
in the movie. And really storm
Chasing. That's the hell of a thing.

731
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:31.719
I definitely would have wanted that,
absolutely of it. Absolutely, man,

732
00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:37.119
absolutely, all right, let's talk
about the film's legacy a little bit

733
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:39.760
here. When you think about this
one aging over time, Jason, is

734
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:44.960
it a classic, a cult classic, or just a product of its time.

735
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:52.159
I'm gonna say it's a classic.
I agree, absolutely agree. Is

736
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:55.639
it a strong representation of nineties culture? I don't think the movie is,

737
00:56:55.679 --> 00:57:00.679
but I think the soundtrack is.
Yeah, I kind of I feel like

738
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:06.199
it's slightly strong, you know,
because the music is pure nineties. But

739
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:07.639
we also, you know, some
of the tech that we see in the

740
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:12.039
movie, Like we said, the
cell phones, the laptops, and then

741
00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:16.519
you gotta remember the the the quote
unquote extreme culture, you know, you

742
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:21.719
know, doing crazy dangerous things for
thrills or in this case science. You

743
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:23.480
know, it's on full display in
this movie. These you know, even

744
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:30.559
Jimmy Gertz is like, you know, pounting her fists on Dusty like you

745
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:34.639
guys are crazy, you know,
because he's loving the fact that the tornado

746
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:38.760
is just destroyed everything around them.
But I think it's I think there's a

747
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:44.239
case there for it to be a
good representation of nineties culture. But I

748
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:49.639
do want to talk about how this
film impacted pop culture. So oddly enough,

749
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:57.519
meteorological majors increased ten percent after this
movie came out. Your your school

750
00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.840
there, Jason, Oh you they
went from two hundred and if I remember

751
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:05.840
right, it was like two hundred
and forty majors to like they doubled it.

752
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:08.559
It was like four four four eighty
or something like that. After Twister.

753
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:12.360
Okay, you know, yep,
this one, I'm gonna this one's

754
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:15.960
a bitter pill. I'm gonna I'm
gonna bring it up though the film was

755
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:22.920
the basis for Universal Studios Attraction Twister, Ride it Out, And you and

756
00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:25.320
I have talked about Universal Studios.
We you know, we've talked about the

757
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:30.880
Jaws ride. We talked about uh
actually on on Beverly On what the heck

758
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:32.800
happened? And when we did Beverly
Hills Cop three, we talked about that

759
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:38.119
that alien that that that goofy Alien
h ride, that actual folly is you

760
00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:44.320
know, that was the Earthquake ride. That's right. So here's the deal.

761
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:47.960
The Twister ride. Twister Ride it
Out. It actually had a filmed

762
00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:52.840
introduction by Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt
like they were like as their characters,

763
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.960
you know. And this is Universal
Studios where you ride the movies. Huh.

764
00:58:57.639 --> 00:59:01.920
Sadly it closed in twenty fifteen's which
they gotta be kicking themselves because now

765
00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:07.880
you've got Twisters coming out right right, but especially should be kicking themselves because

766
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:13.880
do you know what replaced Twister Ride
it Out? Oh? What a new

767
00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:21.360
attraction called Race through New York with
Jimmy Fallon? What exactly? Come on

768
00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:25.760
exactly? You're gonna get rid of
Twister for for a Jimmy Fallon ride?

769
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.159
That's yeah? No, thanks.
Lastly, I I gotta tell you,

770
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:34.199
you know, if there's one thing
about this, this film's legacy. I

771
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:40.320
don't think anyone ever drives past a
dairy farm or through a heavy rainstorm without

772
00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:45.719
saying the phrase we've got cows.
It just it happened, you know.

773
00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:50.280
You're how many times have you heard
that in a car in one of those

774
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:53.760
two situations? Definitely? And yeah, and it's because of Twister. That's

775
00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:58.000
that's never gonna go away, you
know. And I don't know what what

776
00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:01.440
they're gonna throw at the the windshield
in this new one, but whatever it

777
01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:06.199
is, I'm sure we'll be paraphrasing
that for the next twenty thirty years.

778
01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:08.880
So I'm looking forward to it,
trying to see it this weekend. Man.

779
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:12.760
Yeah, listen, I tell you
what I think. I think,

780
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:15.480
Dave and I are gonna go see
this one. Try and get some you

781
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:17.039
know, we you know, if
you indeed get out there and see this,

782
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:21.239
we might want to get our heads
together on this one. Give us

783
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:24.400
maybe give the listeners, the Shirley
listeners and the film by listeners a little

784
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.000
Twisters review. Maybe I'd be fun, man, I'd love to do that.

785
01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:30.440
Let's see if we can't get that
done. Yeah, all right?

786
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:36.159
Cool? Well, Jason. As
always, man, I always love when

787
01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:39.039
you when you have time to talk
movies with us, I will say the

788
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:44.000
show You Can't Be Serious podcast is
the first thing I listened to every single

789
01:00:44.119 --> 01:00:49.320
Tuesday morning. So what do you
and d have spinning this way next week?

790
01:00:49.639 --> 01:00:52.000
What's coming up on on Shirley?
Okay, Jeff, So I'm excited

791
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:57.159
about this. We are diving deep. Continue our dive deep on nineteen eighty

792
01:00:57.239 --> 01:01:00.960
nine. We're doing we're asking the
question, what is the best sequel of

793
01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:07.039
nineteen eighty nine? Is it Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade or is it

794
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:12.400
Lethal Weapon Too? How am I
supposed to answer that that? I don't

795
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:17.760
know how you guys answered these questions
like, yeah, you're putting Indie up

796
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:23.039
against Rigs, Indian Riggs. Wow, that's that's gonna be a tough one.

797
01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:24.880
Man. I am excited to hear
what you guys are gonna have to

798
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:28.920
say about that one. But a
good luck to you. I don't you

799
01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:32.400
know. I can only imagine the
I can only imagine the the night's gonna

800
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:40.320
be like one he might he chose
poorly, or or or where you look

801
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:45.679
at that night, and just to
be you know, just say diplomatic immunity.

802
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:47.599
I don't know it. I don't
know you're gonna do. But I

803
01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:52.440
look forward to hearing it. Man. Thanks man and listeners. We want

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to thank all of you for listening
to today's nineteen ninety six episode. We're

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about halfway through this limited series now, and if we haven't covered your favorite

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from nineteen eighty six, there's still
time to hit us up on social media

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or email and you can, you
know, share your requests. It has

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happened, you know. I've had
a couple people be like, well,

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wait, what about this one?
Fuck? You know what, let's cover

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that one, you know, and
uh, we'll see what we can do.

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But you can do that. Get
ahold of us at www dot afilmbypodcast

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dot com or hit us up on
social media. You'll find us on Facebook,

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Instagram, and Twitter. We got
a bounce. But next time on

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nineteen eighty six, Jason's still gonna
be with us, and we're heading to

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San Francisco, talk about another big
blockbuster full of VX gas, nineties Nick

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Cage and a James Bond theory that
that'll make you spill your martini. It

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can only be the rock, right, Jason can't wait for that one.

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Man can't wait. We'll see you
then. Peace out. A