#136 - "Good Morning Vietnam" (1987) with Nicholas Pepin & Chad Sheppard

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From Touchstone Pictures In
1965, DJ Adrian Cronauer was

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sent to Vietnam.
He immediately broke.

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All the rules.
He's disobeyed orders, as I'm

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getting you my pretty.
He's read unofficial news.

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Big dogs lending on my face.
What's he going to be?

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Like when he's 10 times as
popular, but even though he made

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waves, he made a difference to
everyone around him.

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Robin Williams, Good morning
Vietnam.

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Too much rated R.
Starts.

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Friday at a theater near you.
Check newspapers for Showtime.

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By December of 1987, Robin
Williams had established himself

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as a prominent figure on
television with his role in Mork

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and Mindy and in films such as
Robert Altman's Popeye.

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However, this particular 80s
flick marked his first

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significant dramatic role,
showcasing that he could deliver

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more than just his high energy
comedic style.

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The movie is loosely based on
the real life story of Armed

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Forces Radio disc jockey Adrian
Cronauer, who often frustrated

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his superiors by playing rock
music and displaying a bold

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sense of humor on air.
Set in 1965, the film depicts

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the US Armed Forces subtle
escalation of the Vietnam

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conflict as tensions began to
rise.

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It became one of the top films
of 1987 and earned Williams his

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first Oscar nomination.
So jump in the military Jeep,

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crank up the arm versus radio
station, and don't forget to

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flip them to bird as Nicholas
Pepin, Chad Shepherd and I

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discuss Good Morning Vietnam
from 1987 on this episode of the

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80s Split Flashback Pocket,
Sean.

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Hughes and all his teen dreams,
monsages and themes in Ferris

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Hands City fans living life.
It's like it.

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Never ends and 18 bikes to the
sky but this club just getting

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by.
Radical dreams and daring

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quests.
Back then we were all very bad

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but every day is just your fine
booties.

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Never say die.
They're your minds and those

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things we lose our minds.
All right, welcome in 80s Flick

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Flashback fans.
I am Tim Williams, the creator

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and host of the 80s Flick
Flashback podcast.

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We've got a double dose of
awesome joining us on the 80s

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Slick Flashback episode this
time.

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First up, he's a man who knows a
good story when he hears 1, and

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he's definitely not broadcasting
from Saigon.

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Please give a warm welcome to
the fantastic Nicholas Pepin

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from Pop Culture Roulette.
How you doing Nicholas?

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It's all right.
Yeah, Wisconsin.

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Definitely not Saigon.
Big, big cultural difference

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there and rounding out our
dynamic duo.

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He's ready to tell it like it is
with no sensors needed.

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Get ready to salute the
insightful Chad Shepherd.

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How you doing, Chad?
Doing good.

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Glad to have you both.
So good morning, Vietnam.

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I will go ahead and say it.
This is one of my favorite Robin

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Williams movies.
It's it's not my top favorite,

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but it's definitely one of my
favorites.

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And I have a lot of nostalgia
for this one.

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So it's going to be fun to talk
about.

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Let's jump right in.
Nicholas, when did you see Good

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Morning Vietnam for the very
first time?

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I guarantee you that we rented
it.

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I would have been too young to
be going to see in the theaters,

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but my dad being a Vietnam vet
and being a giant Robin Williams

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fan, there's there's not a
chance that we didn't rent this

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movie when it came out.
So I, I guarantee you I saw it

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for the first time, you know,
probably in 88.

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Yeah, what about you, Chad?
The first time I saw, I've seen

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bits and pieces of this movie
for like probably since 87, but

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my my recollection of seeing the
entire movie in its entirety,

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well, it wasn't entirety.
It was on television.

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OK, it was either it's it's two
possibilities.

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Either it was we were on a
vacation in Florida and we had

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to stay in the hotel room, so we
just watched a movie instead, or

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it was when my dad was servicing
was was in service during the

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Desert Storm.
He got sent to Valdosta because

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of the guy the chaplain there
got sent to Desert Storm.

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You know, I saw it down there,
but I saw it in its entire in a

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in a hotel room.
It was on TV.

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They saw the edited version but.
Gotcha, gotcha.

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Yes, I remember seeing it.
One of my favorite Robin

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Williams movies too.
I've I've had the I've had the

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CD longer than I've had the
movie.

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Oh, the yeah, the the
soundtrack.

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I had the soundtrack, yes.
Yeah, I had the soundtrack on

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cassette and then I think I had
the CD later, but yeah, that was

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yeah.
It's funny because if you don't

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know, the soundtrack has a lot
of snippets of Robin Williams,

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like as Adrian Cronau are in
between certain songs.

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So there's a lot like when I
watch the movie again, like I

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know certain segments like by
heart, just because I listen to

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it so many times on the
soundtrack.

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I saw this.
I was trying to, I was thinking

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earlier today.
I was like, I have a vague, very

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vague memory.
I think of seeing it in the

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theater.
If I did, it was like I went and

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saw it with my dad because we
typically saw like, so I don't

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think we saw a lot of Vietnam
movies, but we we, we usually

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went to movies together and we
were both, I was a huge Robin

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Williams fan from work and
Mindy.

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I was a big fan of that show.
And I hadn't really seen, I'd

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seen Popeye, but I don't think
I'd seen many of his other 80s

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movies before then that I can
remember.

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I remember, I remember seeing it
and, but I remember when we

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first bought AVCR, which was
probably late 1988 at the, we

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were on base at Fort Meade and
we bought the VCR on base and

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they had the VHS movies you
could buy.

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And I was like, we bought AVCR,
we need to buy some movies and

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the 1st 2 movies we bought, and
I may have mentioned this

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before, was Lethal Weapon and
Good Morning Vietnam.

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So I watched those two movies
over and over and over and over

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and over again.
So I knew those movies backwards

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and forwards from being the
first two VHS movies that we

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owned.
Of course we would still rent

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stuff like every weekend, but
those are the first VHS tapes

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that I remember us purchasing
so.

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So I have once again, very fond
nostalgic memories of this

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movie.
So when did you last see it

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before you're watching it for
the podcast, Nicholas?

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You know, it's not a movie that
I, I, I watch all that often.

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So I, it's been a while.
I can't tell you exactly when,

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but it's yeah, I probably caught
it on TV, you know, or you know,

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but because it's I mean, it is a
it's one, I mean, obviously

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since he was nominated for an
Oscar, it's one of Rodney

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Williams best of best roles, but
it's not one that I want to

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revisit all that often.
It's it's a little bit, it's not

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quite, you know, missed out fire
or.

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Right, right.
Aladdin or even, you know, yeah.

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Yeah, it definitely gets heavy
towards the end, like it becomes

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a heavier movie on the back half
of it.

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I'm sure we'll get to it, but
what about you, Chad?

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When was the last time you
watched it?

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Gosh, it, it's been, it's been a
long time.

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It, it wasn't that, that, that
showing that I saw it in Florida

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or wherever I was because I've
seen it, I've seen it since

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then, but I, I can't even
remember.

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So, like, I'd forgotten I signed
up for this episode, actually.

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But yeah, I had a feeling when
yesterday, what movie are we

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doing?
So which movie is that?

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Yeah, sorry about that.
It's all right.

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No.
Hey, at least you had time to

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watch it.
Could have been the day of.

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Yeah, I, I looked for streaming.
Nope.

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I had to go to my my dad's house
to go get my DVD.

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And if you, if you could see me
on camera, which you can't

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because my camera's not working,
I would show you the the DVD

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cover that I have.
So.

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I actually got it on Blu-ray
like maybe just a couple of

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months ago because I knew we
were going to do the episode.

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I knew we were going to do it
this year.

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And I think at that time I was
looking at 4 on streaming and I

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couldn't find it anywhere.
So I was like, oh, I'm going to

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go ahead and get the DVD or the
Blu-ray.

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So I'll have it.
And so, and because he was one

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of like, I know I'm going to
watch it again.

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It's going to be one that I'm
going to watch, you know, more

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than once for the podcast.
But I think it was probably,

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man, it's probably been 10 years
ago now.

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My friend Ron, who has been on
the podcast before, he had never

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seen it.
And I've kind of picked this up

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from him like usually on like a
Memorial Day or July 4th, like a

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patriotic holiday, He'll like,
he'll want to watch a military

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or like a war movie that he's
not seen before.

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And so he was like, I've never
seen Good Morning Vietnam.

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Have you seen it?
I was like, yes, I've seen him

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many times.
And so we watched it on like, I

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think it was like a Memorial
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We were both home from work and
I came over and and we watched

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it.
That was his first time watching

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something.
That was the last time I watched

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it all the way through.
And even watching it then I was

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like, I remembered all the the
funny stuff.

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Because once again, listen to
the soundtrack over and over

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again.
That's what you mainly hear is

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the funny stuff.
So when it got to the back half

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where it got much more serious,
I was like, man, I kind of

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forgot how how much drama is in
the movie we're watching it

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against.
Because all the, the more

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important parts that they, they
show and of course they put it

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in the, the soundtrack too, are
his, you know, his radio checks.

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So you know, his openings and
his Closings and, and in between

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songs and stuff.
So yeah, you, you forget that,

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you know, there's a whole drama
between him and his the, the

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friend that he gets and, and his
sister that he likes and right.

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Right, We kind of talked about
the Vietnam movies and I thought

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about this earlier and I've just
pulled it up as like, of course,

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the 80s was like the height of
Vietnam movies.

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And so this of course was one of
them.

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And it kind of got kicked off
like really like middle.

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I don't want to say Rambo kicked
it off, but Ram, you know, first

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Blood and Rambo are probably one
of the, you know, first ones.

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You know, in the 80s, of course,
you're coming out of the 70s,

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you had like The Deer Hunter and
Apocalypse Now, but in in the

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80s, some of the biggest ones
that people know about or

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remember is Full Metal Jacket
from 87 Platoon in 86, Hamburger

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Hill at 87 that I remember
watching Born on the 4th of July

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in 89.
I always forget.

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That's an 80s movie.
I was looking it up in the 90's.

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The Killing Fields in 84,
Casualties of War in 89,

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Uncommon Valor in 83.
So those so that's just a

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handful.
There were so many of course,

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you know, missing in action,
which are a little, you know,

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more actiony than really about
the war itself.

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And so and there was a show on
the of the time called Tour of

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Duty that I was a big fan of
watching so.

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And the A-Team.
And the A-Team.

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Yeah, exactly.
I forget, You know, you kind of

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forget until you.
I wasn't like watching that.

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That's where they're kind of
like, that's how they got got

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together was in Vietnam.
So I remember watching this

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movie as a kid and of course,
being a huge Robin Williams fan,

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of course I was drawn to the
comedy.

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But watching it now as an adult
and knowing more of the history

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of Vietnam and knowing more
about, you know, the conflict

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and everything, more of the back
story, what was happening around

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at that time, it really puts in
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towards the end and what's but I
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But at the same time, you go
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Platoon and Full Metal Jacket,
and this is a very light Vietnam

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movie.
Like it's it's not as violent,

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of course, or as graphic as
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moments in this one too.
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on that side of it, it's rare or
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a, a, a comedy about war.
I mean, it's it's, I mean it, I

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feel like it's a little bit more
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But but you know, then like it

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was, you know it and I know 1
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somewhere, that it was one of
the things that people were a

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little reluctant to even do the
movie because they're like, why

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would we let Robin Williams do a
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Yeah, yeah.
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And even on the Blu-ray that I
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little, you know, like little
critic things like one of the

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best warm war comedy since MASH.
I'm like, it might be the only

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war comedy since MASH when this
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So.
So they did somewhat have, you

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know, they knew that it could be
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I've ever seen the movie MASH.

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I've seen the TV show, of
course, because it was on all

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the time as a kid.
But I don't think I've ever

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watched all of the movie version
of MASH.

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MASH all the way through so.
It's it's everybody.

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It's hard to watch the TV show.
Or maybe even more so.

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Right, right.
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They say comedy.
I remember laughing out loud.

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There's definitely funny parts,
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more dramatic than funny, where
I think they they learn more on

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the funny side on the TV show.
But hey, they made Hogan's

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Heroes was a comedy and it was
about prisoners in a Nazi camp,

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so you know.
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podcast in of itself.
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We will.
We're not going to go that,

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we're not going to dive into
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But yeah, so all right, well,
let's jump into story origin and

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pre production.
We kind of talked a little bit

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about some of the setbacks, but
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things here.
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it is based on a real life
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1979 actually pitched A sitcom
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American.
I mean, sorry.

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Yeah, American Forces, radio DJ.
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television programs of the era
was the Korean War period, Peace

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MASH.
The networks were not interested

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because they did not see war as
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Cronau revamped his sitcom into
a script for ATV Movie of the

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Week, which eventually got the
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Very little of Cronau's original
treatment remained after writer

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Mitch Markowitz was brought in.
And so I found an article where

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Mitch Markowitz talks about, you
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And so this is his, this is, you
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He said my path to getting to
write Good Morning Vietnam began

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with Norman Norman Lear.
He was like, he was actually ATV

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scriptwriter.
He said one summer around 8485,

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I was in Vermont and I'd heard
that Norman there was

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vacationing near a place that I
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I'd worked on a show he produced
and then met him a couple of

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times.
So I called him up and we got

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together.
He asked what I've been doing,

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and I told him I'd written a
couple of spec scripts.

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One of them eventually became a
movie called Crazy People.

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Norman liked the script, and he
said he had a deal with a

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producer who was Robin
Williams's manager, and he

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recommended that I meet with
him.

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When I did, he pitched me an
idea for a buddy comedy about

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Hollywood hair designers, which
I spent a couple of weeks on.

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But then when I came back to
pitch it to him, he could tell I

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wasn't very enthusiastic about
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I admitted that I didn't
understand it, and it seemed for

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a second like I was going to
give up my first job writing a

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movie.
But as I stood up to walk out of

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the office, he said, well, I've
got something else.

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He told me about this movie
about a guy named Adrian

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Cronauer who had a radio show in
Vietnam in the 60s before things

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heated up in the Vietnam War.
There wasn't a treatment or

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anything, it was just a one line
description.

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I was interested though, and I
was hired to write it soon

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afterwards.
He then says, I met the real

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Adrian Cronauer once, maybe
twice.

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Honestly, he wasn't interesting
to me.

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He was a nice man, but he was
very square, a nerdy type guy.

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I listened to some of his tapes
of his show too, but they

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weren't very humorous or
inspiring either.

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So I just went off and did my
own thing, Which makes sense

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because if you read any of that,
there's a lot, there's a lot of

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stories out there, like
interviews with Adrian Konauer

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and he'll talk about how much
the movie is not really his life

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at all or his experience in
Vietnam.

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But but yeah, I think I've seen
a couple interviews and he's not

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very charismatic at all, so.
Does it seem to you or it does

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to me that maybe Adrian, the
real Adrian Cronow, are they

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based him with Bruno Kirby's
character, the way the way that

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sounds?
He thought he was funny but kind

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of wasn't so.
I didn't see anything that said

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that, but that would that seems
likely.

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Like maybe that's why they wrote
that character for for Bruno.

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Right, right, or.
Or had that character in the in

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the in the movie.
So the real life, Cronauer said.

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I'm very happy with the movie.
Of course, it was never intended

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to be an accurate point by point
biography.

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It was intended to be a piece of
entertainment and Robin Williams

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was playing a character named
Adrian Cronauer, who shared a

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lot of my experiences, but
actually he was just playing

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Robin Williams, which I think is
fairly accurate.

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Williams stated that his
portrayal of Cronauer in the

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film was only about 5% character
and 95% of himself.

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Commenting on his betrayal in
the film, Cronauer added.

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Anybody who's been in the
military will tell you that if I

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did half of the things in that
movie, I'd still be in

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Leavenworth right now.
A lot of Hollywood imagination

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went into the movie.
I was a disc jockey in Vietnam

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and I did teach English in my
spare time.

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Cronauer said that the film
misrepresented him to make him

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seem anti war when he was, in
his own words, anti stupidity.

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In fact, Cronauer, who later
became a lawyer and died in

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2018, became an active
Republican, was a vice chairman

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of the 2004 Bush Cheney
reelection campaign.

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None of the people in the film
are actually based are based on

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actual people who Cronin are
met, although he described the

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mystereotypes of military
personnel who existed at the

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time.
For the scenes in which Crone

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Our teaches his class to swear a
new street slang, his pursuit of

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a Vietnamese woman and his Jeep
being blown up in the jungle,

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among others, are constructs for
the plot and never happened to

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Crone Our.
He did, however, witness the

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bombing of a restaurant that
he'd only recently left and

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clashed with Army censors when
prevented from reporting it, so

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that part was somewhat true.
I.

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Don't know if I saw Robin
Williams character as anti war.

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I don't either.
I yeah, Going back and watching

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it again, I was like, I didn't
really feel that way about it.

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Right.
I don't I don't really feel like

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he had an opinion of the War One
way or the other.

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He just wanted to report the
facts and they wouldn't let him.

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Like it wasn't like he was like,
you know, oh down, you know, it

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was just kind of, I could see
the anti stupidity thing.

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Yeah.
Exactly, Yeah.

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I never saw this one as an anti
war movie like you know Full

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Metal Jacket would have been or.
Right, Right.

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Yeah, I agree with that.
According to Cronauer, he and

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Robin Williams were forbidden by
Barry Levinson, the director, to

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meet each other because
Levinson, quote UN quote, was

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afraid that if Robin and I met,
that Robin would somehow start

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to do an unconscious imitation
to me, which would change his

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characterization.
They eventually met at the

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film's New York premiere.
Yeah, I feel I feel more of his

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stuff on especially on the air
where it was more more like his

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stand up.
Yeah.

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Oh yeah, stuff that you've seen
on a stand up and more than

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what?
A ADJ.

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You know, being one for myself.
Oh yeah.

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I would, yeah.
That's more about like a stand

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up routine than than anything.
And you had said that like, they

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had massively changed the script
from what Adrian Cronow had

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written to what the other guy
wrote.

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And then I don't know how much
of what he wrote actually made

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it into the film because Robin
Williams kind of just did his

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own thing, at least in the radio
bits like.

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Yeah, yeah, like the behind the
scenes on the Blu-ray, Barry

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Levinson says.
Like, you know, he let Robin do

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a lot of improv improvisation,
but there were certain beats

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that that that needed to be
done.

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So they have scenes of him like
doing like lines of jokes while

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he's on the air.
But you can see he's reading

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from notes, like certain things
he's got to mention because it's

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time of that time.
Like the bits about Lyndon B

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Johnson, the bits about the
Queen of England, the Pope, Pope

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on a rope.
Like those kind of things, like

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there are other variations of
those jokes that he goes

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through, but he's looking, you
can see him looking at a piece

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of paper like, OK, I got to talk
about this, talk about that.

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But he's still adding his own,
you know, comedic style and

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impressions to like you.
So it's like it feels like some

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of the jokes are kind of already
written, like just kind of small

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parts and he's just taking that
core of the joke and then

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elaborating on it.
So it's kind of interesting to

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watch because I was like, it
seems in the movie, it just

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seems like it's so spur of the
moment off the top of his head.

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But then watching that, it's
like, oh, there was there's a

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lot of other pieces that they
didn't use because they were

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pulling the best of what they of
of what he did.

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So which we talked about that in
Dead Poet Society.

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I don't know on that episode,
but.

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Yeah, I was on that one episode,
yeah.

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Kind of the same thing where,
you know, they they let him,

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they let him roll and you can
tell where even in this one you

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can see some of the cuts was
like, OK, he wasn't standing

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there at that point.
Or he you know, they almost have

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to make it a montage because you
have to chop so much stuff up

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you can't get it in one shot,
so.

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And I do wonder how much they
cut of him teaching English,

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because I've got you, those
scenes went on for way longer.

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Yeah, the the one guy.
Gosh, I don't, I don't know

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anybody's name.
Yeah, yeah, the guy, the guy,

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the guy was blah, blah, blah,
blah.

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He he seemed the most natural,
like he was just like, I don't

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think he would.
To me it didn't seem like he was

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actually acting.
The the older guy that wanted to

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play baseball.
I think so, yeah.

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He's the one.
He's the one who would, toward

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the end, he would ask him a
question and he was like, no,

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no, I don't want to do that.
Yeah, something.

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Yeah, he was.
He's like somebody comes up to

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you and they're they're trying
to pick a fight with you.

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What are you going to do?
I just take it like I'm not

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doing nothing and they're all
laughing or.

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Whatever.
Oh, yes, That, that.

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Yeah, that.
And then, like Robin laughing at

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all of them, like they were
actually having a good time.

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And.
Yeah, yeah, I did.

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I did really like those things
too.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.
Like some of those, like, how

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much of that was him really,
like, just teaching them things

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like what?
How much of that was actually

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scripted?
How much was he just totally

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riffing?
And they're just going, you

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know, following along.
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All right, well, let's jump into

479
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casting.
So of course, the great, the

480
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,240
late great Robin Williams.
He received his first leading

481
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,880
role, leading film role in
Popeye in 1980.

482
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,200
He was nominated for I'm Sorry.
He won the Academy Award for

483
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,760
Best Supporting Actor for
Goodwill Hunting in 97.

484
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,440
His other Oscar nominated foam
roles included this one, Dead

485
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,840
Poets Aside in 89 and The Fisher
King in 91.

486
00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:45,520
We've done this filmography
before.

487
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,640
I won't recap it, but you know
how great Robin Williams is.

488
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,240
As Nicholas mentioned earlier
touched on, pictures who are

489
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,600
part of the Disney empire
considered the casting and Robin

490
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,760
Williams a bit of a gamble
during production as he had yet

491
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,080
to become an A list actor and
appeared in a string of

492
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,800
commercial flops for other
studios.

493
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,760
Plus he had well publicized
problems with alcohol and drugs

494
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,320
in the past.
The film would also feature a

495
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,760
fair amount of profanity and
rude humor which worried the

496
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,000
board.
Plus it had a fair size budget.

497
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,080
It was thought that the film.
If the film failed badly at the

498
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,480
box office, then Touchstone
might either fold or go back to

499
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,560
making family friendly comedies
like Splash Fortune.

500
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,800
The film became a financial and
critical hit and propelled

501
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,760
Williams into a major name
actor.

502
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,600
That wasn't the part about they
were concerned about there being

503
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,040
a a war comedy, but.
It's it's funny to think of they

504
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,080
thought of Splash as a family
friendly comedy.

505
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:37,720
Go.
Back and listen to that episode.

506
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,400
Yeah, yeah.
And not as family friendly as I

507
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,200
remembered.
As a kid, that is true.

508
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,480
Absolutely, yeah.
Yeah, we've heard a few of those

509
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,040
lately.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

510
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,960
Yeah.
All right.

511
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,440
And then we've got Forest
Whitaker as private at Private

512
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,080
Edward Garlic.
After making his film debut in

513
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,920
Fast Times Original High, he
went on to earn a Platoon, I'm

514
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,880
sorry, earn a reputation for
intensive character study work.

515
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,160
Films such as Platoon in 86,
Bird in 88, The Crying Game in

516
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:11,240
92, Phenomenon in 96, The Great
Debaters in 2007, Panic Room in

517
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:16,320
2002, and Black Panther in 2018.
So once again, Forest Whitaker,

518
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,600
another great actor.
This is probably the first movie

519
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,280
that I this is probably the
first movie I was introduced to

520
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,000
him because I didn't see Fast
Times original high until much

521
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,800
later.
So so whenever I would see him

522
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,760
again after this movie, I'd be
like, oh, there's that guy from

523
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,320
Good Morning Vietnam.
I remember him from that movie.

524
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,400
So any thoughts on Forest?
I mean, we've covered him on at

525
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,280
least fast times.
Yeah, I think we covered him in

526
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,840
Blood Sport too, because he has
a big part.

527
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,000
Oh yeah.
It's true, OK.

528
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,360
You and I've talked about him a
couple times.

529
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:47,800
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, well, well covered

530
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,640
already.
One of my favorite characters,

531
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,040
Bruno Kirby as Lieutenant
Stephen Hawk.

532
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,280
He's best known for his roles in
City Slickers, When Harry Met

533
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,600
Sally, The Godfather, Part 2,
The Freshman Sleepers, and

534
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,640
Donnie Brasco.
Yeah, he was one of my favorite

535
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,040
characters for sure.
Lieutenant Steve.

536
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,400
Lieutenant Steve?
Yes, Frenchie like that.

537
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,400
That whole bit is.
Terrible.

538
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,000
I know in my heart I'm funny.
Yeah, yeah.

539
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,240
No, you're not.
No, I I love when he leans back.

540
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,120
It's like, I think some
apologies are in order and

541
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,440
they're like, they're all
looking like, dude, you're

542
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,920
that's so bad.
It's so, so bad.

543
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,600
Any thoughts?
I mean, I Bruno Kirby is

544
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,080
awesome.
I love city slickers.

545
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,200
I love when Harry met Sally,
like everything he's been in.

546
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,960
He's he's great.
So I'm definitely a fan of Bruno

547
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,600
Kirby for sure.
Yeah, I think this was my

548
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,040
favorite Bruno, Bruno Kirby
role, definitely.

549
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,520
Yeah, it's tough because he's
good.

550
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,960
I mean, he's great in City
Slickers, he's great in Hermit

551
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:49,240
Sally as far as comedy movies.
But yeah, this is this was this

552
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,840
the the character he plays is
just so funny.

553
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,640
It's like that total, that total
awkward humor, like like Steve

554
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,240
Carell in the office or
something like that.

555
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,760
It had that cringe factor.
That's that's more what I what I

556
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,080
got gathered from him, but very,
very cringy.

557
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,040
I was like, oh gosh, this guy,
he doesn't know.

558
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,120
I love this whole bit about why
don't you guys ever salute me.

559
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:15,360
Yeah, I am a Lieutenant, yeah.
All right.

560
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:19,240
And then we got Robert Wool as
Sergeant Marty Lee Drywitz.

561
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,280
Of course, we know him from
Batman.

562
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,560
Bull Durham, we've covered on
the podcast already, so you can

563
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,520
go back and listen to those
episodes, but he's great in this

564
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,240
too.
Another one of my favorite roles

565
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,320
for his like this one in Bull
Durham are probably my my two

566
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,480
favorite with him.
He's good in Batman too, but

567
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,480
these are more iconic.
I mean, these are more him

568
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,600
being, he stands out a little
bit more in in these these two,

569
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,200
I think.
But that laugh that you have?

570
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,400
Doing that, sucking in the air.
Yeah, drove me nuts.

571
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,360
And then JT Walsh, Sergeant
Major Phillip Dickerson.

572
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,560
His many films include Ten Men
in 87, a Few Good Men in 92, one

573
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:08,720
of the best ever, Hoffa 92,
Nixon 95, Sling Blade in 96,

574
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,760
Breakdown in 97, in
Pleasantville in 98.

575
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:18,920
But he is so good in this as the
the conniving Sergeant major

576
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,080
he's.
So mean.

577
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,760
Yeah.
Yeah, he did that so good.

578
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,520
And seemingly just for no reason
like.

579
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,600
Yeah, yeah.
They don't really give.

580
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,080
Yeah, They don't really give him
any kind of back story to kind

581
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,520
of know why he's the way he is.
But I love the line at the end

582
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,280
when he gets reassigned to Guam.
Guam.

583
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,440
There's nothing going on in
Guam.

584
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,040
He's like, I always let you do
stuff because I thought you

585
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,400
were.
I thought you were weird.

586
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,680
And I just realized you're just
mean in this radio, you know,

587
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,640
like, that's just like a great,
like, like I, you know, I've,

588
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,680
I've covered for you a lot, but
I realized you're just mean.

589
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,240
And that's it.
He was just a mean person.

590
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,880
So, yeah, I love it.
And what was it?

591
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,680
Forest Whitaker says, you know,
the rumors got shot in the butt,

592
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:01,920
but nobody's been able to
confirm it.

593
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,840
Like, why He's why the way he
is.

594
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,520
Yeah.
Yeah, when I saw him in a Sling

595
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,920
Blade, I immediately thought
that's the guy for that's the

596
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,560
that's the guy from Good Morning
Vietnam.

597
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,080
I was like, AI didn't like him
in that.

598
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,400
Well, I didn't like the
character like he did.

599
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,880
He did a great job playing the
character that I didn't like.

600
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,640
He did.
He did the same for Sling Blade

601
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,880
too.
So good actor.

602
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,640
Just he made me hate his
character and that's what he

603
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,320
was.
You know I lost his job.

604
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,480
He has one of those like just a
like he's more of a that guy.

605
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,800
I mean, he's I mean, because he
doesn't necessarily play the

606
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,040
same character in every movie,
but like he has the like he's

607
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,680
kind of typecast.
Like he definitely he has a role

608
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,240
and he tends to fit it.
And I bet you he's like the

609
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,680
complete opposite in real life
because that's just how it seems

610
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,200
to be.
But like, he's very good at

611
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,960
being that guy or that that kind
of.

612
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,320
Yeah, very stern, like very
straight laced kind of a

613
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,120
character.
Like that's just, you know,

614
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,080
because even in A Few Good Men,
he's not necessarily bad.

615
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,560
He's almost like the
whistleblower kind of, but he's

616
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,080
still very like stoic and stern.
Like he doesn't really show a

617
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,320
lot of emotions.
Maybe it's what I'm trying to

618
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,120
say.
Yeah.

619
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,920
Yeah, and then another.
That guy who's been a ton of

620
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,680
stuff, Noble Willingham as
General Taylor.

621
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,440
He's been in more than 30
feature films, including

622
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,920
Chinatown in 74, Grease
Lightning in 1977, Norma Ray in

623
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,920
79, The Howling in 81, La Bamba
in 87, City Slickers again in

624
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:46,680
91, The Last Boy Scout in 91,
Let's see Ace Ventura Pet

625
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,760
Detective in 94.
So yeah, but he's.

626
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,520
He's he was the owner, wasn't
he?

627
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,880
The owner of the Dolphins.
Yes, yeah, but just that Texas

628
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,360
drawl, like that southern drawl
is just is that's that's what's

629
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,920
iconic about it.
Every every role he plays.

630
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,160
Like I that just the way he the
way he talks is just iconic.

631
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,840
But I I love him in as the bad
guy in the last Boy Scout.

632
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,800
Like that's one of my favorite
roles of his, just being the the

633
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,320
big baddie.
And and and this is not a 80s

634
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,720
nor a flicks but he was in
Walker Texas Ranger.

635
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,880
That's right.
That's right.

636
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,720
That's what I remember him.
He fit that mold very well.

637
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:30,240
Texas.
He I'll never forget the line,

638
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,000
though.
It's the it's the episode where

639
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,160
Haley Joe Osment was on there.
Yeah.

640
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,840
And then it's very, very
popular, mean now it's where

641
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,000
he's like, hey, little guy,
how's it going?

642
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,960
Walker told me.
I have AIDS and he's like, well,

643
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,440
part of my friends would.
I'll be to him and he's got that

644
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,080
saying, yeah, that like you
said, that guy, Texas draw.

645
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,240
I just saw that that clip like a
couple of days ago was on.

646
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,120
Oh really?
Yeah.

647
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,440
It's like a rant.
It was like, I think Conan

648
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,440
O'Brien was like showing clips
from Texas Walker, Texas Ranger,

649
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:01,800
and that was when they showed.
So it's.

650
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:02,360
Oh yeah.
He's.

651
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,520
Conan used to have the.
I know this is a very off topic.

652
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,120
Conan used to have a, he had a,
a handle next to the desk and he

653
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,280
said it was the Walker, Texas
Ranger handle.

654
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,960
And then every time he would
pull it, they'd play like a clip

655
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,840
from the Ranger.
And that, that clip was like the

656
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,800
biggest one ever.
I got the most laughs.

657
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,280
And yeah, yeah, anyway, sorry.
No, that's that's fine.

658
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,720
So another that guy, Richard
Edson.

659
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,760
I would never know that's this
guy's name.

660
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,320
But that's Private Abbersold, I
guess the right hand man to

661
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,120
Lieutenant.
Where'd he go?

662
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,040
Lieutenant Hawk?
Yeah, Lieutenant Hawk, But

663
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,120
you've seen him in Ferris
Bueller's Day Off as the parking

664
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,920
garage attendant man at the
newspaper stand and desperately

665
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,320
seeking Susan.
He was Richie and Howard the

666
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,360
Duck, which I don't remember him
at all In that one.

667
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,480
He was an 8 man out.
He also appeared in Platoon

668
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,000
Tougher than Lever Leather, Let
It Ride.

669
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,240
He was also in Do the Right
Thing at 89, and he was in the

670
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,880
Super Mario Brothers movie in
1993 as Spike King Koopa's

671
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,280
cousin.
He's definitely one of the

672
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,000
another one of those, one of
those guys.

673
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,679
Yeah, like I said, Richard
Edson, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be

674
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,639
able to pull that name ever for
him.

675
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,480
So And then the last one I have
on the list, Richard Portnow as

676
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:27,480
Dan the man Levitan.
He's been in several films and

677
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,440
TV shows, including Barton Fink,
Kindergarten Cop, Man of the

678
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,400
House, Sister Act 7, The Spirit,
Law Abiding Citizen, Hannah

679
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:40,400
Montana, The Nanny, Underdogs,
Boston Legal is, yeah, none of

680
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,840
that guy, but I definitely
remember him as like, he too

681
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,280
plays like AI know he's like one
of the hench men and sister Act,

682
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,639
but yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah, looking for web app

683
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:54,760
that's I forgot that I didn't
realize it was him.

684
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,760
OK, Yeah, I.
Rewatched Sister Act back around

685
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,680
Christmas and I completely
forgot that Harvey Keitel is in

686
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,640
Sister Acts.
Like, this is like unexpected,

687
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,440
like, let me watch this fun
comedy.

688
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,400
And there's Harvey Keitel
playing the gangster.

689
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,320
And like, that was interesting
casting in 1991.

690
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:13,480
What?
What a surprise.

691
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,000
Harvey Geitel playing a
gangster?

692
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,800
Yeah.
Yeah, in a comedy, though, in a

693
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,120
comedy, a musical comedy at
that.

694
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,360
So he's got range.
So I didn't mention the actors

695
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,680
that played the brother and
sister that are kind of main

696
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,120
characters because they really
didn't do anything else outside

697
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,280
of this movie.
Like they had a few small roles,

698
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,480
but they were kind of, this was
their kind of 1 and done film.

699
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,960
But I thought the the brother
did really well.

700
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,680
Like I thought he was really
good in the movie.

701
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:46,800
Yeah.
I was kind.

702
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:50,160
I was kind of surprised to see
that he didn't do more because

703
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,920
he did such a good.
Job that last scene where you

704
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,600
know, he, you know, Adrian
confronts him in the village or

705
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,280
whatever, he's crying and
telling the story about what

706
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,280
happened to his family.
Like I was like, man, how did

707
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,720
this kid not do anything after
this movie?

708
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:07,960
He was so good.
So anybody else in the cast that

709
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,160
I've missed or what want to talk
about?

710
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,920
I like Jimmy, the owner of the
restaurant.

711
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,280
Oh yeah.
Jimmy.

712
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,440
Jimmy Wan.
Jimmy.

713
00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:17,400
Wan yeah.
Another one that didn't really

714
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,000
do much.
I I thought he I really thought

715
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,800
he was like a like a Vietnamese
actor, like he had just such a

716
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,840
presence of like being like
that, you know, I've been in

717
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,560
movies kind of thing.
But yeah, that is a funny

718
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,200
character, funny character.
His, like I was saying, Walter

719
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,800
Brennan.
Like I was saying before, a lot

720
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,800
of the the Vietnamese actors
like him and and the people in

721
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,240
the classroom are just very
natural.

722
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:44,680
So yeah, like for them not to do
anything else, maybe they did

723
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,560
and maybe they did in their own
country.

724
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,520
Or.
Yeah, or, or something like

725
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,240
that.
But yeah, but they were.

726
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,240
They're all really good, I
thought.

727
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,320
Yeah, because this was actually
filmed in Thailand.

728
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,960
They couldn't film in Vietnam, I
guess are too expensive, but

729
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,480
they filmed in Thailand.
So it might have been a lot of

730
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,640
like Thailand actors.
They're playing those roles.

731
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,240
Yeah, I didn't.
There wasn't much on them what I

732
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,360
could find online for.
Sure.

733
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,080
Well, according to Back to the
Future two, it was after 2015

734
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,440
you were able to go to Vietnam
and film or go on vacation.

735
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,000
Forgot.
About that, yeah, it's like I'm

736
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,760
probably right.
I just don't remember.

737
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,920
It's been a no.
There was just in back future

738
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,280
too.
There was a big sign that said

739
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,880
Vacation Vietnam.
Right, right, and.

740
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,280
That was a big Dick because
nobody went over there after the

741
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,360
war.
So sorry.

742
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,840
No, you're right, because I
mean, this is kind of somewhat

743
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,440
off topic because you mentioned
it in that in that interview

744
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,800
with the screenwriter, he talked
about how he wanted to go to

745
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,440
Vietnam to write the script, but
he wasn't able to because you

746
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,840
couldn't go there at that time.
Like it you weren't allowed.

747
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:49,120
And he wasn't able to go until
like 10 years or a couple years

748
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,080
after this movie came out.
And he said when he went, it was

749
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,560
kind of a let down.
He said because everybody

750
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,680
walked, there were no cars.
Like a there was still like a

751
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,320
lot of army tank, American
military army tanks just there

752
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,680
that were never removed.
So it was like he's like a

753
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,640
really, it was really kind of
depressing to see what Vietnam

754
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,320
became after the conflict was
over.

755
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,880
So all right, let's talk iconic
scenes.

756
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,320
So if someone says good morning,
Vietnam, what's the first thing

757
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,880
that pops in your head?
I think it's the same one

758
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,560
probably for all of us, but I'll
look.

759
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,920
I'll let Chad go first.
Well, you know, that's that's

760
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,720
got to be all the the the actual
radio scenes for just.

761
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,480
Him saying good, good morning,
Vietnam, right?

762
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,040
Yeah, it it, it seemed like it
got more and more.

763
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,040
He was like kind of like even
even the scene where where

764
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,480
Forest Whitaker was like, hey,
hey, guys, it's it's it's him.

765
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,280
It's Adrian Cronauer, Right.
And like, they're like, OK, do

766
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,520
the thing, do the thing.
And he's like, no, come on,

767
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,040
guys.
And like, he got kind of tired.

768
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,640
But that first one, the first
good morning and and the whole

769
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,720
like joke after joke after joke,
stand up that he was doing.

770
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,680
That's that's, that's the iconic
scene.

771
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,760
Are you Nicholas?
Yeah, I mean, I, I was, I was

772
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:09,120
struggling to find iconic scenes
because like, other than Good

773
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,160
Morning Vietnam and the way he
said it, like there wasn't like

774
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,960
a lot of, and there's a lot of
really good stuff in the movie,

775
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,600
but there wasn't really just
any.

776
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,560
Like, I think that's just what
people think of, you know, just

777
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,520
the way he he says, you know?
Good.

778
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,360
You know, he really breaks into
it, you know?

779
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,240
Yeah, yeah, I agree like I
thought So I said, I kind of

780
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:31,080
seem like we're all going to say
the same thing.

781
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,040
It's it's that it's his first
time saying, giving that my

782
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,800
first time on the radio that
first, you know, opening scene

783
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,520
of him saying good morning
Vietnam for the first time.

784
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,480
So.
So let's talk about favorite

785
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,400
scenes.
I really liked what we've kind

786
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,680
of already had.
We talked about a few already.

787
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:48,920
I.
Think we talked about most of

788
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:53,280
the him teaching English yes I
mean any any time or any of the

789
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,600
radio scenes where he was just
you know just riffing and going

790
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,120
into the you know and him being
smart enough to like I mean,

791
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,800
granted some of it was scripted,
but just the way his.

792
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,680
Because I've seen enough of his
stand up, some of the older

793
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,840
stuff and some of the newer
stuff, you know, the, you know,

794
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,920
the in between to know that like
some of those characters were

795
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,120
already in there, like, you
know, the hairdresser character.

796
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,200
You know.
Like the, you know, so like that

797
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,440
is just it was him kind of doing
a stand up but being able to

798
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:26,200
work in all the historical
accurate, you know, but I really

799
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,320
like that baseball scene at the
end right before he was getting

800
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,800
shipped out.
Like it was just him kind of

801
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,400
getting one last go with his
students.

802
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,160
Yeah, well, he made a promise
because like the very first

803
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,480
class, because we want to play
baseball.

804
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,960
I want to play baseball.
I'm going to try to work it out.

805
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,400
Like he kind of like brushed it
off at the beginning, but he was

806
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,240
like, you know, I I need to fit,
you know, like I said, he needs

807
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:52,880
to bring finality or some
closure to that class and for

808
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,600
them to actually play baseball.
And it it wasn't on the behind

809
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,000
the scenes, but actually saw a
TikTok video where they were

810
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,800
interviewing.
It might have been the script,

811
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:02,960
the scriptwriter, I don't
remember.

812
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,880
I don't think it was Barry
Levinson, but he was talking

813
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,560
about that scene, the baseball
scene.

814
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,400
And he said that a lot of the
class people were like, like,

815
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,240
they weren't all actors.
They were like just regular

816
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:16,400
people they had picked up to be
in the movie.

817
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,520
And so when it came to that
scene, they literally were out

818
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,400
of money, so they couldn't get
any baseball equipment.

819
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,520
And so somebody was like, what's
the closest thing we can get?

820
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,160
And they literally looked down
the street and saw like a stand

821
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,760
with all these like, you know,
round fruit is like, let's use

822
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,400
that.
And so that scene was kind of

823
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,800
like thrown together.
And even the scene where he

824
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,000
comes up the the old guys come
to like, you know, it's not a

825
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,800
big, real big, real baseball.
It's too big.

826
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,160
He's like, that wasn't scripted.
That was the guy.

827
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:48,200
Like, he just like he thinks
that he thought that like Robin

828
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,720
Williams was the real English
teacher.

829
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:53,920
Like he was like, like having
that conversation.

830
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,640
You can see like watching it
again, you can see Robin's like

831
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,400
doing the best I can.
We, we have no money.

832
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,040
You know, it's like he's, I
mean, he's almost like he almost

833
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,600
like he doesn't realize that the
camera's rolling.

834
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,520
He's like, we got to finish this
scene, man.

835
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,880
You know, I got to get on a
plane or whatever.

836
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,160
So it's just, it's such a that,
and I was going to say that's,

837
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,080
that is one of my favorite
scenes.

838
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,720
And like now, knowing the story
behind it makes it even better

839
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,120
because it it, it feels so
natural.

840
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,320
I like that.
Like the one of my favorites was

841
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,960
the well, just it's just a joke.
When he was picked up at the

842
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,360
airport, him as far as Whitaker
were driving and he he sees the

843
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,000
Asian woman and like, oh,
there's the there's the my

844
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,520
future wife, there's the love of
my life.

845
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:33,760
Right, right.
They saw another one.

846
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:38,040
Wow, how'd she go so fast?
It's just a different girl.

847
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,840
That was hilarious.
I did.

848
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,640
I did.
You mentioned it earlier too.

849
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:47,880
When when Lieutenant Hawk filled
in, that was as as awkward as it

850
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,440
was.
It was still it was still pretty

851
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,680
funny.
That was a good scene too.

852
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,080
I guess being the radio guy, all
my favorite scenes are the radio

853
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:55,360
stuff.
Yeah, I mean those, I mean,

854
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,160
those are those are for sure
highlights of the movie for

855
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,680
sure.
But yeah, I agree.

856
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,160
Like, but yeah, the the the
first classroom scene of him

857
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,000
teaching them and then of course
the one where he's teaching them

858
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,560
all the slang words and the one
guy is like always behind

859
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,440
everybody else and flip them the
bird.

860
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,560
So that that always makes me
laugh.

861
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,280
But yeah, the base, the baseball
scene at the end is probably my

862
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,280
all time favorite scene.
So you got some favorite lines

863
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,040
in dialogue, ones that we can
say on the.

864
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,160
OK, It's like there's my
favorite line in the movie.

865
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:26,320
I can't remember.
I can't.

866
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,000
Yeah.
There's a few that I'm like, I

867
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,840
can't say this.
All my my favorite line in the

868
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,680
movie is there at the end when
he goes.

869
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,920
You're the in most desperate
need of.

870
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,120
A yeah, yeah, the the white man
in the most desperate need of

871
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,960
service.
Yeah, yeah.

872
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,320
There we go.
Services rendered.

873
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,360
That that was just that was that
was that line the way they

874
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,160
delivered and then the tag when
when the.

875
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,200
Yeah, the when the general,
yeah, general says it in.

876
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:52,080
The general says it again, just
laughing to himself.

877
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,480
Yeah.
That good?

878
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:55,280
I got it.
Funny.

879
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,760
Now that's funny.
Yeah, yeah.

880
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,400
Gosh, one of my I don't even.
I probably can't say it because

881
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,160
it's just the and then the
culture we live in.

882
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,600
What is a predictive something?
It's somebody wearing

883
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,360
comfortable shoes.
Oh yeah.

884
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:15,680
So I I deleted some of the
choice words, but that I love

885
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:20,400
that joke until now, I guess
because I would, I would, I

886
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,440
would say that actually would,
would tell some of my my lesbian

887
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,000
friends that joke and they're
like, what what I was like.

888
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,440
It's from good morning Vietnam.
Isn't that funny?

889
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,560
Like, no, not really.
Probably not.

890
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,440
Yeah, not to me, Right.
I thought it was funny.

891
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,560
Yeah, yeah, different time.
Yeah, yeah.

892
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,640
There's always those cringey
moments in the 80s movies.

893
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,000
We have to.
Yeah.

894
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,160
Exactly so.
It's it's not necessarily like a

895
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,920
favorite line or a favorite, you
know, like scene, but like, I

896
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,960
think being an adult now, I
really appreciated that they

897
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,920
didn't force the relationship.
Yeah, yeah, right.

898
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,040
They, they let it like he was
trying to get with her and he

899
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,280
was courting her and going
through that process.

900
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,880
And then like they didn't like
force the scene where like, you

901
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,840
know, something had like they
just, they just kind of were

902
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,840
like, Oh well, we, we were never
actually meant to be together,

903
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,960
but you know, that's just part.
And like they basically just

904
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,520
like kind of shook hands.
Like they didn't like it.

905
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,160
Just I really appreciated that
they didn't force.

906
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,400
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, a a love story

907
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,200
where I didn't really need to be
past where, where it went.

908
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,840
You know, it just it made more
sense.

909
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,440
Yeah, I agree.
No.

910
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,040
I agree because it was like at
the beginning, like, oh gosh,

911
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,200
this is going to be another
trope of, you know, typical

912
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,800
movie.
And then even that conversation

913
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,360
where he was like, can we just
be friends?

914
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:50,720
Just like, no, I can't be
friends with you.

915
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,640
And it's like, but there's also
scenes where they're with the

916
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,680
family where like the family's
like trying to present her to

917
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,960
him, like we want you to marry
her and take her away and, you

918
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,920
know, give her a better life.
That what kind of where I took

919
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:03,880
it from.
But she was like, no, I'm not,

920
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,160
you know her.
But she was still standing

921
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,200
strong.
Like, no, I'm not going to do

922
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,400
that.
Whether that's because she knew

923
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,680
what her brother was doing or if
she felt the same way that her

924
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,160
brother did that, you know,
American killed, killed my

925
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,880
family.
So why would I want to marry 1

926
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,520
SO or be in a relationship with
the 1 SO?

927
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,240
So many movies just fall for,
you know, fall into the trap of

928
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:28,600
the forced love story, you know,
just having having a

929
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:33,000
relationship that just kind of
ran its course, like naturally

930
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,880
like and didn't really have a
lot of the elements that get

931
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,880
forced in there that a lot of
other action movies or war

932
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,040
movies do for no, for no reason.
Yeah, which I think makes the

933
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:49,120
baseball scene even better,
because in any other movie that

934
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,520
would have been like the scene
of him saying goodbye to her

935
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,280
after they'd fallen in love or
whatever and had this

936
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,760
relationship, they couldn't
continue.

937
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,240
And instead, like she wasn't
even at the game.

938
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:02,560
Because of her, he met the class
and the class became like this

939
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,080
extra family he had or these
friends that he made while he

940
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,680
was there that he could connect
to.

941
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,560
And so that was almost a better
relationship than just having a

942
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,640
a girlfriend relationship.
Yeah, she was barely in the end

943
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,920
of the movie.
Like he can't, he found her,

944
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,920
right?
You just ask her, hey, where's

945
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,080
your brother?
When they found out about him

946
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:22,880
being a part of the the bombing
and stuff.

947
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,200
So.
And well, some of some of the

948
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,280
lines already on my my favorite
joke that I I got.

949
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:33,280
Most of these are jokes, but was
and I understood this better as

950
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,960
I got older.
But when he's him and Sergeant

951
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:42,200
Major Dickerson or, you know, in
one of their moments and he

952
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,680
calls him Sir, he's like, Sir,
he's like, what does 3 up and

953
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,880
three down mean to you Airmen?
End of an inning.

954
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,000
And so it's like, and so in the
feeling of my dad retired as a

955
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,400
Sergeant major.
So when I would see his his

956
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,760
patch, I was like, you know,
three up and three down.

957
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,720
I get, you know, I get the
reference and then I'll have to

958
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:03,640
edit this one too.
But one of my favorites is when

959
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,560
Lieutenant Hawk and Dickerson
are talking to General Taylor

960
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:13,800
about reinstating Cronauer,
talked about him making fun of

961
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:18,000
former VP Richard Nixon and
Stephen Hawks is respectfully

962
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,040
Sir, the former VP is a good
man, a decent man, and he says

963
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,320
bull.
I know Nixon personally.

964
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,120
He loves a train load of crap
behind him that could fertilize

965
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,160
the Sinai.
Why wouldn't buy an apple from

966
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,800
that son of A and I consider him
a good close personal plan that

967
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:37,440
just one of the best lines.
It is just like that is so funny

968
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:43,920
when Lieutenant Hawk is like I
guess fussing at the the airmen

969
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:49,000
about and then some at the the
the PC the press conference and

970
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,440
Forest Whitaker's like you know,
he likes to say PC instead of

971
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,480
press conference.
And so while they're talking and

972
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,320
then Hawk goes.
And if they do?

973
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,720
And if they do?
And then after that scene when

974
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:04,880
they all leave, you hear all the
guys and then you do like they

975
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,320
imitating, which I thought was
hilarious.

976
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,160
That's one of my favorites too.
So that's what I got for my

977
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,280
favorite.
Favorite lines I got.

978
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,360
Of course I have another one,
but I'm saving that for the end.

979
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,160
So hope hopefully you got.
I was hoping you guys wouldn't

980
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,240
bring that one up.
So I hit a few of these.

981
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:21,000
The rest I'll put in the show
notes for the sake of time.

982
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,560
So twice in the film, Adrian has
seen pulling out The Beatles

983
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,080
help album from the station's
collection, but no Beatles songs

984
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:29,280
are ever heard in the
soundtrack.

985
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,480
No Beatles songs are played
because at that time, the

986
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,920
copyrights of their songs had
not been released for use in

987
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,840
movies or any other media
outlets.

988
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,120
I didn't notice that.
That's the help album.

989
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,840
Yeah, Michael Jackson had.
Michael Jackson hadn't bought

990
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,760
those.
Yeah, right, right.

991
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,000
He sold them to Nike first.
Anyway, it was going to be more

992
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,720
money.
Well, Paul told me to do it, so

993
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,480
I didn't.
Let's not, let's not speak I'll

994
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,400
of the late, great Michael
Jackson.

995
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,040
Anyway.
According to director Barry

996
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,080
Levinson, the scene where
Cronauer entertained the

997
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,760
truckload of GIS during a
traffic jam was written during

998
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,640
principal photography.
He realized there needed to be a

999
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,680
scene where Cronauer connected
with the troops face to face.

1000
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,640
Many of the extras portraying
American soldiers in the scene

1001
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,120
were not Americans who spoke no
English, but Robin Williams's

1002
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,400
enthusiastic physical comedy
still made them laugh.

1003
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,320
That's hilarious.
Yeah, they didn't get the joke,

1004
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,800
but he was just so enthusiastic
about it and laughed anyway.

1005
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:22,760
Right?
That's all.

1006
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,520
That's just talent.
I meant to go back and like see

1007
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,160
if this is a true fact.
So this will be my rumor fact of

1008
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,120
the of the show.
After Adrian Kronora left Armed

1009
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,040
Forces Radio, several disc
jockeys would take over a show

1010
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,760
on Armed Forces Radio, opening
the show with the famous line

1011
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,880
Good Morning Vietnam.
One of those disc jockeys would

1012
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:46,240
be none other than 22 year old
Pat Sajak who did the show from

1013
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:50,400
1968 to 1969.
Somebody Fact Check and let me

1014
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,800
know if that's true or not.
Send us an e-mail.

1015
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:58,360
I had read that as well, but I I
also didn't independently Fact

1016
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,120
Check it.
Yeah, it's like it seems like it

1017
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,000
seems like a cool story if it's
true.

1018
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,160
But I didn't, I didn't, I didn't
Fact Check it.

1019
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,680
So the 80s Flick Flashback
podcast will return after these

1020
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,840
messages.
What's up, dudes?

1021
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,520
I'm Jerry D of Totally Rad
Christmas, the podcast that

1022
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,280
talks all things Christmas in
the 80s.

1023
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,960
Toys, movies, specials, music,
books, fashion and fads.

1024
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,440
If it was gnarly during
Christmas in the 80s, he's got

1025
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,800
it covered.
Wait, is there a lot of things

1026
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,040
to talk about for the 80s and
Christmas?

1027
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,680
Well, you got the movie giants
like Christmas Vacation,

1028
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,440
Scrooged and A Christmas Story.
There are TV specials like

1029
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,120
Muppet Family Christmas,
Claymation Christmas Celebration

1030
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,480
and a Garfield Christmas
Special.

1031
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:40,160
Plus classic shown every year.
You also jam out to last

1032
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,000
Christmas.
Do they know it's Christmas and

1033
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,360
Christmas in Hollis?
But most of all, it was a time

1034
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,600
for the most bodacious, best
selling Christmas toys ever like

1035
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,520
he man GI Joe Transformers.
And Cabbage Patch Kids.

1036
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,240
Yes, them too.
We cover them all plus much

1037
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:56,800
more, including standard
segments like Hap Hap, Happiest

1038
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,920
Memory, Gagging with the Spoon,
The Other Half of the Battle and

1039
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:02,680
Chant with the Littles.
So TuneIn to Totally Rad

1040
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,400
Christmas everywhere you get
your podcasts, turn the clock

1041
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,800
back and dive into those warm
and fuzzy memories.

1042
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:16,240
Later, dudes.
Let's jump in the box office

1043
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:18,280
start Wrap this one up.
Good Morning Vietnam had a

1044
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,680
limited release at just 4
theaters for Christmas of 1987,

1045
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,560
but opened nationwide on January
22nd, 1988.

1046
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,360
It landed at #1 at the box
office and remained in the top

1047
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:36,840
spot for nine straight weeks.
Wow, 9 weeks in a row.

1048
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,280
It was #1 It was one of the most
successful films in 1987.

1049
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,000
Become the becoming the fourth
highest grossing film of the

1050
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,800
year.
And it didn't get a wide release

1051
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,360
until 88.
Right.

1052
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,200
Yeah.
But it won 87.

1053
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,440
That's that's.
Yeah, I thought, I thought that

1054
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,760
I was like, I guess, I guess if
it were even if it releases an

1055
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:59,520
87, they consider the full box
office run rings it for 87.

1056
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,000
Because I know I think about we
saw that before like movies that

1057
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,800
come out in in December, like
how can you still be listed in

1058
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,320
the 87 even though most of your
money was made in 88?

1059
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,760
But I guess it's based on the
release date, not when it was

1060
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:16,480
taken out of the theaters.
That seems spurious at best.

1061
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:18,880
Yeah.
But yeah, it was like it was

1062
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,560
yeah, for like 4 weeks.
It was at 4 theaters and then

1063
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,760
the week before the full wide
release, it was like in 700

1064
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,240
theaters and it's still made it
to #1 when that week and then

1065
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:31,160
the following week it was like
over 1000 theaters.

1066
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,560
So I used the 22nd was when it
actually went to like 1000

1067
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:39,520
theaters, so almost a full month
before it went wide.

1068
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:44,640
Thinking probably back then it
had to be released before 88 to

1069
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:49,040
be eligible for the Oscars for
that award season because it was

1070
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,360
in the 88 Oscars.
So all right, well, let's talk

1071
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,520
about.
Let's jump to the rewatch

1072
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,800
ability nostalgia meter.
It's our new segment.

1073
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,400
We take a look at how well the
80s flick holds up today.

1074
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,960
It's our way of measuring how
enjoyable a movie is for repeat

1075
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,320
viewings along with the waves
and nostalgia it brings.

1076
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,320
Here's how it works.
It's a one to 10 scale.

1077
00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:08,560
Any number between 1:00 and
10:00 will do.

1078
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,200
But there are a few parameters
to help you decide because I

1079
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,120
think this is the first time
Chad's been on an episode with

1080
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:14,560
the rewatch Ability nostalgia
meter.

1081
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,880
Number one, you can say is I saw
it once and that was enough.

1082
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,400
Right in the middle of #5 is a
good rewatch every couple of

1083
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,480
years.
And at the very top of the

1084
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:28,000
meter, the highly coveted 10 is
a highly rewatchable and full of

1085
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,160
nostalgia film.
So I'll.

1086
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,800
So since it's Chad's first time,
I'll let Nicholas go first so we

1087
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,080
can kind of think about it.
But Nicholas, where does Good

1088
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:41,040
Morning Vietnam land for you on
the rewatch Ability nostalgia

1089
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,400
meter?
I have to put some caveats here.

1090
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,840
I figured you would go for it.
Because I'm going to give it a.

1091
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:52,480
5.
But that's go ahead, but that's.

1092
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,480
Not.
Not I'm not saying it's not a

1093
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,880
great movie.
It's not one of Robin Williams

1094
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,080
best.
It's just not a movie that I'm

1095
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,960
going to sit down and rewatch
all that often.

1096
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,840
It's not, it's not a fun like a,
you know, like it's not a fun

1097
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:10,000
rewatch.
Like it's, it's not like the the

1098
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,760
movie as a whole is not a fun.
Yeah.

1099
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,360
Not a not a fun movie as a.
Whole as a rewatch, I mean, it

1100
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,560
is better than a lot of other
movies that I've definitely

1101
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:22,360
given higher scores to.
I'll use more than one of the

1102
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,960
more recent episodes that I did
with you.

1103
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,960
UHFI gave.
I gave that one.

1104
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,280
AI think I gave that.
One A10 you did?

1105
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,480
Wow, but.
That's because I can sit down

1106
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,720
or.
Rewatch UHF like without having

1107
00:55:36,720 --> 00:55:39,840
to pay attention to it or
without you know, you know, I'm

1108
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,960
you know, you guys apparently
also have military fathers.

1109
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,680
You know, my my dad's getting
closer to 80 and so he him and I

1110
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,160
have spent some time talking
about his time in Vietnam.

1111
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:56,240
We recently did the Honor Flight
thing that so you know my dad.

1112
00:55:56,240 --> 00:55:59,440
And I last summer.
Went and and toured the Vietnam

1113
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:04,280
War memorial there in DC and and
spent so like yeah, he he

1114
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,800
finally opened up and told me a
lot of stuff so that it had

1115
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:11,760
there's a different tint to this
movie now than there would have

1116
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,760
been.
So this is not a movie that like

1117
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,880
it's a very good movie.
It's very you know I understand

1118
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:18,440
why Robin Williams got
nominated.

1119
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:23,120
I think I also understand why he
didn't win that one, but at the

1120
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:23,960
same.
Time like.

1121
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,200
I don't know if I could.
Just like, it's not like on a

1122
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,080
Saturday afternoon, I'm going to
be like, you know, what movie I

1123
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,080
really want to watch.
Yeah.

1124
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,040
So that's.
So like I said, like it we're

1125
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,280
good the two different scales
that we, you know, I've talked

1126
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,520
about on past episodes, like
there's the great movie scale

1127
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,480
and then there's like the
rewatchable scale.

1128
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,280
And you're asking me
rewatchable.

1129
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,120
So I'm giving it A5.
If this was on like the great

1130
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,840
movie scale, I'd probably be
giving it like an 88.5.

1131
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:53,600
And that's what the skill.
That's what that's why.

1132
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,720
The meter was created by me
because it's nostalgia and

1133
00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:01,520
rewatch ability like how does it
rank and that not where does it

1134
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:05,160
land with the critics as being a
quote UN quote, perfect movie or

1135
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:06,360
great movie.
So, right.

1136
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,520
All right, Chad, you're up.
Where does it land for you?

1137
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,400
I think I'm going to have to say
this to.

1138
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:18,520
Me, I'm I'm right there with
with with a necklace was saying

1139
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:23,280
on all that, but being being in
in the radio business and and

1140
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:27,680
kind of just like, Hey, I I want
to go to work every day and be

1141
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:32,560
Robin Williams.
I'm not right, I mean, but you

1142
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,880
know, if I went, as long as
you're not Lieutenant Hawk, I

1143
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,920
think you're OK.
I I hope I'm.

1144
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:41,200
Not I really.
Hope I'm not.

1145
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,280
I don't claim I'm funny.
Let me on.

1146
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,320
I'm funny, right, No, but but
being that you know, you know,

1147
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,040
and the great music that I liked
in it, like a lot of the stuff

1148
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,960
that I grew up with, the oldies
that were in it that I grew up

1149
00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:00,200
with, I'm going to have to say
A7 OK, from for mine.

1150
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:02,800
And.
Yeah, yeah, my dad was in in

1151
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,440
Vietnam as well.
He talks about some some things.

1152
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,000
Not, not a lot of stuff.
I don't I'm not sure exactly.

1153
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,960
I don't think anything crazy
happened to him, but he has told

1154
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,760
me some interesting stories.
But but yeah, but watching it

1155
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:21,800
for the radio aspect and if you
and if you're just Robin

1156
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,480
Williams being Robin Williams
and and like I said, doing a

1157
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,960
stand up and pretty much, you
know, I have to say seven.

1158
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,440
Yeah, yeah.
I'm, I'm, I'm.

1159
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,600
Kind of I'm definitely closer to
Chad than Nicholas on this one.

1160
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,520
But I think even though it's not
highly rewatchable, like it's

1161
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,640
not one I'm going to want to
watch every year.

1162
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,040
I'll probably watch it every
couple of years.

1163
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,800
But the nostalgia factor is very
high for me because mainly

1164
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,000
because of the soundtrack,
because I listened to that so

1165
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,520
much and heard those, the DJ
bits that were on there, That's

1166
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,120
what I remember.
And that's like watching it

1167
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,880
again, like being able to quote
those things with him and

1168
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:02,040
knowing what he's going to say.
It ranks pretty high, but it

1169
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,360
can't over it can't overlap the
rewatch ability because it's a

1170
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,000
rewatch ability in the in the
nostalgia meter.

1171
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,720
So I'm going to give it about a
I'm going to give it like a 7.5.

1172
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,280
I was almost going to give it an
8, but I think because it's not

1173
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,400
one that I'm going to watch like
as frequently like, and this is

1174
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,120
good.
I think it's I'm with you,

1175
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:20,480
Nicholas.
This is a good one to put on

1176
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,360
like every five or six years,
like every couple years.

1177
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,800
It's good to rewatch because you
haven't seen in a while, but

1178
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,760
it's not one like I said it
because it gets heavy on that

1179
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:31,960
back end.
It's not something I'm going to

1180
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:37,000
want to watch on a regular
basis, but it does bring up it

1181
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,880
does bring up a lot of nostalgia
for me.

1182
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,320
That's enjoyable.
So so 77.5 for me.

1183
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,320
Well, listeners, where does it
rate for you?

1184
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,360
Please let us know.
Send us a message on Facebook,

1185
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:53,240
Instagram, not Twitter, on
YouTube.

1186
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:57,160
Or you can send us an e-mail at
info@eightiesflickflashback.com.

1187
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,840
Want to hear what you think
about it and where it lands for

1188
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:02,640
you?
So, all right, gentlemen.

1189
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,560
I think we've covered.
It anything else you want to add

1190
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:08,040
about Good Morning in Vietnam
before we wrap it all the way

1191
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,560
up?
Think I've covered.

1192
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,440
Everything I want to cover.
Like so.

1193
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:13,760
All right.
Good deal.

1194
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:15,840
Well, thank you both.
For joining Nicholas, what you

1195
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,520
got coming up on the Pop Culture
Roulette podcast for the end of

1196
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:24,000
May going into Memorial Day
weekend, We don't tend.

1197
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,680
To plan as far out as you do, we
just.

1198
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:31,440
Kind of take things as it goes.
So, you know, I think because of

1199
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,440
the Mother's Day episode, we
just did that.

1200
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,720
We did.
I'm probably going to be forced

1201
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,640
to do a Father's Day episode.
OK, So that's going to be coming

1202
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:40,240
up in June.
That's.

1203
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:41,960
That's going to be coming up in
June.

1204
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:43,640
OK, something to look forward
to.

1205
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,560
I like it.
And Chad, how are things in the

1206
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,440
radio world?
Very good.

1207
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:50,360
Very good.
I don't.

1208
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,520
I'm not sure if I've been.
On since I don't know when the

1209
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,840
last time I was actually on your
one of your shows.

1210
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,040
It's been a minute.
I know you were doing

1211
01:00:58,040 --> 01:00:59,840
afternoons.
Yeah, yeah.

1212
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,880
I just started started.
Doing afternoons about almost a

1213
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,560
year ago then of this month all
done Been been there doing it a

1214
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,080
year.
Full full afternoon.

1215
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,560
So very cool, having a good
time.

1216
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,480
And still enjoying.
It yeah, so so if you're in the.

1217
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,800
Georgia South of Atlanta area
near Jackson.

1218
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,520
That's where Chad is on the
radio station, so you can plug

1219
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,960
the station if you want to.
It's WJ.

1220
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,760
GA 92.1 FM Yep, and it's in the
afternoon.

1221
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:31,880
Yeah.
And so it's, it's all different

1222
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,160
types of music.
Like it's not a specific type of

1223
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,760
radio station.
Yeah, we it's our our slogan is

1224
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:38,880
we play.
Whatever we like.

1225
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,800
Yeah, sometimes it is.
Sometimes it's not.

1226
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:45,880
We also have.
You know.

1227
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:50,040
We have gospel programs that I
used to do just on Saturdays,

1228
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:51,480
and we also have church
programming.

1229
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,960
But during the week, yeah, it's.
We do.

1230
01:01:54,960 --> 01:02:00,720
It ranges from country to oldies
to classic rock to, you know,

1231
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,960
all kinds of different,
different styles, genres of

1232
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:04,560
music.
Yeah.

1233
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,480
Something for everybody.
Exactly, Exactly.

1234
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,520
All right, gentlemen, thanks so
much for being a part of the.

1235
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,320
Podcast, thank you everybody for
listening.

1236
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,720
Thanks for tuning in.
I'm Tim Williams for the 80s

1237
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,120
flick flashback podcast.
Excuse me Sir, seeing how the VP

1238
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,520
is such AVIP, shouldn't we keep
the PC on the QT?

1239
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,800
Because if it leads to the VC,
we could all invent Mia and then

1240
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,520
we'd be put on QP, yes.
I got it in one breath.

1241
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:27,840
Yeah, that's awesome.
Dude talking.

1242
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:35,880
The 80s we will run.
Where every day is just pure

1243
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,200
fun.
Cooties never say thy they're

1244
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,880
your minds.
In those films, we lose our

1245
01:02:42,880 --> 01:03:00,880
minds.
John Hughes and all.

1246
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:05,560
His teen dreams, monsages and
simple themes.

1247
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,960
In fairest hands, the city
bends.

1248
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,520
Living your life like it never
ends.

1249
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:19,680
You still here?
It's over.

1250
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:26,120
Go home.
Go.