“Highway to Hell” – A Campy Ride Through Cinematic Chaos

Fun, Fun facts – in fact… they are Super Fun Facts!

• Budget: $9 million.
• Worldwide gross: just $26,055.
• Filmed in 1989, released in 1991, and largely forgotten until streaming platforms like Tubi resurrected it.
• Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 53% — perfectly reflecting the podcast crew’s split opinions.

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Crew Chief Eric: Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, you guys throw another curve ball at us. So here’s the thing

Steve & Izzy: about this one. We’ve already done this on our podcast. Apparently Izzy just insisted you guys had to watch this movie.

I did. Yeah, she did. She was

Crew Chief Eric: very, very explicit about that.

Steve & Izzy: I really wanted, there are opinions on this one.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s the equivalent of

Crew Chief Brad: waterboarding water boy or water boarding. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Water boying, water boarding.

Steve & Izzy: She tortured us. Water boarding might have been more enjoyable. Water boying. Is that when you just talk in a dumb accent and [00:01:00] uh, then run into somebody?

I think it happens in Southeast Asia. What is happening? I think they’re pulling a stuntman on us. Apparently we’ve all been drinking and I’m driving, so. Perfect. So, uh, by the way, I’m Steve. And I’m Izzy and we’re with everything I think from movies. We’re here with Grand Touring Motor Sports Break Fix podcast.

Is that we guys still officially go by know you’re part of the Motoring Podcast network. Oh, very good. Look at you got it all over there. Okay. Okay. Oh, they don’t call him shit plug or Steve for nothing. That’s right. But we have Eric, Tanya, Brad and Mountain Mike. I mean, uh, mountain Man, Dan. No Mountain Mike.

Sounds about right. That mountain Mike open yet near us, there is one coming to the East Coast. Yeah. And by near it’s a couple hours away. Yeah. You guys have to go to Mountain Bikes. Get Everest. You won’t be disappointed first. Then again after this move, you guys might not be taking my recommendations. Oh boy.

She’s like, I don’t know. I can’t trust Izzy’s [00:02:00] recommendations on pizza anymore. We still are here after the stuntman, so wow, shots fired. You guys picked that one. So do not blame me for that. Did we pick that one? All I gotta say is Trading Paint. You guys. Senior moment, there are worse movies than this movie, the Lamborghini movie.

I’ll put that below

Crew Chief Eric: this one. But anyway, in keeping with tradition, let me read a traumatic introduction for this movie. Shall I go for it? Do it. Brace yourselves. Here it comes. An eloping bride is taken into hell and her fiance must pursue. Yeah. Taken straight from

Steve & Izzy: the IMDB synopsis. That’s it. I mean, that’s basically the movie roll credits.

Guys, what do we think of?

Crew Chief Eric: There’s so many things to talk about.

Crew Chief Brad: There

Steve & Izzy: are

Crew Chief Brad: though. There really aren’t.

Steve & Izzy: No, there are. There’s so much to talk about this movie, right. For the picking. I wasn’t gonna watch this movie because I watched the two minute and 16 [00:03:00] second trailer and I had enough.

Crew Chief Brad: You watched the whole movie

Steve & Izzy: and I felt like I had seen the whole movie and I was good, but I did cave and I watched it tonight.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s because of Brad’s play by play messages on Discord last night. That’s why you watched it. No, it sucked you in. He baited you. You had to watch it. At that point,

Steve & Izzy: I realized I didn’t have to pay for it. I didn’t have to create a login for Tuby. No, tuby doesn’t care. Tuby just wants you to watch also get no questions.

Also, when Brad sent me the message, demon boobies, I was hooked. Yeah, demon boobies pretty much. But guys, what movie are we talking about? That would be 1990 ones Highway to Hell. Way the Heck Not in this movie that I think that’s Maximum Overdrive a few years before. Now that. Now that’s a good movie. I love that movie so much.

They just said, maximum Overdrive is better than this movie. All right, you guys. Spoiler alerts. I love both of them and [00:04:00] I’m really shocked you guys don’t love this movie. Babe, do you remember your first time watching this movie? What was the first time we watched this? I know I watched that. My first time watched was with you.

It was probably three or four years ago. We were just looking through Tubi and it popped up and I’m like, what the hell is this? And we watched it and what the hell was that? And then we had to watch it again. We’ve done an episode about this one, but we wanna share it with you guys. I really wanted their opinion of this.

Is this like

Crew Chief Eric: misery loves company? Is that what this is?

Steve & Izzy: No. No, guys, I’m not joking. I genuinely really love this little movie. This movie was period appropriate? Yes, very, uh, late eighties, early nineties. I’ll agree with that. Yes, it tracked

Crew Chief Eric: very well. It was period appropriate for 1976. This movie feels old for 1991.

It does,

Steve & Izzy: of course, in 76, like Peter Fonda would’ve been the main guy with his 17-year-old bride or whatever, a thousand percent. So Peter Fonda would be 17 too, right? Right, right. Mm-hmm. It’s your dyslexia. [00:05:00] It’s 71. Yeah. 71 and 17. But yeah, from director, I think it’s ate Dej. It’s a Dutch dude. Is he Steve?

Well, you might know him from Dutch Films. No. How about Drop Dead, Fred? I do know that movie. This. And then back to doing more touch films. I wonder why. Oh boy. The guys, okay. The writer of this movie, Uhhuh Ryan Helgeland. Who’s he? Steve, does that name sound familiar to anyone? No. Wait, no. Okay. Nevermind. I thought of somebody else’s name.

Nope. No idea. Well, we all gotta start somewhere. Nightmare on Elm Street for the Dream Master. Oh, I was gonna say Nightmare on Elm Street. I don’t know why I thought that. Because all great writers come from it followed by 9, 7 6 Evil. I know one of Eric’s favorites. This and then, okay. Assassins. Yes. The Stallone ez uh, assassins Movie.

That was a good movie. It was then LA Confidential. Oh, that’s an excellent movie. Conspiracy Theory. [00:06:00] Oh, so good. The Postman. Yeah. Payback. A Knight’s Tale Blood Work, mystic River. The Order Man On Fire, the taking of Pellum. 1, 2, 3. Suk Drie Vampire’s Assistant Green Zone, the 2010 Robinhood with Russell Crow, 42 Legend and Spencer Confidential.

So, oops. All bangers. I mean, pretty much. Yeah. Wow. Even directed a few of ’em, like, uh, payback and Knight’s Tale and Legend, and

Crew Chief Brad: he learned from all the mistakes of this movie.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Like I said, we all gotta start somewhere. Hey guys. Oops. All bangers? Yep. Yep. Wow. Speaking of, oops. All bangers. Oh man. The cast in this movie.

Ah-ha. Chad Lowe as Charlie

Crew Chief Brad: Sykes. Who’s he? Steve. I had no idea that Rob Lowe had a brother. I first saw him on screen. I was like, this guy looks like a low rent. Rob Lowe.

Steve & Izzy: That’s what Steve said the first time we watched it, and so looked up and, oh, it’s his little brother. That makes sense. By the way, there’s another actor, Paul Lowe.

Who looks exactly like these two. He was in, uh, [00:07:00] primal Fear around the same time. Monkey Horror movie or whatever. Yeah. Or I guess it’s more of a zombie monkey horror movie. I don’t know. No relation just happens to be a low who looks like the lows, but no relation. I thought Chad Lowe, and this looked like the guy from Seaquest.

What was his name? The young guy? The kid Jonathan Brandis? Yes. Oh, from Sidekicks or, yeah. He was giving me his vibes. He just doesn’t have the dreamy blue eyes. No, but you know Chad Low, we all know about his prestigious movie career, right? 70 plus credit. I was gonna ask, what other movie was he in? He’s been in Silence of the Heart, the Charlie Sheen movie from the eighties.

True Blood, which looking at this, he’s the star of it. 1989 movie with Jeff Fahe, Sherilyn fan, Billy Drago, James Tolkien. Ken Re and it’s about saving his older brother from bringing Framed for a gang murder. Oh, okay. He, he’s gotta say Rob Lowe, I guess. No, uh, I think, I think Jeff a, he’s the older brother.

I want it to be Rob Lowe so bad. Wait, so this is based on a true story. Sure. No, I have no idea. Probably not because his name’s [00:08:00] like Danny True Blood or something like that. I was thinking True Blood, the Vampire thing when you said that. That’s what I call now that’s based on a true story and, and then this.

And then 37 episodes of Life goes On,

hate episodes of Melrose Place. And then, okay, then we get into some good ones, like in the presence of mine Enemies. It’s a Nazi flick. Uh, I was gonna say Soring Charles dance in Armand Mueller Stall. And of course Chad Lowe, Gilbert Godfrey what? Yeah. Yeah. Gilbert Godfrey with the guest spot. And of course, 1990 Eight’s Target Earth starring friend of the podcast.

John c McGinley. What’s that about? Uh, you, I’ll give you two guesses. Also, Christopher Malaney in that movie. There we go. He’s also in suicide Colon. The comedy. Wait. You read the colon out? I was like colon. Like the organ? Yeah. Suicide. Colon. The comedy. Steve Colons are never comedic.

Crew Chief Eric: He also played John [00:09:00] Denver and Take Me Home.

The John Denver story. I can see that with some glasses and slightly longer hair. That makes total sense. I wonder if he sings, uh, does he crash airplanes too? Ooh, too soon. Spoilers too

Steve & Izzy: soon.

Crew Chief Eric: Too soon. It’s been like 30 years too soon.

Steve & Izzy: Yes. I’m also, I’m also like trying to place like, wait, had the accident happened before this movie happened or, I don’t know.

I’ll have to check out. But, uh, he is also into unfaithful. Everyone’s seen that many times, especially one particular scene not featuring Chad Low though. Steve, do you, do you have something you wanna tell us about Chad Low? Not at all, but Chad Low episodes of TV shows like 24 CSI, Miami, ER, bones, the Ghost Whisper, and of course he played himself in the Entourage movie.

Yeah. Uh, also eight episodes of Super Girl and six episodes of 9 1 1 Lone Star. That’s right. Still kicking it. What happened to the podcast where we were gonna watch Entourage? You’ve never seen Entourage, entourage with, or what were they thinking? Uh, Brenda gave up on [00:10:00] that after like. Four episodes. Okay.

I don’t even think we really finished the first season. Wow. You know, I’m pretty sure we finished the first season. It was a retrospective look on the show entourage and uh, the cohost was a coward. I can’t believe you guys haven’t seen all of entourage. That’s mind blowing to me. Oh, one of us definitely has seen most of it.

Oh, okay. I was gonna say one of us has not and was really looking forward to it. Speaking of looking forward to it, oh my god. Christie Swanson as Rachel Clark. Now we’re talking Who’s she? Steve. Oh, we might know her from her 90 credits. Apparently she’s duckett in Pretty and Pink, which I’ve never seen.

Okay. Simone in Ferris Bueller’s Day off.

Crew Chief Eric: She’s the blonde girl. When Matthew Broderick? No, no, no. The guy. Bueller. Bueller. Anyone? What’s Ben Stein? Right. So Ben Stein’s in front of, she’s the blonde girl at the front of the classroom. That’s her. Oh,

Steve & Izzy: there you go. Yeah. Small part, but led to big things like Deadly Friend.

Babe, we’ve seen this movie. Do you remember the uh, basketball kill? Oh shit. Yeah. Yeah. For those who don’t know, it involves Kristi [00:11:00] Swanson basically being a robot and going on a killing spree or something. Uh, or a demon. It’s been a few years, but guys, it’s great. Either way. There’s a kill with the basketball.

That is one of the greatest onscreen kills in history. And Izzy’s favorite movie of all time Flowers in the Attic. Oh, god dammit. Did anyone else have to watch that in school? No. I’m not even joking. I’ve watched that probably four or five times in school for different classes. I don’t know why

Mountain Man Dan: is that the only one they could afford the rights to have?

Steve & Izzy: Maybe it’s just public domain for schools. I don’t know. But then she was in mannequin on the move, you know, mannequin two, some say the better One Hot Shots. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The Chase Higher Learning The Phantom, yeah. Eight Heads In A Duffle Back, I mean, yes. Yeah. Phantom is amazing. Phantom is amazing.

Big Daddy dude wears my car. Six episodes of Psych, a bunch of Christmas movies, and of course Obama Gate, the movie. Mm.

Crew Chief Eric: Something. I

Steve & Izzy: didn’t know that existed. Yeah, I didn’t until I was going through IMDB and I’m like, oh no, it’s been a rough 10, 15 [00:12:00] years for, uh, Christie Swans. And the last person, I’m gonna go really in depth in Patrick Bergen as Beasel.

Who’s he? Steve, 120 plus credits. God damn. Sleeping with the Enemy. Okay. He was in there, Robin Hood, 1991. No, not Robin Hood, prince of Thieves. This is the one with Uma Thurman and Jurgen Pro. Now I’m sure you guys have seen it. No. Okay. We talked about it a couple years ago. It’s, it’s, it’s actually pretty good.

This. Patriot games. He was in Frankenstein, and it’s not the one with Robert De Niro, but it came out around the same time. Oh, Randy Quaid plays the monster in this version. Oh, oh man. Oh my. So interested. My curiosity is peaked and then, yeah, his career basically peaked with his next movie, lawnmower Man, two Colin Jobes.

War or Beyond Cyberspace. Yes. Okay. Okay. That’s okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He’s the, the scientist guy. The guy, the shack. Yep. Yep. Guy. The shack in the canyon. Yeah. Yeah. I have the beholder. He was King Arthur in Merlin. The return, [00:13:00] the T three K one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beneath Lochness Ella. Enchanted. Casanova’s Last Stand.

Dick Dickman Pi, Pre-Fire, Nutcracker Massacre. And of course, one episode of the Continental. That’s right. Still kicking it. Hell yeah. And as far as uh, other people in this movie, we have Adam Stork as Royce lead a Ford for a cameo, Gilbert Godfrey, and every single member of the Stiller family, every single member of the Stiller family.

So, uh, how, how’d you guys watch this one? It sounds like it was a Tubi watch all around Tubi for sure. Yeah. You didn’t want it in your search history or something, correct? I

Crew Chief Brad: saw it on Amazon

Mountain Man Dan: Prime.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. He’s not a coward.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: I pulled it down, threw it on the plex. It’s on the library now. There you go.

He’s gonna watch it over and over and over again.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Again. ’cause he’s not a coward.

Crew Chief Eric: We watched trading paint nine times for crying out [00:14:00] loud. Some

Steve & Izzy: people are

Crew Chief Eric: completionist.

Mountain Man Dan: See, I wanna make sure Steve and Izzy make it out to the East Coast of visit. They got good movies to watch.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh boy. That’s not

Steve & Izzy: what I’d select.

Tony, do you remember how this movie starts? I do. I can give you a hint. They were in the um, no.

Yeah, so terrible.

Was this during the postcard that was sitting on the screen? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I fast forwarded that. I was like, I

Crew Chief Eric: missed it. The song was like the best part. You were like, what is this? Yeah. It almost was like Gregorian chant. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: It was rough. Okay. I think this is why you guys didn’t like this movie. You weren’t prepped by the opening song to get you in the proper frame

Crew Chief Eric: of mind.

Yeah. And it says Music by Hidden Faces. And I’m like, really? Wow. [00:15:00] But like you said earlier, you gotta start somewhere, I suppose.

Steve & Izzy: Oops. All bangers.

Crew Chief Eric: But it was like four minutes of that. It went on way too long. I

Steve & Izzy: did about 20 seconds of it. I’m like, why am I wasting minutes of this fast? Why did you guys notice, uh, how the postcard was changing though?

Not just day to night, but

Crew Chief Eric: it was, everything

Steve & Izzy: was like decaying.

Crew Chief Eric: Tanya missed it. She skipped over all. Well,

Steve & Izzy: I, well I started out with the postcard that I was like, is that like a old Nissan Sentra? What is that? Yeah. So I was gonna ask, are car folks, what do you think the little car is in the illustration?

Nissan Maxima?

Crew Chief Eric: That I don’t know. ’cause I’d have to go back and re-watch that part. But I’m wondering if Dan has the database prepped because I’ve got some questions to confirm. I do.

Mountain Man Dan: I do, but it does not mention what that car is.

Crew Chief Eric: Alright. Oh yes,

Steve & Izzy: there is. I have the answer. I know what it is. The postcard car.

Crew Chief Eric: What is it? Oh, the postcard car or the red car? The postcard. No, I wanna know about the red car later. But the postcard car is what we’re talking about now. Oh, I don’t think I mentioned that. It’s a rotted heat by the end of the postcard. Yeah, I was [00:16:00] gonna say. Yeah, just nothing. You know what it really was?

It’s a time lapse of how cars end up at the mountain where Dan is Right When they first get there. I’m telling you.

Steve & Izzy: So you mean how they appreciate So if there was a desert Dan out there, that’s what it’d be a postcard of his house. A thousand percent, yes. All right. But, uh, but after the opening number to get you in the right frame of mind, apparently we see, uh, a cop playing an arcade game called Highway to Hell.

And I’m like, all right, well here we go. Mm-hmm. It’s gonna be one of those like last star fighter kind of things. Right. We’re gonna come into the game now and we, we see a nervous dude with his. Let’s just say two hot girlfriend sitting at the diner table with them. Yeah. And she’s like, why? Why are you sweating?

What’s going on? Like we we’re, we’re across the state lines to get married because, ’cause your parents won’t consent or something. I don’t know. This basically what we’re doing is illegal. Yeah. There’s a cop right there. And I’m just like, yeah. And if you fucking chill, no one will care. You’re just on a date or something.

Right. [00:17:00] I dunno what he was so worried about. We’re

Crew Chief Eric: off to a bad start with this, so I was like, ah

Steve & Izzy: yeah, this is our hero. It’s because they knew she was way outta his league. Yeah. The cop was gonna make a move. No, the cop was worried like, blink twice if you’re unsafe right now,

Crew Chief Eric: are you being trafficked? I liked the 1950s.

I love Lucy Spit Take That happened during this scene. I was like, why is this necessary?

Steve & Izzy: Because it’s a comedy guys. No, the thing that got me in the scene, most of all is like when they’re like, alright we, we gotta go, we gotta go, blah, blah, blah. And he is like super nervous and he leaves $3 to pay his bill with tip.

And I’m like, fuck you. 1991. And he remembers to grab a sandwich for the most important character in the movie. Who’s that babe? Mr. Ben? Yeah. The dog in the backseat who’s been sitting there the whole time while they were eating indoors, I assume. Yeah. Yes. Some dogs don’t have crippling anxiety and you can leave them alone.

Oh God. What a dream world I get. It’s just a movie. Yeah, right. But yeah, he hops in, uh, the, his, uh, pizza delivery [00:18:00] Gremlin, Pinto, Pinto Ford. Pinto. It was a Pinto. Pinto. That’s right. That Sam says it later too. There’s an epic line in a little bit. Yes. But you know, the cops follow him down the freeway and he is like, he’s course super nervous, like, oh my God, we good.

Wait a second. He backs his pinto up. Yeah. Almost runs him over. Yeah, it almost runs over the cop and hits the motorcycle.

Crew Chief Eric: I was expecting whoop, whoop, whoop. And then nothing. It was just going down the highway. That’s that.

Steve & Izzy: Cops used to be cool, man.

Crew Chief Eric: I guess so. They used to get it like we’re all people, man.

Oh, I thought you were talking like Eric Estrada, like he gets it chips, you know, that kind of thing.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, also, yes. That’s the other reason why Rob Lowe has to leave with his wildly hot girlfriend. That cop’s going to get it. That cop’s got some blow, he’s gonna get it. So, but, uh, but you know, the cops followed us.

He hasn’t turned on his lights, so he is not gonna pull us over. Right. Well, there’s only one way to find out. And they pull off on the next exit. Cop keeps going down the freeway. Roll credits, guys. What do we think I went? Hell right. Okay, so now they decide, all right, [00:19:00] well we should probably stay off the main freeways if your mom, uh, you know, dropped the dime on us.

We can take these back roads to Vegas. And I’m like, you never wanna take the back roads to Vegas? No. Let’s take the back roads to Vegas guys. Don’t do it. You’ll end up in needles or something. Steve, tell us about what Needles doesn’t have. Oh, it doesn’t have a statue to Sam Kinison. I’ll tell you that.

Fuck you. 2000 tens domino or whatever it was. All things for that movie to lie about. Why is Sam Kinison statue in Needles, California? Oh, all hoffey and know I’m a

Crew Chief Eric: bounty hunter.

Mountain Man Dan: Sure are. Sure ya. Did anyone else find it weird? The fact they like climb out the window to sit on the windows and talk over top of the cart to each other

Steve & Izzy: with the Big Arrow pizza slice.

Sign like a beacon as he is driving down the road. Have you guys never wanted to romantically kiss under Anon pizza?

Crew Chief Eric: No. Ew.

Steve & Izzy: Do, do you not believe in romance?

Crew Chief Eric: Is romance dead? Say, I guess romance died the minute the Ford Pinto showed up. [00:20:00]

Steve & Izzy: Is this the point where we mention how gross of a kisser he is? Holy cow.

I mean there’s movie kissing, which let’s face it guys, horse Seaton and apple. Like it that level. Okay, talk. But, but this is even beyond that. This is Nu and Sandra in the lake house level of what’s worse. Jeff Bridges raw Dogg in the Aztec ruins.

Crew Chief Eric: Right, because he was eating her face like the sucker thing.

An alien or this like what’s worse?

Steve & Izzy: Definitely raw dogging in the ruins is worse. Yeah. This has the decency to be over quickly and has a neon pizza slice in the background, which gives it extra points. Yeah, the Aztecs weren’t big on neon pizza, apparently. Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: I guess they just got that but up. It’s not like Meatloaf’s, the glow of the dashboard lights.

It had to be the glow of the, uh, pizza line.

Steve & Izzy: Eventually they do take it to the

Mountain Man Dan: backseat a little bit, you know, for a little make out and, uh, blah blah blah. She’s like, we’re not doing it in a for pen. He’s like, just close your As for pretend to Porsche. Ah, so

Steve & Izzy: gross. You know, one line every owner [00:21:00] most of you has done in their life.

And then they’re like, all right, fine. Let’s just get to Vegas so we can do it in a perfectly clean room at the Plaza Hotel on Fremont Street or

Crew Chief Eric: something. Oh, we’re the Corvette from Corvette Summers on a rotator, right? That’s right. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Maybe the dog could sleep in a different room. Oh, the dog’s part of this.

Yeah. Mr. Ben is part of this. It’s going right there. Ah, like, so just can’t get off without the dog licking their toes.

Crew Chief Eric: Toes. Yes. That’s it.

Steve & Izzy: As everyone shutters.

Crew Chief Eric: Ugh. So now we continue down the road to nowhere and we end up at the gas station. Yeah. Sam’s last

Steve & Izzy: chance we’re, uh, a nice elderly gentleman. I assume Sam,

Mountain Man Dan: did anybody else find it weird that when he is sitting there I understand them doing it?

So you could get the view of both actors when he is sitting out there before to go inside the reflection off the mirror. It’s like a truck mirror off of a seventies or eighties truck that they do the reflection on. I’m like, why is a truck mirror just randomly sitting there next to his like rocking chair?

Underneath of the overhang of I

Crew Chief Eric: noticed that too. So you couldn’t sneak up [00:22:00] on him. That’s why

Mountain Man Dan: got

Crew Chief Eric: ass everywhere. Yeah. It’s like Doctor who, you can’t look at the bad guys like directly in the eyes. You gotta let ’em come up on you, you know, use the mirror or if it’s a gorgan. Right. If you’re thinking in that sense, you know, Medusa with the snakes.

If you look in the mirror, you know how it works.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: We’ve

Steve & Izzy: all seen those scenes. Yeah. Uhhuh. But, uh, you know, fills ’em up and, uh, he is like, well, that’ll be $8 for gas. And again, I’m screaming at the tv. Fuck you. 91. Mm-hmm. Free coffee too. Free coffee if you want it.

Crew Chief Eric: 1976, please. In 1976. No, I kept joking that the movie was filmed way before the movie.

Oh, yeah.

Steve & Izzy: It was just released in 91. Oh, okay.

Crew Chief Eric: Think about it. Who’s still driving a Pinto in the nineties? I

Steve & Izzy: could tell you in the early two thousands, many people at my high school,

Mountain Man Dan: oh, I was a kid working at Nunzio Pizza or whatever it was. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Should have been driving like an 85 Cavalier. Not a Pinto, but whatever.

We’ll leave it where it is.

Steve & Izzy: 85 Cavalier would’ve been wildly new for guy with his kind of budget. That’s true. [00:23:00] That’s true. That’s true. He’s more of a 72 Riviera kind of guy. Yeah. Yeah. They’re getting ready to go after the Philip on gas and then the sand. He’s like. By the way, I’m gonna tell you, you’re gonna come up to two Joshua trees just to make sure you go right past both of ’em.

Don’t stop in between ’em, whatever you do. And of course Charlie’s like, huh, what? Whatever. I’m a bumble fuck. What was he saying about something with two trees?

Crew Chief Eric: Doesn’t matter. We’re going to Vegas. Woo. I turned to my wife and I said, what is a Joshua Tree? And she said, I don’t know. It’s a tree. Not a U2 fan, huh?

Yeah, definitely not a U2 fan. Apparently

Mountain Man Dan: that was like their big album.

Crew Chief Eric: I have no idea what it is, what it looked like. That’s native to the west. So I’m like, I have no clue.

Steve & Izzy: Oh no. If you’re at the Southwest or the west. It’s those trees. Uh, there’s like a whole national park of ’em in Southern California and they kind of look like they’re straight out of a Dr.

Seuss book. Yeah. They’re poofy on top. Yes. Yeah, they’re, they’re really ancient type of tree, like they were around when dinosaurs were around. Ah, okay. And like, some of the ones for ’em when dinosaurs were around [00:24:00] might still be here. I see what you’re saying. They killed the dinosaurs. Yeah, they killed the dinosaurs.

That’s what I’m saying. 5,000 years ago, as it says in the Bible. Yeah. Really, really gnarly trees. They almost have what looks like palm frogs for needles and like really twisty trunks. And they’re very, very cool. Everyone go visit Joshua Tree National Park. There you go. Speaking of super cool Charlie, he’s driving along and just confessing like, oh man, I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to be with a girl like you.

And if we’re gonna get married and spend our lives together. And of course, Christy Swanson’s fucking asleep. He’s like, okay, believe you’re not here to listen to this. And I’d just be like, enjoy the silence buddy. You’re about to get married. I love you too. Sometimes I love, I love you kitten. But you know, uh, Ben, the dog, he’s there.

He’s also asleep. And then Charlie starts going to sleep. ’cause you know, he’s driving in the back roads, not knowing where he’s going. He should have taken that coffee. I was waiting for him to plan right into that cop car killing everyone. Roll credits, guys. What do we think of Highway to hell? Not quite yet.

Crew Chief Brad: It should have [00:25:00] ended then.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Not quite. Instead, he, uh, swerves at the last minute doesn’t kill himself, but then the cop sees him. He was hiding behind the sign. You know how those cops are, right? Woo. Anything for a ticket. But, uh, this cop seems a

Crew Chief Eric: little different. This cop was the T 2000 from Terminator.

Crew Chief Brad: He’s the T 1995. ’cause he didn’t make the full two.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s like Robocop, if he took the helmet off, like, who is this guy?

Steve & Izzy: Oh my God. Tyra year two would’ve been like the same summer this movie came out, right?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. That’s why I kept thinking they ripped him off.

Steve & Izzy: Different budgets both have flawless special effects.

The, the cop is, I don’t know, seven feet tall, 300 pounds, pure muscle, and I don’t know, Freddy Kruger skin, the runes carved into his skin. Oh, is that, oh, okay. The runes. And uh, he pulls out his handcuffs, which are literal hands with a chain holding them together. That was punny. It’s no hand grenade, but I’ll take it.

That’s right. That was Beetlejuice level kind of stuff

Crew Chief Eric: right there.

Steve & Izzy: So, yeah. [00:26:00] So then, uh, Charlie’s getting his ID ready, registration and all that. Cop tears the door off snatches Rachel, like he works for ice. Starts taking her to the car and he is like, wait, wait. What the fuck are you doing? Backhand.

Charlie knocks him out. It’s Mr. Ben and knocks him out. I

Crew Chief Eric: mean, the dog messed around, found out. By the way, we don’t even know her name until this point. I took note of that. When’s the first time they say the character’s name? So Rachel was said, you know, we’re what, 20 minutes into the movie at this point?

Yeah. About that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: And I also noticed at that point, apparently the driver door didn’t work on this Pinto. No. And he had to climb out through the window to try to get her from the, like Duke’s a

Crew Chief Eric: hazard to get in it

Mountain Man Dan: too.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So this is followed by this. Saddest back to the future drive away flame effect I’ve ever seen.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. A car drives away at what, like four miles an hour and we just see the occasional fire coming out the sides or whatever was falling out on

Crew Chief Eric: the process of driving away is this jet powered? ’cause it sounded like night rider like Kit had that kind of jet whistle to it. You know, they’re going down the [00:27:00] road.

I was like, what is going on with this cop car? Well I thought ev sound to it. It had a wine. I think that was just Charlie. Definitely didn’t sound like V eight or whatever. Since you have the database, Dan, was it a Plymouth, was it a Ford? What was it? ’cause I was curious. It was a 79 Ford LTD. Really? Oh

Mountain Man Dan: yeah.

Body kit on it for the back. And it looked like they run in to make it sloped as well. Almost like the older seventies. Camaros had that sloped front or the Monte Carlo in the eighties. Is it one of those like George Vera specials or whatever? Yeah, like a

Steve & Izzy: modified LDD

Crew Chief Eric: it

Steve & Izzy: seems. Yeah,

Crew Chief Brad: I thought it looked like a four-door Monte.

Carlo to me.

Crew Chief Eric: See, I thought it was a Plymouth ’cause of the headlights. It had these teeny little rectangle headlights, which are smaller than normal. And the Plymouth Cop cars, at least on the east coast, had a similar kind of front end. So I, at first I was, I wasn’t sure what it was, but from the back it looked like a nascar.

It had the flares and like all this stuff. And I was like, all right, whatever.

Steve & Izzy: You guys were actually all wrong. This one has proven to me that this vehicle is, in fact, the first Tesla. It doesn’t have door handle. Yeah, yeah. But it doesn’t have [00:28:00] keys. It starts on fire randomly. It’s a goddamn death trap. So Charlie, he wakes up and realizes, you know, the love of his life is gone.

And so he goes back to the gas station and Sam’s there like, well, everything going okay, where’s your lady? And he’s like, what? Some asshole copied, like took her or something. I don’t know. He ducked me out and Sam’s like, oh hell man. You, uh. You know about the highway to hell. What? What? Yeah, the hell cop.

He takes a bunch of girls around here. In fact, 50 years ago he took my lady Clara and shows like a picture and that’s right. He like pulls out like newspaper clippings of like five or six girls, you know, from previous movies, I guess,

Crew Chief Eric: and is like,

Steve & Izzy: yep,

Crew Chief Eric: he took ’em. Did anybody else have the reaction? I had listening to Sam, we’re gonna call him Sam since it’s Sam’s garage, where his level of acting was equivalent to the guy asking you to donate 17 cents a day to like the kids in Africa.

It was like an infomercial level acting. It was so dull and dry and sadly delivered.

Steve & Izzy: Or am I wrong? [00:29:00] You, you know who it was. You know, in Waynes world when there’s the gas station guy go out, can you tell me how to get to Gordon Street? Gordon Street Gordon? Oh yes, yes. I once knew a girl on Gordon Street when I was a young man.

It was like. I know it’s a small part, but can we get a better actor than this? And then Charlton Heston steps in and makes everybody cry. Yeah, I think it was the same actor. It was bad, but yeah, so Charlie’s like, well, I gotta go Savor. And he is like, alright, well I got this special shotgun I made with these special shells and this beautiful lead sled that’s been sitting here for 50 years just in case I ever had the balls to go after Clara.

If you wanna go, you can just borrow that because your little POS isn’t going anywhere in the hell. Can we talk about the bear? Let’s do it. What’s with the bear? Jeremy? Allen White is a goddamn amazing actor. I can’t imagine, oh my God. In the episode where Jamie Lee Curtis plays his mom. Oh my God.

Possibly the greatest episode of television. No. Oh, oh. Are we not talking about the series? The bear? We’re talking about that teddy bear with the clock that he gives

Crew Chief Eric: him. [00:30:00] Yeah. What? Oh

Steve & Izzy: yeah. CL Claire is alarm clock.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Okay. I wanna make a note right now about this bear, because to me, I drew a very quick parallel between the bear and the fiance from King of the Mountain.

I want you guys to remind me the next. Time we see the bear and the importance and the significance

Steve & Izzy: of the bear. At least the bear makes one noise later in the movie. But yeah, so uh oh Yeah. So he gives it the bear clock and is like, well you got 24 hours, otherwise you’re stuck in hell forever. I don’t make the rules, bill.

Just remember, you just gotta go between those two Joshua trees and just start doing donuts or something until you believe, and then you’ll be on the highway to hell. Ridiculous.

Crew Chief Eric: Yep.

Steve & Izzy: You have to believe.

Crew Chief Eric: So let’s talk about the car for a second. Dan is my guest, right? That is a Zephyr.

Mountain Man Dan: No, it’s a 1940 Ford VA Deluxe.

Crew Chief Eric: God, I knew. I was like, it’s either a Ford or a Zephyr one or the other. ’cause they had a similar front end. Dang.

Mountain Man Dan: It’s

Steve & Izzy: so cute though.

Crew Chief Eric: It is though. So cute. It is very cute. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: I paid such little attention to this movie. I had no idea that the [00:31:00] car even changed.

Steve & Izzy: Oh man. You thought when the, when a Pinto goes to hell, it becomes a 44.

I just didn’t care enough to pay

Crew Chief Brad: attention.

Steve & Izzy: Wow. Nice. So as Charlie’s pulling away, Sam Allon has the realization, oh wait, I forgot to tell you. There’s something special about that car. It’s not gonna come back later, guys. Don’t worry. Like the teddy bear from the writer of LA Confidential, uh, you all gotta start somewhere.

Crew Chief Eric: Remember those exercises they used to do in PE where you gotta run between the blocks back and forth? Mm-hmm. This was the vehicle equivalent of that.

Steve & Izzy: He’s running ladders or whatever. Yeah. Awful. So, yeah, he gets pulled over by the cop car and he’s got that shotgun ready. Like, all right, I’m gonna blast this motherfucker right in the face as soon as this demon cop shows up.

Spoilers. It’s not the hell cop. And he’s like, oh shit. In drives off. It’s actually Mars Callahan. Who’s he? I know. I know. Pool hall junkies. Yeah. So excited to find

Crew Chief Eric: that out.

Steve & Izzy: He was so young. So baby faced. Yeah, so he drives off and he starts, I believe. I believe, I believe, [00:32:00] and then the vortex to hell opens up.

Did you guys notice where hell was? It’s just Utah. Yeah, it’s just southern Utah. No big whoop. We went on vacation there. It was great. It is great. Next up, cue the Stillers. Oh yeah. The entire Stiller clan and we pull up to Pluto’s Diner and we got a chef Ben Stiller out scraping roadkill off the sidewalk and offering eggs.

He’s frying on it. Yeah, it’s so hot. And hell, you fry eggs right on the sidewalk, babe. There you go. And a guy spoilers. Hell’s full of cops. Just absolutely filled to the brim with

Crew Chief Eric: him. That whole scene reminded me of the waiting room that Beetlejuice is in when he goes to the underworld. Mm-hmm. Yeah, just low budget version of that.

Steve & Izzy: But this was just cops waiting for donuts and coffee. I feel like Tim Burton was supposed to do this movie and then they’re like, we can’t afford him. Get some Dutch dude. Some Dutch dude. One of the cops is Jerry Stiller, who’s talking with the waitress. And Amira, you know Ben Stiller’s mom? Yeah. They’re improving as best [00:33:00] they can on short notice.

I guess they were on a, a set next door or something. And spoiler, Ben’s sister is in the movie too, but that comes later. Oh yeah. Yeah. She comes later. You know, hell cop, he has Rachel or whatever there, she’s handcuffed to the diner, you know, where you like hang your purse or whatever. Jerry Stiller steals his donut or something, so heco blast him into a vortex.

Yeah. Everybody knew he had that power. Right? Cool. Now we know it’s to show why you don’t fuck with. But meanwhile, Rachel, she pours the hot coffee on the handcuffs. Ah, so the hand cuff, let’s go and she starts running and running until a bunch of bikers surround her. That didn’t take too long. And then this biker pulls out Excalibur and is like, hold woman, wait, wait, let’s

Crew Chief Eric: talk about the biker gang for a let’s.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: we meet not Molly Ringwald because the budget is so high of this. We had to get somebody who looked like her, that wasn’t her. And then we also had to get, not Lorenzo Llamas slash Jason Momoa to play the main motorcycle gang guy. Right. So [00:34:00] my wife and I were cracking up. We’re like, where did they find all these B lookalike or they all the stunt people for like the main act.

But then to take it a step further, I think it was at this point or slightly after, the one guy’s kind of like antagonizing Charlie. He’s like, eh, he’s like all up in his face with a dental mirror. Did anybody else notice that? Yeah, something like that. Am I supposed to be threatened by a dental mirror? I mean, I know dentists can be scary, but,

Mountain Man Dan: well, I thought he also had like the drill or that later when he has that

Crew Chief Eric: later he is the drill and he gets the little, you know, mirror thing on his head.

Yeah, it’s like full dentist. I’m like, okay, sure.

Steve & Izzy: But yeah, so, so the bikers, they catch Rachel and helicopter, you know, walks up behind him. They’re like, ha ha can’t believe this girl got away from you. He cop, tell you what though. I’ll give her back to you, but you owe me, owe me big time. Alright, cool.

That’s the scene. So then we cut to Charlie. He’s still uh, driving around, but he pulls over and Lee Ford’s there to ask directions.

Crew Chief Brad: Aha.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Hey Tiger. What’s up? Brett’s all on display. Popping in that window. He’s like, uh, just, did you see a helicopter drive through here with my girlfriend? Like, what?

[00:35:00] Whatever. They’re probably over at Pluto’s. Hey, he got room for two in there and then she backs up and I don’t know. The ice cream man shows up and tries to eat his grains. It’s three, man. What the fuck’s going on there? Like this scoop at your brain?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, the melon baller. You’re like, what is going on here?

But there’s something interesting about this scene. She calls him preacher, and I was like, oh, the car is white and he’s going to savor whatever. Remember the car has special powers. That’s also part of this whole plot line. Immediately I wrote down. It’s an allegory. It’s a metaphor. So by her calling him preacher, I think that obviously is foreshadowing of what’s coming later.

But I thought it was really important. If you didn’t catch that little line where she’s teasing him or whatever, who cares? But I think it’s an important reference to the whole film. Yeah. Say, I didn’t catch that. So yeah. Good. Go.

Steve & Izzy: This was just Dante’s Inferno, that’s all this was. No, no. It’s something else.

So, oops. All bangers. Oh, it’s just one of the greatest things in literary history. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. See, I knew you guys would get this movie. We’ll talk about it later. So [00:36:00] anyway, just like in Dante’s Inferno, he pulls out a special shotgun and head canoe and yeah, I mean, scoop out your bread.

Crew Chief Eric: How about you try it up your own?

I wrote down shoots. The dude in the face.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. The bikers show up and they stop. Charlie after he sees the hell cop and stops. For some reason I, I don’t know why he would ever stop for a motorcycle. That’s just me though.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, but not everybody drives a battle wagon, Steve. So all this goes down and he catches up with the cop, like super easy.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. ’cause the bikers let him go. But the, you know, again, he is like, you owe me. Okay, cool. Whatever, bro.

Mountain Man Dan: Did every anybody else know, like when they pulled him outta the car before he went chase, after the he cop and the one biker guy, once again, he is like, you’re gonna owe me a favor. And he is got like this joy.

It’s like, okay, is this gonna be a thing with this guy the respir way through in a movie where he keeps telling You’re gonna owe me? Yes. Yeah. It was just,

Steve & Izzy: I mean, it does technically come up. Yeah. At the very

Mountain Man Dan: end end. It didn’t seem necessary.

Steve & Izzy: You know, I, I think it was to show us that the leader of this biker [00:37:00] gang is not just any guy.

He is, he’s got some power that even the hell cop is willing to owe him. It’s that sweet ass sword. Exactly. But yeah, like hell cop doesn’t just. Yeah. Him blessed

Crew Chief Eric: him like he did Jerry Stiller. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Do we think that’s Gabriel’s sword? Oh, maybe.

Steve & Izzy: Maybe Peter.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Peter Gabriel. Yeah, a hundred percent.

He had a sledge, not a sword. He

Steve & Izzy: sword. Oh my bad. How want be a sweet ass sword? You guys have to remember though, the cop stopped for coffee. He had time to catch up. And also we forgot to mention, Charlie recognizes one of the bikers, it’s Clara Sam’s a old flame from, she hasn’t aged in 50 years, but he’s like, oh yeah, there we go.

Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: that’s not Molly

Steve & Izzy: Ringwald. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drives off, catches up to the helicopter and they start trading paint and it was like days of thunder,

Crew Chief Eric: like when they’re going at it in the rental cars, it’s awesome.

Steve & Izzy: And then, uh, yeah, they do that for a couple minutes and then [00:38:00] there’s a giant truck blocking the road.

For some reason, helicopter just blasts right through it. ’cause apparently he can. And Charlie goes off the road, keeps going and going. And then runs out of oil apparently. Okay. Who’s the oil pan? Did you catch the

Crew Chief Eric: imagery here though? The car looked like it was bleeding.

Steve & Izzy: Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: So apparently in hell, you can also call aaa.

I don’t remember what it said on the side of the truck.

Steve & Izzy: Uh

Crew Chief Eric: oh. It was an anarchy. Armageddon

Steve & Izzy: and Annihilation. There it is. Yeah. I want that as a battle patch. Oh babe. But yeah, so we finds this phone in the middle of the desert wandering. ’cause he wouldn’t just head back towards the road or anything like that.

That’s crazy to me. By the way. It was like this movie isn’t gonna translate for kids. Yes. You, because there aren’t phones on the sides of the roads anymore. Yeah. 35 years will do that for a lot of movies. It wasn’t a rotary, so that moved it out of 1976. Finally. More modernized. This movie, like how he picks up the phone is like, yeah, my car broke down or something.

Can I get a tow truck? Uh, your car broke down. Yeah. Looks like you’re walking geek. I didn’t realize [00:39:00] Steve worked for.

Crew Chief Eric: I work for Triple Z, so shows up the Satanic mechanic, which was written on the side of the tow truck. I think that was cool too. Yeah, like, Hey, where are you going with

Steve & Izzy: my car, man? Sorry. I just saw a car broken on the side of the road and I have a tow truck, so that’s my business.

He says that I pick up a lot of scrap out here. I’ll fix it for you though. Got a ride in the back with Adam here though. And we see a little, uh, little kid run around. That’s Adam. What’s your name, dude? Uh, my name’s Bezel. Beasel Bob Albu. Yeah, that was like the first thing I thought of. And of course Little Adam loves Mr.

Ben, the dog. Oh, of course. Because who wouldn’t we then cut to, uh, the garage and like within three minutes it’s like, yep. There you go. All fixed. Hey, do you know how to get the hell city? Yeah. All roads lead to hell. City to Helsinki? Is that what you said? Hell city. Ah, there it is. It’s kind of weird though, you know, you mentioned that was your girlfriend or whatever.

’cause the he cop, he usually only goes after virgins [00:40:00] and of course Charlie’s like, what? What? No, we totally like in the back of my Pinto, like Right. Anyone who’s ever done in the back of a Pinto. Yeah, totally Not virgins man. Like, all right, well cool then, uh, yeah. Uh, look up. She’ll let her go soon then if she’s, you know, not a virgin.

Yeah. You got nothing to worry about. Then cuts to Charlie hopping in the car and driving off as fast as he can. But Adam’s also hanging off the side where Charlie can’t see what, and this is where Adam pops up and uh, Charlie’s like, what are you doing here? Like,

Crew Chief Eric: Hey, that didn’t come along with you guys.

Pops up, he was riding on the sideboard, hanging on the car while he’s doing like 70 mile an hour. I was like,

Mountain Man Dan: did he do his own stunts too? Got me to thinking. ’cause some of those older cars, the handle, you would actually physically turn it down to get it to pop open. Yeah. He wouldn’t have been able to just hang on its own Unless there was one where you actually pushed in on it.

That’s not exactly a safe way to hold on there, buddy. Yeah. They found that out

Crew Chief Eric: after the first three atoms. This is the stuff Dan thinks about the door handle and how it works.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. No, no, you were right though, Dan. Those door handles. Yeah. They just like pull down and

Crew Chief Eric: [00:41:00] Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: When they get worn out they just start falling down and things start flopping open.

Yeah. Doing there man. We, uh, catch up with the good intentions paving company ’cause you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ah,

Crew Chief Eric: but just before that, the guys who are adding the trash to the road I wrote down Is that Devo? It is Devo, yeah, it is.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. It’s other devo or flock of seagulls.

It’s like a hybrid of them two. They’re paving that road and uh, we see people walking up like they’re going to the pearly gates and like I thought the more medicine would make him better or something like that, you know, it would kill him. And they’re like, well, you’re next. And they go. I, I slept with my husband’s boss to further his career.

Yeah. I had to let little Annie drink the bleach the way she’d never learned the lesson. Yeah. Terrible. And of course all these people are turned into basically tar for the road.

Crew Chief Eric: Very satisfying. That was gruesome too. It’s like, ooh, okay.

Mountain Man Dan: Like the rainstorm they wind up in, it’s got like black rain coming down and the one angle, it [00:42:00] looks like the water’s actually leaking inside the back windows of the car.

Yeah, that was

Crew Chief Eric: messed up.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: there was some inconsistency there. Especially when you see the shots, like the car doesn’t have windows at all, but in that scene it doesn’t have a passenger window and the back one’s leaking and it, it’s a mess. I was like, what is going on? Yeah. But then they make their pinky swear pack, they’re gonna ride or die and off we go to Hoffa.

So this is the point at which I wrote down, ’cause I asked my wife, I was like, what makes this movie R rated? Right?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. It’s, it’s very PG up until a certain point, uh, Hoffa’s Club and we’re instantly greeted with boobs and cowboys and Nazis and Rachel’s in a cage handcuffed to it and everything.

Mountain Man Dan: Well, I love how when he was sitting there, Gilbert Gar was like, I’m

Steve & Izzy: not Hitler.

I’m

Mountain Man Dan: a 17-year-old boy. I like being in my room playing video games.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, that was really funny. Yeah, I bet that was completely ad-lib too. I, I think all the comedy was ad-libbed in this one. I would be curious. So like how many other versions of that rant they have, they have three hours of Gil [00:43:00] Godfrey ranting, like I’m actually a 14-year-old Australian girl and Australia.

I could see how you get them confused. Charlie’s walking around, you know, taking his sweet time, enjoying the scenery by the way. I like that. Helicopter stop. He has a special delivery for his boss. Mm-hmm. And he stops at as a true cop. Would both a uh, donut shop. And a strip club. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Steve, your dad was a sheriff?

Oh yeah. Well, the strip club, I can explain. He’s getting his side money to let certain things go on there that may not be legal. Like I’m assuming gambling isn’t legal in hell unless the double gets his cut. Makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Charlie finds Rachel like, starts trying to freeze her by the way. He just walked.

He was wandering around with a shotgun, wasn’t even hiding it or anything in this one. And then, uh, helicopters like, Hey, what, you know, starts walking towards was like, what are you doing? Charlie shoots him. No, sells that shit. Like the Undertaker helicopter. Just blast Charlie in the chest with his gun roll credits.

Guys, what do we think of Highway to Hell, by the way, when Steve says he cop says, what’s up? He cop [00:44:00] actually has no lines. Yeah, no, no lines. But he is like walking up, like gets get away from her. All right. He gets the look, you know, you know, he cop grabs Rachel, throws him in the car. Bezel just shows up.

His shift is over. He’s gonna have a cocktail, right? But he sees Charlie lying on the ground with his chest open from the shotgun wound. He’s basically like, I can fix you, but Adam, you gotta promise to stay with me. You can’t run away with him. And Adam’s like,

Crew Chief Eric: okay, I guess so. See Charlie. Ugh,

Steve & Izzy: ugh. And to hold that, ugh, all that.

Just, it’s awful. Yeah. Luckily it doesn’t get any worse from here. So then we cut to a table where, uh, Hitler, Cleopatra, and Genus Kahan are playing cards.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s like my favorite part

Steve & Izzy: played by Gilbert Godfrey is Hitler Ben Stiller’s sister, I think Amy as Cleopatra. Yeah. And Ben Stiller. As Genghis Khan? Yes.

Wow. That’s almost like John Wayne or Richard Tyson or something. How early was this in Ben Stiller’s career that his whole family had to come with him? I think he’s off of [00:45:00] Jerry Stiller’s career at this point, like, yeah. Yeah. I wanna say like 93 was when he was on MTV. Right. So like right after this, gotta start somewhere.

Right. But yeah, Charlie’s okay. Bezel fixed him up. Bezels kinda like, look dude, you can always just go, Rachel will be okay down here. I hear that the devil takes care of, of his ladies, you know? Right. A big part of this movie is that like they’re still alive and everybody else is dead. And like the dead can tell that they’re still alive.

Yep. Is Charlie still counted as being alive now? He’s resurrected. Yeah. Well babe, if you kill somebody in hell, where are they gonna go? Detroit? Hey, I lived in Detroit. Wow. Am I dead? Shots fired. Okay. The, the whole killing someone and hell, thing’s gonna come up again later in the movie and I’m just gonna be like, well, where the fuck are they going anyway?

Uhhuh. They go to second hell, the seventh ring of Dante’s Inferno or whatever. Right. Where are we? Oh, yeah. So, but you know, Charlie’s like, no, no, no. She’s definitely the the best girl I’m ever gonna have a chance with. I’m not my brother. I’m not a sheen, I’m not an [00:46:00] estevez. I have no chance with a girl like Christy Swanson, bezels like, alright, well I know a shortcut to hell city.

I can give you some directions or whatever. And I like, as we pan away from this scene, there’s a table with reserved spots for, uh, Kadafi and Jerry Lewis and a couple other people. I wasn’t able to write ’em all down. Did you guys catch any of them? No. I caught those two for sure. It went by real quick.

Yeah. Yeah. The other one I started reading. I’m like, I, I don’t even know who that is. I assume it’s like somebody’s lawyer or something. Like a little

Crew Chief Eric: inside joke. So now we’re outside of Hoffa’s before he goes to the next location, and this is where I wanna stop for a second and talk about bezels car.

The red car? Mm-hmm. Do we know what the red car is? Was it a vet? No, it was a kit car. Right? Because it had these weird scissor doors. But they weren’t complete doors. They were like half doors. It was very strange. And they shot it at odd angle so you couldn’t get a full picture of the car. So what does it say in the database?

Mountain Man Dan: It’s credited as a Manta montage. Is that some weird beetle thing?

Steve & Izzy: Gonna be a montage hit car built on a VW Beetle [00:47:00] chassis.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh wow. This looks like the coyote from Hard Castle and McCormick Wild. I knew you’d love this movie. Oh, I would drive this all day. This is awesome. Now I get to see the whole thing.

Alright, now it makes sense why the doors are the way they are. Okay. Thank

Steve & Izzy: you Dan. You’re welcome. So Charlie’s, uh, continuing on his journey. He’s got the shortcut directions now, but damn it, those bikers show up and start chasing them and one of them pees green or something on the windshield, I don’t know, is.

It was shot. Kind of weird, but it was like, should I

Mountain Man Dan: be vomiting with the biker pissing on the window? It was all greeny or whatever. Instead of flipping the wipers on, he reaches out with his hand. Yeah. To let you know it’s as, because he’s like, ah. And it’s like burning his hand and then he flips the wipers on.

I’m like, jackass, you should flipped the wipers on. But I like how the wipers relax.

Crew Chief Eric: Ah. Like they’re doing their own thing

Mountain Man Dan: badly. Cars of that era. That’s about how the wipers work.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, I was gonna say, I seem to remember from my dad working on those, that they worked off of either the engine pressure or the engine like RPMs.

The faster you drove, the faster they would, the slower you drive, the slower they [00:48:00] go.

Mountain Man Dan: Some of ’em worked off vacuum before they started putting actual mechanical motors in there where it uses an arm to push it back and forth. Ah, okay.

Steve & Izzy: And that causes Charlie to pull off road directly to where he was supposed to go.

Apparently to uh, slot Canyon, to nowhere. The helicopter car is parked out there and he just walked through this beautiful slot canyon in southern Utah. The cave I was

Crew Chief Eric: thinking yeah. Playdoh. So this

Steve & Izzy: is a dec cave. This is a slot canyon. Uh,

Crew Chief Eric: potato. Potato, tomato, tomato. Oh,

Steve & Izzy: we’re in the, no, don’t wait man.

We’re in the southwest.

Crew Chief Eric: Sounds like someone doesn’t know what a slot can is. Someone

Steve & Izzy: hiked a slot canyon.

Crew Chief Eric: I thought it was a weird innuendo.

Mountain Man Dan: No, no slot came. It’s like a cave, but with better lighting.

Steve & Izzy: It’s, it’s true though.

Mountain Man Dan: When he turned on it, it had the sign for the road to nowhere and had like the little black and yellow cattle gate looking thing that he crossed over.

The bikers came and stopped that. Almost like they weren’t allowed into that area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Weird to me. But then one of the bikers does

Steve & Izzy: make it through there. It’s Clara. What? Like, she’s straight outta pet cemetery. Don’t go down that road. He’ll try to tempt you, Charlie, you may not be able to get outta here and [00:49:00] blah, blah, blah.

And he’s like, I gotta try. It’s Christy Swanson, man. And, and she’s like, are you sure she’s gonna pick you? Yeah. Think about it. I didn’t pick Sam. Yeah. He goes down to Slot Canyon. There’s a little door. Goes through it goes up some stairs, opens up and oh my God, there’s the honeymoon suite with Rachel already tied to the bed, ready to go.

DETF, have sex with me please, Charlie, the devil make a love to me. Yeah, yeah. The make love to me. Then the devil won’t want me. I’m like, you convincing point, da da da da da da. Yet. Yeah. See Steve, you would’ve fallen for the trap. I mean, yes. This is a classic honeypot, barf, barf and more barf. And then, uh, you know, we hear some noises and someone’s coming and I’m like, yeah, me.

Okay. So hell cops come and he comes through that wall. They fight for a bit, him and Charlie. He basically grabs Charlie and spins him around like Conan to the destroyer. Yeah. Y’all know what I’m talking about. Like that was a figure skating move. This is where 80 WW Wrestling came into [00:50:00] play. But then, uh, Charlie gets a hold of gun blossom and sends he cop through a vortex.

Okay. That was cool. Yeah. And helicopters, close gun and glasses. And the, uh, the handcuffs are the pine Oh yeah, the handcuffs too. That’s right. Yeah. You know, Rachel, she, uh, she still wants that d

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. But then, but then the cgi, I goes completely turd, man. Bill Pullman, weird science. If you didn’t throw up a little in the back of your throat at this point, I don’t know what to say.

Steve & Izzy: And Charlie, he’s messed up. He’s got blood all over his face and she’s like, ah. Like, like just kissing. Get off of them. Oh, yeah. Oh, I love corn syrup. So gross. And Charlie’s a little suss ’cause he is like, look, I thought we were waiting till Vegas. Here’s your necklace back, by the way. And she’s like, yeah, yeah.

Cool. Tosses at this side. And uh, this is when Charlie, uh, catches the, the mirror’s reflection.

Crew Chief Eric: See the mirror? It comes back. Dan, you understand now the mirror why it’s important. That way you can tell if [00:51:00] it’s a demon or not. Yeah. How can you tell she’s a demon? Uh,

Steve & Izzy: hello. Her reflection demon boobs. That’s why.

So gross. The horns and the tail, and, ugh. Oh yeah, yeah. But that stuff too. But it’s the boobs that give it away. Yeah. That’s what thing. I dunno if you guys have noticed or not. Steve’s a boob guy. I mean, yeah. So then, oh, you’re a demon, you’re a nicodemon with a tail and stuff. We’re gonna fight now. And, uh, tail whipping around.

Fight Charlie. Oh, she breaks the mirror again and Charlie grabs one of the shards and stabs her. Ah. And then blasts her with the gun and she sinks into the bed and into second hell, I guess. Definitely gonna stab a fiery report.

Mountain Man Dan: Him cutting her with the, uh, shard of glass. He didn’t so much stab her, like it didn’t look like her tail.

So I don’t know. Does she have like an umbilical cord? ’cause it goes out around his neck. Yeah, that’s

Crew Chief Eric: what I thought too. Oh yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: It was her tail. I was like, what the hell is this creepy shit? And then he like cuts it off of [00:52:00] her and he’s got some ooze that pops out of it and it’s like, that was weird. It

Crew Chief Eric: was the grossest part of the whole movie.

I mean, just, Ugh.

Steve & Izzy: Pretty sure it was her tail. Yeah, it was,

Crew Chief Eric: you got somebody’s tail off, you’ll get some goo out of it, that’s for sure. You’re talking second hell to me, it reminded of Ghostbusters when they put the thing in the machine and they get sucked into that other vortex world. That’s what that looked like to me.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, she looked like. One of the monsters from Earnest. Yes. Yeah, yeah, totally. The trolls or whatever. Yeah. Also 1991. Oh shit. Was it really that long ago? God, yes it was. So Charlie had that happen. So he just quietly leaves the room, goes down the stairs, out the door through this lock canyon back to his car, and yeah, just kinda drives off right into the middle of a Volkswagen bug rally.

Crew Chief Eric: Tanya, you had to have been excited by this part at least there was every conceivable variation of a Beatle in there you could think of. That was awesome. It was slug bug rally championship. It didn’t understand the point of it. No, there’s

Steve & Izzy: traffic. ’cause you’re in hell. It was the rush hour from hell.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s the middle of Utah and they didn’t realize they were filming when [00:53:00] the Mint 400 was going on.

Crew Chief Brad: And were they saying the Volkswagen Beadle is the actual sponsored car of hell? The official car of hell.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, that’s what Jeremy Clarkson says all the time.

Crew Chief Brad: I thought he said the worst car ever was the Lexus SC four 30. But I digress. No,

Crew Chief Eric: you haven’t figured it out by now.

Steve & Izzy: But yeah, in the middle of this beetle traffic or whatever, we see Charlie’s in the car, we see the helicopter and you know his cop car.

They’re trying to chase each other. But yeah, the bugs are trading paint. And then, I don’t know, there’s like the tunnel road out of fast four or whatever.

Crew Chief Eric: I said the same thing. It was like the Mexico scene. He goes flying outta there like

Mountain Man Dan: wow. Well during all this he cop, he’s got Rachel in the back seat and it’s like a TV up in the front.

Oh yeah. And it shows being like this famous violin player or whatever, I guess, to try to coerce her to wanna stay.

Crew Chief Eric: That leads us into the devil scene for the first time. But just before that, did anybody else see, well, you couldn’t not see it, which was the California Raisins, [00:54:00] Claymation, Cerberus, that was Garbing.

The entrance to the Devil’s Layer, quote unquote. The budget of this film must have been incredible.

Steve & Izzy: We’ll get to it. Luckily, little Dog Ben finally plays into the movie and distracts Serra so he can get by. And then there’s this tall, blonde crossing guy that operates the raft that goes through the river sticks or whatever.

Oh yeah. That guy looked familiar to anybody. Who was that? Well, he shouldn’t. ’cause it’s the guy that played the Predator. No, really? In the costume. Yeah. Yeah. He’s been a bunch of tall horror creatures over the years. But yeah, predators probably most famous like Peter, Peter, Kevin Hall. Does he do the sound effect

Crew Chief Eric: too?

Steve & Izzy: No, I think that’s somebody else. But yeah, he passed away shortly after this. Yeah. Oh wow. Gone too soon. But anyway, so they get to the tower. I like how he like walks into this tower and there’s like the apple of Eden on display. Like a little glass case. Yeah. Before

Mountain Man Dan: he went in there. Do you guys the one point where he’s running away from like all the Napoleon’s army guys?

Oh yeah. He shuts the door and slides the mop handle through. Yep. I would love to know what Hollywood makes their mop [00:55:00] handles out of Where they can never break ’em open.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. Right. Like an entire legion can’t open. Yeah. Basically saloon doors because of a mop handle. Also, I like that he’s running through this tower, hiding the shotgun by like wrapping it in a a shirt or something.

Yeah, right.

Crew Chief Eric: Like, gee, I wonder what the guy’s holding. I also felt like the scene where he walks in as Dan describes with the Napoleon soldiers, you know, there were different soldiers of different armies or whatever. It was almost like the video games when we were kids, like if you knew that you walked into this square and didn’t move for a minute and then you know, the pattern changes and if you turn to the left and move two squares over and then one square up and then stopped, it felt like he could have done that and gotten through that room and nobody would’ve noticed him.

But instead, you know, he goes in flailing with his gun wrapped in a t-shirt or whatever, and I’m just

Steve & Izzy: like,

Crew Chief Eric: terrible.

Steve & Izzy: He’s definitely never played Mow your solid. Exactly right. You gotta find a box. You know? Hell, I don’t think he’s ever gotten to one of the castles in Mario. Your princess is in another castle.

Aw damnit. God damnit. He walks into a janitor’s closet. [00:56:00] Apparently it’s not a janitor’s closet. It’s like where somebody holds their harem. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Her room. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, Rachel’s just in there playing the violin and uh, Charlie’s like, Rachel’s that you, but then he is also like, holds the shotgun on her.

Like, hold on a sec, let me see you in a mirror. Yeah, he’d be skeptical too, right? I mean, come on that pre, but then Rachel’s like, I thought you were dead, Charlie. And I’m like, uhoh, this is going, I thought you were dead. I moved on. It’s been 15 minutes since I thought you die. Yeah. So he gives, uh, Rachel the necklace and she’s like, oh, Charlie, I love you.

They start kissing and blah, blah, blah before slip, babe. It’s a bracelet. Is it a bracelet? I don’t know, whatever. It’s a little piece of jewelry. But then

somebody has shown up in their full devil form and we’re totally not supposed to know who it is.

Crew Chief Eric: Whoa.

Steve & Izzy: So I wrote down. The devil

Crew Chief Eric: looks like an alien from Star Trek. Yeah, totally. Alien Early next Gen, star Trek, which was again, this time period. He’s a [00:57:00] olian or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And then my wife goes, why did they make him cross-eyed?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah. The contacts are whatever. I don’t think they were sinking quite right

Crew Chief Eric: so

Steve & Izzy: bad. Basically, uh, Charlie’s like, Hey, we’re leaving devil’s. Like, you know, she may not want to, I mean, also. Is she a virgin? Because I wouldn’t be interested in her unless she was. And then Steve’s next note is, I know how to settle this argument.

Walk right in front of the devil. Mm-hmm. You know, it’s Rachel this time. Fool me once. Shame on you, fool me twice. Shame on me. But no. Then the devil goes in a whole monologue about, you know what? I don’t think it’s love. I think it’s fear in vanity and whatever that’s keeping you together and blah, blah blah.

And he is like, fine, go but on one condition. Do not look back. Smash cut to Charlie Bumble fucking in his way to looking back. And then all of a sudden the army some fell. Rachel was behind him, like by the hand. She tripped and fell and said [00:58:00] Ouch. So he turned to make sure she was okay. But then yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, I wrote down, ’cause I told you I’d bring it back up.

Where is the bear if the bear is the timekeeper? A lot of things have transpired. All of this is supposed to be happening in 24 hours. Where is the bear?

Steve & Izzy: Probably on the floorboard. Those things don’t have smooth dashboards. Come on. Where’s the bear? Maybe Mr. Ben’s got it in the backseat. Well maybe it’s in, uh, the he cops car.

’cause they still that car, the Tesla of the nineties. Yes. And start driving off. Yeah. Yeah. They have to swipe to try and find the Oh, yeah. Handle, yeah. Yeah. They gotta do the, you know, spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch or whatever to, so when

Mountain Man Dan: they steal the PE cop’s car, she kind of hot wires it with the spaghetti mess under the dash uhhuh, which I bring up earlier on when they stopped at Sam’s and was having some trouble, she popped the hood and it’s like, she jiggles like three or four things underneath when I didn’t wanna start.

And she’s like, oh, I took shop class. I’m like, what shop class taught you to just jiggle wires and it’s gonna work.

Steve & Izzy: Now? See, I did immediately think of my first car, my 75 Ford Courier pickup. Sometimes it wouldn’t start, it was because the battery cables had [00:59:00] oxidized. So I’d have to have somebody go out and jiggle the battery cables while I was starting it.

Crew Chief Eric: There you go. Sandpaper your friend. Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: nobody told me that. So I just got people to jiggle battery cables for like three years.

Crew Chief Eric: There you go. But eventually they get in the cop car and they start driving off and I wrote down why they gotta be midgets. Talking about the Legion army and I was like, what is going on?

You? You only gotta pay ’em

Steve & Izzy: half. That’s why Eric,

Crew Chief Eric: to budget again.

Steve & Izzy: And then they have to drive through faith walls. Yeah, like you, you gotta believe that you’re gonna go through that wall just by, I believe. I believe. And they do. And they go across the giant chasm and land right next to the lead sled. So then they can switch cars again.

Cock, he starts tossing little people mechanics off of his car again. Why they gotta be

Crew Chief Eric: midgets. That’s

Steve & Izzy: sad ’cause because you had ’em from the earlier scene because they toss funnier. Yeah. That’s awesome. So then, uh, yeah, the Chase continues. That’s right. He’s trying to go back to, uh, bezels chop shopper or [01:00:00] whatever, his garage.

But then, wait a minute, this looks like a Trump tower or some

Mountain Man Dan: shit. What’s going on here? When they were pulling off that building, I was thinking they were, he initially he was going to another strip code because you noticed. Out front. He had the, the sign for the building going down and going back up. It said Fallen Angel on it.

I thought it was like another strip club because it had like a woman silhouette.

Crew Chief Eric: No, that was, that was the name of the garage service station. Yeah. That he went to when he had to fix the Ford. Not Zephyr, preacher Mobile. Was it also the name of the strip club? No, the strip club was Hoffa’s. Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: the strip club was Hoffa.

Mountain Man Dan: Oh yeah, yeah, that’s right. Yeah. Going up to it, it had the sign out front and it said Fallen Angel and it was rotating down a pole and going back up it, yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: yeah, it sure

Mountain Man Dan: was. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. I saw that earlier. When he goes there the first time, they show that imagery of the angel falling down. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. He knows how to go attract customers with his signage.

Crew Chief Eric: A hundred percent.

Steve & Izzy: Plus people going in there, like, I was kind of expecting something else, but uh, while I’m here, can you change my oil? Bezel comes out and he is in a suit and he’s basically like, Hey Charlie, what are you guys doing here? I thought you were leaving. And he is like, yeah, but we’re taking Adam with us.

But Adam’s like I promised I would [01:01:00] stay with him and like, yeah, but I promised I would take you with us. Okay, let’s go instantly. Adam’s like running out there and oh my gosh. We find out. Bezels the devil. What? Yeah, we did the whole time. Come on guys. Dave Batista was a werewolf. Anyway, sorry, this was a recent episode we just did too.

And then, yeah, the, the Devil Bele or whatever, he starts going monologue a bit like, you know, there’s many levels of hell. People think the world is ending. That’s just wishful thinking, man. Like mm-hmm It gets so much worse before it gets worse. Oh man, I felt this one deep in my soul. Adam is mine, so, oh, and he, he says the, like, Adam will hit back eventually, but he is just not ready yet.

He needs to finish his studies. ’cause I’m just like, oh, Adam’s the Antichrist cool. Yeah, exactly. He’s Damian, basically. Yes. Yeah. But then we get the point in the movie where even I am like, wait, what’s happening right now? Because Charlie’s like, I’ll raise you for him. It’s let’s make a deal. Yeah. And the Devil’s is kinda like, no.

And then it, they, they’re like raising [01:02:00] the stakes. Were like, like, look, if I lose the race, you can keep at ’em. And the devil’s like, no, fuck off. I’m keeping him anyway. But then Rachel’s like, and I’ll stay two. And Charlie’s like, oh, hold on, hold on. What? Which by the way, that’s a big guarantee for a kid she just met.

Mountain Man Dan: It kind of makes you think maybe she wants to stay. Right?

Steve & Izzy: Right.

Mountain Man Dan: Doesn’t Bezel make a comment? Okay. If you do. He is like, I want a child with you and I want a son or something like that.

Steve & Izzy: But he also says sometimes I can’t get what I want. Where is the bear sitting in the backseat of the Ford? It’s in the car.

It’s waiting for the right moment. It’s kinda like that thing that’s special with the car. Yeah. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: But just before that. Now he sets it up. He’s not gonna race. He’s gonna race with Super cop. Yeah. Hill cop. Yeah. Yeah. The T 2000 and they’re gonna go at it Drag race to the end. It’s, it’s almost as long of a drag race as Fast and the Furious when they’re trying to get on the airplane.

Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s a good 18 mile track. Yeah. I don’t know if you guys caught it. I appreciated it. It was the imagery when the race starts, which is what we’re leading up to right now, is the beginning of the race. [01:03:00] Bezel, the devil, whatever, is walking along and he’s kind of walking up that hill ’cause he wants to watch the race.

Mm-hmm. And in my head, suddenly of Depeche mode, enjoy the silence. Dragging a lawn chair and a guy with an umbrella. This is it right here. David Gahan needs to show up and, but this is the soundtrack of the movie right now, you know?

Steve & Izzy: Yep. So yeah, race starts, they get to the starting part. Yeah. The bikers are there too, with Royce and Cla and all.

And they showed up along the way, Royce starts bitching about, well, I wanna go too. I want a chance to get outta here and do the devil’s work on earth. And the devil’s like, look dude, you’re just a great disappointment to me. Just kinda walks away and I’m like, Ooh, harsh. So then the bikers leave, you know, Royce and Claire are on one bike and just chasing after cock and Charlie, and pulls out the sword and just starts stabbing the at little lead sled, like at Adam and Christie on that side or whatever, and just going to town.

But then Clara Hero, the movie pulls off her scarf and starts blinding ’em and pulling his head back with a scarf slide off the road. Fall off a [01:04:00] cliff. Roy is impaled by his own sword, right before they go off the cliff and all of that. When Claire is blinding him, she says, no, you can’t stop them. They’re still alive.

And he goes, so am I. Ooh,

Crew Chief Eric: interesting.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, there you go. But then, uh, yeah, he cop, he’s a trading paint with Charlie, blah, blah, blah. And then pop Charlie, bless them in the fucking head. But the car’s still driving. Yep. Adam says, you gotta break his glasses. And he is like, you haven’t told me this before.

Like, well now I’m on your side. Right? But there’s only one shotgun. Shell left. Oh shit. I buble fucked and dropped it. And instead of the seat quick, we gotta grab it. Rachel, help me. You gotta grab it. Blah, blah, blah. He has a whole bunch of that while they’re driving around. But then while she’s looking for that shell, she finds something.

She doesn’t find the bear. No, she does not find the thing Mr. Ben. But perhaps something even better, she finds the nos, nos. And so then they start living life a quarter mile at a time. Victory. They win.

Mountain Man Dan: There we go. Did anybody else enjoy their faces being stretched [01:05:00] back when like they hit the Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Again, the budget of this film.

Steve & Izzy: I thought that was hilarious. Yeah. So then, uh, back in the real world, uh, the card comes flying out immediately. Crutches into like real cop or whatever.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Mars Callahan. Yeah. Mars Callahan. Yeah. Yeah. Here’s your answer. The bear’s on the dash. There we are. Search, ringing, pull it outta the backseat.

From where Mr. Ben was the force of going through the portal. They just made it just in time. The human cop is still sitting there waiting. Yeah. For 24 hours. Yeah, that was my thing too, is like, what, what? No guys, it’s 24 hours. He’s just back on his shift. He went home. Oh yeah. There we go. Night sleep. Yeah.

Changed his clothes and everything. Yeah, he changed his clothes ’cause he shattered his pants when the shotgun was pulled off. He had time to like basically work the rest of his shift. Harass the minorities, have some donuts, go home, beat his wife, get a full night’s sleep and then come back. But then, uh, that’s when the, he cops comes through the, the billboard and shit just starts on fire

Crew Chief Eric: everywhere.

Awesome. That was actually [01:06:00] pretty awesome. What that means is they had money left over and they needed to use it. And this final scene we’re just gonna torch everything done. Was there a burning bush? Oh, there had to be. Oh, that’s a burning Joshua

Steve & Izzy: tree anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Everything’s on fire. The, he cops slapping Charlie all over the goddamn place.

Oh, yeah. Charlie hits the, he cop with a rock and bust one the lenses on his glasses. So it starts glowing, and then helicopter’s, like enough of this shit, pulls his gun, puts it up to like Charlie’s forehead about ready to pull. But then Rachel pops up with the shotgun, blasts the second lens, and then he cop tags away his safe distance, and then he explodes.

Awesome. And then we cue the triumphant song. Yeah. Hey. Yeah. And Clara’s alive back in hell. She’s like getting up like, oh man, what a fall. The devil like, I don’t know, raised a toast. Like he’s the Great Gatsby to Charlie across the vortex. Did he raise glass to Charlie or did he raise his glass to Adam, the [01:07:00] Antichrist, who’s now on the other side?

Who’s now Oh, that’s right. Who’s now on Earth and bringing hell to earth roll credits, guys. Oh wait, wait. There’s more. Luckily. We have an epilogue. Yes. And a nice little scroll where we find out. Oh yeah. Charlie and Rachel get married. Charlie makes some video games while Rachel has a string of pizzerias called Mountain Mikes now coming to the East coast.

Adam moved to Cleveland. Sam’s still the harbinger of Doom at his gas station waiting for Claire to come back instead of doing his own damn self. Ben’s in commercials and the devil still be Deviling. Yeah. Roll credits highway to hell. Tell the hell to hell wait.

Crew Chief Eric: Was that true? Was there something post movie?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. To be cut off part of that so you didn’t get all of it. So thanks for telling us Steve. ’cause I missed it.

Steve & Izzy: We washed it on tub be as well. We Oh. Oh, maybe. Was it already suggesting the next movie or whatever cut out? Oh, okay. Yeah, it was basically Turing then like a white scroll, kind of like the credits, like Monty Python style.

Were there any moose in that? No. No more maximum [01:08:00] overdrive. So, yeah, it turns out it was aliens the whole time. So guys, what ac CDC song would you compare? Highway to Hell, to Thunderstruck, backseat Rhythm, big Gun. More like the three Stooges than the ac DC. Dirty deeds done. Dirt cheap. Kinda y Yeah. What, what, what?

What’d you guys think going around the room, Brad? What? What’d you think?

Crew Chief Brad: It was a good premise. Very, very poorly executed and I feel like it was probably supposed to be just a straight horror movie. And they realized the way they had done it was just so stupid. So they had to add in the comedic elements, like the stupid thing.

Handcuffs?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Just like Drop Dead Fred.

Crew Chief Brad: They had to add that stuff that this movie’s not scary at all. How do we fix it? Oh, throw in some comedy. Great, great idea. What are the Stillers

Steve & Izzy: up to? Yeah,

Crew Chief Brad: exactly. They just happen to be at the studio filming something else. What movie came out that they were involved in?

In 91? Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Gilbert Godfrey shooting like Problem Child two. And they’re like, yeah, yeah, we gotta roll for you buddy. Don’t worry about it. Exactly. Jerry Silver is like, I have this friend. He’d love to play Hitler. [01:09:00] How

Mountain Man Dan: about you, Dan? Middle of the road for me. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it. I don’t know that I’ll recommend it, but if it’s the course for late eighties, early nineties B rated kind of movie though.

Steve & Izzy: How about you, Tony? I think they’re two minute and 16 second trailer did not do it justice. Yeah, like a good way or a bad way and or I wasn’t in the right head space when I watched a trailer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’d hear that Hidden Faces song. That’s what you meant.

Yeah, totally and completely and utterly put off by the trailer. As I said from that, I thought I had seen enough that I could fill the gaps in on my own without watching the rest of the movie. However, upon watching the movie in its entirety, there are far worse movies than things. Let me guess which one is on your list.

Would you say far worse movies that we’ve talked about on this here? Podcast Collaboration? Better Than The Stuntman, better than Lamborghini, better Than Trading Paint Better than Senior [01:10:00] Moment? Where? Where, where are we going? I would watch this again before I watch Stuntman, but I would watch any of those other ones again, before I watch this.

You would watch Senior Moment again before you watch this Lamborghini, the Rise and Fall of Frank Gorilla, or whatever it was called. If I was forced to watch something again, I have not watched any of these again, nor do I plan to

Crew Chief Eric: what, not even the fall guy. Fall guy. We’ve watched more than once. That’s good.

That was a good, the new one. Oh no, I watched, watched

Steve & Izzy: that like six times I think. No, this was very period appropriate. It was stealing from movies before it, movies at the same time. Hell, it may have stolen from some movies after it and it may have, yes, it may have informed some movies after it as well.

Yeah, it was super campy and just you took it in that regard. It was fine. I don’t know if I would go as far as to say that the, uh, premise was. That deep, but [01:11:00] maybe they had something there

Crew Chief Eric: could have been executed better. It’s like the bear, you could find it for most of the movies

Steve & Izzy: is in the back seat with the dog.

Crew Chief Eric: How about you, Eric? I gotta give you guys a gold star this time and thank you Izzy, for recommending this movie. My wife usually hates everything that we watch together

Steve & Izzy: for

Crew Chief Eric: these reviews. Like vehemently angry sometimes at the films. We watch this together from the moment it started, from the opening credits to the end.

We were laughing, we were commenting, we were just all over the place with it. We got to the end and it’s like, are we gonna watch it again? Probably not. It’s not appropriate to watch with our girls by any stretch, but it was just, we got to the end of it. We were like. That was fun. We had fun watching it.

We had fun watching it together. So mad props to you guys. I actually liked it. Now, if I were to stack rank it against some of the other stuff, you know, between stuntman and fall guy, if that’s our upper and lower echelons,

Steve & Izzy: apparently that’s our top and bottom, which is weird ’cause they’re the same movie, but go on.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s [01:12:00] somewhere in the middle, right? It it is. To your point, better than some of the other stuff we watch, but not as good as. Some of the others. So no mad props to you guys. This was a good one. How about you, Ozzie? Do you enjoy this movie?

Steve & Izzy: I genuinely love this dumb little movie. Is it a perfect movie? No.

No, but like Eric said, it’s fun. I, this is just fun. Yeah, it’s fun. I really like the effects and stuff. I really do. It’s, it’s so of the late eighties, like, you know, the, the like fucking hamburgers from that, uh, better off Dead, like that whole kinda stop motion like Tim Burton kinda shit. Yeah. It’s,

Crew Chief Eric: it’s a lot

Steve & Izzy: of

Crew Chief Eric: that.

It was almost like a Randy Brothers film. That’s what my wife said. She’s like, it’s not quite evil dead, but it’s like almost there. Yeah. It’s trying, it’s trying to be that and so it’s like there was something about Evil Dead and Ash versus the, and all that stuff where you’re just like, you knew what you were getting into Bruce Campbell and all that stuff.

This wants to be that. But it just never gets there.

Steve & Izzy: It’s a lot like Peewee Herman, [01:13:00] but like our rate of, what if Peewee Herman walked into a strip club randomly looking for his bike? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Like it’s that same kind of feel like what if Peewee Herman went to hell looking for his bike? You know, would’ve

Crew Chief Eric: made this movie though if we brought the singers from the Jeff Bridges movie over the coconuts.

Remember them. If they were in

Steve & Izzy: hell, that

Crew Chief Eric: would’ve been hilarious. Yeah, I could see it. Not Lou Vega and The Coconuts, because we got not Molly Wing Wal and not Lorenzo Llamas. So we gotta round it out.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah. So it sounds like we’re divided on this movie. We have, uh, three recommends and three Burden Hells, I guess you guys have to decide for yourself on Tuby or any other method finding this movie.

All right, we’re gonna take a quick official break. Oh. But when we come back we have, well, not more beer. So we didn’t have any beer. This one

Crew Chief Eric: I did. You guys didn’t even ask

Steve & Izzy: me. Oh, shit. Shit. Well, when we come back, we’ll have some beer fun facts and what we learned from Highway to Hell.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

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Crew Chief Eric: So let’s talk about our beers. Dan’s not drinking well water for a change. What? Pennsylvania’s finest. Is that what you got there? I got a little bit of this. Does that shine? Yes, it is. Or is that gasoline? It can run a car, but,

Mountain Man Dan: but then I do have America’s oldest brewery in hand.

Good old giggling, lobster,

Crew Chief Eric: Potstown, Pennsylvania. Look at that. They got multiple things in the cooler here. I, on the other hand have scooter blood orange Radler by Braxton Brewing Company out of Covington, Kentucky. And it is Ooh, fan [01:16:00] Tabul Covington, Kentucky. Right

Steve & Izzy: across the river from Cincinnati, right?

That’s exactly right. Nice. How about you, Tony? You drinking anything? Water from your, well, from my, well, from my, well, actually, you know where mans splits get their water. Where’s that babe? A well, actually, uh, no. How about you, Matt? Man, Dan, what? You already asked Dan. Oh. Uh, Brad. Brad, sorry. What the hell?

Brad and Dan, they’re all the same guy now.

Crew Chief Brad: I was driving so I couldn’t be drinking.

Steve & Izzy: Oh yeah. That makes sense. Good. Good job. Good job at you being all professional. On our end, we have a, a very special beverage here. Kirkland’s signature, hella style lager, courtesy of Deschutes Brewing out of Bend, Oregon.

Ooh. 4.5% alcohol by volume. That where De Shoots is now. Yeah. You started off with Kirkland and I was like, wait a second. You bought the Costco

Crew Chief Brad: sells beer. That’s why I started laughing.

Steve & Izzy: Apparently you savor the triumph of a 2023 Great American Beer Festival. Gold medalist. A beer that stands out among the finest in America [01:17:00] won the Goldberg Munich style.

Hellis now available at your local Costco. There you go. Oh shit, babe. We might have voted on this. Oh yeah. Shit, maybe. Yeah. We were at the Great American Beer Festival. We were at the Great American Beer Festival that year too. Yeah, my top, oh, this tall. Nice And the pour down my throat. No, no, no, no. I’m just gonna take a sip off of yours.

Sorry everybody. I’ve been fighting a stomach bug and probably chugging a bunch of beers is gonna help that. It’s got a little green apple nest to it. That’s kind of a poor descriptor, but it’s got that, um, no, there’s a touch of green apple on there, but um, yeah, definitely malt forward, earthy style hop, like a slight soreness, but in a good way.

I don’t know, just a little different mouth feel than kind of a standard logger, but yeah, not bad. Probably won’t make me sick. No, I’m just kidding. No, no, this tastes bad. Aint bad at all. Yeah. Nice little beer. Yeah, try it out. Alright, so who’s interested in some fun facts about this movie? I am always up for fun facts.

Well, rotten Tomatoes. Ooh, there’s no critic score on this one. Cowards. Well, there’s four of ’em. [01:18:00] That’s not enough for an official score. Apparently they’re all mildly positive, like three out of fives kind of thing, right? But nobody gives a fuck about critics anyway. What’s that audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

What do the people think?

Mountain Man Dan: 70% range. What I think it got from the positive end of the spectrum. What is in your beer dude?

Crew Chief Eric: 70%.

Crew Chief Brad: This movie’s definitely on the spectrum.

Crew Chief Eric: Brad, what’s your number then?

Crew Chief Brad: Negative 3000.

Crew Chief Eric: $1 Bob. $1.

Steve & Izzy: 1 cent. He went 1 cent. What about you, Tanya? I wanna say 60. What is up with you guys? I feel like I saw what the number was,

Crew Chief Eric: but I don’t really remember.

Right Eric? Well, I know Izzy’s gonna say her generous. 17%. So I’m gonna come in just over her and say 21%.

Steve & Izzy: See, I actually was gonna go with our other favorite number 69. Nice. Tanya’s closest, 53% with the audience. Basically just like us right down the middle, three and three, you know? [01:19:00] Wow. What if the three of us that liked it gave it a hundred percent and the you guys gave it one.

That’s what it happened just after the budget. $9 million. Actually, not that bad. I’m sure with like inflation, that’s like 30 or 40 today or something, but yeah, $9 million. Any guesses on the worldwide growth? $17 and a six pack.

Crew Chief Brad: Alright. How much did one ticket cost in 1991?

Steve & Izzy: Uh, let’s say $3.

Crew Chief Brad: Three 50.

Steve & Izzy: How about tree fitted?

Alright, let’s put this in perspective before you give that number.

Mountain Man Dan: It cost not to make correct

Steve & Izzy: 22 million in today’s dollars. But in 1991 when this movie came out, yeah, your plug box office numbers too. Nice. The biggest movie in 1991. Was Terminator two. So we said this movie cost 9 million to make 9 million.

How much do we think Terminator two cost to make? Yeah, it was like a hundred or something, wasn’t it? 178 million. Holy. That’s like a billion dollars today. Yeah. [01:20:00] Take that water world, making it the most expensive film ever made at that time. And what was the gross again? Almost 205 on Terminator two. It made its money back.

We’ll see. And how much money did highway to hell? Yeah. Well, I was hearing some guesses. I heard 17 and a six pack tree fitting. I’m thinking probably like 12

Mountain Man Dan: to 13. You think

Steve & Izzy: it made its money back? No, it cost 9

Mountain Man Dan: million. I think it did. Because you gotta understand during that time, it’s not like today where you got to see movie trailers near as often.

So it was like at the end of a movie that you went to the theater system. Dude,

Crew Chief Brad: Daniel’s trying to say people were bamboozled into watching it.

Crew Chief Eric: Bam. Dude, people asked for a refund at the end of this movie. So 1.798 million.

Steve & Izzy: No way. It did not make more than it cost. I don’t know what it made, but not more.

Crew Chief Brad: It made $1 less.

Steve & Izzy: Less than 2 million. All right. The worldwide gross. $26,055. Ooh. I was the closest. Wow. I believe that [01:21:00] is BHS sales. The blockbuster 3% of the budget. Chad Lowe’s family and friends went to see this movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And just for perspective, since I have the box office numbers from 1991 pulled up, it only goes to the top 200 of that year number 200 Christopher Watkins McBain.

Wow. Which made over $450,000. Wow. I feel like this movie’s on par with McBain. This movie didn’t deserve that much hate. Uh, a gross of a 20th of McBain. Which everyone only remembers because we keep suggesting it. I don’t know. Obviously it’s because of Maria Conci, Alonzo writing her donkey from South America to Brooklyn.

Oh, there you go. Uh, yeah. Let’s see what other fun facts we got. The film features four members of the Stiller family. Yeah, we, we talked about it. Yeah. Jerry Stiller, his wife and Mira Ben Stiller and of course Ben’s sister, Amy Stiller. Ben Stiller ad-libbed His dialogue as Pluto’s Cook. You really couldn’t tell.

Cocaine is amazing. Yeah. Make a part of Steve Johnson got the [01:22:00] idea for the Riding on Hell. Cop’s face from Clive Barker’s book of Blood and this was shot from October 25th to December 20th, 1989, but not released until 1991 and unreleased in the US until March 13th, 1992. Wait, hold on. Let’s check that 92 box office.

See if that’s where it is. Top grossing movie of 1992 was, of course, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. Yeah. And going down the list. Oh shit. Number 200 Wild Orchid, two colon, two shades of blue. You guys know what Wild orchid, I’m gonna guess that’s a porn. Mi Mickey Rourke and his then wife, Rita Ora or something like that.

But that made almost $600,000. Wow. Love potion number nine was number 1 94 and it made 750,000.

Crew Chief Eric: This movie is a victim of circumstance. It is in the shadow of other great and epic 1991 debut films. It didn’t stand a chance.

Steve & Izzy: If it were released in early 1990, [01:23:00] I’m sure it would’ve been nominated for Academy Awards and would’ve still made $26,000.

Yeah, exactly. Well, you said it was done in 1989. Yeah, they wrapped like December of 89. There’s no way they could have released it in 89 and been successful because Batman 89 came out. Oh,

Crew Chief Brad: yeah. Yeah. I don’t think the success of those other movies is why this movie sucked.

Steve & Izzy: You gotta believe Brad. I believe.

I believe I know why it failed, because America hates Christians. You know what? That’s it is dealing with hell and the whole religious aspect. Nobody wants to root for the devil or against the devil. With all the anti-cop sentiment in this,

Mountain Man Dan: they filmed the whole thing in two months.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: I would imagine.

Most films, they take like six months to film. Two

Steve & Izzy: months. $9 million.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah, that’s a lot of money in two months. Wow.

Steve & Izzy: That ending scene with all the pyro, dude, that was the year and a half it took or whatever for ’em to release. It was all that post-production and the stop motion [01:24:00] and all that stuff so

Crew Chief Brad: failed because they got the wrong low brother.

Steve & Izzy: I don’t think it would’ve, I don’t think it would’ve helped

Crew Chief Eric: it.

Crew Chief Brad: If Rob Blow was in it, it would’ve grossed at least nine and a half million.

Crew Chief Eric: It would be nice to know what Rob was doing at the same time. I’m looking it up. Yeah, I was just thinking that was he drugged out? Oh shit. He was doing Wayne’s World around this time, wasn’t he?

Steve & Izzy: Oh shit.

Crew Chief Eric: My other question is, ’cause Tanya brought it up earlier, Ernest scared stupid was at the same time, and it sort of has the same level of CGI writing. I mean, obviously Jim Varney was in it, so that takes it to a whole new level. I’m wondering how did Ernest scared Stupid do in 91 compared to this movie

Steve & Izzy: Ernest Scared stupid production cost was 9.6 million.

Ooh, there you go. That’s a good co comparison. All right. Ernest Scared Stupid, made less than Goes to Jail. 14 million versus 25. So it made money. There’s something broken here and Rob Lowe around this time, he was making such classics as Bad Influence, the Dark Backward if the [01:25:00] shoe fits, and then in 92, a little movie called Wayne’s World that took the world by storm and then Parks and Rec.

Oh, well then, then like what the Stand Tummy Boy. Wait, so you said the Rotten Tomatoes on this movie was 53%. 53%. Yeah. So what do we think the Rotten Tomatoes of Earnest Scared Stupid was for a movie that made money. Oh, that’s interesting. How much? 69.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m

Steve & Izzy: gonna go

Crew Chief Eric: 69. Or now it’s probably like 45 or something like that.

Steve & Izzy: 27.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, look at that. Wow. That’s messed up. You

Steve & Izzy: heard it here. Highway to hell. Better than Ernest. Scared stupid.

Crew Chief Eric: I like Ernest. Scared stupid too.

Steve & Izzy: Right? Any of the earnest movies are good. They’re cornea school. Oh yeah. The earn goes to prison. Surprisingly hilarious.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh my God. That’s the best one. Followed by Earn rides again, where he is on the cannon.

Oh, it’s the best.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, slam dunk. Ernest. Ernest goes to Africa. I mean, nah. No, those I never saw. I never saw those. Those weren’t that good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don’t, don’t worry about those. Ernest goes to jail. That’s classic. But ladies [01:26:00] and gentlemen, we reached the most important part. The end. What did we learn?

Yes. From highway to hell. I’m going last. Who wants to go first? I know Eric likes to go last. Yeah. I learned that when you go to hell, apparently you’re still alive and you can still die in hell and be resurrected because all the people were still alive and then they got killed in the mutilated asphalt machine going off the cliff.

The road to hell is paid with good intentions. Yeah, so basically you’re still alive somehow. Here’s the thing, I don’t think people with Mutilators died. I think they have to spend eternity as chunks in a road. I was wondering that because when the leg fell down, the leg stood up straight and for a minute I thought the leg was gonna like walk away.

Yeah. They spread eternity in the flames that burn, but do not consume

Crew Chief Brad: just

Steve & Izzy: like bet juice. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Alright, Brad,

Crew Chief Brad: I learned absolutely nothing

Steve & Izzy: you learned. You could probably film a movie that would gross more than $26,000. I think I lost

Crew Chief Brad: knowledge watching this movie. I didn’t gain knowledge.

I’m [01:27:00] about to give you some knowledge. Just weight. You’re about to drop some knowledge. How about you babe?

Steve & Izzy: I learned that Eric has never had anything slide off to the dashboard and disappear into that little black hole between the seat and the center console. Where is the bear? Where is the bear? Yeah, it, it’s available on Hulu anyway, all four seasons.

And also I think that movie from the French director that has like no dialogue. It’s called the Bear. We did it last year. It was great. The bear, I learned hell is full of cops and stillers hell is full of cops and bad cop, no donut. Yeah. How about you, Dan?

Mountain Man Dan: I learned that Eric apparently has a thing about Teddy bear with clock, so I think I know what his Christmas present might be this year.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, Teddy ruxbin. It’s teddy bear clocks. It’s a very specific kink.

Mountain Man Dan: My mission is to find that bear with the clock in its belly for you. Ah-huh. Yeah, that’s, yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yes, you can probably find that specific one on eBay. Probably Chad Lowe’s trying to like have an estate sale or something.

Mountain Man Dan: They’re still [01:28:00] trying to make money off of

Steve & Izzy: the props from the movie to get it into the positive.

A couple more of these, we can crack 30,000. All right, how about you, Eric?

Crew Chief Eric: You know how there’s the man of a thousand faces? There’s really only seven stories ever told, and everything’s a derivative of those seven stories, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A hundred thousand monkeys on a hundred thousand typewriters.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Turtles all the way down according to Terry prt. That being said, I’ve said before, like the Tron story is Alice in Wonderland, and this is that, and this is the other thing, whatever. This one actually is quite special because if you know your history, it’s a retelling of a Greek tragedy, the story of Orpheus and acy, but it’s poorly executed.

So that’s really what this is all about. And if you want a modern day interpretation of this exact same story, watch chaos. On Netflix with Jeff Goldblum and the rest of the fancy cast that’s over there. That was way more than $9 million to produce that show. But that’s the same story as well. Guy goes down to hell, he is gotta bring the girl back.

So when Tanya said Dante’s Inferno, I was like, oh, she’s almost there, but not quite. It’s not [01:29:00] Dante’s story. This is Orpheus and Retic. See. Boom, not chaos. The Jason Statham movie? No, not that one. No, no, no. That’s Chaos with a K. Oh, like the director of Ballistic X versus sever.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: You guys haven’t watched Chaos.

You gotta watch it.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, of course. I, I started to and I couldn’t keep going. So good. We’re too, we were too busy rewatching this.

You know the good version. There you go. There you have it. Well guys, thank you so much for joining us here on everything I learned from Movie. I understand you also have a podcast network or

Crew Chief Eric: two. We do. And you know, normally I will do a plug for some of the shows on the network. You know, the Ferrari marketplace, no matter your story, blah, blah, blah.

But I just want to point out one in particular that if you’re listening to this or you’ve been ride or die with us. So after all these crossovers, we’ve done with Steve Izzy tune in every month for our news episode called The Drive Through Guaranteed last Tuesday of every month. It is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive, motor sport, and entertaining car [01:30:00] adjacent news.

So we encourage people to check that out because Brad, Tanya, and I with sometimes special co-hosts have a lot of fun with what’s going on in the world. Everywhere good and bad podcasts are available. Babe, are you on social media at all?

Steve & Izzy: I am. You can find me everywhere at Untidy Venus. That is a goddess who’s bad at housekeeping.

I’m on all the social medias at Untidy. Venus also catch me at shows all up and down the Wasatch front and uh, on this here podcast repeating movies we’ve already done because I thought they were so good we needed to do ’em twice. Steve? Yes. Where can we find you? Oh, we can find me everywhere on all the major pod catchers and everything I learned from movies or is up directly on Twitter, Facebook, Patreon and bluesky at EILF movies.

That’s everything I learned from movies.

Crew Chief Eric: So what are we doing next? Thunderbolt.

Steve & Izzy: We’re finally doing Thunderbolt Jackie Chan racing movie. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Excellent. I’m so excited.

Steve & Izzy: All right. Next. Well, I guess until next time, I’m Steve and I’m busy. Oh, and we’re the ones from Grand Touring.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Eric, Tony, you Mountain Down and Brad, [01:31:00] and this is everything I think from movies.

Happy, good night, everybody. Bye everybody.

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Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.

• 00:00 Izzy’s Movie Recommendation
• 02:21 Highway to Hell Movie Discussion Begins
• 03:38 Cast and Crew Insights
• 06:30 Plot Breakdown and Analysis
• 15:29 Car Talk and Movie Details
• 25:01 The Hell Cop Encounter
• 28:39 Sam’s Garage and the Special Shotgun
• 29:39 The Bear and Its Significance
• 32:11 Pluto’s Diner and the Stiller Clan
• 33:37 The Biker Gang and Their Leader
• 34:43 Charlie’s Journey Through Hell
• 39:03 The Satanic Mechanic and Bezel
• 41:05 The Road to Hell City
• 42:20 Hoffa’s Club and the R-Rated Scene
• 53:51 The Devil’s Lair and the Final Confrontation
• 59:13 The Legion Army and Faith Walls
• 59:54 The Chase Continues; Bezel’s Garage and the Devil’s Revelation
• 01:01:51 The Race for Adam’s Soul
• 01:02:59 The Final Showdown
• 01:07:07 Epilogue, Reflections and Fun Facts!

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