The Last Chase – Reviewed!

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• A former race car driver’s car is confiscated. He rebuilds it and drives to Free California with a teen’s help. Agents dispatch a jet pilot to stop him, fearing his autonomy threatens their control.
• Steve & Izzy from Everything I Learned from Movies Podcast invite us to review the 1981 Film “The Last Chase” starring Lee Majors and Burgess Meredith. and much, much more!

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Crew Chief Eric: A former race car driver’s car is confiscated. He rebuilds it and drives to free California with a teen’s help agents dispatch a jet pilot to stop him. Fearing his autonomy. Threatens their control.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah,

Executive Producer Tania: that was

Crew Chief Eric: wrong.

Executive Producer Tania: Did we watch the same movie?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s the official read for this movie.

Executive Producer Tania: That’s lies.

It was never confiscated. He hid it in his basement the whole time.

Crew Chief Eric: I cannot fact check everything on IMDB. Okay.

Steve & Izzy: You were fact checking two lines also. I was told there would be no fact checking. That’s super fun [00:01:00] facts. That’s your guys’ job.

Executive Producer Tania: I think he even said it an hour and 20 minutes into the movie.

Steve & Izzy: But yeah guys, oh, we are in the year of the apocalypse on our podcast. Everything I learned from movies, maybe you’ve heard of us. Wow. This is a perfect fit because we have apocalyptic, dystopian future. Yeah. We have cars, we have jets, lasers, Burgess, Meredith, like we are going full out for 1980 ones. The last Chase.

Yes. Excellent. Oh, but babe, we’re not alone for this one either. What do I need to put a bra on? Nah, we’re, we’re going without Sand’s video on this one, but, uh oh. Thank God we have with us the Grand Touring Motor Sports Break Fix podcast. Welcome. Mm-hmm.

Crew Chief Eric: We are excited to be back with you guys. And this is, like you said, Steve Special.

This one has been hiding in the filing cabinet for quite a while. I’m looking forward to [00:02:00] breaking this one down with you guys.

Steve & Izzy: And of course, the voices you’re gonna be hearing. Sorry, I should have been more specific. We have Eric, Tanya, and Mountain Mike. I’m sorry. Mountain man. Dan, he is Forever Mountain Mike from now on.

So what are you guys gonna hut down Mountain Mike’s Pizza and try the mountain. Mike’s Pizza. Dan, you’ve been spending a bunch of time out west. Have you gone to a Mountain Mike’s yet?

Crew Chief Eric: I have not seen one. I’m gonna have to try to find one. There’s gotta be one in Colorado.

Steve & Izzy: Do it. I highly recommend the Everest.

It is basically a mountain of meat and cheese on a pie, and it’s delightful. I like it. I like it.

Crew Chief Eric: So are we drinking tonight?

Steve & Izzy: Oh, of course we are. I don’t know, Steve. I’m still sober. Well, let’s see, from, uh, you went to brewing in Salt Lake City, Utah, we have their yard sale, winter lager, because we need to drink.

We as we’re in the heart of winter. Yeah. I don’t know. It’s snowed today. That is true. Welcome to Life on the Mountain. Oh, our tops. Nice.

Crew Chief Eric: I’ll see your beer and I’ll raise you from the Highlands of Scotland. Ooh, [00:03:00] the one and only Urn Brew. Caffeinated. Quain bubbly. It tastes weird, but it’s good at the same time.

I don’t know. It’s pretty awesome. I got this from an import store. I’ve had it before. If you’ve never had Iron Brew is another way to pronounce it. This stuff’s pretty cool. It’s pretty good

Steve & Izzy: because this is what Eric needs is more caffeine.

Crew Chief Eric: A hundred percent. Oh

Steve & Izzy: my God. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: A hundred percent caffeine.

Steve & Izzy: Watch this. Not stop at real time. Have those downers on standby.

Crew Chief Eric: You know what it tastes like. You remember the Creamsicle Ddus from when we were kids? Yeah. This is that in liquid form with a ton of caffeine. Wow.

Executive Producer Tania: Ooh, pardon me. Threw off in my mouth. Alright. Intrigued.

Steve & Izzy: I mean, as somebody who still drinks all of the Mountain Dew flavors.

Yeah. Interested. Was it the, uh, Henry Wein hards or whatever orange sodas we love? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good stuff. How about you, Tony? Are you drinking

Executive Producer Tania: sourced from a hundred to 500 feet below me? I come to you with dye hydrogen [00:04:00] monoxide.

Steve & Izzy: She’s got her own well or something out back.

Crew Chief Eric: Apparently somebody should have warned me about this chair.

It is lethal. Holy shit.

Oh, I just figured out why it lost the wheel. Kind of like this movie. I have to stop on the side of the road and repair this thing really quick. What about Dan? What’s he, oh

Mountain Man Dan: man. Dan, how about you? Much like Tanya just drinking some odd oil. Mine’s 350 feet below the house, so I know that for sure. So, yeah.

Nice. Is

Steve & Izzy: this uh, your guys’ first time watching this movie? I know it was for us, so yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes,

Steve & Izzy: it was

Crew Chief Eric: not for me. This movie was recommended to me and I gotta give a shout out. To one of our friends, Scotty B, if you’re listening, he sent me this movie a long time ago. You’re gonna love it. It’s got a car chase and it’s got Lee majors and race cars and da da da da.

And I’m like, okay. And I watched it and I’m not gonna say my opinion on it because that’s what we’re here to talk about. But I was delighted to revisit it with you [00:05:00] guys again and get your perspective on it. ’cause I have seen it before.

Mountain Man Dan: You’ve watched it numerous times. This is your trading paint.

Crew Chief Eric: No, no, no.

We’re not, no, we never, you never go trading paint. You never go full mountain Mike.

Executive Producer Tania: Never go full trading paint. We need like the billboard of the movie so that we constantly reorder their goodness because you know, we’ll get to it at the end. But I dare say this, this is still leagues above the stuntman.

Steve & Izzy: The poster’s quite misleading. Like, I mean, there’s some facts in there, but a lot of times like, wait, that, but that never really, so we’ll get into it. 1980 one’s. The last Chase, we watched it on the Blood bank. You may have to pirate this movie. It is not readily available or I guess it was on YouTube, right?

Yes, it was. Oh, okay. It’s on YouTube from time to time. But it’s Steve, what’s the blood bank? Oh, well, if you go to uh, patreon.com/bloody bits of the Bloody Bits Horror Show for $10 a month, you get access to A VPN that has thousands of hard to find obscure, mostly horror movies. But this wasn’t a horror movie, but it was on there.[00:06:00]

Check it out. Oh, but this comes from writer director Martin Burke.

Crew Chief Eric: Who’s he? Steve.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, I’m glad you asked. You might know him from Carnivals 1973. No. How about the clown murders? I’ll pass on that one. No. How about Power Play? No. No. It is a porn, I’m pretty sure. Right. This Pirates of Silicon Valley. Oh, I know that movie.

Mm-hmm. That was like his next one. Avenging Angelo America. A Crossroads and Under Fire. Colon Journalists in Combat. I like that. You read the colon? Of course.

Executive Producer Tania: Nope. Nope. And nope. This is my first movie by him.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Did we watch S of Silicon

Crew Chief Eric: Valley? Is that the Yeah. One I’m thinking of. Okay. Yeah, that’s the Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, dramatization.

Anthony

Steve & Izzy: Michael Hall is one of ’em, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. There’s that same one. One more before we get into the actors. We have to go to the screenwriter. Oh boy. Christopher Crow. Does that name sound familiar to anybody? It does sound familiar

Crew Chief Eric: [00:07:00] actually. Yeah. Who’s he? Steve?

Steve & Izzy: Well, he has 20 plus credits, including three episodes of Beretta, nine episodes of the Hardy Boy slash Nancy Drew Mysteries, but he’s the creator of.

The misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, this BJ and the Bear Streets of Justice, BL Stryker, starring friend of the podcast, uh, William Shatner lasted The Mohicans The Untouchables TV series, the watcher TV series,

Executive Producer Tania: fear. He skipped over Miami Vice. What? He did, Miami Vice An episode at least, I guess. Oh, an

Steve & Izzy: episode.

Yeah. Yeah. But babe, he’s also married to Christina Rains. Does that name sound familiar? Who’s she? Steve. Remember the Sentinel? Yeah. The main model chick. That’s her. She basically retired after marrying him. I mean, who would, oh, and the act, we lost another great actress from that movie. Not really. She basically spent the whole movie passing out.

It was great. The other screenwriter, Roy Moore, he wrote Black Christmas 10 episodes of The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim, whatever that is. And [00:08:00] then he gets credit on all the, uh, black Christmas remakes. That’s about it. Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: wow.

Steve & Izzy: Makes a lot of sense. Right. But our beloved eighties Action Hero though. Oh yes.

The one, the only Lee Majors as Franklin Hart.

Crew Chief Eric: Who’s he? Steve,

Steve & Izzy: uh, let’s see. Over 130 credits, including. The Virginian, he’s Steve Austin from The $6 million Man. Uh, the Secret of Bigfoot Steal this. The Fall guy. Yeah, yeah. Scrooged Musketeers, forever Out. Cold, big Fat Liar. Eight episodes of Ash versus Evil Dead, A Gettysburg Christmas, and of course.

The Fall guy, the movie from last year.

Crew Chief Eric: You know what I appreciate, Steve, is out of 130 credits that Lee Majors has, you’ve listed Scrooge in there. He’s in it for all of 45 seconds with that best one liner. You’ve been a good boy this year, Lee, but it’s like epic, right? It sets the tone and I’m, I appreciate that you singled that out on the list.

Steve & Izzy: Steve only picks the most iconic [00:09:00] moments in actors storied careers. I like to pick things. They’ve actually been seen in, you know, like the 15 seconds. He was in the fall guy last year and you know, Musketeers Forever, which I know we all have a DVD copy of, right?

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, some of us do. It’s on the shelf with my Sinbad movie.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, it usually comes in one of those like 12 action movie packs or whatever. Also starring in this movie, of course, legend of Phil Man screen, Burgess Meredith has Captain JG Williams,

Crew Chief Eric: who’s he? Steve.

Steve & Izzy: Well, he has over 180 credits, but here are the ones you’ve actually seen him in Burned offerings.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: You know, he’s Mickey in the first three Rocky movies and then like voice clips, the rest of them, the Sentinel popping up again. The Manitou Magic Guys, if you’ve not seen Magic, please, please go watch Magic. Anthony Hopkins is a ventriloquist who may or may not be insane and or have a possessed doll.

And Burgess Meredith is his manager [00:10:00] and Margaret’s in it. Ugh, it’s great. What else is he been in? A clash of the Titans, Santa Claus Colon. The movie Grumpy Old Man. Grumpy old man. And uh, of course he passed away in 1997. Wait,

Crew Chief Eric: wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did we

Executive Producer Tania: skip the biggest

Crew Chief Eric: thing, the most important thing about Burgess Meredith, 1966 to 67, whatever, he was the penguin.

In Batman. In

Steve & Izzy: Batman. Yes. Yes, yes.

Crew Chief Eric: How is it that in this movie, which took place 20 years later, let’s just say, does he look younger in this than he did when he was the Penguin and Batman?

Steve & Izzy: Good makeup. Yeah. Makeup, yeah. When you have Lee Major’s makeup team on, on your side. Oh, and uh, a couple. Just two more.

Chris. Make peace as, I guess the kid’s name was Ring. I never caught that in the movie.

Crew Chief Eric: He had a name. I caught it at the end during the credits. That was us

Steve & Izzy: too. We were like, alright, what is the name of shit kid? I was like, wait, did the teacher say it earlier? Because I totally missed it. Like, oh, ring James, whatever [00:11:00] his name is.

I don’t know. Could

Crew Chief Eric: have been young. Egon Spangler was the same thing.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, right. 25 or so credits including meatballs. This Mazes and Monsters. Oh shit, y’all lost out last year. Falcon and the Snowman, and of course Izzy’s favorite movie of all time Vamp. I do really like that movie. It’s a rare movie where it starts out as a, uh, college comedy of like, oh man, get into this frat.

We have to find a stripper by 8:00 PM but it’s already five and town’s two hours away. And then it becomes just like a bond girl eating people. It’s Grace Jones starring in from Dusk till Dawn. It’s great. Ah, okay. She has zero lines and is phenomenal the whole time. Wow. Yeah. Billy d Dragos in it. Check it out.

Yeah. Guys, I, I really can’t recommend this movie enough. Like I’m not even being sarcastic. It’s just one of those things you have to sort of experience because it. So bonkers and it wildly shifts, tones, and yet [00:12:00] somehow it just works. Does it involve a van?

They, they, they borrowed Long Duck Don’s, uh, drop top, tell, get to town. That’s awesome. That’s right. But on Van News guys, sorry Steve to break up this movie. Oh yeah. I bought a Ford Econo line 2008 Long Body Big Girl.

Crew Chief Eric: You bought a church van? Yeah. For

Steve & Izzy: $400.

Crew Chief Eric: No. That’s awesome. Yeah, it did

Steve & Izzy: require a new transmission, but for four grand we basically have a van.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes. Added a zero there. I heard.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Basically. So did you name her? It’s not Van Nessa. You didn’t go that easy. Yeah, we definitely did. It’s,

Steve & Izzy: it’s Vanessa, Steve, what’s her last name? Van Gogh. Oh, but it’s the French spelling with the EAUX at the end. Oh, very nice. Very nice. We’re classy. We classy bitches.

Speaking of classy, Alexandra Stewart has Eudora. Who’s she? Steve, [00:13:00] 150 plus credits, but most of it’s French stuff, so who gives a shit? But. Babe, she’s been on the podcast before? No, she is Mrs. Sharon in Under the Cherry Moon. Oh. Oh man. And she’s also Catherine Lagree in two episodes of Highlander. Ooh, okay.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh my. Yeah. It’s

Steve & Izzy: the season two unholy alliance, like the, uh, season finale there where McLeod confronts Joe Dawson about Horton. The man who killed Darius. Darius Darius then. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that. And then follows the trail of Xavier St. Cloud to Paris. And of course, Xavier St. Cloud is played by the lead singer of fine young cannibals.

Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: We’re really doing a good job of procrastinating talking about this movie.

Steve & Izzy: We need to fill some time. She was the last one. It’s so rare we have someone from under the Cherry Moon pop into one of our movies. It, it’s true though. Alright, so we hit play. Oh my gosh. See a racetrack and we see a car sputter out because it ran out of gas.

I, I’m assuming this was like a, like a test run or something? ’cause the e [00:14:00] the stands were all empty?

Executive Producer Tania: No, this was already in Postapocalyptic or dystopian world. He took his, was it okay? He just took his race car out of the basement to go for a ride and then ran outta fuel.

Mountain Man Dan: I’m imagine he bury it in the garage.

I think it was still together at this point.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because I, I feel like this was like supposed to be, let’s say the late eighties or whatever. What, uh, as we find out, they say there’s no more oil. Like it was a beautifully upkept racetrack. If it’s been sitting around for the last five or six years, I’m also gonna argue all of the blacktops than this our pristine.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. And I do believe you need oil and petroleum to make asphalt. I mean, I might be wrong. I’ve been known to be wrong before.

Crew Chief Eric: You are correct. Now, I did try to pinpoint which racetrack it was, and I did not do a very good job of finding a result. But based on the fact that the movie was filmed in Canada, it has to be one of the Canadian racetracks, even one of the smaller ones up in the Ontario area of that time [00:15:00] period.

There’s not many that exist anymore other than like Mosport, which is now Canadian Tire Motor Park. It wasn’t

Executive Producer Tania: filled in Canada at all.

Crew Chief Eric: It says at the end that it was,

Executive Producer Tania: I also read that it was filmed in like Flagstaff, in Sedona and probably for the airplane scenes. Yeah, yeah,

Steve & Izzy: yeah, yeah. Definitely.

Definitely. Anytime there’s an airplane involved. Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: Clearly, because that looked very not Canadian.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, they’re talking about like West Pennsylvania, that it’s like showing Southern Utah for what it looks like. This like, yeah, but, well, where are they now then? It’s in the, uh, the after after time. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ohio’s a wasteland at this point. You know

Executive Producer Tania: what, it’s moss port.

Steve & Izzy: It is Mosport. Okay.

Executive Producer Tania: Just found it.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, gene Heckman’s down the street from that angle. I didn’t recognize it. ’cause most ports really long as a track, so they only used one section of it then.

Steve & Izzy: Very cool. And then we also get, I swear, a solid minute of ominous music staring at a gas pump product placement.

Okay. I guess that was an

Crew Chief Eric: Exxon commercial. That’s what that was,

Executive Producer Tania: but it was ominous, so it wasn’t like a good Exxon commercial.

Steve & Izzy: [00:16:00] Yeah, maybe it’s paid for by Shell. Oh wait, no. A shell station gets blown up later in the movie too. Yeah. Maybe this is paid for by the electric car. It’s very much like looking at the gas pump, like this is why there is no future.

Crew Chief Eric: I just like the fact that he can cut open an Exxon gas pump with a set of tin snips.

Mountain Man Dan: It just baffled me like. Cut through the outer wall. That made sense to me. But when he knocks it over to the side and like the pipe inside and everything just falls over with it. Nothing was

Executive Producer Tania: connected.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, I’m sorry.

The $6 million, man, knocking out a gas pump was confusing.

Executive Producer Tania: And then suddenly he had like a siphoning device and he’s like, squish, squish, squish, squish. Like what?

Steve & Izzy: He had it in the back of his car. I guess. I don’t, some people keep, you know, jumper cables and the professionals keep the little siphon ready to go.

Crew Chief Eric: So we go from his lone track day, you know, stealing gas from underground, which actually is foreshadowing for later in the movie as we come to find out into this very long exposition monologue of just Lee Majors talking for like [00:17:00] the next, what seems like forever about what’s going on and did anybody really understand other than there was a disease and there was a pandemic that killed everybody.

Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: an epidemic, a plague that killed his wife and son. And then of course that led to gas, not existing anymore. Hi. His buddy fetch kind of filled us in.

Executive Producer Tania: You know what’s sad? I literally watched this movie three hours ago. Like I started it at like five and I already can’t remember what happened.

Steve & Izzy: I, I do like during his thing, he was like, I like to help out at the hospital from time to time.

Of course, I don’t wear a mask ’cause why the fuck would I do that during a, an epidemic? I’ll be all right. I’m Lee fucking majors, I’m half robot. But then cars are outlawed, but they’re not. But I was

Executive Producer Tania: so

Steve & Izzy: confused.

Executive Producer Tania: Like all transportation is like gone because. I don’t know. That was polluting the earth also.

Steve & Izzy: I didn’t get it. And this disease too, it could be a form of Legionnaire’s disease, it could be [00:18:00] chemical warfare. I don’t know. Fake news.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s so much

Steve & Izzy: foreshadowing. Yeah. Yeah. From 1981, the first part of this movie, I’m like, oh my God, had we not see it coming? But he was like, well, he just kinda learned to live with the panic and the fear and until it becomes normal.

And I’m like, fuck. All

Crew Chief Eric: right. Okay, so this is where two things I kind of wanna diverge on. One is super fun. Carfax, maybe I can save that for later if you want, but you guys just hit on something. We’re talking about 1981. We’re talking about foreshadowing, you know, things that happened only just a couple years ago.

Really. The film felt older than it was, and I wanted to ask you, Steve, and if I’m spoiling one of your fun facts, is this like the stunt man where it took this guy 10 years to make this movie happen because it feels like a seventies film and not an eighties film. There’s just something off about the whole thing.

Steve & Izzy: I don’t think I have anything in the fun facts about it. Like, you know, sitting on somebody, was it Christopher Crow’s? You know, like, oh, I [00:19:00] gotta make like 15 TV shows. Then I can make a movie.

Executive Producer Tania: It releasing in 81. It’s. Conceivable that he started making it obviously in the seventies or at least the thought process was, and with the oil thing they’d just gone through not even a decade before the whole gas crisis in the US Right.

So like they’re probably pulling strings from that because I think now I remember the thing with the cars, they were trying to preemptively stop some bigger crisis that they assumed was gonna happen with like people’s use of planes and boats and cars and all this stuff. So they out like outlawed it all

Steve & Izzy: and rocket ships and

Crew Chief Eric: makes no sense.

And the reason I bring that up is because the car itself, when I started digging into its fun facts is from 1972, it sort of triggered this, when was this film actually made? Because that car looked super new and very futuristic compared to the Grand Marquee with the Woody Family Truckster thing that he was driving around to go help the medical people or whatever.

And I was like, okay. And then I dug into the car a little bit and we can talk about that later. But [00:20:00] that was my pinpoint to say this movie feels like it’s off by 10 years.

Steve & Izzy: And, and the thing that got me the most is ’cause like basically after the scene we cut to 20 years later and I think it’s supposed to be 2010 or 2011 or something like that.

Yeah. Like, you know, in the future,

Executive Producer Tania: oh, I missed that. 2011. Oh, okay. Yeah. It’s what takes place at 2011. And the pandemic thing was 20 years before that.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. So it’s 20 years later. ’cause now Lee Majors doesn’t have as much makeup on. He looks a little more Lee Majorish and uh, he’s taking the subway to work and all that.

Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: So the pandemic broke out in 1991, but I think he stopped racing from what you learned later before that. But that would still maybe have put him stopping racing in the eighties. So that’s still the eighties. A decade, yeah, after that car came out. So who knows?

Crew Chief Eric: So you talked about Lee Major’s makeup, what do you call his hairdo?

Was that a perm or is that like a fro Like what was that?

Steve & Izzy: The shatner.

Crew Chief Eric: The sha. Oh shit. This chair,

Steve & Izzy: Eric. Don’t gimme a goal of making you fall out of your chair. Legitimately. I have to sit [00:21:00]

Crew Chief Eric: up straight or I’m gonna die in this chair. This is like that episode where the spider came in. Remember? It was

Steve & Izzy: Oh

Crew Chief Eric: yeah.

Like,

Steve & Izzy: well, Eric’s fighting ghosts now.

Crew Chief Eric: This chair is brutal. So talking about other old stuff at this point, after the whole car thing and cutting open the gas pump, we cut to the computer room.

Executive Producer Tania: No. No, we watch him tow that thing home. No, we learn about how it’s this police state that it’s turned into with cameras everywhere and cars are outlawed.

The M fers going down the road in this big ass wagon with a trailer with a bright orange race car on it going down the highway and nobody knows. He has this secret car hidden in his basement. What? Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: yeah, yeah. See Tanya gets it,

Mountain Man Dan: his boldness of it when he goes to help out at the like hospital or whatever, he drives right up and the guy’s like, Hey, this was supposed to be turned into the impound water.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. And then he just gets out and it’s like, so was it gone now? Okay, cool. He lived in the [00:22:00] middle of nowhere. How is he getting to work every day? Bicycle.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, you know, the amount of time it used to take to go from A to Z is the time it now takes to go to A to B or whatever the heck. He’s speech he made.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, he brings that up later. Yeah. He wasn’t complaining. He’s like trying to explain cars to a kid and that’s what he pulls out and I’m like, oh god dammit, Lee, or what’s his name? Frank

Crew Chief Eric: Hart. Frank Hart?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So he works at the Department of Transportation. That’s what I’m getting to. Is this computer room at the DOT?

Yes.

Steve & Izzy: He’s the spokesperson for the Mass Transit Authority. Yeah. And he pops up like he works in the fucking Trump administration. Just like, yeah. So, uh, yeah, he used to be a race car driver. And uh, now they want me to talk about how, uh, riding bikes is cool as shit. Yeah. Any questions? No. You guys don’t even know what a race car is.

What are you kids that have never seen such a thing? I wish I had a PowerPoint presentation. I could give, eh, you know what? Next scene. And see I got from that scene, I got more of the [00:23:00] Simpsons. Hi, I’m Tom Hanks. Government’s lost all credibility. So the borrowing, some of mine tole my hair, Mr. Hanks. Okay.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh.

So this computer room master control, like a scene outta Tron. I was waiting for Sark to come out or something, but what got me again, talking about this movie feels really outta place. Did you all get the same vibe? I did. When you first saw the computer room, it was like this marriage between Willy Wonka and Dr.

Strange love.

Steve & Izzy: It was totally strange. Love. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Boop boop. Well, and here’s the best thing, like what? Two people run that whole thing and it’s like. This cavernous cineplex of beeps and boops all over in a giant fucking screen. Like if this were the taking a poem, 1, 2, 3, there’d be 40 people from the Bronx running all the levers and shit in there.

But no, if there’s just one balding guy and some chick observing him,

Mountain Man Dan: the great thing is the one guy that’s running it sits in the center and there’s no access point for him to get in or out.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. I assume he just [00:24:00] jumps in and jumps out like the Dukes of hazard, right? Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: But I was also thinking, what is Robert Vaughn gonna show up in like a tower, like in Superman two looking down and then suddenly Richard Pryor runs in from the side, or I’m not

Steve & Izzy: with them.

Superman. Oh, so cliche. The lady in this room apparently pulls the spokesperson aside and is like, Mr. Hart, we’ve got you on videotape going to one of the confiscation yards. We used to call ’em a junkyard back in my day. Like, yeah, same thing. Confiscation yard is what we call it. Sir, looking into your record.

I understand you quit racing cars after a crash where you killed someone back in the eighties. And he’s like, Uhhuh. Yeah. Thanks for filling in the explanation so I don’t have to, what are we doing here?

Crew Chief Eric: When do we talk about that flashback scene? That was real footage. That was Andretti in that Lotus, by the way, the Formula one cars, they’re talking right, and they’re like,

Executive Producer Tania: and he lost it in the corner.

They’re on a straight uhhuh. They’re on a straight,

Steve & Izzy: but they lost it in the corner. What corner? And then [00:25:00] flipped like eight or nine times and ended up in the straight. It’s like being drunk in public. I wasn’t drunk until you put me in public. Right? This exposition dump is nice and all. So then we cut to a nerd and an attic hacking the government.

It’s like the Goonies. Meanwhile, in war games, like, what the fuck are we doing? A young Neil Breen is getting his first taste of the internet hacking all the government secrets.

Crew Chief Eric: This is where we get introduced to radio free California.

Steve & Izzy: The rebel state?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: yeah, yeah. They do the interruption of the, like when he goes home.

Because, ’cause he, they’re talking about sending him to rehab center, like you mean jail rehab center. We’re gonna deport El Salvador. It’s perfectly fine. Fucking does. Is it too soon or is it too late? Uh, so yeah, so he is at home watching the replay of the crash for whatever reason. I think he likes to watch his wife crying

Crew Chief Eric: or something.

That’s, that’s

Steve & Izzy: how he goes to bed every night, I assume. Usually in this scene, like you have someone like looking at their [00:26:00] wedding footage or something like that. ’cause anyone has ever done that in the history of forever and no, no one. All right, but yeah, he is watching like the crash and his wife’s like, oh my God, is everybody okay?

God so terrible. Oh, and yeah, this is when his replays interrupted by, hello everybody. Uh, this is free California. San Francisco has returned to machines and we have our land back and we’re not under the government’s thumb, so please come on out here and blah, blah, blah. Then they lose the signal, like it’s very, they live kind of vibes like, you know.

Yeah. Obey, put on the glasses that that’d have been great actually.

Crew Chief Eric: So this is where we also learned that the car was disassembled and buried underground. Right. Because he’s gotten the notion that now he wants to go to California. He wants to break away from the monotony of his Department of Transportation life and everything that’s oppressing him.

And I think he’s in New England. I heard Boston, I think. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. I think he’s in Boston.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. So he [00:27:00] starts digging in his garage like someone killed his fucking dog and he needs his guns. John Wick referenced. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: But during this rebuild montage that happens over the course of 15 minutes, it feels like in the film there’s also that moment where his coworker’s like, we’ll just call him Lee.

He’s like, Hey, come on Lee. We’re going to the bar. You’re coming out to the bar with me. Right? And I was like, did anybody else feel like we suddenly stepped into a Kubrick film?

Steve & Izzy: Oh, totally.

Crew Chief Eric: What was going on in this bar?

Steve & Izzy: So his buddy slash speech writer, whatever, walking to the bar where the walls are covered in aluminum foil.

And I’m like the future. But then, uh, you know, they go in a back room and Oops. Orgy,

Crew Chief Eric: oops.

Steve & Izzy: And, and apparently in the original version there was a lot more nudity and stuff in this scene. Like an extra minute, minute and a half, something like that. I think I read somewhere. Yeah. Out of fucking nowhere in this movie, like.

But the next day he’s uh, you know, talking to kids again, you know, in his spokesperson role. We know one of the kids is the nerd that was hacking the government secrets earlier. He starts [00:28:00] going off script and he is like, yeah. So, uh, you know, normally I get up here, tell him a race car driver and how not having cars is great and great for the environment and great for, you know, your duty to your country.

But, uh, it’s all bullshit. It’s all rules and guilt. And guys think for yourselves and of course the one nerd kid gets up like starts clapping. Yeah. Everybody else is a dead silent. Yeah. Like think for ourselves,

Crew Chief Eric: was it just me or did they all look like they were from Hogwarts? Very Harry Potter vibes.

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: JK rolling. You hack.

Mountain Man Dan: They hint at the fact it’s like a prep school that a kid got sent to, I guess to try to straighten him out. ’cause Yeah, he’s. Rebellious what they try to hand at, but he didn’t seem it.

Steve & Izzy: He’s one of them free thinkers and so you know, the jocks slash other nerds have to like beat him up and like hang him from a statue upside down.

Oh wait, he did that himself. All right, nevermind. I wish I could do the carradine laugh, right? You’re talking about revenge of the nerd deck. I’ve never seen that movie. Is it good? No. I’ve literally seen it a thousand [00:29:00] times as a 5-year-old. It shaped who I am to this very day. Yeah, especially the second one.

Nah, nerd’s and Paradise isn’t my bag. Oh yeah. And also his, uh, speech writer buddy basically says like, look dude, you’re an idiot. You’re gonna get fired. I don’t know what they’re gonna do with you if they don’t have a use for you. You’re over 40. We’re in like the Logan’s run timeframe or something. Oh yeah.

We see the kid, they set up for like a class photo and he blows the head off the statue as they’re taking the photo. That was awesome. Great stuff. What’s the next thing that actually happens? Uh oh Yeah. He sends a message to Hart like an email. But you know, it’s one of those early eighties emails

Crew Chief Eric: on a matrix printer.

Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: you are not alone. And I was expecting heart to be like, be looking around like he’s all listen sudden transporting to like black Christmas. Like the call is coming from inside the house. By the way, kids today will never know the joy of peeling the edges off the dot matrix paper. Oh. And folding it into little accordions.

Right. And then just like seeing how long you can [00:30:00] like stretch that

Crew Chief Eric: a hundred percent. Simple joys is these simple joys.

Steve & Izzy: So the next day, Hart gets a memo and he is basically like, yeah, you’ve been suspended. Probably gonna go to jail. So then the police golf carts show up at the school.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh my God. These are the funniest recurring jokes in the whole film.

Like every time I saw these, what looked like they were reused for Johnny Cabs later in total recall, I just kept cracking up because they’re like cyber police vehicles. Like Tesla designed these things, right? Yeah. I mean, that’s what they look like and I’m just cracking up the whole time. Like, this is so hitting close to home.

They didn’t even know what they were doing, you know, 44 years ago now. This is incredible stuff.

Steve & Izzy: But yeah, they’re tracking the, this signal that apparently this kid sending out, you know, hacking the government secrets. But then it’s like, wait, why are they outside of Hart’s house? And then we see Hardee’s inside, you know, sipping his whiskey whatever for the night.

And then you hear someone like break in through the front door and I’m like, well, illegal search and seizure right there. Oh no, it’s [00:31:00] just the kid. And he is like, Hey, the cops are following me. Can I hide here for the team? He is like, what? And knock, knock, knock. Who is it?

Crew Chief Eric: And the part about that, that, you know, they found the signal emanating from Lee Majors house, Frank’s house or whatever.

And I kept thinking, this is the moment this kid is gonna open his jacket up, like data from the Goonies and he’s gonna be wired up with electronics and he’s carrying around some mobile emitter or something. And it was like totally benign. It was, it was such a big plot hole that they found him in the first place

Mountain Man Dan: was emanating from the school.

Because the one teacher’s like, what? There nothing like that could be here. When they were going up steps and the cop popped his head up into the attic where the equipment was at, I think they were following the kid and he went running that direction. That’s why they just stopped at the house and hey you, oh, that

Crew Chief Eric: makes more sense

Steve & Izzy: because I thought for about three seconds he was living in Lee Major’s fucking attic for a second.

Like

Mountain Man Dan: wait.

Crew Chief Eric: This whole time

Mountain Man Dan: when the kid gets there and he breaks the window, the cop comes up to the front door. Wouldn’t you notice broken glass? Yes.

Steve & Izzy: There was no broken glass. And that’s where I’m like, fire that gaff guy. You know [00:32:00] the,

Mountain Man Dan: they added the scene later. They had to fire the sound effect. Like during that scene, while the cops are talking to him, you see Lee major looking off to the side.

Mm-hmm. And any normal circumstance that I would imagine if a cop is there and someone’s looking off to the side and you can obvious movement from the lighting when the kid opens the door to the garage, I think a cop would be like, well, what’s going on in there? Outta curiosity, but they didn’t seem to care at all.

And then a kid goes in and sees the race car just snowballs from there. Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: it

Mountain Man Dan: does. And

Steve & Izzy: he adds the, uh, horse racer for what, 1972. Like Eric was saying.

Executive Producer Tania: Whoa, wait, I got, I gotta interject. If we expect anything more from these Keystone COP characters,

Steve & Izzy: they’re not coming back later in the movie. Dang. Nope. Not at all. But the, the kid’s like, Hey, you, uh, you going to California? Uh, no. Why? Why would you think that? No, I’m totally going to California. Can I come with, I don’t know, man, that’s kind of weird going on a Smokey and the Bandit run on roads that haven’t been used in 25 years and it’s [00:33:00] okay.

I got chemicals and like electronics and stuff like, well, shit, I don’t know. Hop in shotgun. Let’s go.

Crew Chief Eric: Hold on, let me change my outfit. Puts on his racing suit. Hell yeah. What? Yeah, less drag that way. And the kid, no helmet, but he’s got his helmet and he’s got his racing suit on.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah. How did he blow the garage door up?

When did he have time to rig the garage with explosives? When he was hiding from the cop?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: Did I miss the scene?

Steve & Izzy: No, no, no. We just assumed that in the eight seconds it took Lee Majors to be like, Nope, no kids here. I guess he was already rigging a plan B into the garage door.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, okay. Again, if this was the Goonies data would’ve hit a button on the box and it would’ve shot out and attached to the door.

Steve & Izzy: I, I can totally see a scene where this kid’s like in the garage, like this motherfucker narks on him. I’m gonna blow up his whole goddamn house. Yeah, it said they, uh, you know, they get in the car. Keystone cops are back. So, uh, your neighbor said a kid was just here, like, or No. Was the, was it security people that like told ’em?

Yeah, like, yeah. Yeah. That have

Crew Chief Eric: similar golf carts to the police.

Steve & Izzy: They hop in the [00:34:00] car, blow the garage door and you’re like, take me with you. Okay, cool. Get in.

Mountain Man Dan: Well real quick, what? The garage door blowing. I’m amazed with the 30 seconds. The kid was standing there looking in. He managed to put whatever this goo is all over the garage door to lock it shut.

It’s explosive,

Crew Chief Eric: Mike. That’s impressive. This kid’s ability, he’s a genius. He’s Batman, he’s race or whatever his name is. Ring, ring, ring. Like the doorbell. Yeah, ring. Yeah. It’s one of those. Yeah. So you know how I’m sensitive to car sound effects, right? We’ve talked about this.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Never forget, right. And this will go into my super fun fact about the car when he fires it up.

That is the sound, actual sound of a Porsche flat six idling. And it sounds so good ’cause it’s straight piped and it’s amazing what they use for the action scenes. Is not quite right and I don’t know why they did that, because that car is so naturally loud. It just, to me, it didn’t make sense. But I was really impressed.

I was like, when he fires it up and it’s idling and they’re dying from carbon monoxide in that scene. Yeah. I was like, that’s the real thing [00:35:00] right there. That’s awesome. I have a fun fact about

Executive Producer Tania: the car that I found.

Crew Chief Eric: I have some fun

Steve & Izzy: facts too.

Executive Producer Tania: I’ll interject it at the appropriate time, I suppose.

Steve & Izzy: Alright, we’re gonna have a lot of fun Facts.

Good, because I don’t, I don’t think I have that many. So, yeah, they drive off and you know, the kid holds like the million candle power flashlight or whatever to

Crew Chief Eric: do you remember those flashlights from the eighties? They sucked. It was barely enough to light the top of the hood in front of the, the

Steve & Izzy: lights.

Yeah. And it only took like 18 D cell batteries and you know, and

Crew Chief Eric: you’re plug it into the cigarette lighter in my race car. Like what? Like, okay.

Mountain Man Dan: I love the fact that there just happened to be a passenger seat in it as well.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. But then they, uh, they take the tunnel outta town, but, oh no. There’s a roadblock.

How are we gonna get out of this one? Hard pull to the right, explodes against the wall roll credits. Guys. What do we think of? Chase.

Executive Producer Tania: At first I thought, I was like, did he just u-turn in? Like ’cause you couldn’t see anything. Yeah. I was like, did he just like do a 180 in this tunnel? He is gonna drive back the other way and then all you see is noise and blackness says, oh, we [00:36:00] made a a right turn in the middle of the straight tunnel.

Really? What tunnel does that?

Mountain Man Dan: The big dig does that, I’m assuming this would be like an older tunnel for water stuff. ’cause I do like have it where it’ll shoot off at a 45 degree angle. A lot of older tunnels and especially like older places like London that had tunnels underground. Yeah. We

Steve & Izzy: weren’t in London,

Mountain Man Dan: but I know we’re not, but

Steve & Izzy: we’re in New London.

AKA Boston.

Crew Chief Eric: We’re in Canada, folks.

Steve & Izzy: Flagstaff,

Crew Chief Eric: it was Looney Tunes. It was straight up Looney Tunes. Yeah. Oh, when he

Executive Producer Tania: popped out the sign, it was Smokey the Bear.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah. Pop out the smokey poster,

Mountain Man Dan: and I thought it was weird. Earlier in the movie, he made a Smokey The Bear reference.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. He said, I, I got a friend in Smokey The Bear or something.

You’re like, what?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, I got a friend that’s gonna help me out here. Who is it? Smokey The Bear. Okay. Old man. Whatever you say. Okay, boomer. Yeah. Then we’re uh, driving in the autumn in New England. So we see the leaves falling and they’re going upwards of a hundred miles an hour. No, not really. [00:37:00] But then guys at the security council from Dr.

Strangelove or whatever they call in Hawkins from dc. This guy, I guess he just kind of shows up and he is like, well, what’s going on? Like, oh yeah, he is going 130 miles an hour on this brand new road he’s driving on that hasn’t been used in 25 years. How are they tracking his speed? Exactly. That’s

Crew Chief Eric: what I wanted to,

Mountain Man Dan: because they have cameras out the middle of the woods.

Oh, okay. You didn’t realize

Crew Chief Eric: that?

Steve & Izzy: Oh yeah. Okay, got it. You’re reading the script. That’s how they’re doing it.

But, uh, but then, uh, I was like, uh, he just gotta run outta gas any minute now. And then kins is like, well, there’s a few inches of gas they can siphon every pump, every gas station in America. And I’m like, still, really? No one’s done this in 30 years. Okay. It gets go bad for like 18 months or something.

Also that.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, after 20 years, it might be suspect

Steve & Izzy: 25 years. It

Crew Chief Eric: might be turpentine at that point. Yeah. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: I mean, turpentine does burn. So

Crew Chief Eric: it’s a race car could run on anything.

Steve & Izzy: [00:38:00] Exactly.

Mountain Man Dan: This was probably fuel which would last a little longer than the new ethanol fuel. So, oh, here we go.

Steve & Izzy: Back in my day, we ran the cars on shine.

Look, my parents have this story about now they’re divorced, but when, uh, when they got married for their honeymoon, they took their, uh, CJ four out to the middle of the BlackRock Desert in the middle, in the seventies, and were camping. And my dad did not notice that the fender had rubbed a hole in the gas tank on the Jeep.

So they’re in the middle of the desert, like 30 miles from any civilization with no gas. My dad didn’t know about the hole yet. He was just like, why are we outta gas? So he dumped all of their lantern fuel into the Jeep and apparently they just blasted right into town. And they pulled up to the gas station like puck.

It a puck it up. My dad started filling it up. My mom went to the bathroom. She came out, gas was just pouring outta the back of the Jeep. They ran into the bathroom and got the bar of soap, rubbed the bar of soap over the hole in the gas tank to plug it. Finished their honeymoon and apparently my dad did fix it for three or four [00:39:00] more, uh, Jeep runs.

That’s

Crew Chief Eric: some good soap.

Steve & Izzy: I do not recommend you do this at home. These are also the people who, when my radiator had a hole in it in my 1975 Ford Micro pickup, they said just put some uh, raw eggs in the radiator every so often and drive it around. The eggs will cook in the radiator and get stuck in the hole.

And it does work, but I don’t recommend it for months on end.

Mountain Man Dan: Wow. It works until it works too well and close up the passage and overheats the motor.

Steve & Izzy: I mean, it’s a 1975 Ford Courier that ran on three cylinders. That was not its biggest problem. That’s ’cause the fourth one was full of eggs. But you know, we’ll just leave that way.

Eggs probably. It’s poaching the shit outta those eggs. Hey, the truck was free from a crazy hippie. So you’re starting to establish a pattern

Crew Chief Eric: for us, Izzy.

Steve & Izzy: That’s all I’m saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I like to buy shitty old cars and drive them around. Yes. And you guys are wondering, Hmm? I wonder if I bought a car from Izzy’s dad.

No, no, no. My dad runs them to the ground. Yeah. See there’s dozens of you out there. I’m sure. Probably lost it in a poker game or something. No, no, no. My dad has never sold a car, sold a car. He’s [00:40:00] taken people’s money, but they’ve never actually ended up with the car. So my apologies if my dad owes any of you any money.

There’s only like a 20% chance. So then, uh, speaking of free California, we start getting a signal or we started like hearing on the radio and they’re like, alright, we’re getting reports of a car on its way to California. But it, you know, shows them like stuck in the mud.

Crew Chief Eric: So this is vanishing point. The same thing, right?

And I’m like, oh my God, here we go. Stuck in the rain scene too. I was just like, oh man, this is pathetic. But this is the fun part. We cut back to DOT headquarters. The penguin shows up for the first time, right? Eh?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. We see like his whole like exposition video about jets and like, ah, JEG Williams, the, the one guy that runs all of the boop boops at the security thing is Santa to pick up this JG Williams who’s, you know, Burgess Meredith, a 85-year-old man or whatever, because you know, it’s the future.

And I guess he flew in Nam and so this [00:41:00] is like 50 years later or whatever. He’s basically like. Would my wife send you? No. All right. You wanna go fly a kite? So weird. Give like a Chinese history lesson as he’s drinking Jack Daniels and talking about how he flew 138 missions in Nam. And then, uh, the guy’s like, well, do you wanna fly a jet again?

What? What the fuck are you talking about? I don’t think they have those anymore, but yeah. Then we cut back to Harting. The kid, they’re driving along, they got outta the mud. We see our first fox hunting posse, like it’s just a bunch of yokels in West Virginia or whatever. Like we, we gotta find this guy on the race car and put a bullet in them or something.

Mountain Man Dan: Is this the part where they’re on the dock? Right after they passed the people, they wound up at the dock.

Steve & Izzy: Okay, okay. They like pull off road. Yeah. Yeah. That’s crazy. So

Crew Chief Eric: I was wondering at this point, I dunno if anybody caught it, there was a reddish orange object in the water. It was a boat, like a rowboat, and I couldn’t tell if it was a boat or if they had crashed the car or not.

But then obviously they got back and I was like, well that’s the end of the movie right there. [00:42:00] So that was a little strange. But that whole scene was a little strange because it was like a bonding scene, right? Like they’re coming to terms with this adventure that they’re now really committed to going on and getting to California.

So I was like, okay.

Mountain Man Dan: Well it was for the fact that as Lee Major’s standing on the kid, like after he’d been pushed in, he actually, he’s gonna lift the dock. The dock doesn’t move at all, but Lee Majors goes flying off like he got thrown off on mic. Yeah, yeah,

Steve & Izzy: yeah. He like damn near does a back flip on his own or whatever.

Like

Executive Producer Tania: I think he was supposed to be shaking it,

Steve & Izzy: but he realized he’s like a 45 pound kid trying to shake a dock or whatever. And so Lee Major’s improv, that’s that fall guy stuff right there. Exactly. Probably my favorite part of this whole movie, I’m not gonna lie, we cut back to the security council or the DOT or whatever.

And Hawkins is like talking to the, the other two people in this department. Like what do you see? Uh, just two guys driving across the country, like, no, no, no. This is dangerous to the balance that we’ve created. It’s a metaphor. It’s an [00:43:00] allegory. Yeah. And for our system of protection and tranquility and keeping people under control so they don’t do crazy things like drive cars or have opinions or chop up billionaires with guillotines or anything like that.

No. This is how we keep them

Crew Chief Eric: complacent. This is the time where I wrote it down. I made a note, I underscored it, I bolded it, wrote over it several times. This is the first time in a long time I’ve heard the word defecate be used in a movie. Yes. And I could not stop laughing because you have the penguin talking about defecating.

And I’m just like, wait, what? What just happened? And

Steve & Izzy: so yeah, he goes on a rant and then yeah, this is where, uh, he talks about defecating on flowers or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So then, uh, yeah, we cut to Williams. He’s put on his outfit to be, I don’t know, train Rocky. Like he’s got his legit mickey outfit on and he goes to see his jet plane and [00:44:00] it’s dusty as fuck.

And we get a nice little fixed team coming in and cleaning it up and stuff for him. There’s a nice quote

Crew Chief Eric: in there too. Remember, he walks up to the plane, he is by himself, touches little, he’s like, never fear. Papa’s here. You’re like, oh

Steve & Izzy: God. Oh, oh, you think, oh God, until it’s all fixed up. It’s got its new paint job and he goes flying off in it.

It looks awesome.

Mountain Man Dan: That’s a good looking plane. The process where they’re rebuilding it, he’s very involved in that. Maybe Vietnam veteran pilots had more knowledge of the aircraft. All of the pilots I dealt with in the military had like no knowledge of anything mechanical in the aircraft. So it was amazing to see a pilot actually putting it back together.

Crew Chief Eric: It was a missed opportunity for all those mechanics to wear a black t-shirt and a bowler hat. And on the t-shirt it says goon because that’s what I was expecting, right? Just like seeing out a Batman. Yeah. Wha wha wha wha wha telling them all what to do. And they’re just running around like idiots. I mean, it’s perfect.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, but he’s flying in that jet plane and he’s talking to it like it’s his lost love. And he is like, [00:45:00] oh, that’s okay, baby. I’m just gonna take it

Crew Chief Eric: nice and easy. Oh.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, I

Crew Chief Eric: wrote the quote down. Here we go. And Tanya’s already cringing. Oh baby, that’s it, baby. You’re better and sexier than ever. And then he starts going and he’s like, howling like a wolf.

Steve & Izzy: How

Crew Chief Eric: whatcha doing?

Steve & Izzy: Like a fucking Tex Avery cartoon So

Crew Chief Eric: bad.

Steve & Izzy: Cringe. This is where he came.

Mountain Man Dan: It was like 1970s audio from a porn or something. It was terrible.

Steve & Izzy: So then, uh, we got a roadblock set up in West Pennsylvania for ’em, and I’m like, that’s all they’ve gone in, like those last three days. Okay, that’s cool.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s exactly what I wrote down too. I was like, that’s as far as they’ve made it to this point. Like, holy hell.

Steve & Izzy: That’s how it is in all of these movies between New York or Boston, wherever they start. And western Pennsylvania, that’s like a four day drive and then it’s 18 hours from there to California.

Yeah, it’s nuts. Yeah. We see, uh, har and the kid, they go on like the railroad tracks to like. Try to [00:46:00] get around this roadblock and they’re like, oh man, how are we gonna do it? The kid starts going off, like, I, they got like a satellite hookup and I can mess with that. So that night, I don’t know, a Coke truck pulls up and like, as part of the roadblock and it’s still good, and somehow the kid like blows it up and they drive the car right on through.

I’m like, what the fuck is happening in this scene?

Crew Chief Eric: Right? And then there’s that one military guy who’s like, you think this stuff is still any good? So now you’re like, this is an old Coke truck that was never unloaded.

Steve & Izzy: You think gas goes bad after six months, right? Yeah. But also, uh, fallout, you hacks also.

I did just have a thought. Ohoh. I know I’m scared too. We’re talking about how they don’t seem to know where states start and end. It is in the future. Maybe they’ve changed the lines

Executive Producer Tania: since we’re talking about the root and how long it takes. And at one point they’re like, they’re going a hundred miles an hour.

We estimate that that’s going to be, that they’re going to run outta fuel in 300 [00:47:00] miles. What was the fuel economy on the nine 17?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, it was not that at wide open throttle. It is not that.

Steve & Izzy: That’s why they only have to get gas. Like what? Maybe once in a 500 mile race, right? According to Google, it’s two miles a gallon.

Wow. So a van gets better mileage than that? Oh, far better. Far better. We get like 14,

Crew Chief Eric: this escape sequence. We talked about the Smokey The Bear one from earlier was like Looney Tunes level and the Keystone cops to include the military and the security guards haven’t gotten any smarter or any better.

This was straight up Smokey and the Bandit Chicanery. Mm-hmm. I mean, I busted out laughing ’cause I forgot how cornball this scene is, and especially the fact that he’s pushing his own car dressed like one. I was like, where did he get the clothes? Like who did he mug?

Mountain Man Dan: And the kid got one too. So the satellite that was up on the tracks they flashed back to.

And the two guys that I got, oh, that’s right. They’re like hog tied in their tidy white and T-shirts.

Crew Chief Eric: You know why it didn’t register? Because [00:48:00] it’s such a cartoon trope that it just doesn’t stick in my brain. Like how many times have you seen that before where the guy gets knocked out and they steal his clothes?

It’s like Star Wars. All those movies do the same thing. You’re like, all right, whatever. It’s so

Steve & Izzy: cornball. But guys, now we cut to the best part. They’ve just got past the West Pennsylvania checkpoint. We then cut to a jet flying over the American southwest near Flagstaff.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, and they made a reference to Kansas at one point.

Yes. They

Steve & Izzy: said they’re in Kansas, cut to them driving in the mountains, and I’m like, there is not one fucking mountain in the entire state of Kansas. What the hell has happened in this post apocalyptic future?

Crew Chief Eric: Well also, how slow is this supersonic jet that he’s flying? Well, what do you mean? He’s flying in Arizona

Steve & Izzy: already.

Crew Chief Eric: So Lee Majors and this kid. Race ring, whatever his name is, they’re stealing gas wherever they can find it.

Executive Producer Tania: Mm-hmm.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay, fine. We, we will, we will suspend disbelief here. Where is the plane getting refueled?

Executive Producer Tania: I wondered that. Yeah. Well the one time he landed, the guy was like, well, you couldn’t refill while you’re [00:49:00] there.

Right. And it’s like he’s

Steve & Izzy: the middle of nowhere, but Okay. Apparently there was a fuel station. What’s the, uh, fuel economy on that jet again? Is it, uh, similarly, two miles to gallon or It is

Crew Chief Eric: a negative

Mountain Man Dan: number, I believe.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, it’s gallons per mile. Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: Many aircraft burn, almost half their fuel. Just taking off.

Good lord. Or in the air is actually really efficient. But on the ground is when they’re not, not the way he was

Steve & Izzy: flying, that thing wasn’t efficient. My God. Yeah. Eight feet off the ground, half the movie. Yeah. So yeah, they’re flying in America somewhere and uh, you know, that night hearting the kid, they stop, have a little campfire, and, uh, the kid’s like, well, what do you do besides race cars?

What. Oh wait, did you have a son? About my age? Yeah. A little older, but whatever. And that conversation goes fucking nowhere. Yeah, it was so dumb. I feel like they didn’t get the script, like the day they were shooting it, they were just kinda like trying to improv, but then it’s like, I can’t talk to this kid.

Yeah. I don’t know. I think I’m the fall guy in this one because I [00:50:00] think

Executive Producer Tania: it was before the boat or the water on the dock thing. We already passed the time where the kid is like whining, like a little bee about Oh yeah. Not being able to drive. And I’m like, how do you even know how to drive? You do trust me, cars have been outlawed since you’ve been born and you’re gonna get in race car and drive it.

Steve & Izzy: If memory serves me correctly. When he is in the garage, he’s like, what is this? It’s a car. It’s a little before your time and not 12 hours later, he is like, you won’t even let me drive. And I’m like, you don’t know how to start this dude. Like, you’re lucky I let you sit here instead of in the trunk, which doesn’t exist.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh.

Steve & Izzy: Which

Crew Chief Eric: is where he stores his transfer pump, don’t forget. And his helmet. Yeah. All this extra stuff that they have. Okay. So where were we now? We we were

Steve & Izzy: the hell, oh well we’re 18 hours later. ’cause they had the one night they’re in

Executive Producer Tania: Kansas. Mountains of Kansas.

Steve & Izzy: So now we’re in the middle of southern Utah.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, we’re in Utah. Okay. We left the mountains of

Steve & Izzy: Kansas or Arizona, I don’t know, like it’s all kind of blurs

Crew Chief Eric: Castle Rock or whatever that’s called out there where he flies through the first time. I was like, that looks like [00:51:00] Utah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. It all looks like the, what was it, monument Valley or, yeah, monument

Crew Chief Eric: Valley.

That’s it.

Steve & Izzy: Grand Escalante staircase. Like all that. Yeah. So it’s like, okay, cool. Well they’re in Utah. Where? Where’s the car? Oh, I guess the car’s there now too, because they hear the jet and it’s like, all right, that’s cool. You get a little fly by and not just a fly by though. It’s

Crew Chief Eric: ba as he’s going by.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, that’s right.

Yeah. This is where they shoot up the shell station and everything. That’s right. And uh, heart gets hit in the shoulder. Oh fuck. They pull off into the tree. So the jet has no idea where they are. Uhhuh. ’cause it’s not like it has a, uh, what’s the term? Bird’s eye view of everything for miles in every direction.

Crew Chief Eric: And that car is so camouflaged in the woods too, you know?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. This bright, like Ferrari, red, orange, whatever, race car

Crew Chief Eric: in

Steve & Izzy: an area

Mountain Man Dan: where the trees are very sporadic. Again, plot

Steve & Izzy: holes galore. The only tracks for a thousand miles because there’s no cars out there.

Mountain Man Dan: Various points up to this. They’ve taken it on terrain that I wouldn’t imagine be [00:52:00] very comfortable in that car.

Crew Chief Eric: You know, this is the stuff Dan thinks about. That never crosses my mind.

Executive Producer Tania: This thing’s crossed my mind too. ’cause have we made it to where they were suddenly in snow? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And these m fers are in an open cabin thing. It’s cold enough for there to be snow. You would be dying.

Steve & Izzy: Yes. And then they say something like, we need to get to lower ground.

And I’m like, like in a river, is that what you’re looking to do? And so they park in a field Yep. Where a jet could possibly see them. Nope. And then he is like, all right kid, you start driving and then like the kid can’t start it because you know. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. Probably also is probably outta gas also.

Oh shit. Is that guy dead?

Executive Producer Tania: He started it and he started going,

Steve & Izzy: he stalled out.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, I was like, did you stall it or did it run outta gas? Because I was like, okay. He stalled it, but then it’s like it wouldn’t turn back on. I’m like, so is it out of gas? Like,

Steve & Izzy: and, and then it starts zooming in and heart, he’s laying in the chair like he’s fucking dead.

He’s like, passed out or [00:53:00] taking a nap or whatever. Losing all that blood. Oh, what? What’s going on here? Cut to them just back on the road driving like, okay, where’s that?

Crew Chief Eric: Not only are they driving, but this is the first time we see the plane like almost in land condition. Chasing. It’s a

Executive Producer Tania: dream. It was a dream.

Was it a dream? Was it Yes. If you paid attention. Because I was like, what’s going on? There was only a single person in the car and they were wearing a helmet, so, and then he woke up in the bed, so he was dreaming it.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, okay. But still, we had some stunt flying ’cause the plane was like near touchdown conditions chasing the car.

That was a really cool shot to see the car coming and then like the heat waves coming up, the asphalt and the plane. And that was, I thought that was pretty epic.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. But then we cut to him waking up in a bed on an Indian reservation and I’m like,

Crew Chief Eric: god dammit movie. But we do see the car get towed in by the horses.

I think

Executive Producer Tania: it

Crew Chief Eric: is

Executive Producer Tania: exactly why I’m like, then is it out of gas

Mountain Man Dan: on the facts of being outta gas? Because other than that, had he stalled it, anybody who’s ever stalled a manual vehicle, it kind of bucks a little bit, but it was like just tapered off [00:54:00] like. Shutting off and being to towed in by the horses. I do think it was, it ran out of fuel.

There you go.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know how they got the fuel to leave later. And then the horses must have pissed in the tank, I guess. I don’t know.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, methane.

Executive Producer Tania: They made it on the

Crew Chief Eric: res. That’s

Executive Producer Tania: what they did.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. They, they all, uh, keep their poop for methane and, you know, use it usually for campfires. But

Crew Chief Eric: isn’t that the science?

Right. If you leave poop and water long enough, it’ll create nitric acid, then that’s volatile. You know, the whole, I don’t know. I’m not a chemist, but I heard that something. Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: that’s where the whole ship Highend transit thing comes in.

Crew Chief Eric: They could have had a

Mountain Man Dan: still in the cave where they had that car.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, there we go.

That’s true. Guys, we finally decided, you know what, we should have a second female character in this movie because we have the chick from the DOT or whatever. Oh babe, this is the third one. ’cause the teacher. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There was mistake. I guess that counts my mistake. Yeah. Yeah, that counts.

Executive Producer Tania: Lucky Third.

Well, we had his wife for like 30 seconds crying on a video. Oh.

Steve & Izzy: I mean, okay. Gosh, I guess there, there’s so many women in this film, guys. I think this passed the back till [00:55:00] test.

Mountain Man Dan: We’ve actually got like a fairly early on credit at the end of the movie, which amazed me for the fact that I think it was just like a video of her and it wasn’t live action of her in the movie.

It

Crew Chief Eric: would’ve been

Mountain Man Dan: better if it was

Crew Chief Eric: Farrah

Mountain Man Dan: Faucet. That would’ve been

Crew Chief Eric: perfect, but you know, anyway, whatever.

Steve & Izzy: Well more on that and fun facts, so, so yeah, that’s uh, lady that, I guess at the Indian reservation though, I think she’s late to be one of Charlie’s Angels. She was basically like, Hey, how, how’s it going?

You feeling better? Sure. Where the fuck am I? Oh yeah, you’re on the Indian reservation. We reclaimed it after everybody left and I’ve been out here for like eight years, exposition, blah, blah, blah. And then, yeah, they sore the car in the mine. So then we cut to Captain Williams and he’s at the Pima airplane junkyard in Arizona now looking at all the old jets.

He’s like reporting back to the DOT, like, Hey, I lost him. And then he is like flying a kite, just kind of toying with him like, oh, I don’t know, it’s gonna be, take me a while, flying around to find him. He, he’s just, just dragging it out so he can fly around [00:56:00] in his plane for like the rest of the movie, right?

Yeah. And then, yeah, the widow back at the Indian reservation, she’s giving her whole backstory. Oh, that’s right. The DOT we think they might be at, uh, this Indian reservation or whatever. Do we have anyone in the area that can like go check for us? Like, well we could talk to Utah. I don’t know. They’re tough to deal with those, uh, goddamn Mormon Zionists.

And I’m like, wow, this is the future. The not too distant future.

Crew Chief Eric: I think this is the part where we cut back to the point where I wrote down in my notes, hoedowns and hot air balloons. Yeah. We cut to a fucking hoot. Nanny. Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: That was what was missing the whole time. This is what this movie needed. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Part starts giving his head backstory or whatever, and then it’s like. Smash cut to them at a bar square dancing and shit. Did you notice there was no aluminum foil anywhere in that bar? No, but cut to post coitus.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh my God. It was like one day I’m like, [00:57:00] wow, that’s fast. And then the kid, you love her. I’m like, what?

You just met her

Crew Chief Eric: so mandatory of

Steve & Izzy: movies of this period. Terrible. So yeah. Then uh, the kids like trying to add like the radio to the car, so yeah, so we can keep tabs on things, but then he overhears like a walkie-talkie transmission about ’em. Uh Alright. Execute Plan Alpha. Oh yeah. Plan Alpha.

Crew Chief Eric: We’ve labeled the plan.

We’ve got a mission, you know, all set up. Where’s Beta Charlie Delta. Right. There’s gotta be multiple plans and they must be in escalation form. Hell no. Plan Alpha, shoot up the village. Let’s do it. Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: just,

Crew Chief Eric: just massacre everybody. Things escalated. Quickly,

Steve & Izzy: I assume Plan B was Nepal.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s my point. If Plan Alpha was that severe, what was Plan Beta?

Steve & Izzy: Add the words or else like demolition Man. You don’t know how to use the seashells. Yeah. Right. Oh, by the way, the security for this Indian reservation is, what was it? Her dad or [00:58:00] grandpa used to be like a New York cop, but like the oldest man you’ve ever seen,

Executive Producer Tania: they should have had Don Knotz play the character.

Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, Barney five sees this like SWAT team coming in and he is like, what motherfuckers? And of course like shoots one of ’em and they just Robocop his ass.

Mountain Man Dan: Worst thing is there was no words exchanged. It was just he sees them, pulls the gun outta the holster and fires. There was no questions, no conversation.

It was just like open fire. Yeah. This

Crew Chief Eric: is so much better than the imagery I had. I kept thinking about Earnest goes to jail. Remember the old guy that’s the security guard and every time he fired the gun he get knocked backwards.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, of course. Mayhem and sues as this elite squadron comes in and starts taking out unsuspecting women and children heart’s running around.

He is like, where’s your Dora? I need to find Eudora. And I love how like the one Indian guy like is like. No, just leave. They’re looking for you. If they ask me, I’m gonna tell them where you are. [00:59:00] So just go. Yeah. We then cut to them on the road and I’m like, wow, we missed a really daring escape somehow how They got the car out of the mine refueled got it on the road, passed the elite SWAT team threw a field onto the main road.

You couldn’t even throw a dream sequence in there to cut it up. Nope.

Executive Producer Tania: Alright. Plan

Steve & Izzy: Alpha. It was all plan alpha. I’m like, yeah, that was easy. And then, okay, now back at the DOT. Not only do they have access to every security camera ever, and satellites and all that shit, apparently they have access to the Star Wars program and lasers all over the American Southwest desert.

This was such a Doctor Evil moment. I was like, I literally wrote down

Crew Chief Eric: lasers. I was like, this is awesome.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, they had the guy playing around with it, you know, see him blow up a bunch of cactus, and then, uh, Hawkins, you know, the, the evil guy from dc He’s like, can you set that to automatic? Cool. Why don’t you give me the key now?

But, but if it’s automatic, it’s just gonna shoot anything that goes through that area. [01:00:00] Exactly. And of course that’s the road they’re about to pass on or whatever. And Babu

Crew Chief Eric: ba, even though I know this movie predates the one I’m about to reference, if you guys remember the James Bond film, or Sean Connery came back after being retired from James Bond, never say never again.

There’s that scene where he’s playing against the villain and that video game and it’s like electro Shocking them. Yeah, but they’re, they’re flying the nukes. They’re sort of real missiles, but they’re not. And like this whole scene, I was like, that’s where they got their inspiration from for that bond film was from this, because it reminded me of that.

Steve & Izzy: Very, very much so. They park. The jet lands by them. You know, Williams flies in by the jet, wherever lands, and they just sit there like perfectly still staring at each other. And this is where heart’s just like, he just wants to chase. He’s not even concerned about whatever, blah, blah, blah. He is like, all right kid, you’re gonna stay here and I’m gonna play chicken with this goddamn jet plane.

The kid like tackles heart and he is like, Hey,

Crew Chief Eric: we’re gonna be driving blah blah. Whatcha doing this? So we can just keep [01:01:00] going. Of

Steve & Izzy: course we get the whole teary thing, like, I don’t want to lose you. Barf. Is that what’s going on? All right. Then they, uh, play chicken. Oh my god. The guy, the DOT is like, oh, 150 miles an hour, 160, 170.

Get up to like 250 like it takes for fucking ever. It’s the equivalent of in speed two cruise control. When the guys count down the knots as the ship is going through the port and the town and everything, he is like three knots, like for four minutes of destruction, two knots. Fucking dumb. Basically the, uh, jet ends up swerving out of the way and cheers, I guess, from the Department of Transportation.

Okay, cool. I must not be that vested in this movie anymore. Sorry. It’s, I don’t know. And then we cut to the kid being back in the car. Yes, yes, yes. At full speed. And I’m like, when the fuck did that happen?

Mountain Man Dan: Okay. But the real quick thing, when they’re playing chicken. You see that hesitation from him shift gear.

And I think that was like the purpose of that point in the movie was him overcoming his fear that he [01:02:00] mentioned about the accident with the racing when he, oh, because he kind of hesitates and then he is like the hell and he throws into the next gear and just hammer down towards the jet.

Crew Chief Eric: It was very anime esque.

I must give it my all and then goes super say and, and does 250 miles an hour is amazing.

Mountain Man Dan: You could do a speed racer kid back in the car. Blew my mind as well as like, yeah, that was weird.

Crew Chief Eric: Was he running behind him? Like Speedy Gonzalez the whole time he

Steve & Izzy: was having there the whole time he was on his

Crew Chief Eric: hoverboard.

That’s what it was. He tethered on a hoverboard.

Steve & Izzy: Well, uh, so yeah, the jets chasing him behind him. Again, they’re trying to like communicate like with the radio and he is like, Hey, am I good? Kay, are you, you’re doing all right. Hey, you knew I was bluffing or whatever. I, I don’t know. They’re talking on the radio and Beckett, DOT Hawkins is hearing and he is like, jam that signal and make sure the lasers are ready to go.

But bridge Meredith. I don’t think he knew until after the radio signals jammed. But then he is like, you gotta look out, there’s lasers up ahead. Hello? Can you hear me? And they’re like trying to [01:03:00] communicate with like once for, yes, twice for no kind of like shit with the flashlight. It takes too damn long.

It was awful. And then the jet blows up a trailer in front of him and they’re like, oh no, he is opening fire again. Like, no. Otherwise he’d be shooting at us instead of random trailers.

Executive Producer Tania: Hmm.

Steve & Izzy: Blowing up the trailer, like got him to stop like momentarily. Yeah. But then I wrote down the following sequence because Go for it.

Go for it. Yeah. To

Crew Chief Eric: your point, this took way too long.

Executive Producer Tania: Mm-hmm.

Crew Chief Eric: In a movie that was already too long. I wrote laser attacks, plane, plane attacks, laser eventually kamikaze into laser ground station.

Executive Producer Tania: No. Hold on because plane attacks, laser misses. Mm-hmm. Plane drops two bombs simultaneously, hits two different targets on each side of the road.

Exactly.

Mountain Man Dan: Yep. He was using the machine gun to stray the laser. He used the bombs for the single wides that just so communally people, I guess were living right next to the road in the middle of the day. A hundred percent.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: He, the bombs on the laser, it may have been effective, but who knows?

Crew Chief Eric: [01:04:00] Everything we described here was way more interesting than what we actually saw. I just wanna point that out.

Steve & Izzy: He got Burgess Meredith, like howling at the moon as he jet pedos into the laser and explodes. And the only thing like, uh, to my, my chance to wear my medals after 30 years, what of you guys might understand that?

And I’m like, no, probably not. No, that’s cool.

Crew Chief Eric: So I picked up on that line, and again, we were talking about chronology earlier, like what time period, what year is this set in? And if he fought in Nam and after I get to wear my medals after 30 years, so is it the nineties then? Like,

Steve & Izzy: yeah. When is this taking place?

It’s actually 50 years ago, but he thinks it’s 30 because he may have a little bit of dementia because he’s

Crew Chief Eric: 112.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. He thinks Batman was, was 15 years ago and it’s like, oh no, not in this movie.

Mountain Man Dan: I figured this took place late nineties, early two thousands. ’cause a comment that’s been made later by the one guy back at the DOT or whatever.

Steve & Izzy: Bite your tongue. Yeah. [01:05:00] According to fun facts. I just looked it up. It is set in the year 2011.

Crew Chief Eric: The year 2000.

Steve & Izzy: This last part. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Lasers down. And then this is when hard and the kid decide to stop the car. Yep. I don’t know. They go to check the crash rubble. ’cause I don’t know what they’re expecting to find other than perhaps a charred corpse.

No body, no death. That’s what I wrote.

Mountain Man Dan: I’m just amazed that the flask was sitting there and he picks it up.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, that thing should have been nuclear hot too. Oh yeah, totally. But guys, it’s okay. You know why the kid says the line, I think we’re there cut to them at the California border. I assume it’s zizi on a bridge somewhere.

There’s surrounded by a dozen people that are like, Hey, welcome, blah, blah, blah. And then we cut back to Hawkins of the DT. He’s like, whoa,

Crew Chief Eric: whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. Oh, hold on. No, no, no. Please go for it.

Steve & Izzy: Go

Crew Chief Eric: for it. Did anybody else. Notice that California looked like munchkin land very [01:06:00] green.

Suddenly it was wild. And buildings are fuchsia and stuff. Like if you pause and look, you’re like, it looks like munchkin land.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, are you talking about the matte painting or whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. The matte paintings in this are great. ’cause they’re like literally, I think cut from like sci-fi novels or whatever.

I, I was waiting to see like the Jetsons car flying around or something, but it was wild.

Crew Chief Eric: All right. So we cut

Steve & Izzy: back to the DOT and uh, Hawkins is there and he is like, well, that’s it. It’s a symbol. There’s gonna be cause fucking everywhere and we’re gonna lose our whole grip on society. ’cause this old dude in this kid drove 3000 miles over the course of three months.

Who knows? The time is a construct. It’s gonna set us back to the nineties that he says to the

Crew Chief Eric: eighties. To the eighties, because I re-listened to you. He goes, this could set

Steve & Izzy: us

Crew Chief Eric: back to the eighties. Yes.

Executive Producer Tania: Yes. Oh, the

Steve & Izzy: eighties. Oh, I

Crew Chief Eric: swear.

Steve & Izzy: Okay. He said that. But then it shows the presidential seal. Roll credits.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh my God. I was like, what the fuck? Literally I was like, it’s over.

Steve & Izzy: That’s it. Yeah. This is like Stephen King wrote the [01:07:00] ending on this fucking thing. ’cause it’s like, oh look, we’re here now. Oh, well I guess that’s the end. This is the shortest

Crew Chief Eric: long movie I’ve ever watched, dude. So fucking rough. It was an hour 45 that flew by and that ending just cemented it as well.

It was like, that’s it. It’s over. Seriously. Yeah. See it guys. That’s the last Chase. Tanya,

Steve & Izzy: would you recommend it?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, with a big sigh on

Steve & Izzy: that

Crew Chief Eric: one.

Executive Producer Tania: Over some of the other movies Yes. That we’ve watched.

Crew Chief Eric: She’s specifically

Steve & Izzy: talking about the stuntman.

Executive Producer Tania: No, but I think I would.

Steve & Izzy: Over the stunt man over trading paint over senior trip.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, I think I’d recommend it. Like it wasn’t totally hateful. Somehow it kept moving even though it was so long,

Crew Chief Eric: shortest, long movie ever.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t understand.

Steve & Izzy: Alright, how about you Eric?

Crew Chief Eric: I actually like this movie. It’s sort of charming. It’s stupid. It’s fun. Escape Familiar. I really like the car, obviously.

Talk about that in the fun facts part. But I like a good car [01:08:00] chase, right? I mean the seven Ups and Vanishing Point and all those movies are kind of a similar ilk. So for me, this brings back those memories and they’re kind of fun as a kid, you’re like, yeah, it’s cartoony. Just like Cannonball Run is in a way and it’s got all these aspects, but it doesn’t take itself to the extremes that those other movies do.

It sort of sits in the middle, and if you can find it and you can watch it, I would say definitely take a peek at it. It’s a Lee Major’s treasure out of his 130 credits, you know, it’s definitely one right up at the top,

Steve & Izzy: right up there with Musketeers forever. How about you Mount Man, mountain Man, Dan?

Mountain Mike.

Mountain Man Dan: I think for Eric, the reason he likes it so much is he didn’t have to like flip out ’cause the auditory sounds, ’cause if those sounds were wrong, he would hate this movie.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, there’s plenty of things to hate about this movie, but in general I like it

Mountain Man Dan: as for recommended to people. If they want like the nostalgic 1970s feel movie, I’d be like, yeah, it’s a cool older chase concept.

I even don’t even hate the overbearing government aspect of it too, [01:09:00] ’cause that’s kind of cool. ’cause there’s tons of movies that are like that where the rebellion against it, you know, no matter what movie it may be. So it’s worth watching. But yeah, it’s definitely not the worst one we’ve watched. But it’s definitely not the best either.

Steve & Izzy: You heard here, first Mountain Man. Dan likes an overbearing government.

Mountain Man Dan: I know. I like the rebellious part.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, totally. They rebelling against it. Oh, okay. Like people breaking several felonies in cars is what he likes. Come on. Oh, okay. Excellent. Come on. How about you, babe? Would you recommend this movie?

Look, this is definitely not the worst movie we’ve watched even with these nice folk. That’s true. Yeah. This movie felt like it was four and a half hours long. The pacing is rough on this, and I am a fan of seventies movies. I’m usually a fan of seventies pacing, but also loses stars because. There’s no hand grenades.

Oh yeah. Yeah. It is very death race, 2000 and blah, blah blah. Is death race. 2000 without the fun. I was thinking of this like the entire goddamn time. It’s basically over the top [01:10:00] without the fun or the charisma. Yeah. Yeah. It’s basically just an old dude and a kid just driving along, having stupid conversations to go fucking nowhere.

And then occasionally you cut to Robert Loja trying to kill them. Yeah. Kill one of ’em, I guess specifically, but it’s like at least in over the top, you have all the guys like chugging oil or whatever in their little wrestling promos for arm wrestling. But, uh, yeah, it, this is a tough recommend because it’s, if you wanna see one of those movies of like Racing Across America for whatever reason, I feel like originally this movie was like two and a half hours long and they’re like, God help you.

If it’s over an hour and 42 minutes and they’re like, well shit, I guess I can just cut out the third act. Really? Who really needs that shit? That’s easy. That’s Lee Majors in Munchkin Land. That’s what the third act is. Oh, it looks like we’re here. I assume that line was 80 Yard. I gotta go back to my home planet now.

Boop boop. Where’s Poochie? Well then Don, we’re gonna take quick commercial break. Oh. But when we come back, we have more beer. [01:11:00] What’s fun Facts? Yeah. And what we learned from the last Chase ba. We need more beer, don’t we? Yeah, sure. Right. And we’re back. Oh my God, Steve, those are the greatest ads that I’ve ever added in the history of adding.

Oh, she said it. They’re better than arguing with my mother. Alright. Hey babe. Uh, would you like a beverage? Oh, please. For the love of God, please. Well, luckily from 21st Amendment Brewery. Ooh, in San Francisco, California. Yeah. Munchkin Land hell or high twilight citrus weed ale. 5.6% alcohol by volume. Guys, the time of this here recording.

This is in fact our first time trying this beer. We love The Hell or High Watermelon, which is a watermelon wheat ale that is not terribly sweet, but it’s just crazy refreshing. Mm-hmm. And this is an ale Brewed with Sweet Orange Peel. There we go. Ooh, my top. Top. Nice. And the pour down my throat. [01:12:00] Yeah.

Smells really bright and citrusy right on the nose. Like it smells like mandarin oranges. Oh yeah. This is like orange juice. Pretty smooth. And yeah, this tastes like a mimosa where, uh, pouring the champagne and it’ll just like a splash of orange juice. It’s a bru. Moosa. It’s a bru mo. So you know what? I’m not opposed to it.

Yeah. This on a hot day. Heck yeah. Hmm. Not bad. That’s the, uh, 21st Amendment hell or high twilight. Highly recommend guys, 21st Amendment brewing is, uh, is really good. You guys, uh, still drinking from your well or whatever, or, oh, this iron brew is just mm, no, no, no, no, no. Is something wrong with your camera?

It looks like you’re vibrating. Pretty much

Crew Chief Eric: has set his body to blur outside of the fact that the chair’s trying to kill me. Every time I move around, the hairs on the back of my neck are literally standing up and I’ve gotten super warm. So it gives me the same effect as having a beer.

Steve & Izzy: He feels the money has on the back of his neck going, woo woo woo.

Crew Chief Eric: You heard that too?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Guys, watch Congo. It’s the 30th [01:13:00] anniversary. It’s the greatest movie ever made. Would anybody be interested in fun facts about this movie? Abso Freak. Absolutely. Are they fun facts? Super fun facts ’cause of fun, fun facts. Well, let’s find out. All right, first off, rotten Tomatoes.

There is one critic review. From Tony Crowley of Starburst. Apparently that’s a publication July 26th, 2022. It has a few delusions of grandeur, but the pace is fine. It’s not the effects. Very special, and the footage shot in the Arizona desert is simply terrific. I. Fresh. There is one critic review and it is fresh, but what do you think the audience score is?

Abysmal. Is that a number we can choose is abysmal? I, I think that’s a Izzy. Super generous. 17% for abysmal. I, I do believe that is my super generous 17% because you’re being generous at 17%. Any other guesses? I nine. Did

Crew Chief Eric: you say nine?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s brutal.

Steve & Izzy: That’s Savage.

Executive Producer Tania: Is it the audience or the critics?

Percent?

Steve & Izzy: It’s audience. There was just the one critic review, but it [01:14:00] was fresh.

Executive Producer Tania: I think the audience liked it more than 17%.

Steve & Izzy: So 18% or what are we?

Executive Producer Tania: Thirties. Okay.

Steve & Izzy: 32. We need a specific number. You saw Game played. Oh, you need a

Executive Producer Tania: specific number? 37.

Steve & Izzy: Alright, perfect. Eric,

Crew Chief Eric: I’m gonna go with abysmal as my first guest, but I am sort of leaning.

I’m gonna go 23. 23. Bob, I.

Steve & Izzy: Tanya wins 43% with the audience. Just under half. Wow. Yeah. Congratulations, Tanya. I couldn’t find anything about the worldwide gross, but any guesses on the budget for this movie? Is it in Looney or in dollars? I, I think I have it in dollars. I. Dues.

Executive Producer Tania: 1981. Mm-hmm. How expensive would that plane have been to rent and shoot?

’cause everything else was pretty low budget. Those golf carts and the smoking The bear poster. Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: that was probably a PSA tax write off or something.

Crew Chief Eric: How much did they spend? 500 grand? No, that low. [01:15:00]

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Lee Majors don’t roll out of bed for less than that.

Mountain Man Dan: This was earlier in his career, so he wasn’t as expensive.

Gotta take that into,

Crew Chief Eric: yeah. Yeah. It wasn’t the fall guy yet, right? He hasn’t really made it.

Steve & Izzy: Oh yeah. He wasn’t making that TV stunt money. Yeah, that’s right. I’m

Crew Chief Eric: really bad with this. I don’t know how much movies cost. Get the last one right? She got close like horseshoes and hand grenades, but you know she won.

Give it to her. Alright. What do you got there? Mountain Man, Mike. I mean,

Executive Producer Tania: God.

Mountain Man Dan: I’m thinking around like 680.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, you don’t want

Crew Chief Eric: that load still? I’m gonna go two and a half million. It’s seventies dollars though, right? So you gotta adjust for inflation. In today’s world, that’s like $13 million.

Steve & Izzy: Alright guys. $4.9 million budget. Wow. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: What is that in today’s dollars, Moses Again? 30, 40 million.

Like for anybody that cares. $31 million by today’s standards.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, it was pretty high budget for the time the film takes place in 2011. [01:16:00] Did you guys wanna do your fun facts and then I’ll fill in with anything else I might have?

Crew Chief Eric: So, super fun facts with respect to the car, right? Normally I would throw this in somewhere earlier when we were talking about it.

I held it to the end. I wanted to respect the everything I learned from movies, fun facts, and the fact that I learned something. When I saw this the first time, I was like, oh yeah, it’s a Porsche, it’s a race car back. I always thought something was off because it sits a little high. Like the Porsches don’t look like they’re off rotors generally.

And then there was something wrong with the geometry of the car. It’s a little too small. And so I started digging into it, did a little research, and it turns out. That this is not a Porsche, but it does use Porsche body panels that were shortened to fit a 1973 Chevron, but it does have a Porsche engine in it.

So it’s this whole X Can-Am series two car, just bastardization. So I have a conflicting side really,

Executive Producer Tania: and I don’t know the validity of it, but there was an article about the car and [01:17:00] everything in somebody for what it’s worth. In the commentary section, they said it’s a replica. I worked on the film as a production assistant.

It was shot in Toronto, Canada, Tucson, Flagstaff in Scottsdale, Arizona in October, December, 1979. Maybe. There were a few shots of an actual Porsche nine 17, but any shot with Lee Majors driving is a replica. Majors insisted on doing his own driving, even when getting driven to the movie set. In a normal car, he would drive it.

Himself with his assigned film union driver sitting in the passenger seat next to him. He skidded and crashed the replica car a few times as he tended to be pretty reckless behind the wheel. Nice guy though, ego wise, for a movie star, the jet aircraft was an F 86 saber.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, that was in the, even in the credits that That the plane was the plane.

What got me about this though is, and I’m wondering if this is why the film can only be viewed in the deepest, darkest parts of the interwebs, out of these strange vaults and blood banks or whatever you guys called it, is because Porsche’s really, really tight on stuff with their name on [01:18:00] it, and if it’s not the real deal.

They probably have put the kibosh on this film and that’s why you can’t get it in a normal way. A Ferrari’s very similar and they’re very sensitive about the use of their emblem and their name and all that kind of stuff. So again, to your point, I think we have an agreement, Tanya, that the car is not a real Porsche, although it has a Porsche engine in it.

It’s a Chevron, is what I found out is the under chassis. And then, you know, as you said, it’s a replica of a nine 17 slash 10 from that era. So

Executive Producer Tania: it’s possible there was actual shots, but I couldn’t tell if there was no, but a replica had done well, you wouldn’t be able to tell.

Crew Chief Eric: Well if you look at like the Mark Donahue nine 17, it’s much bigger.

This thing is really small. It’s like trying to fit nine 17 body on a golf cart. It was, it looked wrong proportionally. And that’s to me, what made me start digging into it because now with older and much wiser encyclopedic eyes, I’m like, you know, when I was younger I was like, oh yeah, Porsche. Now I’m like, that’s something ain’t right about this car.

So there’s our super fun fact. Nice. Is that the only one you [01:19:00] got? I mean, car related? Sure. Got a couple. Oh, was there a square body in this film, Dan? No, there wasn’t.

Mountain Man Dan: Was a Pontiac though. So that’s a gm. Does that count?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Yeah. There you

Mountain Man Dan: go. You got, you check something

Crew Chief Eric: off the list. You’re good.

Mountain Man Dan: Uh, well other than that, just with a little, uh, research I did, the golf cart is actually a Davis 500 golf cart that they made to be what it was.

Crew Chief Eric: Only you would spend the time to look something like that up.

Mountain Man Dan: I didn’t purposely look for it, but it came up when I was looking for some other stuff. So for the F 86 Saber being an aircraft. Top speed on that is 650 mile an hour

Crew Chief Eric: air

Mountain Man Dan: speed

Crew Chief Eric: or ground speed.

Mountain Man Dan: Not a hundred percent sure on that. When I was looking up, it just said 650 miles per hour for top speed was introduced in 1949 and retired in 1980.

Crew Chief Eric: Dang. Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: So it had a pretty lengthy life for what it was during that time. And then this being a chase across the country, one of the big things that I wanted to throw out there for all the people, which I’m disappointed in how slow it took them to get across, because in 2020 there was a record set. [01:20:00] It took 25 hours and 39 minutes going from, I believe it was New York to California.

In this movie, it should have been wide open. ’cause the average speed for that run in 2020 was a, uh, average speed of 112 miles per hour. During that run run, he was hitting one 50. He should been able to maintain that the whole way. And it would’ve taken what, like 12 hours?

Executive Producer Tania: No, but see it couldn’t because he had to like spend, stop for the gas 12, sip out siphoning fuel out of like the bottom of a derelict fuel tank

Crew Chief Eric: with no extra jerry cans either.

Right? I mean what? What is Postapocalyptic Bs? Is this, you know what I mean? But there’s a couple of tidbits that I had to throw out there. That’s, SARE is a good looking plane though. Ooh, that black? Yeah, it’s nice man.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, the black with the yellow racing stripe or whatever on it. Oh yeah. Yeah. So

Mountain Man Dan: good.

And what was the dragon?

Crew Chief Eric: Who cares? Looked awesome. That’s all that matter.

Mountain Man Dan: Yes. I’m just saying the dragon on the tail it like made it pop even more, but I’m just like. It just seemed outta place.

Crew Chief Eric: No, it didn’t. It looked epic. That was for all of us kids that grew up in the [01:21:00] eighties that watched Mask. You remember that Cartoon series mask?

Yeah. That plane was straight out of mask. That’s all I’m saying.

Steve & Izzy: Well, uh, it was expected that Lee Majors was to break into theatrical roles beginning with this film. However, it is believed that through the film’s Poor Box Office performance, along with his wife having an affair while he was away filming it.

That’s right. This is when Farrah Faucet and Ryan O’Neill got together. Majors decided to stay in television and never return to movies as a headlining star

Crew Chief Eric: oh

Steve & Izzy: dot, dot dot Until Musketeers forever.

Crew Chief Eric: Yay. That

Steve & Izzy: that’s never been played in a theater. I guarantee you. Straight to DVD. This movie was RIFed by MST Mystery Science Theater, 3000 in its initial season.

That aired on KTMA. Where is that again?

Crew Chief Eric: Porsche

Steve & Izzy: Put the kibosh

Crew Chief Eric: on that. That’s

Steve & Izzy: where

Crew Chief Eric: that is.

Steve & Izzy: Okay. So it’s one of those that you can’t find anywhere. All right. And the DVD released by Code Red in 2011 and currently long outta print as of 2024, [01:22:00] contains the director’s cut of the movie

Crew Chief Eric: that has all the nudity scenes that we didn’t see or what, yeah,

Steve & Izzy: running about a minute longer and restoring nudity to the sex club sequence and other moments trend by the producers to get a PG rating.

Most versions shown on streaming or illegally uploaded to YouTube are the shorter version of the film. What? No, but ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached the most important part. Yes. What did we learn from the last Chase? Eric, would you like to go first?

Crew Chief Eric: No, I would like to go last.

Steve & Izzy: I’ll say mailman. Dan, how about you?

Mountain Man Dan: It was way over budget is what I’ve learned. Holy hell. The budget I, I was still trying to wrap my head around that. ’cause the quality of the movie is nowhere near what that budget should have been.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, 2 million went to Lee Majors. Yeah. Yeah. And then like 500,000 went to Burgess

Steve & Izzy: Fuel for the jet. It adds up, you know,

Executive Producer Tania: and then there was another whatever for how many of these replicas.

He must’ve skied and crashed, allegedly,

Steve & Izzy: [01:23:00] including that one in the lake. I am telling

Executive Producer Tania: you

Steve & Izzy: there was a car in that water

Mountain Man Dan: drug out por with them flying around, burning up jet fuel. That must be where the money went. So now it makes a little more sense, but still, no,

Crew Chief Eric: it was the lasers. Would you have laser technology?

Steve & Izzy: It was that dream sequence. That was some good flying that four second dream sequence. H how about you Tanya? What? What did you learn from this movie to help you in the future Apocalypse.

Executive Producer Tania: So I learned that in a future dystopian of apocalyptic world that had been previously plagued by a pandemic and the government decided that nobody should have any form of transportation.

They can have laser turret, satellite things in the middle of the desert, and yet can’t figure out how people can travel other than on a bicycle or by foot

Steve & Izzy: and electric

Crew Chief Eric: golf carts.

Steve & Izzy: There go, yeah. And electric golf carts. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Outside of the obvious that we all discover, I think we all learned the kid’s name at some point.

Yeah. And the credits, that was a learning moment for everybody here. But outside of that, I discovered that aluminum foil is both [01:24:00] good for protecting you from alien, but more importantly, it protects you of against big Brother government seeing your debauchery. Boom.

Steve & Izzy: Yay. I thought you were gonna say venereal disease.

Well, that’s it. I

Executive Producer Tania: mean, that’s it. Because some people believe you could wrap something in aluminum boil like that and create a Faraday cage. Hey,

Steve & Izzy: worst condom ever, guys. This is the seventies. That’s still tin. There you go. They may be having some points. How about you babe? What did you learn in, besides tin?

Sorry. Chair is the paint

Crew Chief Eric: of my existence.

Steve & Izzy: I learned that Eric has a vendetta, gets to share and that I think we’re gonna have to crowdfund him the 140 bucks for a new one because he’s too busy importing caffeine drinks from Ireland or Scotland or something like somewhere in Europe. And those tariffs are really gonna catch up a hundred

Crew Chief Eric: percent.

Steve & Izzy: But from [01:25:00] this movie, Ooh, there’s so much that you could learn from this movie. But I guess what I learned is in the not too distant future that a ban of gas stations still have 25-year-old perfectly fine fuel and race cars will run spectacularly on it. Perfect. I was wondering when somebody was gonna mention that, but, uh, I am still angry about that.

That’s like, I am angry at every movie where cars drive in reverse more than 40 miles an hour. Yeah.

I learned, I say this all the time, but I just scream out. It’s a metaphor. Like, I don’t think I’ve ever heard Hawkins rant before, but like I say it the exact same way and I have no idea where you get that from. You, the kid, because you a hundred percent say that all the time. Yeah. It’s about a system of protection and tranquility by taking away rights and Yeah.

Blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Ugh. But guys, thank you so much for joining us here on everything I [01:26:00] learned from movies. I understand you also have a podcast, is that correct?

Crew Chief Eric: We do indeed. We have several of them now under the banner of the Motoring Podcast Network Break Fixes our flagship podcast. So if you wanna keep up with all of the updates from our shows, you can find us on the social medias to include all of everything on the Metaverse and Blue Ski or Blue Sky at Motoring Podcast Network.

And if you wanna keep up with me, Tanya Mountain Mandan, and all the characters over Grand Touring motorsports you can do at Grand Touring Motorsports. And then be sure to check out our Patreon and also our digital magazine over@gtmotorsports.org. Woo-hoo. Tanya Mount man. Dan, can we find you anywhere?

Nope. They’re hiding from the government. These are my bunker people.

Mountain Man Dan: That’s right. Look at Tanya. She ain’t even got lights on. Yeah, right. So which one of us that are gonna be burying the car underground?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s you, my friend. You’re like, Marvin Boggs from red. That’s all I’m saying. That’s the only imagery people need, right?

Are you on social

Steve & Izzy: media at all? I am. You can find me everywhere at [01:27:00] Untidy Venus, that’s a goddess who’s bad at housekeeping. I’m on all the social medias at Untidy Venus. I will also be up and down the state of Utah selling my goods and wares for all of the foreseeable molten summer. Yeah, that is coming.

Okay. I compiled the list. Still a lot of shows, not as many as last year, but no, we’re taking easy this year, but we did just get approved for 22 weeks of farmer’s markets.

Crew Chief Eric: You gotta make sure you add in there. Izzy Tariff free goods.

Steve & Izzy: I do have tariff free goods. I mean, really do try and source as much stuff, honestly, guys like as local as possible.

And I’ve actually decided this year, honestly, I decided around January for no reason whatsoever to cut back on some of my other products and just really focus on some of my handmade stuff and really just lean into more of some of my, like women anarchy, terrorism, and cute animals and insanely accurate potato cannons.

Don’t know why. And of course me. Oh, I’m everywhere on all the major podcasters. Interesting. I learned from movies. First up [01:28:00] directly on Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, and bluesky at EILF movies. That’s everything I learned from movies. Eric, take us home. I don’t have a closeout for this one.

Crew Chief Eric: What? Just like the movie.

We’re gonna pan to the Crest of America. And stop

Steve & Izzy: guys. I guess we’re there. It’s a symbol. Roll credits.

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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 Movie Plot Confusion and Fact-Checking
• 04:31 Movie Discussion: The Last Chase
• 06:02 Behind the Scenes: Cast and Crew
• 13:50 Plot Breakdown and Analysis
• 27:05 Escape Plan and Road Trip
• 37:00 Government Surveillance and Pursuit
• 44:01 The Plane Restoration
• 44:27 Vietnam Veteran Pilots
• 44:54 Cringe-Worthy Dialogue
• 45:29 Roadblock in West Pennsylvania
• 45:55 Escape Sequence
• 46:51 Fuel Economy and Plot Holes
• 47:23 Smokey and the Bandit Chicanery
• 48:18 The Jet and the Car
• 49:29 Campfire Conversations
• 53:40 The Indian Reservation
• 57:32 Plan Alpha and the Laser Attack
• 01:00:53 Final Chase and Conclusion
• 01:07:19 Movie Review and Recommendations
• 01:13:02 Fun Facts and Behind the Scenes

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