In this episode:
- a friend trying to cash in comic books,
- the Close Encounters of the Third Kind 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition DVD boxed set,
- XM Satellite Radio,
- the upcoming movie Iron Man (2008) starring Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson,
- the speeds of various animals,
- Hot to Trot (1988) starring Bobcat Goldthwait and John Candy,
- old cartoons and TV shows on In2TV AOL Television for free (www.in2tv.com),
- Ed O’Neill as the 1-800-COLLECT Phone Patrol,
- Louie Anderson,
- and the boring second host of The Weakest Link George Gray.
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I think what happened with Close Encounters was Spielberg had to rush the first movie out the door in ’77 under pressure from the studio. So it does great and he goes back and asks them for more money to finish the movie how he wanted to, and they say, “Okay but you gotta show us the inside of the ship,” which is something he never wanted to do. He caved and the second version comes out in ’80 and then when it came time to release it on DVD in ’98, he took out the ship part, leaving us with three versions of the same movie. My wife bought the Blu-Ray Close Encounters at Wal-Mart during Christmas and it came with a bonus soundtrack CD. I was there the other day and the version they have now doesn’t have the soundtrack. I guess it was a limited release thing but they had it here in Rapid City so I’m sure everywhere else got it, too.
All I know is when I was 6 years old my dad took me to go see the 1980 Close Encounters at the drive in and being so little I didn’t know what was going on. I thought aliens really were landing at the drive in. It freaked me out! It reminds me of the other day when I went to see Cloverfield and some morons were in the front row with a baby. Who takes a baby to see a scary movie? Idiots! I’m scarred for life thinking I was abducted by aliens with my dad in a drive in and I’ll bet that little baby is going to grow up thinking they survived when Cloverfield attacked South Dakota.
And I remember reading old Iron Man comics where Tony Stark had a drinking problem so he had to ask his black friend to wear the suit. They had to do this because in the comics Tony Stark had the world believing Iron Man was a separate guy he hired as his bodyguard. But when he’d get so smashed he couldn’t put the suit on, his friend James Rhodes wore it for him. So yeah I could get the impression where if you only read a few books from that era you’d get the impression that Rhodes was Iron Man. They later gave Rhodes his own black Iron Man armor and called it War Machine. I’m surprised they’re even making an Iron Man movie because admitting you read that comic back in the 80’s got you made fun of for liking things that suck. That book was always rumored to be getting canceled when I was reading it back then. I just liked it because he looked like a Transformer. Where is all this pro-Iron Man hype coming from now though? I think it’s Robert Downey Junior fans.
your friend trying to cash in comic books = comedy gold. and i know you talk about any subject under the sun, but i never thought i’d hear the speeds of various animals on your show! never seen ‘hot to trot’ – i must hunt that down now; i love daft films like that – no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
Wow! David, I just re-listened to this episode (#95) as a result of your comment and did a search on Google for Get A Life and CNBC World. This is what came up:
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1689375241
Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with Chris Elliott’s sitcom from the early 1990s. I guess AOL’s In2TV web site had confused the two. :(