Evan: Which one of you picked chose the like decision was for the movie did you like

Evan: collectively come to the decision to do.

brandon: I feel like this was my decision but i don't remember making it because i definitely was gonna say i.

Connor: Think brandon kind of came up.

zach: With this from my memory.

Connor: Yeah it was i think it was on the um on our colorado trip i think we we had

Connor: discussed uh recording with

Connor: with you and then uh i don't know who this decision was but i think i think

Connor: i might have suggested smoky and the bandit and then brandon would have enthusiastically

Connor: been like i fucking love that movie so.

brandon: Well this as as i i have told the story on our show this is a formative movie

brandon: for me like this movie bizarrely changed my life and that i'm mentally unstable

brandon: and made decisions because i watched this movie too many times in.

zach: There in there buddy,

zach: i

brandon: Before streaming was a thing but you could get like uh you know the cable services

brandon: that would like you could direct like not direct tv but you you could basically

brandon: stream movies but it was through like yeah cable uh i watched this movie like

brandon: five times one weekend i think i was hurt or something and just laid up and

brandon: that was how i decided to become a truck driver,

brandon: a decision that led me to actually going to trade school and getting my cdl

brandon: and becoming a truck driver before realizing i'm also too mentally unstable

brandon: to be a truck driver could.

Evan: Be worst thing that you could have chosen.

brandon: Oh yeah i no regrets i still have my cdo well.

bryant: There you go could have become a cop or something yeah even.

brandon: In my least politically developed that was never a fucking option same.

Evan: Here brandon t justice.

brandon: I'll fuck right off with that shit.

bryant: Yeah i think i had only ever seen this movie like on tv like in sections you

bryant: know a few minutes at a time and you know i had like a vague idea about you

bryant: know what it was about but like this is my my first time seeing it all the way

bryant: through and it was a lot of fun for sure i.

brandon: Haven't watched it in so long i truly did forget how like without using a hard

brandon: r buford t justice is so explicitly racist yeah.

Evan: I um the only thing i'd ever seen i think was the like the bridge jumping bit

Evan: like i guess just because it was a famous scene and this is the first time i

Evan: watched it full through and then i watched it a second time and it was uh it's a lot of fun i,

Evan: I don't think I was surprised that I liked it, but I was surprised how much I liked it.

brandon: Oh, it's so fun. And I really understand why Burt Reynolds was so much the charmer.

brandon: He was such a cultural icon back then.

brandon: And now it's almost like a joke. But looking back and watching some of his old

brandon: movies, I totally get it.

Evan: Yeah, the story that I heard, or the behind the scenes, apparently,

Evan: he got the script and said it was the worst script he'd ever seen.

Evan: and is like well but you know what i'll do it anyway because i like you know

Evan: he was friends with the director and he's like well you know what fuck it i'll do it yeah i think.

bryant: I think he said um he liked the story but the dialogue was garbage.

Evan: Right and i think they but then apparently improvised a.

bryant: Whole lot of the dialogue on set.

Evan: Yeah it said that 80 of the dialogue from uh the sheriff was improvised and

Evan: then at least half of the rest of the whole like sally field didn't even know

Evan: how to do improv like kind of off the cuff and burt run is like oh she'll be

Evan: fine and then i'm sure he's it was fine knowing.

brandon: How much of this was improvised makes a lot of

brandon: things make i don't know a lot about the background of this movie

brandon: to be clear i just and also uh for anyone who uh i there's no reason i would

brandon: have ever talked about this i fucking love jerry reed there was a period of

brandon: time where i sought out any movie that he was in he is an amazing guitar player

brandon: i know i have jerry reed records he has been one of my favorite country musicians for

brandon: as long as I can remember. That dude fucking rules.

Evan: Yeah, and he wrote the song, the theme song, in one night.

zach: Which is crazy to me.

brandon: I'm surprised.

zach: Like, that blows my mind. That is such an iconic song, and just, like, so good.

Evan: Yeah, they just gave him, basically, he read the script, and he went,

Evan: you know, into his, wherever it was, and he wrote the song, and he goes to Hal

Evan: Needham, the director, and said, you know, what do you think of it?

Evan: And he's like, if you change one word, I'll fucking choke you out.

brandon: Real quick, quick should we do any sort of introductions or anything we really just went right.

Evan: Yeah i'll i'll we can use that as the cold open and i'll i can introduce you

Evan: sometimes i just forget because we were just we're just chatting about it but

Evan: yeah i cannot but thank you brandon for being the uh the voice of uh my voice of reason i.

brandon: Honestly thought that we had agreed that we were doing fast and furious so when

brandon: somebody was like hey are we still good to do smoky and the bandit with evan

brandon: i'm like oh my fucking god really hell yes sit back in your seats get something

brandon: to eat watch this movie don't let the kids see.

Evan: This week on Left of the Projector I have the hosts the four hosts of Cars and

Evan: Comrades and we're going to be talking about the 1977 film Smoking and the Bandit

Evan: which stars of course Burt Reynolds Sally Field old Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason.

Evan: And thank you all for being here. Zach Connor, Brandon and Brian.

zach: Thanks for having us.

Connor: Hey, yeah, thanks for having us.

brandon: Yeah, I'm stoked.

Evan: Of course.

brandon: We've been talking about doing a big collab between both shows for a while,

brandon: so I'm happy this is finally happening.

Evan: Yeah, I'm glad that you chose this movie. And as you probably already heard,

Evan: this was some of our first times watching this.

Evan: And I was kind of, you know, just kind of blown away how good it was and how

Evan: funny it is. And it's just a solid all-around movie.

Evan: But maybe before we talk about it, you do want to tell us about The Cars and

Evan: Comrades. so I guess it's a perfect melding about a movie about driving cars

Evan: and we were all comrades so we have done.

brandon: Also it's not like as blatant but this movie is very much Fuck the Police I

brandon: thought it was blatant I thought it was the whole point.

Connor: Of the movie This.

brandon: Is the most ACAB movie ever No because at the end he does that begrudging respect

brandon: like oh I can't lie to you sheriff you're too good of a man He was fucking with.

zach: Him I totally knew that Well.

brandon: No, because he told him who he really was. If he was just messing with him,

brandon: he wouldn't have been like, oh, by the way, I'm standing behind you.

brandon: Actually, no, now that I say that out loud, I 100% understand how that's fucking with him.

zach: That's his final fuck you to the guy. He's like, hey, you're not going to get

zach: me. Like, look, I'm right here. You're not going to get me.

brandon: 60% of your car is left. Good luck catching me.

Evan: This is like when hillbillies, or when the Southerners actually hated cops.

zach: Right?

Evan: This is a throwback from that era.

bryant: In the ending credits, it says this film was made with the cooperation of the

bryant: Georgia State Highway Patrol or something like that.

bryant: And I don't think that would happen today. Like if they were making this movie,

bryant: like, I don't know if, you know, cops had more of a sense of humor in 1977 or if they did not, or,

bryant: or if, uh, they just didn't like share the entire script with them or something.

bryant: I don't know if this would get me.

Connor: I mean, they were flipping cop cars right away.

brandon: But, uh, my background, I've, I've discussed this on air.

brandon: Um, I'm from Georgia and in the seventies, the George, a Georgia sheriff's deputy did murder my uncle.

bryant: Hmm.

brandon: Yeah so the police not chill in the 70s yeah.

zach: Yeah i think yeah right away i think they've always been bastards it's not like

zach: a new development that cops are shit i mean i think we all know at this point

zach: that they their origins are in slave catching so you know not chill people ever really yeah.

brandon: I do think that there's been a systemic shift towards a lack of accountability

brandon: to like to individuals and like cementing like all these bad practices and policies

brandon: because Because my uncle was murdered.

brandon: He was literally, from what I am told, put down on his knees on the side of

brandon: the highway and executed.

brandon: And the sheriff's deputy did go to prison for that because everyone was like, oh, that's murder.

brandon: As to where now, there's a reasonable

brandon: chance that he would have gotten administrative leave or something.

Evan: Got a talk show.

Connor: Yeah, he would have become a right-wing icon. Like a Kyle Rittenhouse of cops.

Evan: Tim Pool's guest host or something.

Connor: Oh, God.

Evan: But yeah so as i mentioned you do you all do have a podcast cars and comrades

Evan: do you want to uh i guess the the name is quite obvious because uh you know

Evan: maybe uh descriptive enough but do you want to tell uh people who may not know

Evan: you i guess brandon you've been on the show before so people may have some inkling but.

brandon: Yeah i'm not very articulate i repeat i am from georgia that's.

bryant: Uh what do you call it internalized orientalism or something like that.

brandon: Yeah no i'm being from georgia it's not why i'm inarticulate it's because i'm

brandon: i'm so drunk which probably has something to do with being from georgia i don't

brandon: know no okay um since i keep rambling on yeah we're we're a podcast where we

brandon: are all leftists and talk about cars and car

brandon: culture from a leftist perspective and generally try to as much as you can as

brandon: a group of like white dudes uh we try to create some element of inclusion in

brandon: car culture where you know there does tend to be a certain amount of right-wing shittiness yeah so

brandon: We would like to make the hobby for everyone. Also, we've shifted hard into

brandon: an anti-car position. That's an interesting term.

bryant: Yeah, it's the more I like, you know, get involved with cars as a hobby,

bryant: the more it loses its shine.

bryant: And it's just I wish I could just take public transit to work,

bryant: you know, and not have to have a car, honestly, or at least have cars as a hobby

bryant: and not as a necessity, you know?

zach: Yeah, exactly. We're very pro-cars as a hobby, not as the main form of transportation

zach: for all people in the entire world.

Evan: So, trains and comrades?

bryant: Yeah, almost. I mean, we've done a few episodes about trains and public transit in general.

brandon: I'm down to eight cars now. How can you expect to extend that to the population?

Evan: Well, I guess speaking of cars, I'm curious what you would say about the,

Evan: not necessarily it's like the truck in this movie but the the iconic

Evan: car that's used in smoky and the bandit which i heard that they received four

Evan: of them to use and then at the end of the there's only four pontiacs and only

Evan: one of them could run at the end of it and then the what's the other what's

Evan: the one the sheriff drives i'm blanking now on the car he has a tempest.

brandon: I think that was also a pontiac.

Connor: It was a pontiac i don't know which model maybe like a tempest or something.

Evan: Yeah i tried.

brandon: To look into it because i was curious about like okay so a sticking point for

brandon: for this movie i haven't i've gotten much more uh knowledgeable on cars since

brandon: the last time i actually re-watched this so i was like getting really hung up

brandon: on the fact that like his his trans am looks cool and fast,

brandon: police like the handful of police cars that i'm familiar with from the era they

brandon: tended to be exempt from a lot of the like fuel economy restrictions 70s police

brandon: cars could move and that uh trans am was a 400 cubic inch engine producing almost 200 literally.

Connor: I was gonna make a note of my notes as well yeah yep same great minds think

Connor: of like we were all like god damn this thing's like got the power of a fucking

Connor: uh frs you know what i mean yeah i i went ahead and looked it.

zach: Up because i could see on the uh the ram air

zach: intake it says 6.6 liter on there so i went ahead and looked up what 6.6 liters

zach: in cubic inches is and yeah that's just over 400 cubic inches and the the post

zach: i read said that it made about 180 horsepower which is yeah less than half of its cubic inches they.

brandon: Made a high output version that was i think.

zach: Closer to.

Evan: 200 yep so So I'm assuming this is good if you want a fast car from a person

Evan: who knows nothing about cars.

bryant: This is, I think, the beginning of what they called the malaise era,

bryant: where you had all the emissions laws coming into effect that sort of choked.

brandon: I would say this is a few years into that.

Connor: Yeah, it is.

bryant: So you had all these emissions controls that really choked the power of all these engines.

bryant: uh but they hadn't developed like um you know fuel injection or turbo charging

bryant: or any of the stuff that gave you actually decent power like starting in the

bryant: 80s so uh it was a it was a great.

Connor: Time all of that all of that was a consequence of

Connor: the emission standard so like it created this

Connor: period where like the cars got real slow real fast and then eventually car makers

Connor: started getting clever with turbos and fuel injection and so the technology

Connor: was a necessity because of the emissions controls so that's why we have the

Connor: cars we have today making crazy horsepower,

Connor: and all that it comes from this but at that time yeah these cars were slow they

Connor: were slow as shit the trans am in this movie looks very cool but i was like

Connor: man i'm almost surprised he could spin the tires like that i was like that thing

Connor: would yeah live rear axles and no.

brandon: Weight really helped.

bryant: That out a lot yeah they probably put a little bleach on the wheels there.

brandon: I am very familiar with this because my cutlass has the 403 olds so only three

brandon: cubic inches bigger roughly the same horsepower a bit more torque but yeah i

brandon: can spend my tires all day long i.

bryant: Mean i did yeah i.

brandon: Can't go very fast but i can break the trans am did have.

bryant: Uh 320 foot pounds of torque which is pretty good but not for us yeah it was.

brandon: The other.

Evan: One was a pontiac lamans yeah that was the the ones the other one oh.

brandon: I i looked up what um i i

brandon: couldn't find much about pontiac police cars because

brandon: i i know that dodge were more common and you would see

brandon: like some chevy so there were a lot like a lot of the the cop cars in this were

brandon: pontiacs and i couldn't find any broad information about like pontiac police

brandon: cars and what kind of like performance packages they had but by this era they

brandon: were very concretely of the opinion that they needed a lot of power because

brandon: what if they They had to catch the bad guys.

brandon: We have to put everyone in traffic's life at risk because that guy was speeding.

Evan: They literally used this movie as like their evidence.

zach: Yeah. I wonder if that has to do with like some sort of sponsorship deal that they got with Pontiac.

zach: Like, I mean, obviously the hero car is the Pontiac.

Connor: It has to be.

zach: And then all of the cop cars are Pontiacs in the movie. I'm assuming Pontiac

zach: had something to do with the movie and funding the cars.

brandon: I wondered about that too.

Connor: Same with Coors. i was noticing.

brandon: No no i know the backstory for that and you guys be glad that you're on here

brandon: because like my dad was a fucking redneck old like truck driver and i actually

brandon: understand the cultural reference that this is that's lost to the ages yeah.

Connor: Oh let's hear it uh.

brandon: It's not as dramatic as i just made it sound but um in the 70s cores was actually

brandon: considered good beer not every city had 18 breweries where you could get like

brandon: an ipa that tasted like dog piss um Um,

brandon: there was, there was a handful of breweries and yeah,

brandon: Coors was considered actually good beer,

brandon: but you true to form could not get it outside of like Colorado and certain other States. So,

brandon: It was a real thing that truck drivers would like bring cases of Coors like

brandon: home with them when they were traveling.

brandon: This is I will say, like, I don't know this like hard and fast.

brandon: This is what my dad told me, because I remember one of the first times I watched it with him.

brandon: I was like, why the why didn't they not just go to the store and find a bunch of cases of Coors beer?

brandon: And he was like, oh, because like back back then you couldn't get it.

brandon: It was really good. But like nobody had it. You had to like know somebody who could bring it to you.

brandon: So this was not sponsorship from Coors. is this was like cores was a bit of

brandon: a cultural phenomenon in this way like you couldn't get it but it's like in and out.

bryant: Burger or something.

brandon: Good.

Evan: Comparison the idea that they actually came up with for the director need i'm

Evan: apparently on the set for the movie gator which i guess was burt reynolds movie

Evan: before this one someone had also.

brandon: With jerry reed.

Evan: Yes also fucking that's why jerry ends up in in this

Evan: one so apparently someone had brought some cores to

Evan: like the to the the director or

Evan: something and they kept putting i think actually bert reynolds directed gator so

Evan: they're putting it into his refrigerator to give to him because it wasn't

Evan: available where they're filming it in georgia and the cleaning person

Evan: kept stealing the beer from the refrigerator oh yeah and so they're like you

Evan: gotta stop doing that and then it gave them like the idea of like oh what if

Evan: we had a movie about someone who like needs to bring a bunch of cores because

Evan: they just want to drink cores beer and it only was available in 11 states in

Evan: 1975 or whatever 76 so couldn't get it very get any places yeah.

bryant: It's uh or i don't know if it still is but it back then it was unpasteurized

bryant: and had no preservatives so they would.

Evan: Only ship.

bryant: It in refrigerated cars i think um,

bryant: Yeah, I'm not sure how it how it works today, if they've changed the recipe

bryant: or what. I'm sure they'd tell you no.

bryant: But yeah, I might have mentioned this when we were planning this,

bryant: but I used to live in Golden, Colorado, near the brewery where they make all the cores.

bryant: And it's an interesting tour. If you're ever in there, you can,

bryant: I think it's like a self guided like audio tour now, but used to be like they'd

bryant: have someone show you around.

bryant: And you know, you get some free samples at the end. um but

bryant: i don't buy cores anymore i wouldn't

bryant: pay them money um after what i've

bryant: learned about the people that own the company um well

bryant: it's crazy yeah uh if you want to know more about that there's a really good

bryant: episode of the dollop about it um yeah a bunch of bunch of fascists basically

bryant: i think two of the chorus family were founding members of the john birch society

bryant: and the heritage society or heritage foundation nice i mean super cool yeah they.

Evan: Used to uh they used to in like the the 1960s and 50s they would actually give

Evan: new employees a lie detector test to make sure they weren't communists gay or like did drugs.

bryant: Yeah it's.

Evan: It's insane like the whole story i haven't i haven't listened to that podcast

Evan: episode but i've read a couple articles and it's insane.

bryant: They also had had just like uh.

brandon: That's that's funny to me as someone who in 2024 has

brandon: had to pass a drug test for their job and is also not allowed

brandon: to be in the union if i'm in a communist party wait really sort

brandon: of that's funny there's there's a clause in our

brandon: union contract that says we're not allowed to be a member of any

brandon: like revolutionary or like uh it's it's it's a holdover from decades ago but

brandon: like yeah it's a suppose somebody else from uh another leftist i know that is

brandon: in another um you uh you uh united steel workers branch told me that yeah tech

brandon: like technically i can't join psl So good luck.

bryant: Yeah.

zach: Before we get too far away from it, I just wanted to,

zach: create a frame of reference for any non-car people

zach: who might have no idea what it means to have 200 horsepower out of a 400 cubic

zach: inch engine um the new the new dr the new dr corolla is a 1.6 liter three-cylinder

zach: turbo and makes 300 horsepower so less than half of the cylinders and

zach: a hundred more horsepower out of a a car or an engine that's like yeah a third

zach: of the displacement or less really because 6.6 liters i mean.

brandon: Yeah less than a third that's.

zach: A quarter or less and.

brandon: Oh yeah jesus i did my math there yeah.

Connor: Um technology's gotten a lot

Connor: better um and that era people there's a

Connor: there's a certain nostalgia aspect where people remember their 70s cars as you

Connor: talk to your your dad or grandpa oh i had this 70s this and that and you're

Connor: like yo that thing was slower than a fucking 90s camry and it's not even close

Connor: like it's like nah those cars were fucking slow man they remember.

brandon: It was cool.

Connor: But like they were not fast.

brandon: The other weird like uh point of reference though is that pontiac the pontiac

brandon: 400 was was pretty prolific that was

brandon: Pontiac's performance motor shy of the 455 a 400 and like 1970 was probably

brandon: making 350 horsepower that's how badly it was gutted it was a little bit more

brandon: than half the horsepower five

brandon: years later because they were actually like being controlled a bit and.

bryant: And I'll say also my my 2017 electric car has more power and accelerates quicker

bryant: than the Pontiac but uh I I wrote down in my notes it's, you know, say what you will about,

bryant: Burt Reynolds and Salafield, but I think the Pontiac is the sexiest character in this movie.

bryant: I mean, even if it is kind of slow, it is a really nice looking car.

bryant: Like, I like the gold accents and the wheels, like the sort of

bryant: I don't know what you call that, like diamond honeycomb.

brandon: Honeycomb.

bryant: Yeah. Yeah.

brandon: Those are sick wheels. This is a really cool car. If I have one objection,

brandon: and I had to dig in a little bit to find this, so I don't know if it's 100% accurate.

brandon: Supposedly, they wanted the brand new Pontiac, like 1977 would have been the newest thing.

brandon: But it wasn't even fully released for production yet.

brandon: So, what they did was they took four 1976s and put the 77 grill and headlight assemblies in.

Evan: That's true.

brandon: True it's true 76 front end looks so much fucking better they downgraded the

brandon: look look of the car in my opinion i i prefer round to square headlights but

brandon: um i i'm not super intense about that but the fact that they did go through

brandon: that effort to to supposedly i.

Connor: Heard that too and i i find that very yeah i think this is oh.

brandon: Yeah at.

Connor: That time like that's definitely i.

zach: Think this is another point in the column of pontiac sponsoring this film in

zach: that you know they They wanted their newest vehicle to be on display in the movie.

zach: And it didn't matter that, you know, it was a little bit prohibitive and like

zach: you said, made it look worse.

zach: They just wanted the newest shit to be on screen.

Connor: Which, by the way, it did work. It was.

zach: Oh, yeah, that is.

Connor: Yeah, the the the the Trans Am started to like outsell the Camaro,

Connor: which is its counterpart car because they're very, very similar cars.

brandon: It's they're both the same body style. they just have quite kind of different grills basically.

Connor: Yeah so yeah uh i think that i read that the sales nearly doubled of the trans

Connor: 700 so like oh damn jesus christ okay i i read nearly doubled in an article

Connor: apparently that's uh an understatement yeah.

Evan: And apparently the pontiac president was going to give burt reynolds like uh

Evan: basically like a pontiac car like a for life and then he left the company and

Evan: they wouldn't give it to him and so he had to.

Connor: Buy it himself oh it's awesome i didn't know that but i i did hear that the

Connor: offer was they were going to give him a new trans am every year that there was

Connor: a trans am because of how we boost their sales to renege on that is hysterical

Connor: that's fucking awesome okay like burt.

brandon: Reynolds had a lot of cultural uh weight and like when this came out so like

brandon: yeah they really stiffed him because like what what's what the cost of like

brandon: 30 cars over the course of like 30 years or something He earned every fucking

brandon: penny of that That's the amount of extra cars They sold in the first month Or

brandon: the first week this movie came.

Connor: Out And.

zach: I know for a fact that Even to this day a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am Firebird With

zach: the snowflake wheels And the bird on the hood Is like,

zach: an unreachable amount of money to this day like a hundred thousand.

brandon: Plus i feel like i see them but it's hard to tell when something's a clone or.

Connor: Somebody through the graphic yeah people people put the graphics on there which

Connor: is cool and fine and whatever i mean they all had the show yeah i don't.

Evan: So this is just you're mentioning like how big of a

Evan: star was burt reynolds got paid the budget for this movie was three point four

Evan: four point three million and he got paid one million so it was a quarter of

Evan: the budget was burt reynolds god damn and then sally field didn't get paid very

Evan: much it was like very early in her career actually it was burt reynolds idea

Evan: to have her in the movie and then of course he wanted to have jerry reed in the movie and he,

Evan: then they also reached out to jackie gleason and he's like he read the script

Evan: he's like sure i'll do this it's stupid but fine whatever everyone just was

Evan: like i'll do it and then he just improvised everything but yeah it's uh it's

Evan: kind of amazing it got made in some sense but here we are um.

brandon: I mean from what i'm hearing it kind of sounds like if gator had not been what

brandon: it was this movie would not have been made yeah.

Evan: I've never seen that i.

brandon: I oh dude oh fuck god i fucking love that movie so much um i just i want to

brandon: comment like i i had never thought of it again i'm i'm what i'm i watched this

brandon: movie almost for the first time this week because uh i got to watch it through

brandon: the leftist lens and that was the first time i realized that jackie gleason's first act on

brandon: screen in this movie is to start physically like violently attacking.

zach: Yeah.

brandon: And I, it's just like the four, those dudes stealing parts off the car and he

brandon: just immediately starts wailing.

Connor: Well, and I found it, you know, interesting. I actually did make a note of it.

Connor: The first scene in which we see, um,

Connor: sheriff buford t justice the first scene

Connor: he appears in they play like this silly over

Connor: the top bad guy music to like let you

Connor: know this is the antagonist and he gets out

Connor: of his car and he's acting like a cop on a power trip and it was just like right

Connor: from the beginning they're like this is the bad guy and he's an idiot um and

Connor: so then yeah and then the first thing he does is assault someone and then he

Connor: like tells them all like okay well i gotta go i gotta go leave but you put your hands

Connor: on this car and don't you fucking leave you can't go to the bathroom you can't

Connor: do it just till another cop comes and then just leaves them like yeah i i.

zach: Made a note of it in my notes but the way that cops are portrayed in this movie

zach: is fucking awesome they are all so incompetent and just incapable of doing anything

zach: right i love it i love every second of the police on screen in this movie it's

zach: so fucking beautiful okay.

brandon: So also in the in the context of movie you know the bandit is is a cultural

brandon: phenomenon somehow yeah.

zach: They don't really go over that they just kind of expect you to understand that

zach: the bandit is this character that you're supposed to like know already i guess

zach: i it felt like there was a prequel that i missed no.

brandon: I i got the impression that like they're trying to establish that he is such

brandon: like a folk hero that just every mom and pop on the side of the road knows who

brandon: the bandit is in this world like in the world of.

Connor: Yeah but.

brandon: Like what i appreciate so much is that okay you

brandon: accept that take the bandit is a folk hero in the context of this movie every

brandon: human being alive in this movie is is is doing their best to mislead the police

brandon: lie to them just block them at dude when when the two dudes take the funeral.

Connor: Process that's.

brandon: One of the just to keep the cops from catching the bandit because they're like

brandon: no man fuck the police bandit you got this shit yeah yeah.

Connor: I feel like so this might be a good time to do a

Connor: quick like bare bones like of the plot and

Connor: what's going on and why these people are doing this to some extent like um i

Connor: don't know who should do that if uh i don't know how we usually do this uh evan

Connor: but if we want to like kind of outline what the overall story is why they're

Connor: on this drive yeah yeah uh And then like how it is essentially this is like a folk hero story.

Evan: Yeah, exactly.

Connor: Like what Brandon was saying.

Evan: And it's funny as you're saying that, like, because he's a folk hero on like

Evan: a CB radio. And I'm thinking like this would be, you know, now it'd be like on Reddit or something.

bryant: Here it's like, you know.

Evan: CB radio.

Connor: Oh, that's so sad.

Evan: But yeah. But yeah. So yeah, to your point, like, so basically,

Evan: we just all of a sudden we learn that.

Evan: Well, I guess they very briefly tell you that there's like this big thing about

Evan: bootlegging Coors beer from Tarkana's Texaco,

Evan: texarkana texarkana texas to atlanta or wherever

Evan: you know because it's illegal and then they just introduce you

Evan: to burt reynolds just chilling on a hammock just

Evan: being like yeah what do you want and these two guys come over and you know the

Evan: father and the son and it's just the classic suits they're wearing and apparently

Evan: actually i'll just add is that the his laugh on the hammock was apparently like

Evan: him actually having never seen their outfits before and it was like a true laugh,

Evan: i just think that's perfect he's like that's the most honest laugh i've ever

Evan: given in a movie but that's fucking.

brandon: Hysterical i can hear that laugh.

Evan: That was.

brandon: A that was a very earnest laugh like.

Evan: So they basically say they're going to give him eighty thousand dollars which

Evan: is the equivalent of almost four hundred thousand dollars now to bring back

Evan: 400 cases of cores in 48 hours which which is 900 miles. 28 hours?

zach: 28 hours.

brandon: 28, yeah.

Evan: Oh, 28 hours. Yeah, you're right. 28 hours. And he has, it's 900 miles each way. So 1,800 miles.

brandon: It works out to be something of like a maintained average speed of like 60 miles

brandon: an hour. It's actually not. I did the math.

zach: That's like my first note. I was like, how fast does he have to go? It's 64 miles an hour.

zach: Like just over 64 miles an hour. It's really not that fast average.

Evan: But they do a lot of up putzing around and like not driving for a lot of yeah apparently.

brandon: And sally.

zach: Field had enough time to get it on in one scene so they're really not.

Connor: In that.

zach: Much of a hurry it seems like yeah.

Connor: They're just that good they're they're they're folk heroes they are just so

Connor: far above and beyond that they can they can do it they can stop for meals they

Connor: got time to sleep they can do it all 400.

Evan: Horsepower power for uh.

Connor: No

brandon: No no 200 cubic inches.

zach: Yeah yeah right okay.

brandon: Well okay so since we're since we're starting off with that i think another

brandon: worthwhile note is that uh you really like it is like a very working class versus

brandon: the law movie the closest you get to anyone like wealthy or powerful in this

brandon: movie is big and little enos,

brandon: And holy fuck, are they the butt of the joke? They're the driving force in that

brandon: they're the ones that come up to the bandit and say, we got this bet for you.

brandon: But their whole thing is to fuck everyone over because they keep making this

brandon: bet with people just to get them in trouble and fuck with them.

brandon: And that's what they're doing here.

brandon: And from that point on, they are the butt of the joke.

brandon: This is such a working class fucking movie. this is about the worker like even

brandon: across like racial lines for the 70s like everyone was working together because

brandon: fuck the police and fuck these rich assholes.

Connor: Yeah it was um i mean so like

Connor: basically the whole point of the movie is finally this bet

Connor: that they've been making to lots of truckers they've all gotten

Connor: either arrested or or crashed out or whatever it

Connor: was they finally offer this this deal to

Connor: the bandit the big local legend right

Connor: um and so that's pretty much what the movie is is

Connor: they're doing this run in this time frame and that

Connor: is the whole story that's going on here but one of

Connor: the things that i noticed like the opening scene right after

Connor: the credits which i also noted had like another unique

Connor: song made just for the movie which i

Connor: was like oh that's cool um and i had never noticed it

Connor: before but so the first scene is actually another truck

Connor: driver getting busted like that is our opening is like cops

Connor: show up and confront this other truck driver and they're like

Connor: all right let's see what's in the back sure enough it's

Connor: the Coors beer and he's like well hey listen officer I was put up to this by

Connor: these by these two rich guys offering me a bunch of money to do it and they

Connor: and the cops go don't you when are you guys gonna learn those you know uh people

Connor: offer the same deal to every trucker you know worth their salt or whatever and

Connor: i found that really funny because i was like it.

brandon: Really does paint the picture that the south is only about five or six hundred people.

Connor: Which is all each other well yeah

Connor: acting as if they all knew but the other thing that i found funny was

Connor: like so wait you know who's doing this you know

Connor: who's driving this and they are very much not in jail and i was like it really

Connor: does set up that like the truckers are the ones facing the consequences but

Connor: like these rich assholes are not and like it like it literally cuts from this

Connor: scene of the of them telling him that they offer this to every truck driver,

Connor: cuts to the next scene with showing the back of their cadillac convertible as

Connor: they drive around with big you know they're just goofy motherfuckers and it's

Connor: and it's just so clear that like they're setting up this idea that like yeah

Connor: these rich assholes get to do this and there are no consequences for them everyone

Connor: else faces consequences the.

Evan: Cops get to confiscate all the beer so they don't want to arrest them right

Evan: they want to keep keep the beer.

Connor: Flowing but.

Evan: Yeah like that's so yeah so as As you said, that's basically the rest of the

Evan: movie is first, you know, you kind of Burt Reynolds has to, or the bandit has

Evan: to get his partner, Jerry Reed, and they, you know, embark on their mission.

Evan: And they're chased the entire time by Sheriff Buford T. Justice,

Evan: played hilariously by Jackie Gleason.

Evan: And then you have Sally Field who, within what, the first, I don't know,

Evan: I don't know, they've already gotten the beer at this point,

Evan: right? When they pick her up, they're on the way back.

Connor: Yeah, so actually the first, so within the first 20 minutes,

Connor: the Enos guys offer the deal to the bandit. He convinces his friend and fellow

Connor: truck driver, the snowman, to join him on this.

Connor: And basically he says, look, I'm going to drive the blocker car.

Connor: So I'm going to drive out ahead of you and get the attention of the police so

Connor: that they don't stop you in the truck behind. Okay.

Connor: And so then his friend agrees, which I got to do a side tangent.

Connor: I also found it very weird and kind of goofy that like the band,

Connor: it's like, all right, well, if I'm going to take this deal from y'all,

Connor: I'm going to need money for a car.

Connor: And they just hand him the money for her car. And they're counting it out.

Connor: And he's like, I need a speedy car.

Connor: And they give him more money and goes speedier than that. And they give him

Connor: more money, which is just comedy gold.

Connor: But also I was like, they're just handing you the money to do this.

Connor: Like, yeah, great. I'd like to get a Lamborghini.

brandon: In my head the whole time i'm just like dude fuck the eighty thousand dollars

brandon: you have to work for that they're giving you like probably like five or ten

brandon: grand up front dude take the money and run like.

bryant: They're paying what like ten dollars per beer at this point or something like that in.

Connor: I mean a crazy amount it's just this is rich guys with nothing better to do

Connor: and they like i think they do a good job setting up that like they don't actually

Connor: give a shit about the beer they just want to fuck with people and this is just.

brandon: They're like why do you want the beer and they're like oh we're having a party it's.

bryant: And it's kind of like uh that movie rat race uh in that regard it's just rich

bryant: people fucking with everyday people as like a for fun.

brandon: Yeah yeah.

zach: Just as entertainment and to put the.

brandon: I mean it's established that no one has accomplished this yet so it is a hundred

brandon: percent they are just keep fucking people over yeah.

Evan: They also allude that burt ranalds his friend cletus or the snowman he had you

Evan: know he had gone to prison it didn't i I don't think they say why,

Evan: because of antics that he had pulled maybe some other kind of similar job.

Evan: And his wife's like, no, you don't do this. And he's like, well,

Evan: $40,000, presumably if they're going to split it, is a life-changing amount of money.

Evan: So they're just, again, fucking with these people for money that will change

Evan: their lives, but means nothing to them.

Connor: Yeah, they carry this around in their pocket.

Evan: Yeah, he just got stacks of bills.

Connor: I did find one other thing I just wanted to make note specifically when they

Connor: first approached the bandit with this offer and he lets out that very you know,

Connor: awesome laugh as soon as he sees them but i love

Connor: what he did say after that because i actually i put it in my

Connor: notes i was like this is such a good fucking line his first instinct

Connor: is to laugh in their faces and then insult them by

Connor: saying oh i love your suits it must be a bitch getting a size 68 extra fat and

Connor: a 12 dwarf i was like god damn if that is not a working class hero i don't know

Connor: what is just that alone if.

Evan: Paul williams said that like made his career actually like being in this even

Evan: though he was the butt of the joke he like he like he kind of just loves it and got lots of.

Connor: Work because.

Evan: Of it so fuck it yeah there there's just i mean

Evan: just generally speaking as you said that there's tons and tons and tons of just

Evan: really good jokes and it kind of blows my mind that many of them were just ad-libbed

Evan: when they're in the moment like they're just it's really really funny and lots

Evan: of like you know kind of like double entendres and you know hidden meaning where

Evan: they you know say one word when they meet another it's just.

Connor: Like everything over the cb radios was in you oh yeah everything there in double

Connor: entendres the whole bit like i loved every interaction on the cb radios um but

Connor: yeah actually i remember um because i i kind of did a number of side tangents

Connor: there but i was getting to the point where i was trying to set up the idea

Connor: that within the first 20 minutes of the movie they

Connor: did all of this shit got this all together and they

Connor: had already gotten to texas to pick up the beer within

Connor: 20 minutes and then like a couple minutes later so

Connor: like basically they had no problems going out none whatsoever there was one

Connor: cop that the bandit got the attention of and lost very easily um and then also

Connor: notably breaks the fourth wall as he's like he like looks at the camera and

Connor: just like kind of gives a little smile and then like takes it takes off i.

brandon: Really appreciated that because at no other point in the movie does anything like that happen.

Connor: No the only fourth one the.

Evan: Funny thing that burt reynolds said he's like oh like are you sure you want

Evan: me to do that and he says to need him the director he's like oh you know that's

Evan: breaking the fourth wall and apparently i'll need him with like completely deadpan goes what's that.

Connor: That's so awesome was this first.

bryant: His first uh time time directing a movie because he was a stuntman mostly right um.

brandon: Yeah that makes sense i didn't.

bryant: Realize i think it was.

Evan: His yeah i think so.

bryant: He actually did the stunt of uh jumping the car over the bridge i think yep yeah.

Connor: Oh that's very cool that is cool that's a cool director right there oh no don't

Connor: worry i got the i got the car jump yeah that's all me actually so.

Evan: He was the.

Connor: Second director.

Evan: On gator i guess that's how he and

Evan: burt reynolds became friends but that's not like not the main director but yeah

Evan: so this is his first uh his first shot apparently he like didn't really know

Evan: like i couldn't find much about the technical but apparently it was just kind

Evan: of like makeshift kind of nonsense on the set which makes sense given the given

Evan: it but yeah the all the lines are really good i had a bunch of them written down i can't find so.

bryant: One of my favorite is uh you ought to quit smoking it's bad for your health

bryant: but I enjoy it so much. Yeah.

zach: And then she like visibly as she's smoking.

brandon: Like the first, I just started. My favorite joke was probably when,

brandon: when Sally Fields looks over at the speedo and says, are we really going 110,

brandon: but doesn't seem to understand that that's kilometers.

bryant: Was it? Yeah.

brandon: Like I paused it and rewound because I was like, wait a second.

brandon: What? And when you look at it, yeah, they're going 110 kilometers.

bryant: Like 65 miles an hour.

Connor: They're going slow.

brandon: Well they only.

Evan: Have to go 64 so that they're good yeah.

brandon: Okay so the the if if anything that i will give them credit for the challenge

brandon: of this is sure an average maintained speed of around 65 for 28 hours but how

brandon: the fuck long does it take to go pick up his buddy snowman to go buy a car that's

brandon: like an entire afternoon right there and like i don't know when they start the.

Connor: Clock exactly but i i presume they buy the car before the clock starts i hope.

brandon: Well i was i I was assuming that the clock started at the truck rodeo.

Evan: Yeah.

Connor: Like, I don't, I don't think that's possible. Like, I literally actually do

Connor: not think that even if he got that shit altogether in two hours,

Connor: they were running an hour ahead of schedule when they hit Texarkana.

Connor: Or I think, I think after they loaded the beer, they were a half an hour ahead

Connor: of schedule, but they were ahead of schedule when they hit Texarkana.

bryant: Yeah. Cause the store hadn't opened yet. They, they broke in and stole the beer.

Connor: They broke into the.

brandon: Stole the beer.

Connor: And left a note.

zach: Just like.

Connor: Send the bill to.

zach: Another another big line in the movie is that they did not leave the note jerry

zach: reed's character is writing the note can't figure out how to spell the guy's

zach: name it just goes oh shit i gotta go and throws the notepad and just leaves i.

Evan: Just like that he he like gets in the forklift and he just kind of dipping around

Evan: and And just crushes a bunch of the.

zach: Beer. Another one of my favorite lines. When Jerry Reed's character says.

zach: You can't drive a forklift. And he says I can drive any forking thing around.

bryant: Just like.

Evan: So many of those great one liners.

zach: In this movie.

brandon: That is 100% a joke I would make.

zach: That felt like a Brandon joke.

zach: for sure well.

Evan: This i assume this ruby because at the time there was no pg-13 it was just a

Evan: pg movie you know just a you know do that or are and it's not i mean i guess

Evan: you could say it's a kid's movie you could watch this for you know as a kid

Evan: and probably not get most of the jokes right because they've kind of hidden

Evan: them in there with yeah you know the the innuendo and all that i'm.

Connor: I'm always appreciative of like kids movies in general because i think those are some of the

Connor: best writers because they always disney movies do

Connor: this a lot of them do this where it's like they hide the humor really well that

Connor: kids will not get it you'll laugh at the same time but the parents and the kids

Connor: laugh for different reasons um i always appreciate that kind of writing i think

Connor: that's a real skill and this movie i think definitely has oh yeah as.

zach: A complete side tangent i just watched uh shrek one

zach: two and three the other day and it has

zach: tons of that in it it's if you haven't

zach: watched it in a while go back and watch the first trek movie it's it's full

zach: of just adult humor that is masterfully written in to be subtle and and and

zach: just above the head of the the target audience.

Connor: It's so great i love that i i really i do love that shit.

Evan: Yeah the first i haven't actually seen the third one i've watched the first

Evan: one not that long ago maybe six months ago and i remember thinking damn this

Evan: movie i mean i had seen it a long time and it is uh so many good jokes and so

Evan: many things that are hidden in there that are yeah solid i.

zach: Uh another complete side tangent but i got a lecture

zach: from my very christian mother about shrek after seeing

zach: it in the theater with her because there's one scene where

zach: they roll a stone away from a tomb to uh allow princess fiona somewhere to sleep

zach: and uh i was told that that was making a mockery of jesus tomb so yeah you have

zach: that to look forward to i mean that's kind of funny if you go ahead and watch it now.

Evan: Well i mean we i guess we i.

brandon: Feel like that's giving strength i.

Evan: Mean you talked about how the how like the cops in this movie are portrayed

Evan: poorly i think we should talk about the i mean you also can say some of your

Evan: favorite lines of like the Beaufort T justice.

Evan: I mean, it's just his entire shtick is just,

Evan: hysterical the entire time but i don't know about i don't have well i'll have

Evan: to think about my favorite line but one of my favorite gags in the entire movie

Evan: is his son once the car's roof gets pulled off and he has to hold his hat every

Evan: time you're driving around it's just i i couldn't every time they showed that

Evan: on screen i'm just like what the this is and he keeps doing it.

bryant: When they're just walking around yeah he keeps.

Evan: His hand on his.

zach: Hat that was so funny.

Evan: I think one of my favorite And how he says, some bitch.

zach: Some bitch, yeah. That's great. No, my favorite Buford T.

zach: Justice line is when he berates the cop who stops him for using foul language.

zach: And then as he's driving away, you hear a truck horn blare and you just see

zach: him mouth the words, and fuck off. And then he drives away.

Connor: I think one of the other excellent points

Connor: and sort of major plot point when they pick

Connor: up uh sally field's character uh carrie

Connor: she is a she's wearing a wedding dress and

Connor: she's hitchhiking the bandit picks her up she's fleeing her wedding now she

Connor: is to supposed to be marrying sheriff buford t justice's idiot son who is a

Connor: fucking dimwit the whole movie um and like he's in the car with uh with the

Connor: sheriff the whole time and And he is dumb as a box of rocks.

Connor: But one of the things I love is as like they're driving in pursuit and,

Connor: you know, Sheriff Justice over here is like ranting and raving in the car.

Connor: And she's like, she disrespected my authority.

Connor: And that's nothing but good old fashioned communism.

zach: Oh, I love that.

brandon: Too.

Connor: And I actually one of our outros that we use for our show does have that line, actually.

Connor: um but it's funny he's like ranting and

Connor: raving about how how he feels personally slighted by what she did while his

Connor: son who she left at the altar is in the car with him and he doesn't give a fuck

Connor: about what he thinks like he's like yeah and he's like shut up so like his general vibe is too.

brandon: Stupid to understand what has happened in his life he's.

zach: A total hottie.

Connor: He's a he's a classic himbo.

zach: Hot and dumb as hell.

Connor: Yeah so yeah it was just it was very funny that the cop is bitching and moaning

Connor: about how this affects him instead of his son which was just absolutely priceless it.

brandon: Really never even pays lip service to the fact that his son.

Connor: Might have some feelings about this,

Connor: is it beauty justice.

Evan: Who has the line where he says like uh or maybe this does the son say one of

Evan: them says like this is germane to the situation he says the germans have nothing yeah yeah.

Connor: So um.

zach: Black sheriff that they meet oh right right.

Connor: Who who i want to add is the only competent

Connor: police officer in this film and i found that i was like okay this feels like

Connor: a very deliberate choice like 1977 not a great time in this country but like

Connor: the one competent police officer that they portray in this film is the black

Connor: sheriff and he like he like says like oh oh, this isn't germane to the situation.

Connor: And this idiot has no idea what that even fucking means.

Connor: It's, but like, he's, he thinks he's better than the black sheriff.

brandon: Since we're having that conversation, you cannot skip the interaction between the black sheriff.

zach: Yeah, that's exactly what I was about to say.

brandon: He is horrified. Like you, this is where it was being probably a PG movie really

brandon: shines because again, he can't use the hard R when he meets the black sheriff.

brandon: So he's got to be like, oh, you know, you're not what I expected.

brandon: And, you know, the subtext is really fucking obvious and that he's like,

brandon: holy fuck, you're black.

Connor: Well, as he's walking away, like so he actually meets him as because the black

Connor: sheriff's like, yo, dude, you're like way out of your jurisdiction.

Connor: Like, you should fucking leave. Like, please stop what you're doing.

Connor: And Beaufort T. Justice, of course, doesn't.

Connor: But the bandit leads them on a chase, and this is where they do the big bridge

Connor: jump because they got cornered on this dirt road and they had nowhere to go.

Connor: So they jumped the bridge. And when the police tried to do it, also notably,

Connor: the car that the black sheriff was in was being driven by a white sheriff's

Connor: deputy who was the mayor's son and notably not as competent.

Connor: So like you have this like fairly competent black sheriff and he's like paired

Connor: up with this, the mayor's son who's driving the car.

brandon: Anybody in this movie made Buford Justice's son look smart. It was that dude.

brandon: What if like there is no better word than yokel for that.

zach: Just to drive Buford T. Justice's racism home after they have this interaction

zach: with the black sheriff, he turns around and goes, what has the world come to?

bryant: Yeah, exactly.

Connor: Exactly. That's, that's the line. That's the important line there is it was

Connor: like, and it's so clear what he's talking about, but like he first even sees

Connor: him, which basically they crashed.

Connor: They didn't make it over the bridge when they tried to jump it.

Connor: They, so they crashed and the, um, black sheriff's getting out of the vehicle.

Connor: And that's where Buford T justice is standing on the bridge.

Connor: And, you know, it says something, he calls him boy first, which of course,

Connor: very, very noticeable there.

Connor: And he's like, where's, you know sheriff whatever and he's like I'm the sheriff

Connor: and he almost like doesn't believe it at first and he says something like oh

Connor: I thought you'd be taller or something and that's when he turns around and says

Connor: what is the world coming to and you're like,

Connor: god damn like you know buford t justice is literally his character is just a

Connor: parody of a conservative asshole like that's his.

brandon: Whole shtick it really does make you wonder what the director was doing because

brandon: those were all such intentional decisions yeah to make the the one black sheriff

brandon: the only competent person in law enforcement in this movie buford t justice is

brandon: just like not only like they went as

brandon: hard as they could to make him racist under a pg

brandon: uh rating as they could and

brandon: just so fucking dumb and yeah the

brandon: one thing i was a little bit wasn't sure what how to

brandon: feel about was yeah he shows up and calls that sheriff boy

brandon: but he calls everyone in the movie boy he is just condescending to everyone

brandon: he speaks to he is um and i'm wondering if they were doing that to make it seem

brandon: less obvious that he was being racist towards the sheriff or if that's i don't

brandon: i really don't know because i noticed that immediately but then personally he says that to everyone he.

Connor: Does and that's it's because he's a condescending asshole but it's because like

Connor: the next where he turns around and goes what is the world coming to it is so

Connor: clear that he is just like unabashedly racist um so like it's reasonable to just kind

Connor: of conclude that to some extent he was just being racist in that instance.

Connor: But yes, he also does call everyone boy.

bryant: Um, by the way, have you guys, have you guys seen, uh, the James Bond movie live and let die?

brandon: Is that the one that has, uh, Jackie Gleason?

bryant: Maybe he's in it, but there's a different, um, like Southern,

bryant: uh, racist, uh, sheriff in that one, uh, sheriff JW pepper.

bryant: Um, and there's also a car jumping across, uh, a river,

bryant: um but it's uh i think it's set in louisiana and there's also people using cb

bryant: radios to coordinate um catching james bond uh i wonder how like that was in

bryant: 1973 i wonder how much that influenced this movie you know oh.

brandon: You know in in my uh in my head i always i haven't seen that movie in so long

brandon: i just assumed that that was the same character but i i actually thought that

brandon: was jackie gleason that's yeah i don't remember the.

bryant: Actor's name but it was a different guy he might have been an english guy just

bryant: putting on an accent now i think about it.

zach: I would just like.

Evan: To say none of the things they said they never mentioned that i wonder if it's

Evan: just it got like seeped into his influence or something yeah.

Connor: Yeah there's some.

brandon: Similarities james was that guy yeah no um it definitely i actually always assumed

brandon: that the two were connected because the behavior is so like similar and just

brandon: such buffoons either way good on this director for

brandon: painting the police as racist assholes and like lifting up a working class hero

brandon: to to beat them that rules yeah.

Connor: This movie like obviously it wasn't like it's not perfect and progressive in

Connor: every fashion but like there are elements of it that actually are fairly progressive

Connor: especially for the time period when you're like damn all right not wrong here.

brandon: Even the little old lady fucking knows that the bandit rules and the police man yeah well.

Evan: You mentioned before the the funeral procession i mean that i think is one of

Evan: the the best of all of the like blocking the cops to go through and they know

Evan: what they're doing they they know uh they'd rather see the cops anyone get away

Evan: as long as the cops fail like fuck them.

brandon: Also a mad respect to them having a cb radio in the house yeah.

Connor: Another i also love that everybody like everybody would get on to the cb radio

Connor: so So like there's this element of like a collective action where like people

Connor: are listening in on the CB radios, but like when they participate,

Connor: they all come in. Nobody's awkward. Everyone's like,

Connor: they come up with a name for themselves and they're like all in it

Connor: to help the bandit like they are a part of this history everyone's

Connor: all working together like even the the funeral guys he picks

Connor: up the cb radio and like you see he like almost thinks for a second he goes this is

Connor: grave digger it was just like it's this

Connor: whole thing that like everybody's in on it everybody's

Connor: got a name everybody's playing along um and it

Connor: was really cool that just like how ubiquitous uh

Connor: everything was like everyone knew everyone knew

Connor: who they were and everyone was there to help old ladies other truck drivers

Connor: there's an uh a point which we'll probably talk about later where there's a

Connor: sex worker who contacts them over the cb radio let's letting them know she's

Connor: going to take care of some of the police in the way which becomes very relevant

Connor: a little bit later yeah yeah.

Evan: I love that's that's just so yeah you we can talk about that now but that scene

Evan: is so funny because then they sheriff the buford justice comes by and is like

Evan: thinks he's arresting the bandit and it turns out it's actually just a different

Evan: cop like this like the the sheriff or the whatever of that town.

Connor: Yeah so well so the bandits like on the radio is like oh yeah i'll come by you

Connor: know i'll have to come by and thank you sometimes she's like why don't you come

Connor: in person he's like yeah okay he doesn't show up but the fucking sheriff's like

Connor: oh i got him i'm gonna go well then he goes and he pulls this guy out and he

Connor: goes yeah and he's telling this other cop i got him this is the bandit. And he's like, Sir...

Connor: that's my captain and it's it's just yet another fucking cop who's like fucking

Connor: soliciting you know sex workers on the job and he's the police captain it's

Connor: just one more instance of like yeah and i think uh you per t justice.

zach: Says something along the lines of if you're gonna be in a joint like this at

zach: least wear a badge on your underwear or something,

zach: he knows you're a cop.

Connor: And he doesn't arrest you well yeah and of course it's it's noticeable too that

Connor: like the first thing that he fucking does as soon as he learns he's a cop he's

Connor: like all right i'm like it's just like wait excuse me wait a second what we're done i mean.

Evan: At least he doesn't arrest the women i guess that's the only uh.

Connor: Well yeah at least there's that he was in a rush, though.

Evan: Yeah, that's true.

brandon: The more we talk about it, I cannot believe the way this movie uplifts workers,

brandon: criminals, sex... This movie is antithetical to everything modern conservatives

brandon: would ever believe in and would probably love this movie.

Connor: No, they do. It's so funny because my dad loves this movie and I'm like,

Connor: my dude, did you watch this movie?

Connor: It's making fun of you. I never understand that because I'm like,

Connor: dude, a lot of conservative people will watch movies and be like, This is great.

Connor: And I'm like, it's antithetical to everything you believe.

Connor: And you're a caricature in the film and they're making fun of you.

Evan: Or they're thinking, yeah, or they're thinking it's like the opposite.

Evan: Like it's making fun of liberals. Yeah.

Connor: Who is that politician?

bryant: No comprehension.

zach: Like name a better duo.

bryant: Yeah. Who is that guy that was a big fan of Rage Against the Machine? Scott something.

brandon: Oh, the guy who told them to keep politics out of the. something like that oh man.

Evan: Or when start with like there's uh i can't think of the conservative woman's

Evan: name on uh forget her name she was talking about like starship troopers on twitter

Evan: being like oh this movie is pro-fascism it's like no yeah no so many people didn't.

Connor: Understand that movie.

zach: Yeah or the the iconic tweet of uh star wars isn't about vietnam not unless the u.s.

Evan: Is the empire higher oh yeah

Evan: i mean it's almost uh amazing i don't know all these things make it it's almost

Evan: surprising the studio like this is a universal studio movie and they didn't

Evan: seem to have much issue with the movie going through unless they just figured

Evan: it's burt reynolds he's like in a

Evan: pretty you know he's a popular person he's starring in it so we'll just let

Evan: it go i mean i don't know it seems almost shocking i mean i think.

bryant: This is when studios were more um willing to risk a little bit on something

bryant: you know a little bit more creative a little bit out of the norm,

bryant: you know whereas nowadays nowadays they're just you know making marvel sequels or whatever um i.

Connor: Mean yeah that was the era that like mel brooks was big right like i feel like

Connor: so if that can get through like this is there's a lot of humor that is i would

Connor: say similar to like a mel brooks kind of film yeah.

bryant: I mean and it.

Evan: Wasn't a huge budget.

bryant: Or anything it was what like.

Evan: No what you said three four million yeah four million yeah that actually reminds

Evan: me of a fact i learned recently about because you mentioned Mel Brooks,

Evan: is when they're making Blazing Saddles.

Evan: Apparently the studio told Mel Brooks to make the movie less racist towards

Evan: white people because they're being too mean.

Connor: Jesus Christ.

brandon: You know, they could never remake Blazing Saddles today.

zach: Because Gene Wilder's dead?

Evan: I don't know.

brandon: I saw some tweet where somebody was like, they could never redo that today because

brandon: they completely missed the point.

Evan: Yeah.

brandon: I was another one of those. Hey, Rage Against the Machine, keep politics out of your music.

Connor: Yeah.

Evan: Oh, yeah. Well, I guess another person we haven't talked about is Sally Field.

Evan: You mentioned before how she

Evan: comes into the picture. She's running away from her wedding from a man.

Evan: I think she had said she had been with him for five days or something,

Evan: and they decided to get married.

Evan: And then she's also ticking off and getting dressed under her wedding dress

Evan: inside the moving vehicle, which is also pretty badass.

Evan: and and burt reynolds has the audacity to be like you have big calves yeah he's

Evan: like what are you talking about i don't maybe that's just been like a joke because

Evan: he wanted her in the movie because he said that she was beautiful when the studio's

Evan: like oh she's not really sexy and he's like no she's sexy so apparently how

Evan: she got you know cast well.

bryant: And then they ended up dating i think after this.

Evan: Married actually yeah i think i don't know how long they got married for let's see four years oh.

Connor: Wow okay that's that's an eternity in celebrity marriages so.

Evan: 1976 to 1980 i.

brandon: Did i had forgotten about that but that tracks because they did have really

brandon: good on like kind of weird but good on.

zach: Yeah i was gonna say it was really odd that she was so into the bandit like

zach: it didn't really seem there was like a lot of pretense for it she was just like i.

Connor: Mean that's kind of her.

zach: Character though like.

Connor: Because she did mention it like she's like oh i had this like crazy you know relationship.

Connor: I really thought he was the one. We were together for eight and a half days.

Connor: So like it becomes clear like she has a habit of like falling hard and fast

Connor: and I can't help but feel like thank God she didn't marry this dimwit fucking

Connor: person she was gonna marry because you're like God damn dude.

Connor: I don't know what you got in five days that convinced you that he's alright

Connor: but like you didn't talk to him. So,

Connor: That's all I can say there.

Evan: Maybe she met Buford T. Justin and she's like, no, this guy can't be my father-in-law.

Connor: Can you imagine?

Evan: This fucking asshole. She doesn't seem to like cops.

Evan: She's not very obvious about it, I guess, but she's clearly not against the

Evan: fact that they're just literally just driving away from cops and evading them the entire movie.

brandon: I mean, the subtext of this movie is literally nobody likes police.

zach: At one point, she does flip off the cops when they're trying to get a blockade.

Evan: That's true.

zach: True like removed from the road they do a big slide in the middle of the highway

zach: and stop and she just leans out the window and flips off the cops and they turn around and peel out.

Connor: Yeah well so that was the one time when they finally when a cop pulled over

Connor: the truck and was gonna write you know it's gonna take him to jail that's right

Connor: that's when and so like all it took for them to get the cops away from the truck

Connor: was just pulling up giving them the finger and then he's like oh it gets all

Connor: mad and then chases after him and it's like wow excellent y'all are so yeah

Connor: they They have the attention.

bryant: Span of a goldfish or something.

zach: And the ego is the other thing I liked about, I mean, a traffic stop from happening

zach: was getting flipped off.

zach: Like they obviously don't care that much.

bryant: Yeah.

zach: Like, you know, enacting the law, they're just hurt their feelings.

zach: And, and they're like, well, that, that can't slide.

zach: I can't be flipped off by some lady in a car. So I'm going to chase after them.

Connor: One of the other things I liked about, uh her character is

Connor: like early on she's like doing all

Connor: this stuff she's she's very careless like taking off

Connor: her wedding dress in the car which is a whole production at

Connor: one point she's driving and decides like she's gonna switch seats while they're

Connor: driving with the bandit like she's very unsafe in these

Connor: ways but like one of the things she does is like she gets scared she's

Connor: like oh my god you're driving so fast and recklessly she like

Connor: gets out of her seat and like starts to

Connor: like head towards the back of the car not wearing a

Connor: seat belt and i'm like if you're scared of

Connor: what's happening you should be wearing a seat belt and she's like out of her

Connor: seat and like trying to go to the bed and you're like that's that's the worst

Connor: thing you could be doing right now um so i found that to be actually kind of

Connor: extra funny there is that she was like just freaking out and not doing anything safe remotely i.

Evan: Don't that's when she has her joke to like the 10 100 and she was a 10 to...

bryant: Real terms, actually.

Evan: Are they? Yeah. Oh, perfect. I was going to say, maybe... I think that this...

bryant: There was a big...

bryant: thing in the 70s around cb radios and truckers like that was sort of a cultural

bryant: phenomenon that this sort of i don't know tapped into i guess like there's that

bryant: movie convoy also and i'm sure there's other ones um but like i wonder how realistic

bryant: it was that just everyone had a cb radio in their car like in this movie.

brandon: A friend of mine's dad installed a cb radio in their

brandon: house with a 30 foot antenna yeah it was like i can't say how prolific it was

brandon: but like it was not uncommon for uh every every fucking custom van in the 70s

brandon: and 80s had a cb in it it was on it was fairly common in cars yeah like this

brandon: is probably like dramatizing it but dude they were kind of everywhere can.

Connor: You i feel like that was like the social media of the time yeah like in a way

Connor: right like you could connect with random people within range and a lot of truckers

Connor: used them so like yeah i'm sure that was kind of a big thing.

brandon: Yeah you would let people know if you know cops hiding somewhere you get past

brandon: them you don't get pulled over you hop on the cb and let people know what mile

brandon: marker the police are hiding apparently one.

Evan: Of the big jumps in cb radios was in the i

Evan: think it was like 1973 or 74 when there

Evan: was the oil crisis and people could tell others when they're like where they

Evan: could find gasoline for their cars or trucks so i mean i don't know how what

Evan: percentage of people were owning them at that point but i bet it was you know

Evan: it was probably essential if you're a trucker and then i don't know about cars

Evan: but probably entertaining when you're driving they They didn't have,

Evan: you know, Howard Stern to keep you company in 1973 or.

Connor: Yeah, definitely. I could see that. I used to do over the road trucking like

Connor: expedited freight kind of thing where I'd be doing super long runs kind of like

Connor: this, where it's like, all right, I've got 24 hours and I've got to get across the country.

Connor: And so I did driving like that. And it's boring.

Connor: Yeah, I could see that. So if you don't have like podcast, I survived on podcasts without podcasts.

Connor: Yeah, I'd probably need to be talking to people on the CB radio. video so i get it i.

brandon: I spent a lot of time in tractor trailers in the late 80s and early 90s because

brandon: my dad was a trucker and we used to take me on the road with him all the time

brandon: and he was on the fucking cb constantly.

Connor: You need people to talk to like i used to talk on the phone to like friends

Connor: who were also doing trucking and stuff like i'd call them up and we'd like chat

Connor: for two or three hours uh i would chat with my partner um we first started dating

Connor: i was actually driving the truck and one of the ways we got to know each other

Connor: really well really fast was because i was in the fucking truck,

Connor: And so we would talk on the phone for like one to three hours per day,

Connor: just like talking on the phone.

Connor: So, um, yeah, it was, I got to know my partner real fast that way.

Connor: Um, but so yeah, I could see the

Connor: CB radios would be the main form of entertainment. I'm sure for truckers.

Evan: What was like the range? Because it seems like if you're in Texas,

Evan: could people in Georgia be listening to your commerce? No, right?

Evan: That's to be about short.

brandon: No, it's you, you've got a range of miles, if not less than that.

brandon: and it depended heavily like uh souping up a

brandon: cb radio was like a whole phenomenon there were cb radio

brandon: shops that specialized in like you know boosting your

brandon: signal and and like you know there are different channels so like if there's

brandon: a you're in a congested area you might go to it that's what they were talking

brandon: about early on in the movie like they're coming up with like oh you know we'll

brandon: switch to if you say go to channel nine i'll go to channel three and all that

brandon: stuff that's because yeah there was 20 some odd different channels that you'd

brandon: switch between if if everything else was crowded.

brandon: I used to go over the road trucking too.

brandon: And I remember if I would go in New Jersey, there were these people that had

brandon: hopped up radios that would just drown everyone out for 15 miles.

brandon: They'd be the only people you could hear if they were on.

Evan: Well, that actually makes it seem like the legend of the band is even greater.

Evan: If people across miles and miles of distance know who he is,

Evan: he's clearly a legend across... I guess that's your job also, Joe.

Connor: I mean well i guess they also set up that like he was

Connor: at this like where they approached him initially with the offer

Connor: was at a truck rodeo where they do like you

Connor: know truck races and shit and like

Connor: goofy stuff is that a real thing he's he's um there

Connor: are absolutely yeah no there no there is there's truck there's

Connor: truck drag racing um i once went to a

Connor: like you know how there's like car shows where like you see

Connor: classic cars and shit i went to a truck show of that those

Connor: are fucking sick i love those fucking trucks oh

Connor: my god it was so fucking cool so i was in i think like joplin

Connor: missouri i was i was at a truck stop you know

Connor: just chilling and then like across the street there's

Connor: like a fucking semi-truck show and i was like yo

Connor: i'm gonna go look at they had these things like all decked

Connor: out and gorgeous paint everything i was like

Connor: so it's very cool in those areas it is a cultural thing and i'm sure at this

Connor: time it was even more so so like you've got more custom trucks which that's

Connor: the other thing we haven't mentioned the truck that they are driving on the

Connor: trailer is like a big fucking cool ass painting and shit like it was cool as fuck oh god.

brandon: What what did that uh the one guy even say about his truck he's like anybody

brandon: who would paint their truck like that would do something.

Connor: Yeah i don't remember.

brandon: What he said.

Connor: But yeah it was something his whole.

brandon: Trailer is just like what like a stage coach being pulled by a bunch of horses or.

Connor: Something like that yeah it's a picture.

bryant: Of a bandit holding up a stagecoach yeah i've.

brandon: Never picked up on that.

Connor: Oh that's hell yeah so yeah like this is

Connor: a very like you can see like the truck is

Connor: iconic he's iconic as a driver he's obviously

Connor: traveled around to these different truck rodeos so like he's gonna have a name

Connor: and this is where he gets that kind of like folk hero status and so i guess

Connor: it's like it's not that unexpected that so many people would know him and would

Connor: listen to the traffic and know that he's doing this run and help them out also.

brandon: If like everyone's aware that like

brandon: this was during a period when like truck drivers were like the modern-day outlaw

brandon: and that was like a cultural phenomenon of in its own right yeah yeah because

brandon: there were there's a an insane amount of movies about truck drivers being like

brandon: outlaw badass guys this isn't even Jerry Reid's only movie where he's a truck driver.

Connor: You know I I sometimes wonder where,

Connor: where that mentality went where it's like, there was a time where like,

Connor: we looked up to criminals where we were like cheering for the criminals.

Connor: And then now it's like, no, no one's cheering for any criminals.

Connor: I'm like, we, we just like, we lost that.

Connor: like i don't know working class solidarity of just like rooting for the little

Connor: guy against the police to just like carve out a little living in this fucking

Connor: shitty shitty economic system like honestly like yeah the law and order shit.

zach: Has really tainted the public's view of what the police do propaganda is fucking real strong that's fair.

Evan: Well and the thing is now people will root for

Evan: who they think is the good guy i mean like think about it in any marvel

Evan: movie you're basically rooting for like american imperialism yeah you know but

Evan: it's actually the bad guy and people just unironically are just rooting for

Evan: them in every single fucking movie they make so just they've twisted over to

Evan: who the bad guy is now it's like china or i don't know some some other place

Evan: and then they just yeah when.

brandon: They they remade red dawn in north North Korea invades America.

Connor: I remember that.

Evan: I saw that.

Connor: I was like, this is great.

brandon: If only in the remake of red Dawn.

bryant: North Korea, America, it wasn't it like they, the script was for it to be China.

bryant: And then they're like, Oh wait, we don't want to piss off China with this.

bryant: So they just like digitally changed all the flags or something.

Connor: Oh God.

Evan: With Chris Hemsworth, man, this looks terrible.

Connor: I haven't seen that.

Evan: Like I didn't, I didn't, she didn't realize they had remade it,

Evan: but that's, that's terrible.

zach: You've seen the original though.

Evan: Um yeah i've seen the original.

zach: Half of the marvel movies the villain is just some nondescript arab country

zach: yeah like they're brown and we're terrified of them let's kill them they're.

Connor: Evil for no reason don't ask.

zach: Any questions they just hate our freedom and democracy there's no pretext to this.

Evan: Oh man now i feel like i need to do i need to do an episode on red dawn that

Evan: would be a original Red Dead, not this new one. Haven't seen that in forever.

brandon: If you want to go into some Red Scare shit, that might be peak.

brandon: In terms of cinema, that might be peak Red Scare.

bryant: It's set in Colorado, but filmed in New Mexico, I think.

Evan: Yeah, that's a good one. What was the other thing?

Connor: I feel like now is a good time just because any time,

Connor: North Korea is mentioned as a villain in of whatever and in propaganda i always

Connor: mention um blowback season three if you haven't listened to it phenomenal it

Connor: is on the korean war and uh believe me learning about that shit is,

Connor: fucking wild so yeah it's it's very good if you want to know more about the

Connor: history of how the north uh wound up where it is and how the whole korean peninsula

Connor: exists today that's a really good podcast to listen to.

Evan: Yeah i i would highly i'd second that it's uh phenomenal i think the the new

Evan: one is coming out pretty soon cambodia maybe oh.

Connor: Yeah i don't know.

Evan: I think season five yeah i.

Connor: Know the last one was afghanistan which is also every every season of that that's

Connor: probably one of the best podcasts out there in my opinion like that is top tier

Connor: shit i think in terms of all-time great it's i was gonna make a.

brandon: Joke about how it's third behind uh left of the projector well.

Evan: That's just assumed i mean i mean they hardly talk about.

bryant: Cars or movies at all on that.

Connor: Yeah yeah that's actually.

bryant: Really lacking well.

Evan: They briefly talked about uh in the afghanistan one they briefly talk about

Evan: the opening to um what's that's the rainbow yeah the rambo two or it's like

Evan: the uh the faked opening credit right i feel.

brandon: Like they also talk about bringing in all the toyota trucks at one point.

Evan: Oh do they i don't know if i remember that i.

brandon: Feel like i remember that being mentioned but i wouldn't swear it's true.

Evan: I actually once tried i tried to reach out to noah colwyn to be on this podcast

Evan: he didn't respond to me oh well because.

brandon: He's not as great as us yeah.

Evan: That's okay well.

bryant: There's your problem never returned my email so or.

Evan: Yeah ralph.

bryant: Nader for that matter.

Evan: Oh that would have been right.

Connor: We were trying to get ralph nader on i.

brandon: Don't want to be weird but i found a connect really so if we still want to get

brandon: ralph nader Later on, I might know who to talk to.

Connor: Absolutely. Okay, we're in.

Evan: I can ask. Will he listen to your other episodes? You're just going to go in blind.

brandon: I hope he never listens to any of our episodes, because then he will definitely not come on.

bryant: I think we were pretty nice to him.

Connor: We're still talking about his book. Yeah, we were great.

brandon: I'm not saying we were mean to him. I'm just saying, in general,

brandon: I won't speak for everyone, but I'm a crazy person.

brandon: Anyone who listens to me rant through a whole episode is not going to want to join in.

bryant: Uh yeah he is a little bit more of a serious character than all of us but yeah.

Evan: With his uh what like those shoes i don't remember the the stat you said about

Evan: his shoes which was crazy.

bryant: Oh yeah like he he liked to he found a type of shoe that he liked and bought

bryant: like 100 pairs of them or something like that just.

Evan: Wears them each in.

bryant: A row like his.

Evan: His his closet's probably like four suits and you know 40 pairs of the same shoe something.

bryant: Like that yeah i'd.

brandon: Only just occurred to me that maybe ralph nader is autistic.

bryant: Yeah he's uh he's uh some sort of neurodiverse person i would say probably see.

brandon: That sort of thing never registers to me because,

brandon: I don't know. Autistic people make sense to me.

zach: I'm over here thinking I should do that with my shoes. I don't know why I don't

zach: do that already. That's a great idea.

brandon: Oh, I've worn the same style and brand of shoes and the same style and brand of pants for 15 years.

Connor: Hey, when you find what works, fucking go with it.

brandon: I buy a couple, a few pair at a time so I don't ever have to figure out what I'm wearing.

Evan: Smart.

brandon: And people never know if I'm just wearing dirty clothes.

bryant: He only owns one thing.

Evan: Is one of them the blue suit that they wear in this movie or no because if it's

Evan: not then i don't know i've.

Connor: Been looking.

brandon: For one in my size you.

Evan: Know they only come in like big and big and small i think apparently these uh

Evan: um what's like those i guess well so i guess the for to like you know i don't

Evan: spoil the end they're gonna obviously they get to the uh the end and the i guess

Evan: the funniest thing is that they do uh they bring the

Evan: beer and then they say like oh we'll do double or nothing yeah and they tell

Evan: them to go to boss and they bring back clam chowder and what 18 hours which.

Connor: Yeah it's really far.

brandon: Away that one's insane that is not a thing you're gonna do.

Connor: Well yeah and so like they come in and so i i

Connor: found it interesting like they come in hot right the

Connor: truck is fucking breaking down barriers getting

Connor: into there they get there and then they're like all right

Connor: give us the fucking money we have to run from the police

Connor: this instant like we need a

Connor: car we have to get the fuck away because like they're by the

Connor: end it culminates in like they're being chased by sheriff buford

Connor: t justice along with all kinds of local sheriffs state troopers uh they have

Connor: a fucking police helicopter chasing them at one point so when they come in they're

Connor: coming in hot they're like all right here's your fucking beer give us the money

Connor: and they're like well how about you do double or nothing and and And they're like, yeah, sure, okay.

Connor: Like, with no details, they're like, yeah, we're into it. We have to run immediately,

Connor: and we've now made a decision.

Connor: And then they work out the details are,

Connor: Go to Boston. Bring us clam chowder in 18 hours.

Connor: And again, this just goes to the point that these rich guys have nothing.

Connor: They don't care. None of this matters.

Connor: They're just like, all right, how about you do this harder one so that we don't

Connor: have to fucking pay you? And the bandit agrees.

brandon: That's probably like 800 miles each way.

bryant: It's going to take them 18 hours just to get out of Boston, probably.

zach: Yeah, no kidding.

Evan: Yeah, they don't have the big dig yet. It'll be fucked.

brandon: Yo, I got sidetracked, and I need to share this with you. So,

brandon: Smokey and the Bandit has two sequels, which get worse and worse.

Connor: I didn't know that until last night, and then I was like, oof,

Connor: I've never seen those. Probably not good.

brandon: I need to read the synopsis from IMDb of Smokey and the Bandit 2.

Connor: Okay, one, is it about them getting the clam chowder? I'm assuming it is.

Connor: That's a crime. That should be illegal.

brandon: Because I couldn't remember what the second one was about, so that's why I even

brandon: Googled it. I'm going to read this word for fucking word.

brandon: Folk hero The Bandit has fallen on bad times, but comes to life when he is hired

brandon: to help transport a pregnant elephant to a Republican convention in Dallas.

Connor: Why? Why does that exist? Did they get the clam chowder?

Connor: I don't even know. Oh, that's...

Connor: why is you're.

brandon: Too focused on the continuity.

Connor: Here yeah well a pregnant elephant that's that's not good don't put that in

Connor: a truck and drive real fast like what are you doing what's that one's got dom.

brandon: Deluise in it who dom deluise i.

Connor: Don't know who that is i.

brandon: I forget that i'm the oldest i.

bryant: Know he's a character.

Connor: So he.

brandon: Was sort of an eccentric actor back in the day he's he's real over the top um.

Evan: Wait are you old.

Connor: I don't know if you're older what was the third one uh.

brandon: I i just remember that the tagline is smoky is the bandit um i.

Connor: Think that they.

brandon: Get jackie gleason to uh actually be the the good guy in that one.

Connor: I'm against it now that's that's horseshit also.

brandon: Uh uh for some reason they make um um they they like swap everything around

brandon: and um jerry reed is the bandit in that movie.

Connor: I mean that's kind of cool well he's got like a mustache.

brandon: And they're like they could i don't think they could get burt reynolds for this

brandon: one so they tried to make him look like burt reynolds.

Connor: Is in the second.

Evan: One i think i'm talking about the third one third.

Connor: One yeah by the third yeah he's probably like all right this is horse shit now

Connor: i don't want to do it um i feel like we should be glad to.

brandon: Know that big and little anus are in okay that.

Connor: Is good to know it uh i also think it's important to mention um for anyone who hasn't seen the movie,

Connor: smoky is referring to a police officer any police officer they're they're referring

Connor: to on the cb be radios as smoky so the title smoky and the bandit is about the

Connor: fucking police um which i don't think we've actually ever clarified because

Connor: it could easily be another.

Evan: Character named smoky so yeah yeah.

Connor: And i.

zach: Just i love that they call cops smokies in this it's so good and like perfectly

zach: derogatory for a pg rating like i feel like if they had a uh a higher rating

zach: or you know like an R rating,

zach: they would have just called this movie Pigs and the Bandit.

zach: I love that about it.

brandon: I know Smokey was common slang back then. I don't really know the origins of

brandon: it or how derogative it even necessarily was.

zach: It feels derogatory to me because I see it as kind of like calling pigs in a

zach: blanket little Smokeys or the little,

zach: wieners like little Smokeys is kind of just one step removed from calling cops

zach: cops, pigs, and I don't know. I just enjoy that.

Connor: It's hard to imagine any nickname for cops not being derogatory.

Connor: So I kind of feel you there. It's like, yeah, it was probably meant to be a pejorative.

zach: Yeah, I mean, they weren't calling them officers of the law.

zach: They were not calling them.

Connor: There was no respect in the term.

Evan: Clearly.

bryant: I looked it up, and it's because they wore big cowboy hats like Smokey the Bear.

brandon: Okay oh my god i i assumed that smoky the bear came later no that's.

bryant: Like from the 20s or something.

Connor: Okay oh.

brandon: I didn't know that i didn't know that.

bryant: Yeah it was uh it was uh or maybe even earlier it was teddy roosevelt uh had

bryant: a bear cub named smoky because he rescued it from a forest fire yeah oh no shit.

Evan: That actually reminds me of a of a thing that i forgot to mention we were talking

Evan: about cores earlier apparently dwight eisenhower when he was president would

Evan: also steal cores and bring it back to the white house because he couldn't get

Evan: it except for in colorado i think.

Connor: I feel like that's not stealing if you're the president like you're basically

Connor: a king you could just be like give me the thing and they'll give it to you i

Connor: don't think i don't know if there's well i mean i guess you could steal the

Connor: wealth of other nations and whatnot as you plunder the world that's just democracy

Connor: but like that's a little different alternate.

brandon: Plot for this movie FDR contacts the bandit He.

Connor: Wants a truckload Of Coors.

brandon: Beer delivered to Washington D.C. in 28 hours.

Evan: And he also works As a CIA agent on the side Yeah.

brandon: Actually if it's A secret Remake of Smokey and the Bandit He's just running cocaine for the CIA.

zach: This is literally the Archer Episode where they spoof Smokey and the Bandit

zach: This is exactly what happens in that episode of Archer yeah.

bryant: What's that movie with Tom Cruise where he's smuggling coke for the cartels

bryant: or whatever? And there's like a CIA connection.

bryant: It's like, oh, shoot. American Made, I think, is what it's called.

Connor: I don't think I've ever seen a Tom Cruise movie. Like, I don't think it's possible.

Connor: Is it? What movies is he in?

brandon: He was in all of them for 20 years.

Connor: Was he? All I remember is he danced on Oprah's couch or something or stood there.

Connor: I don't know what. I don't know. I just know that that's a reference.

Connor: friends he was in that fucking airplane movie that i never saw so every mission.

Evan: Impossible yeah never.

Connor: Saw those you're talking.

brandon: About top gun i love that you just referred to top gun as that airplane.

Connor: Movie that's not to be confused with the movie airplane which is tom cruise is.

zach: Not an airplane just so we're clear.

Connor: All right i continue to hold that i don't think i've ever seen a tom cruise

Connor: film good for me you're not missing out i don't think.

brandon: Um at an an hour and a half do we want to wrap this up because right now we're talking about tom um.

Connor: I did want to okay i wanted to have a quick conversation about some of the the comical damage,

Connor: that is incurred by uh buford t justice as they like as the car gets increasingly

Connor: damaged throughout the movie oh.

bryant: Daddy the top came.

Connor: Um i love when he.

Evan: Says throw the evidence in the back and he just like puts the door in the back of the car at this.

Connor: Right because no no it's.

brandon: It's even better than that. He gets in. He's like, put the evidence in the car

brandon: and he climbs into the passenger seat with the car door in his lap.

brandon: Like, put it in the back, Junior.

Connor: Well, and the door was knocked off because a trucker who was listening in on

Connor: the CD radio, like, was like, this is crazy look in his eyes.

Connor: And he's like, he sees the cop car pulled over with the door open and he drives

Connor: through and, like, takes the door off.

Connor: And the Buford T judge is like, I saw that. You did that on purpose.

Connor: Well, like, he's just gone. He drives away.

Connor: So, by the end, I mean, like,

Connor: the car had lost its top at some point when they drove under a truck that was

Connor: like crossing the road, uh,

Connor: carrying something, um, not in a traditional truck bed, but like,

Connor: so it's crossing the road, the bandit, um, their car, they obviously, they miss it.

Connor: They, they change directions and the sheriff's car goes under it.

Connor: Shears the whole fucking roof off, which, uh, you know, pretty big damage.

Connor: Um, they duck their heads, whatever. And, It takes the roof off.

Connor: But yeah, there was just there was so much damage to this car that I just I

Connor: love that they continue driving it. No door, no top.

Connor: At one point, the horn is stuck on driving around and the horns just blaring.

bryant: I've been in that situation. It's unfortunate.

Evan: Apparently, at the end, they could actually barely even drive the car.

Evan: They had destroyed it so much where they like when he's actually rolling out

Evan: of the fair at the end. like it actually was struggling to actually drive like.

bryant: In real life you mean and when they're making.

Evan: Real life yeah oh yeah he has so many good lines there's one other one that

Evan: i was trying to remember uh oh man i lost the one,

Evan: I like that he asked for the Diablo sandwich, which is apparently a real thing,

Evan: the Diablo chicken sandwich, and then a Dr. Pepper.

Connor: Wait, at that particular restaurant or something? Because I was wondering,

Connor: how the fuck does he know what to order?

Connor: That was my question. I was like, he's way behind Texas. How does he know?

brandon: I think that just means a spicy chicken sandwich.

zach: Yeah.

Evan: Apparently, I think that was in Arkansas where they were, I think.

Evan: I don't know. Yeah, I think it's in Arkansas.

zach: I think it's in Arkansas now.

Evan: Yeah, I think it's apparently famous now.

brandon: Also, since we're discussing that, can we acknowledge that they refer to like

brandon: truck stop restaurants as joking pukes?

bryant: Yeah.

zach: I would also like to point out that the bandit orders two cheeseburgers and

zach: an iced tea and his total is a dollar and a half.

zach: Which is just infuriating to hear in the year 2024.

Connor: Well, and actually, I did take notes about this. that is a scene where the bandit

Connor: and sheriff view for t justice encounter each other in person um,

Connor: unbeknownst to the sheriff who's like coming in screaming ranting raving and

Connor: actually i forgot this kind of a major point um that i wanted to make he's like

Connor: screaming about how he's chasing this maniac and the bandit's just like calmly

Connor: at the counter like oh man that's crazy wow tell me

Connor: more about this guy you're chasing he's like oh he's uh he's guilty of kidnapping he he attempted.

Connor: Murder of 20 officers so like as it

Connor: goes on and it was like making the point that like this cop can

Connor: just lie and make shit up and like inflate the

Connor: charges to this absurd degree so like

Connor: you hear him describing the most deranged criminal in all time and we know the

Connor: bandit's the hero of this film none of the shit he's saying is fucking true

Connor: this cop just lies through his fucking teeth and I found that like that was

Connor: a deliberate choice when they made this film like that the cop is just,

Connor: fucking making up this whole story and like

Connor: twisting everything that has happened into this

Connor: is the worst criminal ever and it's like no it's

Connor: not so um and i also found it funny like as he's like yelling to the bandit

Connor: about this maniac that he's chasing not knowing who he's talking to he's like

Connor: speaking in a way that like he spits on the face accidentally of the bandit who like

Connor: calmly like wipes it away from his eye.

Connor: Like, and just like without missing a beat, like wipes away his spit and like

Connor: keeps like asking him questions.

Connor: But like, it was pretty amusing that like they come face to face like this.

Connor: And then we know that the fucking sheriff is just sitting there lying and being an asshole.

Connor: And it's, it's, it's a great portrayal of police.

Evan: Yeah. Maybe the greatest portrayal ever in a movie.

brandon: Definitely the most accurate.

bryant: You know uh one thing i wanted to ask brandon is like how accurate are the georgia

bryant: accents in this or do you think they're kind of hamming it up a little bit.

brandon: Um okay so truck drivers

brandon: in my experience which is pretty a lot because

brandon: my dad and all of his friends were drivers tended to

brandon: be kind of an over-the-top eccentric crowd so like honestly i'm

brandon: not good at hearing southern accents sense because i'm really fucking

brandon: used to it um but i mean i don't know i would say it's it's a slight exaggeration

brandon: but more in terms of like the movie is about a a group of characters that are

brandon: like supposed to be kind of over the top and interesting but none of the accents

brandon: didn't really stand out to me it's too much yeah.

bryant: I couldn't tell myself because i know.

brandon: I mean everything if anything i okay again i fucking love jerry reed um if anything

brandon: he dialed it it back to play that character he was in real life just a really

brandon: like raucous fun happy over the top kind of guy cool.

bryant: I'll have to look.

brandon: And also like one of probably the most talented guitar players in the history

brandon: of country music you know does anybody want a very brief story about how he became famous sure.

Connor: Yeah of course.

brandon: He sold a song to elvis to play,

brandon: But because he was such a good guitar player, they had to bring him into the,

brandon: they had to like track him back down.

brandon: He was in Georgia at the time and they had to ship him out to wherever Elvis

brandon: was because Elvis could not, like nobody in the recording studio could figure

brandon: out how to play the song the way that Jerry Reed had written it.

Connor: That's awesome.

brandon: He got famous because he had to go in to actually teach them to play his music. And that.

Evan: That's amazing.

brandon: He had like written music for people before and was not unestablished,

brandon: but that really got his, his him to the next level where he was able to like take off from there.

bryant: Cool.

Connor: That's sweet. Um, I think speaking of, uh, Jerry Reed, um, Oh,

Connor: I forgot my thought. Whoops.

Connor: Oh, well it's gone. You know, I had it.

bryant: I'll say one thing I appreciate about this movie was just like all the seventies

bryant: style in their fashion and hairstyles and everything.

brandon: It's, it, yeah it's such a yeah it's kind of like looking.

bryant: At pictures of my parents when they're in high school but it's just it's just amusing i think.

brandon: There's more than a couple of second gen for advanced too which uh you know

brandon: it hits me right in the heartstrings although i am confused as to why all the

brandon: ones in the movie are running uh.

Connor: Well it was the time period they were they were close to new back then.

brandon: Yeah i stand by what okay i.

Connor: Was like oh you.

brandon: Know what that doesn't that doesn't.

Connor: Mean a lot actually I do remember my point about Jerry Reed by the way I was

Connor: going to point out that also,

Connor: I found it especially cool that the iconic song for the movie is eastbound and

Connor: down, which I don't know if we can add that song into like the outro or something.

Connor: But at the beginning of the movie, it's actually westbound and down.

Connor: OK, so the song is actually different at the beginning of the movie.

Connor: So I extra cool on Jerry Reed to write basically two songs that are very similar,

Connor: but are at different points of exposition for the movie I think.

Evan: You would be okay with me putting the songs at the beginning and the end of this movie.

Connor: Probably hopefully it doesn't cause a problem I've put like occasionally put.

Evan: Things in like Lord of the Rings whatever and there's no like monetary gain

Evan: from this podcast what are they going to sue me from like the zero.

Connor: Dollars I put a two second clip.

bryant: Of cake song in one of our episodes and then when i uploaded it to youtube they

bryant: said we're not allowing this to be visible in russia so that was the only consequence of that okay i.

Connor: Did see a bunch of a bunch of emails come through from youtube as soon as you

Connor: uploaded our shit like we've removed this we've removed that i was like god

Connor: damn like chill out we're not fucking doing anything or making any money here like come on i.

brandon: Looked up the smoky and the bandit soundtrack and there is a separate recording

brandon: for westbound and down and eastbound and down but there's also a track on the

brandon: soundtrack called march of the rednecks.

Connor: Hell yeah i wonder.

zach: If that's the song that they play when all of the people leave the uh gas station

zach: to block up the cops and they're all in like hot rods this is.

brandon: An entire movie about people blocking the police.

Connor: It's so great I you know they make fun of the police and they also like display

Connor: like this working class solidarity that is just like so cool to see on screen,

Connor: and it's and so many everyone who sees this movie.

Connor: Gets it and they can they're on the right side everybody's like

Connor: yeah solidarity with the working people i'm like can we do that

Connor: in real life can we have like the just the real

Connor: thing just be like that just be like these

Connor: people they're all cool and amazing you should want

Connor: to emulate them absolutely yeah um now

Connor: there's there is one thing i did want to mention too um as

Connor: we have all this praise for the for the movie um i didn't

Connor: want to like entirely leave it up to like oh it's

Connor: so great and everything there is some sexism in this movie um

Connor: it was that time period but like it is watching it

Connor: back i was like all right yeah it's there so

Connor: like they have some kind of progressive feel

Connor: towards like racial politics and and just generally

Connor: a lot of progressive ideas one of those ideas is

Connor: not uh feminism um unfortunately like

Connor: some of it feels a little tongue-in-cheek kind

Connor: of like everything else but some of it i was like nah this

Connor: feels a little bit like just regular old sexism um so you know warning anyone

Connor: who does listen or who does choose to like watch this movie it's there um i

Connor: i don't think it's like overbearing to a point where it's like unwatchable but like it's there yeah.

bryant: And there was a a little note of casual racism where uh the truck driver that

bryant: takes the door off the sheriff's car is an asian guy and he yells bonsai as he does it so.

Connor: Oh yeah.

brandon: Appropriate or not i did laugh at that it was you just don't in the 70s you

brandon: just didn't see a lot of asian people i guess so yeah appropriate no but.

Connor: Yeah so like the film had the film had its its issues right it's from 1977 it's

Connor: it's gonna be certainly imperfect and and problematic in a number of ways.

Connor: Um, what is more surprising to me is the ways in which it was less problematic

Connor: than you would expect. Um, it is,

Connor: overall had pretty reasonable politics i

Connor: feel like and you know saying cops are bad and

Connor: making fun of them always good politics that's great so um

Connor: but it was it it did seem

Connor: like this story the folk hero status of the bandit really

Connor: did unite people across gender rate uh

Connor: racial uh you know identity religion whatever

Connor: it seemed to unite everybody in the working class

Connor: around this this mission of the bandit beating the police and you know getting

Connor: the fucking getting one over on the rich guys who thought he couldn't do it

Connor: um so like there are good things there are problems with it of course um but

Connor: overall i feel like it is it is a little bit of.

bryant: A male fantasy.

Connor: Movie kind.

bryant: Of like a james bond.

Connor: Movie or something.

bryant: Like that yeah absolutely.

Evan: That's true yes this this this.

Connor: It was my male targeting my.

brandon: People is.

bryant: It is it red redneck exploitation what did you call it that or trucker exploitation.

brandon: I i i would argue yes which i

brandon: don't think that's necessarily a bad thing but like yeah and then that weird

brandon: incredibly specific subset of movies from the era yeah i would lump this into

brandon: that because like i said like trucker movies were all the rage and this one

brandon: in convoy were the big two which i also would have accepted doing convoy because

brandon: chris christopherson was another fucking badass working class hero.

Connor: You know actually you know what else struck me about this movie

Connor: weirdly they they actually spend way less

Connor: time talking about the car than i would have expected in

Connor: a lot of ways the car kind of feels like an afterthought they they never

Connor: actually i don't think they ever actually say what engine it has

Connor: they don't ever actually like spend any time being like

Connor: yo this car is fast they don't ever

Connor: say they just like it's just driving he has um they

Connor: don't talk about what engine it has they don't talk about look oh

Connor: this thing's a stick shift or they don't talk about

Connor: or automate they talk about none of it they don't

Connor: talk about the tires it has they don't talk about the suspension they don't

Connor: like and a lot of times when you see a car that is like so

Connor: prominent in a film they're gonna mention like here's

Connor: the details of this car and it's so funny that like this is such a like an iconic

Connor: film it put the fucking trans am on the map 700% increase in sales for the Pontiac

Connor: Trans Am and they talked about it like not at all. It was a fucking afterthought.

Connor: It was just we're going to buy a random car that's quick to block the police

Connor: and like this thing had T tops and everything which for those who don't know

Connor: T tops is instead of a convertible.

Connor: It's like you have these this roof is made of like a center pillar that's metal

Connor: and connected to the rest of the car and then these two,

Connor: like glass squares that you can remove and so it's almost like a convertible it's.

brandon: It's the coolest possible way to guarantee that your car leaks in the rain.

Connor: I was i'm glad someone made the joke yes it's a very cool way to have a leaky car um,

Connor: so like it had all this cool shit it was and

Connor: funny enough i actually had a 1981 trans am

Connor: it was my first car never drove it uh

Connor: not surprising the thing was rotting out and

Connor: whatnot it's a whole thing i'm not gonna get into it but yeah these

Connor: cars had some problems but um i

Connor: did find it like kind of just weird that like they're driving this

Connor: car in this like even the director like kind of

Connor: alluded to the car as like its own character and yet

Connor: we know so little about the character like it became culturally you knew about

Connor: it it's like oh that's the bandit car like everybody knows the car but like

Connor: again we don't even know what fucking engine it has we're guessing it's either

Connor: the 400 or the 403 we don't actually i don't think we actually officially do.

brandon: I think it would have been the 400 or the 455.

Connor: No i don't even think it was the 455 because i don't even think that was offered in 1970.

zach: We do know i.

Connor: Think it was well this was.

bryant: A 76 we're getting real arty here the.

brandon: Car is a 76.

Connor: Oh yeah.

brandon: We are getting autistic about that we do.

Connor: Know that it has the 400 because.

zach: It says on the ram air intake on the hood 6.6 liter yes at one point you can the 6.6.

Connor: Liter referred to both they referred to both the 400 and the 403 although i

Connor: think technically the 403 might have said t slash a 6.6 i i'm i'm a little unclear

Connor: about that but both were technically a 6.6 liter.

Connor: And yes, we're being very autistic about this now. Yeah. That's sorry.

Evan: That's okay. Um, what was I going to say? I forgot.

Connor: I don't know. I just found that fucking weird though. Like that.

Connor: They just really, the car is just like kind of an afterthought,

Connor: even though this is the movie that is like the Trans Am movie.

Connor: Like I just found that to be in a way.

zach: The car kind of speaks for itself in the movie, whereas you don't have to have

zach: this scene of like a bunch of exposition about, oh, this is a 1977 Trans Am

zach: with a 403 cubic inch, you know, yada, yada, yada, giving you all the details of the car.

zach: It's just kind of like, look, this car can outrun the cops.

zach: It can do cool skids. It can jump a bridge.

zach: Like, just look at what it does. And it speaks for itself.

Connor: And it looks great doing it. And it looks good doing it.

bryant: I also got the sense that this could all be accomplished in whatever car Burt Reynolds was driving.

bryant: Like, he's just, you know, supernaturally good at driving that he can make anything fast.

zach: Yeah like he could be.

bryant: In a you know honda civic or something and be doing the same thing.

zach: It's it's the initial it's the initial d yes it's.

Connor: The initial d.

zach: Car driving wherein you know the car isn't so important it could be anything

zach: it could be a beater a commuter car and yeah this driver is just so otherworldly

zach: that he makes it fast yeah Yeah.

bryant: Despite all the garbage bias ply tires they were on in this.

zach: Which probably lended to the skids.

brandon: It was, in fact, a 400.

bryant: Yeah.

Connor: Okay, it was a 400.

brandon: The 403 didn't come out until 77. So even though they were making this look

brandon: like a 77, it was a 76. So the 403 would not have been an option.

Connor: Okay. All right, there you go. So it was the 400. It's about 185 horsepower,

Connor: 320-ish foot-pounds of torque.

Connor: I mean, the torque is good, but it's okay. I mean...

zach: Hey, it can do 110 kilometers an hour.

bryant: Um so would you guys recommend this movie and like what would you what would you rate it.

Connor: Yes i.

Evan: Gave it four stars on letterboxd so yeah.

zach: I was gonna say eight out of ten so i i feel yeah.

Connor: I think that's about right i i do four and four to four and a half out of five

Connor: um you know i it was i'm gonna go with four and a half.

brandon: Since i literally in a weird way changed my life.

Connor: I mean this is part of the reason i bought a trans am which i was i very much

Connor: regretted and spent a lot of money it was a very expensive mistake i think a

Connor: lot of people made that mistake i.

brandon: Feel like if you look come at this movie from a working class perspective this

brandon: was literally the best that you could have ever hoped to get yeah in the air absolutely,

brandon: Like barring you, like, yeah, there absolutely was some issues with like sexism

brandon: and like, like, like there was racism.

brandon: It was just being poked fun of because it was coming from the police,

brandon: but it was still poking fun at a very fucking real thing.

brandon: Like that dude's a racist piece of shit cop, but the movie's against him.

Connor: Yeah, it's their portrayal. A lot of the portrayal, like there is a lot of racism

Connor: in the movie and it's being portrayed as this is bad and not only bad, it's stupid.

Connor: Like we're making fun of it because it's so fucking dumb.

Connor: And for a movie from 1977, I mean, that was kind of good.

Connor: I mean, this movie actually, I guess I hadn't ever really watched it from that

Connor: leftist perspective, but like really taking notes, it really did have like kind of decent politics.

Connor: And it was very anti-police. And like, not only was it just anti-police,

Connor: it actually showed very specific real problems with the police. They are racist.

Connor: They can lie with impunity. they can just do whatever they want to fucking random

Connor: people and not be held accountable at all. They can ignore their jurisdictions.

Connor: They can, you know, find another cop doing a crime and then just be like,

Connor: Oh, don't arrest that guy actually.

Connor: So like they actually were very specific about the things that the police do that they don't like.

Connor: And I mean, for that, I think the film does deserve some credit. I mean, green.

Evan: Yeah, absolutely.

zach: Yeah.

Connor: So I'd recommend it.

bryant: Yeah, for sure.

brandon: Oh yeah.

Evan: But I guess before we go, Where can people find your podcast or we already told

Evan: everyone where it is. I guess they can go on onto the internet.

bryant: Presumably. If you just search cars and comrades on most, any platform will, will show up.

bryant: Um, I'm pretty sure it's and spelled out with no ampersand.

bryant: Um, and then we're on social media as the same. Um, um,

bryant: Not Reddit anymore. I kind of gave up on that. But Facebook,

bryant: Instagram, Twitter, HexBear.

zach: And YouTube now.

brandon: Cars and Comrades, wherever podcasts are sold.

zach: Yeah, we are on YouTube now as well.

Evan: Does it come with a free Trans Am sticker? You gotta have a...

zach: No, but we should absolutely make a Trans Am sticker.

bryant: I'm sure...

brandon: Have you not seen the Trans Am?

zach: Yeah, we need to make a sticker of that and sell it. But we're probably not going to do that.

Connor: Already exists yeah um i believe

Connor: you can get it from it's a weird name i'm not gonna know it off the top of my

Connor: head i'm sorry but you can find it it's the trans am with the trans colors and

Connor: everything that sticker does exist it is very cool and yeah it's it's dope i'm

Connor: i'm a big fan yeah get the get trans but not.

Evan: A trans actual transient that'll be yeah don't.

zach: Get a transit.

Connor: Yeah don't go don't get a second gen probably don't get a third gen don't get a fourth gen

Connor: either because i have a fourth gen camaro that i'm trying to sell right now

Connor: in fact if you don't mind i'm going to take this time to sell my

Connor: car to your listeners if anybody

Connor: is interested in a 30th anniversary white and orange camaro ss it's a 1997 uh

Connor: it has no problems at all i promise it's very good i have not struggled with

Connor: it for many many years um it has a ford nine inch rear rear end cause the engine,

Connor: the rear end blew up when I first bought it. So don't,

Connor: It's better. It's better now. But yeah, it's listed at gateway classic cars.

Connor: What the fuck's it called? I don't know. It's on consignment somewhere.

Evan: Yeah.

zach: Yeah.

Connor: Uh, gateway classic cars. Yeah.

zach: So, and if you believe that it has no issues, please don't listen to any of

zach: our episodes in which we just spell that. Yeah.

Evan: And we'll just put the link down below and no one will ever.

Connor: It doesn't currently have any issues. I fixed them. I'm hoping there's no more,

Connor: but I also don't care if there's any.

Connor: so that's the deal i'm making with you if you're interested you can hit up our

Connor: email at cars and comrades.com.

bryant: And uh and comrades at gmail oh.

Connor: Cars and comrades.

bryant: Gmail.com.

Connor: And i will definitely try and sell you this car and.

brandon: Also if you have a cheap 76 trans am hit me up i was actually looking.

Evan: For the other day i'll.

bryant: Also say that i have a 2005 sob 92x aero for sale it has 200 000 miles and no

bryant: issues at all uh but actually hopefully i have someone coming to look at it

bryant: next week uh that wants to buy it and uh yeah sorry evan we're all gonna try

bryant: and sell our cars now we are.

Connor: All trying to sell cars i.

brandon: Would just like to note that i have eight vehicles and i don't want to sell any of them they're mine.

Evan: Well that's fucking perfect uh but zach connor yeah i bet.

zach: You're regretting having this on now.

Evan: I won't you won't regret it if you won't regret it if you sell your car after

Evan: this so i'll have you uh you have to come back to that but uh brandon bryant

Evan: connor and zach it's been a pleasure having you on and should definitely do it again definitely.

brandon: Absolutely yeah this was a hoot yeah thank you.

Connor: Yeah maybe one of these days we'll do uh we'll actually do fast and furious.

Evan: Yeah that would be fun i.

brandon: Would also do convoy movie for so many good babies.

Evan: Hmm man.

Connor: Someone should make a podcast about how good movies are it.

Evan: Could be a car movie podcast that's.

brandon: A good idea.

Connor: And like do it from like a leftist perspective i think that would be very cool.

Evan: Oh this is giving me a good idea for the but uh i think i'm gonna do that you.

brandon: Want in on this uh.

Evan: But you've been listening to the left of the projector and you can follow it

Evan: left of the projector.com.

brandon: We'll uh keep an eye out for my future podcast what's left of the projector actor.

Evan: Oh, we'll catch you next time.

bryant: Movies and comrades.