Corvette Summer: A Van, A Vette, and a Whole Lot of Glitter

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

• Both of this film’s leads, Annie Potts and Mark Hamill, were in car accidents prior to principal photography. Potts got pins in her legs whilst Hamill got a broken nose. Mark Hamill was badly injured in an automobile wreck in Malibu, California just prior to production. He bears the scars through Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
• The Corvette car was a 1973 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray converted to right hand drive so that Mark Hamill could hang out of the curbside window looking at the ladies. The car was also painted candy apple / cherry, given superior mags, a clam-shell hood, Gabriel shocks, Merry tubes, a metal flake, side-pipes, and flames painted on the body. The mold for this film’s centerpiece 1973 Corvette car is part of the collection of America’s National Corvette Museum and displayed at the Corvette Americana Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The museum also screens this movie regularly.
• Wayne’s chain-wielding employee (Jason Ronard) is shown reading a comic book while Kenny is locked up in the storeroom. The comic is actually the first issue of Marvel’s STAR WARS adaptation
• A cameo with Fran Drescher was deleted. Drescher can be seen with Mark Hamill in stills from the movie.
• Ed tells Kenny he makes a “lousy” $15,000 a year. That amount equates to $62,400 in 2020 – not very lousy. Kenny gets a job paying $850 per week – which equates to $3,535 per week or $184k/yr).

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Steve & Izzy: Hey everybody. I am Steve. And I’m Izzy. And we’re with everything I learned from movies and Tonight. Oh, tonight we’re actually on another podcast, babe. What? I know. I know. I tricked you once again. Wait, but I took a left. We came down the hall. Oh, the interwebs are very mysterious. But we are here on Grand Touring Motor Sports Break Fix podcast.

Welcome.

Crew Chief Eric: What’s up? Welcome back. Steven. Izzy. How you guys doing? Great. Great. How about you? Not too bad. Last time we talked, we went a whole gamut of different car related movies and we did it in a drag race format, but this time we decided why don’t we hone in on one [00:01:00] special gem in the movie world. And with me tonight is our co-host Brad.

As well as our executive co-producer of the Drive-through series, Tanya, and a fan favorite mountain man Dam.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Woo. Hey,

Crew Chief Brad: how’s everybody doing? So, before we get started, I just have to say, Eric, we need to up our podcast game and we need a jingle. I know,

Steve & Izzy: right?

Crew Chief Brad: We need, we need a harmonized jingle because we’re missing out big time.

Steve & Izzy: Look, I’ll tell you, the key to success is marry your co-host. It’s so much easier to get scheduling. Is that

Crew Chief Brad: legal here in Maryland? Eric, can we do that?

Crew Chief Eric: I, I

Steve & Izzy: think it is. I, Marilyn

Crew Chief Eric: was one of the first, I mean, what would our, what would our jingles sound like?

Steve & Izzy: Everything I learned from driving and I did crash.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, I think they might sue us for copyright in front. Yeah, it’s

Steve & Izzy: probably not

Crew Chief Eric: good.

Steve & Izzy: No worse. We judge you. Yeah, we’re like, we did it better anyway.

Crew Chief Brad: We would Auto-Tune it.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, there you go. So what movie are we talking [00:02:00] about tonight, guys? Oh man. We are talking about a movie I didn’t even know really existed.

1978. Corvette Summer. Wait, your dad never said the joke every time you were watching any Star Wars movie? Hey, that’s the guy from Corvette Summer? No. Okay.

Crew Chief Eric: No. My dad has a sense of

Steve & Izzy: humor.

Crew Chief Eric: Sorry, babe. I mean, I tried to write an intro for this, and I came up with one line and I stole it. It says, A high school grad and a hooker in training try to track down his stolen Corvette.

Need we say more? That basically sums it up. No,

Steve & Izzy: no, no. It’s not his. They just try to track down a Corvette. A stolen Corvette belongs to

Crew Chief Brad: the school.

Steve & Izzy: They’re trying to hunt down school property.

Crew Chief Brad: So that’s a, that’s a good student right there.

Crew Chief Eric: So much cringe. So much cringe.

Steve & Izzy: Look, schools used to care about their students, I guess.

Crew Chief Eric: I guess.

Steve & Izzy: I

Crew Chief Eric: mean, I mean, any school that serves a minor scotch and a tin cup, and we’ll get to that. Right?

Steve & Izzy: Oh, we [00:03:00] will. By the way,

Crew Chief Eric: did you guys go

Steve & Izzy: to the shop class when you were in high school? Was it still around? I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but we didn’t

Crew Chief Brad: have one at Dam Matha. I

Mountain Man Dan: spent the majority of my high school career in the auto shop class.

So

Crew Chief Eric: Nice.

Mountain Man Dan: This was very similar in the aspect of being in the shop class, working on stuff, so I could relate to it.

Crew Chief Eric: You took field trips to the junkyard too?

Mountain Man Dan: No, those were, uh, trips with my

Crew Chief Brad: stepfather.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, I know it’s the backyard, the back 40, but still Is that where

Crew Chief Brad: Daniel gets the idea for all these diamonds In the rough diamonds in the rust.

Steve & Izzy: Excellent. Well, before we get started, I don’t know about Steve. We’re too sober to

Crew Chief Eric: talk about this movie. Oh, that’s very, very true.

Steve & Izzy: Too. Sober. Uh, so from Wasatch Brewery here near Salt Lake City, Utah, we have their Devastator Double Bach. Yeah. Which is 8% alcohol by volume. Man, this is one of our favorite beers.

It’s pretty fantastic. Let’s see if you’re going to Sin. Sin Big. Our double Bach is a sweet, toasty, and rich, but finishes gentle. [00:04:00] This beer is developed. A serious cult following. Imagine that a cult. Can’t be true. And my top, my top in harmony.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, on on our side, I’m leading the charge with a GTM Paddock favorite because only the finest things come in Red Solo cups.

This is the one, the only, the Jager monster. Mm-hmm. Half Jaeger, half sugar free white Monster. This is legit. Oh Jesus.

Steve & Izzy: I dunno, it’s abb. I dunno. Anything. You know, I call it my sugar free white monster as well. So

that’s what she said. Honey, I told you no talk on the podcast. Podcast. I’m sorry. Sugar free was too perfect. It’s all protein, it’s all,

Crew Chief Brad: we could just do this, this for an hour and a, we don’t need to talk about the movie. This would be better radio.

Steve & Izzy: I know you’re not supposed to drink and drive, but you can definitely drink and pod at

Crew Chief Eric: a thousand percent. And I wish I [00:05:00] had pre-game for this movie. So, speaking of pre-gaming, Steve, tell us all about this wonderful piece of seventies.

Steve & Izzy: Well, I mean, so start off, it comes from writer director Matthew Robbins. Who’s he? Steve? Oh, I’m glad you asked. This was actually his first movie. Whoa. You can tell. And then he went on to do, okay. These are some great movies that will definitely pop up on our podcast eventually. Dragon Slayer. You’ve all seen that one.

All right. I think that’s the, uh, Peter McNichol when he is like 18 or something, fighting a dragon. Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: The legend of Billie Jean. Oh, Jesus. It’s a winner. Battery’s not included. We all saw that when we were kids. Oh, we talked to the writer of, that’s right. That’s a gem. Oh, we sure did. That’s right.

Yeah. Yes. Says Wilson and a 1991 movie called Bingo, which I had to look up. It’s about a runaway circus dog befriending a boy, and it stars Kurt Fuller, Glen Shatick, and a Bear. Amen. This October Bear, right. Wait, is the dog’s name bear? No, no. It stars a bear. Apparently [00:06:00] there’s a dog and of course, because he is a circus dog, there’s also gotta be a circus bear.

Wow. Is that like the Clint Eastwood movie with the monkey? What was that called?

Mountain Man Dan: Every which wave? A Lose In which wave? A Lose probably right turn. Clyde is a famous line from that,

Steve & Izzy: or any which way you can

Crew Chief Eric: matter. The sequel matter. I mean, the only dog that ever mattered to me in the movie was Fred. From smoking the Bandit.

I’m just gonna lay it out there.

Steve & Izzy: You never watched Homeward Bound?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh,

Crew Chief Brad: Homeward Bound. That s if you didn’t cry

Steve & Izzy: when Shadow fell down that hole, you have no soul.

Crew Chief Brad: I think you just described Eric to a TI

Crew Chief Eric: associate with Darth Vader. But we’ll talk about that later.

Steve & Izzy: But you may be wondering, Matthew Robbins, you said he is a writer too.

How did he start off with something huge? Like Corvette Summer? Yeah. Oh right. The sequel to the sequel to the Star Wars franchise. Uh, he wrote Close Encounters of the Third Kind Mimic from the mid nineties. You remember that one? Yeah. Probably mistake it with the Relic. Uh, don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Crimson Peak [00:07:00] and Coming Soon.

He wrote Dermo Dar Toro’s Pinocchio that’s coming out next year apparently with the Voice talents of Kate Blanchet till this went and run. Perlman Christophe, Altoon McGregor, Finn Wolfhard, John Chat Toro, and Tim Blake Nelson. So he wrote some of my favorite movies of all time

Crew Chief Brad: apparently. That’s a pretty great cast for the new Pinocchio movie, by the way.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, who knew Corvette Summer would launch this epic career, right?

Steve & Izzy: Nobody indeed. Yeah. And then, uh, of course the cast, we have legendary thespian, mark Hamill as Kenneth w Dantley, Jr. This was basically his follow up to Star Wars. Like immediately after,

Crew Chief Eric: is it before or after the accident? We were trying to figure it out.

It would be after if it’s after Star Wars.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Say we’ve got a little fun fact about it. Both of the film’s leads were in car accidents prior to principal photography. The other one, uh, Annie Potts, you might know her best as Janine from Ghostbusters. Woo. This is her feature film debut. She’s also designing, well, why does everybody know her best from Ghostbusters?

Did nobody [00:08:00] watch designing women? I say, yeah, she was on designing women apparently, but you know. Seen that movie, her show or whatever, seven years.

Crew Chief Eric: Doesn’t she a sugar maker? It’s gonna happen.

Steve & Izzy: Well, she’s also like the grandma and Young Sheldon or something now, and no one knows that. Really? I did not know that because nobody watches TV anymore.

Crew Chief Eric: We stream it all. But to your point, we were looking at this and it’s her fourth IMDB credit, but it turns out it’s her first movie. And Tanya found something pretty interesting about her being in her first movie and this being her first movie.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, there was a Golden Globe Award for a New Star of the Year, which she was nominated for with this movie.

Oh. Unfortunately she lost out to, um, somebody I’ve never heard of. Irene. Irene Miracle from the movie Midnight Express. Oh, I’ve seen Midnight Express. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: How

Steve & Izzy: about that? Let’s

Crew Chief Brad: see. Just proves how terrible the seventies were.

Crew Chief Eric: We also found out that that award was subsequently removed. Two years [00:09:00] later, so it doesn’t exist anymore.

Steve & Izzy: 82, the last one. Yes. They moonlighted that out and, uh, sandal Bergman from Conan the Barbarian was the last to received that award. And then they’re like, well, we can’t top that. Okay. I would say like, what have we watched? She’s the girl from Puppet Master. What? Annie Pots? No, Irene Miracle. Oh, we’ve seen her in stuff.

Oh, oh, okay. Yeah. And she won it for, what, what movie was it? Midnight Express. Express. Oh, Vanna Express. Oh, okay.

Crew Chief Eric: You confused it with Pineapple Express. I, I got it. It’s all or Sugarland Express

Steve & Izzy: or Gold Express. Express, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was the, uh, the Tom Hanks, CGI thing. Right? Yeah. She was the bear. I think,

Crew Chief Eric: well, if we’re talking trivia too, mark Hamill, right?

I, I don’t even think of him as Luke Skywalker anymore. When somebody says Mark Hamill, I immediately think the Joker from Batman. Oh, right. Batman, the animated series.

Steve & Izzy: Okay, guys, I’ll throw this out there. Mark Hamill, especially in this movie, he’s an okay [00:10:00] looking guy, but he’s like, oh, he’s not, he’s like, Ron Howard, like, Hey, he is a.

Weird, awkward looking team. Look, thank God he got a career as a voice actor. Well, this probably why he got a career as a voice actor. ’cause who wanted him to be the leading man in Hollywood movies. He just, obviously George Lucas, well, you gotta consider the audience be the best looking guy at a church potluck.

Crew Chief Eric: Somebody said it and I don’t remember who it was. He’s a weird looking dude and he’s an ugly woman, like he can’t do either one.

Steve & Izzy: He was an ugly young man, which he wasn’t that young in this movie, but he was an ugly young man heading towards middle age, but he’s actually a much better looking older man.

So he’s like finally, after. 50 years aged into himself. Meanwhile, the best of us mean

Crew Chief Eric: Annie Pots. Holy cow. Wow.

Steve & Izzy: Wow. What a looker. Annie Pots

Crew Chief Eric: can get it.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. She is a, she is a goddamn cutie in this movie. I’m not.

Crew Chief Brad: She, she reminded me of like a mini me version [00:11:00] of Sigourney Weaver from Alien. Mm-hmm. She kind of had that with the hair and everything.

She had that very like petite kinda, but Sigourney weaver’s like eight feet tall. So I was thinking,

Crew Chief Eric: I was thinking, what’s her face from, uh, my cousin Vinny? She had that kind. Oh, Marissa’s home. Yeah. I see that. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: We need to do an episode just on leading ladies.

Crew Chief Eric: Do

Steve & Izzy: an episode apparently just on Wafi Burnetts.

Crew Chief Brad: There you go.

Crew Chief Eric: We’ll talk about her costumes as we go along as well, because I got, which one is the, the, uh,

Crew Chief Brad: as the drive through lady or as the prostitute in training, or as the carwash or whatever, however many 50 million jobs she had at the beginning of this movie.

Steve & Izzy: I love her hustle.

Crew Chief Brad: It was, it was good.

Gotta respect it. Respect the hustle.

Steve & Izzy: I mean, shows up as a bong girl towards the end, right? Yeah, yeah. Excuse me. Do I know you? All right. So we start off, of course, in everybody’s favorite location, the junkyard. Woo. Just, just looking at all these prime sixties and seventies cars just stacked on top of one another like hamburgers.

Crew Chief Brad: I love how they’re [00:12:00] in their prime. In the junkyard. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: The prime of when cars were made

Crew Chief Eric: that, that opening scene. I know Dan got super excited, like, you know, he was, he was, all, his blood pressure was all the way up. He was looking for

Crew Chief Brad: parts for his car,

Crew Chief Eric: a thousand percent. Right. But I’m sitting there looking at this going, oh my God, this is gonna be like other seventies movies.

It had that grainy look to it, you know, the way they filmed it back then and mm-hmm. With the music. And I’m just like, what are we doing in this? And I’m like, oh God, I’m preparing for an hour and 44 minutes of torture. I’m just like, oh boy.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, come on. The, the soundtrack was pretty funky. I liked it. You song the glitter.

The glitter was.

Crew Chief Eric: Touch.

Steve & Izzy: Oh

Crew Chief Eric: yeah, the

Steve & Izzy: sound. Oh my God. I, the soundtrack was a hundred percent John Carpenter. I made a note that the

Crew Chief Brad: soundtrack did not fit the movie at all to me. Oh, sorry. None of the scenes watched soundtrack.

Steve & Izzy: We watched two movies today. My brain stopped working. Yeah, we, we, we watched Shadow in The Cloud came out last year, by the way.

Very interesting movie. But yeah, that’s the John Carpenter one. Sorry, my [00:13:00] brain slammed the family stone or, so something that’s, I’m

Crew Chief Eric: gonna quiz Dan, what was in the crusher before he found the Corvette? Were you paying attention?

Mountain Man Dan: Are you talking about the Rambler?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, ding, ding, ding,

Mountain Man Dan: ding. That’s easy. It set it on the front of the car.

Crew Chief Eric: You got, I wanted to see if he paying attention.

Mountain Man Dan: It was spelled out for him. Joe Dirt spent a lot of time try trying to track down a ram. All right,

Crew Chief Eric: well, apparently Mark Hamill spends a lot of time tracking down a Corvette, so here we go.

Crew Chief Brad: I love the fact that the second line in the movie was, there’s a Volkswagen, we could turn it into a buggy.

Crew Chief Eric: Do buggy.

Steve & Izzy: I did, I did notice that. Nothing foreign,

Crew Chief Eric: but I, I gotta, I gotta be honest. Of all the times, and Dan could probably say this too, that we’ve spent in junkyards, even as kids before we knew each other. I have never seen a Corvette in the junk

Steve & Izzy: yard. Yeah, it’s true. I I’ve never seen one. I’ve seen a couple Camaros, but yeah.

No Corvettes.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, no Corvette. So I, I’m already suspending disbelief at this point, right. So let’s go from there. I’m gonna

Mountain Man Dan: say my reason for thinking there’s never been any Corvettes in junkyards [00:14:00] is ’cause they’re fiberglass. They’re not worth anything to the junkyard.

Steve & Izzy: So

Mountain Man Dan: people show up with him like they turn,

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, that thing was pretty roached out.

I’m really surprised. This is the car, you know, and he’s screaming and, and I think the funniest part of that particular scene is when he gets to the control booth and he’s yelling at the guy, he’s like, Hey, hey, hey. And both my wife and I are like, just, just hit the freaking button. The button, the button, the red button.

Do you see the button?

Steve & Izzy: The big red one that says hit here? Yeah. I mean it took forever. But see like that. But that sets us up for that. Like he’s this high school kid who’s not that good at stuff, but he’s good at cars.

Crew Chief Eric: You’re absolutely right. I’m like, what is going on? So, so where do we go from there guys?

Steve & Izzy: Basically, uh, you know, Luke Skywalker jumps in at the last minute to save the vet from being crushed and then we go to shop class and uh, we get a nice little montage of like the car being made and, yeah. Yeah. And all I could

Crew Chief Brad: think was other classes. Luke Skywalker has to build a ten second car for Dom Totto.

Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So let’s talk about shop class. So [00:15:00] Eugene Roche, I guess is how you pronounce his last name, or Rock Roche, I guess. I looked at, I literally turned to my wife ’cause we watched a movie together. I said, isn’t that the guy who played the dad on home improvement? Wasn’t that like. Jill’s dad or whatever, but I mistook him for somebody else.

But that guy’s been in a ton of movies. Oh yeah. But he has this reputation for kind of being a little skeezy. So I already, I already had something forming in my head as we went along, and I don’t wanna spoil it for folks till we get there, but I was like, man, what is going on?

Steve & Izzy: Oh, we also get a, get a, see that, uh, a little Kenny, uh, you know, Luke Skywalker.

He lives in a trailer park with his mom, and we see her as, she’s like getting back from a date or whatever, late at night, and he is been locked outta the house. And then, uh, then we get the little like kiss on the lips between him guys. How old were you when you stopped kissing your mom on the lips?

Crew Chief Eric: Five.

Wow. I was gonna say, my daughters gave up at maybe two, but I, I will not forget that scene. ’cause she’s like, come here and give mom a kiss. And as soon as they ha my wife goes, what the [00:16:00] f

Mountain Man Dan: damn trailer park people? Boundary

Steve & Izzy: boundaries. Boundary issues. It was the

Mountain Man Dan: seventies. Come on. It wasn’t just some short little peck though.

There was like some length to that kiss, which was like the creepy part of it.

Steve & Izzy: She like grabbed the

Mountain Man Dan: back of his head. I’m like, what is going on?

Steve & Izzy: Oh, Steve, kiss me like I’m your mom. Oh no, God, what? Why would you do that?

Crew Chief Eric: But I realized something very quickly. There’s a parallel between this and a new hope in this movie and in that one. Luke Skywalker doesn’t have a dad.

Steve & Izzy: Mm. And he kisses a family member. Wait.

Yeah. So okay. We find out, he’s like failing, I don’t know, science or whatever. And you know the teachers are real dick when they spell out D minus M-I-N-U-S on the paper. That’s like rubbing it in, right?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, absolutely. And then you go back to the scene where he’s in shop again and he is working on now David Carins Death Race, 2000 Corvette.

Did you guys see this hood? [00:17:00] What was going on? Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Oh yeah. Yeah. It’s definitely death race. 2000. Yeah. Like I kept expecting, uh, fuck, I’m trying to think of a stupid name for a character. Uh, machine Gun Joey or whatever to come out.

Crew Chief Eric: No, no. Instead you got the annoying friend Danny Ucci coming out. That was the redhead in the movie.

Oh yeah. The

Steve & Izzy: redhead guy cos or whatever. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh my goodness. I couldn’t believe that at first. I was like, what? Who? No, no way. I say, who seen the

Steve & Izzy: movie?

Crew Chief Eric: It was a cameo appearance at, you know, nine years old or whatever. What got me though is, you know, he’s doing all this work and people, I have to inform you, as Dan mentioned, Corvettes have been made of fiberglass since the early 1950s.

So when he’s sanding and doing all this work with no mask on, I’m like, yeah, those are those California laws, you know, that we have now about breathing in things and whatnot. I’m like, dude, this is not cool. What was also, you look

Steve & Izzy: so young and youthful

Crew Chief Brad: and then we, [00:18:00] and then have you thought about his health and safety?

Crew Chief Eric: I did. Right?

Crew Chief Brad: You’re such a dad.

Crew Chief Eric: It was a big red OSHA stamp on there. No,

Crew Chief Brad: no. Where’s the inspector?

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Crew Chief Eric: correct me. They revealed the car before the giant make out music montage, right?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. They, well, they kind of tease it and then, yeah, he does like the lonely walk where he walks by and people are just making out really stationary and slowly as he is walking by and then casually like walks into the prom and I’m like, did you not hear the music or something?

Crew Chief Eric: But then it was like all over town, like I was, I felt like we were watching like an American in Paris suddenly it’s like, why is everybody making out all over the place?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. He walks by the Eiffel Tower and then the leaning tower of [00:19:00] Pisa. That street car by, yeah, it’s because it was the seventies.

Crew Chief Eric: So I gotta ask, when they unveiled the car for the first time, opened the garage door and he rolls out in a plume of tire smoke.

What did we think? Let’s do a round robin knee jerk. What did everybody think? Tanya? Hot trash. Dan. Why Brad? Hot Wheels come to life. Steve and Izzy. What’d you think? What’s your gut reaction? Yes.

You know what I thought? And this is the nerd in me. I looked at this thing and I go, damn, we just stepped into the Transformers movie. It’s hot Rod come to life, right? Yes. Yeah, rod missed my ride.

Steve & Izzy: Did it? I had, I had sort of a similar thing, but more a film nerd thing. I was like, I wonder what’s faster, that thing or the race.

Ooh, nice pull. I was just like, I was watching about that just where my brain went. I’m like, huh, who would win in a race? That, or the race car. Alright. It’s not the dynamic hood you’ve ever seen in your life, but, uh, it’ll take in that air. What is the car from the race? I forget. I wanna say it’s a Pontiac something.

I can’t

Crew Chief Brad: remember. Yeah, it’s a SI think that’s where the Pontiac ban she [00:20:00] came from. Yeah. And it was like a prototype. Yeah, they put a lot of time and money into that 15 second quarter mile Corvette.

Steve & Izzy: All right. It’s a Dodge M four s. Turbo. Interceptor. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. We were all, we were all raw. It’s a Mopar. I’m now suddenly proud.

Steve & Izzy: Hmm. Uh, well, I guess after he, uh, casually walked into the prom or whatever, the, his, uh, shop teacher saw him there. I guess he was a chaperone or something, and he, uh, falls him back to the shop. ’cause I don’t know, he either followed him or heard a noise from the prom, I don’t know, whatever. But he walks in and is like, oh, that kid’s who’s going and jerk off on that card?

Yeah. He like, oh, you’re not sticking your dick in the gas tank again, are you? We don’t, just trying to wax budget. We’re a public school kid. Well, here, let me, let me give you some whiskey, dick. Let’s go drink some scotch in a Dixie cup back here. And, uh, see, he’s just trying to save the schools some money.

Crew Chief Eric: Hey, he had, he was high class. He had 10 prison cups. I’m drinking out of a red solo cup here. People, I mean, come on.

Steve & Izzy: No, my [00:21:00] mistake. Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: I wanna jump on that because. Immediately we paused the movie because my wife goes, hold on a second. This guy’s like a senior in high school, junior. Like, we’re trying to figure out how old he is at this point.

Mm-hmm. And she goes, wait, was alcohol legal at that age in the seventies? And, and it turned into this 20 minute, we’re gonna search Google and find out the laws and all this kind of thing. Turns out in 1933, California passed the law that the legal drinking age was 21. So a little nerd fact there. So I was like.

Steve & Izzy: Oopsie. You never had the cool teacher who slipped in something little illegal.

Crew Chief Brad: I think that was a foreshadowing into the character of the teacher that you find out about later. Spoiler alert.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s, let’s think about this. Uh, cars are also stolen in this movie. Prostitution is fairly rampant.

Yeah. There’s some illegal things going on. Prostitution’s just like a hobby, Luke.

Crew Chief Brad: That was amazing. Prostitution is like a potential career path for a young woman after

Steve & Izzy: she’s been an amateur for so long, [00:22:00] which basically means whoing. She wants to go pro.

Crew Chief Eric: That was one of the best lines. What did she say?

She goes, uh, she goes to go

Steve & Izzy: pro or something. Yeah. She goes,

Crew Chief Eric: I’m a trainee. Time comes when every amateur goes pro. I’m like, damn, that’s awesome. You go girl. Own it, girl. So we’re still like kind of in this period of the car is new and hot, right? They’re bringing it on the scene. And after I did the whole tra trying to get the transformers imagery outta my head, the next thing that popped into my mind was, why the hell is this thing right hand drive?

Crew Chief Brad: Bingo, but no fur in cars. We’re gonna take it domestic and make it right hand drive.

Crew Chief Eric: Mm-hmm. But Brad, you found an answer to that, didn’t you?

Crew Chief Brad: I did. It’s because Mark Hamill wanted to be able to sit closer to the curb so he could holler at the ladies

Crew Chief Eric: that is actually written on IMDB. Can you believe that?

Mm.

Crew Chief Brad: By someone who made it up. I’m sure.

Steve & Izzy: So does that imply that he actually thought that was a car that should be driven? Around on public roads when the movie wasn’t filming.

Crew Chief Brad: That was probably his [00:23:00] personal car. Oh, absolutely. He probably owns that car.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. He had Star Wars money. Baby. Hey baby, you wanna see a Gen Light?

See Bought,

Mountain Man Dan: he bought a Stingray with his Star Wars money. I mean, you think about it, all the young individuals at that time, like Dirk Diggler wanted a Corvette. You know, not that Corvette,

Crew Chief Eric: who wants a C3 Corvette? Seriously,

Mountain Man Dan: at that time, it, I

Crew Chief Eric: would take, I don’t understand it looking

Mountain Man Dan: back, but it was

Crew Chief Brad: like a lot of the kids at the time, everybody was like, eh, it’s a Corvette.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. See that? Or a Pinto, am I right?

Crew Chief Eric: I, I mean, they modeled the car for the Ambiguously gay duo off of that Corvette. I mean, come on. Right? I mean, oh my goodness. So then we’re on this street race scene, like suddenly we’re in Fast and The Furious.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. The teacher takes the school build team to the drag races.

Drag race is just dragging up and down The strip

Mountain Man Dan: American calling at Ladies on Your pa, that’s a running up and down the strip Friday night, Saturday night in any small town. Back in the day the police

Steve & Izzy: were police were standing right in the middle of the road. They didn’t [00:24:00] care. Can I say something? When they’re standing in the middle of the road, it happens like four times this movie.

I’m like, okay, get hit him with the car again because it happens later. But, well, it is a death

Crew Chief Eric: race car. I mean, come on. Right. I’ve got a pop wrist for you guys though.

Crew Chief Brad: Did anybody notice what kind of motorcycles the police were riding? Uh, BMW Close. Because it is a, a foreign motorcycle. It’s a Mo Guzzi. It

Crew Chief Eric: was a Mo Guzzi.

I was gonna say a Triol

Crew Chief Brad: motor. No, it was a Mo Guzzi. It’s Ian.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, I I got a quiz for you then too, if you remember it since you were talking about Mark Hamill leaning out the window of the Corvette pulling up to the curb when he pulled up the curb. Is that how he

Crew Chief Brad: lost his arm for Empire Space? Yeah.

Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: a thousand percent. Did you spot the car that was behind him? I’ll give you a hint. It was white the first time they showed the car from the aerial view when he was downtown for the drag race.

Steve & Izzy: Challenger from, uh, vanishing Point, Alvis Gray lady. It

Crew Chief Brad: is Carmen Gia,

Crew Chief Eric: the only car built in Canada. Bricklin.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s not the only car that was built in Canada though, cama? No,

Crew Chief Eric: no. The only car that has [00:25:00] ever been manufactured from Canada, not built in, assembled in Canada. Oh,

Crew Chief Brad: okay.

Crew Chief Eric: But anyway, moving on. The drag races were terrible.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. Well, yeah. So yeah, I love the burnout before the drag race too. And then you launch during a burnout.

That’s That’s a great way to go really fast.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. That’s how you go faster. Come on. Anybody who’s ever stood in a parking lot knows burnouts are how guys measure their dicks. I mean, go faster. I don’t, I don’t know what I’m saying

Crew Chief Eric: on those bias ply. Well, I, I’m just

Mountain Man Dan: amazed by the fact that it didn’t kick the ass in sideways over into the car next to it as you launched.

I, I was thinking the

Crew Chief Eric: same thing. As a matter of fact, the stunt driver was amazing. You did. It didn’t have enough

Crew Chief Brad: power that walking 200 horsepower outta that 8008 8 liter V eight Corvette.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, it’s so true. It’s so true. So in the movie, uh, the teacher sends, uh, one of the guys in the car to like, go pick up eight large Cokes and a Sprite for me, and remember, take the keys with you and blah, blah, blah.

And it just shows him like [00:26:00] walking away, like not listening or whatever. I’m like, is he gonna leave the keys in the fucking car? Nope. But yeah, it got stolen. And like hours later he comes walking back with the sodas. I just be like, all right, I gotta leave town. I gotta change my name.

Crew Chief Eric: Right? Not just walking down with the sodas, but walking down in the middle of a four lane road.

I’m like, yeah, they have with nobody else

Mountain Man Dan: there too. It’s la Right. I’m confused. Well, it, it must’ve been towards the end of the night when the cops chased everybody off. ’cause you noticed there was no traffic at the point when he is walking back. Yes, he’s,

Steve & Izzy: the cops lost enough money on the race that they decided to break it up and send everybody home.

Crew Chief Eric: That makes way more sense. What’s that? Where’s my $200? Get your harass in the back of my car. Hey, how everybody outta here ho Are all

Steve & Izzy: the cops Irish in

Crew Chief Eric: la? I don’t know.

Crew Chief Brad: Where were we?

Steve & Izzy: Um,

Crew Chief Eric: so

Crew Chief Brad: the car was stolen.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, Tanya has, Tanya has a fun fact to share.

Steve & Izzy: Ooh. Apparently, according to the Corvette Museum, there were actually two of these atrocities that were made.

Oh, and one of them as in this photo was actually [00:27:00] the traditional hand drive that we are accustomed to in this country. So I’m not sure where that was used in the movie. If there was like maybe that we didn’t catch where the driver was on the left side. Oh, you know what? It was probably like all the shots where it was like on the street, street legal, like that was their street legal one maybe

Crew Chief Brad: Makes sense.

Or probably all the shots where the car is actually moving.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. And apparently one of the, I guess they’re referencing, I think in this photo, the left hand drive. And then there’s a comment that’s saying that the other one is in a private collection in Australia. This was as of 2016.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh. So we know, we still know where this car is.

That’s kind of cool.

Steve & Izzy: But the right hand drive one is in Australia.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Facts, super fun Facts. It’s fun. Fun fact.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m just curious, do you have a seat? I, this is gonna jump in quite a bit, but I just wanna say when he, spoiler alert, finds the car and they, the guy knows that he’s on to him and he says, we gotta paint this car.

Yeah. That’s gonna hide it. Not the fact that [00:28:00] it’s, you know, right hand drive, it’s one of one. We’ll just paint it. You’ll never know it’s the same car.

Steve & Izzy: No, you’re looking for a red car, man. This’s obviously a gold car. Yeah. You, sorry. So yeah, it’s stolen. Kenny like, flips out and like starts beating the shit out of Danny Ucci, which is, you know, whatever the most, I love how the cops are just like, well, he kind of deserved it.

No

Crew Chief Eric: assault charges. No, no. We’re not pressing any charges tonight.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. But I love when he like goes to the cops and is like, Hey, this car got stolen, can help me find it. Like, I don’t know, a lot of Corvettes got stolen, blah, blah, blah. No, this is the only one with the hood that looks like Godzilla’s back though, so it should be pretty easy to find.

So then we get,

Crew Chief Eric: we get sad. Panda. Luke Skywalker, at that point, he’s all mopey and depressed. Right? Mopey

Steve & Izzy: and depressed. Okay. This dude looked like he was strung out. I don’t know what the entire time either coming down off something or trying to get back up on something. Like he was so wigged out the whole [00:29:00] time.

It was annoying.

Mountain Man Dan: He’s a hell of a drug. Yeah. He’s high on the love

Steve & Izzy: of his car. You guys should, uh, like, should know this feeling. We just can’t stop thinking about it. You’re just lying in bed, like, oh, do you think it thinks about me? I mean, it’s, I’m wondering if he had like pink eye in this movie too. Did anyone catch how like one eye was all red on one side?

Like, guys, guys, okay. I, I’m gonna, I’ll, I’ll go to the fun facts again. Both Mark Hamill and Annie Pots were in car accidents prior to principle photography. I mean, maybe it’s side effect from that. Apparently. Let’s see, pot’s got pins in her leg while Hamill got a broken nose. Oh, there we go. Broken nose.

That’ll do it. Staple it back together. I don’t know. Yeah. I seemed to remember he had to have like half his face sewn back on second. Well, he must have been in multiple car accidents. ’cause there was articles saying that before New Hope or what is the second stretched back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That like at the very beginning of the movie, they have whatever monster, like scratch him and basically it hid the fact that his face was disfigured from Yeah.

Because they, they had to like, so his face back on. Yeah. I thought would’ve been, that was a motorcycle motorcycle accident. Would’ve been, that would’ve been after this movie though. There was a car accident in Malibu [00:30:00] apparently

Crew Chief Eric: driving that got awful Corvette. That’s why. Well, probably

Steve & Izzy: that’s why I gave the other one to Brian James, his CoStar from this movie and he is living down in Australia now.

Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: that’s not a Corvette.

Steve & Izzy: Cool. That a Corvette. See what happens. Yeah. Oh yeah. So the cops come by like. Oh yeah, I guess there’s a ring of car thieves. I guess your fall fucked ’cause they probably took it to another state. Anyway, have a nice day everybody. Yep. They definitely can never find a car across state lines.

Ask me about when my dad bought a stolen jeep on eBay accidentally.

Crew Chief Eric: Ooh, that’s a juicy bit of hot take.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, it was like the early days of eBay when you could still like bid on like human hearts and like weird shit. Oh, and he bought a Jeep. The listing was quote like inboxes and it was outta Florida and we were in California and he was like, yeah, I can assemble this.

He was, he is a mechanic and he’s brilliant at that stuff. He paid a ton of money to have it shipped in. He assembled it and got it running, built it in our driveway, drove it down to go get it registered. Turns out it was stolen. Sheriff’s department seized the whole thing. Wow. Oh, he was SOL

Crew Chief Eric: The old days of [00:31:00] eBay or Amazing.

I remember when you could buy ad space on women’s chest and put your logo on there. It is pretty cool. Oh yeah. With

Steve & Izzy: me. Oh, I don’t know if you guys are, uh, old enough to remember when that couple like sold their virginity on eBay.

Crew Chief Eric: Where’s

Steve & Izzy: the Picard like head in hand demotion right now? I question how much, you know what? I can Google it. What, what was the final bid? Real sad thing is how we haven’t really progressed as a society. Yeah. No, because it would be

Crew Chief Eric: an NFT now. Like that lady was selling farts in a jar, right? So there you go.

Fans only

Steve & Izzy: baby. All right. Woo. They’re only fans. I don’t even know what it’s called. All right. They started like, eBay would’ve been around 1999. The most expensive virginity went for $32,000. Another one went for $12,800. That’s

Crew Chief Eric: a bargain. Yeah, right? It’s kind of like what stays in Vegas? Or wait, how does that go?

Steve & Izzy: What happens in Vegas? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. So [00:32:00] anyway, uh, yeah. What happens here, um, Kenny or whatever is working at the gas station and uh, some guy just comes along one day and he sees the little, uh, you know, have you seen this car thing? He’s like, oh yeah, I saw that car. I was over in Vegas.

I was a little drunk, but it was sitting on a mirror all ready to be bid on he. Anyway, I gotta go. I’m gonna go in the bathroom and buy a comb for a dime. Guys, did they have comb dispensers in the seventies? Yes.

Mountain Man Dan: I think that was the guy replenishing the stock for the condoms and the combs and the things like that in the bathroom because he put stuff outta his trunk to take it over and put it in there to refill.

Yeah. What

Steve & Izzy: were the jugs of hooch or whatever that were in the backseat? It looked like he was like a shine smuggler. I, it was the cleaning materials. I, some of

Mountain Man Dan: it looked like, some of it looked like bottles of liquor.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Weird. But anyway. Yeah. So then Mark Campbell’s like, oh my God, I gotta hitchhike to Vegas Now, by the way, that’s my, my excellent Mark Hamel voice.

Ji I, we’re gonna go eat some tork converters. Oh, man. Uh, so yeah, along the way he gets picked up by like a, a hearse on [00:33:00] hydros that’s going 15 miles an hour. And eventually I’d say

Crew Chief Brad: I love, I love that car, by the way. Right. I like, I like the paint job. Although, so when they’re in the car, they’re talking about you’re a GM man.

Wasn’t he driving a Buick Riviera? Wasn’t that, isnt that what that car was? Yes, it, oh, was that was an old school. It isn’t Buick gm. So what Riviera kind of

Crew Chief Eric: motion

Crew Chief Brad: is that?

Crew Chief Eric: Yes, he

Crew Chief Brad: was the person himself, but I loved the graveyard motif painted on the side.

Crew Chief Eric: That was cool. Pretty sick. But I will say, I suddenly realized, and my, my wife pointed this out too, she goes, Kenny’s kind of a douche.

He’s, he’s a one car man. Like he has no appreciation for other vehicles. And I’m like, did you just say that out loud? Like, who are you? Who did I marry? Right. So I I, I have a very prideful moment at that point. So that scene meant a lot to me at the end. You know,

Steve & Izzy: he’s, uh, he’s got the tunnel vision. He’s the only has eyes for her.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s the only woman he is ever loved besides his bomb. So, oh, so that’s actually big begs a really good question. ’cause in the car community, a lot of us name our vehicles. So what do we think the name of the [00:34:00] Corvette is? Or maybe we hold that to the end as we think about this a little bit

Steve & Izzy: more. Oh guys, it’s in the title.

The Corvette’s name is Summer.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh shit. Oh.

Steve & Izzy: He’s looking for Corvette Summer. Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: damn. You know, my mind is melted

Steve & Izzy: now. It’s over the, the working title was Summer, the Corvette. But they’re like, that sounds stupid. Switch it up. Corvette, the summer. Get rid of the, yeah. Yeah. Get that outta there.

What else could it be like, Yvette? I, oh, I like that. I like that man. Nessa. Oh God. Okay. We’re gonna get to Nessa. I’m like, oh fuck. That’s the name. This movie should have been, oh, I was like. Honey, are we doing this for the Grind Bin podcast? That was the sequel that nobody watched. Vanessa. Oh, I would watch Vanessa.

We have I would too lot of seventies van movies. Okay guys. And it ends with her having to get a job as a receptionist in New York. Boom. Ghostbusters prequel. I quit. Bit of jobs in this. There you Jan Origins. [00:35:00] Oh, I like that real name. It’s Shannon. So anyway, yeah, they’re going like 15 miles an hour. He is like, Hey, can we go a little faster for God’s sakes?

And he is like, oh man, we’re all about class, not speed. And he is like, cool, I’m just gonna step outta this car real. And he, hi. Like, we’re going to Tijuana, like, aren’t you excited? And, and it’s like, no, you said you were gonna Vegas, that’s why he jumped in. Yes. Yeah. Like Los Amos. And I’m like, that’s not what he, what are they going somewhere else Now?

We’re gonna bunny hop to Mexico. Apparently. Is he gonna be human traffic

Crew Chief Eric: yet?

Steve & Izzy: I think he was gonna like lose a kidney.

Crew Chief Eric: My wife being the nerd that she is, sometimes she goes 15 miles an hour. It’s like a 300 mile trip to LA to Vegas. Right. So that’s like, they’re gonna spend the whole day hopping, you know?

But like you said, bunny hopping their way to Las Vegas.

Mountain Man Dan: Ugh. Brutal. He

Steve & Izzy: will run out of gas past ZI guarantee it.

Mountain Man Dan: I I like how the one scene as they pull away, as he got out the car, one car starts to bounce and you can see the front of his start going towards the side of the road. ’cause the guy can’t keep it straight as it starts to move.

Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: The back [00:36:00] almost reared all of ’em. It was, they were like being followed by like a gremlin or something and like that guy slammed on the brake.

Crew Chief Eric: But this begins. The Epic. Epic. Just waterfall of Annie Pot’s one-liners. Oh

Steve & Izzy: yeah. ’cause she’s so good in this guy. She is like the shining light in this movie.

Every scene with her is magical. Yeah. So he is, uh, walking along the side of the road, El Mariachi style, and a van pulls over, gives a little honk, honk, opens up and she’s got headphones on and just yelling gibberish for whatever reason. I don’t know.

Crew Chief Eric: So you got your Luke Skywalker impression. I’m gonna do my best Annie pot.

So here we go. Oh shit. Here we go. Silence everybody. Silence Dr. Bankman. Dr. Bankman, if you’re gonna hitchhike, you gotta stick something out.

Steve & Izzy: Nailed it. So yeah, we find out her name’s, uh, or, or no, we don’t, we don’t find out her name. She’s like, oh yeah, I’m going to Vegas. And, uh, if you really wanna appreciate the van, look in the back. You like, kind of get a peek back there. It’s like, is that a [00:37:00] bed and,

Crew Chief Eric: oh yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Like a four post bed. What the hell’s going on back there?

It’s,

Crew Chief Eric: it’s not just a bed though.

Steve & Izzy: It’s a Walmart bed. Yeah. We find out it’s a fully tricked out bedroom with like a fridge and Oh, red lighting and red shag carpeting up the walls. Ugh, there’s a fridge. Like, I could live in this van. I won’t lie. I know that this van smells like wet dogs. I know this. And thousand percent I still would live in this van.

Mountain Man Dan: Wet dogs is a lot better smell than what I was anticipating. It smelled like with her line of work. Hey, now, hey, now. Family show, family show saying,

Steve & Izzy: so these, the, these kinds of vehicles always end up smelling like a wet dog. They just always do

Crew Chief Eric: well, it was like every airplane scene you’ve ever seen in TV or movie.

I’m like, they’re not that big in real life. It’s like the tardis, right? It’s bigger on the inside, right? The outside. It’s like, how is that on the road?

Steve & Izzy: You know what though? Annie Pots is tiny

Crew Chief Brad: and so is Mark. What is it? And Mark

Steve & Izzy: Jam’s not very big. No, no. This might be real van size.

Crew Chief Eric: Like that show [00:38:00] on, uh, what is it?

A e like little houses or whatever. Like people live in the micro houses. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Steve & Izzy: yeah, yeah. Or li like our producer hero will remember this. The little poll. Pocket vans and Polly could like live in the whole like Polly Pocket’s, like three centimeters tall. And she can live in her van. That’s, that’s Annie Pots here.

She’s got horses in the back. You know, you guys heard it here. Annie Pott. Star of Polly Pocket. Dude, I would pay good money for that. Make it happen. Internet Live Action, Polly Pocket 2023. We just pay any pots to live in a van for a week. Turn into web series.

Mountain Man Dan: Did the modified vans during that timeframe was a big thing.

And like I remember growing up, I’m like,

Steve & Izzy: it’s not now.

Mountain Man Dan: Well, I would say it was different then. Now it’s become more necessity, but then it was like people had their home and then they still tricked their van out like that. So I had a strong appreciation. It reminded me of like my childhood, different people I knew that had vans like that and stuff.

Oh, there’s a

Steve & Izzy: lot whole genre of movies about it too. Yeah. Like it, it, it’s like the big trucker thing back then. It, there’s like at [00:39:00] least seven or eight movies we’ve seen and many more We haven’t. Like I said, we’ve seen a lot of van movies. I was not being facetious, whether it’s the Van Van Nuy or it was a Van Nuys Boulevard.

The Super van. Super van It Super van too, right?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Yeah. I think there was a sequel too. Despite being a respray of the A team van, I have to say, much like Annie Potts, every time the van came on the scene, I was double thumbs up. It’s the best looking vehicle. In this movie, hands down and it fits her personality.

It’s beautiful. She’s super cute and it just, it all works. It, it’s all her. Indeed, indeed.

Steve & Izzy: We had a camper van for a little bit when I was a kid again. My dad bought and sold like swap vehicles a lot and we, we had like an in from eBay sometimes. No, it was more of a Here take it before the cops find out where I found Oh, oh, gotcha, gotcha.

Sometimes like, oh no, that thing’s got like a blown head. It won’t ever drive. And he is like swaps apart out and drives it home and makes everybody mad. I don’t know. But we had, we, we did have like a seventies van and the backseat folded out into a little bed and it had a little sink that [00:40:00] leaked all over the place.

A

Mountain Man Dan: wet dog smell, totally smelled like

Steve & Izzy: a wet dog. Uh, made farting noises when you tried to shift gears. I was like six when we had this thing. You grind until you find it, grind until you find it. And we called it the orange crate. Nice. That was also my mom’s daily driver for a while. Uh, ’cause my dad took the Crown Victoria.

Oh, lucky. So anyway, we find out this young lady, she’s going to Vegas and she has aspirations of becoming a, uh, professional prostitute. And she’s saying this like, while she’s driving this van and like drinking Olympia and like, oh yeah, she’s popping an Olympia. And yeah. And she’s like, ah, you’re gonna have a cute guy.

You, you probably know about girls like me. Right. Go look. Look like you can be my first client. Oh, my first custom, uh, how much do you think I’m worth? I, gee, I don’t know. Um, gee, Wilker $15. 15. What do I look like? Do I look like a ho? I, I’m at Finn. You meant 50. You meant 50. Alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ll take 50.

I ain’t got no $50. Get [00:41:00] the fuck outta my van. I’m a high school kid. Get the fuck outta my van. But you never told me your name. Check the side of the van.

Roll Red Stone. What do we think of this movie? I stopped watching. So you’ve had to go take a cold shower? I gotta take a cold shower right now. Credits roll. That’s it.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna lie. I chuckled when they shut that door and it said, Vanessa, I heard my wife like Gaw. And I’m just like, wow.

We are in for a ride. And then I realized we’re 35 minutes into the film. Yeah, yeah,

Steve & Izzy: yeah. I checked the time too. It was like, holy shit. We’re not even a third of the way through this movie. We just, this is gonna be kidding.

Crew Chief Eric: Started.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. So he like goes into the Hilton and is like asking bartenders and shit.

Oh, but wait,

Crew Chief Eric: but wait, you forgot. One of the best lines that Annie Pots gives. I’m gonna have Izzy say it for us.

Steve & Izzy: Oh.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, which one is that?

Steve & Izzy: I’m

Crew Chief Eric: a hook

Steve & Izzy: for Christ’s

Crew Chief Eric: sake. [00:42:00]

Steve & Izzy: He was better when you did it. I’m sorry. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. A master impersonator needs to step in from time to time. You know,

Crew Chief Eric: there is another one that goes along that with that one and it’s my favorite.

And she turns to him as they’re, he’s, he’s like asking her about Why are you going to prostitute, blah blah. And she goes, I’m a trainee. Time comes when every amateur goes pro. And I’m like,

Steve & Izzy: whoa, what just happened? Look, she’s a woman who knows what she wants. She’s gonna get it. Look back in my hometown, I’ve seen miles of peka.

I’m ready to set my game up. I know that’s how I felt after, after art school. Like I just seen so much Dick, I should be prostitute. Show us the origin story. All right, so. So then, uh, yeah, he’s like asking around and, oh, that’s right. He gets like, uh, robbed by the, uh, the guy that walks up like, Hey, hey, you look like a winner.

You look like a winner. Hey, why don’t you buy this necklace here? Some of these diamonds are even real. Oh, no thanks. No, thanks. I don’t wanna, I don’t, uh, good. [00:43:00] All right. Cool, cool, cool. Well, have a nice day, sir. I gotta find a car. Have you seen this car? Uh, no. Oh, wait. Maybe. Maybe it’s a little bit Circus Circus or something.

Oh my God. The circus. Circus. I need a car. And then we find out it’s a fucking Dotson. Right? Steve pointed out it’s a Dotson Circus. Circus. Is the only hotel still on the strip? Yeah. Oh, all the old Vegas shots here from like 78. I’m like, well, circus Circus is the only one still around. It’s still around, right?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, it’s I they

Steve & Izzy: hose it out least here. A last time

Crew Chief Eric: was there. I’ve actually stayed there and I tell you what, that sign, the circus circus sign is super annoying. Nobody sleeps in that casino. It is impossible. You’re not supposed to sleep in. Well, that’s why the rooms are like.

Steve & Izzy: $14 during midweek. That’s for the whole day.

Imagine per hour. No. So I was gonna say, Steve, was it Circus? Circus where we went in the bathroom and it had been freshly painted except for the ceiling with this buzz platter. Oh, no, no. That was a silver. Yeah, it was on Fremont Street somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We went and were like, wow, they [00:44:00] just painted this room.

I could still smell the paint. Pan up. Pan up, like, oh my honey arterial blood splatter up on the ceiling of this place. Is that what I, well, it’s not toothpaste

fucking shit, babe. I’m

Mountain Man Dan: hilarious. But when he walks in, at the point when he walks into the casino and walks up to the Dotson, I thought his response was hilarious. He won like all because like from distance he thinks it’s his car because got similar look to it and everything. He is like, it’s a Dotson.

Steve & Izzy: Well, I like how like all the hookers are like, right. Can’t even get an American color like honey.

Crew Chief Eric: Way a So is that before or after they have their fir That’s after they have their first fight. They’re separated at this point for Yeah, yeah, yeah. They’re separated. Yeah. She, she dries

Steve & Izzy: off and he runs into the hotel.

Crew Chief Eric: So before that happens though, I have to comment. Remember we were gonna comment on her [00:45:00] wardrobe and style changes throughout the film. This is the first time she gets dressed up. Right. So I, I didn’t have a problem with the sequined dress and anything, but she’s attractive curly hair the whole nine years.

Why did she put on a fro?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, it’s like a s the nap, polar dynamite fro

Steve & Izzy: Right. Ones have more fun. Well, and for me, what really threw me off was like the pounds of like glitter eye makeup and shit. Yeah. I was like, uh, that’s, I, I don’t wanna see myself in your eyelids. Get the fuck outta here. I I would like to let everyone in the audience know that Steve hates glitter.

Oh. With a passion. Steve works in the hotel industry. Oh, Jesus Christ. Steve will never ever switch a hotel room ’cause he knows how hard everybody works. But we walked in into one hotel room and obviously on the little chair, somebody had had their prom dress and you could see the glitter. He immediately was like, Nope, we’re not staying here.

Nope. I’m like looking again. Don’t touch a fucking thing. We’re changing rooms. I’m looking for the blood spatter at the ceiling again. No, it was the glitter blood spatter on the ceiling in the bathroom. Perfectly [00:46:00] fine. Glitter on the chair. Deal breaker. We’re going to a different hotel bitch.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, I can’t take credit for this, but I have heard it referred to as the herpes of the crafting world, so absolutely.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, you know what we’re gonna have to update it to? It’s the COVID of the crafting world. Just what you

Crew Chief Eric: thought. You got it taken care of. That comes back.

Steve & Izzy: Look. Oh no. It’s the new variant of glitter. Ah. It’s on me. It’s unicorn or unicorn. Right. Whatever. Look, if I’ve got glitter and you come and visit me, you have glitter too.

I love it. I love it. We all have glitter. If you touch your cat, your cat now has glitter.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s like a, it’s like a Oprah episode. And you get some glitter. You get some glitter.

Steve & Izzy: No, this is the worst show ever. That’s on me. Oh, got it. So, so her sparkly eyes. I could like, feel Steve’s asshole. Pickering like, uh, uh, no longer wanna give it, uh, any pots.

Can’t get it anymore.

Crew Chief Eric: Maybe, maybe fifteen’s too much now.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, I

Crew Chief Eric: [00:47:00] So she’s sleeping in her van. Where’s Mark

Steve & Izzy: Hamill hanging out since they’re no longer buddy, buddy. Okay. So he lost his money even just to get food when he finds out he, he has his wallet stolen. Dick Miller comes outta left field and saved a fucking day.

Dick Miller. And he is like, I got this buddy. Or he like, flips a coin or something for it, for the, the guy and it’s like, yeah, it’s my lucky $2 be a hill. I’ll pass it on to you buddy. He pulls out like a 50 to the hotdog bender and is like, heads your tails, uh, either to keep the 50 or the kid gets the hotdog and the guy’s like, yeah, I’ll fucking take that bet.

Oh, he loses and he, dick Miller’s like, I can’t win for losing, come on, or I can’t lose for winning or something. What? Okay, he’s on a winning streak and Mark Hamill’s like, are you driving back to LA? And he is like, oh no, I’m, I’m getting on a plane head and hope I’m about to lose all this. Yeah, yeah. Like 18 grand in 18 hours.

I gotta get the fuck outta here. But here you can have this lucky $2 bill of mine. But yeah, he is gotta go sleep in a U-Haul, so, yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: So well, and the worst thing is he hands over the $2 bill. He says that’s what he started out with. Who goes to [00:48:00] Vegas with just $2. That’s not a smart decision. It’s

Steve & Izzy: the seventies.

Hey, in the, in the seventies. That could get you like, you know, sweet with like breakfast the next morning. I mean that’s a circus circus. Absolutely. Probably later this week I’m Googling it. Yeah. I don’t know if it’s inflation three 50. Yeah, it’s no longer two buck chuck. It’s like 2 75 or whatever. Babe.

They’ve raised their prices to a whole dollar for eggs. Oh

Crew Chief Eric: Jesus. He used to be dollar bill, but now

Steve & Izzy: he’s two. Bill, what’s up?

Crew Chief Eric: So it begged the question though, with these U-Haul. Because I thought it was really comical. Right. They’re unlocked, he gets in it. It’s just slowly, gracefully, just tips forward.

Like, you know, like one of those, those Japanese, like water dipping birds, you’re like, all right, cool. Yeah. And, and my wife and I looked at each other and go, are there people sleeping in the rest of them? They’re all nose down, right? I’m like,

Steve & Izzy: come on. Like you had to see somebody do it. We’ve already

Crew Chief Brad: established it.

It didn’t nose down. [00:49:00] It went back. When he got in it, the weight went to the back.

Crew Chief Eric: They were all tilted the same direction once he went in there.

Crew Chief Brad: So I was like, no, no, no. His, his went back.

Crew Chief Eric: Maybe I’m just in

Crew Chief Brad: the, in the scene. I mean, eventually it was down, but

Steve & Izzy: I admire how closely you all were paying attention to this movie physics, because I did see the U-Haul.

Physics. I did see him enter the U-Haul and that’s it.

Crew Chief Brad: They spent like 10 extra seconds showing the trailer tilt.

Steve & Izzy: I think I looked away

Crew Chief Brad: probably. She was already do off and she was checking

Mountain Man Dan: her email.

Steve & Izzy: What’s on Reddit?

Mountain Man Dan: You guys were talking about the size of the van with them inside, how it looked so much bigger when they actually show him in the U-Haul writing the note to his teacher.

Okay. That definitely wasn’t inside that little six by eight U-Haul. What?

Steve & Izzy: I think it was on a sound stage or something? Yeah. Oh, okay. So yeah, the next part he said there was a Dotson or whatever and he is getting ready to go home. He is gonna hitchhike his way back to LA and then this hot blonde chick pulls up in like a Cadillac or [00:50:00] something like to pick him up and he is like about to hop in.

I’m like, alright, this adventure is about to get a little interesting. But then along comes the Corvette, Hey, hey, that’s my car. And he’s like, jumps outta that car immediately and goes right after. And I’m just wondering like. Let’s go back to the blonde chick. What, like, what’s, what’s her story? What’s going on?

Crew Chief Eric: Like, she just seemed like a

Steve & Izzy: nice

Crew Chief Eric: girl. I dunno, that was way more believable than him chasing a Corvette doing 60 on foot.

Mountain Man Dan: On foot. Yeah. Yeah. I’m, I’m amazed how well he kept up for it as long as he did to where it’s heading out on the outskirts into the desert. I not, it was a seventies Corvette. I’m not surprised

Crew Chief Brad: he could keep up with it on the flight.

Steve & Izzy: The, the, the most unbelievable part is in the first five steps of him chasing it. He’s hit by a car, right? Like he’s hit rolls over the hood and like keeps on running. I’m like, yeah, there’s no way you’re hobbling that fast. No, that’s parkour, man. He’s, he’s just, oh, it’s James Bond logic. It makes him faster.

Mountain Man Dan: You lean into the fall. I love how he’s in the head. It makes him

Steve & Izzy: stronger.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. I love how he’s in a [00:51:00] city he’s never been before and he’s taking all these shortcuts and back roads. Like I know where I’m gonna go, I know where he’s going. I’m going this way and I’m gonna. Feed em. We can go here through the U-Haul C.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, I thought I was watching that Sunny in Philadelphia episode where during they’re doing the badass videos, like that’s what it felt like. Oh yeah. Like what are we doing?

Steve & Izzy: You know though, like where he gets hit by the car and keeps running. This was like the first scene where I really was like, these stunt guys are working hard.

Oh yeah. They’re not lighting a bunch of shit on fire if you pay attention. These stunt guys are earning their paycheck. Some good driving on the budget in this film. Yeah, there’s some really good driving. There’s some really good stunt work that like this movie almost doesn’t deserve, but it does because this is why we love these kinds of movies, guys that work way too hard.

Crew Chief Eric: It was still more budget than the original Gone in 60 seconds, but I’m gonna leave that where it is. We’ve talked about that before.

Mountain Man Dan: I’ll say there’s one point later on in the movie where you can see. The roll bar running up the A pillar of the Camaro, but it’s only for one scene where you can see it.

Crew Chief Eric: [00:52:00] That’s like the six point harness that he was wearing at the end. But I was gonna save that till later. It’s like, where the hell that, where’s all this safety here suddenly? What’s this all about?

Steve & Izzy: Look, look, I was willing to look, we’ll get to it, but I was willing to look past it. ’cause it’s been in a chop shop for the last entire summer.

Somebody could have put a six point harness in it at any point,

Crew Chief Brad: because that’s what they do with chop shots. They add parts to the car.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah. At this particular one, it appears that they do, they just repaint them and sell ’em this high-end vehicle. So

Crew Chief Brad: it’s true, it true that way.

Steve & Izzy: It’s the

Crew Chief Brad: shop truck.

Steve & Izzy: They take this cor corvette and make it completely sex proof. Oh, that’s the girl

Mountain Man Dan: Shriver chop shop where I just paint it,

Steve & Izzy: go look, I want a Corvette, but I want one where when women look at it, their vaginas become the Sahara Desert.

Crew Chief Brad: So you want a Corvette.

Steve & Izzy: Specifically a C3 quarter

Crew Chief Brad: padlock. Like

Steve & Izzy: plain quack.

Like I want the prostitutes on the boulevard to say, not for me sweetie.

Crew Chief Brad: [00:53:00] Where’s that Volkswagen?

Steve & Izzy: I’m sure you’re a nice boy.

Go back to your mother. Yeah, so, so yeah, he’s chasing after the Corvette, he like cuts through, I don’t know, the Neon Sign Watch. Yeah, the Neon Sign Museum. That’s like 10 miles outside of town.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh my God. Do you know what I said when I saw this? I got, I actually got really excited. I sat up and I went, Mike Wolf from American Pickers would be flipping out right now.

See all these, these signs? He’d

Steve & Izzy: be like, oh my God, I’m gonna come take all my money so that, that’s a museum. If you guys ever had a chance to go to Las Vegas, that’s the Neon Sign Museum. Oh, I didn’t realize it is eight miles outside of town. Well, well they, by then I think it was just where signs were like, no, no, no.

Oh, no, no.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s been, or something. It was a neon sign junkyard. It’s, yeah. Yeah, exactly. It’s

Steve & Izzy: been like a museum where it’s like, yeah. An empty lot where a guy like would take in all these signs and give them a good home. The way the Rabbit Museum in Los [00:54:00] Angeles is a museum and definitely not just a gal who hoards rabbit stuff in our garage and charges people $2 a person to walk through it.

And then it was like, oh shit. People actually miss Old Vegas. We’re gonna give you museum status. Yeah, yeah. It’s kinda like, uh, that junkyard at the beginning of the movie. Mm-hmm. They went through and like, Hey, we can turn this into an automobile museum. It was just a little paint. If you had frozen elbow grease, if you had frozen that junkyard in time and reopened it.

Today car folks, how much would you guys pay to walk through that junkyard with those cars?

Crew Chief Brad: $0.

Steve & Izzy: I wouldn’t pay anything to walk through a junkyard. Now, many you take yard, take that one with all those cars,

Crew Chief Brad: we get to go to Chaz’s Car Museum for free, right?

Steve & Izzy: Or Daniel’s backyard In Daniel’s

Crew Chief Brad: car Museum slash mountain slash nature preserve.

That’s why you own a mountain.

Crew Chief Eric: So I doubt Izzy, I think that was what you would call a a, a. What was that? A super fun fact. But in our side, what would it be? Tanya?

Steve & Izzy: Hot garbage. Hmm. I prefer [00:55:00] fun facts. Super fun facts because they fun facts

and I know he’ll never listen to this, but it’s definitely not an interesting tidbit. Brandon,

Crew Chief Brad: here’s an interesting tidbit. Take that. Take

Steve & Izzy: that. You Canadian.

Crew Chief Brad: So wow. Name Canada.

Steve & Izzy: Alright, so that night he’s back at his U-Haul writing letters to home and I’m like, oh, remember them days? Nope. So then not just letters to home stamp.

Crew Chief Brad: He was writing love letters to his shop teacher. Shop teacher. Yeah. Right.

Steve & Izzy: They weren’t love letters, they were longing letters. They were postcards.

Mountain Man Dan: For someone who had no money, how did he afford the postcards and the postage?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. For somebody who was not paying attention, how did Tanya know it was postcard?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Right.

Steve & Izzy: Guys, all you need is like a what? Four by six piece of paper and a probably 3 cents stamp back then. Like it’s affordable. Oh yeah. Like a penny. Maybe he had that $2 bill goes a [00:56:00] long way. He still has it, but he never, never broke it. Yeah, true. And he probably found enough change on the rip, like running around those back alleys.

Chasing his car to be able to pay for a stamp. He was selling, uh, gazes of the $2 bill for two bits of ganda. And, uh, so, so anyway, that, uh, that van pulls up Vanessa, Vanessa, and, uh, and she comes out and he’s, he’s wrapped up in like a, a fucking packing blanket or something. Yeah, it’s one of the, it’s one of the moving blankets.

Yeah. And she is beat to shit. Yeah. This is where I was like, oh no, this, this movie’s about to take a dark turn down. I was thinking the other belly of Vegas, he’s gonna have to rough up some pimps and stuff. It’s gonna be great. They’re gonna have shoes with like fish in the heels. No ba basically he is just like, oh, here, let’s, yeah, you can use the men’s room and get cleaned up in there’s, because the women’s room was locked.

And I’m like, she looks and was like, I like ya Shaw.

And then she is like, well, if he is [00:57:00] sleeping a U-Haul, you can just sleep in the van with me. He’s not gonna do it until she’s like, there’s food in the fridge. Oh, yeah, yeah. In the fridge. And I’m like, sold, take me. And there’s like the fridge. Uh, what else? Oh yeah. And it’s a water bed and mm-hmm. And she’s just like.

Let’s, uh, why don’t you take them clothes off? Let me see what you got. He’s like, well, you, I mean, ma, I gonna sleep on the floor. I’m a good boy. Super awkward. It was so awkward. By the way, this is where I was like, oh, is this really gonna get weirdly progressive and have him be gay? Right. You know, a lot of thoughts

Crew Chief Eric: cross my mind.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. That thought crossed my mind also is like, wait, did he graduate high school or was he like coming back in the summer? This, this is a question that did not get answered till the end of the movie. Yeah. What grade is he in? Is he a junior? Is he a senior? Yeah. For fuck’s sake. As far as we know, he is a freshman then.

Yeah, because she mentioned she graduated like a year before or something. Yeah, and Steve, I was talking about it, it was like, well I was [00:58:00] 17 when I graduated ’cause of like where my birthday falls. Like I turned 18, like two days later. But like I was like the youngest in my class and it’s like he could be like the oldest in his class or he definitely looked

Crew Chief Brad: it, I thought they discussed that when they were in the van.

When she first picked him up. She, he said that he’s a senior, I believe. I thought

Mountain Man Dan: he said just graduated. But also is his conversation with the shop teacher when he has to drink with the shop teacher. The shop teacher, if I recall correctly, talks about, you know, putting a good word in for him to do some work with automotive stuff since he’s graduated.

Okay. I think we’re supposed to make some assumptions.

Crew Chief Brad: He’s at

Mountain Man Dan: senior

Crew Chief Brad: prom,

Steve & Izzy: but there’s also junior prom. Not every school prom, senior prom.

Crew Chief Brad: I mean,

Steve & Izzy: he could’ve been invited to the prom as a freshman. I don’t know. Plus he wasn’t, he didn’t go to his, he didn’t go to, he just showed up in his dirty clothes.

Yeah, he just showed up to have the car, his dirty clothes from the whole movie. I’m sorry. He didn’t go. He just showed up. That doesn’t make sense. Yeah, no, no. He wasn’t there for the party. He there for the, didn’t know that for,

Crew Chief Brad: he went stag baby. He went for a different party in [00:59:00] shop class.

Steve & Izzy: His date was waiting for him.

Just not in the gym

Crew Chief Brad: lady in Red

Steve & Izzy: Ladies, if you want this kind of gentleman, you just have to wear pure gasoline as a fragrance.

Crew Chief Brad: Little red Corvette

Steve & Izzy: lady get much too fast. Uh, so yeah, speaking of going too fast, yeah. Annie Potts is putting it down and Oh, I mean, kind of kept her warm. I don’t know. She was

Crew Chief Brad: open for business.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Um, but then she’s like starting to realize like how awkward he is.

Like, wait a minute, oh my God, it’s a real honor. I’m gonna be a first. Oh, he’s like, what? No, I’m just gonna jerk off here in the corner and go to bed. I actually already came, so I gotta go. That’s what I was waiting for. I was waiting for like sitting there and she’s like rubbing his shoulders or something.

All of a sudden it’s like, lotion shot. I’m like, what was that? Nothing. Look over there. He like runs out.

Crew Chief Eric: No, it would’ve been like behind the green [01:00:00] door to be like, pow, pow. Powow. You had the slow motion. 76.

Steve & Izzy: Fucking 6 million man.

Mountain Man Dan: It definitely wouldn’t have been blood splatter on the ceiling in the van.

Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Not that one. She’s like, no, not on the floor.

Crew Chief Eric: Wow. That’ll never come

Steve & Izzy: out. So I just had to have recover. So a couple things I appreciate, like, this is a good point, a good opera point. She keeps that van super clean, the whole movie. She’s very good at that and I kind of appreciate how he always looks sweaty and greasy, like he hasn’t showered and he’s been like running around and driving a car, the whole movie.

They’re very consistent on that. And movies often will keep our lead who’s in this kinda situations like too clean. So I appreciate that. I appreciate that. He looked like he’d been driving for 300 miles. Okay. In a 1970

Crew Chief Brad: car. I I, I think that was just normal. Mark Hamill that Yeah, I think that’s just, it was.

That’s his, his normal state.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. But they didn’t [01:01:00] clean him up and make him look like Brad Pitt. You know? They’re like, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. He’s sweaty. That’s why he looks that way. Don’t worry about it.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, he looks sweaty in Star Wars all the time too. It’s just like, all right, whatever. But he’s glistening.

Well, he is on a desert

Steve & Izzy: planet most of the time. Or a swamp planet

Crew Chief Eric: hate

Steve & Izzy: or a forest planet or an ice

Crew Chief Brad: planet.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, or an ice planet. That’s the only time he didn’t look sweaty. He still looked kind of sweaty in that cave though, because he got, because he got mauled by a creature. Hey would too. That’s a fucking ice horns and shit.

When pots. Become blue sky Walker. I’m fucking dying.

Crew Chief Brad: They’re the same person.

Crew Chief Eric: So you remember at the beginning I said, you have to suspend disbelief in this movie, which I don’t feel like, no, you really have to, but I’m still puzzled in how she got so clean just using the men’s room. So Izzy or Tanya, can you explain to me how one might shower in a, in a U-Haul men’s room.

Steve & Izzy: Alright. Please tell him about a horse bath. Go. Tanya, would you like to go first or shall I do the Please? Please. [01:02:00] Now you’ll see she brought her own towels. Yep. And there’s a basin of water in every room. Usually too. In every bathroom in which you can retrieve fresh water to wipe yourself down. Ah, she had like a shower caddy bucket with her too, I thought.

Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. She had, she had everything, like, she had like a box of wet wipes, I swear. Ah, all right. See,

Mountain Man Dan: I thought of, I thought of one angle. They, they showed like a shower in that men’s room. But the weird thing is I can’t imagine that small of a building actually having a full like bathroom, like a truck stop type bathroom that had a shower in it.

I’m amazed, amazed. It had a sink

Steve & Izzy: let, it was

Mountain Man Dan: not a Bucky’s for sure. Have you guys

Steve & Izzy: like never been in the like weird mechanics bathroom that’s. Like a shower head just hanging out of the wall, a toilet and a sink and there’s nothing else. And a

Crew Chief Eric: drain in the middle of the floor, right? Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: And the drain in the middle of the floor.

Yeah, it’s like the half bath. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Drain in the middle of the floor in case you don’t even wanna use the toilet or the sink or the shower. No, no. It’s to clean up. Shower. Oh, oh, oh. I thought it was like, oh yeah, you can use the toilet. Also be over here. We, we got RO [01:03:00] trip rolls. Oh shit. Alright, well, my bad, my, my apologies to that, uh, shady ass U-Haul place in the outskirts of Vegas.

By the way. You’re too tall for a bottom drain. You know, you’re a sink man. I can hit from

Mountain Man Dan: across

Steve & Izzy: the

Mountain Man Dan: room.

One thing I say because that’s, that’s around the time when they first let it be known about the, uh, waterbed in the van. I just have to say if it wasn’t pro an actual water bed in there, whatever they did for the suspension in that van was great. ’cause it wasn’t sagging at all. And a water bed in there, that thing would’ve been dragging the bumper.

Steve & Izzy: That van is primo.

Mountain Man Dan: Yes.

Steve & Izzy: I almost, they have

Mountain Man Dan: the Gabriel shocks

Crew Chief Brad: and the mag wheels. Oh yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Little four inch lift. Yeah. Yeah. It’s, it’s ready to go. Mm-hmm.

Crew Chief Eric: So I, I almost, I almost want Van Nessa more than I want the 18 van and I want the 18 van, something fierce. So, you know, this is, this is, this is high caliber stuff right here.

Well,

Steve & Izzy: the 18 van comes with its own music too.

You know what sells [01:04:00] me?

Crew Chief Eric: You know what sells me though in the 18th band is the spoiler. See if Vanessa didn’t have a spoiler. But if she had had the 1980s boomerang TV antenna on the back, boom. That is killer. So

Steve & Izzy: you’re one of those speed over class guys. I get it. Yeah. Look, Vanessa is still in the seventies.

She still has time to age into her antenna. Uh, that’s true.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s very true.

Steve & Izzy: That’s also, have you seen super fan?

Crew Chief Eric: I have not. But now that you’ve mentioned it for the 10th time, I have to drink again. And I will promise you I’ll watch it.

Steve & Izzy: Drink every time. Steven. Izzy, bring up an obscure movie. You’ll Die.

You’ll Die. No.

Mountain Man Dan: And you said there were two of this movie, if I recall correctly?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, I think it’s, I think the second was just called like Superman too. Let me check the Google. Oh Lord.

Mountain Man Dan: We’re the original one’s from 77 according to this.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: That’s

Steve & Izzy: the one. Oh, we also find out, uh, around this time, uh, her Vanessa’s real name is Eleanor and I’ve written down, gone In 60 Seconds.

You hacks. Wait, no. Um, I agree. But then, uh, [01:05:00] Skywalker damn, uh, Kenny, Kenny, he, uh, sees the Corvette again and he is like, oh my God, that’s the car. And he goes chasing after it. And, uh, and she like pulls up along side and he is like, he is a lift. And he like jumps in the side of a moving van going 15, 20 miles an hour, like full sprint.

And I’m like, okay, well that’s, that’s a pretty cool little stunt. I’m not gonna lie. I, you know, and they go drive it off with the fan door wide open and she stops at a red light because it’s a red light. And there’s like four cops waiting right there. He’s like, no, no, you gotta go get, you gotta chase that car.

We gotta go get it. She’s like, I’m not gonna fucking chase it. There’s a cop right there. Cap. Cap. So,

Mountain Man Dan: well the big thing, you were talking earlier about like the stump people in that scene where it shows the individual jumping in, you can see the door kicks, like catches him right in the middle of his spine as he Yeah.

Yeah. And he body a check, he body

Crew Chief Eric: checked the other side of the van too. I was like, Ooh, that hurt.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, oh, I hope, I hope that wasn’t what happened to Mark Hamill and they just said it was a car accident. [01:06:00] He dives face first. Oh, Jack. No,

Crew Chief Eric: mark. So the four county Mounties or Dudley do rights that are standing on the corner.

Right? I mean, like, these guys are clowns. I was like,

Steve & Izzy: yeah, I know. Like they’re flirting with that, that they’re

Crew Chief Eric: talking to.

Steve & Izzy: I was say NHP loves, uh, outta state plates. They should be all over this shit. Okay. So I gotta ask,

Crew Chief Eric: was there a significance to the license plate or is she just like, Rainman? I’m like, I don’t understand.

No. So,

Steve & Izzy: so it shows that she’s paying attention to something he’s interested in. Aw. But also, yeah, she represents, so she’s smarter than we’re like, let on to believe she’s not just a ditzy dumb girl.

Crew Chief Brad: She’s a high school graduate.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they run the plates and it’s got fake plates. Oh, oh my, my God.

You a mastermind organization. Is this so, so it’s, we’ll never find professional job now. And the police could give a rat’s ass. Yeah. They’re like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a whole team working on it. We’re working in shifts. Having had my car stolen several times. Same car. This is how the police care. They’re like, yeah, you’re fucked.

Good for you.

Crew Chief Eric: So was this her second [01:07:00] wardrobe change at this point where she changed her style again or does that happen after this?

Steve & Izzy: I think it’s just after this when she’s making those wonderful sunny D screwdrivers. Yeah. Yeah. And man, that took me back,

Crew Chief Brad: I’m not gonna lie.

Steve & Izzy: We’ve all been there. What, what

Crew Chief Brad: was her, what was her occupation at this point?

In the movie? Uh, beautician, I think at this point. Yes. Yes. Yeah. She was a beautician. Okay.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. So she changed her hair again, right. So she had the frost.

Steve & Izzy: That’s

Crew Chief Eric: right. And she has the little beautician

Steve & Izzy: coat on.

Crew Chief Eric: Correct. And then she’s got, I couldn’t tell Were they gray or were they green highlights in her hair.

She said

Steve & Izzy: frosted tips, but yeah, they’re like gray.

Crew Chief Eric: Right. They

Steve & Izzy: were like the gray-ish purple that’s trending now.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. So it was like sort of hot foreshadowing. I’m like, oh, now I get to see what you look like. Old. This is kind of cool. Yeah. That’s what she looks like

Steve & Izzy: in

Crew Chief Eric: Young Sheldon

Steve & Izzy: nowadays. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, exactly.

It actually, I thought it looked good. She looked really put together. I think that’s the best. She looked in the movie outside of like her natural scenes, but in terms of outfit, I was like, girl, you got it going on. I’m like, I’m digging all this. The big curls and the, [01:08:00] the frosted tips and everything. We’re room for her to be a beautician.

Steve & Izzy: We’ll take the shampoo and rinse. Thank you.

Crew Chief Eric: And that lasted all of one scene.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. So then, okay, so she’s doing the sunny D screwdrivers and Mark Campbell just like, wait, wait, explain The sunny D Screwdrivers. Uh, vodka, sunny d. Taking one shot of each. And yes. Mix them in your mouth and swallowing. She’s not, yeah, she, she’s taking a hit off each bottle while laying in bed.

What? Meanwhile what Mark Hamill’s like, oh my God, I’m never gonna see that car kid. I might as well just kill myself. And she’s like, what? Shout up about the car. Come have some screwdrivers with me. You sound like you could use a little lube and op.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah. I love how her, uh, her justification for doing that is she had to build up her tolerance for it so she didn’t pass out on a John, it’s impression time.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s impression time, folks,

Steve & Izzy: one of the ultimate quotes from this movie, you know what? A girl can’t hold her liquor with her trick. Where does she end up asleep with her trick? [01:09:00] I was like, what? What?

Crew Chief Brad: Asleep on her trick.

Steve & Izzy: Hey, she’s thinking it through. Yeah. Right. Oh, she, she knows the concept. You don’t pay the hooker to stay, you pay the hooker to leave.

Oh my goodness. Look, modern problems require modern solutions. Mount Mandals knows what I’m talking about. Look at him. He’s, he’s laughing

and leaves. I love it.

So anyway, um, then, okay, so yeah. Mark’s having a, having a downtime, whatever. Mm-hmm. And then she, so she decides she should also have a downtime. Yeah. She starts disrobing out of focus behind him and I’m like, um, um, I know where my focus is, cameraman. You need to adjust accordingly. What is this the cameraman from?

All I’ll say there was

Mountain Man Dan: some nice silhouette. That’s

Steve & Izzy: all I’ll say. That’s true. Yeah, we get a little, little outta focus, nudity and then, uh, Mark Campbell says, oh, what the hell? And like Ravage kisses her, like assaulting [01:10:00] Lee, like tackling her on the bed. And what the hell was that?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh God. It was like Urkel in a watermelon or something.

Like, I don’t even know how to describe

Steve & Izzy: how awkward the hell scene was. It was just like, Ugh. Well

Mountain Man Dan: take it to account. Prior to this, we’re

Steve & Izzy: supposed to kiss

Mountain Man Dan: right. Prior to this, I think the only woman he ever kissed was his mother. So that’s the only experience he had. Oh

Steve & Izzy: God. Dave kissed me like your mother.

Aw. Oh, stop it. If you ever want kissed again, stop saying that shit. Kiss me like Mark Campbell kisses his mother.

Is that right? Mommy? Yeah, that’s. All right, so then, yeah, she’s like, yeah, let’s screw, and he is like, yeah, sure, whatever. I’m like, wait, what? Oh, she shows him like the $2 bill that she gave him as his first or first customer, and it’s like framed on the wall in the van. She’s like, you haven’t even noticed it.

You haven’t noticed my new de decor. So they kiss again and then go straight to pound town, boom. And then we [01:11:00] cut to, I, I’m assuming 45 seconds later, and he’s like, he’s like, oh my God. Oh my God. I finished working on transmissions and I rebuilt a, a whole, I don’t even know, carburetor, like age six, insert car term here.

And I waited this long to get laid and then he pop out the top of the van. He is like, love Mr.

Mountain Man Dan: Ple.

I’m just amazed by the fact that it had a sunroof all the way at the back above where the water bed right.

Crew Chief Eric: Vanessa is awesome. That’s all I’m gonna say. These are features,

Steve & Izzy: these are not drawbacks. You’re not, you’re not gonna, she’s the real star of the movie. Van Ness is the hottest one in the movie, and that’s saying something because any pots is in her prime and Mark Campbell’s mom anyway.

Oh, oh. Speaking of which, this is when the teacher goes to see the mom and be like. Yeah. Meanwhile back in Los Angeles. Yeah. Meanwhile at the trailer park, Hey, uh, have you seen your son or heard from him in the past couple months? Like, oh no, he’ll [01:12:00] find his way back. But I’m gonna, I’m packing up because I’m moving to Delmar and even the teacher’s like, you’re moving to Delmar and you don’t know where your son is.

I know he’s in Vegas. Look, he’ll think you ripped out. He’s got a great life going. I met this boyfriend, Delmas gonna be great. We’re gonna be like an hour outside the city. Right on the coast. They’re not allowed to build anything over. Two stories tall, man. It’s, we’ll never lose of you. Awesome. Okay, then we get some more Mark Kenny or whatever, writing letters back home or whatever.

Dear shop teacher. Yeah. Dear shop teacher. I never thought it would happen to me. Yeah, right. But here’s a line that had me a little confused. Don’t worry. I still like cars. I’m like, I’m going steady with this girl and she’s great. Don’t worry. I still like cars and I’m like, uh, that’s how

Crew Chief Eric: into cars he is.

Babe. I mean, I, I, I empathize. I get it. I totally understand. I think all, all the car people are now church nodding. We’re like, yep, yep.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah. They’re like, yeah. Yep. Even, even after knowing the loving touch of a woman, I still enjoy [01:13:00] cars. Not as much, don’t get me wrong. But Steve, let me put this in Steve terms for you.

Did you still like basketball after the first time you got laid? Oh, yeah. But did you like being laid or did you like basketball?

Crew Chief Eric: Yes.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, if it’s any consolation, my wife says all the time, you don’t have to worry ’cause his mistress lives in the garage. So I’m like, Hey, there you go. Right. Well, the Corvette gets repainted during this whole drama. Oh,

Steve & Izzy: that’s right. Oh no. Oh, the Corvette has an outfit change. Is this when he starts

Mountain Man Dan: working at the car wash?

Yeah. Uh, I think he still, or the gas station where he tries to

Crew Chief Brad: screw over that woman.

Mountain Man Dan: Oh, that was weird too. Well, that was before he hopped in the van when he was working at the gas station where he was sleeping in the U-Haul behind it. He was, uh, painting the. Dead batteries with fresh paint. Oh yeah. Yes, yes, that’s right.

Steve & Izzy: He, uh, the, the guy who owns the U-Haul rental slash gas station place hires him ’cause he likes the cut of his jib. Oh, that’s right. ’cause So Annie pots kicks him out [01:14:00] of the van the next morning, right? Oh no, that’s he, that was the first time. Yeah. Is this when he’s wearing like the suit and is clicks up the Oh, not yet.

Feather Stingray. Yeah. Yeah. He’s like a valet or whatever, and the guy’s like, Hey, that’s my car. Get out. Like, oh yeah, here you go, sir. You know, that’s the, be the other beautiful blonde. Yeah. And, and then, uh. That’s right. He goes back to the van and there’s like the note that’s like working late, blah, blah, blah.

And he is like, what? I bet you’re working late cruise. He cruise Boulevard. And he goes to the escort service and they’re like, yeah, I never heard of her. And then he is, goes to get some, you know, I dunno, burgers to fill that void in his soul. Mm-hmm. And like can he, is that you? What is that my van? I told you I was working late.

I told you I was gonna be right back. How am I supposed to find the goddamn fan if you’re driving it all up town is the conversation that should have happened. But instead she’s like, no, see, every car in town comes through this place. So I’m helping you look for the car. See, everybody wants a smiley burger.

Mountain Man Dan: I think it was great when he was. Trying to [01:15:00] find her before he found her at the burger place. And he goes into the cat house and he walks up and like Yanks the one woman around thinking it was her. Oh yeah. He’s like, oh

Steve & Izzy: wait, it’s not you. You’ve got some nerve. And I’m like, that’s the wrong wig homie.

Yeah. And then I think after, that’s when, yeah, he is like working at the car wash or whatever. It’s a car wash. Yeah. When Wet comes through. But a gold version of his car. Wait a minute, what?

And then we find out it’s driven by Brian James, legendary. I don’t know that guy from action movies in the eighties. Uh, you might know him best as, uh, the guy with the funny accent in, uh, tango and Cash.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. That ends up, uh.

Steve & Izzy: With a grenade in his pants. Spoiler alert.

Crew Chief Eric: See, you went that way with that scene and when that car came out, I went, oh man.

When, just when you thought that car couldn’t get uglier. That’s what I

Steve & Izzy: Is an ugly

Mountain Man Dan: gold. Yeah. Seventies gold. It was not, it was terrible looking car to begin with in the red. But when they did it gold, it was like, I didn’t think you could make it any uglier. [01:16:00] I mean, it, it was, yeah, it

Steve & Izzy: was

Mountain Man Dan: almost mustard.

Steve & Izzy: Look, only the Rockford car looks good in seventies gold. That’s true. I give you that. I give you that. Speaking of Rockford, we got another chase where, uh, Brian James is driving off in the Stingray and Mark Hamill’s chasing him on a bike. And I’m like, good luck sucker. Oh, he gets hit by a bicycle. And steals the bicyclist.

He jumps out, he jumps on the bicyclist to jack him.

Crew Chief Eric: Cy Jack

Mountain Man Dan: sounds like an old school. 10 speed Huffy.

Crew Chief Eric: It was a Schwinn, but I gotta ask this. See, this is my attention to detail. Why did we hyperfocus on that water bottle attached to the bike handles for like 30 seconds? I’m like, what are we looking at?

Steve & Izzy: It was like a slow pan up as, and then it like shows his sweaty ass face and I’m like, there’s a water bottle right there.

I was expect to like take a swig like, oh, it’s vodka or you know, something like that. Yeah. Oh, Steve like straight up was like, uh, yeah. We know he’s got a water bottle, otherwise he’d die in Vegas

Crew Chief Eric: again. I assumed we were going for the badass videos from Sunny in [01:17:00] Philadelphia, but we ended up with basically the Goonies scene where he is hanging onto the cars going down the highway.

I’m like, what the hell? Morning

Steve & Izzy: I were like the back to future music to start playing.

Mountain Man Dan: Gotta

Steve & Izzy: go back in time.

Mountain Man Dan: The thing about this scene that baffled me is how when he catches up to the car, reaches and grabs the guy’s shoulder and he goes to like close the his hand in the window. So he reaches down to open it and the door swings open. How the door did not make contact with the parked vehicle as they went by.

It just baffles

Crew Chief Eric: me. Yeah, right. That baffled you, dude. He was doing 60 miles an hour. When he let go of that bus and caught the Corvette. I mean, how the hell did he slow down enough to grab the car without killing himself? It was nuts,

Steve & Izzy: guys. That’s the magic of filmmaking. That’s, you know what, again, this is some like really good stunt work that’s gonna go completely unappreciated by the masses.

Yes. Yeah. So, so the cray peels off, ’cause obviously that guy ain’t stopping shit, but he pulls into the, uh, garage or whatever and he is like, Hey, this looking, this [01:18:00] slimy, this oily teenage kid tried to jack me. He was on a bike, he rest in yellow and it’s some weird shit. And then comes the guy, you know, on, on the back of like a, like a, like a, uh, it’s a car carrier.

Car hauler, yeah, yeah, yeah. Car carrier. And he just comes in full speed. Yeah. Goes right past them and like crashes into a bunch of tires.

Crew Chief Eric: That was beautiful. I was, and my wife goes, what? The bike doesn’t have brakes.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah, he burned him off stop before the parked car. Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: he most realistic part of the movie.

It was beautiful. So yeah, so they rough him up and, uh, lock him in a closet or something. Uh, a little storage closet, I guess like that night or whatever. There’s like one guy watching, he is like trying to open the padlock door. He is like, yeah, so way you getting outta there. Oh shit. And he like goes to check it and the windows cracks.

Like, oh shit. He went out the window. Goes out chasing him and then out comes Kenny out of a full oil drum just covered in oil. And I’m like, well, [01:19:00] he’s dead, right?

Crew Chief Eric: Nope. Do you remember that black tar monster in Star Trek? The Next Generation? Yeah. That’s where my mind went when he

Steve & Izzy: emerged to Kill Tasha. Ya.

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Like, and then even when it’s like dripped off a bit, it’s like, oh, now he’s Tar Man from, uh, return of the Living Dead or whatever.

Crew Chief Eric: But the scene after, that’s even better. Like,

Steve & Izzy: oh yeah, yeah. So yeah, so he, he like pulls outta the drummer or whatever, and the, the guy who was like, goes out the other side of the window and he realizes, oh shit, there’s no way he got out there.

That’s like a three story drop. And so then he sees the, uh, oily, like footprints leading down the street or whatever, and so he like grabs the nearest chain and goes following the footsteps because either he’s walking to a trapper, this is the stupidest thing in the history of crime, and it can be both.

And uh, yeah, basically like chases him down, beats his ass a couple of times on the side. This. Street. And while kitty’s, like in the fetal position, stop, luckily, who would pull up to save the day? Dick Miller? No, the other guy, the low rider [01:20:00] guy that he saw that was going 15 miles an hour earlier in the movie.

Oh, it’s, they

Crew Chief Brad: just made it to Vegas. They just made it

Steve & Izzy: like three weeks later. Woo. He’s already had four jobs in in the time it took him to get there.

Mountain Man Dan: I, I’m just amazed the fact that he could recognize him covered in the oil. Oh, there’s some kid that I you ran into a week ago, but he’s all covered normal.

Yeah,

Steve & Izzy: I know him. Honestly, I think if they just pulled up like, oh, that guy’s beating the shit outta that guy. And then the one guy runs off and then he like turns over like, oh, hey, I know this cracker. You know?

Crew Chief Eric: And subsequently the scene after that I thought was glorious. Right. He’s still in the fetal position.

Oh yeah. Oh, the scene is

Steve & Izzy: amazing. And

Crew Chief Eric: Annie Potts is sitting there with a pressure washer just, just, I didn’t even know what to think. I was just like, this is awesome. This is so great. Yeah. She’s like spraying ‘

Steve & Izzy: em down like, I can’t believe you did that. Why would you be so stupid? Blah blah. Oh, sorry. Hold on.

Switch to wax. Okay, now we’re back to what am spraying you [01:21:00] down.

Mountain Man Dan: And I’ll say this, she’s actually spraying, she actually went across his face and stuff. And I can firsthand say a pressure washer does not feel good to bear skin. Wait, wait a minute.

Crew Chief Eric: You can, firsthand, you have firsthand accounts and be pressure washing.

Yeah, he was the one

Steve & Izzy: spraying the person in the face. Wait, is that second? I don’t know.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s what Daniel has to do when they run outta water on the mountain. Gotta

Steve & Izzy: make

Mountain Man Dan: fun with what you got.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: after he gets all cleaned up?

Steve & Izzy: Yep. He’s gotta go to the police department and be like, Hey, I know where my car was, at least, you know, several hours ago.

And Oh yeah, by the way, kidnapping and all that stuff. Yeah. Don’t worry about that. Assault and stuff. I did too. Don’t, uh, they were doing the assaulting, um, but then, uh, he runs into his teacher who’s apparently in town now, and I’m like. Oh boy, I know where this is going. Teacher, uh, takes him for a drive and, uh, he’s like, oh, yeah, I, I can take you to the shop.

He is like, oh, yeah, I know the shop. I know the guy who runs it too. He was an old [01:22:00] student of mine. And I’m like, oh, here we go. And this is where Izzy pointed out something incredible about this movie. Mm-hmm. Solo a Star Wars film or whatever. It’s basically the same plot of this movie. It’s a future version of this movie, you know?

Right. Wow. My brain is

Crew Chief Eric: officially melted.

Steve & Izzy: Like you replaced Annie Potts with, you know, ksi whatever. She was playing in that thing like, oh yeah. She did become a hooker. She just became the comfort girl of the local drug, Lord, wait a minute.

Crew Chief Eric: And the bad guy that we discovered, the guy running this chop shop auto body, you know, whatever we wanna call it, kind of looks like Darth Mall.

Anyway, he’s got a scary Yeah, scary look to him, you know? Yeah, yeah. Just, you know, pre legs chasing after a vehicle that’s not his. So what I thought was interesting about that scene with Mr. McGrath played by, you know, Mr. Roche, as we talked about earlier, he’s driving around Vegas and I, I’ve been to Vegas a bunch of, I was just there recently as a matter of fact, and I pinpointed the Mandalay Bay in the background [01:23:00] when they finally park and they get out of the square body Chevy that they were driving around, and I’m sure Dan was super excited about it.

They can tell us all about, you know, the specific model and customizations and whatnot. But I spotted the Mandalay Bay and I was like, wow, this is all super developed today. I mean, you know, the Luxor wasn’t there and some of the other casinos that are there now. And then it suddenly dawned on me and I, I turned to my wife and I said, when’s Ken Jong gonna pop out?

She goes, whatcha talking about? I was like, big abandoned lot in Las Vegas. There’s gotta be a naked Asian man running by any minute now.

Steve & Izzy: Spoiler. This movie’s very honky heavy,

but yeah, so they’re basically where the airport is now, like, but it’s, you know, 10 miles from the strip or whatever. The teachers basically break it down like, yeah, I sold this car to this old student of mine, you know? Oh yeah. Well wait, what’s I, I only make. 15 grand a year or something as a teacher.

What’s the name of the auto shop? Oh, uh, Silverado Auto Shop. And I’m like, and what was he driving? He was driving a Chevy Silverado. I’m like, dude, you know you in a [01:24:00] Silverado. It’s called like he probably owns that chop shop. Run. You go

die

Steve & Izzy: Luke use the force. But yeah, yeah, yeah. This is where he is like, I only make 15 grand a year.

I can’t get by on that. And this guy can’t up with a proposition like, oh, I’ve made 15 grand a year before.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, but wait, I’m gonna turn to our executive co-producer for our fact checking on 1970s inflation, which you care to share some super fun facts with the crowd. Time.

Crew Chief Brad: 3 million nowadays.

Crew Chief Eric: Interesting tidbits.

I supposed to do research. It’s in my notes. I figured you’d read it. Oh, no, I, sorry.

Steve & Izzy: Eric did the

Crew Chief Brad: research for you,

Steve & Izzy: much like the movie. I’m not paying attention to these details. You have the notes printed out right there. Yeah, I, I got the notes. Uh, basically 15 grand back then comes to 62,400 in 2020, which is not very slouchy.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s a lot more than a teacher actually makes these days. Oh, right.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Teachers still make like $15,000 a year

Crew Chief Eric: message. Then Luke ends up, well, Luke, Kenny, or [01:25:00] Kent, right. Kenneth, whatever his name was. He ends up getting a job right by way of his shop teacher at the Silverado Body Shop. Right. And they offer him a whopping

Steve & Izzy: like 700 a week and it, he like, no, you gotta pay me eight 50 a week.

Which basically nowadays is 180 plus thousand dollars a year. I’d like to make eight 50 a week now. Yeah. Pretty sweet,

Crew Chief Brad: bonkers, right? This leads into my favorite part of the movie because he goes from Kenny Dantley to full on Tony Ana. Yeah. He shows up with the big sunglasses, taking his prostitute, you know, girlfriend out to go, you know, get all the fancy things that she could never afford before, and he’s just sitting there chilling.

Steve & Izzy: This led to. A completely new movie that lasted approximately 15 to 20 minutes before we came back to the movie. We ended watching for an hour and a half,

Mountain Man Dan: watch his

Steve & Izzy: right

Mountain Man Dan: real quick to go back. One thing that we missed is how he was walking, trying to find, and he walks up on [01:26:00] that second gen Camaro outside of the chop shop and the guy’s standing on the other side of it and he is, Hey, I am looking for this car.

And the whole time the Corvette is sitting right inside the open door, just out sight. Right? That was way away. Pan. You can see the car sitting there and I’m like, you don’t look back at all. I mean, what the hell? I mean if we’re

Crew Chief Eric: talking about things that we missed, we missed yet another, any pots. Wardrobe change somewhere in this whole mess with the teacher and the guy and discovering the Silverado Body Shop.

Does anybody remember the little black dress? Oh, oh

Steve & Izzy: yes. Her Bond Girl outfit. That wasn’t until later though. That wasn’t until he became full on Jerk.

Crew Chief Eric: That was after, well, perfect Casino. Well, then we lead up to it, and since we’re talking about it, I’ve already brought it up now. I immediately went to BB New Earth.

I was like, she looks like Lith.

Steve & Izzy: It looked like it was Breakfast at Tiffany’s all of a sudden,

Crew Chief Eric: right? Awesome. They both looked amazing, actually. He looked really good. In that outfit. Like those square glasses really worked for him. Like he was playing it up that room. However, they ended up in little honeymoon [01:27:00] suite.

Oh, rotating bed. Put in a quarter. Yeah. A little clamshell. Headboard and, and stuff. Look, they still

Steve & Izzy: haven’t left the circus. Circus, okay. Yeah. He’s still mad about the Dodge.

Crew Chief Brad: They just got an upgrade.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Right. So guys, here, here’s where the scene goes. Completely fucking nuts. He is like, oh yeah, yeah. I took you shopping all day.

Got this nice fancy suite. I got this job. We’re gonna be set forever. What about your car? Uh, yeah. You know, I’m, I’m, I’m okay without my morals. Uh, here I’ll even offer you $20. And I’m like, wait, no. Here, take another 50. I’m like, oh, bury yourself. No, dude. This one son, they have cool. Oh, oh, Tony

Crew Chief Brad: Ana. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: They’re both being weird in the same ’cause, like he’s being a straight up jerk. But this is a movie trope that like doesn’t exist in real life and it’s like, oh man, I’m so mad at you about being crazy about chasing this one car. Move on. Oh my God, you’ve moved on. ’cause you’ve got a job where you seem very happy and make more money than all in a week than all I ever see [01:28:00] in my lifetime.

You’ve changed. You realize how many dicks I’ll have to suck to get eight 50 a week. I’ll never have to suck. Do a time. That’s a different kind of screwdriver. Yeah, right. Which one of you a Sonny do,

Crew Chief Brad: can I just say, Annie Pots was amazing. Was. She was amazing in this movie, but I did not, I don’t feel that they like her and Mark Hamill had any chemistry was Unbeliev whatsoever.

Was unbelievable. Yeah. It was cringe-worthy, uncomfortable to watch them try and act together. Like if Annie Pots wasn’t Annie Pots, it would’ve been much worse than it actually was. So

Steve & Izzy: you guys, you guys wanted her to run off with the porn director?

Dude, how weird was that?

Crew Chief Brad: You a porn movie. It was a short, yeah. Right. You all said that the, the bond outfit. I thought you were talking about the scuba gear. I thought that was the bond outfit.

Crew Chief Eric: He thought it was Octopussy. That’s what he thought it was. [01:29:00]

Steve & Izzy: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So, so the next day, uh, Kenny’s at work and Vanessa gets pulled up and he’s like, Hey, hey, you stole this fan.

What the really Your car thief? What the fuck are you talking about? Look, it’s, I got a good deal on it this morning. She sold Vanessa, she sold the place where we live, right? I can’t live at the Honeymoon Suite. Circus Circus. I mean, that’s like $12 a night. That was a one. Thing. Does she not know that we have to pass like a background check and get a rental?

We should. My first and last month’s payment done before we can get a place. She can’t sell security deposits. Oh no. He did get that 850 bucks in advance so they can like buy a house now. Oh, it’s true. That’s true. And did

Crew Chief Brad: anybody else think that the boss or the the other student, what was his name? Matt Lowry or.

Whatever, Matt Lauer, whatever. To me, he looked like a cheaper version of Willem Defoe.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I

Crew Chief Eric: saw that

Steve & Izzy: too. Also, guys, I thought they were gonna kill Kenny Desert. They’re like, yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. And then just [01:30:00] one day at work, someone’s gonna like choke him with a chain from behind or something.

Something. They drop a car on him. Corvet work

Crew Chief Brad: accident. When they crush the Corvette, they drop it on. So

Crew Chief Eric: did anybody look up Kim Milford’s, IMDB profile? His headshot? So the character in the, in the show is Wayne Lowry. He’s the the guy that Brad was talking about. But did anybody look at his headshot? No.

It’s

Steve & Izzy: very interesting. I mean, he’s creepy looking. Pulling it up. Pulling it up. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes. I remember. No, I had seen that. Yeah. I was like, what the f

Crew Chief Eric: it? Actually, he almost looks better that way than he did in the movie. Oof. But what movie was that?

Steve & Izzy: Oh kid. Oh, oh, he is like in a zombie makeup or something with a blonde bowl haircut.

Mountain Man Dan: Yeah. Whatever role that was. He must take pride in if he’s using that. Oh man. He passed away at the age of 37 and yeah, IM gonna guess it’s

Steve & Izzy: from this laser blast movie based on the image for this.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh yeah. See these are more movies you get to add to your fun list of things to

Steve & Izzy: review. I’m looking up Laser blast now.

Thank you for this rabbit hole 2.7 on the imba. [01:31:00] Sold. Wait, who’s the director? Is it uh, one of those David De Catto? Movies or something. Oh, sorry guys. There’s like some dinosaur looking aliens. Michael Ray. Oh, come in next week. No, if you like this, you might like Z Future Wall Future. Oh boy.

Mountain Man Dan: So if you guys like these off the wall movies, it’s kind of how, I don’t know how I stumbled across this one and sent it to Eric initially, but in my random running through the internet, I find weird shit.

Mm-hmm. So it was by chance

Steve & Izzy: Mplementation movies. It was weird. ’cause

Mountain Man Dan: like this one, it was like someone had a DVD of it for sale. So I looked it up and I sent the link there. I was like, Hey, are you aware of this movie?

Crew Chief Eric: No. But

Mountain Man Dan: thank you

Crew Chief Eric: for bringing this into my life.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m surprised it was a DVD and not a VHS or beta.

Yeah, laser beta. Laser disc laser

Steve & Izzy: dis or die. So this is Kenny. Where are we

Crew Chief Brad: back in the movie?

Steve & Izzy: Where are Yeah. Kenny Corte Summer. Yeah. Yeah. The van got sold. So Kenny’s like, I gotta go talk to Eleanor, whatever her name is, any pots. And so he like, runs to a casino and sees that, uh, she’s, she’s working and she’s in like her James [01:32:00] Bond girl outfit.

Just like, yeah, Rosalyn Black Dress. Hair slick, looking good. He like walks up to her like, oh, this is where you’ve been. She’s like, excuse me, do I know you? Like the voice even changed a bit. I’m like, oh, oh, oh, here we go. Right? I’m interested. Basically they take a walk and she’s like, I don’t even remember the reason why they broke up.

Just like, oh, you’re not obsessed with this car anymore. You’re not the same person and you’ve changed, and if you’re allowed to get a career, then I’m allowed to get a career. It’s a free country. Then the guy that I guess is, I don’t know, renting her or whatever, but he is like, oh hey, who’s this guy? Like, oh, this is, this is my, my cousin Homer.

Bye homeA. Well, hey cousin Homer, you wanna come to the party later? It’s gonna get really wild with your cousin here. I’m like, oh, oh. He’s like, I’ll make it worth your while. Yeah, yeah. It was very like,

Mountain Man Dan: oh boy, this is gonna get weird. Oh, in decent

Steve & Izzy: proposal. Right.

Mountain Man Dan: And so like you mentioned, like Annie Pott’s name had changed again.

’cause there she went by a couple different names throughout the movie. Oh yeah, yeah. Other than that, at this point she [01:33:00] went from, ’cause originally it went from prostitute to Hooker to now. ’cause at one point, shortly before this, she was talking to Mark’s character and was like, I’m not gonna make it as a hooker here.

I have to be an escort. So now she’s made her way up to the tier of considering herself an escort before she winds out with this older gentleman at the casino.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yes. So many career paths. No.

Crew Chief Brad: And she, she said that there aren’t any hookers in, in Vegas. There

Steve & Izzy: aren’t any hook. They’re escorts, Arens in Vegas.

They’re all escorts. That’s why I was going wrong.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m gonna change my name. I think I make the name Rosalyn. And didn’t she

Mountain Man Dan: say something about denim was the wrong way to go too? Yeah, she did.

Steve & Izzy: You have pick up a girl in denim? Yeah. It’s always gonna be a problem. I need to get myself a little black number and one of those little ribbon chokers.

That’s the reason they call it a wife beta. Yeah. And she goes and gets her little velvet number and gets her choker. She is a woman who gets things done. That’s right. I agree. She’s too good for Mark Hamill there. I said it right. So yeah. Then Mark Hamill goes to work and uh, he’s working angry, just beating the shit out of a fender or something.

Yeah. And, and then he is like [01:34:00] welding two limos together. I don’t know. Yeah, yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: He was fixing the roadkill style was like, it was a mess. I don’t know what the hell he was doing. And, and I know Dan was critique all the welds at that point. I literally thought that to myself even I was like, I dunno what the hell he is doing.

But he ain’t welding. No. All I

Mountain Man Dan: can say is he’s, he’s not very strong. ’cause him beating on that fender and it wasn’t hardly Denny it with the size of the hammer he was using. Yeah. That’s just utterly weak. Look,

Steve & Izzy: he’s four and a half feet tall. Give him some credit. It was.

Crew Chief Brad: Seventies domestic steel. That’s true.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. It’s like baseball. He weighs 97 pounds. Come on. He wasn’t using the force. So yeah, that night, like the owner of the place is like, Hey, come on, it’s beer o’clock, let’s go. And he is just working away like, all right, well just lock up when you’re done. And like as soon as they leave he looks at his, uh, the stingray, which is still gold and he has an idea and then he paints it and it’s red again and holy shit, it’s gonna be great.

And I, I was thinking like, alright, cool. He opens the front of the garage, drives off. Roll credits, guys. What do we, Nope. Instead he waits till the next morning [01:35:00] for, uh, Brian James and the other big henchman mechanic dude to open up. And then he tries to fight ’em and they’re like, oh, what are you doing? He hits one of ’em a plastic fender.

Yeah. And then like

Crew Chief Brad: it was a bumper cover, I think. Yeah.

Steve & Izzy: And then he, he throws the tiniest wrenches. I’m like, come on, it’s a mechanic shop. There’s some big ass sledge hammers and wrenches. Pick up something. Nope. Here’s

Crew Chief Brad: my 10 millimeter. If you can dodge wrench,

Steve & Izzy: you can dodge a ball ball. But then he grabs that paint gun.

Yeah. Blast the guy in the face. And I’m like, fuck, he’s dead. Dude cracked up that, that 1970s candy. Apple red. He could, he died. Could see

Mountain Man Dan: the Xes in his eyes popped up.

Steve & Izzy: Blacker

Crew Chief Eric: paint

Steve & Izzy: like in

Crew Chief Eric: the eyes Metal.

Mountain Man Dan: Flake that wound up in his freaking, like in his nostrils, in the lung, in his eyeballs, his tear duct metal,

Crew Chief Brad: metal flake is just pink glitter.

Oh no. He’s gonna, he never getting it out. He’s gonna glitter all over himself now.

Steve & Izzy: He’s gonna sparkle like a vampire.

Crew Chief Brad: It was an improvement for his face. Good point.

Steve & Izzy: But yeah, [01:36:00] so yeah, then he hops in the stingray and drives off and then, uh, he goes to the hotel where he knows, uh, Annie Pots is doing her thing, finds out where the room is.

I forget how exactly being Well, has he got invited up earlier? Oh, that’s right. He got like the room key or something and he like kicks it open and they’re filming some sort of weird porno thing where she’s in like one of those, you know, the room hot tubs and she has flippers on like one piece bikini, who

Crew Chief Brad: are the senior citizens recording

Mountain Man Dan: this.

It was the, it was the sound guy

Steve & Izzy: and the ca it was the sound lady and the camera guy.

Mountain Man Dan: It makes me wonder, like if the whole scenario was, I dunno if you guys have seen Rat Race where they, he is like in a tub with Pepto Bismol. You shave that type stuff. That’s what I portrayed when I saw that scene of her in the tub with the scuba gear on type stuff.

I’m like, how did this come to be?

Steve & Izzy: How much is that gonna cost? Uh, it’s gonna be about $2,000. Who had $2,000? Yes. Mr. Tamagotchi had 2000 the closest

Crew Chief Eric: I’m eccentric, you know, and I, he brought up Rat Race. And it’s [01:37:00] funny because I, I love that movie and I love anything with John Cle. There’s one line I always remember from that movie and it’s lovetts when he is yelling, I don’t want to work at the Home

Steve & Izzy: Depot.

I dunno what, my mind immediately goes there. Anytime somebody drinks up that movie. Look, LUT is insane. LUT is also like brilliant on film. He is so good.

Crew Chief Eric: Have you seen him on Holy moly. That’s all I’m gonna say.

Steve & Izzy: I haven’t, but we do own every season of the critic. Oh, nice. Well, since there’s only two, it’s not that hard.

The entire series, all 26 episodes. Yeah. Look babe, what are we doing tomorrow? I’m just saying I wanna watch the entirety of a franchise.

Crew Chief Eric: Hey, she was scrolling through Voodoo and it said, bundle and save. She went, Ooh,

Steve & Izzy: look. It was the vine of its time. Okay. Yeah. So, uh, so he grabs Andy Potts, throw ’em over his shoulder or drags her out.

Literally drags her out kicking and screaming with her flippers on and Yeah. Yeah, it’s fantastic. And they hop in the car and drive off. Woo. But the, [01:38:00] uh, owner of the, the chop shop or whatever, he’s just getting into work, you know, an hour later he’s management. Don’t worry about it. And he sees the guy’s like on death’s door or whatever.

So he hops in his, uh, was it a Camaro or something, and starts chasing It was a Firebird. Or Firebird,

Crew Chief Eric: that’s what it was. It was all black and it, yeah, off it looked like.

Crew Chief Brad: It looked like a Camaro with a GTO front end. It was kind of weird.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Okay. So it was like a weird little custom ’cause I was trying to place it and couldn’t quite do it, but, but yeah.

Yeah. We laid Camaro back

Crew Chief Brad: end.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. He catches up with him, I don’t know, a hundred miles outside of Vegas, you know, on the freeway there. He, he pulls a gun out, like starts firing at, threw his own window.

Crew Chief Eric: He roll the window

Steve & Izzy: down,

Crew Chief Eric: homie. His window was rolled down in a car with no air conditioning in the desert.

I’m like, what?

Steve & Izzy: He was fueled by vengeance. Yeah, they chase around and like Kenny like pulls off the road, like goes into a quarry because he thought that was like, oh yeah, it’s gonna hook up with the interstate and it’s like a dead end freeway. Freeway. Like, what the fuck? And then they end up on route 6, 6, 6, Lou Diamond Phillips is waiting [01:39:00] for him.

Oh. And the whole time, uh, any poss is just like, oh, he trying to scam he so I’ll get back with you. It’s not gonna work. They’re just trying to impress me and it’s not working. I’m like, the guy literally has fired like three rounds at you? Yeah. Oh, isn’t she like, jumps out the window is like bang, bang, bang.

Big bang guy. I get it.

Crew Chief Eric: So what I liked about this scene but then didn’t like about the scene was that it felt like a complete rip off of Sally Field and Burt Rey. In smoking the Bandit like Oh

Steve & Izzy: absolutely. You know? So I was like,

Crew Chief Eric: I’m okay with it. I’m, I’m good with it. But then what got me, because continuity is always an issue with any movie, when we were watching it, even my wife pointed out, she goes, wait a minute, the car is filthy.

And it suddenly on those aerial shots, it’s completely clean. Like they had gone back to the car wash in the previous scenes.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, that was the left hand drive car. Ah, that’s one more than,

Crew Chief Eric: yeah, that makes way more sense. And then it was suddenly dirty again and I’m like, oh, okay. Whatever.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah. So eventually, yeah, he like doubles back and eventually is like, haha, here’s the freeway.

I do it all along. Basically the freeway [01:40:00] is like coming soon, I don’t know. Like it stops a mile later, turns around, they starts playing chicken with the bad guy and mm-hmm. I don’t know, the bad guy pulls at the last minute and like rolls it and you know, they drive off into forever. But the bad guy then like crawls outta the car?

No, he’s like injured. Oh, and when he pulled out the gun and like looked down the barrel, I’m like, right, no, no, this is not how this movie is going to end. I thought that would’ve been dark, that bullet. But instead he like, then takes the gun, points it at the car ’cause it’s like the horn’s broken or whatever.

So it’s just making that. Pew boo fucking exploded. Horns run out of energy after like what? 30 seconds? Yeah. Well if that,

Mountain Man Dan: no car’s back then, if there’s a connection, it’ll blow until the batter. The horn will keep until the battery die. There’s

Crew Chief Eric: okay, all that, that none of that is important. I gotta ask Dan a very important question ’cause he’ll know the answer to this.

Dan, how many cars can you blow up with a 38 special?

Mountain Man Dan: [01:41:00] None without any, any sort of like tannerite or Pyrex or something.

Crew Chief Eric: Ah, okay. I it’s just wanted to make sure

Mountain Man Dan: That was one of the things that when I saw that, I was like, that is such Hollywood Bs,

Steve & Izzy: but, and they use C four instead of plaster on one of the fenders and Oh, that’s how, oh my gosh.

There you go. This is why he’s gotta give up this whole operation over two cars instead of using fiberglass. They replaced it all with C four to smuggle it across the country. Yeah. Yeah. ’cause you can’t smuggle fiberglass. Uh, no. You can’t sell C think she’s saying they were smuggling with c4. Oh, gotcha.

You replace the fiberglass with C four, that car is about to blow and like outside of zzi.

Mountain Man Dan: Very high turnover on mules. It’s more explosive than an accident, than a pento being rear-ended.

Steve & Izzy: Exactly. But you guys, this guy gets it,

Crew Chief Eric: but you guys thought it was dark, you know, with him looking down the barrel of this 38 special, and I’m just kind of thinking to myself, there was a Tales from the Crypt episode where a guy gets left in the desert and the birds are circling.

If you guys remember that. That one was so creepy. I had a similar thought here because this guy, as [01:42:00] you mentioned, he’s injured. He’s got the stanky leg, he’s over a hundred miles from Silverado autobody shop, and now he just blew up his only form of transportation, even if it was a clunker. So he’s dying in the desert.

Right.

Steve & Izzy: Well, but the freeway’s coming soon, so that means the construction crew is coming by. Also

Crew Chief Eric: be by any

Steve & Izzy: minute someone will show up. Look, Las Vegas only has two season, winter and construction. It’s not winter, winter, very short. It’s called Corvette Winter. Maybe those

Mountain Man Dan: dudes in the Lowrider, I’ll catch him before he dies.

You know what I mean? On the way back, he’s be there in a week. I saw it as the fact him shooting. It was the fact it was most likely also a stolen vehicle. So him shooting it was destroying evidence. Oh, that’s actually a really good point. I did, I did look it up as the fact it’s a 71 TransAm. Yeah. Fiber screaming

Crew Chief Eric: chicken.

Alright. By the way, that Corvette and those Transams and Camaros all share a similar platform. So they’re all very similar cars. They’re

Crew Chief Brad: all, they all have 200 horsepower.

Crew Chief Eric: But I’ll say this, I’ll say that this to to, you mentioned this earlier, Steve. The driving in that scene was actually really, [01:43:00] really good.

Yeah, yeah. Usually I find fault with a lot of those driving scenes, some of those chasing scenes. I mean, granted, this didn’t have like. The seven ups type of chasing or like bullet or something like that. But it was short, it was concise and it was clean. Like there wasn’t anything like dukes a hazard or anything like that.

So I mad props to, you know, the team and the stuntmen for doing something that actually was pretty plausible. The best car

Crew Chief Brad: chasing you’ve never heard of,

Steve & Izzy: you would even see with like the transition when they like go from like the sand to the asphalt and stuff. Like there’d be a little like sk, you know, and all that too.

So it’s like, oh yeah, this is real

Crew Chief Eric: driver. And the drifting was really clean. I was like, whoever’s behind the wheel is doing a good job. So, yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: Well, when you mentioned when he looked down the barrel of the. Pistol. Shortly before that is when Mark Hamill’s character pulls up behind the big boulder and just by chance he comes to the other side and Annie Pott’s character hops up out and she’s like, oh yeah.

And you know, she’s like, I’m not gonna be scared by this. ’cause she thought it was just like something to scare her that Mark Hamill put on and the dude starts shooting at her. So maybe that’s how he was checking to see if there was still any ammo in it. Which anyone who knows anything about firearms, [01:44:00] it’s a stupid way to check.

But yeah, the exact opposite way you should be doing it.

Steve & Izzy: We, because that the Tiger King method,

Mountain Man Dan: that’s, that’s, that’s the Alec Baldwin method. Oh,

Steve & Izzy: dark, dark, dark. Alright. Speaking of dark, we’re going back to high school guys. Woo. Because yeah, Kenny pulls up there with his, uh, new hooker girlfriend and uh Right.

Basically drops off this dusty ass stingray God back. There’s plenty of money for plenty of gas money, apparently. Well, you know, she, they had to make a few stops at a gas station and she had to make some money. I mean, she was in the scuba gear already. So

Mountain Man Dan: April put some truck stop and she was a lot lizard on the way back.

Steve & Izzy: Oh, check it out. This bikini wipes right off this neoprene is amazing. And, and basically like he pulls the fire alarm, the whole school comes out and the principal’s like, what’s going down here? Did be auc. She’s just running around in the background screaming. Yeah. Like, I don’t dunno if you [01:45:00] guys saw it, he’s just like, ah, I was a sausage

Crew Chief Eric: family.

Ah, they said act natural. And his a DD just kicked in. He’s like,

Steve & Izzy: took two lines of coke and Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So they, was it off of hook’s ass? Like in Wolf of Wall Street? Oh, it wasn’t

Steve & Izzy: Annie p. Oh, Steve, that’s not dust on that car. Oh shit. But yeah, basically like hands the keys to the principal. Like, well, yeah, what about the cops?

Like, yeah, I didn’t tell the cops. We should definitely inform the police. It’s like, no, no, don’t. They’re very important. Right. Gotta, don’t worry about it young lady. Do you have anything to say about this? Now, nah. Come at hand. He grabs her flip flops and her jeans and just walks off basically from there, like, uh, someone brings him his diploma.

That’s where I’m like, oh, okay. So he graduated. All right. That’s cool. And then he like walks after Eleanor who’s carrying her flip flops and stuff, and he is like, uh, hey, you with a funny walk. Like a true romantic. Mm-hmm. And, uh, yeah, they kiss and hug and, I don’t know, walk [01:46:00] off. And then, uh, the car wash during the credits.

Car wash, no. And no car. Just that was a wet sanding.

Mountain Man Dan: Well, and the weird thing is like when the teacher’s talking to him at one point he’s like, I need you to tell me what I need to hear. Or something, something along the lines of that. And it’s like, what the hell do you want ’em to say? You know,

Crew Chief Eric: that was like, that part in Ferris Bueller is like, well, that’s how it is in that family.

Super creepy.

Steve & Izzy: Like, it’s just like r Okay. Yeah. So guys, would you recommend this movie?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. For enjoyment or as punishment? What do I get to pick?

Steve & Izzy: I either way. If it’s punishment, I

Crew Chief Eric: mean mean no, you know, in all honest. I actually enjoyed it. Like we laughed. We had a good time. My wife and I watched it together.

We talked about it as well, and it was fun. It was stupid, it was campy. There were some redeeming things, like some of these movies you go into and you’re like, oh God, this is gonna hurt. It wasn’t bad. Would I watch it again?

Steve & Izzy: Maybe not. I don’t know who I would recommend it to. So I don’t know how to answer, would I or not any broad spans.

So you [01:47:00] wouldn’t, because you wouldn’t just like call up your friend and be like, oh my God, have you seen Corvette Summer? No. You know that new movie you’re looking for? Well watch this.

Mountain Man Dan: How about you Matt? Man, I, I mean, I recommended it to Eric without even watching it. So, I mean, again, remember the punishment part we were talking about?

Steve & Izzy: Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: When I look at older movies, like I take into consideration when it was made, the way things were done. It’s a seventies, early eighties mentality movie, and one of the big things that I took away from is like, much like the original Gone in 60 Seconds, an older movies. There was that fraud aspect of insurance, which I always see these movies.

I’m wondering, was the insurance fraud that big of a problem back then that they kept making movies about it? Because it’s an ongoing theme, all in all being a car. I enjoyed it for the cars in it, although the Corvette was horrible and Vanessa was definitely the star when it comes to the cars. Thousand percent.

Steve & Izzy: I agree. Yeah. Other

Mountain Man Dan: than the square body, suburban, because hey, it’s a square rock.

Steve & Izzy: Nice. Well, yeah, it sounds like a, yeah, I’d recommend it. How about you, babe? I would, and as you guys said, VanNess is like the star of this movie, and [01:48:00] I would almost count this as a Vance exploitation film, which is a genre. As we’ve mentioned a few examples, I highly recommend you guys look up the 1970s short-lived van exploitation genre.

We talked about the van and Super Van and its sequels. There’s also CB Hustlers Love Truck, van Nuys Boulevard. Yeah. And yeah, there’s a whole bunch of ’em. Specifically from like 1970 to like 1979.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s just movies with vans. Like explain the genre for those. The genre is like

Steve & Izzy: young people on adventures in vans.

Yeah. It it’s like teenagers trying to get laid because they souped up their van and they go to a party and Hi jinks and zoos or, or they go to a van festival or a van festival. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So Scooby Doo meets American Pie. Okay, got it. Yeah, there, there,

Steve & Izzy: there’s the, was it Super Van? It’s like, oh yeah.

Teenager. And his, his scientist friend developed this ultimate AI van with like weapons. Like it’s something outta James Bond. Takes it out on the weekend [01:49:00] for a weekend of hijinks. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I, I did see on Wikipedia, it’s noted Van Nuys Boulevard is considered the most technically correct van film. So if you’re looking for the vehicles and the technical correctness,

Crew Chief Brad: like I look for accuracy when I watch movies like this.

I’m a stickler for the facts.

Steve & Izzy: I knew you guys would, uh, find that very important fact. Nice. Well, speaking of dirty things, we basically went through most of the fun facts I had except $9 million budget, $15.5 million worldwide growth. It’s a hits. And, uh, any guesses what the critics thought on Rotten Tomatoes?

What percentage of ’em thought it was a good movie?

Crew Chief Eric: Is this with 2022 inflation, or are we talking about 1970s?

Steve & Izzy: I’m guessing since 2000, if it’s rot tomatoes, I don’t know what’s, what’s the number? It’s 56% with the critics. So just under fresh officially. Audience score though. 43%. That’s not bad. This movie was a lot [01:50:00] better than I thought it was gonna be.

I’m not gonna lie, any pots is fucking adorable. I mean, it’s genuinely funny. There’s some genuinely driving. Good driving. Done driving. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So I got a question. Since we love any pots in this movie, mark Hamill, whatever, right? I think he brought the fame and notoriety. Obviously he was riding that Star Wars high there or, or the cocaine high.

We’re not really sure which, but who would we replace Mark Hamill with if we were to recast the film? Here’s before really. No, no, no, no,

Steve & Izzy: no. Come on. No, here’s the thing. I don’t think Mark Hamill does a bad job at being. Dope. Sort of dumb teenager.

Crew Chief Eric: There’s nobody else though from that era that you could replace him with.

Steve & Izzy: Yeah, I don’t know. Kurt Russell, Matthew McConaughey, all rat. I’ll rat out. Wait, is it Matthew McConaughey like six at this time? Yeah, I was gonna say, right? I, I have, get my, my, why did you come in bed with me? I dunno. But see, but see he was 27 years old playing a 16, 17-year-old. So I would say

Mountain Man Dan: 18 since he graduated.

That’s right. I [01:51:00] graduated 17. Are we

Steve & Izzy: gonna be mad about the ages? And if we are then are we gonna talk about like 9 0 2 1 oh, we’re only any Well, no, no, what I’m saying, I don’t have a problem with that. I’m saying he looked a lot younger than 27. So who in that time. Frame. I don’t think Kurt Russell probably looked 18.

Yeah, I guess he was. He was 27. Yeah. I guess the thing was like two years later, so yeah. Good point. Yeah. God, seventies, teenager. Ooh, leaf Garrett. No. I dunno. Like, I’m trying to think. Teenagers I know in the seventies, Jody Foster, same joke, dirty Foster and Annie Pot. I’d watch it. You know what, that’s the Vanessa sequel.

Yeah. Jackie or

Crew Chief Brad: Haley.

Crew Chief Eric: I, my, I was thinking Tom Selleck for a minute, but then I’m like, oh, it’s just another episode of Magnum pi. So no. Oh yeah.

Steve & Izzy: No, because this character was too dumb. Right? There was multiple instances where he showed he was not the brightest crayon in the sharpest tool. In the box,

Crew Chief Eric: we cast

Steve & Izzy: [01:52:00] Peter

Crew Chief Eric: Faulk walking around with his Columbo trench

Steve & Izzy: gun.

Oh, Peter Faulks definitely the shop teacher. Oh yeah. Hundred percent. A hundred percent. Oh guys, I got it. Kevin Bacon, that fresh off like animal house. Oh yeah. Okay. That ago. You’re welcome. Except for, here’s the problem, like any pots looks like an actual child. Thanks to him.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, yeah. Don’t make it, don’t make it weird, Izzy.

Don’t make it weird. Okay. I’m just

Steve & Izzy: saying this adds to the budget because we have to like, to shoot in perspective and, and playing Kevin Bacon’s mom. Kira Sedwick

Crew Chief Eric: got, now if we, if we did this movie today, I would put Emma Stone, like in Cruella in the place of Andy Potts if we were gonna recast this guy. You just wanna

Steve & Izzy: see her as a hooker. I understand. Well, you know, hey,

Crew Chief Eric: whatever. It’s all good.

Steve & Izzy: I mean, sure she’s like in her late thirties, but. I get it. We just do the Stranger Things thing.

It’s, uh, 11 and, uh, Finn [01:53:00] Wolfhard or whatever are the two people. Yeah. Billy, Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard. You guys 18 yet? That’s awesome. But yeah, that’s a, that’s all we got guys. Uh, I don’t know any, any important lessons we learned from this movie since that’s our, our podcast. Anything you learned from movie?

Crew Chief Eric: I think I learned that I can probably keep up on foot with a C3 Corvette. So, uh, you know, we’re gonna test this theory out.

Mountain Man Dan: So here’s, here’s a little one for cars in the movie. ’cause I’m digging through, looking at some stuff. Eric, there was a 73 Schutz Black Hawk in it. No, really? Yeah, it’s there on the strip during one of the scenes.

It’s white.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, nice. By the way, this is one of the funkiest seventies cars ever. Like celebrities like Elvis had one and whatever. Dan wrote a whole article about it. We’ll share it with, with our audience. We’ll actually bring it back out from the grave. Do a little throwback, throwback Thursday.

Mountain Man Dan: It’s a G body that had, if I recall correctly, Italian influence on the designing of it, but it was basically Monte Carlo chassis and it had the exhaust coming out, you know, running down the side of it.

Ooh. So [01:54:00] Oh yeah.

Steve & Izzy: Oh shit. That looks like, um, that looks like the car. Yeah, the car. Yeah. A little modified stuff. It’s it’ss, A pimp

Crew Chief Eric: mobile. Yeah. A little bit of Cruella Deville in there as well, but

Steve & Izzy: yeah, it’s, oh yeah. Yeah, I can see it. It’s like the European cousin of the car. Yeah. The way it looks like style.

Yeah. The stylish English version. Yeah. Yeah. Have you folks seen the car? No, what is that? Oh, it’s a, it’s a killer car movie. It’s like, uh, people in the middle of the desert being chased by a sentient car or chasing them down. Yeah, I think it’s from like 77, 78, 77. I

Crew Chief Eric: feel like maybe that’s a great, uh, segue.

They did a of it too. Didn’t James Roland’s in it? Yeah. Yeah. Two

Steve & Izzy: bicyclists are run down by a strange black car in the desert near a small town in Utah. This is just the first in a series of hit and run murders. Sheriff Wade pe James Brolin is called to investigate, and his Deputy Everett John Marley is killed by the black sedan.

That’s right. That’s the movie with the, the music from The Shining. The Yes.

Yeah. They built this cool big [01:55:00] custom car for it. The car is like often referred to as the brother of Christine. Oh, okay. I’ve seen that movie. Yeah.

Mountain Man Dan: Okay. I’m looking up pictures of it right now. Definitely. It’s like a

Steve & Izzy: modified Lincoln Continental or something.

Mountain Man Dan: Definitely a menacing looking, uh, front end on it.

Steve & Izzy: Right? It’s a fun, bad, cheesy horror movie. Have a couple of drinks and have some fun watching it.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, Stephen Izzy, it’s a pleasure to get together with you guys as always, and it sounds like we might have some other films that maybe we can get together and review in the future. So it’s always good, you know, to get the petrol heads together with the movie Buff.

So I appreciate you guys inviting us back and, and doing this. It was, it was absolutely a lot of fun. So, for your listeners, for the folks that are listening to this, we are available on all your. Favorite pod catchers to use Steve’s term under break Fix. Or you can also search Grand Touring and you can find us on the web@gtmotorsports.org or on social media at Grand Touring Motorsports.

That’s GRAN with no d touring motorsports.

Steve & Izzy: So yeah, thanks for having [01:56:00] us guys. Yeah. Yeah, it’s been fantastic. And, uh, we bring you in social media at all. I am. You can find me everywhere at untidy Venus. That’s a goddess who’s bat at housekeeping. I’m an artist. I sell my arts and goods and wares over@untidyvenus.etsy.com.

You can see works in progress. Pictures of my pets shots from our mountain over on my in. Instagram and on my Facebook and occasionally on my Twitter at Untidy Venus. I also have a Patreon where I’m putting together some little like really easy how-to videos to get started on your own basic arts. I have a sticker of the Month club, all kinds of fun stuff at Untidy Venus on Patreon.

How about you Steve? Where can we find you? Excuse me. As Eric said, you can find us on all your favorite pod catchers under everything I learned from movies or you can hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Patreon at EILF movies. That’s everything I learned from movies. Movies, but not Instagram. ’cause fuck those guys.

No, somebody hacked in my account. They’re not helping us get it back. So apparently a Utah ID is not a valid ID in the eyes of Instagram. So they don’t dunno who owns it. So be [01:57:00] careful in that Metaverse people. Yeah. So go ahead and block and report that account ’cause they’ll just ask you for $120. Yeah, hit us up on Twitter.

’cause that’s the one I really check ’cause that’s the one that works at EILF movies. See, I guess until next time, I’m Steve and I’m busy and we’re break fix. Yeah. Yeah. And this is everything I learned from movie. No, wait, it’s not. It’s everything I learned from breakfast. Breakfast,

Crew Chief Eric: throwing it in.

Steve & Izzy: It’s

Crew Chief Eric: our new

Steve & Izzy: jingle.

Yeah, we gotta do the autotune. Everything I learned from break, fix. Nice. Break, break, fix. It’s break. Break, fix

Crew Chief Brad: bridge.

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

• 00:00 Special Guests: Steve and Izzy return for our 100th Episode!
• 00:50 Recap of Previous Episode and New Format
• 01:58 Movie of the Night: Corvette Summer
• 02:19 Synopsis and Initial Reactions; High School Memories and Shop Class
• 03:41 Beverage Break and Movie Trivia
• 05:01 Mark Hamill’s Career; Character Analysis and Movie Trivia
• 11:47 The Junkyard Scene and Car Enthusiasm
• 25:49 Theft of the Corvette and Consequences
• 32:43 Hitchhiking to Vegas and Meeting Vanessa
• 36:08 Van Life and Annie Potts’ One-Liners
• 38:35 Nostalgia for Modified Vans; Van Movies and Pop Culture
• 40:19 Vegas Bound: Awkward Encounters and Humorous Dialogues
• 41:46 Casino Misadventures; Prostitution and Life Lessons
• 43:11 Chasing the Corvette
• 53:07 The Neon Sign Museum
• 01:08:09 Sunny D Screwdrivers and Emotional Moments
• 01:13:31 Car Wash and Corvette Transformation
• 01:17:28 High-Speed Stunts and Filmmaking Magic
• 01:17:50 Garage Confrontation and Escape; Oil Drum Disguise and Chase
• 01:20:38 Pressure Washer Interrogation
• 01:21:30 Police Report and Teacher Encounter; Chop Shop Revelation
• 01:25:24 Kenny’s Transformation
• 01:34:35 Final Showdown and Escape
• 01:44:17 Return to High School
• 01:55:20 Podcast Wrap-Up and Reflections

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