The Reel Booze Podcast Episode #36 - Minisode 10

Minisode 10

In this episode Ken laments the passing of Kevin Smith while Jay tries to convince him he still lives. We fill in some gaps left from Ep 35 regarding Dan O'Bannon and reveal what Ep 37 is going to reveiw.

It's another exciting episode of THE REEL BOOZE PODCAST.

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The Reel Booze Podcast Episode #36 - Minisode 10

The Reel Booze Podcast Episode #35 - ALIEN³

ALIEN³

In this episode Ken tries to hang on to his Alien love while Jay cannot get over how horrible the movie is.

Pop in your copy of ALIEN³ and listen along as The Boozers Ken & Jay do a deep dive on the production hell this film went through, German Industrial Techno, Sigourney Weezer, and try to answer some questions about Xenomorph biology.

It's another exciting episode of THE REEL BOOZE PODCAST.

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The Reel Booze Podcast Episode #35 - ALIEN³

The Reel Booze Podcast Episode #34 - Minisode 9

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Jay and Ken reflect on REQUIEM, Jay's new found heroin habit, spin the WHEEL OF DEATH, their "day date double feature", and Battlefield!

The Reel Booze Podcast Episode #34 - Minisode 9

The Reel Booze Podcast #33 - Requiem For A Dream

Requiem for a Dream

It is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay.

The film depicts four different forms of drug addiction, which lead to the characters' imprisonment in a world of delusion and reckless desperation that is subsequently overtaken by reality, thus leaving them as hollow shells of their former selves.

Requiem for a Dream was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festivaland received positive reviews from critics upon its U.S. release. Burstyn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

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The Reel Booze Podcast #33 - Requiem For A Dream

The Reel Booze Podcast #32 - Minisode 8

Minsode 8
THE BATTLE RAGES ON as KEN, JAY, and JERRY continue to discuss exactly WTF was going on in THE PRESTIGE.
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The Reel Booze Podcast #32 - Minisode 8

The Reel Booze Podcast #31 - The Prestige

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The Prestige
A Christopher Nolan movie like no other.
What's REALLY going on in this mind-fuck of an excuse for a movie?
Listen to The Boozers (Ken & Jay) verbally duke it out while Jerry (The Thing) turns the discussion into a battle royale with cheese!!
Is there a copy? Are they the same? Can one have the self discipline to kill themselves knowing they aren't really dying? Does the magic trick Jay tries to WOW us with suck or TOTALLY SUCK? How much DID we actually drink? What is a drink? Who ARE you? Why are you listening to this? Are you listening to this? What is The Matrix? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could chuck wood? 

Are you watching closely?

If you don't drink you will start after listening to us trying to wrap our heads around this time jumping murder rampage of an amazing movie!!

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The Reel Booze Podcast #31 - The Prestige

“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.”- Bruce Lee

The Reel Booze Podcast #30 - Minisode 7

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Episode 30 Minisode 7

The Prestige commentary which was supposed to appear here this week had some problems...
I try to explain it in the episode - USB clockspeeds are different on each port and when used with GOOD audio equipment and lead to "USB DRIFT". Since we finally manned up and got some good mics we have now experienced USB DRIFT.

So this week we spin THE WHEEL OF DEATH, go over our weekly pop-culture stuff, and talk Vegas...

Also the story of how Ken once "Lost a Day".

USB DRIFT
https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/white-papers/usb-audio-simplified.pdf

The New Reel Booze setup is:
A couple of cheap Neweer boom arms with

On Stage MY-420 Studio Microphone Shock Mount
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Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone
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Hooked up with XLR cables to

BEHRINGER U-PHORIA UMC404HD
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Then recorded with Kristal Audio Engine
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and edited with Audacity

Laphroaig LORE
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New Theme Song is SON OF BITCH by THE NIGHT SWEATS

We'll have a movie audio commentary soon...I swear...really...I mean it this time...

The Reel Booze Podcast #30 - Minisode 7

The Reel Booze Podcast #29 - Minisode 6

Stay tuned to the end of this episode for a special message.

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The Boozers didn't have time to review THE PRESTIGE due to a travel schedule filled with Central American primates, seeing Russia from their hotel room, and Dan Dan the Moparman's nemesis: CLOWNS!

Get caught up with the boys and come back next week when we'll bring you another mind blowing commentary with THE PRESTIGE!

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The Reel Booze Podcast #28 - Minisode 5

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Ken and Jay discuss last week's Terminator episode and spin THE WHEEL OF DEATH to determine next week's episode.

R,I.P. Art Bell

The Reel Booze Podcast #28 - Minisode 5

The Reel Booze Podcast #27 - The Terminator (1984)

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Listen, and understand. THE REEL BOOZE PODCAST is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop drinking, ever, until you are all shit-faced!

You still don’t get it, do you? They’ll find the bar. That’s what they do. That’s all they do!

You can’t stop them!

Tweak this line to your needs.
It will get you laid!
“I came across time for you Sarah, I love you, I always have.”

And if that doesn’t work try this one.
“Your clothes, give them to me.”

Stay tuned to the end, we’ve included some nightmare fuel for your ears!

The Reel Booze Podcast #27 - The Terminator (1984)

The Reel Booze Podcast #26 - The Thing REMASTERED

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Welcome to another exciting episode of The Reel Booze Podcast. We were supposed to have THE TERMINATOR ready to go this week but Jay moved...along with The Reel Booze Studio.

Don’t worry, I know where he’s at...don’t bother running Jay, you’ll only die tired! We’ll have The Terminator ready to go NEXT week.

This week I’ve decided to give our new listeners a chance to glimpse into our “we want to do a podcast and have no idea what we’re doing” days with a re-visit to Episode #2 - THE THING. Originally recorded May 18th 2014.The original recording was pure trash garbage with levels all over the place so I’ve tried to buff out the scratches and the dents. I’m not saying I know what I’m doing, but I know more now than I did then.

This episode introduces one of The Boozers, the one you may have heard us call “The Thing Jerry”. Jerry knows more about The Thing than anyone I’ve met. Or you’ve met. Or John Carpenter’s met! Also DAN DAN THE MOPAR introduces his signature move "THE OLD STYLE". Get ready for a deep dive into one of the greatest horror movies of all time and put your thinking caps on as we discuss genetic memories and hive mind mentality. This movie is WAY deeper than you..or your ancestors...remember.

Collative Learning on YouTube does an amazing job Rob Ager is nuts!

The Reel Booze Podcast #26 - The Thing REMASTERED

The Reel Booze Podcast #25 - Minisode 4

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Ken and Jay discuss last week's Wayne's World episode and spin THE WHEEL OF DEATH to determine next week's episode.

The Reel Booze Podcast #25 - Minisode 4

The Reel Booze Podcast #24 - Wayne's World

It's Party Time!
EXCELLENT!

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Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris, produced by Lorne Michaels and written by Mike Myers and Bonnie and Terry Turner. The film stars Myers (in his feature film debut) as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, rock and roll fans who broadcast a public-access television show. It also features Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Farley, Ed O'Neill, Ione Skye, Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.

Wayne's World was released on February 14, 1992

FYI Ken got COLUMBIA confused with PARAMOUNT regarding the SONY conversation.
He confuses easy.

The Reel Booze Podcast #24 - Wayne's World

The Reel Booze Podcast #23 - Minisode 3

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Ken and Jay are joined by DAN DAN THE MOPAR MAN (aka DAN DAN THE AMMO MAN during war movies) and "The Thing" Jerry (off mic) to discuss last week's BATMAN (1989) episode and determine next week's episode.

hint: it'll be a party time / excellent.

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The Reel Booze Podcast #22 - Batman (1989)

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Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a deformed madman who calls himself "The Joker" (Jack Nicholson) seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld, Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis ever while protecting both his identity and his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger).

Release date: June 23, 1989

This episode is dedicated to "Mom" Rubio. 

It was a good run. 

R.I.P.

The Reel Booze Podcast #22 - Batman (1989)

The Reel Booze Podcast #21 - Minisode #2

In this week's Mini-episode Jay & Ken talk about their trip to Westwold, next week's episode, and Jay's new found love for Scotch.
The Reel Booze Podcast #21 - Minisode #2

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The Reel Booze Podcast #20 - The Princess Bride

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An elderly man reads the book "The Princess Bride" to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson, the reading of the book which has been passed down within the family for generations. The grandson is sure he won't like the story, with a romance at its core, he preferring something with lots of action and "no kissing". But the grandson is powerless to stop his grandfather, whose feelings he doesn't want to hurt. The story centers on Buttercup, a former farm girl who has been chosen as the princess bride to Prince Humperdinck of Florian. Buttercup does not love him, she who still laments the death of her one true love, Westley, five years ago. Westley was a hired hand on the farm, his stock answer of "as you wish" to any request she made of him which she came to understand was his way of saying that he loved her. But Westley went away to sea, only to be killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts. On a horse ride to clear her mind of her upcoming predicament of marriage, Buttercup...

The Boozers come up with alternate casting, better taglines, and whip out a TON of knowledge about this 1987 classic!!

The Reel Booze Podcast #20 - The Princess Bride

The Reel Booze Podcast #19 - Smokey and the Bandit

For a description, I'm just going to copy and paste my notes then go back to bed.
I've got a wicked case of Ebola or something...


The Reel Booze Podcast #19 - Smokey and the Bandit

Taglines-
Time to take to the road, for a quiet little drive in the country...or not.

"What we have here is a total lack of respect for the law!"

It's Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason, in high gear and hot water!

Meet Bo Darville, aka, "The Bandit." Smokies (Cops) hate him. Guys dig him. And even girls can't get enough of him!

ALTERNATE TAGLINES

Coors - like having sex in a canoe; it’s fucking close to water!

A movie that is going to BBQ your ass in molasses!

Legitimizing rednecks since 1977.

ALTERNATE CASTING
Bandit - Norm McDonald
            Seth McFarlane
            Fuckin’ Clooney
Cledus - Danny McBride
Justice - Eric Stonestreet (Cam)
Carry - Kaley Cuoco

Jr - Steve Carell

ALTERNATE THEME SONG

Jesus Built My Hotrod
5.0 Ford

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• Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. born February 11, 1936 in Lansing, MI.

• Hal Brett Needham  born March 6, 1931 in Memphis then on October 25, 2013 he was murdered. By Cancer.

• Budget was 5.3 mil, then two days before shooting according to Needham in THE BANDIT,  “they sent a hatchman down and took a million away from me.”  subtract the million Burt got and they shot with a 3.3mil budget.
  
  Smokey and the Bandit was a runaway box-office hit, raking in more than $126 million as the second-highest grossing movie of 1977

          I have no idea what was #1 that year...the Black Stallion maybe? Horse   

movies do well, they tug at your heartstrings and make the ladies weep. Kinda like Jay.

• Hal Needham wrote & directed Smokey and the Bandit, him a Burt were good friends, he was Burt’s stunt double & roommate for something like 11 years. People were begging Burt to not make this movie. I can only guess because no one had faith in Needham.
  
  Where did the idea come from? On the set of Gator people kept stealing their beer cuz they were getting $20 a six pack. Couldn’t get Coors east of the Mississippi River

• In 1977, Coors was unavailable for sale east of Oklahoma. A 1974 Time magazine article explains why Coors was so coveted that one would be willing to pay the Bandit such a high price to transport it. Coors Banquet Beer had a brief renaissance as certain people sought it out for its lack of stabilizers and preservatives. The article says that future Vice President Gerald Ford hid it in his luggage after a trip to Colorado in order to take it back to Washington. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had a steady supply airlifted to Washington by the Air Force. The article also mentions Frederick Amon, who smuggled it from Colorado to North Carolina and sold it for four times the retail price.[13] The lack of additives and preservatives meant that Coors had the potential for spoiling in a week if it were not kept cold throughout its transportation and in storage at its destination. This explains the 28-hour deadline.[14]

• Scheduled as a 30 day shoot.
• Shot around Atlanta.
• A big movie back then shot 3 pages a day, Hal was shooting 16 pages a day.
• HOW MANY DAYS DID THEY END UP SHOOTING?

 

Filming Dates 30 August 1976 - fuck it, I just emailed Douglas County Film Trail

Release date‎: ‎May 27, 1977 grossed over $126million

From THE BANDIT “Universal said they wanted Sally...of course Burt took credit for that.”

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THE CARS!

• Snowman is driving a 1974 Kenworth W900.

Stories are all over the place!!

• From Mental Floss-.
  Needham saw a picture of a Pontiac Trans Am in a magazine and thought up a product placement idea. He asked for six Trans Ams, but Pontiac would only agree to send four. Needham also asked for four Bonnevilles for Jackie Gleason's cars, but he only got two. By the time they shot the final scene, they had wiped out three Trans Ams and the fourth wouldn't start after all of the stunts, so another car was used to push it into the scene. For Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), Needham asked for and received 10 Trans Ams and 55 Bonnevilles with no trouble.

• From THE BANDIT - Pontiac gave them 4 sedas which they used as cop cars, and 2 Trans Ams. By week 2 both Trans Ams were destroyed and they had to go beg for more.

• From “The Filming of Smokey and the Bandit Part 1”
  They brought 8 Tans Ams in off a trailer
  ‘77 Special edition Trans Ams

          Heard between 3 and 20 T/A’s were used

          At least four Pontiac Trans Ams were used for the movie.

• At WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO a few years ago, Burt said they went through 12 T/A’s.

• The Pontiac Firebird T/As were actually 1976 models with the soon-to-be-released ’77 front ends.To catch viewers attention, Pontiac also put a decal on the hood scoop announcing “6.6 LITRE”. Previous to this, the engines were called out by the engine’s cubic inch size…using liters was both a way of grabbing people’s attention AND coving-up the fact that these Firebirds produced much LESS horsepower than the 1969 muscle cars.

• Needham saw a picture of the Pontiac Trans Am and knew it was the right car for “the Bandit” (Burt Reynolds). He came up with a plan to sell the idea to Pontiac as a great product placement idea AND he understood that they’d destroy them in the stunt scenes…so he requested six T/As but only got four.Sure enough, 3 of the 4 were totalled and for the final scene, they had to use another car to push the 4th in to the scene. Why? Because after that 4th T/A took a beating from the stunts, her engine just wouldn’t start.

• Jumping the bridge was the last shot filmed.

• The “bridge jump” pretty much destroyed the car - one attempt, stock car, and it fucked.it.up. Shit blew off all over, the wheels were bent up under the wheel wells.

• The original Pontiac engine wasn't strong enough to power the car for the bridge jump sequence, however, so a Chevrolet engine was installed in the jump car.

• Mr. Reynolds eventually got his own Trans-Am (1978). He had the 8.2-liter engine tuned and fully customized to bring power up from the original out-put of 220hp to a head turning 600hp. That same “tribute” T/A was auctioned off earlier this year for $275,000.

• From MAKING OF on YOUTUBE
  The only Trans Am that made it thru the movie had all the cameras on it

          Sheriff cars - can remember seeing 10 at one time.

• IMDB - Three Trans-Am cars were used in this movie. Director Hal Needham claims in the DVD documentary that they could barely run towards the end of the film's production.

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VARIOUS MALARKEY

Rumor is there were 2 semi-trailers w/the horses.

“Old Hickory House” the biker bar fight bar

Fred the dog’s real name was “HAPPY”

Jackie Gleason had no lines. Before a shot Needham would say, “Ok, yer going to go over there and this is going to happen...what do you want to say?”

Gleason wrote the lunchroom scene because there was no scene in the script with both of them.

Then Burt said he’d never do another scene with Jackie.

The football field accident.
The car hit the dugout and hit a couple of kids. The field was wet and they didn’t know it until they tried to stop the car after the jump so they steered it towards the dugout.

Burt and Sally’s stunt doubles got married during the shoot.

Hal Needham - first human to test the airbag.

Universal originally removed the country music and replaced with an orchestral score.
Needham told them to put the other music back in!

Premiered the movie in New York City and it didn’t go over well.
It wasn’t made for that audience, it was made for southerners and the numbers proved it.

With the success of Smokey and the Bandit, Hal Needham was finally able to move out of Burt’s place.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK WAS A BIG FAN OF THE FILM.His daughter Patricia revealed that every Wednesday her father would screen films on the lot in his office. The last one he ever screened was Smokey and the Bandit, his favorite film of his last few years.

Sally was considered ugly that’s why she’s called FROG.

Or
Bandit calls Frog (because she's restless and always hopping around)

Jerry Reed was one of country music's most innovative guitarists. After befriending Reynolds, he made his film debut opposite Burt in 1975's "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings" and co-starred with him once again, in "Gator" (1976), before appearing in "Smokey."

"Buford T. Justice" sounds like a made-up name for a lawman, but "Smokey" lore has it that there really was such a person. The real-life Buford T. was supposedly a cop that Reynolds' father had known when he was a small-town Florida police chief

Bandit's real name? It's barely ever uttered in the movie, but it's Bo Danville.

Jackie Gleason would often ask his assistant for a “hamburger” while on set…that was his code word for a glass of bourbon.

In late 2017, Universal Pictures acquired Edgar Wright to direct a reimagining/reboot of the first film, due to the summer of 2019 release.