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2000 film by Ethan and Joel Coen

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Best of News Talk 590 WVLK AM
Larry Glover Live 4-16-25

Best of News Talk 590 WVLK AM

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 37:45


Larry talks about his love for Alison Krauss, the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou", and the city of Owensboro all in hour 2 of Wednesday's show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Word Balloons
Cherished Memories

Word Balloons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 17:01


What movie means the most to the Aeronauts, not because of the film itse;f, but the circumstances around it? Who is Silverclaw? Email us your questions at wordballoonspod@gmail.com

The Ryan Kelley Morning After
TMA ( 3-5-25) Hour 2 - Kind of an Unfortunate Segment

The Ryan Kelley Morning After

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 59:11


(00:00-27:45) A sufficient apology to the audience. Did a sprinkler head get Walker? Jim Bowden's grades in The Athletic for the Cards offseason. It's surprisingly not great. More of a stand still than a reset. Fun with guessing games. Chairman Steve checking in with us talking housing designs in Jefferson County. Interior design. Cruisin' down 55 to Arnold. Not happy with commercials and the 2Fox live shots. (27:54-38:12) Jackson likes folk music. Never Gonna Give You Up has 1.5B views on YouTube. Jackson's favorite movie is O Brother Where Art Thou. Ozempic. (38:22-59:02) Jackson creating even more controversy from yesterday's EMOTD debacle. I just want peace. John Denton with a Jordan Walker update. MRI results released later today. Very brief audio of John Cooper and Jordan Binnington. Doug is underwhelmed. Audio from Macrodosing talking Moneyball. Whoops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Ryan Kelley Morning After
TMA ( 3-5-25) Hour 2 - Kind of an Unfortunate Segment

The Ryan Kelley Morning After

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 63:41


(00:00-27:45) A sufficient apology to the audience. Did a sprinkler head get Walker? Jim Bowden's grades in The Athletic for the Cards offseason. It's surprisingly not great. More of a stand still than a reset. Fun with guessing games. Chairman Steve checking in with us talking housing designs in Jefferson County. Interior design. Cruisin' down 55 to Arnold. Not happy with commercials and the 2Fox live shots. (27:54-38:12) Jackson likes folk music. Never Gonna Give You Up has 1.5B views on YouTube. Jackson's favorite movie is O Brother Where Art Thou. Ozempic. (38:22-59:02) Jackson creating even more controversy from yesterday's EMOTD debacle. I just want peace. John Denton with a Jordan Walker update. MRI results released later today. Very brief audio of John Cooper and Jordan Binnington. Doug is underwhelmed. Audio from Macrodosing talking Moneyball. Whoops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Cinematic Odyssey
O Brother Where Art Thou?: The Coen Brothers Folksy Odyssey

The Cinematic Odyssey

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025 65:03


On the sixty-second episode of The Cinematic Odyssey, though recorded on September 29, 2024, Tristen and Max dive into their first look at the Coen Brothers and their 2000 epic "O Brother Where Art Thou?". They go through ghost stories and fables of the actual American South while comparing this film to Homer's Odyssey, with Max also gushing over the banjo and the Soggy Bottom Boys. Tristen and Max also dive into the idea of deus ex machina (dir. Alex Garland) and how the movie is far more Greek than it appears. 

Dante's Old South Radio Show
66 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (October 2024)

Dante's Old South Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 103:32


October 2024 Dante's Old South Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023) and The Absurd Man (2020). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson . A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review and hosts the podcast – The Slowdown. www.majorjackson.com Tim Blake Nelson is an actor, writer, director, and producer who has appeared in over ninety films including Just Mercy, Lincoln, Holes, The Incredible Hulk, Meet the Fockers, Minority Report, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Old Henry. Other recent acting credits set for release in 2023 and 2024 include The Bricklayer, Bang Bang, Captain America: New World Order, and Invisibles. His playwriting credits include Socrates, Anadarko, The Grey Zone and Eye of God, the last two of which Nelson adapted and directed for the screen. Other film directing credits include O, Leaves of Grass, and Anesthesia the last two of which he also wrote. His first novel, City of Blows, was published earlier this year and will be released as a paperback in early 2024. Geoffrey Owens was born and raised in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. He attended New York City public schools before attending Yale University.He has had a notable career as a teacher and an actor. On television, he played ‘Elvin' on NBC's “The Cosby Show,” as well as roles on numerous other shows, including “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Power,” and “Divorce.” He currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey. He thanks Josette for all her support. https://shorturl.at/y4m5D Seth Ingram is a seasoned film producer, educator, and Creative Director of the Rome International Film Festival (RIFF), where he has elevated the event into one of Georgia's most celebrated showcases for independent cinema. As the founder of the Film Program at Georgia Highlands College, Seth also serves as Division Chair of Film, Theatre, and Digital Entertainment, where he mentors emerging filmmakers. His production work includes films such as Signing Day, Spirit Halloween: The Movie, and Outlaw Posse. Recently, he was named one of Georgia's most influential figures in the creative economy by Georgia Entertainment News. Mobley, acclaimed indie singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, returns with a rhapsodic new single, "Y'r Ghost," via Last Gang Records / MNRK Music Group. Written, performed, and produced by Mobley himself, this release signals his reemergence from the studio, where he's been fervently crafting the sci-fi epic foreshadowed on his late 2022 EP Cry Havoc!. “Y'r Ghost” offers a first glimpse of the next installment of this sweeping sonic and narrative world. www.mobleywho.com Additional Music by: Logan Mac “Dance Under Stars” Special Thanks Goes to Our Sponsors: Lucid House Press: www.lucidhousepublishing.com Whispers of the Flight: https://shorturl.at/eAhoD The Crown: www.thecrownbrasstown.com The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com Bright Hill Press: www.brighthillpress.org UCLA Extension Writing Program: www.uclaextension.edu Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org NPR: https: www.npr.org WUTC: www.wutc.org The host, Clifford Brooks', The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Old Gods are available everywhere books are sold. Find them all here: https://shorturl.at/Fwv48 Check out his Teachable courses, The Working Writer and Adulting with Autism, here: https://shorturl.at/9bsU3

Team Deakins
TIM BLAKE NELSON - Actor / Writer / Director

Team Deakins

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 79:35


SEASON 2 - EPISODE 108 - TIM BLAKE NELSON - ACTOR / WRITER / DIRECTOR On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson (LEAVES OF GRASS, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, LINCOLN) about a wide range of topics. We had the pleasure of working with him on O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?, and we had a wonderful time catching up with him. We learn all about his journey from Oklahoma to his first breaks as an actor, and we discuss the artistic and academic foundation that informs his choices as a filmmaker. James and Tim both studied the classics in college, and they compare their Latin and Greek syllabi and reflect on how they still draw from what they learned during their education. Picking the subject back up later in the episode, we also learn the truth behind the apocryphal myth as to whether anyone actually read Homer's Odyssey before shooting O BROTHER. Tim later reflects on his parallel career as a playwright, and we learn why he doesn't direct his own plays as he muses on the different demands of conceptualizing a story for the stage versus one for the screen. Later, we discuss his career as a director, and Tim shares his increasingly difficult experiences funding his independent films. Towards the end, we discuss his recent role as the star of his son's feature debut, ASLEEP IN MY PALM, and we ask Tim about his recent novel, CITY OF BLOWS, and learn how the story was inspired by Tim's real experiences in Hollywood during the COVID-19 pandemic. - This episode is sponsored by Aputure

The Tragedy of Cinema
I Heard That at the Movies- O Brother Where Art Thou?

The Tragedy of Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 9:07


Jimbo forgot to add Bond's segment to the main episode of O Brother Where Art Thou, so he is releasing a solo episode for Bond's segment of the podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tragedy of Cinema
Episode 184: O Brother Where Art Thou?

The Tragedy of Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 40:26


Jimbo and Kyle review O Brother Where Art Thou? This movie is about 3 escaped convicts trying to make it back to their families. While being pursued by law enforcement, they take on the persona of the Soggybottom Boys, and record a hit song. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mentors on the Mic
TRIBECA: Tim Blake Nelson, Andrew Liner and Vincent Grashaw for "BANG BANG"

Mentors on the Mic

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 36:58


TIM BLAKE NELSON - Actor, writer, director, and producer Tim Blake Nelson has appeared in over ninety feature films, including Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, Ang Lee's Billy Lynne's Long Halftime Walk, Louis Letterier's The Incredible Hulk, Jay Roach's Meet the Fockers, Steven Gaghan's Syriana, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Andrew Davis' Holes, and the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou? Nelson also starred as the title character in Netflix's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, written and directed by the Coen Brothers. He next appears in Marvel's Captain America: New World Order, reprising his role as “Samuel Sterns” from The Incredible Hulk. Andrew Liner - Andrew Liner can most recently be seen starring in Peacock's VAMPIRE ACADEMY from Executive Producer Julie Plec and can currently be seen in HBO Max's original film, GRAY MATTER. Next up, he will be shooting a lead role in Destry Spielberg's directorial debut, PLEASE DON'T FEED THE CHILDREN opposite Michelle Dockery. Vincent Grashaw - Director/Editor And Then I Go with Melanie Lynskey, Justin Long, and newcomers Arman Darbo and Sawyer Barth. Also, What Josaiah Saw and Coldwater. Synopsis: Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski (Tim Blake Nelson) is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he's been living in, everyone questions his motivations, including an ex-girlfriend from decades ago, who was privy to Bang Bang's meteoric rise in the sport in the 80s as well as the rivalry with his former opponent, her cousin and Detroit's Mayoral candidate Darnell Washington. Is Bang Bang merely passing down inherited rage, or is there true altruism behind his tutelage? Questions: Vincent Grashaw - How did he come across this script from Will Janowitz? Why he chose to edit the entire film and taking a month? How did editing inform your directing? How did his background inform what he wanted to say about boxing? Tim - How did this script come to you? What went into the preparation for this film? Andrew - What was the audition like? How did you guys do the droopy eye and why was that important to include? Host: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MentorsontheMic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MichelleSimoneMiller⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MentorsontheMic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MichelleSimoneM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook page:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/mentorsonthemic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.michellesimonemiller.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.mentorsonthemic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/user/24mmichelle⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more like this, try TRIBECA: Lisa Edelstein and Gina Torres discuss "THE EVERYTHING POT" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michelle-miller4/support

The Schlock and Awe Podcast
S&A 168 American Mythology: Sullivan's Travels & O Brother Where Art Thou W/ Preston Mitchell

The Schlock and Awe Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 205:11


This week on S&A Lindsay is joined by Preston Mitchell as they talk the deconstruction of American Mythology. It's a Double of Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941) & The Coen's O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) Time to hit the road where Gods and Monsters Dwell. Listen to Schlock & Awe on your favourite Podcast App

The Great Creators with Guy Raz
“Bob Dylan Pushed Me Way Out of My Comfort Zone”: T Bone Burnett, the Mysterious 13X Grammy Winning Music Producer and Soundtrack Savant

The Great Creators with Guy Raz

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 57:46


T Bone Burnett is one of the most accomplished music producers of the past 50 years. He sits down with Guy to talk about buying a recording studio at age 17; being pushed out of his creative comfort zone by Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour; building soundtracks for the Coen Brothers and True Detective; and why, at age 76, he's the happiest and most creative he's ever been.T Bone's new album, The Other Side, is available here: https://shop.tboneburnett.com/Links from the Show: Rolling Thunder Revue documentary on NetflixTrue Detective Season 1 soundtrackBig Lebowski soundtrackInside Llewyn Davis soundtrackGeorge Clooney performing I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow in O Brother Where Art Thou? Los Lobos: How Will the Wolf Survive? AlbumT Bone's InstagramFor more conversations like this – with guests ranging from Diplo to Jewel to Andy Garcia to Tom Hanks – go to https://www.thegreatcreators.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Living for the Cinema
BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)

Living for the Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 18:11 Transcription Available


Every major filmmaker has to start somewhere....and this Neo-Noir thriller was the feature filmmaking debut for Joel and Ethan Coen forty years ago.  Yes the same brothers who have delivered many memorable films since then including Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Inside Llewelyn Davis, and No Country For Old Men for which they won Best Picture at the Oscars.  This is the simple story of four people in the heart of Texas: a bar owner (Dan Hedaya), his wife (Frances McDormand), her secret lover (John Getz), and the mysterious stranger (M. Emmet Walsh) hired by the bar owner to spy on them....and possibly more? :o Of course, things get increasingly dicey and violent from there....it's time to revisit one of the more influential thrillers of the 1980's. Host & Editor: Geoff GershonProducer: Marlene Gershon https://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/

Rock'N Vino: A Pairing of Music & Wine
RNV 113: Songwriters in Paradise | Patrick Davis

Rock'N Vino: A Pairing of Music & Wine

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 41:06


During this episode of ROCKnVINO, hosts Coco and Michelle welcome back Patrick Davis, Founder of Songwriters in Paradise, a series of intimate songwriter showcases in the round where each songwriter shares the stories behind the songs, all paired with delicious food and wine. This year, the series returns to both Napa County and Sonoma County.    SIP Napa is happening April 18th through April 21st with showcases at Alpha Omega, Charles Krug, Silver Oak, and Brasswood wineries. Artists such as Kristian Bush of Sugarland, Channing Wilson, and Marc Broussard take turns performing songs and chatting about their music.   Then SIP comes back to Healdsburg from July 24th through July 27th with showcases at Banshee, Robert Young, Bricoleur and La Crema wineries. New to Songwriters in Paradise this time is Shawn Mullins, who wrote hits including Lullaby, Shimmer, and Beautiful Wreck. Also performing is multi Grammy winner Dan Tyminski (probably best known as the singing voice of George Clooney's character in O Brother Where Art Thou), and Kim Richey. You can get tickets for a single day, or passes for the whole weekend. Learn more at songwritersinparadise.com.   ROCKnVINO is sponsored by American AgCredit.  

Superiority Complex
Episode 475- In A Tight Spot

Superiority Complex

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 68:05


This week Jake and I discuss O Brother Where Art Thou> (2000)

Houston Matters
Texas seceding from the union (Jan. 9, 2024)

Houston Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 49:04


 On Tuesday's show: We get an update on a deadly container ship fire at the Port of Houston on Monday. Also this hour: We discuss the “TEXIT” movement -- the most recent effort for Texas to secede from the union -- why it has grown and what lessons we can draw from history about it. Then, for years, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has presented a film series called Movies Houstonians Love. We talk with the latest Houstonians who have selected a film for screening: O Brother, Where Art Thou, which will be shown Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. And, since it's Taco Tuesday, we talk about the history of tacos with the author of a book called Planet Taco.

Word Podcast
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock

Word Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 53:36


Leaping across puddles, walking between the raindrops, its collar turned to the cold and damp, our weekly podcast builds a defence against the rigours of the rock and roll weather and offers shelter from the storm. Remain warm and dry with the following … … the 11 musicians who turned down a Knighthood, MBE etc. … why Dylan & the Band's 1974 tour set the template for all tours to follow. … Rod Stewart minus the hair: unimaginable. … the old duffers' perfect New Year's Eve. … happy 50th to Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Now, Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic, Gram Parsons' Grievous Angel, Big Star's Radio City, Todd Rundgren's Todd and Frank Zappa's Apostrophe. … Mr Bates v the Post Office and why sad films and books get harder to process as you get older. … the wit and wisdom of our old pal Rod Sopp, the Smash Hits ad man - “a roll of cash big enough to choke a donkey”; “he's so thin he has to run around in the shower to get wet”. … Sting, Debbie Harry, Elvis Presley: spot the natural blond. … how Woody Allen uses music to “make films look better”. … the story of Everybody's Talkin' in Midnight Cowboy. … why movie dance sequences are often filmed in silence.   … and birthday guest Andrew Slattery: All Along the Watchtower in Withnail, Sanctus in If, Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby in O Brother Where Art Thou? and other great movie soundtrack moments.Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Word In Your Ear
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock

Word In Your Ear

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 53:36


Leaping across puddles, walking between the raindrops, its collar turned to the cold and damp, our weekly podcast builds a defence against the rigours of the rock and roll weather and offers shelter from the storm. Remain warm and dry with the following … … the 11 musicians who turned down a Knighthood, MBE etc. … why Dylan & the Band's 1974 tour set the template for all tours to follow. … Rod Stewart minus the hair: unimaginable. … the old duffers' perfect New Year's Eve. … happy 50th to Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Now, Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic, Gram Parsons' Grievous Angel, Big Star's Radio City, Todd Rundgren's Todd and Frank Zappa's Apostrophe. … Mr Bates v the Post Office and why sad films and books get harder to process as you get older. … the wit and wisdom of our old pal Rod Sopp, the Smash Hits ad man - “a roll of cash big enough to choke a donkey”; “he's so thin he has to run around in the shower to get wet”. … Sting, Debbie Harry, Elvis Presley: spot the natural blond. … how Woody Allen uses music to “make films look better”. … the story of Everybody's Talkin' in Midnight Cowboy. … why movie dance sequences are often filmed in silence.   … and birthday guest Andrew Slattery: All Along the Watchtower in Withnail, Sanctus in If, Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby in O Brother Where Art Thou? and other great movie soundtrack moments.Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Word In Your Ear
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock

Word In Your Ear

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 53:36


Leaping across puddles, walking between the raindrops, its collar turned to the cold and damp, our weekly podcast builds a defence against the rigours of the rock and roll weather and offers shelter from the storm. Remain warm and dry with the following … … the 11 musicians who turned down a Knighthood, MBE etc. … why Dylan & the Band's 1974 tour set the template for all tours to follow. … Rod Stewart minus the hair: unimaginable. … the old duffers' perfect New Year's Eve. … happy 50th to Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Now, Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic, Gram Parsons' Grievous Angel, Big Star's Radio City, Todd Rundgren's Todd and Frank Zappa's Apostrophe. … Mr Bates v the Post Office and why sad films and books get harder to process as you get older. … the wit and wisdom of our old pal Rod Sopp, the Smash Hits ad man - “a roll of cash big enough to choke a donkey”; “he's so thin he has to run around in the shower to get wet”. … Sting, Debbie Harry, Elvis Presley: spot the natural blond. … how Woody Allen uses music to “make films look better”. … the story of Everybody's Talkin' in Midnight Cowboy. … why movie dance sequences are often filmed in silence.   … and birthday guest Andrew Slattery: All Along the Watchtower in Withnail, Sanctus in If, Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby in O Brother Where Art Thou? and other great movie soundtrack moments.Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Derringer Discoveries - A Music Adventure Podcast
Plant & Krauss: Raising the Bar w/ Special Guest Matt Saxton

Derringer Discoveries - A Music Adventure Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 28:34


In this episode, Team Derringer explores a rare juxtaposition: the improbable convergence of two highly disparate styles of music. In 2004, two luminaries in their respective genres came together to make magic. One is a dynamic frontman for one of the most well-known rock bands of all time, while the other is a highly sought-after collaborator, solo artist, and leader of an extremely popular bluegrass band. In 2007, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant released their Grammy-winning album, Raising Sand. The critically acclaimed pairing produced studio gold which later turned into platinum. Fourteen years later, the duo released their second album, Raise the Roof. Could they replicate the magic? Listen in to find out! Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Saxton from East Sussex, United Kingdom, joins Team Derringer as special guest-host to explore the Plant and Krauss' fantastic interpretation of blues, country, soul, gospel, and old-timey songs. To top off the winning formula, the pair recruited Grammy award winning T. Bone Burnett, a highly successful record producer, guitarist, and songwriter.  Burnett is known for musical endeavors in films such as O Brother Where Art Thou?, Cold Mountain, Walk the Line, and Crazy Heart. As a special treat, Matt Saxton shares some of his own music with the Derringer Discoveries listeners. Be sure to check out this entertaining episode. Follow Derringer Discoveries on your favorite streaming platform: https://pod.link/derringerdiscoveries or https://derringerdiscoveries.podbean.com/. To contact Team Derringer, visit the Derringer Discoveries website at www.derrringerdiscoveries.com. © Copyright 2023 | Derringer Discoveries | All Rights Reserved

American Timelines
Episode 211: Bonanza & A School Bombing: September & October of 1959

American Timelines

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2023 53:07


Episode 211: Bonanza & A School Bombing: September & October of 1959 Amy tells us all about Paul Harold Orgeron, a disgruntled tile setter who becomes a school bomber, while Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Quick Draw McGraw & The Untouchables all premier, Weird Al, Dave Coulier and Marie Osmond are born, Nikita Khrushchev visited a farm in Iowa to learn about corn from Roswell Garst, The Dodgers beat the White Sox in the World Series, Walter F. Munford accidentally killed himself while putting away kitchen utensils, and we learn of a guy named Larry Schacht proununced “SHATT” and James Carter and the prisoners were recorded singing a prison song which later showed up in O Brother Where Art Thou, and much more useless history trivia!   Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: https://allthatsinteresting.com, Three Christs,  city of roseburg, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

The Insert Credit Show
Ep. 299 - Are You Out of Your Mind?

The Insert Credit Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 77:24


Fifty listener questions taking the form of “What is the ___ of video games?” are defeated by the full panel of the Insert Credit Show. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Questions this week: Vanilla Bean asks: What is the Aphex Twin to Radiohead to Coldplay of video games? (07:32) John H: What is the Studio Trigger of video games? (08:46) Danimal: Who (or what) is the Wednesday Campanella of video games? (10:14) Henry: What is the Action Comics #1 competition of video games? (11:42) Tomarrow: What is the meat and potatoes of video games? (12:49) Kiko b: What is the peanut butter and jelly on white bread of video games? (13:42) Ian: what's the everything bagel of video games? (14:52) Gaagaagiins: What is the 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner of video games? (15:37) Chris B: What is the “walking by a store on a hot day that has the front doors wide open with the AC blasting and you catch a sudden blast of freezing air” of video games? (16:52) Justin: What's the “Live Free or Die Hard” of video games? (18:24) BrillPickle asks: What's the Normcore of video games? (20:10) BrillPickle asks: What's the healthgoth of video games? (21:09) Spencer: what is the “going to the movies but spending the whole time on your phone” of video games? (22:08) Cwumble Fletkh: Who is the Oedipus of video games? (23:08) Fighting fudon: What is the “I've had too much coffee and now I feel like death” of video games? (23:58) JackOakLeaf: What is the Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather of video games? (25:24) Jimi: Who are the Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer of video game characters? (26:21) Jomch: What is the Frasier of videogames? (26:39) Dillson: What is the Hatsune Miku Guitar Synthesizer Stompbox of video games? (28:00) kory: What is the Jaws 19 from Back to the Future Part II of video games? (28:34) Anonymous: What is the finding an onion ring in your fries of video games? (29:12) Classic Anonymous: What is the Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud of video games? (31:22) U G: What is the Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves of video games? (32:29) Shlooter McGavin: What is the “reading a magazine back to front” of video games? (33:26) gordon “matty” freeman: What is the “vinyl just sounds better, dude” of video games? (34:31) Insert Credit Quick Break: Patreon listeners, please check your info because Patreon screwed up (34:57) Maybesheforgot: What is the O Brother Where Art Thou of video games? (35:37) Jeff Mangum: Who or what is the Neutral Milk Hotel of video games? (36:43) Skeletoncounter: What is the Wes Craven's New Nightmare of video games? (38:16) Gaagaagiins asks: What is the comparison between the theatrical and extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? (40:52) LeFish: What is the finding out Santa isn't real of video games? (42:42) Anonymous: What is the going back in time to kill baby Hitler of video games? (44:09) Charlie: Who, or what game, is the first Mark Twain of video games? (45:28) Arvid: What's the “built like a brick outhouse” of video games? (46:05) Buy Gebord: What is the Society of the Spectacle of video games? (47:20) Marxseny: What is the “It's not a phase, mom” of video games? (48:19) Barclay: What is The Illuminatus! Trilogy of video games? (49:20) Crumbling Kwelfis: who is the jean-luc godard of video games? (50:29) Dustin: What is the high school reunion of video games? (51:31) Cole: What is the Nissan Sileighty of video games? (52:43) La_cuna: What or who is the Ricky Jay of video games? (53:35) Kyle: What is the Mission Impossible of video games? (55:32) Torbjorn: Who is the Søren Kierkegaard of video games? (56:42) Antho: What's the Canadian tuxedo of video games? (57:40) ana: What is the cinéma-vérité of video games? (59:06) Snowtire: what is the Star Citizen of video games? (01:00:08) Smander Jettz: Who is the Ezra Miller of video games? (01:01:03) Brayden Bunker: What is the aeropress of video games? (01:02:53) Samf Sankey: who is the Jim Varney of video games? (01:05:47) Swift Justice: What is the BABYMETAL of video games? (01:07:03) nate: what is the 4'33 of video games? (01:09:06) Recommendations and Outro (01:09:27) Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Super Mario series Super Mario Bros - Star The Stars and Stripes Forever Turkey in the Straw What's The Buzz Koji Kondo Django Reinhardt Limehouse Blues The Entertainer (rag) 1812 Overture La Marseillaise Happy Birthday to You Aphex Twin Radiohead Coldplay Bayonetta Devil May Cry series Ninja Gaiden series Final Fantasy XVI Dragon's Dogma Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories SNL “Dear Sister” Parody Studio Trigger WayForward Gainax Wednesday Campanella Castlevania series Final Fantasy XIV Online Bonk's Revenge Action Comics 1 StarTropics EarthBound Call of Duty series Angry Birds Destiny Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series Sonic Mania Days Gone Assassin's Creed series Resident Evil series Raw Danger! Die Hard (film series) Normcore Roblox Health Goth Bullet Witch P.N.03 Rez Indiana Jones Oedipus David Cage Men in Black (1997) MadWorld JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future Shenmue Skies of Arcadia Marlon Brando The Godfather (1972) God of War Seinfeld Frasier Cheers Virtua Fighter Banjo-Kazooie Diddy Kong Racing Donkey Kong Country Liquid Television MIKU STOMP Undertale Groove Coaster series Back to the Future Part II (1989) PlayStation 9 Halo: Combat Evolved Understanding Comics A Grammar of Gameplay House of Leaves What Remains of Edith Finch Doki Doki Literature Club! Yesterday's Enterprise Christopher McDonald Tasha Yar Grand Theft Auto series O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Raising Arizona (1987) Brütal Legend Guitar Hero Neutral Milk Hotel Final Fantasy IX Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Bubsy series Broken Age Monkey Island series Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Fable series Blaster Master series A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Lord of the rings extended edition Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 - Portable Santa Claus Tool-assisted speedrun Castle Wolfenstein series FarmVille Cyberpunk 2077 Mark Twain Octopath Traveler The Society of the Spectacle The Righteous Gemstones Succession The Illuminatus! Trilogy Xenogears / Xenosaga universe Jean-Luc Godard Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Game Freak François Truffaut Super Smash Brothers series F-Zero Nissan 180SX Initial D Ridge Racer 6 Ricky Jay Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible Søren Kierkegaard Michael Brough Cinéma vérité The Stanley Parable Among Us Star Citizen Star Ocean Baldur's Gate III Ezra Miller Reginald VelJohnson Family Matters AeroPress Aero the Acro-Bat Mulholland Drive (2001) Jim Varney Ernest P. Worrell Paul Reubens Nintendogs Babymetal BioShock 4′33″ What's Inside the Box? Super Mario Clouds Recommendations: Frank: Listen to episode 300 Tim: Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants Brandon: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), Trader Joes Rice Cracker Medley Jaffe: Sandman Mystery Theatre This week's Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

Insert Credit Show
Ep. 299 - Are You Out of Your Mind?

Insert Credit Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 77:24


Fifty listener questions taking the form of “What is the ___ of video games?” are defeated by the full panel of the Insert Credit Show. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Questions this week: Vanilla Bean asks: What is the Aphex Twin to Radiohead to Coldplay of video games? (07:32) John H: What is the Studio Trigger of video games? (08:46) Danimal: Who (or what) is the Wednesday Campanella of video games? (10:14) Henry: What is the Action Comics #1 competition of video games? (11:42) Tomarrow: What is the meat and potatoes of video games? (12:49) Kiko b: What is the peanut butter and jelly on white bread of video games? (13:42) Ian: what's the everything bagel of video games? (14:52) Gaagaagiins: What is the 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner of video games? (15:37) Chris B: What is the “walking by a store on a hot day that has the front doors wide open with the AC blasting and you catch a sudden blast of freezing air” of video games? (16:52) Justin: What's the “Live Free or Die Hard” of video games? (18:24) BrillPickle asks: What's the Normcore of video games? (20:10) BrillPickle asks: What's the healthgoth of video games? (21:09) Spencer: what is the “going to the movies but spending the whole time on your phone” of video games? (22:08) Cwumble Fletkh: Who is the Oedipus of video games? (23:08) Fighting fudon: What is the “I've had too much coffee and now I feel like death” of video games? (23:58) JackOakLeaf: What is the Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather of video games? (25:24) Jimi: Who are the Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer of video game characters? (26:21) Jomch: What is the Frasier of videogames? (26:39) Dillson: What is the Hatsune Miku Guitar Synthesizer Stompbox of video games? (28:00) kory: What is the Jaws 19 from Back to the Future Part II of video games? (28:34) Anonymous: What is the finding an onion ring in your fries of video games? (29:12) Classic Anonymous: What is the Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud of video games? (31:22) U G: What is the Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves of video games? (32:29) Shlooter McGavin: What is the “reading a magazine back to front” of video games? (33:26) gordon “matty” freeman: What is the “vinyl just sounds better, dude” of video games? (34:31) Insert Credit Quick Break: Patreon listeners, please check your info because Patreon screwed up (34:57) Maybesheforgot: What is the O Brother Where Art Thou of video games? (35:37) Jeff Mangum: Who or what is the Neutral Milk Hotel of video games? (36:43) Skeletoncounter: What is the Wes Craven's New Nightmare of video games? (38:16) Gaagaagiins asks: What is the comparison between the theatrical and extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? (40:52) LeFish: What is the finding out Santa isn't real of video games? (42:42) Anonymous: What is the going back in time to kill baby Hitler of video games? (44:09) Charlie: Who, or what game, is the first Mark Twain of video games? (45:28) Arvid: What's the “built like a brick outhouse” of video games? (46:05) Buy Gebord: What is the Society of the Spectacle of video games? (47:20) Marxseny: What is the “It's not a phase, mom” of video games? (48:19) Barclay: What is The Illuminatus! Trilogy of video games? (49:20) Crumbling Kwelfis: who is the jean-luc godard of video games? (50:29) Dustin: What is the high school reunion of video games? (51:31) Cole: What is the Nissan Sileighty of video games? (52:43) La_cuna: What or who is the Ricky Jay of video games? (53:35) Kyle: What is the Mission Impossible of video games? (55:32) Torbjorn: Who is the Søren Kierkegaard of video games? (56:42) Antho: What's the Canadian tuxedo of video games? (57:40) ana: What is the cinéma-vérité of video games? (59:06) Snowtire: what is the Star Citizen of video games? (01:00:08) Smander Jettz: Who is the Ezra Miller of video games? (01:01:03) Brayden Bunker: What is the aeropress of video games? (01:02:53) Samf Sankey: who is the Jim Varney of video games? (01:05:47) Swift Justice: What is the BABYMETAL of video games? (01:07:03) nate: what is the 4'33 of video games? (01:09:06) Recommendations and Outro (01:09:27) Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Super Mario series Super Mario Bros - Star The Stars and Stripes Forever Turkey in the Straw What's The Buzz Koji Kondo Django Reinhardt Limehouse Blues The Entertainer (rag) 1812 Overture La Marseillaise Happy Birthday to You Aphex Twin Radiohead Coldplay Bayonetta Devil May Cry series Ninja Gaiden series Final Fantasy XVI Dragon's Dogma Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories SNL “Dear Sister” Parody Studio Trigger WayForward Gainax Wednesday Campanella Castlevania series Final Fantasy XIV Online Bonk's Revenge Action Comics 1 StarTropics EarthBound Call of Duty series Angry Birds Destiny Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series Sonic Mania Days Gone Assassin's Creed series Resident Evil series Raw Danger! Die Hard (film series) Normcore Roblox Health Goth Bullet Witch P.N.03 Rez Indiana Jones Oedipus David Cage Men in Black (1997) MadWorld JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future Shenmue Skies of Arcadia Marlon Brando The Godfather (1972) God of War Seinfeld Frasier Cheers Virtua Fighter Banjo-Kazooie Diddy Kong Racing Donkey Kong Country Liquid Television MIKU STOMP Undertale Groove Coaster series Back to the Future Part II (1989) PlayStation 9 Halo: Combat Evolved Understanding Comics A Grammar of Gameplay House of Leaves What Remains of Edith Finch Doki Doki Literature Club! Yesterday's Enterprise Christopher McDonald Tasha Yar Grand Theft Auto series O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Raising Arizona (1987) Brütal Legend Guitar Hero Neutral Milk Hotel Final Fantasy IX Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Bubsy series Broken Age Monkey Island series Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Fable series Blaster Master series A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Lord of the rings extended edition Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 - Portable Santa Claus Tool-assisted speedrun Castle Wolfenstein series FarmVille Cyberpunk 2077 Mark Twain Octopath Traveler The Society of the Spectacle The Righteous Gemstones Succession The Illuminatus! Trilogy Xenogears / Xenosaga universe Jean-Luc Godard Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Game Freak François Truffaut Super Smash Brothers series F-Zero Nissan 180SX Initial D Ridge Racer 6 Ricky Jay Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible Søren Kierkegaard Michael Brough Cinéma vérité The Stanley Parable Among Us Star Citizen Star Ocean Baldur's Gate III Ezra Miller Reginald VelJohnson Family Matters AeroPress Aero the Acro-Bat Mulholland Drive (2001) Jim Varney Ernest P. Worrell Paul Reubens Nintendogs Babymetal BioShock 4′33″ What's Inside the Box? Super Mario Clouds Recommendations: Frank: Listen to episode 300 Tim: Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants Brandon: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), Trader Joes Rice Cracker Medley Jaffe: Sandman Mystery Theatre This week's Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

Deeper Roots Radio Podcast
Episode 27: O Brother Revisited

Deeper Roots Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2023 117:19


Roots music found commercial success in 2000 with the release of the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, a finely crafted but outrageous tale of Depression-era America with fantastical imagery of hair wax, baptisms, and chain gangs woven into a tapestry built from Homer's Odyssey. The music, assembled by T-Bone Burnett, was a major component of the film and recorded before the film even began with Burnett working with the Coen brothers while the script was in its working phases. It would become an effort that elevated a genre at the turn of the century called Americana. This week's show will share some of the period-specific music that helped to propel the notion that blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, and gospel could be used to put that time and a ghostly familiar culture into focus. We'll use O Brother's musical sensibilities to take us somewhere quite familiar (and at the same time quite terrifying) as we pay homage with Americana roots, featuring sounds from The Carters, Jesse Fuller, Dan Tyminski, Jimmie Rodgers, W. Lee “Pappy” O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys, among others.

To the White Sea
10: Teamwork

To the White Sea

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 89:42


In today's episode, recorded live at Dunkunsthalle in a roundtable study group format, we discuss teamwork in the Coens' films. Sequences where three or more characters form a coalition and try to accomplish something together.  Coens covered: Hail, Caesar!; O Brother Where Art Thou; Inside Llewyn Davis; True Grit; The Big Lebowski Thank you to Austin Purnell for co-hosting, JT Anderson for photography, and all of our guests for their participation and insights: Eva, Jon, Briana, Cole, David, Eric, Moses, JT, Anonymous Special Thanks: Rachel Rossin, Briana Griffin, Sam Geller, Jeff Delauter, Ben Hosley

To the White Sea
9: Budget Destroying Effects (Feat. Ben Brewer)

To the White Sea

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 196:28


Today's episode is mega! We're joined by amazing filmmaker and VFX artist Ben Brewer. We read pages 17-18 and break down sequences in the Coens' films that feature eye-popping—and potentially budget-breaking—special effects. We analyze what makes an effects shot “work”, and the crucial story context that that entails. We also dive into Ben's mind-blowing short film A FOLDED OCEAN and hear about his work on The Daniels' chart-topping and Oscar-winning EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE which took the world by storm in 2022. Coens covered: The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou, A Serious Man, Hail Caesar LIVE EVENT THIS THURSDAY!!! If you want to see A FOLDED OCEAN for yourself, please join us at Dunkunsthalle on Thursday May 4th at 730pm. Discussion and Q+A with Ben to follow. You don't wanna miss this. Dunkunsthalle 64 Fulton St New York, NY 10038 If you're enjoying the show please follow us on social media, tell people about the show, and rate and review us on iTunes. Go for it! You can also support us directly at https://ko-fi.com/tothewhitesea For all things TTWS visit tothewhitesea.me

The Best Thing We Watched This Week
You Season 4 and The Exchange on Netflix, Infinity Pool, Seriously Red , Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special and Cult of Sarah Lawrence

The Best Thing We Watched This Week

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 79:17


Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:28 Movie quote quiz 06:02 Ruben asks some questions 10:57 Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence 16:08 Seriously Red 19:27 Shahmaran 25:18 Ruben gets a visitor 27:25 The Exchange 33:21 Infinity Pool 39:32 You S4 Part 1 43:35 Harley Quinn A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special 46:24 O Brother Where Art Thou and entertainment news with what we are looking forward to. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/best-thing-we-watched/support

Salt Lake Dirt
Tim Blake Nelson - CITY OF BLOWS - Episode 96

Salt Lake Dirt

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 39:52


Today I welcome actor, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist Tim Blake Nelson to the show. Tim is one of the great character actors of our time. Like a lot of people, I first became aware of him in the Coen Bros film O Brother Where Art Thou. Tim's novel is called City of Blows and it just came out on Unnamed Press. It didn't click with me that Tim was actually the writer of this incredible book until I saw his picture on the promo materials. When I read the synopsis, I knew it was my kind of book. "A sprawling, character-driven depiction of the modern film industry.” (Source: Unnamed Press) City of Blows is beautifully written and the character development is incredible. It was an honor to talk with Tim about the book and his process for creating. Thanks for listening! Kyler --- You can purchase signed copies at The Unnamed Press Book Events: 2/7/23 Book Soup, Los Angeles 2/8/23 Magic City Books, Tulsa 2/10/23 Strand Book Store, NYC

Chat 10 Looks 3
Ep 203 - Crabb's Summer of Culture

Chat 10 Looks 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2023 26:02


Crabb gets her turn to share what she's been reading, watching and listening to during the summer break.   (0.50) Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry | Booktopia (11.20) Tell Me Again by Amy Thunig | Booktopia  (14.00) Everything Everywhere All At Once | Binge | Trailer (19.30) O Brother Where Art Thou? | Apple TV+ | Trailer (23.10) Breeders | Disney Plus | Trailer (24.30) Back to Life | Stan | Trailer (24.45) Better Things | Disney Plus | Trailer (25.25) Black Snow | Stan | Trailer (25.37) Colin From Accounts | Binge | Trailer Produced by DM PodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Don't Kill the Messenger with movie research expert Kevin Goetz
Todd Garner (Producer) Shares Filmmaking Stories and More!

Don't Kill the Messenger with movie research expert Kevin Goetz

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 54:29 Transcription Available


Kevin is joined by veteran producer and Hollywood creative executive, Todd Garner.Todd Garner, ProducerTodd Garner, formerly the Disney co-head of production, emerged from one of the most turbulent periods in that studio's history and transitioned from executive to producer. He co-founded Revolution Studios and then started his own production company, Broken Road Productions. He has developed, overseen, executive produced, or produced more than 170 films for more than a dozen studios and streaming services, including 25 films & television shows under his banner.The science and art of audience testing (4:51)Todd and Kevin discuss some of the intricacies of audience testing. Kevin talks about what he calls the science and art of audience testing and moving the audience from simply liking a film to developing a love connection with it. Todd and Kevin both agree that it's about more than just the numbers.Todd's journey (8:21)Todd recounts his journey from doing sketch comedy in high school to studying art and economics in college to a job at a major bank, and how that led to working at the Arsenio Hall Show. He talks about how his combined business & art background provided the fertile ground for a career as a producer and creative executive.Words of advice from Jerry Bruckheimer (21:57)Kevin states how much he admires how Todd has both the creative and business sense to be such a prolific producer. Todd mentions one of the best pieces of advice he ever received from his mentor, Jerry Bruckheimer, who said “I just make movies for me.” Todd talks about how that has guided his decision making, and how he strives to be emotionally connected to his movies.The business of movies (28:07)Kevin and Todd discuss how movies are greenlit in the studio system and the economics of marketing and PR when dealing with a theatrical release versus a release on a streaming service. The pair discuss why comedies, particularly romantic comedies, are easier to produce on a streaming service. What follows is an insider's perspective on the economic advantage the streaming services have over the Hollywood studios.A wide range of mentors (36:44)Kevin asks Todd about his mentors, and who he looks up to in the industry. Todd talks about filmmakers who influenced him like Howard Hawks and Mel Brooks. He then talks about mentors who he worked with like Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Adam Sandler.Memorable audience screenings (45:16)Kevin asks Todd about his most memorable audience screenings from the 500 or so they have worked on together. Todd talks about Kevin's gift of analyzing what is going on behind the audience research numbers and improving the movie through the audience analysis. Todd relates a hilarious story from the Con Air test screening.Host: Kevin GoetzGuest: Todd GarnerProducer:  Kari CampanoFor more information about Todd Garner's upcoming projects:Website: https://www.brokenroadproductions.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/todd_garnerPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-producers-guide-todd-garner-hollywoods-elite/id1363232295For more information about Kevin Goetz:Website: www.KevinGoetz360.comAudienceology Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Audience-ology/Kevin-Goetz/9781982186678Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: @KevinGoetz360Linked In @Kevin GoetzScreen Engine/ASI Website: www.ScreenE

Close Encounters of the Blerd Kind
BL3RDPOD 4: Jhariah: Your New Favorite Musician

Close Encounters of the Blerd Kind

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2022 73:07


This episode, Bl3rds Rynn and Weaver chat with Jhariah about all things music. While Parker's away the bl3rds will…infodump about O Brother Where Art Thou, apparently. Other topics include: West African trickster god Eshu Elegbara, Dante's Inferno, Switchfoot, Amanda Palmer's cover of “Surface Pressure” from Encanto, and Jhariah's upcoming album.  An EXTRA big thank you to Jhariah for the use of his song ENTER: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH Jhariah on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iMYu8Sj8dZEDsWJxSFwPP?si=Sa64yej2Q-eyofYXO9dkUQ Weaver's “Roguish Carnival Roustabout” playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6nJtwDc3eJeS4EikGmYExy?si=1fb816f46db74be8 Support us at: Rynn: Tiktok: @rynnstar Youtube: Wordy and Nerdy  Instagram: @therealrynnstar  https://awesomesocks.club/products/awesome-socks-club-2023?sca_ref=2724559.2mztIcbwV9 Weaver: Tiktok: @the_woodmother  Youtube: The Woodmother  Patreon:/TheWoodmother Instagram: @the _woodmother Parker: Tiktok: @humbletortoise Youtube: HumbleTortoise Patreon: /HumbleTortoise Instagram: @humble.tortoise (edited)

Stories For Glory
Baptism, Jail Breaks, The Devil, and More Baptism

Stories For Glory

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2022 58:54


Have you seen O Brother Where Art Thou? At least two-thirds of us think it is great! Thanks for the request, O Faithful Listener!

InObscuria Podcast
Ep. 149: Covers From Beyond!!! - HALLOWEEN

InObscuria Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022 100:08


In our final week of Gothtober, your fiendish-yet-friendly ghouls bring you an episode all about bands playing other bands' songs! These happen to be familiar songs that you hear at every HALLOWEEN party this time of year! Most of these are in the mainstream pop world… scary!!! However, what vile and twisted interpretations can be made by our rock n' punk n' metal ambassadors??? Listen if you dare…What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. Robert is forced to test his endurance and provide feedback, as he has no idea what he will be subjected to every week. Our hope is that we turn you on to something that was lost on your ears, or something you've simply forgotten about, or that (in our opinion) should have been the next big thing.Songs this week include:Pulley – “Grim Grinning Ghosts (Disney's Haunted Mansion)” from Punk Rock Halloween, Vol. 2: Louder, Faster & Scarier(2019)Doctor Smoke – “Trick Or Treat (Fastway)” from Trick Or Treat - Single (2021) Punchline – “Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr.)” from Punk Rock Halloween, Vol. 2: Louder, Faster & Scarier(2019)Strung Out – “Bark At The Moon (Ozzy Osbourne)” from Punk Goes Metal (2000)Linger – “Zombie (The Cranberries)” from Linger EP (2005)Tsunami Bomb – “Dead Man's Party (Oingo Boingo)” fromPunk Rock Halloween, Vol. 2: Louder, Faster & Scarier(2019)Chuck Billy – “Thriller (Michael Jackson)” from Metal Thriller (2013)Dash Rip Rock – “Man Of Constant Sorrow (The Soggy Bottom Boys)” from Hee Haw Hell (2007)Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/InObscuria?asc=uCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Quite a Bit
Robert Johnson: Thumb or Handkerchief?

Quite a Bit

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2022 40:30


Sunday nights just got a little more heated! House of the Dragon debuted this weekend, and we can not be more excited for this world to start building around us. Then we hop back on the horror train with the prequel 13 years in the making with Orphan: First Kill. Sadly though, it may be too soon to dust off those fake vampire teeth as we discuss a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. And our story this week takes us down the crossroads where we learn about the myths and monsters behind these intersections and the man that made it famous here in the states, Blues musician Robert Johnson. To send in topics of interest, please email quiteabitpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/quiteabitpodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Follow us on Facebook and Youtube: https://linktr.ee/quiteabitpodcast Sources for this episode:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaKkzNqCPnc&ab_channel=Polyphonichttps://nationalbluesmuseum.org/blues-faq-tommy-johnson-1896-1956/https://nationalbluesmuseum.org/stories-of-the-crossroads-blues-myths-did-robert-johnson-really-sell-his-soul-to-the-devil/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(folklore)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_JohnsonUp Jumped the Devil by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow

Gartbage Film
57: O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) - Soggy Bottom Business

Gartbage Film

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 81:01


It's the first Coen Bros movie we've covered on the pod, and one we think is an underappreciated part of their filmography: 2000's O Brother Where Art Thou?We're covering this movie's various inspirations from the Odyssey to Preston Sturges, its killer soundtrack, and we crown Tim Blake Nelson the king of the movie. Plus, how real is the reality of this movie? Let's talk about it!Next week we're finally expressing our true love for Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, it's Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)!

Gartbage Film
56: Tremors (1990) - B-Movie Maniacs

Gartbage Film

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2022 84:22


Do you feel that? It's this week's episode on 1990's Tremors!Whether you're listening while stranded on a roof or commuting on a CAT loader, we think you'll enjoy our discussion on what makes this a great western and a fantastic monster movie. We're talking about how the limited budget on this movie was to its advantage, how it was born out of industrial shorts and biology, and Nick accidentally demolishes Erin with his trivia segment, "Grab-oid onto these facts!"Next week we're sticking to the American south with the Coen's O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)!

You're Missing Out
Sullivan's Travels (1941) w/ Maynard Bangs

You're Missing Out

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 94:26


"A Happy-Go Lucky Hitch-Hiker on the Highway to happiness! He wanted to see the world . . . but wound up in Lover's Lane!" Reels of Justice co-host Maynard Bangs decides to slum it here on You're Missing Out to see how the other half lives. Along the way, there's conversations about Preston Sturges, Veronica Lake, and Bruce Wayne's second alter-ego, Matchstick Malone!Rent Sullivan's Travels hereNext week:Bringing Up Baby w/ Ryan Luis Rodriguez (rent it here)Hosts:Michael NataleTwitterInstagramLetterboxd Tom LorenzoTwitterInstagramLetterboxd Producer:Kyle LamparTwitterInstagram Guest:Maynard BangsReels of Justice PodcastReels of Justice Twitter Follow the Show:TwitterInstagramWebsite Music by Mike Natale

The Dr C Robert Jones Situation Report

There's a memorable scene in the Coen Brother film O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) where the fictional Mississippi governor Pappy O'Daniel (inspired by the real Texas politician W. Lee O'Daniel) confronts assistants running his campaign for re-election. Facing a surging opponent, O'Daniel demands new ideas to turn the race around. When his dimwitted son suggests "people like that reform, maybe we should get us some," the governor explodes. "Reform, you soft-headed sumb---h? How we gonna run reform when we're the damn incumbent?"

The Dr C Robert Jones Situation Report

There's a memorable scene in the Coen Brother film O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) where the fictional Mississippi governor Pappy O'Daniel (inspired by the real Texas politician W. Lee O'Daniel) confronts assistants running his campaign for re-election. Facing a surging opponent, O'Daniel demands new ideas to turn the race around. When his dimwitted son suggests "people like that reform, maybe we should get us some," the governor explodes. "Reform, you soft-headed sumb---h? How we gonna run reform when we're the damn incumbent?"

The Newest Olympian
34 | The Sea of Monsters Ch. 12B-13A w/ Alyssa Esteban

The Newest Olympian

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 64:29 Very Popular


Alyssa Esteban of Breakfast in Beauclair returns to TNO as Percy and Annabeth return to The Sea of Monsters for more mayhem! Topics include: Hadestown, Zooptopia, Timothy Hughes, massage sales pitches, Ron's Gone Wrong, MLMs, Marty McFly, Our Flag Means Death, Heartstopper, NBA Playoffs, Oscar Isaac, Blackbeard, Mise en place, Olympic events, BROOKLYN, Green Goblin, spirit fingers, cheerleading, growth spurts, Hot Topic, My Immortal, Jersey gesticulating, Aegis, O Brother Where Art Thou, and more!TNO MERCH: www.thenewestolympian.com/merchPOTTERLESS LIVE: www.potterlesspodcast.com/liveThanks to our sponsors:Backblaze - visit www.backblaze.com/tno for a 15-day free trialAthletic Green - go to www.athleticgreens.com/newestolympian for 5 free travel packs and 1 year of Vitamin D— Find The Newest Olympian Online —• Website: www.thenewestolympian.com• Patreon: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon• Twitter: www.twitter.com/newestolympian• Instagram: www.instagram.com/newestolympian• Facebook: www.facebook.com/newestolympian• Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian• Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/merch— Production —• Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert (https://schub.es)• Editor: Sherry Guo• Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle• Art: Jessica E. Boyd• Multitude: www.multitude.productions— About The Show —Is Percy Jackson the book series we should've been reading all along? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over Greek mythology. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts!

Six Pack Double Feature
046 Raising Arizona | O Brother Where Art Thou?

Six Pack Double Feature

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2022 77:01


It's a classic double feature today as Nathan and Travis talk Coen Brothers. Will Nathan get that new pomade he's been talking about? Will Travis return the stolen Huggies? Find out today! It's RAISING ARIZONA and O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? on Six Pack Double Feature.   Copyright 2022 | Klopek Media

The Art of Craftsmanship
Spring Fever & The Arts

The Art of Craftsmanship

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2022 105:21


The gents go over what its like to be back in the "Spring" of things, where they are in the Dagger Challenge build, and how looking at making as art can be rejuvenating.Check out The Art of Craftsmanship on YouTube, Instagram, and Patreon here...youtube.com/theartofcraftsmanship@theartofcraftsmanship@theartofcameraguypatreon.com/theartofcraftsmanshipRecommendations:Dustin:The Full Blast Podcast. Episode 97: Live from the Center For Metal Arts with Pat QuinnDevon:Down From the Mountain: Live performances from the musicians from the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack

Your Brain on Facts
Fell on Black Days: Sunday (ep. 189)

Your Brain on Facts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 34:46


(Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MOXIE - Enter promo code MOXIE for 83% off and 3 extra months free!) T-shirt for Ukraine, all proceeds and matching donation to Ukraine Red Cross at yourbrainonfacts.com/merch There are four Sundays a month, but more than a dozen days we call "Black Sunday."  Here are three -- two forces of nature and one parade of schadenfreude. 02:42 Black Blizzard 12:45 Bondi Beach 24:42 Disneyland Quote reader: Vlado from It's Not Rocket Surgery Promo: Remnant Stew Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Dan Lebowitz,  Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   Every year, tens of millions people or so go through Denver International Airport, the fifth busiest in the country and in the top 20 busiest in the world.  That's a lot of bodies to get from hither to yon, so the airport relies heavily on Automated Guideway Transit System, a people-mover that connects all of the midfield concourses with the south terminal, providing the only passenger access to concourses B and C.  And in 1995, a day that will live in infamy for staff and passengers alike, the system failed.  They refer to that day as Black Sunday.  My name's…   So I said to myself the other day, you know what would make a good topic, days with colorful sobriquets, surely there are enough of those to write about.  In what they call a good problem to have, there are in fact, too many!  Most of the “black.”  So I'm starting with a few Black Sundays and if you thinks it's a fruitful area of discussion, I'll make it a series, maybe one a month.  I'd space them out because you don't hear about the planes that land and you don't call a day Black whatever if everything was chill.  As such, today's episode is two heavy topics and one packed with schadenfreude, so gauge how you're feeling today.,  I don't mind waiting – it's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for.  We're going to go heavy, heavy, light, as decided by folks in our Facebook group, the Brainiac Breakroom, where anyone can share clever or funny things they find; same goes to the ybof sud-reddit.   Speaking of social media, folks are starting to post pictures of themselves wearing their Russian Warship go F yourself shirts to raise money for the Ukraine red cross (url).  Thanks to them specifically and I want to send a sweeping cloud of thanks to people in other countries for taking in the refugees.  Speaking of refugees, there was a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans were refugees in their own country.  During WWI, wheat prices rose and farming in the open prairies of the great plains was an attractive proposition.  Homesteaders and farmers set up shop, ripping up or tilling under the native grasses that had evolved as part of that ecosystem, with long roots that both held onto lots of soil, but reached down far enough to reach water waaay below the topsoil, allowing it to better survive drought conditions.  But we don't like to eat those grasses, so they replaced it with shallow-rooted wheat.  The rain stopped falling in 1931, leaving instead a severe widespread drought that lasted the rest of the decade, eventually killed thousands of square miles of wheat fields.  No other crops, either, and nothing to feed livestock.  Without live plants to hold onto the topsoil, it blew away.  The prairie wind became a sandstorm and people's livelihoods blew away.  It got so bad, the dust clouds eventually reached the east coast and beyond.  At the same time, they had this Great Depression on, a real nuisance, you've seen the movies, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, the other versions of Of Mice and Men, O Brother Where Art Thou (only time I enjoyed George Clooney), and dozens more.  The price of wheat [sfx raspberry] and people lost their jobs left right and center.  Many families were left with no choice but to pile whatever they still had left onto the family car and follow rumors of work, sometimes migrating all the way to California, where, even though they were regular ol' ‘Mericans, they were treated like foreign invaders.   Black Blizzard, American Dust Bowl, 1938   That's a broad-stroke quickie overview – and boy do I want to rewatch Carnivale for the fourth time (love me some Clancy Brown, rawr, I still would) – but we're here to talk about one day, a black Sunday, brought on by a black blizzard.  It's a blizzard but made up of dirt so thick, it blocks out the sun.  14 hit black blizzards hit in 1932, 38 in 1933, up to 70 by 1937 and so on.  The worst of it hit Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.  The storms became so frequent that people could discern the origin of the storm by the color of its dirt – brown dust storms were from Kansas or Nebraska, gray from Texas, and red dust storms were from Oklahoma.    People tried to protect themselves from breathing the dust and cloth masks were the least of it.  They'd hang wet sheets over doorways and seal up windows, sometimes with a paste ironically made of wheat flour because that's what they could get. They'd rub petroleum jelly into their nostrils, anything to try to prevent the “brown plague,” dust pneumonia.  Constant inhalation of dust particles killed hundreds of people, babies and young children particularly, and sickened thousands of others.   1934 was the single worst drought year of the last millennium in North America, temperatures soared, exceeding 100 degrees everyday for weeks on much of the Southern Plains, absolutely *baking the soil.  When spring of 1935 rolled around, there was a whole lot more dry dirt ready to be thrown into the air.  After months of brutal conditions, the winds finally died down on the morning of April 14, 1935, and people jumped on the chance to escape their homes.  Hope springs eternal and people thought maybe it was finally over.   It was, of course, not over.  The worst was standing in the wings in full costume, waiting for its cue.  A cold front down from Canada crashed into warm air over the Dakotas.  In a few hours, the temperature fell more than 30 degrees and the wind returned in force, creating a dust cloud that grew to hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high as it headed south.  Reaching its full fury in southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, it turned a sunny day totally dark.  Birds, mice and jackrabbits fled for their lives.  Have you ever heard the sound *one terrified rabbit makes?  I would not want to be on the ground while this was happening.  Domestic animals like cattle that couldn't get to shelter were blinded and even suffocated by the dust.   Drivers were forced to take refuge in their cars, while other residents hunkered down anywhere they could, from fire stations to tornado shelters to under beds if a bed was the closest you could find to safety.  Folksinger Woody Guthrie, then 22, who sat out the storm at his Pampa, Texas, home, recalled that “you couldn't see your hand before your face.” Inspired by proclamations from some of his companions that the end of the world was at hand, he composed a song titled “So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh.”  [sfx song] Guthrie would also write other tunes about Black Sunday, including “Dust Storm Disaster.”   The storm dragged on for hours and peoples' wits began to fray.  One woman reportedly thought the merciless howling wind blocking out the sky was the start of the Biblical end of the world – can't imagine how she arrived there-- contemplated killing her child to spare them being collateral damage in a war between heaven and hell.  By all accounts it was the worst black blizzard of the Dust Bowl, displacing 300,000 tons of topsoil.  That would be enough to cover a square area of .4mi/750 m on each side a foot deep.  “Everybody remembered where they were on Black Sunday,” said Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, a history professor at Iowa State University and the author of “Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas.”  “For people on the Southern Plains, it was one of those defining experiences, like Pearl Harbor or Kennedy's assassination.”   The Black Sunday storm blew its dust all the way to the east coast, causing street lights to be needed during the day in Washington DC and even coating the decks of ships in the Atlantic ocean.  The next day, as the remnants of the storm blew out into the Gulf of Mexico, an Associated Press reporter filed a story in which he referred to “life in the dust bowl of the continent,” coining the phrase that would encapsulate a phenomenon, a place, and a time.  Inspired by the myriad tales of suffering that proliferated in Black Sunday's wake, the federal government began paying farmers to take marginal lands out of production. It also incentivized improved agricultural practices, such as contour plowing and crop rotation, which reduced soil loss roughly 65 percent. By then, however, many families had given up hope and ¼-⅓ of the most affected people fled the Southern Plains, never to return.  But in the win column, thanks to better agricultural management practices, the massive black blizzards never returned either. Bondi Beach, Australia, 1938   The phrase Black Sunday isn't exclusive to the US, of course.  My one sister's adoptive country of Australia has had their fair share as well.  Like Black Sunday from 1926, an especially bad day during an already disastrous bushfire season.  60 people were killed and 700 injured.  Or the Black Sunday bushfires across South Australia in 1955.  60 fire brigades and 1,000 volunteers were needed to get the fires under control.  Thankfully this time only 2 people died that time.     On the far side of the element wheel is the story of Bondi Beach, minutes east of Sydney, on a February Sunday in 1938.  Sydney had recently celebrated its 150th birthday, or sesqui-centenary, with a big old parade and events planned to last until April.  The city was a-bustle with visitors, many of whom joined the locals spending the hot, sunny day at Bondi Beach.     The sky was clear, but the sea was already acting a fool. A large swell was hitting the coast and lifeguards at Bondi were busy all day Saturday pulling people from the heavy surf, as many as 74 rescues in one hour.  Despite the heavy seas, beach inspectors gave a mayor of Amity-approved thumbs-up to opening the beach on Sunday, February 6.  Beachgoers started coming and coming and coming.  The morning started out relatively quiet for the lifeguards, but business got brisk, even as they tried to wave swimmers toward safer parts of the beach.  As the tide moved out, more and more people ventured out to a sandbar that ran parallel to the beach.  The crowd had grown to 35,000, enjoying the surf and sand.  Extra surf reels were brought out to the beach as they tried to keep pace with the ballooning battery of bathers.  A lifesaving reel is an Australian invention that was brilliant in its simplicity.  It was a giant reel of rope, with a belt or harness at the end, in a portable stand.  The life saver would attach the harness to his or her self then swim out to the struggling swimmer or surfer.  The lifeguard –and I am going to persist in saying the American lifeguard rather than the Australian lifesaver– then puts the rescuee in the harness and a lifeguard on the beach would reel them in.  The lifeguard in the water either accompanies that person back or goes on to rescue someone else.      Boat crews were out in the water dropping buoys to mark out a race course for weekly races held by and for the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club.  This would turn out to be as fortuitous as when a woman had a heart attack on a trans-atlantic flight, but there were 15 cardiologists on board, going to a conference.  At about 3.00 p.m. two duty patrols were changing shifts at the Bondi surf club and some 60 club members were mingling around waiting for the competition.    Suddenly, five tremendous waves crashed high onto the beach, one right after the other, in such quick succession that the water could not recede.  Even though most bathers were only standing in water up to their waists, they were thrown onto the beach, and pummeled by the following waves.  Then the water receded.  What goes up must come down and what comes in must go back out.  The backwash, which is the term for water on the beach finding its level and returning to the ocean, swept people who'd been nowhere near the water, including non-swimmers who never planned to get in the water, into the water.  The people on the sandbar were then swept further out.  The club recorded 180 people, but news reports at the time put the figure as high as 250 – 250 people now in need of rescue, panicking and thrashing in the surf.     All hands from the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club lept into action.  Beltmen took every available line out, many went in without belts and held up struggling bathers.  Lifesaver Carl Jeppesen is said to have simply dived into the surf to rescue six people without the aid of a surf reel.  One of the main problems was not lack of assistance but too much unskilled help from the huge crowd on the beach.  One beltman, George Pinkerton, was dragged under water by members of the public trying to haul him in. He ended up in need of medical attention. Once the lines had been cleared and a certain amount of order restored, the lifeguards could get on with the job.  Thankfully there were people who *could help.  “I was co-opted into the situation because I was a strong swimmer and they put me on a line,'' said Ted Lever, just 16 at the time, a member of the Bondi Amateur Swimming Club who would soon be invited to join the renowned Bondi lifesaving club.    Even when the well-meaning public had been cleared from the lines to leave them in trained hands, there were still problems. The beltmen often found themselves swamped by swimmers seeking assistance. Some of them had to punch their way through a wall of distressed bathers to get to others in more danger.  One beltman spoke of being seized by five men who refused to let go.  “I was trying to take the belt to a youngster who was right out the back but I didn't get the chance.  As I went by, dozens yelled for help and tried to grab me.  I told them to hang on to the rope as soon as I got it out.  I didn't think I had a chance when they all came at me.  One grabbed me around the neck, two others caught me by one arm, another around the waist and another one seized my leg.  I hit the man who had me around the neck, managed to get him on his chin and he let go.  I had to do it; but for that, I would have been drowned myself.”   The boat was still out after laying the buoys but the crew were waiting for the race to start, but they were completely unaware of the chaos just off the beach.  Nobody thought to signal them, but even if they had, the boat could have posed a danger to people in the water with overactive waves and rip currents.   It was difficult to tell exactly how many people had been rescued during the course of that chaotic 20 minutes.  Rescued swimmers were brought up the beach by the dozens.  About 60 needed to be resuscitated to one degree or another.  Five people died, including one man who died saving a girl.   American doctor Marshall Dyer, there on vacation, helped resuscitate swimmers.  “I have never seen, nor expect to see again, such a magnificent achievement as that of your lifesavers,'' he said. ``It is the most incredible work of love in the world.''   There were inarguably many heroes on Bondi Beach that day, but the Lifesavers' club stance afterwards was that “everyone did his job.”  “It must be realised that though perhaps less spectacular, the work on the beach and in the clubhouse was just as necessary if not more so,'' he told a newspaper.  Instead of recognising individuals for their efforts the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia recommended the entire club for a special meritorious award.   Opening day of Disneyland, 1955   even a potential COVID outbreak or the measles outbreak they had a few years ago would pale in comparison to the disaster that was opening day at Disney.  Disneyland is known as the happiest place on Earth.  But when the park opened on July 17, 1955, the now-ubiquitous nickname was downright ironic.  Disney employees who survived the day referred to it as Black Sunday.  So opening day at Disney was a bit more like the Simpsons episode where they went to itchy and scratchy world. The opening day was meant to be a relatively intimate affair, by invite only, not for every Huey, Dewey and Lewey.  If you were friends and family of the employees, members of the press, and celebrities of the day, you received a ticket in the mail.  If you were everyone else, you bought a counterfeit ticket.  The park was only expecting 15,000 guests; 28,000 showed up, nearly doubled what they prepared for.  Well, what they meant to prepare for, we'll ride the teacups back around to that in a sec.  The counterfeit tickets might have been better than the legit ones, as those were only good for half the day, morning or afternoon, to spread the workload out more evenly.  The morning tickets had an end time of 2:30 pm, when, assumably, they figured people would see that and just say, oh, bother, my time is up, guess I'll leave then.  Nobody did that.  One is stunned.  You buy a ticket for a theme park, you're there all day.  So the morning people were still milling about when the afternoon people started showing up.  And then there were the people who started just sneaking in.  One enterprising self-starter set a ladder up against the outside fence and charged people $5 to climb it.  That's about $50 adjusted for inflation, many many times over for schlepping along a ladder that I like to think he nicked from his neighbor's yard.    A lot of things were not ready on opening day, within the park and without.  The Santa Ana Freeway outside turned into a 7 mile long parking lot.  The opening of the park essentially shut the freeway down.  There were so many people waiting so long, according to some media reports, there was rampant [] relief on the side of the road and even in the Disney parking lot.  Like the video for Everybody Hurts, if folks couldn't hold their water.  If you just flashed back to your life when that video came out, be sure to stretch before you mow the lawn and don't forget your big sun hat.     Today might think of a Disney park as being meticulously manicured and maintained.  Opening day, not so much.  Walt Disney tried to have everything ready on time, hustling his people to work faster, but there's only so much you can do.  So there were bare patches of ground, some areas of bare ground that had been painted green, weeds where the lawns and flowers were meant to be.  Weeds and native flora that they couldn't get rid of in time, they instead put little signs with the Latin name of the plant in the weeds, so it kind of looks like it was meant to be there.  Turn a liability into an asset, I always say.  Returning to the topic of bathrooms, there was a plumber's strike going on during construction; Walt basically had to decide between working water fountains or working toilets.  Florida heat notwithstanding, he chose to have the toilets working, and I'd say that was probably a good call.  If you've ever played theme park tycoon or any of those games now, you know that a lack of water fountains means people *have to pay for drinks now…  Or they would… if the park's concessions had been fully stocked.  The overabundance of people meant that the food and drink sold out completely in just a couple of hours.  Did I mention it was literally 100 deg freedom/38C that day?  The asphalt had been finished so close to opening that it began sticking to people's shoes.  Some people even claimed to have gotten their shoes completely stuck to the pavement on Main Street, where lots of people spent lots of time, because the rides, kind of a big deal at a theme park, they were not ready.  A number of rides, like Peter Pan's Flight, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Submarine Voyage, and the famous Flying Dumbo either broke down or never opened at all.   Disney's Black Sunday lasted for weeks.  A Stagecoach ride in Frontierland permanently closed when it became clear that they were as safe against rollovers as a Bronco II with a roof rack loaded with building supplies.  36 cars in Autopia crashed due to aggressive driving on the part of the patrons.  I'm starting to wonder if Disney ever met people.  Ironically, the ride was designed to help children learn to be respectful drivers on the road.  There were a number of live animals in a circus attraction, which was not great when a Tiger and a Panther escaped, which resulted in a furious death struggle on Main Street, USA.  Now that's an attraction you can't pay for, like Baghera vs Sher Khan, 8 years before The Jungle Book.  Like the park, the Mark Twain Riverboat was over capacity on opening day with over 500 people cramming onto the boat, causing it to jump its tracks and sink in the mud.  It took about half an hour to get it back onto the rail, and as soon as it pulled up to the landing, everyone rushed to one side of the boat to get off…. and tipped it over.  Thankfully, the water was shallow and there were no injuries.  There was, however, a gas leak inside Sleeping Beauty's Castle, which could have been a serious problem and prompted the closing of Adventureland, Fantasyland and Frontierland for a few hours because, whoopsie-doodles, Sleeping Beauty's Castle is on fire.  Well, trying to catch fire.  Reports vary as to how severe it actually was.  Walt was so busy handling the press that he didn't even learn about the fire until the following day.  That's how chaotic things were.     Disney was a shrewd and clever businessman, so he thought, I am opening this park. Let's make this into a big live television event.  He partnered with ABC, which had also helped provide nearly a third of the funding.  In return, Walt Disney would host a weekly TV show about what people could expect to see in Disneyland for the year before it opened.  So on opening day, Walt hosted a 90 minutes live TV special with Art Linkletter and future President Ronald Reagan.  90 million people tuned in to see the happiest place on Earth and that kind of ratings was no mean feat for the 50's.  The cameras showed all of the fun and excitement of Disneyland, completely obscuring all of the disasters and unhappiness that was actually happening.  But if you think the live broadcast would go off without a hitch, you may have pattern-recognition problems.  It was riddled with technical difficulties.  Parkgoers kept tripping over camera cables that snaked all over the park.  They were on-air flubs, mics that didn't work, people who forgot their mic *did work, and unexpected moments caught on camera, such as co host Bob Cummings caught making out with one of the dancers.  “This is not so much a show as is a special event,” Art Linkletter said during the broadcast.  “The rehearsal went about the way you'd expect a rehearsal to go if you were covering three volcanoes, all erupting at the same time and you didn't expect any of them. So from time to time, if I say we take you now by camera to the snapping crocodiles in adventure land and instead somebody pushes the wrong button and we catch Irene done adjusting her bustle on the Mark Twain. Don't be too surprised.”  And that's…. The train system is essential for the airport to function at its full capacity since it provides the only passenger access to Concourses B and C. In rare instances of the train system being out of service, shuttle buses have been used. While the system is highly reliable, one major system failure took place on April 26, 1998. A routing cable in the train tunnel was damaged by a loose wheel on one of the trains, cutting the entire system's power. The system was out of service for about seven hours. United Airlines, DIA's largest airline (who operates a large hub out of Concourse B), reported that about 30 percent of their flights and about 5,000 passengers were affected by the failure.     Sources: find sources for Disney https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2013/11/historical-echoes-what-color-is-my-day-of-the-week/ https://www.history.com/news/remembering-black-sunday https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/black-sunday-1938-hundreds-washed-out-to-sea-on-bondi-beach-as-freak-waves-kill-five-injure-dozens/news-story/2f584af7365abc298d039d42e5f2ddf1 https://bondisurfclub.com/the-club/history/black-sunday/ https://www.history.com/news/dust-bowl-migrants-california https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnEErB6sPRY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925%E2%80%9326_Victorian_bushfire_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_bushfires https://web.archive.org/web/20110927091319/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/19553/Black_Sunday.pdf https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/black-sunday-1938-hundreds-washed-out-to-sea-on-bondi-beach-as-freak-waves-kill-five-injure-dozens/news-story/2f584af7365abc298d039d42e5f2ddf1 http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/159183/Bondis_Black_Sunday,_1938_rev.pdf https://bondisurfclub.com/the-club/history/black-sunday/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110927091319/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/19553/Black_Sunday.pdf https://www.history.com/news/remembering-black-sunday https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1000-mile-long-storm-showed-horror-life-dust-bowl-180962847/ https://alchetron.com/Denver-International-Airport-Automated-Guideway-Transit-System  

Album 4 the Day
O Brother Where Art Thou?

Album 4 the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2022 7:26


Movie Soundtracks is the theme for the month! Album 4 the Day - March 15, 2022 - O Brother Where Art Thou? Listen to the story behind the album! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/album4theday/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/album4theday/support

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2022 37:31


Are YOU excited about Succession? Hear the panel discuss it for several weeks in a row! Also featured: celebrity sightings, Star Wars discussion, acquiring car sickness, Cohen Brothers comedy, and power recliners. A SMALL DESCRIPTION OF EPISODES PULLED FROM: (Ep. 212) Pre-show. Brandon is buying Jump Force only because it's going to be delisted. Tim tells stories about his Kotaku videos, and knows the difference between Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Professional. Frank sounds better. Helpful computer tips are shared. (Ep. 213) Pre-show. Tim reveals more details about his Minnesota mansion and dives into last night's Succession. Brandon can't imagine what would make him watch that show. The idea of a Succession bonus episode is discussed. (Ep. 213) Mid-show technical difficulty. Frank drops out, so Tim takes the opportunity to discuss his network storage setup, and last night's Succession. Jaffe talks about The Jar Jar Trilogy. Star Wars opinions are delivered. (Ep. 213) (Content warning: pretty gross car sickness story) Extended break. Tim has advice for young'uns, and has been going to the movie theater. Brandon shares a story about car sickness and another one about the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou. Celebrity sightings are discussed and compared. (Ep. 214) Pre-show. A Starbucks unionized! Fuck Kellogs (UPDATE: strike has finished, congratulations to Kellogg's workers!!) Tim's goblin hole requires assistance, but he has power recliners so it's not all bad. Everything you've heard about New York apartment building pettiness is true. Jaffe tries making a Succession Friend.

SOS Cinema
"O Brother Where Art Thou" (2000); O What Fun! - SOSC #24

SOS Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2021 52:25


Saturday Morning Obscurities
Ep1 Ulysses 31

Saturday Morning Obscurities

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 56:39


In our inaugural episode, we're talking Ulysses 31, a space opera version of The Odyssey! In this 1981 French/Japanese animated adaptation, Ulysses angers Zeus and is cursed to fly around in space and find the Kingdom of Hades before he can return home. His only companions are his son Telemachus, a handful of robots, a young alien girl, and a giant room full of the floating bodies of the rest of the ship's crew stuck in suspended animation. Every ship's gotta have a floating body room! We talk about the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou, bringing your kid to work, and pets who can swim. Warning: Clipping audio for the first 2 episodes.   Jams: @JamsWilk Melissa: @WilkyWit Questions or Comments: Email us!: SaturdayMOpod@gmail.com DM us!: @SaturdayMOpod

The Breakdown
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Breakdown

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2020 46:56


It's the movie that brought bluegrass to a new generation, and sent dozens of musical careers into the stratosphere. This week, Patrick and Emma dissect the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou, with a little help from their friends Chris Thomas King and Dan Tyminski. Fake beards not required. Season 2 of The Breakdown is sponsored by The Soundtrack of America: Made In Tennessee. Visit TNVacation.com to start planning your trip.

The Funkhouser Situation podcast
Once Upon a Time on the Funkhouser Situation

The Funkhouser Situation podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2019 46:53


Are you ready for some Funkhouser? Lee Cruse and Chris Tomlin return for another action-packed episode of The Funkhouser Situation. Before they end with a show-stopping spoiler-filled review of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, KSR's terrific tandem talks about...-- There's a new Spider-Man and a couple of characters stick out. -- BIG news about the new Disney streaming service. -- If you could be any Marvel hero, who would you be?-- MORE REBOOTS?!?!?!?!?!?!?-- A perfect impression of Dave Chappelle. -- SPOILER ALERT! Lee hasn't had so much fun at the movies since O Brother Where Art Thou.