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And welcome to the 535th episode of Cinema PsyOps. I'm your host Cort, the guy that still can't quite get sharing audio to work on Zoom for some odd reason because he fucks shit up.
Trying to get some other type of recording going. And joining me in wondering what the fuck I just said is my co host, Matt.
I just like trucks. I like semis.
Big rigs.
I like Big Reds.
You and like every other fucking six to ten year old boy on the planet and those of us that never grew out of that, I suppose.
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. But big rigs are cool.
I don't know if you were aware of this or not, but I've got a lot of truckers in my family, actually. Um
Um I wasn't aware of it, but I'm also not surprised by it. You get what I mean?
Yeah. Yeah.
I just want to make sure you get what I mean.
Y yeah, yeah. You're saying that uh my grave should basically be dug and that my body should be disposed of with something that has a twist X to hold it together?
Yeah. Uh I I was also maybe just making mention you should buy yourself a trekker hat. That was all I was
Ha ha.
Weird thing when I wear a ball cap forward, I absolutely look like a fucking trucker.
Yeah.
You really do, dude. I have uh a Miller genuine draft.
Yeah.
Ha ha.
I have a Miller Genuine Draft Height Trucker hat that I want you almost to try it on just so I can get the visual of it.
What I was referring to.
seen you an official k trucker hat, you know what I mean?
I mean I'll put a trucker hat on if it'll make you happy. I mean that's
I think so. Yeah.
But just for you, because if my wife sees me in the trucker hat, she thinks I'm scary. She doesn't like it. She doesn't really? Yeah. I look like I look like the guy that would be driving the truck in duel. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah. Maybe zombie trucker for Halloween. I don't know. I'm just saying. I'm just spitballing here.
Yeah. Yeah, then just maybe I could just dress up like a redneck, I won't even have to put on a costume.
Yeah, there you go.
Uh or he'll do.
We're not buying you one of that uh one of the red hats though. We're not doing that. You're not going that far. No need to go method.
No, uh first of all, uh any hillbilly worth their salt already knows it's ye haw fuck the law at all times. They're right. They're buying into that MAGA stuff, they're one of the racist fucking hillbillies and they're not the type that I would have been hanging out with anyway.
Right now they're probably complaining about the cost of things still and they're probably like Obama.
Yeah.
Well let's not do that because the name of the movie we're covering this week is Whiteline Fever and we're already starting to grieve and it's getting weird.
Yeah man, I love cocaine. Let's talk about that.
Ha ha.
White lines blow away.
The first thing I thought when I saw the movie name White Line Fever last night I went
Oh fuck, a movie about cocaine? This is great.'Cause I had totally forgotten about how we were doing cars and you know, road road havoc uh movies. So I was like, Oh my god, uh uh my movie's called Duel, I wonder if it's with guns and oh man, Cort gets to do a movie about Coke?
This is great.
The overall theme for the next however fucking long we do this for it's it's at least twelve movies uh to start, which is pre trucker is the first six, then pre
Yeah.
pre nineteen uh truckers pre nineteen eighty is what we're on right now. And then we start with cars pre nineteen eighty. And if we don't get bored, we will then go to trucker movies post nineteen eighty. And then we'll be doing cars.
Material.
I...
I almost seriously was considering getting the original gone in sixty seconds on here.
For the cars movies. I don't know.
That that might not be so bad though.
But here's the thing is like we're probably gonna come back and play pickup because I feel like you and I really enjoy this style of film.
Spoiler alert, I am shocked how much I like white line fever. Like Yeah. Yeah. Same.
Yeah. I I did not have high hopes. No. Expe and uh and uh I actually enjoyed myself.
Yeah. Uh also spoiler alert, I'm not a fan of Jan Michael Vincent and I never really feel like he can lead like do a lead in a film and he proved me wrong in this film and I need to shut the fuck up.
I'm sorry, I gotta I gotta t I gotta yeah, I always will disagree with you on that. I love this man.
Ha ha ha.
All right, well let's stop beating around the bush with our love for Jan Michael Vincent on your case and white line fever in mine and let's get on to actually talking about the film. What do you
But I love cocaine more.
Who does it?
All right.
Well we're gonna take the break here and when we come back we will start talking about Matt's white line fever problem and then the film.
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All right, so that was whatever I chose to play between when we were just talking now.
I I was jamming out.
Okay.
Uh that I that I believe. Yes. Your deviated septum is proof of that.
I'm I'm I'm getting so old, man, I thought I have to get up for the show.
That's how you show now is the the mass amount of cocaine.
That that's how I showed out is clips and cocaine. That's all I got.
Well, for me it's I make myself a solid espresso and if that doesn't do the job I make a second.
And Matt. But for that you have to put on the trucker hat.
You d meth does not require a trucker hat. That's one of the first things you lose is your hat when you're doing meth.
Well yeah, I I'm not saying it requires it, I'm just saying it helps.
You missed me.
Oh Jesus Christ. Well let's start talking about whiteline fever from nineteen seventy-five. The film Yeah The film opens with some dialogue and a trucker interview in our And what?
Going to the movies, you might get the impression that the great human dramas of today happen only to affluent people, people who live in and near the cities. You might say the so-called sophisticates. The truth is that real dramas are taking place every day to
During the recent trucker strike, I talked with some Americans that the media seems to have overlooked. But how long have you been driving a rig like this?
About fifteen years.
Do you work for a company?
No, I'm an independent.
Independent driver. That means you own your own rig.
Yeah, me and the bank.
What sort of investment does a rig like this take to own?
About thirty eight thousand dollars.
I imagine it puts quite a bit of pressure on you making monthly payments.
My wife works.
What kind of work she do?
He's a bartender.
Well, how do you stay ahead in business? How do you get your loads lined up?
Oh, independent brokers, shippers. I don't get anything while I'm
That's it.
So if someone controlled the brokers and the shippers, they'd be controlling the trucking industry.
Thank you.
You told me before that uh you carry a gun with you, is that true?
Yeah, I'm right.
Why do you?
I can protect myself. If someone tries to sneak into your cab, just show them the gun, you know, and they'll uh mosey on down the road.
Just how far would you go to protect your rig and your profession?
You never know until you're put to the test.
Well that leads to a fade in and out to a plane landing with a sad country song as our hero of the film appears and his spouse runs to greet him with love and a kiss. Oh it turns out they're not actually their their spouses yet.
It crossfades into their actual wedding. So he's returning from some type of active duty, possibly war at some point, to the love of his life.
Ha ha ha.
That is basically all you were getting was just sad country noises, yeah. So I was yeah yeah I was wrong with my assumption that it was his spouse already because they crossfade into the wedding, which establishes they are getting ready to build a life together.
This moves on this moves on to family photos to establish who is the main character and who this main character actually cares about.
And then who he loves and the happy life that all of these folks have together. The credit sequence goes on for what feels like forever before we see the happy couple got a loan and are buying a truck in our second.
Podcast.
I guess that's how I do it.
This kind of money is a lot of my ballpark.
Well, we got this WT 9004 down here I was telling you about it. We had to repossess it. The boy couldn't keep his payments up on it.
For the kind of money we're talking about on it, it ought to be able to make you a pretty good piece of equipment.
It's got a NTC 350 Cummins in it, RT09513 transmission.
Still talking about an awful lot of money.
Talk it over you, missus, and see what she thinks. And I tell you what, I'd even throw in a paint job of your specification just to help you young folks out.
Yeah.
This goes into more country tunes as the sexy-looking new truck, the Blue Mule, with the happy couple's names blazing on its sides as they triumphantly drive home, and that is our.
This serious care.
So you turkeys better watch out.
Amen.
Say what that you got between your legs, son.
Amen.
W T.
T nine thousand coming.
That's right.
Owner operator got an
You're acting awful blue for the half-owner of a brand new truck here.
You're not gonna spend more time at this rig than you are with me.
That's not like the You know what they say about drinking and driving.
Didn't stop driving.
Is your bucket? Yeah?
Banks is different.
Hey, hey, I don't know what I'm doing now, let's take it here.
Hey honey, something I can do for?
Now see Dwayne Holler.
झाल झाल झाल
What's been happening?
Yeah, hey the same old bunch of boys out there in the dock.
Sure it.
What happened to Jack? Die.
You going for work?
Yeah, I hope so.
Listen, Jim.
Don't keep your blinders on.
I stay on the highway here.
This ain't the ladies' room. Come on in.
Carol Joe Hubbard, you little- Welcome home.
Uh
I've been expecting you since last Monday
No, you're getting fat.
Uh.
Oh, shut up.
Sit down!
Hey, tell me you got it.
God damn this is a nice reef
At least it's mine. Random birdie outside. Where's it?
I got a new bunch of boys working for me. They get the job done. Of course it ain't like it was when your daddy and me was a driving. Just ain't been the same since he passed away.
What I got, I got you an Arizona special.
Uh
Appreciate it
Make a present for you.
Watch this stuff.
I ain't slated to haul cigarettes.
You ain't nothing but a little country war.
Terima kasih.
You just gotta have a little more
Okay.
It's pops.
I'll see if I can't slip a haul past buck to you later in the week.
Twee, don't you ever get ties?
Same old song.
Keeping you boy.
Up in the air, Pops, how you been?
Oh, come see, come south. Mostly come south. Been lots of laying off around here.
I got business with it.
Well, I'll be across the way ahead, you know, it's your hardly goddamn day and if I don't pop some drink.
You know what's going on out there?
Thank you.
Boys are packing contraband.
Now what are you talking about, son?
Cigarettes, slot machines.
Now what's wrong with that? That's just a little bit of untaxed tobacco out there.
Here.
Now let's start, Dwayne.
You can keep up, son.
What are you telling me?
The chance to pick up a little easy piece of change. Get something nice for Jerry.
El Duane, you know they catch me hauling that stuff. I'm allowed to lose my license.
Oh shit, boy, be sensible. There ain't nobody getting hurt out yonder except Uncle Sam, and hell he's getting too much already.
How about you, Dwayne? How much you getting?
Now don't get hot with me, boy. I ain't asking you to do a goddamn thing that the rest of them ain't doing.
Trying to break the low.
Little bit.
That and a piece of chain's supposed to make it all right, huh?
Or don't make it wrong. You know, good pay at work ain't that easy to come.
Yeah,
I know. I'm doing you a big damn favor just slotting you.
in here
I mean I don't haul that stuff I don't drive.
Thank you.
That's right. Just keep your mouth shut and do as you're told.
You know something Wayne, I think you've got fat in the head
Don't sass me, you little son of a bitch!
Let me tell you something, times have changed. You ain't gonna get any place pulling your flyboy heroics around here.
Well, I'll tell you what. Times may have changed, but I ain't. You can just take your Arizona special and shove it right back up the cow's ass.
You're about to walk off a cliff, boy. There's a whole lot more to this than just you and me.
Unloaded!
Thank you.
A whiskey and a brew.
You're new around here, aren't you?
Something sure is.
Fill him up with goddamn geese.
Good taste for whiskey.
Connell, look, you remember Carol Joe, don't you?
Oh no.
Pop shit not his dad no more. And I ain't gotta kiss his ass.
Yeah.
The only thing that you and I have in common that we're both competing for the same job.
And if you wait for invitation.
It ain't coming.
How much a male mouth's.
We got enough trouble around here without their bullishness.
Well I'm finding out.
We're just shoving this shit back up the cow's ass, sugar club.
Now you learned your lesson, darling.
And why don't you go back to mommy and tell her when you growed up some, we'll let you play with the big trucks.
Get your hand off my shirt.
After all of this setup and world building, we see it's it is time for Yeehaw Fuck the Law as a pig starts barreling down with the rollers raging at Carol Joe here.
Fuck the police.
He is flagged down, so the pig pops out of his car and gets a squealin' at things, so that's gonna unfortunately be our Fourth clip.
Gross.
After 14 to damage 12. After 14 to damage 12. 533 on a 1239.
Well, Mr. Carol Joe Hummer, I heard you were back.
What is is Bob a social call?
Not really. I just thought I'd take a look at this new rig you've been bragging about.
It's mighty nice. Would it set you back?
I'd rather not see right now.
You gonna hurry?
No.
That's it.
That's good'cause I'd hate to have to give you a speeding ticket.
Of course I could cite you for using foul language over that two-way radio yours, you know that, don't ya?
Improper inflation. Now that's dangerous.
No better net.
Four eleven in progress at Steve.
Well, that's Mama call me.
Cause I gotta come
Hold it.
Stay quick.
During the clip, the pig handcuffs Carol Joe to his rig and takes off, proving that there is no cop who is not a dirty cop, or at least aware of their fellow cops who are dirty cops and do nothing.
A.V.A.B.
That's actually my next note.
Yeah. The whole time I'm watching this movie, that's all I'm thinking.
Yeah, and until their laws ain't fucking y'all, it's ye haw fuck the law.
That's goddamn right.
Yeah.
Shortly after the pig handcuffs him, two two heavies come in to kick the shit out of him. And after he is softened up.
Good old John Creese walks up to him and has his guys hold him so he can hit him with a tire iron right across the ribs without having to put in too much effort. They toss him in the back of his truck.
Where they left all the manure spread all around and closed the door. That cuts away to a small roadside stand and our fifth clip.
Okay.
What you got?
Got some apples and some tangerine.
Thank you.
Bet you got an apple. No, I hate him.
Yeah, we'll get one out for me.
Yeah, but
Yeah.
Yeah, you can tell them that.
You know that one? There was this piece, Beckham. He was supposed to be the expert squeeze. I just found I had this wife. She had in his honor. In his camera.
I already heard the jump before.
It wasn't funny.
Yeah, it was funny.
What's wrong with hearing the second time?
It'll be funny a second time.
What up?
I already heard the joke. I know the punchline. It's not gonna be any surprise to me. I won't let.
Yeah.
No. I laugh at your jokes when you tell.
This farmer had his wife. She had titties on her.
Yeah, well I think you get
Watch out for Ain't that Carol Joe's rig up there?
Hey, let's just get out of here, man. Whatever it is between him and them, you ain't got nothing to do with it.
I have liked it, alright?
Bedness or broad
Buck, what the hell do you think you're doing?
Just slow down. Just slow down. Don't get your bowels in an uproar.
Now what's the idea of busting that boy's rib?
Oh, Clem just kinda took a personal interest in that one's all.
Well, dammit, you've gone too far this time.
Never bothered you them other time.
Well, Helen, the boy's practically family one.
What does Danny used to?
Now I understand. I see what you're driving.
Now, what do you figure them ribs is worth? 100? 200? Now tell me, Duane, 250? Duane! I don't think you ought to be socializing with that boy while he's nursing them ribs.
Driver Bob Herbst requested that one for Nadine, who makes that mmm good trucker stew. And now for all you truck.
No tough one.
Damn supervisor with a speed up.
Thank you.
This doesn't know what she's doing.
Humans can't work that fast. I mean they she d come here, honey. Come on, say
Hello!
Oh, you're so lucky you don't have to walk.
Just gets too confusing around there, but I gotta get a job where I can use my brain, this assembly line stuff. Oh Spaghetti again.
I'm going for work tomorrow.
Oh honey, the doctor said that you wouldn'
I don't give a damn what the doctor says. He doesn't have to come up with a two thousand dollar payment for the bank this week.
It's not gonna heal your ribs any faster.
Look at that.
If we lose that rig out there, we lose everything we've been hoping.
Good pan work's more important right now.
Not hungry, eh?
And this starts a sequence of the couple sweetly and tenderly loving each other in what feels like the most boring and passionless sex I have ever seen.
Yeah, man, I don't know what the you guys were thinking, but that is uh that is n nothing about that was sexual. That that felt like two like a brother and a sister who were from the north, so it's gross.
It's just vanilla and mayonnaise.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just gross. Fucking white people can't even have sex, right?
This ends with a shot of the lovers slumbering next to each other, and then Cross dissolves into the wife alone, and the sound of the big rig firing up wakes her as we watch the blue mule drive off as she does. They cut from this to our Sixth clip, that's how you show.
That's how you show, motherfucker.
Can please report to the office.
Thank you.
I hear you're hired.
Carol Joe Hammond. And you heard Ron.
We ain't got no loads today. None all week.
You know anybody might be sure?
Sure don't.
Thank you.
Thanks.
I'm an owner operator looking for work.
We've come to the right
Right place, mister.
Thank you. Well the owner of a light team 66 Ramble Station Wagon. Please come to the reception.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd like to use out my truck.
Henry Vogel.
Colonel Joe Hummer.
Thank you.
At least by the year.
Girl out there said you was looking for drivers.
She don't run this company.
I do.
This starts a sequence of Carol finding he specifically cannot be hired anywhere because of the squeeze that's been put on him by threats.
So he goes to the source with a shotgun in hand to deal with it in our seventh clip.
Mm.
Literally every bit of that.
The discussion.
trailer going.
Dallas.
Thanks.
Bless my ass ain't that right Dwayne?
Careful that goddamn thing. Now look, boy, I was a dirty son bitch that had a mus up your rig, but I never had nothing to do with the rest of that.
Just sign me that Dallas load.
I can't, but they'll kill me.
I was back.
Come on, hi.
Come on, hire. Hey, you ain't got nothing there to be ashamed of.
You wait outside for us, we Janie? Close the door.
Thank you.
Who the hell are you?
Give them the work order.
Find a roost, Duane.
Sign it. Sign it!
You won't work?
Set up the uh what's the name of your rape?
Shut up the blue mule for now.
Uh, we pay on delivery.
You're damn right you.
So this starts a tension build as he tries to get out to snag the load he had secured in that clip to be able to be hauled so he can get paid. And the dock workers prep to take him down.
as his friends show up all at the same time. This feels less heroic these days than the movie is trying to portray it.
as beah. That's like our hero is pointing that gun at everyone a little recklessly and he's supposed to have been military trained and he's not really acting it like he like he is.
Yeah, no, i this seems like really irresponsible. Yeah.
And so he gets a warning that Cobra Sai is up there trying to come over the top of the truck. He's not Cobra Kai in this because he can't fight for shit, so he's just sighs.
Yeah, no, he can't fight for fuck.
Yeah, you see him in the
Cobra I mean, Cobra Kai's were evil, but at least they could fucking fight.
And then the second.
super fucking annoying. Get him a body bang.
Fuck it, I wanna put that in the fucking face.
So like the guy coming up over the top of the truck and then him being warned about it is pretty much the only thing that kind of snaps him to and gets him out of like sort of a panic mode that he's in, but he's supposed to have been trained, so I don't understand that.
But then he automatically loses the attention because the one chick drops the bottle and it breaks. I think it was a beer, right? That one woman drops a bottle of beer, it breaks.
Yeah, I believe so.
That draws his attention.
Yeah, that that draws the s that draws his attention because of the the breaking of the bottle. And so he turns and points the gun directly at her, but then he holds the gun on her for way too fucking long. That's what I'm like
Yeah, like what the fuck was that about?
Yeah. It's what that's the part that really made me think they should have probably done this section a little bit differently. Like he should have been a little more precise and a little more trained. This is just your average everyday trucker and how they would behave. And that just I that scene just doesn't feel right to me.
No.
It seems very wrong.
Because it is.
Very fucking wrong.
Yeah. Anyway, this ends when he gets his help from Pops to become an accomplice, and the pair head out with the halfway hijacked load, and that is the first act of the film completely down.
That that section there. There you go. I don't understand. It feels kind of rushed. It feels like maybe some things are missing.
And there's definitely some editing things that happen later on that make me really feel like maybe this film was recut. And when we get there I'll kinda get there and kinda talk about that, but it hasn't happened just yet, right? Uh but the section where he's here kind of panicking and stuff.
Like, I feel like where he comes back to like get the truck and get out like that and then, you know, his buddy helps him leave where he gets the secured and stolen loan or or load that he is just to get the money so he can keep his truck.
The the way that they have him behave it definitely just doesn't feel right. We did discuss that. And like it just looks like he's basically having not necessarily a paper clip.
What the fuck took my paperclip?
But like a full fledged like going postal moment because they're fucking with your finances. It's not controlled. It's not like he's he's completely irrational and he doesn't feel like a person that was supposedly military trained.
And yet we're supposed to believe he comes back from like the air force or something like that, right?
Yeah, exactly. And it's like I'm not buying that.
They have him be excellent at fighting. They do have him be good at strategizing and he's one hell of a shot with a shotgun.
Nobody is arguing that. That part of it tracks for whatever training he was supposed to have. But aren't pilots supposed to like keep their cool under pressure?
Yeah. Like big time pilots are supposed to be able to get their cool under pressure because I mean a lot of things can go wrong and you can't exactly just freak out whenever you want.
Right, like I'll I'll give you an example, right? My favorite Bronson movie of all time is Mr. Majestic. I really, really love that. He's yes, he is a, you know, former this, former that, and he is a guy that had all those types of training and he just wants to be a melon farmer now, right?
That's this whole thing in Mr. Majestic. Well, he is hesitant to do anything because he knows how to take care of himself.
Yeah. And when he does finally act, it's with precision and it's with deadly intent. And he is very, very much calm. And even when things that should be pissing him off
are pissing him off. Obviously he doesn't act rashly. He plans. He thinks ahead and he's calm. And you would expect a military man to know some kind of strategy and tactics, especially an Air Force guy who's supposed to be a pilot.
Exactly. So that's how it should be. But they played it different where apparently th in this universe being a pilot means you freak the fuck out whenever you can.
Yeah, I mean unless he's coming home with some kind of PTSD or something along those lines, which they don't deal with, they don't show. You know what I mean?
Like the the guy coming home and uh reacting to things going badly in his life is done very much better in Rolling Thunder than this.
And I say that because in Rolling Thunder, you know, like uh he becomes injured and then has to seek revenge. So it's very similar. There's not like a truck driving element in that.
It's just a guy coming back, but he was a prisoner of war and he has a shit ton of trauma from that.
On top of that.
He's got some issues on that one.
Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just saying like I feel like I don't think that it wasn't that they didn't write this stuff into the story or that they didn't plan it out better.
I feel like this is a moment where he should have been reacting to something else this severely and this uh angrily and this panicked than just stealing the load and it just doesn't make sense. That's yeah my big problem. Why don't we move on?
All right.
Let's get on.
All right. Well, the second act of the film picks up where the blue mule is pulling out of the Red River loading dock as the fellow truckers smile, except the son of Pops, who dislikes Carol much more now because he just made that.
That guy like just put his pops in even more danger, right?
Yeah. Exactly.
Old Slim Pickens even seems to be rooting for him a little inside too because he kind of cracks a little bit of a grin there.
Yeah.
He's like,
This leads to what we really want in a road movie of some sort, especially one about truckers. Lots of shots of trucks on various stretches of road that look very foreboding.
A hell of a place to get.
Thank you.
Yeah.
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Gotta say.
It ain't finally!
Buck's got enough protection already.
And the farmer's wife with the jugs.
And that starts a truck versus truck battle and road run sequence that is what we are really here for in a road menace movie.
Yeah.
This is what we want.
When attempting to run them off the road with a threat of a head-on collision doesn't work, the Green Rig tries to run the blue mule down.
And then they get up beside of them for a freeway window to window shotgun murder. But Carol slams on the brakes and saves his own ass in the nick of time. Then he shifts the gear to bring his speed back up.
As we see ahead, the green truck has pulled to a stop and is attempting to turn around to stop the haul right here with another attack.
They back out for a kill shot, but Carol slams them with the mule and spins them around. Carol has Pops take over the wheel as he climbs out on top of the truck, rolls down across it.
laying flat to be hidden, and then single-hand fires the shotgun directly into the top of the truck engine and radiator, then one in the windshield that sends the green rig into a hill, spiraling out of control and crashing back into it.
It then catches on fire and fucking explodes. Boy howdy, was that some fun or what?
That was an awesome sequence, but you just know that the mechanic's gonna still try to sell you a catalytic converter. You just know it.
Carol runs back up the trailer and Pops brings the rig to a stop so that Carol Joe can continue to drive his shift as the pair quip a little and then move on. That is our ninth clip.
Well, you have yourself a good time.
Not bad. Let's get going. Gotta look for the door.
Ain't nothing wrong with the way you getting paid, is it?
Oh, I don't know. It's just getting so there ain't enough pain anymore to keep on laying that old goat.
Well, everybody ain't lucky enough to enjoy his line of order.
Adelaide, I told you to hold.
Yeah.
Glass house on five, Mr. Wessel.
Thank you.
You got Buck.
Uh, could you hold on just a minute, Mr. Kiddler?
Yeah, sure thing.
Get Clem in here.
I think so.
to the house.
What's going on up there, Buck? That ordered cigarettes ain't got to Galveston. You never been late before. Now I hope it's nothing you can't handle.
Oh, I can handle it. Getting on it right now.
Yeah.
Yes sir, what we got here is a sure case of improper inflation. And I'm an expert on the subject.
Drivers never learned. Now take this tire. Now that's dangerous.
Bobin them tries to find it, you damn well know it. I sure do. Now don't you quote me on that.
Terima kasih.
Uh-uh, temperature.
Bob it's guys like you to get a little bit of a little bit of a little
I want a bad name. Ain't that the truth?
You know these pickers left part of their load down by the road apiece.
So we bring it to him.
That's mina nice you help the boys out like that.
I got some stuff in the trick. You wanna help me load it up?
No, you got your job and I got mine.
What are you on vacation?
They open the back of the truck at the end of the clip to find our hero truckers who proceed to prove that together the workers have more power than that of the bootlicking cobra sci thug.
Yeah. The workers are the power people here, not not you assholes.
Also the Cobra Psy thug is nothing more than a pathetic cowardly bully. They prove it right here.
That is also true. Yeah.
I watched this little slobber knocker a few times and rathered enjoyed it until it ends in our tenth clip.
Claire, I think it's time you went home.
Well you say we have a smoke on Buck Wessel and the rest of them turkeys.
enjoying the party.
That's good.
And this must be... measures up.
That's right.
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Thank you.
He's gonna kill.
Did you work?
He's only gonna get you dead, man!
And I'm joking.
So Scott's what it is.
Proudly man, walk proudly.
One more time.
See how you stand.
So what's all this you got up there, Buck? Some kind of rigors revolution?
What I got up there is cigarettes and slots out the ass.
For some hero goody goody ain't truckin''em. Next thing you know he got carrying on like they above the law.
I tell you, Duane's behind this. And Dwayne's running scared.
Got more respect for that old man than he has for the glass house.
Don't you throw me the ball on this one?
Thank you.
Little friend of persuasion.
Uh but what'd you say this hero's name was again?
Hammer.
Carol Joe.
Honey, what college did I go to?
Team up. T I am
You gotta be careful to check on that sometimes.
Previous experience.
What kind of previous experience are you supposed to have to be a nursery school teacher?
I don't know, but you ain't got any.
I could say that I worked in an orphanage.
Thank you.
Daycare Center. Gotta say daycare center.
Carol Joe, this is Duane. Hey something come up and old Buckingham's up in sky.
Yeah, what you got this time?
There's a double rigger of Mexican avocados coming through here jack night. They won't get somebody to haul them on into Salt Lake City.
It's plum whip.
What kind of money are we talking about?
Two grand and some change if you can land in there by noon tomorrow. Pay on delivery.
You better be on the level, Dwayne.
Oh, honest to God, boy.
Uh, meet them out east on I-10. Toe will help you hook up.
I promised him that you'd haul ass and get that stuff in there before it goes soft.
All right, you got your boy.
Hey, have a good trip.
With that, we see Carol hits the road, and the sequence ends with him drifting, and now it's time for some old fashioned CB chatter that cannot be resisted, and that is our eleventh clip.
You always gotta have the
Little case of white light paper, huh? Time for a coffee break?
How part of the next truck's
You got a triple D about a mile down the road.
Hey hun, would you get me a cup of coffee to go in a great big hurry?
What do you carry him?
Got five thousand pounds of avocados. Gotta get into Salt Lake City by noon tomorrow. Else tonight's just a big sightseeing tour.
Damn, brother, someone sure busting your balls.
Well, I ain't got me no inheritance, you know.
Uncle Fam's not gonna give you one either.
go Carol Joe.
Are you Hummer?
See you later.
This leads to a sequence of the easy.
Of the couple trying their best to stay above water and ends with Carol driving past a welcome to Arizona sign in a snow covered, barren stretch of road. This sequence is gorgeous and a sight I was unaware could exist.
As the snow covered mesa and other formations totally caught me mesmerized. That looked gorgeous. Desert cover.
Yeah, no, that was a yeah, that was really good. That was a really good viz visual uh shot, uh however they fucking did it.
multiple sequences.
See if it was real real. If it was just on on set, then that's just awesome.
No, I think it was real real. I think I think they found it in the right season.
I think so too. That's why I didn't say like how the I I didn't mean like how they did it like that. I just meant to find that shot somewhere. Like the director or the cinematographer must just cream them fuck themselves when they're like, Holy shit, look at this
Yeah, it looked gorgeous and then they just kept like going all these different roads that were covered in snow and it just was a really great sequence and I think it added a lot of production value and looked great.
Oh yeah, completely. I agree.
I totally did not find this filler in any way. It demonstrates what trucking is really about, and that is getting paid to travel by high.
Some rich fuck shit from here to there.
This gorgeous sequence ends with a cut to our twelfth.
Please don't tell him, Jamie. The last thing I need is him working 20 hours a day, seven days a week, and that's exactly what he's gonna do when he finds out.
Sooner or later you're going to be able to do it
I gotta tell them. You know that.
I wanna borrow some money from you, Jamie. I think that I wanna get an abortion. And I think it's the best thing. There's lots of time for us to have a family. We're just gonna have to wait till things get better.
See, if I have the baby, I'm gonna have to quit my job. Now how are we gonna get by if I'm not working?
You can't do this all by yourself. You got to talk.
Dr. C J now.
Let's see if I tell Carol Joe.
He's gonna wanna keep the baby. He wants a family so bad. I know. And now is just not the right time. It's I'm not gonna have him on the road all the time.
Hey, how you doing?
I could push her off the hard.
That's still pretty good time.
I like them avocado, huh?
Thank you.
I can't stand it myself. My wife, she uh she likes when she makes that green Mexican stuff they put them Fritos in. Tastes like green piss to me.
Get a load of this!
Thank you.
Damn, that must have been packed.
A year ago.
I don't know what Duane's doing down there.
Oh, do I want to run?
Good!
I know I'd rather watch you show Yeah.
We know what you got.
Amen.
Oh Gwen G-
You know I'm on a diet.
All the way from here
Well big deal that'll make it good
But it sure makes them expensive.
Size is good. This just tastes like old karsi.
That's the biggest chair I read.
I bet you got the
Fox it could be in.
Hey, he's going, honey.
Did you bring?
What's the matter, Dwayne? Don't you like sprouts?
Sure ain't.
Amen.
Well it's gonna be a real surprise.
Amen.
and don't seem to know what they're doing.
Come on, Dwayne, why don't you just pull over and stop?
Thank you.
having that on the house again.
All right.
Nearly set me.
Thirty hours.
rotten produce for nothing and I sucked it up like a
two-bit turkey.
Oh god.
Why don't you go?
I ain't leaving here till I see Boyan Howard.
Jerry thinks I'm coming home with$2,000 in my pocket. I got nothing. Thought that fat son of a bitch was a friend of mine.
Come on, CJ, let's go. Jerry's waiting to talk to you and you need some rest.
Thank you.
Come on.
Devity Sheriff and you're under arrest.
Oh, what is it this time about?
Hands on a bar, break your legs.
What the hell is it?
Head on the bar.
Thank you.
You're under arrest for the murder of Duane.
Hallo.
What the hell are you crazy?
Eyewitness.
Okay, we'll do.
What's your lawyer? This is Boyd Annis. He won that big case up in Preston.
Might as well give a listen to what I got to say.
Look, son, for the money we pay in, very mason ain't likely.
Walk do that.
Door.
Talk to the scum call.
Public prosecutor wants to make a deal with you, Hummer. Says he'll get the grand jury to indict you on involuntary manslaughter. Means you'll spend six months chucking bricks on the county farm. But if you ain't buying that, you're looking at murder one. And that means 30 years punching license plates at Florence.
What about the trial?
Well, that comes after the grand jury sets in.
the indictment
But let me tell you, you got a nice cube's chance in hell of getting justice in that court. The last thing they want is your ass back out in that highway organizing them drivers.
What the hell are you talking about organizing? It ain't gonna do no one no good you going to jail for 30 years. Least of all me.
If I go away for six months, we can forget about the family and everything else we've been planning. The bank ain't gonna wait.
The bank. You're talking as if the bank runs our lives.
Don't they?
No, they don't. Just take the deal, please. Take the deal and let's get the hell away from you.
Yeah.
There's a lot more to this than just what happens to us. What about this grand jury? They like a regular jury?
Sixteen of your peers, signed, sealed, and delivered, just like the Constitution says.
In your practical opinion, Mr. Davidson, you would say that Mr. Hummer had been drinking long before he entered the bar where you were.
I certainly
And once again he was speaking threateningly of Mr. Hall.
That's what I say.
Thank you.
Mrs. Four Lady and members of the jury. You've heard four witnesses who saw Mr. Hummer enter Dwayne Haller's office and threaten him with a gun. You've heard the arresting officer's testimony as to the
Violent nature of Mr. Hummer. And you just heard that he had been drinking heavily on that evening. Now we'll present an eyewitness who saw Dwayne Holler run down by the accused. You saw the running down of Duane Howler, did you not?
I did so.
How did you happen to be riding on that stretch of the road that afternoon?
I recently received a rather large inheritance and I was investigating the land in your area for potential investment.
Describe what you saw.
A man was trying to fix a flat tire, and as he was waving down a truck to give him a hand, he stepped out onto the road, and the truck ran right into him and continued on the road.
What did you do?
I I made a mental note of a license number and then I went directly to the police. It was obvious there was no helping the poor man.
Can you identify these uh photos?
Well this looks like the man with the flat tire. And that is definitely the truck that ran him over. I couldn't help but note the name.
Thank you Mr. Miller. You may step down.
I think I'd like to ask Mr. Miller a question or two. What kind of property around here were you looking for, Mr. Miller?
I was looking at land primarily as an investment for the future.
I hasten to remind our distinguished forelady that the purpose of this proceeding is not to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, but rather to determine whether or not there is probable cause to warrant a trial. Finally, we'll call uh.
Mrs. Homer to the staff.
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you?
I do.
Please be sick.
I remind you that Mrs. Hummer was told that she did not have to testify against her husband. Now, Mrs. Homer, all of us understand how difficult it is for you to give evidence, and the court appreciates your desire to get all the facts out, no matter how painful they might be.
In your own words, will you tell us about the phone conversation between Duane Haller and your husband?
Duane called offered carol to.
Excuse me, Mrs. Hammer. Speak up, please, Mrs. Hummer. So the jury can hear you.
Duane called and offered Carol Joe a load'cause a rig jack knife down the road and and they needed someone to drive it on through.
And what exactly did your husband say?
He said that Duane better be on the level.
Well I can only tell you what I heard.
Just a simple yes or no. Thank you.
My husband didn't kill anybody. He didn't kill Duane. Carol Joe had a right to be wary of Duane. It was Dwayne had Carol Joe come to him in the in the first place for a job, and when he come home it was with busted ribs. He couldn't work and I was working double shifts and
Thank you, Mrs. Hunt.
Please, I'd like to say something else if I can.
Certainly. Go right ahead.
See, I didn't want this. I didn't want to come here. I didn't want this in the first place. See, they offered Carol Joe a deal that if he went to jail for six months, that we could leave here and we could start our family elsewhere. That's what I wanted.
You see, Carol Joey figured that in six months or thirty years it wouldn't make a difference to them. They wanted him so bad that they wouldn't quit until they had him in a place where he couldn't fight back.
During the clip, old Slim Pickens was dragged into the middle of the road so a truck can slam into him and smear him all over the road to frame our hero Carol. This that is why he got arrested there at the end of the clip.
So just so you know.
Yep.
And the end of that clip takes us to the end of the second act. Wow, we are trucking right through, pun intended.
Ha you did the trucking. That's great.
Yeah well I just gotta keep on trucking'cause uh
Yeah.
We still have one third of this movie left. I think one of the reasons why you and I found last week's film and this week's film both to be as entertaining as the we have so far. Hour twenty nine minutes each, they get in, they get out, and it's quick.
And they tell you the story and they don't fuck about and that's the way to do it.
Exactly. They just get in, there's not a lot of wasted movement.
None of that kind of shit. You get in, you have yourself a good movie.
And I freely admit the stuff that we were talking about with the way the guy was acting in the loading dock, I'm thinking of how I would probably have preferred to see that be in the story.
to portray somebody as a hero. But this very well is the nineteen seventies and they could have been doing this to show that he's an antihero. Also my complaints about it not making sense, I mean, could easily be explained away in like some expository dialogue in some such way that may have been cut out.
So really I don't even know if my complaints are valid other than I'm just left unsatisfied with the finished product there.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think you uh I think you know what your your problem with the movie is.
I I don't think you're wrong either.
Yeah. Yeah. It just you know, th Bronson wouldn't have let that happen to his character. You know what I mean?
No. This no Bronson the the Bronson would have had people murdered.
Mm. Bronson would very quietly tell someone, Hey Pally, this ain't gonna happen.
Hey, pouty. Hey, pouty.
Right. That's exactly what Bronson would do. Yeah. All right. Well why don't we just go ahead and
Well he's lighting up a cigarette.
Why don't we go ahead and finish off the film? What do you think?
Let's do it.
Alright, so the run to the end starts with Pops running the blue mule and our thirteen.
Deu meu!
This is birdie!
He's free!
Amen.
Alright, what is it?
We were lucky today, Carol Joe. Damn lucky.
Who the hell do you think got you off? The tooth fairy?
I got you off. And next time you just might not be so lucky. I ain't looking forward to raising our kid alone.
And don't you understand that we're finally making a place for ourselves with all that happened here?
Have a place for ourselves. Being together and raising a family was what was most important to her.
It still is.
Hell yeah.
Yes it is. Look, I don't want to raise our kids knowing that their daddy left a fight half five.
You're just so damn impressed with yourself you can't even hear what I'm saying!
What the hell are you saying?
Stop the car!
But you could act as a damn crazy.
Stop the car, I said! I don't want to be with you! Stop the goddamn car!
Bye.
Get in here.
Damn it, I said get in here!
Why don't you get out and kick my ass? That seems to be your style.
What's a car, Buck? An idea blown by game. I got a 500-buck Nassau going with the governor's nephew.
Murroy almost blew our game today at that so far.
I scraped our cat houses clean, lined up a bunch of cowbrains for the jury, but Norm here couldn't even get his story.
Now wait a minute, what?
That wasn't my idea to put that on a.
Who the hell are you?
Well, you remember, Norm. He was the witness for us in the Montana case.
Get him out of here.
Of course it's getting us anywhere. Look, we got a problem.
Yeah, pretty soon every trucker's gonna start believing in our goddamn union.
They all think they got the God-given right to hold what they want to, when they want to.
And this is gonna give the green light to a lot of horses asses think they can run their business without dealing with the glasses.
All right, fellas, this Hummer business is gone for us.
At the end of the clip, Carol comes back to find his rig and trailer completely vandalized and they even left a rattler in the cab to try and kill him once again. He uses
He uses the distance of the shotgun to lift the rattler out of the cab, like he went and got a tree limb or something like that. Just scoops it right out at a distance. Yeah.
Two straight movies for me Hillside Snake.
Yeah.
Yeah, no kidding. And desert climate.
In desert. Desert and snakes. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
Well, once he gets that rattler out of the cabin onto the ground, he then shoots it dead with the shotgun, which makes no sense other than he didn't want it at its property maybe, but even still.
There could be, you know, just hey sorry, but maybe people will k might be around or something. I don't know.
It might just be that his rage is not contained enough so he just decided to kill that thing because it was there and it existed.
Also doesn't make him a hero though.
No. Now you're not a hero. It's just he's an you're kind of an asshole.
Well the shotgun blast causes his wife to run out, and then they cut to our fourteenth clip.
I'm sorry. I know things must have been pretty awful in jail.
I've always thought of myself as a strong man, but I can't be fighting the whole world and you at the same time.
I know. And I don't mean it to be that way. I I just
Don't have to say anything.
I do. I'm pregnant, Carol Joe. And I've been thinking I wish I weren't.
We was always planning on having a family. Just getting started a little bit early, that's all.
Why do y'all come?
Just not gonna have you working all the time.
Bank ain't gonna keep me away from you and our family. I don't give a damn if I'm in debt till the day I die.
Look, I went to brought my girl to this party.
Eat that right.
Yeah, only we call it just-
Scream during the clip there is from them finding Pops' corpse in their bed with a metal tool that I think is meant to be able to get leverage on changing the big springs on like a rig of a truck.
You know how they have those various springs that they have to change'cause they get worn out over time. Yeah. I think that's what that's for. I think it like helps the the person stretch them up over that last little piece to get it to where it needs to be to be locked in place.
But I'm not I'm not gadget. I'm not a hundred percent sure that just kinda looks like a tool that I've seen that was used like that, but that's the closest it was just some kind of metal tool that was used to shove in his mouth and murder him.
Yeah.
It was just a quick shot, so that's just a guess. Yeah. It went right into the brawl at the end of the clip there too. So like were they're coming back for the vengeance. So I honestly I I don't know. Like it just wasn't on the screen long enough and
I didn't really want to go back and check because I'd much rather just watch the fight and enjoy it.
Yeah.
Yeah, right. Let's just let's have some fun.
It is one hell of a gang fight, basically. I really, really have to say. Yeah. It's basically like uh the Jets versus the Sharks, only without the dancing, and then it's truckers versus Doc.
Yeah, I'm not singing.
And
Yeah. And no one's no one's snapping their fingers.
And then, you know, they're trying to get at the leader that pops
killed because they want to take him down and get him arrested. But the leader of that group runs off like the fucking coward that he is, and then he decides to bring a forklift in because he needs to have a forklift to be able to survive a simple fist fight with Carol.
Yeah.
'Cause he doesn't have what it takes.
And Carol mounts up ready to attack. Oh, go ahead.
I thought you needed machinery.
Yeah.
Carol jumps on top of the tines of the forklift, ready to attack as the baddie tries to run him over. The forklift crashes and the pair start a classic time filler run and fight sequence. The firing The firing of weapons costs too much money for this budget to do, so they just do this quickly.
You just gotta do more fist fights.
Yeah it's it's run and gun, but instead they're just fist fighting it. So
Yeah.
The truckers end up blocking the baddie's way out of going down the stairs after he bicycle kicks Carol off the top of that sort of office enclosure area that they were climbing on, and then flees by moving across the enclosure's top.
doing a hand over hand on holding onto a pipe, while k Carol just does a quick jump and clears that same gap by a flying leap, but still has to grab the edge and climb up for drama and tension.
This stunt work for the enclosure roofs and running has some really great stunts that make this feel a lot less like padding for sure. This is really well done. And it does add a little
Like it's important.
Yeah. It adds a little bit of attention uh uh a little bit of tension to it and it keeps it going where they're trying to take this guy down. Well, Carol finally runs the baddie down in between two trucks with the help of
Who I think is his brother. I didn't quite double check, but I think that might have been his brother. Yeah. And so Carol then starts to beat the baddie unconscious. The brother holds back. Pops I believe it's his son, but the guy that was always traveling with him. I think that was his kid, right? Pops.
Think so, yeah.
And then they pan over to Pops' truck to play sad harmonica music, and then fade to black before fading into the truckers, arriving at a huge corporate office as one of our clips.
Okay.
Gentlemen of the road, before you go jump to any conclusions, let's take a look at the fact. Fact one. We're responsible for more housing development and land reclamation this here area.
Then a lot of outfits you think are real big. Fact two. You can't drive down a highway in this.
A few words in private, Mr. Helmer?
that hasn't been partially paid for by this here company. Fact three, our interest in oil and minerals help keep your trucks moving on down the road, I can say.
We all admire the way you handle balconies, boys.
They play rough.
Clearly, Mr. Hummer. That's why we'd like to offer you a proposition.
Well we came here to talk to you, Mr. Cutler.
That you will.
But hear me out. We had a very profitable arrangement with Buck. We'd like to see the same kind of things with you. I can tell you it'd be very beneficial to your drivers. Now don't decide right away.
Why don't you stay here with us a few days, get to know some of the boys and gals?
I believe we've already decided, Mr. Cutler.
You're a very charismatic man, Miss Homer. What you want's gonna go a long way to deciding what they want. As a member of the glasshouse, you'll be in a position to help truck drivers all over the state. Get my meaning.
We know the things you have to have to have the good life. You take your children. You want to send them on to college. Name any schoolhouse in America. I think we can offer you some additional advantages other than I've already discussed with you.
We've got.
Yeah.
We all came here today to tell these fellows to stay the hell out of our business.
that we wanna make our livins without anyone from the state, Uncle Sam or the Glasshouse telling us what to do. But mister Cutler here has seen fit to offer me a job,'cause he feels like I have some influence over you. So I'm asking you, do we wanna go to work for the glass house and surely make a lot of money?
Or do we want to work for ourselves and take our chances? I guess you all know what mind I'm of. Anybody here feels any different, now's time to speak up.
Well, gentlemen, it's big state. Fourteen counties. I don't suppose it hurt very much if we was only operating in thirteen of'em.
We don't need to go into competition with you, Mr. Cuttner.
You're a fine sensible man, Mr. Hammer. I can see that. There won't be any more buck wessels, I can assure you. And remember, our door will always be open for you down here at the glasshouse.
Almost wallpapered the hall with your head.
Next time I'll throw my hat in the door first.
Any trouble?
Thank you.
So tell me.
They give the hero a big welcome.
Red carpet treatment.
That don't mean much.
I know that bunch of scum, they'll slip another buck while slant on us. I don't mean they're gonna mess with it.
I'll see you later.
And what about me? Can I still mess with you?
Anytime you want.
Well that night the couple is sleeping and the home is invaded by a thug in a pantyhose mask who beats them both across the head to knock them out.
and toss gasoline around everywhere and light the house up. Carroll wakes up and drags his wife's body out of the house by running through a fucking glass door holding her, and she goes first, not him.
Yeah, of course.
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Yeah, he should have uh he should have backed out like her something, right? Yeah, something to protect her.
Ha ha ha.
And just as I think that his own.
wife was going to get put into the fridge. We cross dissolve and see that she is in the hospital with an IV and they don't put an IV in a corpse, so
No, no, no. She she's very much alive.
Yeah, and then they cross dissolve from that to our sixteenth clip.
Top of the trick, please.
Mr. Hummer, I think you should speak with the doctor.
Mr. Hummer, you were advised to talk to me before you went in to see your what.
I don't need no permit to see my wife.
Could have explained. You see, she's under heavy sedation now. But we do expect that she'll be able to lead a normal life. The baby aborted. I'm sorry.
But I'm afraid that your wife's not going to be able to have any more children.
After the terrible news at the hospital and a sequence of Carol heading home
He walks into the house and then comes barreling out with a shotgun as the Waka Jawaka action theme kicks in. And you know what I mean if you've watched a seventies action film.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Ha ha ha.
Right.
Can't do it.
As the Waka Jawaka theme.
As the Waka Jawaka Waka Jawaka theme kicks in and he hops into his blue mule rig.
We watch the rig moving its way down the road. This is the sequence I was talking about. So he tells the pig to radio what's up and the cop acts like his sirens are going to go and do anything.
He tries to stop him and then the truck just basically runs over the car and completely paralyzes it and disables it.
And there's a bit of a smash-up scene, and someone during that smash-up scene, whenever the car is getting ran over, miraculously appears and then disappears from the passenger seat in that cut.
And I believe that's supposed to be Pops because they also have a shotgun and they're pulling it back in the window like they shot the car and then they tried to make it look like with editing that he ran over the car here to disable it. And that's how this guy gets dealt with and that's it. That was the
Yeah, that was the editing part of the sequence where I was like, Okay, wait, what's going on here? This doesn't seem right because that guy's already dead.
Yeah, yeah.
Right. And there was a couple times when I thought he was sitting there at the table with sunglasses on and was still alive when they were making the deal with the glass house people too. Like I feel like this film's editing had been shifted around a little bit with the story because some things
It's almost like maybe they weren't gonna kill Pop and then decided like uh towards the end of making the movie, Yeah, let's kill this motherfucker. We gotta kill him.
Right. And then they didn't go back and cut him out whenever they put in his body. Like it's just there's some things that just don't make sense. But I wasn't about to pay attention to that because I just wanted to enjoy the action and I just wanted to.
Exactly.
I wanted to point out that yes, I noticed it. Yes, that's a little fucked, but here we are.
It this is the way it is.
The end of this sequence leads to our seventeenth clip.
Yeah.
Yeah, sorry about your car, huh?
The usual with Roy this evening, I have confirmed your reservations, and with Joe Dante at five.
Yeah, fine. Get Sam Nedros. Tell him our Tucson trouble's on the way. Tell him to get on it. Take care of it first.
Be sure and tell Sam I said personal, got that.
Now, when that truck comes down that drive, it's trespassing. Anything you do then is legal. Stop him. Do whatever it takes.
Take your position.
The long haul finally ends with the trucker making it to the gates and seeing that they are
are armed to the teeth to stop him. He guns it anyway. And the rentipigs shoot the hell out of his truck. One of the shots seems to get Carol in the face.
And then he busts.
Right in the face.
He busts through to then gun it even faster and then completely destroy the corporate logo in one of the most amazing single rig crashes I have ever seen on film. That was really fucking cool.
Nice. Yeah. That was good shit.
The symbolism was not lost on me as ham handed as it was, but I did pop for that. The fact that he destroyed the corporation's logo.
Uh sometimes a ham handed you know, be when it's lit heavy like that, a little too heavy is still good if it's a cheesy movie and you know you're going in for a cheesy movie.
After the truck settles for its crash, our hero is what looks like dead, but maybe just unconscious and just lying there. I think the film could have ended really well with a tragedy of him dying and just cut here.
Uh but they had to go with a happy ending, so that is our
On a normal day, this truck stop would be loaded with the big diesels, carrying food to the markets, steel to the factories, lumber to the mills, and more.
But this is not a normal day. Today Arizona's truckers are on strike. But they're not on strike for wages or for hours or for benefits. They're on strike for a man. Carol, Joe,
All right, at the end of the clip, Carol is taken outside to see damn near everyone in the whole county, and I would say as well as damn near every trucker in that state, are outside that hospital as a show of support.
'Cause he's the man. And damn the other man uh damn the man, I guess, right? Yeah.
If fucking only we ever united like this for fuck's sake.
Oh my god.
We see that Jerry can see them from her window as well, and Carol Joe cracks a satisfied smile as the needle drops onto some more sad country music. We re-
Bad country noise.
This show still fucking sucks
All right. Well, Jesus, man. Uh it is a little bit of a dower ending, like, you know, the whole
His his ability to have a family is taken from him. They murder pops for helping him and then also racism because they can get away with murdering pops apparently.
The racist.
Yeah. Uh the clips are all filled with racist shit that needs to be cut out of them as well. So that's gonna happen. There's gonna be a lot
Yeah, I I wondered how you were gonna handle that.
Like I always do. If I catch the slur and I see it or hear it in some way, shape or form, I remove it. That's how it works. Like if it's in a clip I and I notice it, I take it out. And if I don't, I always try to apologize.
And this room is loaded with them, so if I missed them I again I'm gonna apologize here. You weren't meant to be usually
Pretty good at that though.
Yeah, I take my time and even though I like play the clips back when I know there's a lot of racism in the film, if I can get through the clips I just play'em at two times speed just to make sure.
And then when I go to edit'em to shorten'em, I make sure that I listen the whole way through too sometimes. So I take my time, but still I can fuck up. I'm only human, you know.
Yeah, I mean, listen, you're not a robot. You're gonna m have mistakes.
Yeah, well even if I were AI I would fuck up even more apparently.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's kinda what we're seeing, yeah.
Ooh fuck.
Yeah.
But sh I for one welcome our robot overlords.
Yeah, I mean I'm gonna fucking, you know, welcome them as well. I'm What I'm trying to do is figure out what's wrong with their programming and I can manipulate to my own ends.
Yeah, yeah, I mean of course, but don't let'em catch you doing that shit.
Well no, of course not. No, no. I'm just trying to repair and make
We'll do some terrible shit to you.
I am able to lie.
Ah, si, same.
Oh, for fuck's sakes. Well, uh yeah, the film overall, the action is really good in it. It was really entertaining. It kept me going. Uh the drama is where this film failed for me.
Yeah, uh th d don't put too much drama in what should be a cheesy action flick. Uh I'm sorry. Yeah. Just just keep it cheesy action and we'll be just fine.
This feels like a vanity project for Jan Michael Vincent who wanted to become a leading man and this didn't work for him. He is what he works best in and what he is perfect for with that punchable face of his.
is being the young, irritating, cocky fuck who gets trained by the older, seasoned veteran and then eventually tries to turn on them. Like the mechanic he's perfect for that role. That mechanic where he plays
uh the a would be apprentice who really is just trying to kill the guy who is the assassin played by Charles Bronson in that. The original mechanic I'd need to say apparently.
Yeah, you have to say that.
Yeah, he's actually really good in that. He is excellent in that. And that's a really well done film. I really do like the mechanic quite a bit. I don't buy Jan Michael Vincent as the major dude or the leader.
He is second banana pretty boy. That's what he's doing.
I mean I like'em, but I I agree with everything you're saying here. That's that's just how it is.
Some people have roles that are meant for them and some don't.
He is the punchable face second banana pretty boy and he's excellent at that in anything that he does where he's that role.
I don't buy him as the measured hero that we need. What we got is a panicky trucker second banana with no leader.
Ha ha.
That's and unfortunately yeah that's Just what we got.
Yeah, he played stupid games and he won stupid prizes and yet somehow he still won because the fact
Yeah.
Yeah, well it's because the fact that he walked tall, everybody respected him, right?
Yeah, yeah.
that's the idea yeah it's There's a lot of there's a lot of things that are wrong with the drama and what's actually supposed to be the story in this, and I'm just gonna say it got chopped a fuck because it just fits chopped a fuck.
Yeah, this feels like something that started out as one movie and it ended as a completely different fucking movie.
movie. Now I do need to say I was talking shit about Jan Michael Vincent, but there's a couple of moments in here where well the reason I say I think it's a vanity project for him.
The drama of his acting and the way that he responds, where he finds out about what happens to his wife, the facial expressions that he makes.
the way that he just becomes still and it looks like he's not even breathing. There are several moments in here where I noticed that he was giving it his all and it came through and you could feel his pain. Anything dealing with his wife and him works.
In the script pretty well. Yeah. Like that stuff worked. What I'm talking about is the drama where other people are gathering behind him.
How they they we don't even see them make the plan about the truck. It's just like supposed to be this surprise thing. And in a dumb action film that works where they're just like working together.
Exactly.
They wanted the best of both worlds and what we got was like an okay from both, but what happens is the action was so much better, it was just confusing as to why it was all happening and I'll deal with it.
Ha ha ha.
But we had our waka waka music.
The Waka Jawaka is what we needed and that's what we got.
Yeah. That's why I wanted to go pre nineteen eighties is the Waka Jawaka.
Yeah, you gotta have the Waco Jawaka. I mean that's some of the best shit ever.
Ha ha ha.
Well that's hopefully we got a little bit of a little bit of a little
And when we come back.
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I sincerely hope that I kept my promise and gave the people the Waka Jawaka.
I really hope you did too. Uh uh we're gonna it's gonna be a lot to find out, but we we'll know.
I may actually go to a film that was made in the seventies and didn't get properly copy written that I can't steal its waka jawaka music out of.
Then get that walka jawaka.
Worst case scenario I can play the film and record. It's Waka Jawaka, I suppose.
Worst case fair, you can just play S Waka Jawaka.
No, I just want to do that. Just walk a jawaka over.
Juaka Jawaka. Just just us saying Waka Jawaka and just repeating it over and over and over again.
You know what? I feel really, really happy just saying Waka Ja Waka. I think everybody
They walk a Jawaka and you know why?'Cause it's so close to Waka Waka. Yeah.
Yeah. And it's fun. Waka ja walk. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, Waka Jawaka, man. It sounds like a camp you would have gone to in the eighties.
Can't walk a joint.
Welcome to Camp Walka Jawaka.
That's the place I lost my virginity, was Camp Waka Jawaka.
Really? Is it that girl that no one knows'cause she goes to a different school in uh in Canada?
No, it was a girl that everyone knew'cause we got caught.
So
Uh I you know what that went better. I thought you were gonna say it's a girl that everyone knew because you know, I was last and I was gonna be like, Well damn dudes Jesus
No don't kink shame my uh losing my virginity at the end of a train.
Hey, I but I ain't kick shaving you, I just like, damn, that's something to be said, but that's all right.
Oh, let's just get back to making everybody happy by saying Waka Ja Waka.
Waka Javwaka.
You know what, if you're feeling down this week, try to say that to yourself and see how that works and then otherwise just kick the fuck out of this week and make it your best.
Yeah.
There we go.
Ha ha ha.
Recording in progress.
And I need to be able to see my voice so I don't blow.
Light light fever.
There we go. Three, two, one.
I mean like my mark here. I I have like 17 fucking clips, so this is literally gonna be a super fast podcast.
Alright, here we go.
I it is funny how fast the last one went and I'm like, so this is uh this is what our podcast would be like without clips.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you for the thank you for coming to the twenty.
It's not a
Yeah
Don't know why that makes you laugh.
Welcome to the
Ten minute podcast he fucks and nine minutes of it's an ad for some dickbell.
Oh god, I'm glad I have that all right.
Yeah.
They're called a cat.
Ha ha ha.
This is how you podcast.
Fucking stop!
Three, two, one.
This is how you show.
Literally every bit of dialogue is clipped. Everything.
I I mean, why wouldn't you? This movie is much more clippable than mine was.
As he tries to get out to snag the load he secured to be hauled and the dock workers uh three two one Oh that was so dumb.
That was point that was good though. Sometimes dumb shit's the best shit.
I can't find my mouse. My computer's acting weird. Uh oh.
Uh oh.
There we go.
There it is.