Ep. 83: Must-see Alabama Movies

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2:30 We just don't have the best yard for decorating and space and whatnot. One day. One day. Maybe. But we thank you for joining us here live tonight on YouTube. We're going to discuss some Alabama-based movies that everybody needs to see. And before that, though, if you're brand new to the stream and the podcast, like I said, we're the Bama Geeks. You can find us on social media everywhere at BamaGeeks.com. If you're on Facebook, if you're one of us old derelicts, look us up for the Bama Geeks Front Porch. That's our Facebook group where we post a lot of fun things and chit-chat a lot.

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4:31 But we thought something maybe fun tonight would be to do just chit-chat about maybe some movies that we have seen a list. And I know we might have our own different movies that are based in Alabama. Not necessarily filmed in Alabama, but based in Alabama. Yeah. Um, apparently Georgia looks a lot like Alabama. Georgia does look a ton like Alabama, but, um, you know, I mean, Alabama for the most part.

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5:55 And we apologize in advance if we kind of stutter and have some streaming issues. For some reason, StreamYard is not being friendly. Yeah. Don't you make fun of my stutter, sir. You know that good old reliable internet in StreamYard, you know, it works fine until you actually want to go live with it. Exactly. And then here you go. Sometimes we have issues. That's, you know, we always have issues somewhere. But anyway, you know, like I said, Alabama can. Times, you know, we're we're kind of used to having punch lines and jabs made at our state, you know.

6:46 In between our past and our present, that's understandable. We got accents. Really? We do? We do. But one thing about our podcast is we love to tie pop culture back into the state. And Alabama has a pretty rich history with movies and with things being filmed here. all kinds of things. And so we, we, we found a list and like I said, we might have our own, uh, additions to these, but, uh, you know, some movies that, that they're associated with Alabama. So we want to, we want to know if, if you've seen them, I know I've not seen all of them.

7:30 And so I'd love to know, uh, these guys here, if they've seen them, what their thoughts are. So that's where we're going to head into tonight. So I think a pretty famous one first up would be To Kill a Mockingbird. Absolutely. Yes. 100%. Yeah, I think. to watch this in school yeah yeah so you see you odds are you've seen it because you had to watch it in school and you know it's it's it's a really good movie especially you know I don't know I don't know if I've ever met anybody as a kid who was like yeah that's my go-to movie I like to go and watch that but like when you get older you start to get to yeah appreciate it as an adult more yeah I mean i Yeah.

8:22 Yeah. And again, apologies if we glitch. Something is going on. We were doing fine during our Patreon episode. Of course. It's just starting to be a little rambunctious. Gregory Peck starred as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, the famous attorney. And he won an Oscar for that. And he is the grandfather of Ethan Peck. I knew that was coming. You knew that was going to show up. Ethan Peck, who plays Spock on Star Trek Strange New Worlds and has a massive hold on my wife's heart. Just a little, just, just touch. Yeah.

9:03 Yeah. If you get a chance to meet Ethan out at a con or something, definitely do so. He's wonderful. Yeah. Yeah. And has that booming voice like his grandfather. Yes, he does. He definitely carries that Peck family, that bloodline from his grandfather. The way he's, his looks, his voice, all that. Yeah. Bloodline. Bloodline. So, you know, of course, 1962 is when that movie came out. It was based in Macomb, Alabama, correct? Yes. That was the town that it was set in?

9:44 Right. Back here in the 1930s? You know, anybody who has not seen it, it was a famous book put out by Harper Lee, an Alabama author. Very famous. Passed away not too long ago, right? Yeah, it hasn't been that long ago. Yeah. But it tells the story of Atticus Finch and his family. You know, and the... He deals with defending a black gentleman against an undeserved rape charge. And that that gentleman who played the defendant for that, that was Brock Peters.

10:28 I know that because, you know, he's not my namesake or anything, but that's just his name is close to mine. Anyway, he was also in Star Trek six. I didn't know that he was. I didn't know he was in Star Trek 6. It's time to go back and rewatch his movies, my dear. Yeah, I know. It's been a while. Yeah. Yeah. He was one of the admirals in Star Trek 6. Oh, okay. Okay. But yeah, To Kill a Mockingbird is an absolute must-see, not only for Southerners, but also for anybody. It's such a wonderfully done movie, and it's a powerful, powerful story.

11:08 It won three Oscars for an actor, adapted screenplay and art direction. I think it was nominated several more times as well, but it's definitely an American classic, so... And a very young Robert Duvall in that movie also, by the way. That's right. Yeah. Plays a very significant role, if you know what I'm referring to. So should we talk about spoilers? I mean, the movie's been out for a while. It's been out for a hot minute. Hey, boo. Yeah. Yeah. Scal was a little girl, right? Yes.

11:49 That was Mary Badham? Yes, that's correct. Anyway, she's from Birmingham, right? She is, yes. So Alabama Connection is all around for that movie. Just an absolute classic. So, yeah, as Kevin mentioned, definitely it was a must-see in school. I wonder if kids are still seeing that. Ninth grade English? Yeah, ninth grade English. Yeah, it was like ninth or fifth grade English. Yeah. I wonder if that's still a thing in school. I don't know, obviously. I think so. I think my daughter had to watch it in school. She's just now graduated high school, and she saw it just a handful of years ago.

12:30 I think it was a class requirement. Yeah. That's one of those, it's like I was saying earlier, it's one of those movies that you, you have to kind of watch it begrudgingly. And then later on in life, you kind of, you either, something will always tie back to that movie. You'll, you'll wind up thinking about it like, Oh wow, this is that, that thing that happened. And this is something that's really similar to this. I think that's one of the reasons that they have you watch it. It's just the connection. And I mean, it also, it also does a good job of illustrating, you know, some of the issues that Alabama's had in the past. One of the things that we, on Bama Geeks, that we try to show all of our listeners and viewers is one of the reasons we exist is that Alabama's more than our past.

13:17 Alabama's more than some of the things that we've gone through. And having films like that, it's good for history, but at the same time, we look at that and go, okay, that's kind of in the past. Let's move forward a little bit. But exactly it's still it's still good to know that because you know if you if you don't know your past and you're doomed to repeat it so yeah there's a lot of um there's a lot of lesson to be learned in in in that movie as well you know humanity and the way we others are treated you know so absolutely yeah yeah and if there's one thing I can say about modern day alabama is everything that I see is not like it's passed at all you know hardly anymore we have certainly made a lot of progress but you know a lot of movies and a lot of stereotypes still want to kind of peg us that way and it couldn't be further from the truth everybody well well Sometimes we don't help it.

14:13 We do some stupid stuff, just like anywhere else, but it's really easy to go, hey, here's Alabama. Hey, something like this happened. Well, it's Alabama. Yeah. But yeah, you're definitely right. One reason we exist is to try to debunk a lot of that. A lot of pop culture stereotypes. It's not even debunking. It's just, you know, we're more than that. We're more than that. Look, you've got the four geeks here. We're all immersed in it all the time. So, yeah. Yeah.

14:55 Well, another movie we kind of had on the list was a book written by Another Birmingham native, Fanny Flagg. Yep. Fried green tomatoes. Fried green tomatoes. I've seen bits and pieces of this movie. I'm not overly familiar with it, but I know Jess loves it. I absolutely love this movie. I watched it. I've watched it many, many, many times. But yes, I was going to say, I wouldn't have y'all. Kevin, have you watched it? Bo, have you watched it? It's been a while.

15:35 I'm more fond of fried green tomatoes than the movie. I think I watched it in the late 90s, but that's probably the last time I've watched it, so I'm familiar with it. It's a good movie, though. Oh, yeah. No, I enjoyed it. Yeah. And I have actually... The Irondale Cafe in Birmingham is kind of like the... uh, inspiration for, for the movie. Um, it doesn't look like it's, it's not the same cafe in the movie again, that was over in Georgia that they filmed this, but, uh, I absolutely love this movie and, uh, this, the friendships in the movie, the relationships with the, with the people involved, it's a beautiful story.

16:24 So I've seen it many, many, many times. And it's a recommendation from me. If you have not seen it, go check it out. Excuse me. I know the spoiler in that movie. I know of it. Of course, I'm not going to give it here. In case people haven't seen it, but pretty uh jarring yeah spoiler yeah thing that happens in that movie well that yeah there's there's a couple little little twists little interesting parts to this story especially how you know someone goes missing and you know we we love barbecue in alabama what can I say we love barbecue well it got two oscar nominations so it's really good Yeah, and some fantastic actors in that movie.

17:20 Of course, you've got Kathy Bates, whom I adore from several roles. I mean, Misery. God, Misery. You know. You know, I'm sorry. She's mama in the water, boy. Always mama. Mama Boucher. Was your mama... Bobby Boucher. Don't you know what your mama told you about? She is not the devil. And speaking of Kathy Bates, her character, as I've become the age that I am right now, there is a line in that movie that I can just wholeheartedly relate to at this point.

18:04 And she's kind of having her little mental crisis. And she says, I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. Yeah. Definitely that sweet spot in our lives right now, huh? Yeah, exactly. And, of course, her ever-famous supermarket parking lot meltdown where she summons Tawanda and takes care of some little prissies that steal her parking spot. So it's always a hero moment for me in that movie. Okay. It also has Jessica Tandy and Mary Stewart Masterson and Mary Louise Parker.

18:48 No relation. Yeah. If you haven't seen it. Oh, yes. Thank you. Harry. Harry back in the chat. Hey. Hey. They catch that gorilla, what, broke out the zoo and black your eye? Absolutely. Thank you. That gorilla was a devil. The search continues. The search continues. That is one of the most quoted lines in this household for some odd reason. Rock and I quote that all the time. Dave, catch that gorilla that bust out of the zoo and beat you up. No, Mama. The search continues. Yeah, Mama.

19:29 Royal Orbison. While Mama don't know. If you get me off on the water, boy, we'll be here all night. Oh, my gosh. And that's a Louisiana movie. We've got to get away from... This is Alabama. Next thing you know, we'll be talking about LSU. And here we go. And your medulla oblongata. Oh, me. Well, fried green tomatoes is one that I definitely need to get back and watch. I don't know if my daughter's seen it or not. She'd love it. Yeah, we do need to probably have a sit down and watch that.

20:10 I think y'all would all love it. She would love it. Complete honesty, it's funny because I've watched them not as much either, but I get It and Steel Magnolias mixed up together, even though I know they're probably different ends of the spectrum. I do too. I get them mixed up. I do too. Well, I mean, it was all kind of around the same time. Yeah, a lot of these movies were coming out around the same time, so it's understandable. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, but yeah, filmed mostly in Georgia, all filmed in Georgia, correct? I believe so, yeah.

20:51 Two Oscar nominations, one for supporting actress, which was Jessica Tandy, and then one for screenplay. And Fanny Flagg for that one was nominated as a co-writer for that. Uh, Oh, the next, you know what? The next one on the list I want to save. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to breeze past that. We're going to cut. We're going to go past that one. The next two. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to go. Yeah. I got us. I got to skim through those. Cause those are the big ones. Yeah. Those are what's going to get the most discussion. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, you know, we, we talked about with, uh, to kill a mockingbird, you know, Alabama's past, um, It's a terrible past.

21:35 I mean, there's no way around it. But one of the movies on the list is called Four Little Girls, made back in 1997 by Spike Lee. It was his documentary about the 1963, the murder of four little girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing here in Birmingham. Absolutely terrible. Mm-hmm. I did end up watching this. You did? Yes, I have seen it. But it was only, it wasn't like, like at the time of its release is when I saw it. So I haven't went back to rewatch it again. But I did see this when it did come out.

22:16 Yeah. Actually, I happened to, when it... So years, years, years ago, and this won't probably get me in any trouble to say out loud, but I was working at the Jefferson County Courthouse at the time that the trial was reopened, that Doug Jones proceeded with prosecuting the men involved with the bombing. So I was actually working downtown when all that was going on. Love Doug Jones. Yeah. Awesome guy. Yeah. i did get disappointed though when brock pointed him out in the airport and I that it wasn't the actor doug jones and very animated hands yeah yeah that was a treat back in back in march when we were at the birmingham airport flying to new york and look over like hey there's our former senator doug jones so that was neat to see him to see him there um But yeah, it covers the four African-American little girls, Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carol Rosamond Robertson.

23:29 We definitely always want to remember those beautiful girls. Absolutely. But it earned Spike Lee, earned him an Academy Award nomination for director, along with, of course, a lot of widespread praise. It's also been selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress because it is so significant, both culturally and historically. And Terrence Blanchard did the music on that, too. So that's he's like up there as well. So.

24:09 It was huge. I remember like when the movie was coming out, the promotional for it was very big. Like I said, it was like for being a Spike Lee documentary in the 90s. I mean, that's. Yeah. That was huge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I never got a chance to see it. I think it streams on Max right now. I definitely want to sit down and watch it. This came out when I was about halfway through my Air Force tour, and so I didn't get a chance to see a lot back then. Yeah. Brock will tell you if it happened, but if it happened while he was in the Air Force, chances are he probably missed it. Yeah. Well, this one was distributed by HBO, so it would definitely be on Max.

24:53 Okay. All right. One other movie that naturally comes to mind because it is the title of this movie is also the title of a song that my wife despises. Yeah, Bo knows what it is. Yeah. Leonard Skinner, you know, Sweet Home Alabama. Hey, I like the movie. But a good movie, though. Yeah, I love the movie. It was a funny movie. The song is just played. Y'all, I mean. It's a feel-good movie. Let's see, your time with that song adds to my gripe. You have Reese Witherspoon playing an Alabamian.

25:34 She's from Tennessee. That makes it even more aggravating. And again, mostly filmed in Georgia. Yes. As long as she doesn't wear that ugly orange, we're good. No offense to our Tennessee fans. No offense. That is a horrible orange. It's a fun rivalry. But that orange is atrocious. I agree. Is it really? That orange? Yes. It's horrible. Is it a fun rivalry? No. No. This thing for me is over. I'm a two-time Alabama grad, so I despise Tennessee.

26:15 But that's neither here nor there. We're here to talk about movies. Yeah, that's right. We're a horrible football program. Philip Fulmer, the great punk. Anyway. Oh, my gosh. Okay. So... Yeah, Reese Witherspoon. She plays a young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York socialite. I saw this movie a couple of times because my ex-wife really loves Reese Witherspoon and really loved this movie.

26:55 I'm trying to remember as much as I can about it. It's just your typical rom-com. She's from Alabama, but she... She's in New York now. She's trying to put Alabama behind her. She had to come back home because she had been separated from her husband, but he had never signed the divorce papers. That's right. I've seen this movie a bunch. This is one of the rotations I like it too. Complete honesty, I like this movie. It's an awesome movie. If it's on TV, I'm going to stop and watch it. And it's like a Hallmark movie, okay? Yeah, it is. The girl goes to the big city to leave her past behind her. Now she's got to go back, you know, because in this instance, like she said, the divorce papers weren't signed.

27:37 She's going to be getting married to, you know, Patrick Dempsey, his character in New York. And who is Josh Lucas? Yeah. Wow. I actually remembered that. Oh, good for you. Yeah. He plays, Hey, look, funny thing. He's placed Jake Perry. Very close to Jack Perry, but you know, anyway, we're not going to branch off into wrestling. No, we're not. Um, but while most of this was filmed in Georgia, Oh, the city, um, the fictional city is Greenville, Alabama. Um, Greenville is not fictional? No, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry.

28:17 Pigeon Creek. Yeah, it's supposed to be the fictional version of Greenville, Alabama. Greenville is. Yeah, Greenville is fictional. Again, yeah. The town was Pigeon Creek that the movie was supposedly taking place in. But it's the fictional version of Greenville. My bad. I misspoke. Oh, also, Ethan Embry's in this movie, too, by the way. Oh, is he? Yes, he is. He plays Bobby Ray Bailey. And... It's gotta be three days. There's a lot of great Alabama cliches in this movie. Oh yeah. Yeah. You have to have three names. You have to have three names. Baby in the bar. So yeah. Yeah. You're going to get a baby in a bar.

28:58 I will say though, as much as you know, we like to like say, you know, Alabama's we've moved beyond that. I have a lot of neighbors. And a lot of friends that are three names, you know, so it's, it's, it's all good. And I love Ethan Embry and I had a chance to meet him years ago at Walker stalker and come to find out it. I I'm assuming he still has been a couple of years ago, but when talking with him, you know, He went to where we were from, told him he's actually was married. He's married to a girl from Gadsden, Alabama. Oh, that's right. I forgot he mentioned that. There's your Ethan Embry in Sweet Home, Alabama, tied back to Alabama because of his wife. So, hey, there's a lot of factors in that.

29:41 I do remember that her dog or his, there was a dog named Bear Bryant, right? I think so. Yeah. So I remember that because they did mention Tuscaloosa. Yes. For that. And then it was said that whenever she's returning back home from New York, there's a couple of, you know, the shots like you're driving, you know, she's on her way home. So they say that some of the homes that were shown in her return back to her town were actually shot in Eufaula. So... Oh, that's right. Yeah, because I lived in Eufaula for three years. Yeah.

30:22 So there's a small Alabama film location in the movie. Just a little bit. If you're passing through Alabama and you get a chance to go through Eufaula, please do. It's got a lot of beautiful homes in it. Eufaula's gorgeous. Yeah, Eufaula's very nice. Yeah, I spent a lot of time there as a kid. Yeah. If you think of like, you know, a lot of times when people think of like Alabama, if you, if you're not thinking of like trailer parks, nonstop or anything, if you're thinking about like the good old Southern, like stuff you saw in some, some of the Southern go through, you follow that. Yeah. That'll give you the, that'll give you the good visual of, you'd be like, Oh yeah, this feels like if you want to like know what the deep South looks like, the representation you follow for sure.

31:06 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. uh next on this list that we we've got uh is definitely something that kevin is familiar with something we've we've talked about this one quite a bit yes yes because a we love the director b we love the actors we love the movie that's big fish yeah big fish oh man Kevin, you went down not too long ago to see where this was filmed. Dude, that's been, oddly enough, that's been years ago, dude, at this point. Yeah, time flies, right? It's been a couple years since I've been there.

31:48 But yeah, the town of Spectre where they did the filming is down near Montgomery. And you can just go out there. It's privately owned, but you just go out there and you can just You know, just pay a fee, and then you go out there, and the town's still there. Yep. You know, it's been flooded probably a hundred times at this point, but, you know, it still looks great. I think there's, like, goats roaming the island, too. Yes. The goats are awesome. I have some of the cutest videos of my girlfriend feeding the goats, because you can just bring out whatever, and the goats will be your friend as long as you have food. Yep. And then they're like, meh. What? Yeah. I have been through Wetumpka quite a bit in a lot of the filming locations.

32:31 Big Fish is actually one. You know what? I'm going to allow this comment on screen because it's Chase and we love Chase. Our dear, sweet friend, Chase Ambrose. We appreciate your participation in watching us tonight. Thank you very much. So y'all are only talking about Alabama movie shot in Georgia. They shoot him here for the same reason the trees here lean west. Alabama sucks. No, because your film industry is a lot more friendly and you give a lot more. Yeah. Made in Georgia. Big Fish was not filmed in Georgia. Big Fish was filmed in Alabama.

33:14 As a matter of fact, the house that was in the movie. Yeah, there you go. It was still up for sale. I don't know whether it ever sold or not. Yeah, this was from back in April. So for the lovely price of $899,000, you too can own a piece of cinema history right here. But man, if you've ever driven through there and seen that house, it is like... It's in the weirdest spot. It's in a good spot, and it's like you'll be looking down on the pull-ups. Yeah, you do. You basically look down on the poors. You do look down on the town, yeah. Look at all the poor people down in the bottom of the town with me and my house here.

33:59 I see the poors are into living around me. Oh, man, they're going to bring my property values down. No, you just overpaid for that house. Well, a funny story about that house, though, is that it didn't used to have a second floor. And they added the second floor for filming. Oh, wow. Because they needed it for the, you know, because all the shots and everything were done in that house. So a lot of when they were going through and redoing it for that HGTV thing that Jess just linked, they actually went in and actually built that out. Because it was a set overall, so. Yeah, that movie is amazing.

34:40 Most of the locations there were in Alabama. Most of the locations that they did, pretty much all of it. I had a good friend of mine by the name of Charlie, who was actually an extra in that movie. Nice. I got to hear all about it. She was... super into ewan mcgregor still is and she got real close to him she got to be at the same scene and in the same and she was she was in the background of the carnival scene uh when when the when the popcorn freezes and he sees the the woman he's falling in love with and he can kind of go into the popcorn you can see her in the background I'll have to rewatch that for her yeah yep she's there uh the the one disservice that big fish did and it really wasn't anything major but You know, they talk about that, uh, you know, the girl he was interested in was, went to Auburn and that was Huntington college.

35:38 That was not the campus of Auburn. Yeah. Um, Huntington college is beautiful though. So it is right. Uh, Tallahassee Huntington's down near Montgomery. Oh, okay. Okay. Montgomery. Yeah. Okay. I don't know why I think of Marion. Yeah. Montgomery. Yeah. Yeah. Some, some filming took place down in Tallahassee, uh, like I said, Huntington college. Um, and as Kevin mentioned, the town inspector that was filmed a lot, uh, on an Island in Lake Jackson between Montgomery and Millbrook, um, close to the Alabama river. Um, but of course, directed by Tim Burton, who, whom we all love for Batman and Beetlejuice and all kinds of great, great movies.

36:27 Yeah. It's also, for anybody else in the movie, my wife points it out because she liked her at the time, but it has a young Miley Cyrus in this movie. If you're afraid of anybody, keep a score on that. And the Parkers are frozen. Frozen Parkers. we had frozen parkers for a second there yeah let it go let it go again apologies for the stream yard tonight yeah it just knows we're trying to go live and just trying to you know so it just wants to throw a little hiccup so like Bo said young Miley Cyrus yeah she has a very overly cliche accent in that movie of course she's a kid doing an acting so she was like probably like nine or ten eight nine ten ish yeah and she grew up to be but I like standing but I do I i like this this movie go back on the movie I like especially me getting older and like looking at it as a you getting older reflecting on things in your past especially as a father like I hope like some of my stuff like because it's all about you know his dad always told the big fish stories you know it's just out of curiosity have you guys read the book no I haven't No, I haven't read the book, but this always at the time that this movie came out for me, that just, it held us.

37:49 There's something about. the character that Albert Finney plays in this movie as the older, as the old man, the father, the grand, you know, telling these stories of his past and some of it, you know, maybe were true stories, but just with some over-exaggeration in the way he told them. And he, he reminds me so much of my grandfather in this movie. So watching this, it just kind of, kind of hits a special place in my heart because my grandfather was, He always had great stories, entertaining stories and stories from, you know, him growing up and, you know, times that he did. And just throughout his life, he always had a great story to tell and was just known for that.

38:33 So that kind of was a special place in my heart, the way this movie, the theme of this movie and things like that. And I like Albert Finney. He was Daddy Warbucks in Annie. Yeah. Yeah. He's one of those actors that just about anything he's in, he just brings just a solid character. I mean, he always does a really good job. Yeah. But yeah, the book, though. in the event that you guys are ever looking for something to watch or to watch Jesus as a book read, um, it's a really good one. It's a really good one. And it's, uh, it gives you a little bit of a different perspective on the ending.

39:14 Um, and the book, the book is the, the, the movie did it better. I just spoilers, but the book itself doesn't, doesn't goes off in a different direction with the ending watch. Well, obviously it's the original direction and then the movie changed it, but, um, It's good. It's really good. It gives you a little more, just like any book, it gives you a little more perspective on the characters and things. So definitely, it's not even really that long of a read, honestly. It's almost like a scholastic book. It's really not that big. So if any of you guys, even our listeners, watchers, are looking for just a good read, it's a good one. It's a quick read. Well, one movie I guarantee you that was likely not based off a book.

40:01 Talladega Nights. Called it Ricky Bobby. I'm all hopped up on Mountain Dew. The amount of quotes from this movie. Yes. Thank you. This movie has forever changed Big Red Gum for me. This is Ricky Bobby advising you never travel to Tijuana. I fully admit I've seen this movie once. Yeah, Brock's not... I don't like Will Ferrell. Brock is not a Will Ferrell fan. But I tolerated it once because it was based out of Alabama. I know it was mainly filmed in North Carolina, but they did make it down to the actual Talladega racetrack, so...

40:47 There's no mistake in that racetrack. No. And the two kids, I want to say the two kids were from Alabama, right? Yeah, one of them has a criminal history now because he had trouble not too long ago. The one that played Ricky Bobby when he was younger, wasn't it, I think? Isn't he the one that? No, I think it was one of the kids. I figured it was the older one or the younger one. I think it might have been the older one that got in some criminal trouble. Speaking of Ricky Bobby's kids, hang on just one second here. Let me get this up. He's actually making an appearance at Alabama Comic Con.

41:31 Nice. I'm going to climb you like a spider monkey. The amount of times he's going to have to talk about Mountain Dew is going to be crazy. Yeah. I guarantee somebody's going to bring a can of Mountain Dew for him to sign. I guarantee you. I mean, that's the best thing in the world to get him to sign, honestly. Oh, my gosh. You know what? If Chase is still in here, Chase has a story about trying to get Billy Dee Williams to sign a can of Colt 45 that you have to hear. Yes. Yeah, and I'm just going to leave it at that. Okay. So if you ever see Chase Ambrose in person, get him to tell you that story. Yeah.

42:11 It's a, it's a story for in person for sure. So yeah. So this poor kid is going to be signing mountain. This movie was Will Ferrell at his peak. Yeah. This was peak Will Ferrell. Yeah. Between this and step brothers. Those are like, those are my two go-to Farrell movies. And yeah, that, and another one of mine that was kind of like a sleeper hit a little bit of theirs was blades of glory. I love that. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. All day, Jenna Fisher. He was so mad.

42:56 It's one of my favorite stories that Chase has ever told. For all the years we've known him. Good night. Billy Dee Williams. I actually, as much of a much of an anti-Will Ferrell person that I am, I actually kind of did like Old School. Old School's good. There was one scene of Will I didn't care to see that much of him. Drink the tank. But I did, that movie did make me laugh back in the day. I have not seen it in forever, but Well, I mean, in Talladega Nights, you get to see a little bit more Will Ferrell than you would like to see as well. I don't remember it, though. See, I remember old school.

43:38 Help me, Tom Cruise. Was he, help me, baby Jesus? Oh, just the amount of people that's just great in that movie. You got Will, of course, Will, and then John C. Reilly. Oh, crap. Oh, I can't think of his name. Gary played Michael Duncan. Michael Duncan. Gary, I can't think of his name from office space. Gary, but he played his dad. Gary Cole. Was it Gary Cole? Yeah. And then, of course, Sacha Baron Cohen being his ridiculous self. Yeah. Is it Amy Adams? Or am I getting her mixed up with... Yeah, that's Amy.

44:20 It's Amy Adams, right? Yes, Amy Adams. That was his girlfriend at the end. She was the secretary, yeah. So that's another reason for me to watch it. Just say, I love crabs. And just the image of the car with the puma that says me on it is also another one of my favorite things about that movie. I don't know about the ad space here, but I do love me some Big Newtons. There we go. Gary Coles from, I didn't know that. Gary Coles from Macon, Georgia. So you're still talking about movies with Georgia.

45:00 That's fine. We're grateful you guys are next to us. That's fine. Yes. Yeah. we got two of our big ones coming up. That's completely connected to Georgia. So this is the episode you, you, you needed to join chase. Yes. And we're glad that Alabama movie stay for all the, Hey, you know, it's, you know, it's all from Georgia actually. Yeah. When we actually, you need to go and edit this video and say spoilers. They were all made in Georgia. Yeah. Oh my.

45:43 Well, all right. This next one I have never seen. And by the way, if you're enjoying the movie talk, please make sure you give us a like and subscribe to the channel if you want. Hit the join button if you want some bonus content. We appreciate it. We appreciate all the interactions that we're getting tonight. This is why I really like the live stream format because I love y'all being here. Interact with us. Absolutely. yeah so and and brock worked really hard on some like smileys or emotes or whatever you call them now um and stuff for like if you join so you know do that join us yeah just hit the join button below but you know like I said um uh yeah hit the like subscribe to the channel we'd love to have you along with us for the ride we uh we're enjoying this so if you're happy a like would be greatly appreciated yes So Chase says, dang, I was talking about the dude from 30 Rock and I got him confused.

46:48 So the actor wasn't correct, but the point still stands. We'll give you that one. It's fine. There's Katie correcting him. Gary Cole is not for making. Are we talking about Jack McBrayer? Yeah. Jack McBrayer. Yeah. Yes. Because he's from Mobile from that area. Where's he from? Jack McBrayer is from, let's see. He's from Macon. Yeah, he's from Macon. Oh, Jack McBrayer's from Macon. Yes. My bad. Now you've got me like going thinking like Jack McBrayer doing lines of Gary Coles from other movies, you know. You know, I need that TPS cover on the... Yeah.

47:32 Yeah. That would be great. Yeah. I need you to come in on Saturday. Speaking of comfort movies... Oh, we're going off... Oh, my God. That's a comfort... That's not an Alabama movie, but that is a comfort movie. I'd like to watch that one. Because I'm like, man, I'm so glad I don't work at that place. Mm-hmm. In a tech. Oh. Well, another movie that focuses on Alabama, specifically the music history for the states. Back in... But a movie called Muscle Shoals. I'm assuming based on Muscle Shoals. Yeah, the Muscle Shoals sound.

48:14 Description I've got here. Greg, Freddie... camellia is that right electrifying documentary celebrates rick hall the founder of fame studios in muscle shoals alabama and the signature sound he developed in timeless songs such as I'll take you there brown sugar and when a man loves a woman uh the movie features interviews with legendary artists like mick jagger keith richards aretha franklin bono many more spotlighting the critical role Alabama has long played in rock and roll history. Elvis recorded some stuff there, right there, right? I think everybody has.

48:55 It is a very historic thing up there in Muscle Shoals. A lot of artists have come to Muscle Shoals to record there. It's got a lot of great music history to it. Keith Richards recorded there when he was at the ripe old age of 249. Bless him. Still going. I know that the big story around here a couple of years ago was Lana Del Rey went up there and was kind of working in a waffle house for a shift or so. Yeah. She was recording up there in Muscle Shoals too, right? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of big artists up there.

49:37 She wanted to get the full Alabama experience. I'm sure she was trying to wait for a fight to break out or something. She had trained specifically with the Waffle House staff for the fights. Now waiting for the obligatory comment of how Waffle House is Georgia coming from Chase. See, he won't say it now because you handed him off. I made it come to fruition. There we go. He was literally typing it out. Dang it! Alabama, we got all of Georgia's stuff on loan. That's what we did. Oh, and Jess, of course, appreciates, you know, again, Sweet Home Alabama for mentioning the Swampers.

50:23 Muscle Shoals. They've been known to pick a song or two. That's right. Yes, they do. She actually sang part of it. I'm proud of you. There you go. I've been hearing that song Since I came into this world Goodness gracious You're required to know that song As an Alabama fan Yeah In 2015 Ava DuVernay And I'm only familiar with her From Was it the Wrinkle in Time movie? Was that it? Yeah That's what I'm remembering her from. Which wasn't very memorable, by the way.

51:05 That's why I never saw that movie. It was memorable for being a pile of trash. It was terrible. My daughter wanted to go see it when she was younger, when it first came out. We went to the theater and I was just like, eh. I bet it was filmed in Georgia. Probably. But a movie, of course, one of our... Okay. I'll take it. I'll take it. There you go. Leonard Skinner was managed by Alan Walden, whose office was in Macon, Georgia. Take that, Bo. Being one up by Chase Ambrose is something I always take that in stride.

51:48 I was going to say, you can't go wrong with that. Chase is one of our favorite people on this space. Yes. So Ava's movie about Selma, appropriately titled Selma, referenced one of the worst... Certainly one of the worst times in Alabama's history. But the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. Much of the production filmed in Georgia. Skylar. That is in the. Oh, wait. Hang on. We're talking about the Selma to Montgomery to Selma march.

52:31 Shots fired. George only films good movies like Robocop 3. Which is funny, Skyler. I did not realize that until I had to randomly catch Robocop 3 on TV and I saw the Westin Hotel in the background. I was like, well, there it is. Okay, I didn't know that. I had to go back. I've only seen that movie once. I had to go back and watch it. I've seen the other two multiple times. But anyway, Ava earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and a win for Best Song called Glory. Much of the... I was trying to remember if that was the one with the jetpack.

53:13 That was so stupid. Yeah, the jetpack. All right. That's just so that they can reissue him and put a jetpack on his figure, you know? Yeah. All right. Much of the production for Selma was filmed in Georgia, according to this description. Yes. And Robocop was not in it. Yes. Thankfully. But key scenes were shot in Selma and Montgomery, specifically locations where the historic events actually took place. The historic locations that were used in the movie include the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where marchers violently clash with state troopers, and the Alabama State Capitol Building, upon whose steps Martin Luther King Jr.

54:01 delivered an impassioned speech for the finale. And, you know... This person in this description says, you know, history isn't always pretty. In a country as young as America, the effects of the past remain ever urgent and immediate as states move on from hardship and flourish under the banner of civic pride. And sometimes that history makes for one heck of a movie. Yeah. So I definitely want to see that. Just on a personal aside, my dad was one of those state troopers. Uh, he didn't talk a lot about it though. Yeah. Um, that was a rough time.

54:43 He was a brand new state trooper when, when that incident took place. But, uh, he said he wishes that it was an incident that never happened. Um, yeah, but like I said, dad, of course, there's many of our listeners that passed away last year. So, uh, I don't have his stories from Selma. He is the one he did not talk about. So, yeah. Um, Hey, you know what? I'm just waiting for somebody to option the rights to do the Montgomery Riverboat Brawl. That could totally be one. I mean, I know it was a scene, but someone could stretch that out into a movie.

55:23 We could do a whole epic of it. Doing the Riverboat Brawl. Yeah. So we're narrowing down towards the end of the list. Yeah. You skipped over one. I know which one you were talking about. The two we skipped over, yeah. Those two we're coming back to. But before we go back to those, if I can. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. Con Air. Oh, there's one more. Oh, yeah. Con Air. so I am oh yeah that's right I have not seen con air I am ashamed to say oh what in the crap man 1997 that was during my air force time okay I've missed a lot of And I never came back around.

56:14 Okay, well, we got to... You have like 25 years. Look, man. I've been busy. Come on, bro. You have prime Nicolas Cage. I was going to say. Seriously. My other favorite actors of all time, a prime John Malkovich. Yes. Great cast. That's one of John Malkovich's best roles. Yeah. I mean, he was so freaking good in that. That was the movie that made me love John Malkovich, I believe. That was my introduction to him, and then I was like, this dude is awesome. I will watch anything and everything he's in. And, you know, Nick, like I said, Nick Cage and that southern accent he throws out there in this movie. One of my favorite lines of cinema. Put the bunny down.

56:59 But his, of course, his tie to the movie is that his character is from Alabama. And, of course, my favorite song. is part of this movie. So you gotta have, you know, somebody from Alabama, you gotta, you gotta have sweet home Alabama in there. So there you go. Did you, did you guys know, I know you guys know this, but anybody watching that Alabama, we didn't even have the rights as an official entity to say that this was sweet home Alabama up until maybe what was it? Maybe five, maybe seven years ago when they actually had to, you know, the, The state of Alabama actually purchased the rights or got the rights to actually put that on our signs and whatnot.

57:39 It's probably been about 10 years since they did it. But, you know, before that, it was just, you know, what was it, Alabama the Beautiful? Yeah. All the signs. And then after that, they were like, oh, no, we got the options. It's Sweet Home Alabama now. Well, that and the other term now they're trying to move on from. Oh, Heart of Dixie? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of rights that... some Alabama entities do not have. Did you know that Auburn University does not own their fight song? What? That was something when I worked at Auburn that I was surprised to learn. Yeah, there's a family, the family of the song's author owns the rights to War Eagle.

58:21 Probably in Georgia. Auburn is right next to Georgia, so I don't know. Is that West Georgia College? Some people call it that sometimes. Now West Georgia colleges, uh, is in, uh, heck Carrollton. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There is, there is an Auburn Georgia though, but a lot of people do confuse. Yeah. A lot of people outside of the area. Usually they can, a lot of people think Auburn university is in Georgia. Yeah. But yeah. Uh, Auburn, Auburn does not own the rights to or Eagle that they it's on lease from the family. And that's why. I know like EA Sports is coming out with their college football game here in a couple of weeks.

59:03 The old EA Sports college football games or NCAA games never featured War Eagle because they didn't have the rights. Are they going to have it on the new one? Don't know. I haven't heard. I've seen people ask that question, but. i was all I was always like how come are they playing glory glory to old georgia you know whatever yeah but we'll just play the happy birthday song instead oh wait no that was also owned by somebody maybe think going back to con air also talking about the cast you need to watch this also brock for steve buscemi steve yes yeah that's right yeah this is one of his coolest roles Do you know, every time I watch this, the more I watch it, his character gets more and more complex the more you watch it.

59:51 Because you're like, you think of it, you're like, okay, yeah, he's just this criminal. And then you get to watching it more and more and you're like, you start kind of peeling layers. And you're like, he really didn't have enough screen time to have this many layers. But it's Steve Buscemi. You know, he's incredible. Well, this is definitely cause it's been a while since I've watched it and knowing that Brock hasn't seen it. This is definitely, we're going to have to, we're going to have to recognize it. I love Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage is one of my favorite. In fact, I got a, uh, recently got a, uh, he did a private signing, maybe his only private signing ever. And I've got, you know, a personalized, uh, autograph from Nick Cage on a poster to, um, A national treasure.

1:00:34 I love Nick Cage. So, yeah, I'm ashamed I've not seen this movie. But what I'm seeing in the description, though, is he actually came to Alabama to study the dialect. For the accent. I mean, he's a Coppola. Yeah. Another prominent name in the film is Danny Trejo. Yeah, Danny Trejo. Who's coming to Dragon Con. Coming to Dragon Con this year. He actually plays... Probably one of the worst kinds of criminals in that. Yes, he does. Yeah, I agree. We'll do it. I need to watch it. I would love to sit and talk about Con Air. Oh, yeah. I mean, that movie is just... Look, I'll tell you what.

1:01:14 If you tell me you watched it, I will go watch it again so that it's fresh. Me too. Okay. All right. Give me a few days. Work's hectic right now. but I will try to get to it soon uh but it also says here that uh the lead actress monica potter grew up in arab alabama yeah I saw that I didn't and I didn't realize that until we were looking over this list too yeah so that's cool is she the one who plays his wife or no wait who are you talking about monica potter monica potter Look at you topping away over there.

1:01:56 I hear them. Oh, yeah, yeah. Someone who plays his wife. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So she grew up in Arab. All right. Interesting. Never would have called that. Wait, did we blank out again? Did we go again? We did, yeah. Yeah. Love it. Just bear with us. Yeah. Sorry, guys. We're working through this, too. It's okay, guys. I think we got it. We reset everything on our end yesterday, so. Yeah. Um, we need to look into Bo's looking into a new internet provider and I think we might need to as well. Although I think this is stream yard messing up tonight. It is stream yard. I don't think it's you guys. Yeah. Katie does say Monica Potter does play.

1:02:36 Yeah. Okay. Jess, before we get to the big final two, you had one you want to point out. This is not on the list. And I told Brock when we were looking at it that there's been a couple of lists out, you know, movies about Alabama filmed in Alabama. One that is missing on here. That is one I absolutely love. It's called Crazy in Alabama. Oh, yeah. Have you seen it? I think I saw it, but that was when it came out. My mom rented it and I watched it. I vaguely remember it, but I know it's Melanie Griffin, yes. Yes.

1:03:17 Antonio Banderas directed this. It came out in 99. I read the book prior to watching this. the movie. And this also... The movie also stars Lucas Black, who is from Alabama, who was also in Sling Blade. He played... sorry excuse me um he played frank little boy in sling blade so uh he's also been in the he's been in the fast and the furious movies so he knows about family yeah he knows all about family yeah he he is uh not watching I know right But this movie takes place in 1965, and it's also during the time of the civil rights issues in the state.

1:04:10 So there's a lot of scenes in the movie that reflect that time. Tokyo Drift. But Melanie Griffith, plays a alabama housewife who has dreams of going to hollywood to become an actress she is married to a not so nice dude and she gets tired of being in this relationship and she puts an end to it. I am not going to go into the details on how she puts an end to it in case anybody ever wants to go watch this movie. But, um, I, I haven't watched it in years, but the book was fantastic.

1:04:55 Um, the movie, I think it translated over to the movie very well. Um, so again, uh, also this movie also was, uh, let's say film. It was shot, uh, actually there was no scenes in Georgia. They, they did do a lot of the, yeah, take this one. There is no Georgia filming locations in this one, but they did lose, use a lot of Louisiana as far as the, the Southern, but she's anyway, when she puts an end to her relationship, she goes to California. So there's a lot of cross country, you know, film, but you know, everybody's based back in Alabama.

1:05:38 Yeah. So I highly recommend if you have not seen this movie, go check it out. It is really good. So anyway, that's, that's what I wanted to add to our little list of Alabama movies. Excuse me. That's all right. I'm trying to also looking really quickly. Oh, which one? Part seven. Alabama is where... I can't argue with you on that.

1:06:28 You notice how he just skips Mississippi altogether. Sometimes for good reason. Everybody skips Mississippi. So it's fine. If Alabama ever has a punching bag of its own, it's Mississippi. At least we're not Mississippi. At least we're not Mississippi. Chase says Louisiana is the Georgia of West Alabama. Yes. But Friday the 13th, part seven, the new blood. Part of it was filmed in Alabama. Yeah. Down in Baldwin. Baymanette served as Camp Crystal Lake. I don't want to say, like, I'm trying to think of other movies off the top of my head. I know I want to say there was a horror movie with Karen Gillum called The Eye or something.

1:07:10 I think it was filmed in Mobile. There are a lot of things that have been filmed around Mobile lately. We talked about that on an episode. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we've talked about different filming locations in the state. Like Under Siege. The movie Under Siege was filmed in Mobile. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Was part of it filmed on the USS Alabama? Yep. By the way, if you've never been to the state and you are wanting to go through, you go to Mobile, definitely go to the USS Alabama. That is awesome. It is super awesome. Really cool. All right, Chase. Just for you.

1:07:50 Our two big movies. That, of course, filmed primarily in Georgia. But Alabama. Let's hit one of my all-time favorites. The one I will stop every time. Actually, both of these I'll stop every time and watch. But let's start with a little story about two Utes. Two Utes. That stole a can of tuna from the sack of suds. Of course, we're talking about Oh, my cousin, Vinnie. Oh, my cousin, Vinnie is one of the best movies ever made.

1:08:31 Yep. Hands down. I love this. And I, last year I got to, so last year, the year before last year, before last year, before last, we were coming back from South Carolina for vacation, um, from vacation. And so we stopped in Covington, Georgia and I took, um, Uh, let's see. Hang on. Skyler says my wife's all times favorite movie. Um, my cousin, Vinnie, I'm assuming not Friday, the 13th part seven. And here we go. Chase says Friday, the 13th six was in Georgia. Then they tell about it and want to return to the South.

1:09:12 This place is scary. They must have been in Walker County. That's all I got to say. They came through Jasper. But yeah, we went through Covington, Georgia, and I got to show Jess the courthouse where they filmed it. And And then the sack of suds, which is, you know, doesn't look the same at all anymore. No, I was going to say I got pictures somewhere, but I was so thankful for this because my husband is a creature of convenience. And getting off the interstate to go here was not convenient, but he knew how much it meant to me to be able to finally go.

1:10:01 see this Brock Brock had been there previous uh I've been there several times yeah so it was the first time that I'd ever been in this area and I'm just so thankful that he agreed to make that little detour and and for Chase I would be remiss if I did not mention the fact that the first season of the Dukes of Hazzard was filmed in the same town that's right Chase uh Chase has a General Lee car it's beautiful um but of course my cousin Vinny know ralph macchio and I forget the other guy and the other guy yeah poor other guy yeah they were accused of murder in rural alabama on their way back to college and of course they have to call on joe pesci vincent la guardia gambini also known as jerry callow yeah oh jerry gallo I mean jerry gallo yeah jerry callow's dead But also Marisa Tomei.

1:11:07 We all fell in love with her then. Huh? We all fell in love with her with that movie. Oh, big time. And the woman hasn't aged today. Oh, no, she hasn't. And of course, Fred Gwynn. Oh, yes. Herman Munster. Yes. That's the judge. Yeah. And I have an autographed picture, and I may have shown it off on a previous episode. I was able to get in on a signing with Marissa Tomei and Joe Pesci. They both did a signing at the same time. And I've got the scene where they're sitting in the diner, and they're cooking the grits. And so... I have a scene where they're sitting there eating the grits and it's signed by both Joe Pesci and Marissa Tomei.

1:11:51 Yeah. I'm like, if there's one scene that I have to have them sign, that's the one. What is a grit? What is a grit? What is a grit? I'm going to share some of this stuff too while we're talking, but see, there's our, there's our picture outside the, uh, the Sacco suds there. And let's see, we've also got, Oh, How many personal things are you going to share now? Just remember, we're live. Oh, yeah. We're live. There it is right there. We are live. I actually got to install a wireless network in that courthouse. Oh, nice. Yeah, that was the first time I'd been to it.

1:12:35 After I got out of the Air Force, one of the companies I worked for based out of Kennesaw, Georgia. We went down to Covington and installed a wireless network there. And I'm like, oh my, this is, this is it. This is the place. And that was really cool. And this is a, let's see, there's where they, you know, pull up to the courthouse again in the movie where he's got mud in the tires. You got mud in your tires. Get that Alabama mud. You ever heard of mud in the tires? She's got that little camera, that little flat click camera that was like real popular back then too. She's taking our little pictures. Yeah. That's a, that's a movie.

1:13:16 I had to let my kids watch the edited version. Yeah. But that's one that we ask all or not one that we ask, one that we watch all the time. If it's on, I'm going to stop and watch it. Yeah. Hands down one of my absolute favorites, but. I mean, he's Joe Pesci is one of the only reasons I still watch, like, you know, I'll go back and watch a lethal weapon. Yeah. Cause he's in there. I mean, when he, when he came in, it was like, you know, the whole dynamic changed in those movies. So he's just a phenomenal actor and everything he's in is gold. So yeah. Yep. Yeah. You never heard of grits?

1:13:56 Sure, sure. I've heard of grits. I've just actually seen a grit before. No good southerner is going to cook instant grits. Yep. All right, Brock. All right. Number one in my heart and a lot of people's hearts. Yes, filmed quite a bit in Savannah. On a park bench. Yeah. In Savannah. But it's Savannah though. I mean. Yeah. God, Savannah's gorgeous. Yep. Robert Zemeckis, one of our favorite directors. You know, we, in a Patreon episode, we talked about Back to the Future and the musical and all. And of course, Robert Zemeckis did that and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, all kinds of great stuff.

1:14:37 But Robert Zemeckis read a little book by a man named Winston Groom and All about another man named Forrest Gump. Tom Hanks, 1994. One of the all-time classics about the state of Alabama. Forrest, Forrest Gump. Yeah. And if you've never watched it, how it was made on Netflix that they did talking about Forrest Gump, that was really cool too. Just to kind of see some of the behind the scenes of like they were like they couldn't figure out how to make this and the approach was just so unorthodox as to how they were doing it.

1:15:22 Just the fact that the movie actually came out and was good is miraculous. Mm-hmm. I have an interesting memory that made me think with us. When my family went and saw this movie at the movie theater, we went and saw it in Tuscaloosa, and the entire university football team was in there, that same viewing I was there. Oh, was it? I remember Jay Barker was there. That was like his senior season. But I remember seeing that. That was really cool, especially all the football scenes got a good rouse out of the football players. I remember that. Yeah. Smells like athlete's foot in here. But yeah, no, like I said, yeah, Forrest Gump, man. Like I said, how can you not love this movie?

1:16:03 Yeah, actually, the girl I was dating at the time, this came out right before I went into the Air Force and the girl I was dating at the time. absolutely hated this movie what and she was she was from south alabama with me and I'm like how can you hate this she's like it just makes it seem so dumb I'm like are you kidding forest is not a smart man but the movie is that he knows what love is exactly he does I can see where she's coming from with that. But at the same time, you look at the end of the movie and you're like, look at everything that this guy has affected. Like what all he's done is like, you can only wish to do one 16th of what he's done in his life and feel satisfied.

1:16:44 And this guy has just been everywhere and done everything. Yep. I forgot what I was going to say about it. Oh, going back to the Alabama football team and, And, you know, with Chase being here, of course, Sonny Schroyer, who was Enos in the Dukes of Hazzard, played Bear Bryant in that movie. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Oh, wow. I had not even realized that till now. That's amazing. Yeah. I never thought I'd hear Enos cuss. Boy, he can run. And you're talking about, you know, like, We're in a year that there's a lot of movies that have meant a lot to us growing up, how we're in anniversary years of movies.

1:17:32 This movie was released on June 23, 1994, so Forrest Gump is 30 years old. Yeah, just turned 30. 30 years ago, man. What the hell? What happened? I think I want to say it was one year of my high school in marching band. We did the Forrest Gump sweep when they did the Homecoming Court. I remember we played that. That was like a couple of years after it. That's one of those things I always think about with it. It's neat. Of course, I remember going to band competitions and they would play the music from it and they had a guy with khakis and a shirt and a red hat would run across the field. Oh, yeah. You remember that too, yeah.

1:18:12 You were in that same age group. Yeah, Forrest Gump has one of the best all-time soundtracks. At the time, it was like four CDs when it came out. Yeah, it was huge. Because it had a music catalog from 50s to 70s, 80s. Yeah. Pretty much the only soundtrack I know that is probably as cool as that and this is a huge gap in time. It's the guardians of the galaxy soundtrack. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you've got that and then you get guardians of the galaxy. So it's like everything in between. It's kind of like, okay. I remember it was a double CD.

1:18:53 Um, 32 songs to be, uh, on the soundtrack. Yeah. That it covered. Everything was great on that soundtrack. I had both discs in my five disc CD changer too. Both of them. And, of course, we've got to be remiss, though. This is one of my things about this movie that bothers me. All right. It's based in Alabama. They created a chain of restaurants of Bubba Gumps. There is not a single Bubba Gump restaurant in the state of Alabama, and I am aggravated by that. No. I had to go to New York City to eat at a Bubba Gump. I think our closest Bubba Gumps might be Gatlinburg.

1:19:37 Wow. At least you didn't say Georgia. i want to say there's the closest I could think of I know around us there's one in gatlinburg I think there's one in new orleans and I know there was one in universal city walk in orlando so well and while you know you know we talk about the the sand savannah and the park bench but actually yes katie yes yes I agree Thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. Katie said the soundtrack is the best because it has Freebird instead of Sweet Home Alabama. Give me Freebird all day long. Okay. I'll take Freebird. It's Skylar Davis. Great excuse to go to Universal Orlando.

1:20:18 I completely agree. I walked past that Bubba Gump's in Times Square just a couple weeks ago. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, there is one at Universal. That's right. And Chase, Sonny lives in Valdosta. Okay. I met him at a con in Mississippi, told him I'm from Macon, and he invited me to visit him for dinner. I didn't ask his address because he was unbelievably too nice. I don't know that I could have turned that down. Yeah, that would have been tough, but I understand that. It would have been great to eat it with him. So most of the filming took place mainly in and around Beaufort. uh south carolina yeah so scenes in virginia north carolina north carolina virginia um so yeah a lot of a lot of the filming took place up in that area yeah like in the house the house was in south carolina I think because like to me that's like one that's one of my favorite shots of him running down with the spanish moss it's a very cliche southern shot but I absolutely love the spanish moss in the trees the long driveway and the antebellum home yeah I have I have a autographed uh 11 by 14 I think of tom hanks from that scene with the red hat on and the blue white checkered shirt yeah that was one of my must-haves one thing I've always wondered I never really looked this up but I don't know what just made me make this connection but Is that the same house that's in the Patriot?

1:21:43 Because it's got that long with the Spanish moss, the long road in front of it with the Spanish moss. It may not be, but it seems like that's like the same house. It could be. They might have to do some research on that. You know what I'm talking about, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure though. I have no idea. So the Bubba Gumbas on Tybee Island in Georgia. okay all right I know it's the same company that owns landry's I forgot like whoever that company is we did have a landry's here in birmingham unfortunately yeah not anymore but I know that was that company that owned them they're the ones that owned the bubblegum franchise I know when I was at universal uh not too long ago it was it was you know when we got to the end of the day it was a choice between you know where we were going to eat universal and if there's a hard rock cafe I'm always going to choose hard rock cafe over anything pretty much so So I ate at the Hard Rock, which is the biggest one in the world there.

1:22:37 It's huge. But I did see the bubblegum as well. They have a good dessert, or they did. I don't know if they still do. It's the Alabama Mud Pie. It's basically like a peanut butter chocolate dessert type pie thing. Yeah. I got the Shrimper's Feast, and it had the different kind of shrimp, because you can have shrimp so many different ways. You can barbecue it. You can fry it. fried you can grill it there's and I love and I love their their little ways to get the servers like you had two signs that said run force run yeah you were good and then you had stop for stop if you need the server to stop by your by your table that's great yeah we'll have to we'll have to visit there yeah that was good yeah um wait I know he was a reporter, but that is also wrong.

1:23:31 Some restaurant called Bubba Gumbo's. We're having a domestic moment in the chat. I love it. You guys are just entertaining online as you are in person. That's why we love you. Fight, fight, fight. oh my well I have loved going over this list I there are some movies I have to watch and I will absolutely watch con air and please and we'll do a review of it because I I'm ashamed of myself not seeing that that movie's so good and don't forget the alabama connection to loki that's right yes since Tara Strong is now the official opening voice of the Bama Geeks podcast as Miss Minutes so another big reason why we asked her to do that and she obliged she was more than happy to record that for us so hey one other one we have to mention was very recent everything everywhere all at once oh yeah That wasn't filmed here.

1:24:57 But the directors are from here. Yes, the directors was from here. So I will count that any day because I literally just re-watched that movie yesterday. That movie is amazing. Yeah, we still need... And under that, the director of Godzilla vs. Kong, he was from Alabama. He's from here, around Birmingham. Yeah, he was at, when that movie first came out, was it at the Alabaster Amstar? Yeah, he made an appearance. Yeah, he was there. I'm like, why didn't we know that at the time? That's actually a really good theater now. They've really pumped it up. Yeah, we went and saw Garfield there, and they've got it nice. They've got the reclining chairs like the AMCs.

1:25:41 they got Tesla superchargers over there now too yeah and you know a lot of times when a lot of these movies were made we just Alabama has recently become a hub and a mecca for a lot of filming and things to be filmed here I mean just here in the last couple years that there's been a lot look I have a child I have a nine year old for our audio listeners, Chase says, you saw Garfield? Yes, he is one of the 12 people who saw it. Question mark, explanation point. My child enjoyed it. He loved it. Hey.

1:26:24 I did it for the kid, okay? We call him Bo Arbuckle. Oh, man. We've loved going over this. I know we're about an hour and a half into the stream and And we're going to call it a night soon. Jess, do you have what we used to call our Southern words and phrases? Oh, I do. Yeah. We now call it Bama-splaining. Yeah. We're going to Bama-splain it. You got that tonight, honey? I sure do. Go ahead, please. Hey, everybody. It's summer. It is hot, y'all. So you may hear a declaration about the heat as, boy, hotter than blue blazes.

1:27:11 How hot is a blue blaze? It's pretty hot. The blue part of the flame is supposed to be like the hottest part of it, right? It's been a while since I've messed with a Bunsen burner, so I don't remember. Well, we have a gas stove, so... um the fire is not something I pay attention to so yeah hotter than it is hotter than blue blazes right now all right and uh hang on I'm flipping through banners here uh because I'm sure kevin's got his dad joke but before we get the kevin's dad joke we have to acknowledge the So Chase says, also sorry for derailing the show.

1:27:56 Love you guys. We can't derail our show. No. It was like, it's not possible. We always derail our own show all the time. Yes. Okay. So see, there's another bit of information there. Chase says, if moonshine is lit and it ain't blue, it's poisonous. Yep. I will defer to your expertise on that. That's what I'm saying. There's an idea for a moonshine label, Blue Blazes. That basically means you've lit the head, which is the first piece of the moonshine that would kill you if you drank it.

1:28:37 I am being educated tonight. I love it. So, no, you're not derailing. We love that you guys are here. This has been a blast. This is what we love about doing the live stream is getting more people involved. All right, Kevin, you got your dad jokes for this episode? Pick one. That one. Which one? This one? Which one? The middle. The middle. Let's go with the middle. Jimmy Eat World, the middle. Yes. You're welcome. What's the difference between a dog and a marine biologist? Oh, no.

1:29:19 One wags a tail and one tags a whale. We're going to do one more. We're going to do one more. This one actually, this one made me really laugh. What music band do farmers listen to when they're bringing in the harvest? Adele? Hall of Notes. Hall of Notes. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Rip Hall of Notes. Rip Hall of Notes. Yeah. But you can still probably call the phone number. You can. Absolutely you can.

1:29:59 I don't have the number in front of me, but Yeah, there's still a phone number you can dial to listen to Hall & Oates, even though they are no longer on speaking terms. They had a domestic. They had a domestic moment. It happened to Hall & Oates, it happened to ABBA. It just happens. Well, again, we thank you so much and love you guys for being with us tonight. Thank you to everybody in the chat, Jason, Katie, and Skylar, and Harry and everybody. Yeah. Harry back. Yeah. I wonder, is that a name for hurry back or does he have a Harry back or. I don't know if I want to know. Let's just move on. But he talked about the water boy.

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