Summer Blockbuster and Tom Hanks | A Soft Bedtime Conversation

In today’s gently nostalgic episode of The Insomnia Project, Marco begins by sharing some uplifting news about upcoming ad-free listening options for dedicated insomniac listeners. From there, he and Amanda ease into a warm exploration of the cinematic world of Tom Hanks — reflecting on his memorable roles, steady charm, and the comforting familiarity he brings to the screen. The conversation drifts naturally into memories of summer blockbusters, trips to Blockbuster, and evenings at the drive-in, complete with the imagined scent of popcorn and warm night air.
As always, this calming podcast unfolds in a soft, unhurried rhythm. It’s a relaxing conversation designed to help you fall asleep, ease anxiety, or quiet racing thoughts at the end of the day. The gentle movie trivia and shared memories create ideal background listening — engaging enough to keep you company, but mellow enough to let your mind wander. Whether you’re winding down at bedtime or simply seeking a peaceful pause, let these reflections on films and summer nights carry you toward rest.

​Summer Blockbuster and Tom Hanks
(Original airdate: August 13, 2025)

 Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen as we have a calm, relaxing, hopefully drifting conversation for you. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.
Amanda: I'm Amanda Barker

Marco: Amanda, I have some encouraging news. I've been looking into services that we can provide our listeners with ad free listens.

Amanda: Tell me.

Marco: And I'm getting very close. So I've been, I've been really diligent with following up on things.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: I've had a week where I wasn't able to follow up. And so as a result, because it was a long weekend for us, I did not follow up. But I'm going to work on it tomorrow and the next day.

Amanda: But you have been reaching out.

Marco: I have been reaching out.

Amanda: I feel like you're contradicting yourself just a little bit because you're like. But I haven't been following up. You have been.

Marco: I have been. I just, I have to reach. I have to send another email and see where it takes us.

Amanda: Okay. We don't need to stress our listeners out, but it is in process.

Marco: It is in process.

Amanda: Or as we say in Canada, it is in process.

Marco: Process. I heard someone say against the other day and I was like, I say against. I don't say against.

Amanda: Against is a real Canadianism.

Marco: I guess so.

Amanda: I guess from the British. But do even the British say against?

Marco: I'm not sure how they say it. Think of how you would say it with a British accent.

Amanda: Would you please? Would you mind holding your body against me? Yeah. They would say against and I don't know why I said that.

Marco: Pick up line. It's always nice to have a.

Amanda: That was my first use.

Marco: Pickup line. It's funny.

Amanda: And Bean is the other one.

Marco: Bean for Ben.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: I've been around the world and I,

Amanda: I, I, I can't find my baby.

Marco: In case anyone knows that one hit Lisa Stansfield. Yeah. I like that song. When it came out.

Amanda: Stanfield or Stansfield.

Marco: I know there's an underwear brand based in Halifax called Stansfield.

Amanda: This is a real. I think it's called Stanfield.

Marco: Stanfield. That's right.

Amanda: So this is a real stream of consciousness.

Marco: Isn't the airport named Stanfield? Stanfield International Airport.

Amanda: Oh, yeah, it is.

Marco: Is it named after the underwear.

Amanda: The underwear guy? I didn't know.

Marco: I think so.

Amanda: In Halifax is what he's saying, guys. Because he didn't finish that thought.

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda: So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

Marco: Imagine your airport's named after an underwear person.

Amanda: I'm sure there's airports named after worse.

Marco: I guess so.

Amanda: I can't think of any. But I'm sure there are.

Marco: I'm sure there are a lot.

Amanda: Let's think of famous people who got airports named after them.

Marco: Sure. Lester B. Pearson is our airport but nobody calls it that anymore. When I was younger, we used to call it Pearson.

Amanda: People say Pearson.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Were you flying out of Pearson?

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Fair. They do. Charles de Gaulle.

Marco: Yes.

Amanda: I don't really remember what he did, but I know he led France, question mark.

Marco: He was the. Yeah. The president of France.

Amanda: President, yeah.

Marco: Leonardo da Vinci in Rome, which I've

Amanda: never heard it called that. I've only ever heard it called Fiumicino.

Marco: Right.

Amanda: But I guess that is what it's called.

Marco: Heathrow. Was Heathrow named after someone?

Amanda: Gotta be, right?

Marco: Right. Who was Heathrow?

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco: He sounds cool or something. Gatwick and Heathrow, I've been to both.

Amanda: Maybe those are places, maybe those aren't people. I don't know.

Marco: I think we're already offending the Brits with our. With your.

Amanda: I know I didn't start off on the right foot. Dulles.

Marco: Who's that named after?

Amanda: I don't. I think it was a general of some kind. That's in D.C. and of course, the other one in D.C. would be Reagan, right?

Marco: Yes, after Ronald Reagan.

Amanda: Ronald Reagan. So that airport. And then there's John F. Kennedy. Oh.

Marco: JFK, of course.

Amanda: Which is in New York.

Marco: LaGuardia. Named after a mayor.

Amanda: Oh, is that who he was? LaGuardia was a mayor.

Marco: Yeah, he was a mayor.

Amanda: So those are some of those. I don't know where. Boss. Who was named after. Like who? Logan. Of Boston's Logan Airport.

Marco: Oh, my goodness.

Amanda: Was.

Marco: I can tell you that Heathrow. What? I've been able to ascertain, and I don't use that word lightly, Heathrow Airport holdings is a company that is operated and managed by Heathrow Airport, based in London. But it doesn't tell me.

Amanda: Yeah, maybe it's just the name of the area.

Marco: Yeah, perhaps.

Amanda: I'm trying to think of some other ones. Can you think of some other ones? Maybe that. Maybe I've run dry.

Marco: Pierre Trudeau in Montreal.

Amanda: Oh, yeah.

Marco: Isn't there one?

Amanda: And there was Doraval, wasn't there?

Marco: Yeah. Who's Dorval?

Amanda: I don't know, but that was a. And Mirabel. Wait, it was Dorval and Mirabel in. In Montreal. And now it's just Trudeau, right? Airport.

Marco: No, no, it's. Trudeau is an airport that's not used as much anymore.

Amanda: Oh, maybe that was Mirabel and they renamed it.

Marco: I don't know. We don't usually fly into Montreal is the problem. We usually just drive there.

Amanda: Yeah, that's true. That's true. Trying to think of some other ones.

Marco: What are some of your favorite airports?

Amanda: I love the one in Incheon. I love the Korean airport, but I don't think it's named after any person that I can think of.

Marco: I love going to an airport in a place that you wouldn't go necessarily. Like you're going on a vacation or something. You're like, oh, we're going to, you know, St. Kitts and Nevis, and you find out the airport's named after somebody who was important in that place.

Amanda: And then you're like, I don't know, maybe I thought there were so many, but now I feel like I've. I've run dry.

Marco: Mirabel Airport is actually takes its name from not a person, but rather a former hamlet in the area.

Amanda: But I don't. That airport doesn't exist anymore, does it?

Marco: I don't know.

Amanda: I don't think it does.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: I think they used it for like film shoots and things. I know there was a, a Tom Hanks movie where he's like stuck in an airport.

Marco: That's right.

Amanda: And that was all filmed there.

Marco: I'm not even, I'm not even.

Amanda: I don't remember the movie.

Marco: All that can wait. Something like that.

Amanda: What? I don't.

Marco: No, I don't know. We can't get. Go down that road because we already received messages from Bill Singh.

Amanda: We did, we got, we got some hate mail from a good friend saying how, how dare you mix up Murphy Brown and Designing Women.

Marco: For the record, that was you, not me.

Amanda: That was me and I'll own it. I'll own the hatred.

Marco: Bill did say, if you're gonna do 80s television series, have him on the show. I should just have you and him on the show. The problem is it would be a four hour episode because you guys like,

Amanda: of him correcting me, of me saying crazy things and him saying, no, no.

Marco: It would be an hour of them just talking, catching up, which I'd have to edit out. And then.

Amanda: So we used to have a podcast and we invite you. I think it would, I think it would do a great job at maybe putting you to sleep any day. But we had a podcast called Born this Way. Right? Born this Day. What?

Marco: I love that you don't remember the

Amanda: name of the podcast, Born this Day.

Marco: It's not a Lady Gaga podcast. It was Born this Day. It was famous people born on that particular day.

Amanda: I remember. I was there. Anyhow. And so we talk about all the famous people that are born and every day and we went through every. We did 365 of them. It's all a blur now, but that was our. Our pandemic project, and it still exists, and it's me and Bill and Marco. Although some. Some were Marco and Bill, some were me and Marco, some were me and Bill. So any permutation of that. Very rarely was it the three of us.

Marco: It was a lot of work.

Amanda: It was.

Marco: It was a test of our contrition and it was a lot of work. It was a lot of work.

Amanda: You said it. You. You pitched it to me and I said, great, let's do it.

Marco: I didn't realize how much.

Amanda: A lot of writing that I did not do. Bill did all the. I mean, Bill did all of the writing.

Marco: You would just show up. Much like.

Amanda: Yeah, I was the worst. Yeah.

Marco: Okay, so I'm looking up the title of the Tom Hanks film.

Amanda: Oh, we're there again.

Marco: Yeah. Just because I don't want to leave people hanging. Catch me if you can.

Amanda: And what did you say? Wait around for me.

Marco: Something like that.

Amanda: Catch me if you can.

Marco: Catch me if you can. Yeah. DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

Amanda: No, that's not that movie.

Marco: It was in the airport. Yeah, it was an.

Amanda: Oh, no, no. Catch Me if youf can is Tom hanks chasing Leonardo DiCaprio. That's not the movie I'm talking about. I'm talking about a movie where Tom Hanks is a foreigner of some sort. I don't know. But not from the area that he's stuck in. He's like Polish or something, and he's stuck in an airport, and the whole movie takes place in an airport, and it's just him stuck in an airport.

Marco: I've never heard this film.

Amanda: Are you in his IMDb right now?

Marco: I'm not. I mean, I can. I can be if you'd like me to be. No, no, it's not the Da Vinci Code. Right?

Amanda: It's not the Da Vinci Code.

Marco: It's not Bosom Buddies, the musical, is it?

Amanda: I wish it was. That takes place somehow, inexplicably, at an airport.

Marco: Okay, let's see here.

Amanda: Are we just gonna do a Tom Hanks deep dive?

Marco: Sure, let's just do it. Know what? We're now here.

Amanda: See how many people we can put to sleep by reciting an IMDb.

Marco: Okay, I'll just mention the films and you tell me anything you know about the films.

Amanda: Okay, well. And we'll find that one.

Marco: All right. Castaway.

Amanda: He has that volleyball named Wilson, and he lost a lot of weight for it. And. And I always think about it whenever I see a FedEx man, big. I saw it when I was a kid and I. He. He basically introduced FAO Schwarz to the entire nation because he has that scene where he's playing the piano in FAO Schwartz, and then everybody had to go to New York and play that piano with his feet. Yeah.

Marco: Forrest Gump.

Amanda: We all know that movie. I'm not actually the biggest fan of that movie because I just felt like you could just throw anything into that movie. I remember watching it going, well, you could just. Just grab anything from history and put them into it. But I did cry at the end.

Marco: I really like that film.

Amanda: Well, great.

Marco: Oh, I think I might have found it. Could it be a Man Called Otto? Is that it?

Amanda: I don't. Is it?

Marco: I don't know. I don't.

Amanda: I don't know that one.

Marco: This film. Okay, so Otto is a grump who's given up on life.

Amanda: That's more recent film.

Marco: Okay. I think he was nominated for that film.

Amanda: Maybe.

Marco: All right, let's see here.

Amanda: Now, this film was like 15 years ago, easily. Okay. Do you want me to do it? Yeah.

Marco: Like, I'm. I can't seem to find the list anymore because I. I went to figure out what a man named Otto is.

Amanda: Man called.

Marco: A man called Otto. I don't know. An auto. Auto is one of those names where it's forwards and backwards. It's the same thing is that I called it Palindrome. I think.

Amanda: I think it is. Yeah.

Marco: Like mom or wow.

Amanda: Or

Marco: Knife fight.

Amanda: Yeah. What is all this? He's not in. Oh, he's a producer. This is showing me all his producer credits. But we want his actor credits.

Marco: Joe versus the Volcano. Do you remember that film?

Amanda: Tell me about that film.

Marco: It's. He's got to deal with the volcano that's about to erupt, and I think he's gonna throw someone in it. If I'm not mistaken, the love of his life. I think that's part of what's going on.

Amanda: Oh. You know, the problem is with Tom Hanks and IMDb is that he has

Marco: a lot of work.

Amanda: Well, he's produced. He's such a produce that it's showing me all the things he's produced, which, no offense, I'm not really. I don't really care about.

Marco: Was he in Saving Private Ryan?

Amanda: Was he.

Marco: He wasn't that right? Oh, man. If Tom Hanks listens to this episode. If you happen to be talking with Tom Hanks friend and he listens, I

Amanda: know we're in danger of that.

Marco: Well, but here's the thing. You never know who's friends with Tom Hanks. And then all of a sudden they're like, you gotta listen to this podcast where they have no idea anything you've ever done. And I. I'm a big fan of Tom Hanks. I really am. I do like his work. I think he's great on camera. Sully. He did that movie, Sully, where he. He lands a plane in the water.

Amanda: Elvis. He was in Elvis.

Marco: He plays the colonel.

Amanda: Yeah, yeah, expertly. Okay, I'm. I'm in his IMDb so.

Marco: Okay, so you name them and I'll tell you what the film's about. That'll check.

Amanda: The David S. Pumpkins Halloween short.

Marco: Well, that was a character he did on snl, so it's not a movie.

Amanda: Okay. Do you remember the Circle?

Marco: Yes. I hated that.

Amanda: Oh, I really like Emma.

Marco: Emma. Emma Hermanji. Granger.

Amanda: Whatever.

Marco: Hermione Granger. Emma Wilson. What's her name?

Amanda: Watson.

Marco: Emma Watson. And him, he's like. He's like a tech guy and he's figuring things out.

Amanda: Saving Mr. Banks. We never saw that one.

Marco: I think I saw a bit of it. He's like. He's like Walt Disney and he's trying to get people to put on Mary Poppins. I think he's trying to get Mary Poppins made or something.

Amanda: The Simpsons movie. He was also in something called Elvis Has Left the Building. Oh, I found the. I found the movie.

Marco: Okay, here we go.

Amanda: It's called the Terminal.

Marco: Oh, the terminal. As in the terminal. Okay.

Amanda: Victor Navarroski.

Marco: Oh, that's based on a true story. Yeah, yeah, I remember seeing that. Where the person. Yeah, yeah.

Amanda: And I don't really remember the premise. Let's read the premise.

Marco: Where did you see this film?

Amanda: In the theater.

Marco: Oh, yeah.

Amanda: Back when I used to do that.

Marco: We were talking about films we saw.

Amanda: Here we go. Okay. Victor Nevrosky reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Okay? So I said he's Russian.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: But we don't know what he is. But prior to that, I said Polish.

Marco: So they used to, like. They used to, like, you use Moldovia as a country.

Amanda: Right.

Marco: Because everybody knows it's a country, but nobody knows politically what's going on. I shouldn't say nobody, but a lot

Amanda: of it is not a country. Babe.

Marco: Moldova is a country.

Amanda: Moldova is a country.

Marco: Moldova. Moldova.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Anyway, due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport. Until the war cools down, he makes the airport his home, and he develops a friendship with the people who work there until he can leave. There you go.

Marco: It sounds very Forrest Gumpish. Does he sit on a bench?

Amanda: Tom Hanks is really great at doing fish out of water stories.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: I think that's what you're getting out there. Because he has a real likability to him. And, like, I look at him and I. I see my dad for some reason, you know? Like, I think people see the people they love in him or themselves in him.

Marco: Okay, okay.

Amanda: Band of Brothers. He was in. I don't know if he was. Oh, yeah, no, he was the captain in Saving Private Ryan.

Marco: Yeah, I thought so.

Amanda: He did a lot of Toy Story.

Marco: He's the reason that they wanted to save Captain Private Ryan.

Amanda: What do you mean?

Marco: He's the captain who says we gotta save this guy?

Amanda: League of Their Own.

Marco: Yes. No Crying in baseball. Everybody knows that.

Amanda: He was in the Bonfire of the Vanities.

Marco: That was a huge book at the time. And they made it into a movie with Bruce Willis and I want to say Sigourney Weaver. I could be wrong, and it flopped.

Amanda: This movie gets referenced a lot when you know someone who's buying an old house.

Marco: The Money Pit with Shelley Long, if I'm not mistaken.

Amanda: What's that?

Marco: I'm pretty sure you've Got Mail with what's her face. They're the blonde Ryan who had a big career and then.

Amanda: And they had two movies together, did they not?

Marco: Sleepless in Seattle.

Amanda: I believe Mail is actually based on a French Christmas story.

Marco: I did not know that.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: Is that the one where it once.

Amanda: Perfumery.

Marco: Was that the one where she sells her comb?

Amanda: No, no, no, no. It's. We saw the play. Or. I saw it. I thought you saw it with me at soulpepper. Called Perfumery. And it was like a woman who's getting letters from a secret admirer and she doesn't know who it is, but it takes place at, like, I don't know, the 40s or something. So it was. Anyway, this Nora Ephron, I think, updated it with email and so on. So it's called you've got Mail, but it's based on a French. The play is called Perfumery, but I think the. The French story is even called something else.

Marco: Okay. Anyway, what came first? Sleepless in Seattle or you've got Mail?

Amanda: Sleepless in Seattle.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: You've got Mail was the big follow up.

Marco: I see. Okay.

Amanda: Yeah. I'm trying to find what his first movie was. But this is movies in tv. Oh, he had a. He did a episode of the Love Boat, as.

Marco: As is his. Right? Yeah.

Amanda: Oh, he did an episode of Taxi. Yeah. I'm just looking at stuff he did. He did an episode of Happy Days.

Marco: Of course.

Amanda: Three episodes of Family Ties. Was he the drunk uncle in Family Ties?

Marco: He was.

Amanda: I remember that he had, like, an alcohol problem.

Marco: Yeah, he was Michael. Michael Keaton. His. His, like, hero kind of thing was. It was his uncle.

Amanda: Yeah. And then it was like he was drinking. Splat. Well, his brother. I think they would have been the same age.

Marco: No, it was his uncle.

Amanda: Who's Michael Keaton?

Marco: Michael Keaton's uncle.

Amanda: Are you talking about Alex P. Keaton?

Marco: Alex P. Keaton's uncle.

Amanda: Okay, so Michael was the dad.

Marco: Right? Right.

Amanda: Splash, which love that film named. Used the unconventional joke name Madison for the. Because she. He says, oh, we're at fifth in Madison or whatever. And she goes, madison. I like that name. He's like, you can't be named Madison. That's not a. And thus began every Madison. You know, a bunch of little girls who are now in their 20s.

Marco: If you haven't seen Splash, I really recommend it.

Amanda: So. Good.

Marco: Now, Amanda, we were talking just to get off the Tom Hanks.

Amanda: Who knew we were gonna do a deep dive on Tom Hanks?

Marco: We were talking about the drive in movies recently, you and I, and we were talking about the first films we remember seeing at the drive in on that.

Amanda: We were driving the other day and we were talking about, yeah, I guess, drive in movies.

Marco: We were talking about maybe going to see a drive in. Like, we should go see a drive in film.

Amanda: And I said, when I was young, you know, you didn't just have the opportunity to call any movie theater and find out what was playing. Now, very soon after this, you did, like, you could actually call the movie theater and there'd be a recording of the movies.

Marco: Movie phone, I think it was called.

Amanda: Well, that was a different thing. That was any movie. But yeah, you could call the movie theater and they'd be like, this week playing at cinema, whatever. So I don't think the drive ins had that. So my parents said to us, and I think it was a Sunday. I don't know why I remember it was a Sunday, but it was a Sunday and it was gonna be so exciting. We're gonna go to the drive in, wherever there was a drive in.

Marco: Listen, when you were a kid, any opportunity to go to drive in just sounded like so much fun.

Amanda: So much fun. Movie from your car. Like, you get to eat popcorn in your car maybe. Like, it just sounded so much fun. So my parents were like, we're going to the drive in. So myself, I think my baby brother, I don't know, maybe somebody was babysitting him. My sister, who was 9, I was 7. And my parents pile in the station wagon. And it was one of those station wagon that had, like, the wood paneling on the side.

Marco: The best. Those are the best station wagons. Let me guess. You went to go see a fun frolic film. Summer blockbuster.

Amanda: Nope.

Marco: Okay. You went to go see something a little artsy, but still fun for kids.

Amanda: That's how it was pitched to us.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: But also. Nope.

Marco: Okay, so tell us.

Amanda: It was not a Disney movie. It was not a kids movie. So we show up at the drive in and they are playing a movie called Firefox. Not. Not Foxfire, because I thought it was called Foxfire. And I looked it up, and that is a movie where Jessica Tandy owns a farm. Okay, so it wasn't that. Although that might have arguably been more interesting.

Marco: But anyway, Firefox, which I never saw, but I remember when there was, you know, those cable channels we had, like the C channel, right? Or First Choice or the other one, I can't remember, they would do ads for Firefox.

Amanda: Well, this was a lesser known Clint Eastwood movie that involved battle planes. So my dad was quite excited and he was like, we're gonna see Firefox.

Marco: I remember the planes kind of looked like the Tesla truck. They had this, like, weird look to them.

Amanda: If I'm not mistaken, they were very, like, mold that molded World War II molded metal look or whatever. Like aluminum that's been nailed down.

Marco: And you're seven, right?

Amanda: I'm seven. And so we're like, great, Firefox. We don't know what it is. And of course, my dad, in retrospect, was probably, like, great. I get to actually see a Clint Eastwood movie. I don't have to watch, you know, Dumbo or something. So we very quickly realized this was not a fun movie, nor was it a kids movie. I don't know if we were allowed to get snacks. I feel like we weren't.

Marco: Oh, that's even worse.

Amanda: I just remember being in the backseat of the station wagon where we couldn't really see. So great. And I think there were mosquitoes and thinking, this is the most miserable, boring night of my life. And when is this movie going to end? I just want this movie to end and, like, trying to, like, sleep because you Know, kids today would have. They'd be like, give me my tablet or something. But we didn't have any of those things. So it was just us and Firefox.

Marco: Firefox. A retired Air Force pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neural link.

Amanda: I was seven. That's all I'm gonna say.

Marco: So the. The first film I remember seeing at a drive in, and maybe you want to look this up while I say it was called Bustin Loose.

Amanda: Okay, see, that sounds more fun.

Marco: And it was fun. I remember really enjoying it because it starred Jimmy Walker, who you might remember from Good Times, who played Dino My.

Amanda: Dino My.

Marco: But that wasn't his name.

Amanda: Jj.

Marco: Jj. Thank you. And I remember being a kid and thinking, this. This actor is hilarious.

Amanda: Wait, it's Richard Pryor, though. Oh, Richard Pryor was the star. Not J.J. no.

Marco: I saw the one with J.J. on a bus. Then I'm getting the.

Amanda: The Bustin Loose is starring Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Robert Christian, and George Coe. And the music by Roberta Flack.

Marco: No, I didn't see that film.

Amanda: Okay, so what film did you see?

Marco: Oh, what's the name of it? So it starred Jimmy Walker.

Amanda: All right, I have to look up his IMDb.

Marco: I'm sure he didn't have a lot of films.

Amanda: How many podcasts can you listen to where someone's looking up both Jimmy Walker and Tom Hanks in the same.

Marco: So I'm conflating these films because I'm sure I saw this Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson film, which I couldn't tell you about, but I also saw one with. I remember being so excited to see Jimmy Walker in a film because he was known as a. As a television star.

Amanda: Wait, Jimmy JJ Walker? Yeah, trying to. There's a lot of Jimmy Walkers. Okay, we're going to look up his IMDb and see what. What, 63 actor credits? Hang on.

Marco: I used to love Good Times.

Amanda: Well, he was in Good Times. The Bold and the Beautiful. He did stuff.

Marco: No, I never watched that. I wasn't into soap operas.

Amanda: The comedian?

Marco: No.

Amanda: Sweet Lorraine, maybe Mr. Box Office?

Marco: No.

Amanda: What's the premise of this super shark?

Marco: I look for something around.

Amanda: What goes around comes around.

Marco: Maybe what was around? 1983. 1983. 84.

Amanda: I was young, big money rustlers.

Marco: No.

Amanda: Son of the Beach.

Marco: Maybe he was that. That sounds like a. I know.

Amanda: Wait, hang on. I'm gonna go back more.

Marco: Well, that's the experience I had my first Memory of going to the Drive In.

Amanda: Okay. What, yeah. What year would this have been?

Marco: 83. 84.

Amanda: He was in an airplane, right?

Marco: No. 82, perhaps.

Amanda: At ease. He was a sergeant. Oh, no, that's a show.

Marco: Okay. No.

Amanda: Well, anyways, he was in The Jerk Part 2.

Marco: No.

Amanda: Maybe. Doing time. That sounds right.

Marco: Doing time.

Amanda: Doing time.

Marco: Doing time. Yeah.

Amanda: Let's look at the premise of doing Time.

Marco: All right, this sounds familiar.

Amanda: Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger Prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves. That sounds like Boston Loose.

Marco: This sounds like something I would. Yeah. Oh, yes. This is the movie poster for sure. This is it. Okay. So this is the movie that I saw. I don't think it was appropriate for kids at the time. I think there may have been times. I think there may have been a lot of swear words and nudity and all that kind of stuff.

Amanda: I mean, arguably, Bustin Loose probably wasn't as appropriate either.

Marco: Well, I'm sure with Richard Pryor, but why would I have conflated the two?

Amanda: It makes total sense that due in time, people in a prison, that you would conflate that with Bustin Loose. People busting out of a prison.

Marco: Okay, so there you go.

Amanda: They're both kind of. I don't know if Bustin Loose is busting out of a prison, but he's busting out of something, so that makes sense. They're very similar premises.

Marco: And I did see both those films at the Drive in, and they're both

Amanda: kind of wacky, antic movies where he's busting out, you know, and, and, and going crazy. So I, I, I can kind of see that.

Marco: And I also saw Richard Pryor, didn't I? For some reason, I saw a lot of Richard Pryor at the Drive in movie. See no Evil, Hear no Evil. With Wilder. Gene Wilder.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: I don't think they would make that movie today because one of them couldn't hear, one of them couldn't see.

Amanda: Right.

Marco: And they were. Yeah. And anyways, it was an 80s premise. Yeah. These are the movies I saw. I saw a lot of Richard Pryor, I guess I saw another Richard Pryor.

Amanda: I didn't get to go back to Drive in for many years after Firefox. And yes, I know Firefox is also a web browser.

Marco: Sure. And you and I sometimes go to movies, Drive in movies, and we kind of see. We see some good films.

Amanda: What's your favorite film we've seen at the Drive In?

Marco: Well, definitely not Sonic the Hedgehog, which we saw with my niece and my nephew.

Amanda: We did.

Marco: We went to go see Sonic the Hedgehog.

Amanda: The Hedgehog. We did.

Marco: I don't even remember not that long ago either. And Lynn was there and Roger were there and. Yeah, so we saw that. I think.

Amanda: I know. I'm trying to think. We saw that Jungle Cruise Disney movie.

Marco: Yeah, I didn't like that either. Did we see We Bought a Zoo at the Drive In Movie Theater too? Which is another movie I don't like. I guess I don't see movies I like at the Drive in theater. The more I think of it, we

Amanda: saw the Hulk at the Drive in movie. And I only remember that because I remember I fell asleep and I woke up at the very end and it was like a little dangling carrot Easter egg Iron man thing. And I woke up and that's all I saw the entire movie. You know what movie we saw? The Drive in that you would not think of as a Drive in movie, but actually it was really great. At the drive in was Straight out of Compton. We saw that at the drive in, you know, however many years ago. The one in Barry.

Marco: Right, right. Okay.

Amanda: That's the last good movie I think I've seen at the drive in, if

Marco: I think about it.

Amanda: Because the problem is we're taking kids, so we see kids movers.

Marco: I don't think Straight out of Compton.

Amanda: Well, that was. Maybe that's why I remember it. No, but we, We. We took the kids to that. Yeah, that jungle one. And then we took them to last year. What? It wasn't Sonic the Hedgehog last year. We took them to. It was a sequel and it was the one. And it has the. The. The. The Minions.

Marco: Oh, that's right, the Minion movies.

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco: I went to go see. What was that film?

Amanda: Despicable Me 2 or 3. I think it was Despicable Me 3. We saw.

Marco: I saw Trolls 2 in the proper theater. And let me tell you, you do need to see Trolls one to know who all the characters are.

Amanda: Which you had not seen.

Marco: Which I had not seen. I just knew that Justin Timberlake voiced one of the characters.

Amanda: So I should explain. He went to see trolls 2 with our friend's daughter because they wanted to see the horror movie that I was in and they could not take their. At the time, 8 year old, so took Marco to trolls 2 and apparently you fell asleep three times.

Marco: I was nodding off because I felt bad because every time I would turn to her and say, who's that? What's going on. She would try to explain it to me, but she was watching the film as well, so it wasn't fair. So my recommendation, if you're gonna see Trolls two, go see Trolls one first.

Amanda: That's a great learning.

Marco: All right. Well, that's the end of our podcast.

Amanda: What a weird one. It's a Jimmie Walker and Tom X.

Marco: It's a. It's a summer blockbuster podcast episode.

Amanda: Yeah. What's your favorite drive in movie, folks?

Marco: Yeah. What is your favorite drive in movie?

Amanda: If you're still with us.

Marco: If you're still with us. And if you're not, well, tune in next week.

Amanda: Dream about drive ins, and we hope

Marco: you were able to listen and sleep.