Like most meetings you’ve attended, it takes a while to get to something that makes you think, “It was important for me to be here.” Scott Ott, Stephen Green and Bill Whittle work through crucial conversations about the new Black Widow movie and the Blue Origin manned rocket launch, before settling down to the important work of recalling what it was like to watch TV in ye olde timey dayes.
Thank you, Members, for inspiring this world-changing toil.
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One of those I wish I’d thought of…
Put a large rubber band like a bicycle tire piece around your wallet to confuse pickpockets. Also carry it in your front pants pocket.
My high point in aviation history was standing next to a Lancaster bomber after they started all 4 engines up for a flyby at an airshow. The sound was mind numbing. They went slightly out of sync as the pilot advanced the throttles to begin rolling forward. The ground crew was in full dress British uniforms for their ratings during the war, complete with tripoded rifles and canvas shelters.
We certainly lost a bunch of cruisers though!
That aircraft the Texas Dems used was just unloaded of relocated immigrants who were Covid positive.
My brother did something that made our TV with the sound remote go nuts. He dropped a handful of change on top of our glass coffeetable and the TV just freaked out and shut down!
Bill, Am I weird because I’m a sucker for old British movies, especially British military and spy movies? They just seem to be done right and not playing heavily on stars. I binge-watched Foley’s War TV show because it seemed so real and plot forced. I especially enjoyed Honeysuckle Weeks character.
Honeysuckle Weeks, OH YEAH!
I loved Dagen McDowell’s comment that it was the most expensive mid-life crisis ever.
Enjoyed this very much, just what I needed today. Love you boys.
In WW2 a battleship rounded on a jap position in New Guinea and reduced it to gravel. One survivor was found and he is still in hospital today. 80 year old shell shock case.
Bill Whittle team, please start posting the unedited Moving Back to America footage for members only
merlin engines are the ones on the current gen of flacon rockets, the raptors are the on the new generation of Starship and super heavy boosters, the super heavy will have double the lift of the Saturn 5, I still find that crazy
My dad flew a couple weeks ago, and had to wear a mask. I forgot mine entirely when I went to pick him up so I just waited outside the airport.
With Bill’s comments about the P51 Merlin engines, is anyone coming to the EAA fly-in this year? Coming up at the end of the month. I’m undecided on going, but being only 2 hours away it doesn’t take long to change my mind.
Really looking forward to Bill’s segment on Paul Allen, sounds really interesting
I remember when our deck rotted and my dad rebuilt it as a family den. We put our first color TV in there instead of the basement. Much better reception. Then in the late 70s, I think, we got cable. Made watching the Yankees on WPIX much better. Well the Yankees in the late 70s were just fun. RIP T. Munson.
I much preferred Kiner’s Corner on WOR after the Mets games. That ’86 season was the best, and it kills me how they squandered what should have been a dynasty
Just watched that clip of Ed Ames on Carson; very funny.
BTW – the interwebs notes that Ed Ames is still with us at 94!
Just watched the Maverick movie for the first time a month or two ago – great movie! And I loved the twist at the end
I’m gonna go watch it again.
I’ll only watch Black Widow if ScoJo uses her “jumping and wrapping her legs around her opponent’s neck” superpower in scenes that pass The Bechtel Test. Preferably in slo-mo
Black Widow’s “Superpower” is the ability to play the damsel in distress and get dumb white guys to do the evil, super-genius “monologue” and give away their plans and confess their sins to her while sitting there looking pretty.
The concept of the Black Widow movie was to downplay her looks, because – woke.
Alright, Old TV’s were a mechanical nightmare but the shows on that old TV were superior to our current ideas of entertainment with the exception of Firefly/Serenity which came from the mind of probably the most woke writer of all time. The man most responsible for the ruining of the MCU while we ignore a real hero like Paul Allen. Should be a great week.
Drachinifel, IIRC, said that Paul Allen’s widow didn’t think finding shipwrecks all that important and shut down the operation right after he died.
No… The trash can w/ the transmitter was in the pilot episode. Right after the jump forward in time after the Battle of Serenity Valley.
“Cry baby, cry. Make your mama sigh.”
Clearly, it’s been too long since I watched Firefly/Serenity.
Me too,
Yes, cuz it’s the setup with the redhead that keeps paying dividends!
Gonna go watch that again too.
I stopped caring about the MCU at about “Ragnarock”. Wanted to care about Infinity War/Endgame. But… meh. I’ll catch ’em when I don’t have to pay for it.
Dave Cullen didn’t like “Black Widow” either. For all the same reasons Drinker didn’t like it.