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Flyover 65 – A Very McVey Christmas
This week we are joined, for the last podcast of 2016, by Ricochet member and author of the ever popular “Ricochet Silent Radio” series, Mr. Gary McVey!
I promised some links, but am in a bustle trying to get some Christmas-vacation packing done, so I promise to update this post ASAP.
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Ummm where is the link?
you just had to wait for the Christmas Miracle… from Miracle Max.
I apologize in advance for the fact that MY audio was about 10X louder than either Terry or Gary. I have no idea how that happened. I will fix it next time!
Ryan and Terry are very good at this. I had half a cup of coffee on a cold, rainy morning and they make it sound like a convivial, warmed -up conversation!
Thanks Max!!!
Good podcast.
When you did your discussion of movies in the 80s and the transition that occurred. How did you not talk about Ghostbusters (1984). The bad guys are acadameia and the EPA.
Johnnie, that’s a fine example. We were already running long, so we didn’t get to fill in every detail. Movies like “Ghostbusters”, “Splash!” “An Officer and a Gentleman”, “Superman II”, “Firefox”, “Rambo”, “Red Dawn”, even the funny defense of the Fifties in “Back to the Future”. Shows like “Magnum, PI” and “The A-Team”.
This is not what the “Easy Rider” generation expected to be doing in Hollywood.
Another fine podcast, boys.
I think the upcoming “Hidden Angels” set to be released, I think, on Christmas Day was planned to coincide with the first female president taking over for the first black president. The movie is about the black female secretaries that “played an impactful role in man going into space.” The trailer reeks about identity politics. Black – check, female – check, aggressive white male – check. Men = bad, women = good.
We probably won’t see another along those same lines approved in the coming years.
I believe it’s “Hidden Figures”, a sly bit of wordplay. “Hidden Angels” is Arahant’s two volume historical fantasy series. You’ll continue to see films like this. They aren’t as offputting to whites as Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation”; they’ll be aimed at centrist white middle aged liberal women who’ll basically still show up to cheer a rehash of the 1955-85 female empowerment story that seems to involve everyone from Don Draper’s secretary to Carly Fiorina.
The conflict will be annoyingly synthetic, as it too often is even in films I’ve liked. “Apollo 13”, a gripping and ingeniously made film in a lot of ways, is full of them. Does anyone really think mission controllers were saying, “Rookie, park that thing” as Jack Swigert extracted the lunar lander? I don’t. Did top flight controllers really all but sneer at President Nixon’s request, quite reasonable under the circumstances, to know their most candid assessment of the likelihood of success? It’s treated as cynical political ass-covering. But the crew cut guys who worked there were probably Nixon voters; the scene rings false, even if it’s based on a real phone call.
Yeah that’s it, “Hidden Figures.” Thank you, Gary.
Another upcoming one that fits the same theme of female empowerment that you discussed is “20th Century Women.” I think it takes place in the late 70s in Southern California. The trailer made it clear that “women don’t need a man for anything.”
I have a feeling that those types will be common for the next few years.
The links to the RICOCHET JudgeMental CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Part 1 & Part 2.
Yeah. I meant to write, MX Missiles. Lost on the web…
Also, it being Christmas, let me wish we none of us end up having to live up to ideals or face the music: Not just liberals, but especially Christian conservatives. It can be tough… It’s useful to have more of an understanding of people & politics than partisanship. So much moralism against liberals who are now fairly innocuous… Why bother bothering with them now?
Right. Reagan typically gets all the credit for deregulation but the Carter administration did get the ball rolling. The old peanut farmer did get a couple things right.
It was Tom.
I love his description of the criminal class. I recommend the essay, The Knife went in, by Theodore Dalyrymple. He describes the criminal class as exactly as Ryan does.
Miracle Tom
Thanks, Titus! These are the perils of recording one hour before leaving for Christmas.
Happy Christmas, Counselor, & the same to your delightful family!