So you really think Pete Rose is going to help the Expos that much?
I sure do.
He’s always been a winner.
Will Riley
Hello, it is will here. This is actually not a full episode of infinite danger, just so you know, there’s been some unexpected delays making infinite danger. Episode 10, it’s it’s a little bit of a long story, but suffice to say, nine episodes of Making a podcast is very difficult work. So I figured I would go on a fact finding mission slash vacation to Neom. Again. I’ve been having a nice time. I got to see all the sites like I got to see the construction zone for where that cube building will be in about 20 years. There’s just the matter of getting back to Vancouver from Neom International Airport, where I’m recording right now. There’s been some big structural changes to Neom recently, and I mean, I’ll get into that in the full episode, but suffice to say, it has disrupted air travel out of Neom a little bit. So everybody at the airport has had to take a little bit of a layover as things get figured out. I have been here, personally about two months now. I think the situation at the Neom International Airport, I suppose the word for it would be fluid. The restaurants inside the airport are having trouble meeting demand, because, you know, the nutritional value of edible gold is kind of negligible. I myself, I’ve been having trouble getting a good shower since all of the water inside the airport comes in Voss bottles. It’s, it’s a little bit of a difficult commodity to come by. At first, I thought I’d be able to work on the podcast from the airport itself, since most of the people that come to Neom in the first place are creators and influencers and stuff, there are dedicated podcasting booths, but ever since the layover, most people just sleep in them, it’s difficult to actually get a free podcasting booth Right now, honestly, I’m sort of surreptitiously borrowing the podcasting slash living quarters of the sorted foods group Ebbers from sorted foods, sort of dipped out muttering something about long pig. I don’t know what that was about, so I sort of slipped in to record this stuff. So I’ve got to sort of record and edit this before he gets back. All in all, a very strange Epilog to this vacation of mine, but as a travel influencer told me at the beginning of this layover, well, you know, vacations aren’t all just about nice, positive experiences. They’re about stories that you can tell after the fact. And boy, am I gonna have some stories to tell. She was quite nice. She was quite nice. I haven’t seen her in three weeks, though. I don’t know what happened. It’s probably fine, though. Anyway, this is all a long way of saying before the layover, I had a chunk of Episode 10 of danger Bay already recorded and put together, and I’m just going to attach it here to sort of tide you over first chunk ready to go. I will see you on the other side. Hi.
I’m Pete Rose, and this is my son, Pete the second, and I’m here to tell you what I’m doing to help my kids play the game of life and win. The way I look at it, knowledge is power, and the greatest powerhouse of knowledge that I know is my 30 volume set of Encyclopedia Britannica three. I call it the Britannica advantage. As far as I’m concerned, Britannica is a big league and encyclopedia, the pennant winner. When you want to help your kids get better months from school right through college, all it takes is a phone call. Do it now, and when they answer, say, Pete Rose said to call
Will Riley
Danger Bay Episode 10 titled hot cargo. That. That’s what they call me, because I’m the one person who can make cargo shorts look sexy. Production Code, one, dash, 005, so we’re like all the way back at the beginning. We made this weird detour to 1986 and now we are way back at the start with 1984 again, it’s, it’s, it’s a mess. And seeing as it’s a very early episode of danger Bay, we are right on to the classics. You are having fun with your little sitcom farm adventures. This is the Jonah goes blind episode, straight back to child endangerment. Basically. Chris haddock is back to write this episode. Chris haddock of future Da Vinci’s inquest fame. I’ve talked about him at length. I’m not sure how he came up with the idea for this episode, but basically, I figure he saw like the script or the dailies of the Nicole gets rabies episode. Then he just looked at him, went, Oh yeah, we’re on this we’re on this wavelength. Okay. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. You’re getting your sadistic little thrills, freaking out what kids might be watching danger bay by giving the little girl a dog disease. Well, check this shit out. I’m gonna take this kid and I’m gonna remove the entire visible spectrum of light from him. You. Dad and Chris haddock was one of the writers of one of those fish mystery episodes, the hatchery crime story. And in that episode, you might have noticed that Chris haddock does like imperiling Chris crab and the Jonah character quite a bit, whereas in that last Chris haddock episode, Jonah Roberts was in more sort of a physical peril, just falling down a whole bunch of waterfalls and Braining himself on rocks and all of that. Chris haddock is introducing him to a slightly more existential form of trauma. This time around, the director is Gilbert Chilton, again, the guy that I referred to as a solid hand before, and so despite this being a pretty interesting episode in a lot of ways, this is going to be a slightly shorter intro than I’ve normally had. And I know this might be a disappointment to some of you, infinite danger fans, seeing as the previous episode I did was just a svelte 45 minutes, and you guys sort of wanted more. But, I mean, Gilbert Chilton is just a dabbler. He does this and that I said, he directed an episode of COP rock. But what’s also interesting is he directed a bunch of reenactments for a TV show called Top Cops, like that’s how willing Gilbert Chilton was to take on any job. He was just doing reenactments for not even like a murder true crime series Top Cops was just about cops telling interesting stories about their life as a police officer. Maybe there’s a murder, maybe there’s a crime, but we’re not really making any promises, but we’re going to reenact them, because that’s what the genre was in that era. One thing that I suppose does make Gilbert Chilton a little more interesting is that he has directed a lot more martial arts than a lot of the other directors that we’ve seen so far. Nothing high end. I mean, it’s all TV grade, but he directed some episodes of the TV series based on the crow the crow. Had a TV series. Did you know that I’m just finding it out. I mean, it’s, I guess it’s crow season, although I suppose it is sort of established. Yes, I don’t know very much about Brandon Lee or his life and work, but he also directed an episode of a show called vanishing sun,
running from oppression, yearning for freedom, he came to America, but when he is falsely accused of murder, he must run again, searching for the truth. The hunter and the hunted.
Will Riley
Vanishing Sun is sort of interesting because it started off as a series of Made for TV movies, and then finally, one season of regular TV. It aired alongside tech war and Hercules, if that tells you anything about what sort of caliber it was. But it is interesting because it is basically an attempt to make a Hong Kong action drama into something that you could serialize. Another thing that makes this show interesting is that it is one of the first shows to have a predominantly Asian cast in an English language TV show. At the very least, that’s the show tooting its own horn. I don’t know if that’s entirely accurate, but it is interesting to watch the show and see that it is an entirely Asian cast with explicitly Asian names. The characters actually have names like Zhang Yuan, Lao young, but it really does bear noting how long it took, how deep into the 90s you had to get before the characters in the show weren’t just named by the white writers. You know, Jackie Sammy Casey. Jackie Sammy Casey, like just a big, spinning Lazy Susan of those three specific names, Chilton directed a few episodes of a Canadian legal drama called street legal, which is basically about a bunch of young and hungry lawyers. But of course, it’s the 80s, so all of these young lawyers look like they’re already in their 50s. Street Legal was actually very popular when it came out. It ran for eight seasons, actually the CBC in the mid 2010s did do a reboot of it, which I think only lasted one season. Really looking this show up, I was just amazed by how many television programs thought that street legal was a title worthy pun. If you’re looking up this show, you actually have to be very careful, because there are so many different productions that love that particular street legal pun. There’s the two CBC shows, there’s the old one and the reboot. But there’s also a New Zealand show that has no relation to those ones. They also called it street legal. You wouldn’t know, but there’s actually a TV show called street legal running straight to to be right now it belongs to what I can only call the new genre of to be exclusive blaxploitation. Like you look up the production company and it’s making like four or five films a year, and they all have like budgets of 100k and all their other works are things called. Like tears of a hustler hood riches Sean Sinclair’s sex mogul now, Gilbert Shelton’s career is mainly focused on television and straight to TV and VHS movies, but he does have a theatrical release in the form of a movie called The void because for various reasons. It got put into theaters in Hungary and Argentina. It was still a straight to DVD movie in the US and Canada.
At the beginning of the 21st century, science will lead us into
a new era that will change the course of mankind.
Will Riley
Very little can be gleaned about the void. The only images I’ve seen of the film are just the same movie poster over and over and over again.
Experiment is online. You could create atom sized black holes under the right conditions. But one detail has been overlooked. I’ve discovered a critical flaw in your calculations.
Will Riley
It’s a sci fi thriller that is oddly too ahead of its time, because the whole plot revolves around a giant particle accelerator that accidentally creates a black hole. But this was like 2002 and nobody had those fears about CERN just yet, funnily enough, it’s almost like an exploitation movie that is exploiting something way too early,
black holes and nothing,
no going back now,
Will Riley
not much attention, I think, was put into the marketing budget for the void. I looked at all of these movie posters, and they all have the exact same tagline. It will swallow you whole exclamation point. And the thing is that whole is spelled H, O, L, E. That’s the closest to a pun that they could come up with in such short notice, like that’s not even somebody’s first pass at a joke. That’s like pass numbers 0.5 at making a pun. Adrian Paul Amanda,
tapping and
Milton McDonald, My money is on a big explosion and Nick Mancuso,
do You think that I care about
them? The Void i
Will Riley
The episode begins with a cold open of a helicopter flying over a little inlet in the Pacific Ocean. Underneath it is like a giant almost a fishing net that’s just full of a bunch of green barrels that are very ominous looking. They cut to the pilot inside, who looks very sketchy. I don’t exactly know how he managed to get his hair fluffy and greasy at the same time, he just pulls a big lever and downfalls some big green cartoon poison barrels with a nice conspicuous skull and bones on we cut under the sea with some good underwater photography, and the barrels start rolling further and further down the hill. And conveniently for the audience, as the barrel rolls, it stops just as the poison symbol points towards the camera. Strangely enough, I don’t think that the poison skeleton on this barrel is particularly standard issue. It’s probably not BC WorkSafe approved, the skull is neither giving a dangerous scowl or some sort of rictus grin. He just seems sort of bored and non plussed like the most neutral skull there has ever been in the world. Just no emotions. It’s like you’re having a conversation with the skull, and you suddenly drop the lines. You know, recently I’ve been getting into Mahjong based anime, and this is the sort of face that you get back in return. A funny little production hiccup here the fact that I can replay this video over and over again and see it in a higher visual quality than was probably ever intended, it means that you can see the feet of the guy who is standing on top of this hill and pushing them down into the water like you even see his hands a little bit as he moves these barrels and rolls them for, I don’t know the fifth time for this shot, but, I mean, that’s totally minor. Obviously, it’s just a tiny little nitpick. It’s not a big deal. I mean, if you watched an HD remaster of like Thunderbirds, would you spend all your time looking at the. Strings moving all the puppets around. No, obviously not. You’d focus on the fact that real human sweat is coming out of each puppet skin, and ITV refuses to explain why or how. You