#217 Project Crossing The Streams (Bonus Ep55) – Great TV binge watching suggestions!

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Jeff Dwoskin 0:30

Hey, oh, it is I Jeff Dwoskin your host of classic conversations in your guide through this bonus episode of crossing the streams. What is crossing the streams glad Jas crossing the streams answers a universal question. Hey, I just binge watch something. What should I binge watch now? Well, guess what? You've come to the right place. We got you covered over 105 hours of streaming suggestions on our YouTube channel. Don't have time for that. No worries, you've come to the right place. This bonus episode is going to beam three segments from three of our live shows right into your ears episode 102 64 and 88. That's right, we have project Azorean, RRR and Tulsa kings all coming atcha and this episode, we're gonna kick things off with Marci Stifter, our latest permanent host on crossing the streams. She's gonna take us through Tulsa King. Take it away Marci. All right. Let's keep this alone to see 77 Now by the way, I wonder what he's up to.

Bob Phillips 1:36

He still looks better than all of us.

Jeff Dwoskin 1:38

I wonder what he's up to these days. Oh, yeah.

Marci Stifter 1:41

Hey, guys. So so I'm gonna say for the first time in my life, I am noticing Sylvester Stallone, I think that he is just amazing in this role, that Tulsa King is so fun. So I'll tell you. So that's just alone. Love that. He's on this television. I don't know if this is his first television show should look that up. But it's a part of Taylor Taylor Sheridan. You know, like Yellowstone Taylor shirt. And he's your guy who writes, you know, the Yellowstone or 1883 1923, the creator and he's brought us a lot of stuff. Actually, I just learned he was actually on Sons of Anarchy. So he's behind salsa king, but he's not writing it. sopranos writer is writing that I have that written down here too. So Sylvester Stallone is His name is Dwight the general man. Freedy. Man, Freddie. He's in prison for 25 years for not being a snitch, goes to prison for 25 years and comes out and hit the mob boss is like not having it. He's not into him. He's like, you gotta go to Tulsa and you can start up over there and they just like basically get rid of them and he goes and he sets up shop. The first place he walks into to introduce himself and let them know that he's a mobster, is a dispensary in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which just launched into this weed store and is like, I'm Dwight the general and you're, you know, you need my protection. And it's his name. It's Guilfoyle from Silicon Valley, and that is Martin star, Martin star. And we all I mean, if you watch Silicon Valley you love Guilfoyle so, so fun that he wrote. He's got this dispensary. It's like it's shooting shoot them up horses, New York mob, and oh, my favorite part is Stacey a little bit of a love interest is Andrea savage. And the first time I was on your show, I talked about episodes and she had a great episodes. She used to do. I'm sorry, she's a comedian. She's funny. She's a she writes comedy and she plays his love interest. And I've always been a big fan of hers. I really love the show. We just finished it and they are definitely have given them a season two. It's got a lot of good feedback from from us injures.

Bob Phillips 4:08

So, can I ask a question about Stallone's character? Is he the Is he the gangster with the Heart of Gold

Jeff Dwoskin 4:15

guy? Yeah, yes.

Marci Stifter 4:17

I mean, like, it's gonna love about him. Yes, he looks good. It's I was gonna say and I looked up, it said it was 76 But you know, he, he 7677 I don't ki looks great. Oh, yeah, he really does. Come down a little bit, you know? Calm down, you know, you know, sometimes we're like, move, you know, so now he looks good. And, and it's, um, you know, kind of like, what you're talking about when with the Rocky Balboa movie you know, he's sometimes he's just got to toe you know, give a lesson or tell a story and yeah, and it's entertaining and it's fun and it's just, I don't know, it's a total head. I I've enjoyed the season. We watch that pretty fast. So it has been a lot Have fun.

Bob Phillips 5:01

Watch it on your recommendation. Marcia.

Marci Stifter 5:04

I penciling

Jeff Dwoskin 5:06

it in yeah what is it that what is it on where can you watch it?

Marci Stifter 5:09

Okay so paramount plus i gotta say that's what it's on a paramount plus has got all these Taylor Sheridan shows most of them that's where you want to see your 83 your nights 23 And I'm watching a lot of stuff on Paramount plus right now. Thank you Erin we all trade username and password so he makes it he makes it possible and I'm glad he's here. So

Jeff Dwoskin 5:34

golf nine it's nine episode law breakers.

Marci Stifter 5:37

Yeah, I'm trying to you know who else is in it? The guy says cool. The bad guy, Richard Coster. He's an evil Do you ever do you guys ever see happy on like the Sci Fi Channel with the cat? The unicorn? Yeah, the unicorn. That was a great show off as well. Yeah. It was the voice of the imaginary friend and it's a unicorn. But the same guy plays you know, the evil bad guy that comes head to head with Dwight, the general you know, Sylvester Stallone, and he's also the bad guy in the show happy and he he is just he's an evil. You know, he's does. He will always play the back. That's

Bob Phillips 6:20

cool. I'm definitely gonna watch. I have to watch Marci. Wow.

Marci Stifter 6:26

You don't have me on your podcast. What's

Jeff Dwoskin 6:28

your brother's podcast?

Marci Stifter 6:30

Yeah. Plug it Aaron. It's Fisher, what do you what do you call your podcast now? My brother does Bruce Springsteen shows. I kind of talked about one once before.

Bob Phillips 6:40

What do you mean he that he? He sings he

Marci Stifter 6:43

know he edits them? I don't know. Oh, I see. My family. It is actually really cool. He's actually done a Billy Joel show. We did. I should probably said too much. He'll he'll fill you and I'm sure he's typing right now.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:57

I've had Billy Van on my show. Yes,

Marci Stifter 7:00

I he I bet you anything. My brother watched that. On your conversations with?

Jeff Dwoskin 7:06

I have to make a podcast so I can have Jeff plug. Gary's amazing artists. Head over to Jerry's. Instagram. Buy his art. It's killer stuff. Oh, okay. For sure. He's really good. Cool. Sounds like kings. You nailed it. You know?

Marci Stifter 7:24

Really this time? I like I did work today. Last week, I was like, Oh, just really good. You should watch it.

Unknown Speaker 7:32

We used to do that Marci. Now we're like, Yeah,

Marci Stifter 7:35

I'm like they want me prepared.

Jeff Dwoskin 7:40

All right. That was Tulsa King, one of the many amazing Taylor Sheridan shows. So check that out. It's awesome. And as you heard, Sylvester Stallone looking good. All right. Up next is our our Zach Wiseman is going to take us through this is from Live episode ADA. Take it away, Zack. We're gonna kick things off with our Zach, when Zach. We were talking and I said, Zach, what show you want to do? He goes TV or movie. I go either and he goes RRR and I read it because I know ZACK I read it as are like, he didn't like my answer. Dude, he's like, no.

Zack Wiseman 8:31

Okay, so as as some people know, I have a fascination with consuming every bit of content I can possibly find. And then trying to get my friends to watch it so that we have something in common, and we never do. But one thing popped up to me a couple of weeks ago, and I tell you it is consumed at least a full year of my life since this came out two weeks ago. And this is our RR now I'm pretty sure it stands for Ries revolt and revolution. I'm not 100% sure because such as it stands for fire and water as well. But this came out last year. Well this year 2020 2022. Now the thing about this, this is the first Tollywood movie I've ever seen and I didn't know what that was. So I did a little bit of research and Tollywood is actually an Indian style of Toulouse language so it's specific to not just Bollywood it's specific to its with a CK so I guess we got to drink. It's specific to that religion and that that language as well. Now what the point of this story is, this is a fictitious story about two legendary revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their own country in 1920. So this is setting their own in 1920. So it is a period piece this movie immediately you can see where the budget goes I it there's so much money that is spent in this thing. The first five See, this movie is over three hours long, and no joke. I've watched his seven times in the last week. Michael Colby can attest to it every single time I watch it. I tell him, please watch it with me. Even Dylan and I never watch it Hey, Dylan, I actually had to fake make up a podcast to get Dylan to stream with me so I could start watch his movie with him. I watched it once with my daughter as she took this movie to her girlfriend's house and watched it immediately after that, her girlfriend went to watch with me to see what I thought. Now this story revolves around pretty much two men, right? One man is just on this hunt to get a promotion within the British military, right? While partition is going on. So the real stuff is real bad over there. White people are doing some pretty icky things. And it starts off why this kind of royalty steals a woman, a young girl out of a village, it just takes her because of the art that she wants. A white woman takes a village girl, and they're like, Look, you gotta bring this girl back, or else the shepherd of this, this flock is going to come get you. So now they had this jungle God that is coming to find this girl to bring her back to her village, all while this man is trying to promote himself up. So now you have this just as a specimen of a man. This is one of the most gorgeous men I've ever seen in my entire life. His name is Ram. And what he does is he is just the most badass man known to man because he needs a raise so that he can fulfill his destiny, which is I'm not going to spoil up two and a half hours later you learn his backstory. And it's riveting because the whole time like, why is he beaten up his own people? Why is he being a traitor? Why is he so fucking beautiful? Who knows? But I'll tell you why. Because once he meets his best friend beam, who is the wood guardian, they become just the most bestest of friends and they join up while saving a children child underneath a burning bridge. And then they go on, and they rat each other shoulders like best friend should. And then they find out that they have the same common goal. And once they unite, then they realize that they're both just godly men, and they have to fight downs raging. So when I say raging, raging, something was raging. Something is constantly raging every time a lot anyway, it's just a cool movie. And in true Bollywood and Hollywood style, it has amazing special effects of the very first thing you see is new wolves or bears or Tigers were harmed in making this movie and you're like, alright, that's cool. I don't know why that's there. You have quickly just a man taken on 500 men to to arrest one person, then it cuts to a man trying to capture a wolf it ends up being a tiger instead. And then you have just this beautiful love story that people can't really understand each other. But God dammit, friendship and sexy men have to prevail. And that's how this is three hours later. You have a man on top of another man while they're shooting bow and arrow and spears of people and it is very cool. Very, very cool. Very, very cool. Very cool. I have never been more entertained by a movie. I've never left a movie with a cooler, more positive message than this. I've never texted so many people and say please watch this movie because this is impressive. It'd be very easy for Netflix or Hollywood to above the rights of this and whitewashed it and changed up a little bit. But keeping it within this within this region within this language is gorgeous. There's a cool dance number in the middle which brings out that kind of Bollywood feel where they really show show the people around cool dances, they are best friends. It literally has everything that anybody could want in a movie and still be interesting for over three hours. It is a stunning work of art.

Sal Demilio 13:09

Watched Yeah. Okay. Is it's real. It's not animation, right? This

Zack Wiseman 13:14

is No, it's live action. Yeah, I've actually now I'm gonna see Jad does get a little weird. You know, when you have like tigers running around stuff, it does get a little bit weird, but if you just stay in the story, and because it has that Tollywood Bollywood feel they're able to get away with more you know, if it's a Hollywood movie, and like somebody jumps like, you know, 1000 feet, it just feels kind of weird. But because this is set in this world, they're allowed to get away with more fantastical elements, which just to me bring so much more character watching one man take on 1000 People just to save a family while one man is taking on 1000 Different people to save his family and then they become Oh bestest of friends. And yeah, super great. Super, super duper Great.

Jeff Dwoskin 13:53

I'm looking at the trailer right now. Everyone seems the whole budget went into magnificent mustaches. You know,

Zack Wiseman 14:01

to this to this day and age. It is hard to pull off both a side part and a mustache. Ron gets aside part. He does a pretty good job. I've seen better I've seen a lot worse. But for him to pull off that thick mustache could not work. No one would talk to him. But somehow this movie pulls off multiple men multiple side parts multiple thick mustaches multiple of Zach's eyes on TV all time. All right.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:23

This sounds fascinating. It's you're convincing me to watch. If you watch a trailer,

Zack Wiseman 14:29

I promise you if you watch the trailer, you will not turn it to something else. You will have to go okay, I got to see what this is. I have to watch

Jeff Dwoskin 14:36

this looks like one of those Angley movies with people.

Zack Wiseman 14:39

And the cool thing is that there's a couple people that you will recognize. So it has Ray diva, whatever the one Ray Guy is who was the the Punisher who was also in the show Rome, I think is in grace Stevens. I'm not sure about that. But he's like one of the main antagonists in this so you have you know, big stars that you can that you notice and visualize all while telling this beautiful story about it. Ultra religion I had no idea about But whoa, whoa,

Jeff Dwoskin 15:04

I feel like we should end every segment with is Dwayne Johnson Anna

Zack Wiseman 15:10

Should I wait John Wayne Johnson, Dwayne Johnson would be the ugliest man in this movie. He would be the smallest man this movie and he probably got beat up. I mean, these guys pull these guys. Let me tell you about these guys.

Jeff Dwoskin 15:22

I think it kind of dead like Lou Ferrigno

Sal Demilio 15:25

type, guys.

Zack Wiseman 15:27

I mean, there's there's a lot of chest hair. A lot of a lot of five muscles. It's, it's, you know, I'm probably just gonna go watch it right now. need me for anything else? No, I'm kidding. I hang around. But seriously, this is this is one of the most you know, the Marvel movies are dipping, they're getting boring. You don't really have a lot of Hollywood things coming out anymore. And this thing has a budget like the second comes on. You're like, Wow, there's so much just put into this. And it's a passionate movie because they knew that they were trying to sell it to Netflix to the United States. So it is all in all a very packed and great movie.

Jeff Dwoskin 16:06

All right, I think Zack like that movie. And just for the record, he was telling you to go see that last year. It just won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards this past week. So there you go. crossing the streams as Paulsen all future things. Oscar. All right now we're going to wrap things up from Live episode 64 Project Azorean. If you love tales of espionage, you're gonna love this one. Take it away Ron Lippitt. Project Azorean I

Ron Lippitt 16:37

was need to know about this. I just got it. I got to ask what was that Howard Cosell moment ago about?

Bob Phillips 16:42

That was that was my house?

Ron Lippitt 16:44

Thank you, your your nail and the voiceover.

Jeff Dwoskin 16:50

Oh, Sal, very good.

Ron Lippitt 16:53

Now I want to do my review in our customers voice. So are you guys familiar with this? If you guys, are you guys familiar with the story? Not

Bob Phillips 17:03

at all. Not at all I want to know.

Ron Lippitt 17:08

I was so excited to talk about this because this was a pure algorithm review from Amazon Prime. They're learning my shed as much as Netflix is apparently and I just love documentaries, well thought out documentaries, historical ones. And this thing is the most amazing story. I don't know how this has not been made into a major motion picture because all of it is 100% true. And that is this. In 1968, a Soviet nuclear submarine had a major event happened on the submarine. And it sank in 16,000 feet of water in the in the North Pacific, about about 1000 miles north east of Hawaii. At the time, the Soviets scoured around to find what happened in submarine they thought it broke up, they thought maybe it was hit by something. They weren't sure. Then they figured out that no, this thing sank to the bottom of the ocean, and there's no way we're ever going to find it. They're gonna find us, we're never going to find it. No one's going to ever find this thing again. And they basically went about their business not knowing that in 1968, the United States had just installed the SOSUS warning nets, which I don't know if you guys know what those are. But those are those are listening microphones in the oceans, which were thought you know, at the height of the Cold War. And they could they were able to triangulate fairly accurately, were this somewhat meteorological sounding event happened of the submarine blowing up and sinking to the bottom and long story short, they were able to get some subs with some really sophisticated equipment in the exact area where they thought it might be. And sure enough, there was the sub at the bottom of the ocean. And project Azorean was launched in 1968. And they spent six years building a cover story with the help of Howard Hughes of all people. Howard Hughes, who was a famous, you know, first off he was the richest man in the world, but he was also famous for funding on mineral mining types of journeys for for major companies, and he funded or at least gave his name to the appearance of funding this project Azorean which was the building of this mega mining ship that took forever to build. But they got this thing out to the Pacific and what no one knew what not the press knew that anybody in the United States knew not certainly not the Soviets knew was that glued to the underside of this freaking ship was a massive crane and clamp like mechanism that they were physically going to pull this submarine up from the bottom of the ocean. Wow using the best of technology that was available in 1974, which is when This thing happened. And to keep this thing secret, and to keep this thing, there were the Soviets were aware that something was going on. They were suspicious immediately. But they couldn't prove it. It was a mining vessel very clearly it was a mining vessel, but had been custom built to look like a mining vessel. But it surely was not a mining vessel.

Sal Demilio 20:19

Sorry to cut you off. Yeah, because I've been following this great 868 is when that blows up. Yep. And then in 74, which is just just mentioned, is when they, yes,

Ron Lippitt 20:29

six years, six years it took to build the cover story and then build the ship that that that it was required to get this thing now realized in 1968. At the time, the Soviets were our peers, and maybe even our betters, when it came to nuclear submarines, there was immense amount of intelligence on that submarine. And believe me, the United States wanted every bit of that they weren't, they were willing to do whatever it took under the cover of darkness or whatever, whatever was required to get this submarine back to the United States intact, and to be able to pull it apart and study it. So as I'm watching this documentary, it's an hour and change on Amazon Prime, I couldn't believe I'd never heard the story before. And the reason why we've never heard the story before, is that the project has already done it had just become declassified just in the last year or two. And so they built this thing. And I don't want to ruin the story. They had a major event happened and try to get the submarine back up to the surface. It did not go exactly as planned. And so it wasn't a complete success. But it was enough of a success, that it changed the global military landscape between the United States and Russia, because they were pretty certain the Russians were that we got some of it. And and that was clearly important to them. So anyway, the documentary is intense. It is wonderfully built, timely, explained some ground. When

Jeff Dwoskin 21:59

did this movie come out?

Ron Lippitt 22:00

It's not it. It's a documentary. So it's not a movie. But it just came out I think, a year ago, and then they added

Bob Phillips 22:07

129. That is fascinating. Never heard of that. One. I

Jeff Dwoskin 22:11

think Ron as I was looking it up on IMDb, just so I could see what was up. It seems that this came out in 2010. Yes, as a TV movie called as Azorean. The raising of the K 129. It's true looks like it's been rebranded because it was the Michael White is our director, writer of the 2010. Jeff photo,

Ron Lippitt 22:35

you're right. But what's different about it is that they have now this documentary is with people that were on the ship was called the Glomar. Explorer, that's what they called it at the at the time is, at the time, it was the the huge global explorer, the Howard Hughes global explorer, the reason why it has changed and why this new documentary is so incredibly compelling, is it's it's with the engineers and the project managers that were actually on the ship making this thing happen. Talking about it talking about every step, you know, and something at the time, it was considered to be one of the biggest, most complex engineering feats in American history. And when you think about that, in the context of building the Mackinac Bridge or building the Empire State Building or, or building the Tennessee Valley Authority, or, you know, some of these immense projects, Hoover Dam, and they're calling this the most immense engineering feat in American history. It really is, puts it in perspective how how big this thing was, but it really is, it's intense. And if you're into the detail of hearing how this thing, not just was done, but all the steps that had to be taken with private business and with the CIA, and with Howard Hughes, and with the ocean oceanographic community, just to make this story believable to the Russians and to our press, and to just the world. It's an incredible feat. I can't

Unknown Speaker 24:08

wait to watch it. Yeah.

Bob Phillips 24:10

I love that stuff. You see love this movie, then you need to read blind man's bluff.

Ron Lippitt 24:16

I've read why man's blow. Yeah,

Bob Phillips 24:17

it's the best I mean, true stories. You know, it's this thick and it's all about the espionage that went back and forth between the United States and the Soviet Union submarine warfare, the shit we pulled on them. And the thing you just won't believe the kinds of things we did like literally taking a submarine up the Volga River.

Ron Lippitt 24:40

Yeah, tapping their,

Bob Phillips 24:41

their phone cable lines under, you know, their Atlanta.

Ron Lippitt 24:45

They do. I mean, I will say this, you know, especially in the 60s and 70s. And maybe it's still true today. It does seem that the intelligence community's of that era, or it's so bold with with the things that they were willing to attempt I mean, Israel is famous for that in the 70s. But the United States I think, is as their own. And certainly the Soviets, I believe, have some amazing stories of what they were able to accomplish right under our noses. This is a great story. I you know, I kept thinking, as I was watching it, you know, I'm a big fan of Argo, even though as we brought a great movie, I think I think Ben Affleck is a terrible actor. But I think Argo is a great movie, and it does apparently tell the story very well of what the CIA was, you know, concocted and pulled off under Iran's nose. So this did feel a little like Argo only 10 times more sophisticated, more complex, more ways for it to go wrong. They ran the gauntlet and managed to get through the other side mostly successful, so please watch it. I hope you guys enjoy this. You will.

Jeff Dwoskin 25:54

I assume you're already rushing out to watch that one. You got a lot to watch a lot of great suggestions this week. Telsa King, RRR and project Azorean. I expect by this point you're already on your couch, get that comfy spot going grab the remote cross your own streams. And we'll see you next time.

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