#182: Top Gun

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Some people have the need for speed. Among them are the US Navy fighter pilots as portrayed in the 1986 Jerry Bruckheimer-led smash-hit Top Gun. The film stars a young Tom Cruise as Maverick, an ace pilot with a mysterious past and his own way of doing things. But really, this flick is a visual feast for the eyes if you're into fighter jets, dogfighting, and more. Is it corny and campy? Absolutely. Does it hold up today? Well, we'll leave that up to you. And yes, we'll even get into the theories about what the movie really means... although we're not so sure we agree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.2	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:14.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Knockback.
0:16.4	My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my brother,
0:19.0	Dagen, Brookheimer Moriarty. Dagen, thank you for joining me today. How are you?
0:23.4	Is that my call sign? That's your call sign?
0:25.8	I'll get to that. I really want a better one.
0:28.3	I was thinking of, I was thinking of Hellstorm.
0:31.6	Yeah, that's like hot dogs.
0:33.8	If we're bad, that'll start galactica.
0:37.6	Actually, in Battlestar, they have one of the, they only say them in the background.
0:40.2	I don't know if they, but they say it a few times. There's one called Step Child,
0:42.8	which I think is all like a pilot named Step Child. That's a good one.
0:46.3	Because it's not an aerial related term. You need something that sounds cool,
0:49.1	but like the aerial related ones sound cliché, but then, you know, they could cross over
0:53.9	into, you don't want to be like snowflake or, or, or Eleven sprite or something like that.
0:58.0	Right, right. Something bad ass.
1:00.1	Not snowflake, but Iceman. Right?
1:02.6	There you go. Exactly.
1:04.4	Big difference. That's very well.
1:06.8	It is a huge difference, but we'll get to the call signs. We'll get to all that.
1:09.2	Yeah, well, of course.
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