436: Most Important Chimpanzee

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Consult the lawgiver’s scrolls and watch out for talking dolls! It’s a madhouse! A madhouse! And also, the 50th anniversary of “Planet of the Apes.” Join us as we explore the world of spaceman Taylor (Charlton Heston) and his long journey through an empty desert into a land populated by officious orangutans, plucky chimpanzee scientists, and wry yet violent gorillas. Does it hold up? Why did such a dark vision generate kids’ lunch boxes and multiple sequels and spinoffs? And what are the intricacies of Ape Law?

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 436, December 2018.
0:10.7	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.1	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:15.2	And in this episode, we're going to be tackling another movie having its 50th anniversary
0:20.6	this year. Of course, the classic 2001,
0:25.0	A Space Odyssey. We covered that already. What other movie from 1968 could we possibly cover?
0:32.7	And the answer is, it's a planet of the apes joining me to talk about Charlton Heston and his girlfriend
0:41.9	who he names, which is kind of weird, and lots of apes, are the following primates.
0:47.2	John Moltz is here.
0:48.1	Hello.
0:49.1	Hi.
0:49.5	It's great to be here.
0:50.9	I think your math is off, though, because if that movie is 50 years old, then that means that I'm...
0:55.0	Oh.
0:58.2	I need to go now, sorry.
0:59.9	Gene McDonald is also here. Hello.
1:02.3	I'm here to face my childhood fears. I'm that old, yes.
1:08.1	Joe Steele is here. Welcome to the club. Hello. Hello.
1:16.3	It's always good to be on a podcast episode with Roddy McDowell doing a fun voice,
1:17.7	even though I couldn't be on for Black Hole.
1:18.1	Yeah.
1:18.8	Yeah, that's right.
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