510: Failure Is Not an Option

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Put on a white vest, climb in your Corvette, and whatever you do, don’t stir the cryo tanks! It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 and the 25th anniversary of “Apollo 13,” so we’re here to discuss Ron Howard’s film, starring Tom Hanks, Ed Harris and an enormous collection of character actors. The real-life story of Apollo 13 is so unlikely that if they made it into a movie, you’d never believe it—but in 1995 they did, and you will.

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0:00.0	The Inconquerable.
0:05.0	Number 510, April 2020.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this episode is going to be about, I'm going to let you in a little secret.
0:17.0	This is one of my very favorite movies of all time, and I kind of can't believe we haven't done it on The Uncomparable,
0:21.7	but we're going to do it now because this is the 25th anniversary of the release of Apollo 13
0:29.9	and the 50th anniversary of the real Apollo 13,
0:33.5	which, yes, that means it's been, we're halfway between the movie and the actual event.
0:38.1	It's,
0:38.5	I don't like that.
0:39.8	Anyway,
0:40.2	I love this movie.
0:42.1	Not the fact that,
0:43.1	you know,
0:43.5	bad things happened to a spaceship way back when,
0:45.2	but I love the movie.
0:46.9	And talking about it with me are four wonderful people.
0:51.2	I want to go around,
0:51.9	get a little go,
0:52.8	no go from all of them.
0:54.2	Econ, Dan Moran.
0:55.8	Go.
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