575: You're Going to Your Sister's? I'm Going to Space!

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Prepare your mashed-potato sculpture and zip up your red jumpsuit, because we’re about to discuss the 1977 film classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” We discuss why this film is Steven Spielberg’s tapas, French-American UFO projects, “American Graffiti” with flying saucers, and much more. Plus Dan reveals a most unusual location to watch this film for the first time. It’s shaping up to be a real Summer of Spielberg....

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 575 August 2021.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable. I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we are talking about Stephen Spielberg and his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
0:26.4	Boy, I need to even explain what that means. So on the poster, it said, close encounter of the first
0:30.3	kind is you see a UFO. Close encounter of a second kind. And as a kid, as a six-year-old, seven-year-old
0:35.3	kid, I knew all these by heart, is physical evidence of a UFO.
0:41.0	And then close encounter of a third kind is contact.
0:44.2	There's a book about that.
0:45.8	The guy is in in the movie, too.
0:47.4	Is it Alan Hineck?
0:48.5	Yeah.
0:48.7	Yeah.
0:49.5	And it's actually interesting.
0:50.9	This movie is actually encounters of the fourth kind because that's like abduction or direct interaction.
0:58.8	Yeah.
0:59.0	Well, you know, again, it's marketing and the original.
1:01.7	Anyway, let me introduce my panel, all of whom has opinions about the, about uphology.
1:08.3	By the way, we had a UFO museum in the town I grew up in because one of the leading lights of UFO ology was...
1:16.8	Leading lights, Jason. I see what you did that.
1:18.4	That's right. It lived in our town.
1:23.1	Talking about UFOs and the Steven Spielberg movie with me are Cicero Holmes. Hello.
1:28.4	Hi, I am Carrie Guffy and also this Independence Day prequel is kind of weird. Also,
1:37.7	this is a podcast encounter of the second kind, just letting it laying it out there. It's true.
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