Apollo 13

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

30 years ago Apollo 13 took the film world by storm. 55 years ago Apollo 13 made space travel history. In 1995, Jason entered Apollo 13. What did this Ron Howard docudrama about a dangerous Nasa mission add to his creative journey? Jason and Ashley discuss the power of Tom Hanks and the invisible directing in this film that was also nominated for Best Picture. What did you think of this 1990s movie?

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0:00.0	Houston, we have a podcast. Hello and welcome to geek history lesson. I am Ashley Victoria Robinson.
0:09.2	You may wonder why Jason Inman is not here this week. And well, my friends, that is because he is hanging out with a certain consulting detective and world's greatest doctor in Pittsburgh at
0:24.4	YouHop. And that's going to be the case for a while. So we're going to be doing some really,
0:29.8	really fun episodes with a bunch of guest professors and bringing some things to you
0:33.7	that you have never heard from us before, including today's episode. So, this is from
0:40.2	the Patreon archive. One of the many things that we do on Patreon is exclusive podcast and exclusive
0:46.0	video series. Sometimes they work out friends and sometimes they don't. One of the project
0:50.5	series that didn't work out was something called film footsteps where Jason and I
0:55.4	would pick a film from our past that shaped us and inspired us as creators, talk through the film,
1:01.3	its history, its impacts, and then talk through how it impacted us personally as creatives.
1:06.2	We wound up scrapping it after only a few episodes, but one of the films that we did talk about was a Jason
1:12.0	Inman pick, and that is 1995's Apollo 13, based on the Apollo 13 mission that happened in the
1:21.2	1970s. This year is the 30th anniversary of Apollo 13's release, and next weekend, Fathom Events,
1:29.0	is re-releasing Apollo 13 in cinemas worldwide. So it only felt correct for us to bring this out
1:35.7	and bring this to you to listen to. And also, I will say, Jim Lovell, who was the head of this
1:42.0	mission, who was played by Tom Hanks in the film, did pass
1:45.9	away earlier this year. So not only is it the anniversary of this film and its amazing impact,
1:51.7	and the awards that it won and deservedly did win, as its impact in film history, but also
1:57.6	to honor Jim Lovell, we want to bring this to you. I also want to leave a little
2:02.6	note and say, at the time when we recorded this, I was not super warm on this film. And actually,
2:07.8	this is something that through time and through exposure, I have come around on. So sometimes
2:12.2	it is just ding, dang, delightful to be wrong. So without further ado, here is our film footsteps episode on Apollo
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