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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Cannonball Run!

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Some of us (no Joe) appreciate the wacky fun of Burt Reynolds' Cannonball Run movies--who knew that the actual race still exists! Plus, Joe talks about why he admires, but won't like, Elton John.

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0:00.0

Sammy Davis Jr. and Terry Bradshaw would be proud. It's one more thing.

0:04.6

Armstrong and Getty.

0:05.8

One more thing.

0:10.8

Sammy and Terry?

0:12.3

If you're of a certain age, well, if you're of a certain age, you don't even recognize either one of those names.

0:16.7

But if you're of a certain age, you remember the movie movies, Cannonball Run.

0:21.6

There was a cannonball run and a cannonball run, too, as a lot of sequels are, the second sequel,

0:26.5

the sequel was not near as good.

0:27.8

But you had your Bert Reynolds, you had your Dom Deloese, you had some of your stars of back

0:32.6

in the day.

0:33.0

But what the movie was about was this cross-country race just to see who could get across the country the fastest, you know, and, you know, you drive as fast as you want.

0:42.1

You get tickets.

0:42.8

That's your own problem.

0:43.7

Well, it turns out that is still going on.

0:45.4

I didn't know that.

0:46.1

And it finished up the other day.

0:47.6

And somebody set a new record of 27 hours.

0:51.9

Whoa.

0:52.3

I don't even see how that's possible.

0:53.6

27 hours and Whoa. I don't even see how that's possible. 27 hours and 25 minutes.

0:55.3

Because I have driven halfway across the country without stopping or without sleeping a number of times.

1:04.1

And so I know how long that takes.

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