ET- the Extra Terrestrial- Episode #867
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It’s Space Month on Zen Pop, and Cathy and Todd are talking about E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Steven Spielberg film he called the first movie he ever made for himself. They discuss why it dominated 1982 and held the all-time worldwide box office record for eleven years, the Reese’s Pieces deal that made Mars look very foolish, the Atari game so bad they buried it in the desert, and why at its core this movie is really about divorce, grief, and two outsiders who find each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, uh, swear it one more time. I have absolute power. Yes. Where's the playground? |
| 0:15.0 | It's near the priest's ball. Where's that? I don't know streets. Mom always drives me. |
| 0:21.6 | Son of a bitch. |
| 0:23.6 | Could be a monkey or a orangutan. |
| 0:25.6 | A bald monkey? Is he a pig? He sure eats like one. |
| 0:29.6 | Be good. |
| 0:30.6 | Be good. I taught him that too. |
| 0:32.6 | Maybe it was a pervert or deformed kid or something. |
| 0:35.6 | A deformed kid. |
| 0:40.2 | Maybe an elf or a leprechaun. |
| 0:42.4 | It was nothing like that, penis breath. |
| 0:42.9 | Elliot! |
| 0:46.9 | He's a man from outer space, and we're taking him to his spaceship. |
| 0:49.8 | Well, can't just beam up? |
| 0:51.8 | This is reality grid. |
| 0:57.4 | I'll be right here. I'll be right here. |
| 0:58.8 | He'll be right there, sweetie. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.7 | What did he point to? |
| 1:03.6 | Actually, he pointed to his head. |
| 1:03.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.7 | He should have pointed to his heart. |
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