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I'm Sean Fennese. I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is the big picture a conversation show about the year 1975. Yes, we are drafting again. It's the movie draft 1975 edition and Chris Ryan is here with us licking his wound CR. How are you?

I'm doing great, man. How are you guys? Hanging tough, Amanda. How are you? I'm doing well. I'm thrilled to see both of you. I'm thrilled to hear some, you know, tales of his years from Chris Ryan.

So 1975, we've been planning this for many months. This is widely considered one of the greatest movie years in history. But before we get into that, Chris, who are you in 1975?

Yeah, you know, I mean, it's a weird time. I was on the road with the Almond brothers and it was pretty hazy. I was working mostly with Greg and he was with share. So there are a lot of hell's angels around even after Altamont. But, you know, I managed to like, kind of write the ship for myself at least not for the Almond brothers and become the beloved podcasting personality that I am now.

Obviously, none of the three of us were actually alive, though Chris. I'm sure daydreamt about his time with the almonds for many years. I think my mom and dabber like, let's make a run at this in 1975.

Low and behold, a brief two years later, you came to this earth to bless us with your podcasting and insight. Amanda and I, we were many years later, but a twinkle, but a glimmer in the eyes of our parents at this time. And yet movies were truly glimmering. They were shining. They were thriving, especially in the American consciousness. So why are we doing 1975 Amanda? Why do you think we chose this year?

I honestly don't know why did you I mean, it is there is both breadth and depth in this year and you noted and your outline 1974 was also a great year. I would add 1976.

Pretty fantastic year. The 70s in general. Pretty exciting. And also I think for our generation growing up, becoming movie nerds trying to learn more the 70s or like the hallowed. That's when movies were really great.

But I think 75 has a lot of emblematic movies, especially in the categories that we've selected. And then just also a lot of random stuff that's pretty fun to talk about.

Chris, what about for you? What did the 75 represents something different or more meaningful than 74 or 76 or some of these other iconic years that we've talked about on the show?

Yeah, I think that the presence of some of the blockbuster movies in the year, along with the like really, really high quality floor of the films that you see.

It makes it just first of all like a great movie year, but also a great inflection point for Hollywood, a great inflection point for movie making.

And it's fascinating to go back and watch some of these movies and be like, I can see the bones of what we watch now. You know, and maybe those bones are dissolving in front of our very eyes with every with every snider cut. I don't know.

But at the same time, films feel so different. You know, like the experience of watching a movie, the behavior in those films, what those movies are about. And I think for me also like.

The, you know, the relatability to the human beings in the movies just feels. I never really felt myself to be like, oh, I just wasn't made for these times or anything.

But when you watch films from this era and spec specifically this year for the purpose of this podcast, it does it's almost bracing how normal these people are and how normal the stakes are and how, how kind of relatable they are.

So what do you mean by that? Because on the one hand, there's look, I can ask for this job being a sheriff in a small island, you know, there you go. You nailed it. That's that is where you truly relate to the men of 1975.

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