856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
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A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbearped in today's episode of the show. If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org. From WBEZChicago, it's This American Life, I'm David Kestenbaum, sitting in for Hourglass. And I'm just going to let my first two guests today introduce themselves. My name's Gary Powell, I'm a stunt coordinator, second unit director in motion films. Name a couple of movies. Ooh, Titanic, James Bond, Mission Impossible. OK, Miles, your turn. I don't have a job. You could say your name, though. Miles. Miles is seven. Well, almost seven. And we range from the talk to Gary because he had some urgent questions about car chases from movies. And Gary, that's his particular set of skills. I'll drove the cranium terminator, the bus in Harry Potter. Well, you drove the bus in Harry Potter? I did. A little background. Miles loves cars. His mom says that before he could read, he could tell you make and model and sometimes year of any of their friends' cars. He draws cars, makes cars at a legos. He brought one with him, actually. And he and Gary quickly got down to talking shop. I do car chases with my, like, seven and eight cars. Right. So do you choreograph little car chases for yourself, then, yeah? That's cool. You know what you should do? Before this conversation, we're Gary. Miles showed me this one kind of amazing drawing he'd done. It's a scene from a particular movie. He's drawn what looks like a black police car in the air flying backward over a second car. Miles would tell you the second car is a Ford Bento. Miles hasn't seen the actual movie this is from. Just this scene. Over and over. Have you watched the Blues Brothers car chases that's eight minutes long? Yes, I have. Have you seen the backwards flip? The one at the end? Yeah. Yeah. That's a picture of it. This is the thing he had questions about. The famous car chase at the end of the Blues Brothers. The whole thing is actually 11 minutes long. I remember the first time I saw it. I fell over.
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