A Podcast About the TV Show Black Sheep Squadron
The New Britain campaign and strikes on Bougainville were a thing.
Oh yeah, here is a link to the documentary about the 214 Steve talked about.
Fighter sweeps were too.
So we have some actual historical accuracy here!
Nurses are great, if you are an officer.
Also, why are the nurses in civilian nursing uniforms?
James Whitmore Jr. kills it in this one, but Robert Conrad shows some chops too.
Patterson the red shirt...
Wait, what did you pay for the podcast? Nothing. I retract my apology.
JAMES DARREN! I love Jimmy Darren. I loved him in the Time Tunnel, I loved him in DS9, and he plays 'movie star' really well. Of course Jimmy died on Sept 3. If you get a chance, check out the interview with him on the Shuttlepod podcast. It's excellent.
Hollywood stars did joined the armed forces, as did pro athletes etc.
Who? Oh, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Glenn Miller, you know, no big stars... This is the equivalent today of say Ryan Reynolds, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and oh I dunno, Taylor Swift joining the armed forces to fight the evil that is fascism. This shows you how seriously people took this.
Rod getting names wrong, classic.
Everything is solved with toxic masculinity.
What's Nancy's problem?
This one is about bullying, and hit home for both of us (you'd never guess the two of us would be bullied, no, kids love weird kids who read a lot...)
I like that it focusses a lot on Larry.
I like that it focusses a lot on Jerry.
Look, I like these guys.
Wartime romances were a real thing. They were often intense, and often a bad idea. A lot of guys came home to babies that couldn't have been theirs, and a lot of couples generally had kids outside of marriage, which was not as accepted a thing, generally. Mostly people moved on.
Some really good dogfighting scenes in this one.
It's not even about Hirachi or Micklin.
I did talk about Baa Baa Black Sheep in the podcast though!
This is from a new podcast I'm doing with my brother Dan! It's called 'We Have the Technology' and it's about the classic 70s show the Six Million Dollar Man.
Every month or so Dan and I will talk about a couple of episodes. You know, like with Steve, except Dan isn't Steve as much as he's Dan Brodbeck, recordist.
We talked toys.
We talked bad effects.
We talked Farrah Fawcett.
We wondered who would want an Oscar Goldman doll.
Generally we just had fun.
Oh, yeah, a link to the site (still under construction, I haven't even bought the domain yet) might be nice....
Hey this one has not one, but two made up islands!
The 'well if we could just get a mission we won't get court martialled' trope continues. (Also, is it martialled or martialed?). OK, turns out it must be the double l one right?
This one was broadcast on December 7, 1976. You may not know this, but, a pretty big thing happened on December 7, 1941, just saying.
I don't put my feet up on my desk much, but if Admiral Nimitz says it's a good idea I will start.
I really liked how Lard knew something was up because there was too much Scotch on Espartos Marcos.
Pappy's plane changes a few times scene to scene which is pretty funny.
'It's called stock footage David, be quiet'.
That said, much of the dogfighting stuff is great.
You sir, are no admiral Nimitz.
There are, today, listening posts like the show talked about. This one though seems to detect things using active sonar pings and Morse code...
The New Georgia campaign actually happened!
Pappy and the Black Sheep don't seem to get that in wartime the whole thing doesn't revolve around you.
The lack of military discipline in the show can usually be overlooked, but Steve and I are pretty sure enlisted men don't talk to officers like they do in this episode.
Coastwatchers were a real thing, JFK knew that. Oh so does Peter Frampton.
Generally this one was supposed to make me hate the marine raiders, but, umm, the 214 are just as bad as far as Steve and I are concerned.
We get Pappy drinking aftershave in this one!
Come to think of it, I shouldn't have used an exclamation point there, like, am I excited about alcohol use disorder?
Classic military movie trope of volunteers only in this one.
Classic military movie trop of drawing lots.
Whitmore Jr is really good in this one as usual.
The USS Princeton was a real carrier.
Those extra guys are a bunch of Dales.
Pappy is horrible. in the one.
The Fraser strait on the other hand....
It's a two parter, so next time it will be how Steve is my deadliest enemy. The New Britain campaign and strikes on Bougainville were a ...
