Contact
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Nov 4, 2026
Matt KirshenHOST
because that was going to be my next question, is why you can't just sort of put it on a moon lander and then drive it across to the far side.
Charles LiuGUEST
I mean, radio telescopes are big, right? If you remember the movie Contact, Jodie Foster is sitting in just one antenna of the very large array in New Mexico.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
Okay.
Charles LiuGUEST
So
David SeredaGUEST
Spica, the Pleiades, Vega.
David SeredaGUEST
Vega was the star in the movie Contact with Jodie Foster.
David SeredaGUEST
I love that.
David SeredaGUEST
I'm reading books.
David SeredaGUEST
I'm reading the book of Carl Sagan because he wrote the book for Contact.
David SeredaGUEST
And I really think he's so brilliant as an astronomer and an astrophysicist and a cosmologist to understand that we're not going to be able to go to another star system with anything physical because The law of physicality is that if you use traditional propulsion systems to accelerate matter in its current state, it can't go faster than light speed.
David SeredaGUEST
However, at the heart of the UFO engine is what I believe to be one of the super vortex openers that doesn't create a wormhole to fold the fabric of space-time.
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
It's got a little bit of his hallmarks.
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
But no, Back to the Future, Contact, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
He was a guy who, for a hot minute, understood...
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
the marriage of art and technology in a way that like maybe only James Cameron got after him or around the same time that you can do something totally original technically, like Roger Rabbit's a great example, but never lose like the heart of the story, right? Like you can do that same movie and just have like black and white sketches for the animated characters and it would still move you.
Brian KeatingGUEST
That was sort of Einstein and Rosen, um, I first have this idea that you could have such a thing.
Brian KeatingGUEST
But he made it much more popular first in the movie Contact with Jodie Foster.
Aryaan AroraHOST
It was
Brian KeatingGUEST
based on a real life story up until they detect aliens.
Stephen FenechHOST
Jenna Malone plays Gretchen.
Stephen FenechHOST
Now, she was in – do you remember when we did the movie Contact with Jodie Foster? Remember that movie? Right,
Trevor LongHOST
yeah.
Stephen FenechHOST
So Jenna Malone, who's Gretchen, the girl, his girlfriend, she played the young Ellie.
Stephen FenechHOST
So Jodie Foster, when she was younger – was played by Jenna Malone in this.
Stephen FenechHOST
She's obviously a bit older in this movie, but she was Ellie as a youngster in Contact.
Stephen FenechHOST
She was also in Hunger Games movies, and she was in the recent Netflix show The Burrows, which I watched as well.
Stephen FenechHOST
I think she played a daughter of one of the characters.
Stephen FenechHOST
Jenna Malone plays Gretchen.
Stephen FenechHOST
Now, she was in – do you remember when we did the movie Contact with Jodie Foster? Remember that movie? Right,
Trevor LongHOST
yeah.
Stephen FenechHOST
So Jenna Malone, who's Gretchen, the girl, his girlfriend, she played the young Ellie.
Stephen FenechHOST
So Jodie Foster, when she was younger – was played by Jenna Malone in this.
Stephen FenechHOST
She's obviously a bit older in this movie, but she was Ellie as a youngster in Contact.
Stephen FenechHOST
She was also in Hunger Games movies, and she was in the recent Netflix show The Burrows, which I watched as well.
Stephen FenechHOST
I think she played a daughter of one of the characters.
Greg LynchCORRESPONDENT
In the 90s, of course, he reunited with Robert Redford for A River Runs Through It.
Greg LynchCORRESPONDENT
He also starred with Jodie Foster in Contact, Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy, and the great Diane Keaton in The Other Sister.
Greg LynchCORRESPONDENT
Not a bad movie at all.
Greg LynchCORRESPONDENT
2000 saw him star with Bruce Willis in Tears of the Sun and Kate Beckinsale in Whiteout.
Rob CarsonHOST
Just a dislikable character in that movie.
Rob CarsonHOST
I love that movie, Contact.
Rob CarsonHOST
It's based on a Sagan book, and I just love the movie.
Rob CarsonHOST
I think it's terrific.
24 MINS LATER
Rob CarsonHOST
But Tom Skerritt, and versatile.
Rob CarsonHOST
Top Gun, he was obviously very big.
Rob CarsonHOST
He also played a very good D-bag, like in Contact.
Rob CarsonHOST
You remember Contact? Absolutely despicable character in Contact.
Scott ParksHOST
Alien.
Scott ParksHOST
He was in the movie Contact, which is one of the great movies of the 1990s.
Scott ParksHOST
Jodie Foster was in that one.
Scott ParksHOST
And he was a would-be astronaut in that movie.
JeffHOST
We have a fantastic set of movies here.
JeffHOST
Nate will be arguing on behalf of the 1995 film Apollo 13, and I will be arguing on behalf of the 1997 film Contact.
JeffHOST
Lot of really good little tiny tidbits, excuse me, about these movies.
JeffHOST
Interestingly, for me, it's the second, uh, second week in a row I have somehow landed with James Woods in a movie that I'm [laughs] that I'm defending.
JeffHOST
We probably have, and I'd have to go back and look, but, uh, it's been a while since we've had two like this, where we've got, you know, [clears throat] Robert Zemeckis, Academy Award-winning director.
JeffHOST
Ron Howard.
JeffHOST
Uh, Robert Zemeckis, of course, directed Contact.
JeffHOST
Ron Howard directed Apollo 13.
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