Die Hard with a Vengeance

And maybe you recognize it.

You should, it's been used in Willow, Gremlins, Anchorman, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lethal Weapon 4, The Fifth Element, every Star Wars film made under George Lucas, and all of the Indiana Jones movies.

Why? One, because it's good, and two, because making sound effects used to be quite expensive.

This actually came from a 1951 film called Distant Drums, where soldiers are running away through a marsh when they're attacked by crocodiles.

Now, it was an intriguing setup.

It was a little bit like Die Hard 3.

You know, McClane had to get around the city and he had this like strict time limit and had to do a task every time he got to a specific location.

But in this case, she has to get to this hotel.

So there's one location, but she's got to carry out this mission, which is ridiculous.

I'll be honest with you.

I mean, this might seem a little trite, but there's that movie, The Stand, based on the book by Stephen King.

Yes.

And we had watched that and felt very unsettling about it.

It's like with Oklahoma City.

They had all these records from the Waco siege that were there that mysteriously were destroyed in the explosions.

I remember seeing that movie Die Hard with a Vengeance with Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson where they staged a diversion in order to steal gold from the basement of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Mm-hmm.

Leslie Charteris wrote the novels that The Saint is based on.

Jonathan Hensleigh, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Jumanji.

And then this is a Hall of Famer.

Repeat offender, Armageddon, Next, Ice Road and Ice Road Vengeance

It's a monetary asset.

And I was kinda joking about this over the weekend, and in the email I sent out this morning, um, I had a picture of, um, you know, the actor that plays this mysterious Simon character in Die Hard With a Vengeance, and the scheme was that they were gonna break into the New York Fed, create a diversion, steal all the gold.

Well, that hasn't happened, but last week again, you had the latest European nation, European nation, European nation, folks, they're supposed to be an ally of the US and a member of NATO and everything, say, "Uh, you know what? We can take care of our gold fine ourselves.

We want it back." And I don't think nearly enough attention has been paid to the fact that it's not just treasuries that s- part of the world is starting to mistrust the US, and specifically Donald Trump over, but now they don't wanna keep their gold here.