Firefox
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Firefox".
Oct 8, 2026
Christopher ClarkGUEST
[laughs]
Dean LeggeroHOST
Or I'll handle Firefox, the Clint Eastwood movie about stealing a jet.
Christopher ClarkGUEST
There you go.
Dean LeggeroHOST
I, I can, I can handle that one.
Dean LeggeroHOST
I saw that in the theater.
Christopher ClarkGUEST
Yes, so did I. That's a gem.
Dean LeggeroHOST
Believe it or not, Firefox.
Dean LeggeroHOST
Now it's a web browser.
Trace SeverHOST
Yeah.
Jesse NussmanHOST
Um, and I know we kinda talked with like Firefox and y- you know, him really struggling with doing effects in Firefox, and then once you get to Space Cowboys, he's kind of doing it again, but like maybe like they're bumping up a little bit on the limitations of this time.
Jesse NussmanHOST
What, what do you feel about now? He, he's...
Jesse NussmanHOST
Th- this is, I feel like, arguably like the biggest scale movie he's ever done at this point in his career.
Ed HicksHOST
$650,000, four, five-seater, looks utterly mad.
Ed HicksHOST
If you ever saw the 1980s film Firefox, which had Clint Eastwood in, it looks like that had this weird Russian mega fighter.
Ed HicksHOST
This looks like someone went, that's a great idea for a light personal GA airplane.
Ed HicksHOST
Let's make it.
Jay LedbetterHOST
...
Jay LedbetterHOST
Firefox.
Matt GoldbergGUEST
Yeah.
Jesse NussmanHOST
[laughs]
DiaGUEST
Yeah.
DiaGUEST
It looks like the, um, uh, Firefox, the MIG, the MIG 33 Firefox from the movie Firefox, which is what if Clint Eastwood was like a shittier James Bond, but also like just a pilot, um, And he has to steal the super plane from the Russians.
JacksonHOST
uh movies used to be you can make anything those were like those are like there's like a
DiaGUEST
series of novels for those two they're like fucking like it's like tom clancy level of novels with this one character but they only made the one movie and i think it was bad my dad took me to see it it was bad i know i know the movie was bad but i think it was people can people i think more than just me at like five thought it was bad no apparently roger ebert liked it
William DeagleGUEST
And the computer would then send the commands, and he would verify the images that would be flashed on the upward-looking screen by blinking his eyes, and the computer would then pick up the blinks as yeses and nos, and it sped the rate of command and release of weapon systems.
William DeagleGUEST
Similar to the movie that you've probably seen many years ago called Firefox.
William DeagleGUEST
Well, we have these now, and it will be incorporated into the new jet system that's being developed as a joint strike fighter that Lockheed Martin is developing, but we've had this technology now for decades.
William DeagleGUEST
The other three projects were to take prisoners from West Orange and Irvine state penitentiaries, and Dr. Tortelot had a stereotactic CT scan implanter to put palladium and platinum wires and microchips in their brain and cortex, primarily the visual and auditory cortex so that you could... see what they see and hear what they hear, the back of the retina as well as the temporal lobes to directly integrate and control.
Rob VegaHOST
I know.
Rob VegaHOST
The Firefox, The Russian House, and White Nights.
Rob VegaHOST
White Nights is a great movie with Mikhail Vernishikov and Gregory Hines.
Rob VegaHOST
That was a great flick.
Trace SeverHOST
one.
Trace SeverHOST
We're all pretty in line of not liking Firefox much at all.
Trace SeverHOST
You guys are
Jake SerwinGUEST
just doing directed by Clint, right? Just directed by us.