Independence Day

Also, rather peculiar curio on the BBC this week in 1996, the legacy of reginald perrin in which they attempt to make a spin-off to reginald perrin um without reginald penning because uh because uh leonard rossiter died some years ago so um that was a very sort of curious kind of thing it was a lot of archive footage and basically the idea is is that he's died and he's left this kind of million pound legacy to family members but with conditions it's a very odd thing ed this was this was a sort of yes this was a kind of weird spin-off we may be living in a world where we get spin-offs and spin-offs and spin-offs now hello star wars etc but um but yeah it's it this is old for the time i think really and and old for any time

uh zoe ball and jamie fexton present their first episode of live and kicking and those this week in the cinemas Independence Day spent a seventh consecutive week at the top of the UK box office just shy of £800,000 taken the Demi Moore Burt Reynolds film Striptease is the highest new entry at number two Kurt Russell's Escape from LA enters at number six the Jean-Claude Van Damme film The Quest is at number seven oh

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in sports the Czech Republic midfielder Patrick Berger remember he signed for Liverpool he started looking briefly like the greatest player in history in back-to-back races and he scores them in the space of this week in 1996 West Ham United win 2-0 away at Nottingham Forest Queen's Park Rangers drew 1-1 away at Swindon Stevenage Borough lose 3-0 away at Kidderminster Harriers but then win 3-0 at home against Bromsgrove Rovers all Stevenage Borough stats courtesy of Stevenage Pete hello Pete

Yeah.

Independence Day.

He did...

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Sherlock, Good Omens.

I mean, the guy is prolific.

He won a Grammy for Independence Day and a Creative Arts Emmy with Michael Price for Sherlock.

And he is also a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

When asked if she had a final statement, her last words were, and I quote...

I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock and I'll be back like Independence Day with Jesus.

June 6th.

Hold on just a minute.

Okay.

I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock and I'll be back like Independence Day with Jesus.

June 6th.

Like the movie.

Did you have a good 4th, Eric? It was great.

it was it was uneventful independence day too

yes i watched independence day too sorely sorry that i did that because that it was it's a fucking turd

okay it is a turd it's bad i remember watching it and like wanting to like it i mean it's independence it's an extension of independence day so i thought

Yeah, it's bad.

It's real bad.

Independence Day 2 is like T-O-O.

Independence Day also.

Oh, man.

That movie's not only funny, but not only has a lot of action, but it's... it's got its great fun moments right it it made you laugh and uh besides uh the built-up suspense at the end you know the car chases like this car's faster you know the whole movie was making fun of how he drives like miss daisy and then the last scene is that porsche carrera versus whatever the other guy had he's like you gotta beat him and they have to race through that little whatever speedway yeah so and then they kill the guy at the end you know whatever but that movie was great that's why that's my number five great when you said number six i'm like i'm not surprised one of will smith's one of his best movies during that 10-year run that he had before ali and um after independence day but before ali and then uh yeah he just had a bunch of movies you know i think it ended with hitch and then after not hitch what was the other one that uh he was like a superhero hitchcock or hudson Hancock.

Hancock.

So anyways, Bad Boys, my number five.

I have to rewatch it.

Yeah.

So my number three is... welcome to earth independence day 1996 another will smith movie if you guys have not seen independence day where are you hiding are you under a rock or something find some help

i wasn't for a while i didn't see it so much later

you've missed out two of the most famous UFO abductees.

Fox Mulder's sister and Randy Quaid in Independence Day.

I mean...

Yeah.

Yeah, Matt Adler.

But as you say, with the fake out, you know, is it another UFO? And I'm like, man, this is within...

That was a precursor to the Independence Day stuff as well, wasn't it? Yeah.

Given how long it takes to actually get a flight of a navigator in this film.

I think this is what my issue with the Odyssey was as well, where because it's so old and it's been done before, based on that, I think that's what kind of annoyed me about it because, yeah, we've seen similar kind of things before.

And obviously Independence Day, planting the virus and all that stuff is a similar kind of thing to this.

Just computerized rather than bacterial.

But the weird voiceover as well.

So I feel like that ending makes perfect sense for a book in 1898.

Yep.

Because like they, they would be more scared of germs and stuff like that in that world in, in our day and age, like Stu touched on Independence Day, it would be a computer virus.

Yeah.

The oldest lesson of

all is, I mean, arguably, it is a lesson illustrated in the film Independence Day.

Welcome to Earth.

Welcome to Earth.