The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Oct 26, 2026
Tom GrantHOST
I liked him a lot as Roney.
Tom GrantHOST
And he has a special place in my heart because he's the guy at the end of Bridge on the River Kwai who says, madness.
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Madness.
Tom GrantHOST
Anyway.
Alan NoahHOST
This is a movie that comes from spite.
Alan NoahHOST
Yeah, there are specific references to Platoon and Bridge on the River Kwai and all of those things.
Alan NoahHOST
Also the soundtrack, you know, when For What It's Worth and Sympathy for the Devil and Run Through the Jungle are playing.
Alan NoahHOST
Those songs are in every Vietnam War movie.
Brooke Erin SmithHOST
It's a little Parks and Rec.
Ryan StevensHOST
You know, giving him a steak and letting him watch Bridge on the River Kwai in total silence.
Brooke Erin SmithHOST
Mm-hmm.
Ryan StevensHOST
[laughs] A thing Glenn Stevens would adore, I tell you.
FanacekHOST
Jesus, that's such a good movie.
FanacekHOST
He was also in Stalag 17, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch.
FanacekHOST
Oh, The Wild Bunch, another one.
FanacekHOST
Sam Packingpaw movie.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Joe and I, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California, baseball, stock, weather, homicide, children of the little mind.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro, Stranger in the strange land building Berlin Bay of Pigs and David Wait, what else do I have to say? We didn't start the fire.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
Alan SepinwallGUEST
Michael Wilson is brought in.
Alan SepinwallGUEST
He'd already adapted a Pierre Boulle novel with Bridge on the River Kwai.
Alan SepinwallGUEST
And he basically throws out everything Rod did, at least in terms of the dialogue.
Alan SepinwallGUEST
Keeps the structure, obviously keeps the Statue of Liberty, rewrites the main character, calls him Taylor.
BP FallonGUEST
We don't mind them even taking our women." I was walking out with a Black girl at the time, "But don't fuck with the music." And Bonzo, this icy vibe was coming from the audience obviously, and Bonzo started, and he changed the beat, and the bass player locks into it, and then the, the other drummer locks into it, and it's all like a beautiful well-oiled steam engine whizzing along.
BP FallonGUEST
Nothing to do with Bridge Over the River Kwai.
BP FallonGUEST
There's nothing going, "Whoa, whoa." And the whole place just stood up and clapped.
Guy PrattHOST
Amazing.
Brandon DavisHOST
And then, and then Mark Robson was nominated for director, it was nominated for Best Picture of course, um, screenplay and cinematography.
Brandon DavisHOST
Uh, that was the year of The Bridge on the River Kwai, [laughs] so that's what took Best Picture that year.
Jessica PickensGUEST
Right.
Jessica PickensGUEST
I mean, that's a, those are two opposite ends of the piano as far as you go.
Darren LudlowHOST
1943, the Death Railway is completed in Burma.
Darren LudlowHOST
Now that was built by the Allied prisoners of war and Asian laborers and was, um, featured in the movie Bridge Over the River Kwai, which starred a very young Alec Guinness, who, before Obi-Wan.
Darren LudlowHOST
1957, Elvis Presley's film Jailhouse Rock premiered, and in 1968, the Steve McQueen car chase movie Bullitt had its premiere.
Darren LudlowHOST
In 1979, Mother Teresa of Calcutta is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, something that the Trump will never get.
Darren LudlowHOST
Something that she deserved.
Darren LudlowHOST
Actor George Wendt, who played Norman Cheers, was born in 1948.
Darren LudlowHOST
He died in 2025 at the age of, uh, 77.
Darren LudlowHOST
There was a piece of crap, a New Zealand action movie that starred Temuera Morrison and, and, oh, can't even- Lisa Eichenbacker, who was the, the girl from Beverly Hills Cop.
Brandon DavisHOST
And then, and then Mark Robson was nominated for director, it was nominated for Best Picture of course, um, screenplay and cinematography.
Brandon DavisHOST
Uh, that was the year of The Bridge on the River Kwai, [laughs] so that's what took Best Picture that year.
Jessica PickensGUEST
Right.
Jessica PickensGUEST
I mean, that's a, those are two opposite ends of the piano as far as you go.
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