125 - Airplane! (feat. Bernie Wagenblast)
Added 2024-02-14 07:00:07 +0000 UTCThe voice of the NYC Subway Bernie Wagenblast (Cranford Radio, ITE Talks Transportation) and the lads conquer their drinking problems and call each other Shirley as they cover the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker comedy blockbuster Airplane!. Topics include the film’s incredible joke variety, the brilliance of Leslie Nielsen, and what it means to like gladiator movies and have seen a grown man naked in the year of our LORD 2024.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Airplane! Dir. by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Paramount Pictures. 1980.
- Bernie Wagenblast, the voice of NYC subways, finding her true voice after sharing her transition by CBS.
- "Finger Flickin' Funny" by Rich Markey. UW Alumni Magazine, Spring 2007.
- “How We Made: Airplane!” by Simon Bland. The Guardian. May 25th, 2020.
- “Short Takes : Airport Announcer Is No Star” by the Los Angeles Times. Jan. 7th. 1991.
- Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zuker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zuker. St. Martin’s Publishing Group. 2023.
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Comments
that’s great! did you talk to her?
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-06-11 23:22:35 +0000 UTCI had the most surreal experience like 2 weeks after this episode went up and i got to it, and it was Bernie herself just showing up at a trans oriented vocal coaching group and being herself. I was alt-tabbed so when she started talking my brain was simply pinging "Wait, I know that voice. Wait, Bernie? No way," Surreal as all hell, and she's so cool.
MNinc
2024-06-11 22:09:47 +0000 UTCI adored Bernie and would love to see her back again. And as someone who frequently has the thought 'am I trans?', I rather like hearing how other people explored the thought. It's also nice to hear more stories of queer people who tried a thing and found it to be a joyous transformation. So frequently in media, a queer person being the center of a story usually involves a great deal of persecution and harm. It often feels like our suffering is somehow commodified and ignored. It rules when there's a story that's just 'nah, being queer fucking rules and it made me happy, eat shit haters'.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-04-07 17:55:54 +0000 UTCI have Thoughts, but they're mostly about Hailey. Long ago, the first podcast I ever got into was I Don't Even Own A Television, a podcast about bad books. Airport was one of the books they featured. One of the things that brought up that I thought was pretty fascinating was how Airport ( along with James Bond, and some other work by English authors ) got some degree of popularity by just depicting a life beyond that which the ( very poor, post-war ) British public could even imagine. If you read Bond, for instance, there is a lot of time spent talking about food and other luxuries. After years of rationing, Food Porn was good business in Britain. Same with things like air travel- or just general life for people 'above the station' of the common man. It's interesting to me how so many authors like Fleming, Hailey, and Ludlum kind of occupied the same space in different genres- asshole men doing asshole things for asshole reasons, and how thoroughly they poisoned the well of 'dad fiction'. It wasn't really until Clancy that things shifted from 'holy shit that's terrible AND boring' to mostly just boring.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-04-07 17:52:12 +0000 UTCBernie's early transition sounds so much like my own. I remember being shocked by how beautiful I looked in FaceApp edits and meekly buying a women's scarf off of Amazon. Very powerful and emotional hearing her talk about her experiences.
LucindaCordelia
2024-02-21 16:58:12 +0000 UTCAs an Iowan, I’m obligated to say that the Anita Bryant pie thing happened in Des Moines. Feel the need to say that because it’s one of the only cool things to happen here.
Josiah Sutton of the Fruitless Podcast
2024-02-19 20:19:01 +0000 UTCBest Horse Corner yet!
The Token Detergent Rinser (British)
2024-02-16 16:28:13 +0000 UTCI live in St Louis where our train only goes between the airport and Busch Stadium, had no idea who Bernie was, but she is a DELIGHT and i hope she comes back to the pod soon
FamiCommie
2024-02-16 03:43:32 +0000 UTCWhen Bernie did the train voice complete with the exactly-timed pauses I waved my arms around like an inflatable tube man
Ben Ferber
2024-02-16 01:27:46 +0000 UTCit's weirdly funny, like airplane is probably my favorite comedy, but words can't describe how happy i got during the commercial when i recognized Bernie as the announcer on the PATCO Speedline
titus virginia
2024-02-15 00:46:33 +0000 UTCI could've SWORN the horse corner story was going to end with "She turns to him and says, 'Neigh (Nay).'"
Dergon
2024-02-14 19:11:47 +0000 UTCI'm Beloved Voltaire
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-02-14 17:21:15 +0000 UTCAnother trans listener here crawling out of the woodwork to say how much I love you guys and your work! (my favorite pod <3) And Bernadette was such a joy to have on and bounce off of y'all ^^
harper
2024-02-14 13:52:27 +0000 UTCPolice Squad also used the Airplane! formula, adapting scripts from the 1950s TV show M Squad, which was the edgier competitor to Dragnet and also Lee Marvin's big break as a leading man.
BarFly
2024-02-14 13:09:51 +0000 UTCWhen I heard how recently Bernie had socially transitioned I was amazed at how well she had transitioned her voice already knowing how challenging that can be. Being a professional VA makes so much sense there, made me really happy how she owns all the forms of her voice. She is hilarious and I hope she can come back for future appearances!
AJ Ballad isn't real, he can't hurt you.
2024-02-14 09:45:40 +0000 UTCI can't imagine the pain of knowing you are trans all of your life and choosing to remain closeted for so long. So happy to hear Bernie tell her story and hang out with y'all.
By Tove!
2024-02-14 08:12:32 +0000 UTC
