Bonanas for Bonanza - Bonanas For Bonanza Episode #59: “Cutthroat Junction”

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

Subscribe to The Andy Daly Podcast Project at Patreon.com/AndyDaly Dalton and Mutt discuss the Alamo, monster houses, melody theft, human vivaria, and many more things, including, briefly, Bonanza Season 2, Episode 26, 'Cutthroat Junction'!Featuring Matt GourleyMerch: redbubble.com/people/ADPodProject/shopMail: PO Box 9407 Glendale, CA 91226Email: [e-mail]’s website: andydaly.comRecord date: 5/17/2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You're about to listen to Bananas for Bananza, Episode 59, which was released to our Patreon subscribers on May 22, 2024. This is Andy Daly. Here on this free feed, we release an episode of Bananas for Bananza every other week. If you want to hear them earlier and ad-free, please subscribe to patreon.com slash Andy Daly. You'll also find the entire archive there, as well as two bonus podcasts, access to the Discord and more. Subscribe today and now enjoy this episode of Bananas for Bonanza. Oh, Nanza, it's the finest show alive. So consult your TV guide, get your great outdoors inside. Take some ponderosa pride and forever make it right. I'm the for bonanza. Hot damn.

Okay. Here we are. I'm going to start it off with a hey, hot damn. All right. That's beautiful. It's bananas for bonanza. Episode 59. Whoa, sexual.

It sure is. You ever do 59? Yeah. Oh, I have too. It. You ever do a 59? Yeah. Oh, I have too. It's where you do a 69, but you take 10 minutes off of it. That's right. You just go, this is our usual time frame for a 69. We're going to shave off 10 minutes.

Regardless of the outcome. So sometimes it can be frustrating. It's a real mind game. Yeah, yeah. Well, so that's exciting. We're talking about episode 58 of Bonanza, which is Cutthroat Junction. Man, this was a hell of an episode, Cutthroat Junction. Yeah. And we have no guests today. It's just me and Mutt. And I think, because we had two guests last time. Oh, God dang it. Here, why don't I open my Schlitz?

Ready? I'm going to open my Schlitz. Here we go. And then this way I'll be good and drunk. Oh, could have been better. That was a little impotent that one. It was a two-phaser. I don't blame you.

I blame the Schlitz. And I don't think I'd believe those words would ever come out of my mouth. Blame Schlitz. Never. All right. Let me say what I ever come out of my mouth. Flame Schlitz. Never. All right, let me say what I say here. Hello, friend. Come on in. The gate is open wide.

Welcome to Bananas for Bananas. Today will be discussion season two, episode 26. I didn't catch a word, but I trust you. I trust you. This episode has everything. It's got a woman. It's got the entire regular cast. Sometimes all in the same shot.

I know. I can't believe it. I know it's got gunfights and it's got a Weasley character whose name was Weasel. And we got a bad guy named Trask. Yeah. Trask. He's one liter away from trash. Oh yeah.

He is man. And this guy is trash. I tell you what. There's a fuzzy thing on my mic. Okay. This episode aired. You want to hear about the air date of this episode? You know that I do.

I know you do. You know me well enough to know that I do. That's true, that's true. It was March 18th, 1961. Now get a load of this. There's a number of things we're going to have to reckon with and get loads of. Exodus was still the number one movie. Okay. I've got a load of that. However, it says here, variety listed Exodus as the champ for the week based on their cities sampled, but it noted that the Alamo likely grossed more nationally.

How do you rip off the goddamn Alamo? You don't make give them number one, even though they made more money. Because there are certain cities, they don't count. I think that must be it. There's always a loophole on these budgetary box office results. If the Alamo hadn't been through enough, that now you're going to take away from it, it's opportunity to be the number one movie.

Well, I think it'll rise again. I believe so. Next week will be interesting. The thing is now people need to remember the Alamo and the time that the Alamo was robbed of the number one spot. In many ways that's worse than all them men on both sides dying at the Alamo. I believe you're right. It is that getting slided at the box office in 1961. That's the real remember the Alamo.

Remember the Alamo and specifically I'm talking about the time they were slided out of the number one box office slot in 1961. In fact, I don't even remember what the other remember was about. What was the original Alamo? I don't know, but it happened in 1836. I do know that. This movie was produced and directed by John Wayne and starring John Wayne as David Crockett. Wow. So you know it was real good. I don't think I've seen this, this, the Alamo. I believe I've seen the Billy Bob Thornton one. Oh. Patrick Wilson.

Does John Wayne, I can't imagine he wears a coonskin cap in this version. Oh, that's a good question. I don't know. Maybe he does. I will say, here's how you know the movie was good. Alamo historian Timothy Todish claims that, quote, there is not a single scene in the Alamo which corresponds to a historically verifiable incident, unquote. Now, my friend Matt Gourley did a drunk history on the Alamo.

Oh, really? And turns out what we were taught in school was nowhere near what the truth of the matter was. You're kidding. No, no. Taught in school. So we was taught the right Alamo in school. There's some other bullshit Alamo out there that you can find from a historian. Can you believe some historians think that maybe perhaps the, not the best of men were there at the Alamo.

But there's more like a mercenaries. Yeah. Stuff like that. Sitting on people's land. Uh-huh. All that. Oh yeah. Good for them.

Here's further evidence that this movie- Truth is, ironically, I do not remember the story of the Alamo because I was so drunk. Oh, I see. Well, that's the whole idea, right? You're supposed to get drunk and listen to history. The only thing I remember was how does Davy Crockett like his pie?

Tell me. Alamoed. Course he does. That's where Alamoed comes from, I guess, huh? They was putting, before the engines attacked, they was putting ice cream on pie. That's right. All right. Further evidence that this movie was good, historians James Frank Dobie and Lon Tinkle.

There's a man named Lon Tinkle. L-A-W-N or? Lon Tinkle. L-A-W-N or? Lon Tinkle? No, L-O-N. Like Lon Chaney, but still, this sounds like someone went outside in the front yard to have a spritz and a schlitz. Post-schlitz spritz. Post-crandial spritz.

This guy... See, historians James Frank Dobie and Lon Tinkle demanded their names be removed as historical advisors. I think the one guy wanted his name out of the credits because his name is Lon Tinkle. Yeah, that was the real problem. He says, I don't want, I can't tolerate hearing people laugh at my name when I go see the movie I worked on. All right.

Number one country song. We got a new one. Hello Walls written by Willa Nelson. Hello Walls? You know that song? No, I don't one country song. We got a new one. Hello Walls written by Willie Nelson. Hello Walls? You know that song? No, I don't know that song. You don't? No.

Oh, it's beautiful. Hello Walls. Willie Nelson wrote it, but Farron Young recorded it. And it is a song in which a man talks to the walls of his house and also the windows. I don't know if he talks to anybody else. And he says, don't you miss her? So she's up and going away. And he's saying to the walls, it's awfully lonely around here now that she's up and gone away. I don't know. It sounds like he's got some wall friends.

We've all got to stick together like the way we play. I got feelings she'll be gone a long, long time. Hello walls, hello walls. That's beautiful. Hello windows. Hello doors. Hello, hello, hello. He says to the window,

I see that water in the corner of your pain. Don't you try to tell me it's just rain. It's part of what he's doing is he's saying, I'm okay, but you walls and windows must be so sad that she's gone. I see. He's okay living in a monster house? With windows that have the capacity to experience emotion.

Yeah. Fire him, I wouldn't be. I'd burn that motherfucker down. To the ground. Hell yes. Farrin Young briefly dated Billie Jean Jones, the same woman that married Hank Williams and the other guy. She gets around.

Wow, she does, yeah. Every single country artist we talk about from the early 60s had, you know, ran a few laps with Billie Jean Jones, at least. Lucky to survive. I'm telling you, that's true. He got out of there before he killed him. It was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. What did I go? Oh yeah, this is another interesting thing about Farron Young. It says here on his Wikipedia page, he died in 1996. His ashes were

spread by his family outside Nashville at Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's home while the Cash's were away. Without permission? It sounds that way. Squatter. It specifies that it happened while they were away. What does that mean? They just hopped the fence? It still feels like we need the detail. Did they give permission? Because they could have gone, yeah, go ahead and you know what, we'll be going away this week so you can have some privacy to do it. But on the other hand, yeah, maybe they just stealthed it in there.

Yeah. I'm going to do that. Maybe they showed up unannounced. Well, they're out of town. I'm sorry. They're on tour right now. Oh shit. Well, mind if we just kick around the grounds a little bit and then spread them ashes?

I don't know. We'll do need more information. Wow. I'm going to do that. There is a, believe it or not, an answer song to Hello. Goodbye floors. Where is it? I wrote, I meant to write down the information about it.

Oh, well I have the YouTube link. It's interesting now that we are coming back into a call and answer session with Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Now I know, is it, that one happened, one of them put out a song where he made an insult on the other and the other one just said, oh no, you don't, you pedophile. Right.

And the other one said, you're a wife beater. But I did do this much research on that real quick that at the time, this would have been on the 7th, I think. I checked Wikipedia just to see who was winning. Oh, who's winning? Yeah. And it says- I feel that the pedophile is losing. Might be. Celebrity reactions. Lamar has since been supported by Future,

Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, Rihanna, ASAP Rocky, Rick Ross, Megan Thee Stallion, and Kanye West. A couple of those people I'm fairly sure you don't want on your side. Fair enough. Drake has been supported by Uma Thurman. Oh dear. That's all. Oh, okay. Just Uma, huh? Couldn't even get Ethan Hawke on board. But it wouldn't be a rap feud without Uma Thurman sounding off. That's for sure.

She has to, until she chooses a side, this thing might as well not be on the radar. I agree. I agree. So I'm glad she's in there. Okay. The answer song is by Ralph Emery. It's called Hello Fool. I believe it's The Walls talking back to the sad man. And they're saying, what a fool you are for talking to us. However, we're sentient enough to sing and write a song, so you're not a fool? The joke's on me? No, that's not what they're saying. They're very rude.

Let's see if we can find... Rude Walls. This is the same tune as Hello Walls by the way. It's a true Weird Al scenario. Hello fool. Hello. Hello. Look around. We're the walls. And we're pretty sad today. We're gonna miss her too. Boy, this takes its time. But we're kinda glad she went away. We're gonna miss her too. This takes its time.

But we're kinda glad she went away. After all that hurt she took from you, we don't blame her one bit. So hello fool, you've had it. This is it. Whoa. Yeah, it's harsh. That's bleak. I know. This man needs to move. It goes on to say, I could see this coming on, but fool, you must have been blind.

And I think it serves you right if you should lose your mind. If my house had that attitude toward me, I mean, the nicest thing I could do to it is to move. I'd definitely burn it the fuck down. Yeah, for sure. If not, put soundproofing on the walls so it can't talk anymore and you would just hear it. I mean, the nicest thing I could do to it is to move. I'd definitely burn it the fuck down. Yeah, for sure. If not, put soundproofing on the walls so it can't talk anymore and you would just hear murmurs.

Oh, that's a good idea. Oh, oh, oh. Just muffle behind the foam. Put a gag on the wall. Yeah, that's what you got to do. Man, I mean, my walls will sometimes talk to me, but it's always supportive and nice things. You know what I mean?

Yeah, the only time my walls talk to me is when I hang a supportive and nice things. You know what I mean? Yeah. The only time my walls talk to me is when I hang a picture and it goes, hey. Oh yeah. They don't like that. Ouch. What are you doing? They don't like that one bit. Yeah.

And sometimes they do want to get approval on the paint color. I've heard that a couple times. Yeah. And I guess I understand that. Not in this current house, but a couple of times I have heard, hey man, run it by me first before you paint this room black. Exactly right. All right, Celebrity Bert, wait no,

Surrender by Elvis Presley was the number one song. Now, we have to contend with this song, very seriously. I'm gonna play it for you and you'll see why. You know the song Surrender by Elvis Presley? I only know the cheap trick song Surrender. I don't think I know. It's a very different song. Well, I think as soon as you hear it, you're going to understand why it is that this song, we need to contend with it. Oh. Yep. First of all, it's a beautiful vocal performance by Elvis Presley. But number two, yeah.

That's James Bond. It's the James Bond theme. This is 61? I'm afraid so, my friend. So that's pre... Yes it is. Well, now this is getting technical. Okay, all right.

It's pre the James Bond theme. Yes. But the melody for the James Bond theme, written by Monty Norman, not John Berry, it was arranged by John Berry, came from a previously produced musical called The House of Mr. Biswas. Mr. Biswas? Yes. And in fact, it's a song about a man having a terrible sneeze Really? Can you can you do that up put the Monty Norman?

House of Biz was sneeze Norman house Okay, what year would that be? It says a house for me. Yeah, sorry. I don't know. Wait a minute Good sign bad sign. Yes, sorry. I don't know. Wait a minute. Good sign, bad sign, Monty Norman. That's it. I was born with this. Oh my God. Is this the original recording?

It's a satire number? I was born with this unlucky sneeze and what is worse I came into the world the wrong way round. Fondichol agreed that I'm the reason why my father fell into the village pond and drowned. Okay so, Ma De Norman I think is probably not an Indian fella. He's just doing a funny Indian accent like that for goofs. Now, here's what's interesting is the book that the musical is based on was from 1961, so I wonder if Surrender or the musical came first.

Well, I'll add you another wrinkle. Okay. Which is that Surrender, Elvis Presley heard an Italian song. Oh, my note taking was bad this time. Surrender Elvis, let's see. And he said, turn that into a song for me. Oh. So it was stolen already. A Neapolitan ballad from 1902 is what it was based on called Torna a Sorrento.

Can you bring that up? Let's do it. We're bottom getters. I know this is not an episode of Bonus Nanza, but when the bottom needs to be gotten, we'll be there. We may be doing a lot of bottom getting for this episode, as a matter of fact. And we're running low on time already because cowboys have appointments. Yeah, I'd listened to this already. I couldn't hear the similarity. This is Luciano Pavarotti singing Torna Assoriento. He is just the perfect looking opera singer.

Crowd is excited. They hear the opening tones of Torna Osiria. Interesting. Do you hear the musical symbol? Well when it goes into that little vamp right before he starts singing you can imagine that's kind of that minor chord, whatever key it's in it, you know, in Bond it'd be like an E minor or something. And that probably in that Elvis one.

Play me that Elvis one again. Look at that guy. Oh look at that. Play me that Elvis one. Alright. Let's just go back to Elvis. Man, we might not get to the episode. Maybe this will be time when we talk about the episode

on Bonus Nans. Hang on. I promise, this will be the last thing. No, it's fine. There's a bunch of things we gotta talk about, actually. It's a strange week. All right, here it comes. ["Born to Be a Man"] Strange Week. All right, here it comes. ["Strange Week"]

Mutt has his guitar out for me, Puck. ["Strange Week"] He goes high. ["Strange Week"] He goes, hi. Oh. Oh, beautiful. That's very nice. You play that very nicely. Let's see. Isn't that interesting? We've learned some things. It's further complicated by the fact that there was a long lawsuit between John Berry

and Monty Norman as to who wrote this thing. Oh my God. And now we got to throw Elvis because who wrote the Elvis version? Okay, it is an adaptation by Doc Pomas and Mort Schuman. And who wrote the original Combo Tompa Timpa Tintay? Jim Batista, a one-name artist, and Ernesto de Curtis. And this was 1902, you say? Yes, exactly.

Man. Yep. This is a wild, crazy thing, man. 30 generations. Wow. Yeah! Holy shit. But I guess the melody for Surrender is not the same as the bomb thing.

It's just that E minor vamp and you cannot copyright a chord progression. Why not? Because it's not the melody. And there's only so many chords in a key, you know? Is vamp short for vampire? It might as well be. You cannot copyright a vampire. That's one thing I have.

You should be able to. Yeah, you could trademark it, but you can't copyright it. Celebrity birthdays, Mark Van Thillo. Whoa. Born on this very day. No kidding, that's a big one. What'd he do, Lucy? He was the co-captain of Biosphere 2.

That's right, that's right. Now, I remember Biosphere 1 captain being such a drip and such a letdown, and then finally Biosphere 2. We really got what we all want. They got a hell of a good guy in there. Well, you know what? I don't know how much you know about Biosphere 2, but I'm afraid I did a goddamn deep dive on it.

Everything there is to know. Well, okay. This was a closed ecological system, aka a vivarium. Okay. And the purpose of it was to gain knowledge about the use of closed biospheres for space colonization. Right. And then they make a movie with Polly Shore. Oh, did they? Biodome. Oh, sure.

I guess so. Well, it sounds like things went off the rails right away that they didn't have enough food or oxygen. Oh, no. And I hope our captain holds up well. He doesn't seem to have. Well, I'll tell you one funny thing. The reason they called it Biosphere 2 is that they considered the Earth to be Biosphere

1. So this was like, uh, you liked earth? This here's the sequel, this fucked up little project. It went off the rails. The one funny thing that happened was it's somebody I'd forget why, but the people who are on the outside and ministering it decided they wanted to fire somebody who was in there for some reason. And she was like, uh, I don't think you can fire me because I'm just going to stay here and

do my thing. And if you come in to get me, you will have broken the seal and destroyed the experiment. And they were like, oh yeah. Okay. That's true. We can't fire you. Who was putting this on? This wasn't NASA, was it? Oh, certainly not. It was a private. It was private lunatics. The best kind. Yeah. They had problems with cockroaches and something else. People. Yeah, people. They had lots of problems. So,

it fell apart after like a year and a half, which is a long damn time. They were in there that long? They were in there a long time. No shit. How long were they supposed to be in there? Oh, maybe two years or something. Oh, boy. But it was a rough time. They came out looking real skinny. And then they tried to do it again. And guess who tried to came in to administer it and finance it? A guy named Steve Bannon. No. The same? The very same? The very same. But this was in the 90s, I guess. Wait, when was the first, when was Biosphere 2? 90s. Yeah.

So, but Mark Vanthillo, he was so upset about how things were going in Biosphere 2.2 that he vandalized it. So the captain, he wasn't the captain the second time around. The captain of the first time around vandalized the biosphere the second time around when Steve Bannon was around. How did he vandalize it? Like he smeared his poop on it? I think he and another person took some panels off of it or something like that. I don't know what. It just sounds like everybody involved was a nut. Yeah. Where was this thing?

Oh, Arizona somewhere. Okay. Yeah. It's currently owned by someone weird. Wait, maybe Steve Bannon? No, it's like the University of Arizona or something. But even, I know that doesn't sound so weird, but there's something weird going on with it. Oh, who cares?

Y'all, we'll get to the bottom of it on the bonus pod, baby. These are just teasers. It's a fun read. Okay, here we go. One other thing, another goddamn rabbit hole I fell down. Shit, there's too much to talk about. On this very date in history, March 18th, 1961, NASA launched a rocket called Little Joe.

Holy shit, but they deny that it has anything to do with Bonanza. They say that it's the four rocket design that looks like a roll of two on two dice, meaning a roll of four in a game of craps, which is known as a Little Joe. And that's known as a Little Joe because of a famous bowler in 1902 who went by the nickname Little Joe from Kokomo and had a four-step delivery before he bowled the ball. Man, this is some real breadcrumb trails here.

I know. It's clear now. I've got too much damn time on my hands. But no, not 1902, the 1920s. Okay. Anyway, that's a long way to go to try to deny that they named a rocket after a character. Right. The lady doth protest too much.

Exactly. All right, you want to hear about some fun facts of people in this episode? You know I do. I know you do. This time, directorially, we are once again in the steady hands of Dick Motor. Lon Tinkle and Dick Motor. I love it.

Dick Motor directed this episode. This is the second of three bonanzas he's directed. This is the guy whose son is currently married to Julia Roberts. Did you know she's married to the son of Dick Motor? He's a cameraman, right? Oh yeah, that's right. I don't know if he also has a Dick Motor. I mean, if he's dating Julia Roberts, he's got to have something under the hood. Something. This was written by a man named Nat Tanchuk, another unusual name. He was an

Air Force Colonel who served in World War II Korea and Vietnam. Had he had time to write for Bonanza. He wrote, this is his only episode, he also co-wrote Married Too Young with Ed Wood. He and Ed Wood co-wrote a movie. Oh, wow. I know. The big guest star in this episode playing the bad guy Jed Trask was Robert Lansing. This is his first of three Bonanzas. He's an actor studio guy. He was in a 1963 sex comedy called Under the Yum Yum Tree.

Whoa. Yeah. That's getting back to James Bond. There's a song in Dr. No called Underneath the Mango Tree. We Make Boola Loop Soon, which was believed to be Jamaican slang for sex. Oh really? Yeah.

And this is the very next year, 1963. What's going on? What is going on under that yam yam tree? We make boo-loo-loo. He was the interstellar secret agent Gary Seven in a Star Trek episode in 1968, which also featured Terry Gar. It was originally intended as a backdoor pilot for a new series, but they didn't go nowhere. Poor rubber bands.

Oh, that's too bad. Man, Terry Gahr could have taken that sliding doors moment into a life of Star Trek television. Yeah, exactly. That would have been nice. Poor Terry Gahr. I don't mean to be indiscreet, but I could have handled seeing Terry Gahr in a Star Trek miniskirt. I had that same thought.

To keep, yeah, those are pretty short space dresses. I'm just a cowboy, I'm just a character. Sure. That's all I'm saying. I hear ya. Absolutely. All right, what else did he do? He was in a movie called 4D, that was his biggest movie.

This is a movie, I watched. That was his biggest movie. This is a movie. I watched the trailer and I was confused. It's about a man who can walk through walls. Right. Even walls that talk? Even walls that talk. Can you imagine the reaction to the wall to that? Hey man, don't walk through me.

Hey, I'm not walking here. Yeah, that's right. Hey, I'm walling here. I'm wall right. Hey, I'm walling here. I'm walling, hey, I'm walling here. Don't bump into me like that. Oh man, I'd be pissed off if I was the balls. But he could walk through any kind of solid surface. And then there's a scene where he tries to touch somebody

and his hand goes through them. This is like, is it Kitty Pryde on the X-Men? I think it is. But the person he tries to touch and his hand goes through them. This is like, is it Kitty Pryde on the X-Men? I think it is. Oh. But the person he tries to touch and his hand goes through them, then suddenly grows old and dies in a matter of seconds. That's a wrinkle. It is, right?

That's a hat on a hat. I believe it is. And then later in the trailer, he successfully kisses a woman, but then goes, oh no, and she ages rapidly and dies right in front of him. And this, you all saw this from the trailer? Just in the trailer. It was an unusually long trailer. Two hours? Oh no, just an hour and 35.

Oh, interesting. It's like what I did to my friend Matt, did to Amanda one time. He said, I just want to watch the trailer for Bad Ronald where, speaking of which, a boy lives in the walls of a house. Oh, Bad Ronald. Yeah. Yeah. And I didn't tell her it was the movie. And we were 30 minutes in before she realized.

Because I knew she wasn't going to say yes to watching it. Wait a minute. You did that to Matt Gordon's wife Amanda? My friend a minute. You did that to my friend's wife. Amanda, my friend, Matt did that. I would never do that. No, you wouldn't do that. No, hell no. My God.

Oh, that's funny. It takes 30 minutes before somebody says this is a long trailer. Right. Amanda. Yeah. Yeah. Well, sometimes old, or is it just cause bad Ronald is that engaging? Oh, I suppose it must be.

But sometimes you click on a trailer and it's not a trailer. It's a scene from the movie. I hate that. Why does that happen? I hate that because if you want to watch the movie, then you got to sit through that scene again. I know. It's terrible.

All right. Belle Trask was played by Shirley Ballard. This is her only bonanza. She was Miss California beauty pageant winner in 1944. No surprise. Beautiful lady. Her, Here's weirdness. Her husband, Jason Evers, was on last week's episode of Bonanza. Who did he play? I don't remember, but he was the guy that was in The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

He had a big role in last week's episode. Do you remember last week's episode at all? I don't. Was that The Brain That Wouldn't Die? Yeah. That was the title that wouldn't die? Yeah. That was the title? No, no, no. That was a movie he was also in. Oh, no. Was it the Duke?

The one, the fighting one? Yeah. Yeah, it was him. Do you think he got her the job? That's what I'm trying to figure out. What are you guys doing next week? Yeah. You know, my wife, she's a beauty pageant winner from 44.

Yeah, put her in it. Yeah. I also like to think that they both a beauty pageant winner from 44. Yeah, put her in it. Yeah. I also like to think that they both got to travel together up to Lake Tahoe to shoot the exterior scenes for their two episodes. Oh, but I bet they didn't. You don't think so? I don't know. But maybe they, maybe they went up together. Uh-huh. I see what you're saying. Because maybe they block shoot the exteriors up there in Lake Tahoe. Oh, maybe you're right. Yeah, that's right.

They do, don't they? Yeah. I just like to think of the two of them getting up to some hotel, humping and bumping up there in Lake Tahoe. Oh, you know they did. I know they must have. And the walls would talk. Old brother. The paper walls.

But he didn't play the Duke. The Duke was somebody else. Jason Evers was in the episode in some other capacity. Is he the guy that got beat up by him? Oh, that's it. Yeah, that's it. He was a nice boyfriend. Yeah, that's it. He was a nice boyfriend. Yeah, that's what he was. How long does it take you to do all this research per episode?

Well, we do one episode every three weeks, and it pretty much takes me all them three weeks. I sleep four hours a night. Rest of the time is all this. You ought to do what Hans Zimmer does and just have everyone else do the work for you and then just take the credit. That's not a bad idea at all. All right. I got to find them everyone else's. What else am I going to tell you? Oh yeah. Okay. She divorced her husband. Well, and then she stopped acting forever, but she returns to IMDb as a script supervisor. And she did that for many moves and TV shows, including Mad Max in 1979.

Oh. Yeah. Was she Australian? No, she was not. But I wonder if she didn't move to Australia because that was an Australian production. For sure. Yeah. And so it was the second and I believe even the third, well, and then the fourth was maybe shot in North Africa or something. So it was her job on Mad Max to go up to Mel Gibson and say,

you was holding your cup of coffee in your left hand on the first take. You need to put it in your left hand. I don't remember if there was a lot of coffee drinking in Mad Max. Yeah, I don't think so. What would Mel Gibson likely have been holding? A gasoline siphon. There you go.

You had the gasoline siphon in your left hand on the wide, and here on the medium shot, you had it in your right hand and you fucked us. So put, let's do it again. That's her job. Yeah, that's right. And she also goes up, must go up to him and say all the time, like you said this word weird. You said sugar tits when I think you meant call me the raggedy man. Tina Turner. There you go. Was Tina Turner in the first man? No, she was in the third one.

No, she was better in Thunderdome. Yeah. All right, Dick Wessel played big Mike Campbell. This is his only bonanza. He played cue ball in a movie called Dick Tracy versus cue ball. Yeah, I know that was a big part, but it didn't lead to other big parts. No sir. He was the planetarium guide in Rebel Without a Cause.

He was the railroad detective in Them. You ever see that movie Them! No, it's the big ants movie. Well, I think it's a movie about a railroad detective. Name a cue ball. He plays in the movie The Caddy. He plays caddy who rips towel. That's, that is the third best caddy in that movie. That's a good part. It's a good, how do you, I can't even imagine being strong enough to rip a towel. Man, he also played in a film called Purple Grotto. He played drunk infantry man. Okay. Oh no, I'm sorry. The movie was called No Time for Sargeants.

Oh. Yeah. His role was drunk infantryman at Purple Grotto. Okay. That's a play. Oh, really? Yeah. No Time for Sargeants. And it's a movie with the, is it Fred McMurray? I don't know. Don Knotts. Oh yeah. No. Really? I think. He appears elsewhere on our list of movies somehow. No. Really? I think. He appears elsewhere on our list of movies somehow. So he had some great roles.

John Harmon has weasel in this episode. This is his second of six bonanzas. He was in everything, including Whirlybirds. Oh wow. The movie in which he made his last screen appearance was called The Naked Monster. Okay. And it was released in 2005, which was 20 years after John Harmon died. No time for sergeants. Andy Griffith, Don Knotts. Boy, now I got to see it. Those two together again?

Hot shit. Yeah. In his later years, John Harmon became a used books dealer in Los Angeles. He collected first editions of Mark Twain. Whoa. I know. That's nice. Yeah, that's good. Then we got J. Edward McKinley, who played Walker. He was the angry man in the first scene. I've never seen anything like that. Does he come back in the last scene too? Yeah, he does. He was, speaking of comical Indian accents, he played the studio executive Fred Clutterbuck, who is the host of The Party in the movie The Party. Oh yeah, Fred and Alice Clutterbuck. I adore this movie. It's a good one,

right? Yeah. I mean, go in with low expectations in terms of hijinks. It's a slow movie. And political correctness. Oh, go in with the lowest expectations in terms of this being an acceptable thing to put on a screen in 2024. But yeah, you know how in 2024, yeah, things age problematically, but I think we'll all admit, if we're being honest with ourselves, we all grandfather some things in. Okay, I guess we do. Do you know what I mean? Okay. We all have our things. Yeah, those things that you say, all right, now this, yes, this, yes, yes, yes, yes, but. That is one of my friend Matt's grandfathered things. Okay, the party is, huh?

Yeah. Is it Elky Summer on the guitar in this? No, it's Claudine Léger. Okay, good. Even better. Okay, good. And, oh, speaking of John Wayne, his daughter's in it. John Wayne's daughter in it? She's the big tall kind of drunken girl with the tiara. I believe she is also in the Alamo. Is that right? I seem to recall reading

that John Wayne put his son and his daughter in that movie. God, I fucking love the party. I just love the era. I love the decor. I love the art design. Oh, yeah. Birdie num num. Birdie num num. Don't you remember the birdie num num scene? I've seen the movie only the one time. I wonder what you'd think of it. Like I said, it's grandfathered in, so I can't judge it with just passionate eyes. I mostly thought that I had heard many times that this movie was gut-bustingly hilarious, like a one and a half hour version of the wild party scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Oh, no.

It's a slow burning, like fly on the wall. Yes, what it is. Real time, except for the opening scene in the last part. It's just like, it's so good to have on and have a cocktail. If you're into smoking a little something maybe, you know. Really go for it. All right. By not going for it.

But don't, he can't recommend it, but he grandfathers it or something like that. Oh, I recommend it. You recommend it. All right, all right, all right. Don't judge me on it, and by me, I mean my friend Matt. Right. Oh yeah, J. Edward McKinley was also in

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, which was a Don Nott movie. He had three little houses on the prairie and one highway to heaven. So he was a, Michael Landon was a big fan.ots room. He had three little houses on the prairie and one highway to heaven. So he was a bit, Michael Landon. Landon took him along. Yep. And he was in 10 episodes of Bewitched as different important clients. Wait, are we still on Mr. Clutterbuck? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, he had a real, God, his voice was great. Oh, yeah. He's hilarious. I remember he's got a line in the party. He goes, someone asks who, Peter Sellers character, how he got at the party, because it was a mistake. Oh yeah. Prindivi Bakshi.

And he says, I don't know, it's someone my mixed up wife invited. Back when you could say that about your wife, they were either mixed up or harebrained. Oh yeah. Or dizzy. Yeah. You're dizzy or spend all day out with your credit card. My God. Well, okay. Shall we talk about this episode? We got 12 minutes in which to do it. That's okay.

Sure it is. Also a great man's Cine score, but anyway, go on. Okay. All right. We could talk about, well, hey, maybe we'll watch the party and talk and do it for a bonus episode sometime anyways. And stirred it's Virginia city, Sierra stage lines. Sorry.

Just if we do. Yes. Have you ever gone down the Claudine Lange rabbit hole where she shot? I'm sure I did. A man named spider. She shot a man named spider. Ski named spider. I did not know that.

Well, we'll leave it for if we ever cover it. Did you fatally shoot the spider? I think so. Okay. All right. I wouldn't mind if that was the last face I saw as I bled out on the snow. Wouldn't that be nice? I tell you what. My mom kind of looked like her when she was younger.

Oh, really? Yeah. Now I understand. Now you understand why. No, I understand why your dad married you. I never had any reason to believe that it was a good idea or bad idea. Now I get it. Okay. I, I'm done.

We've got a solid 10 and a half minutes to cover this, this episode. Yep. Okay. This first scene of this episode is, I mean, I never seen anything like it. If we got old Sims at the Sierra stage line, letting it be known that once again, six weeks of stage coach arrivals is not going to happen.

It's been six weeks since the stage coach has made it to Virginia city. And he's writing on a chalkboard that it ain't coming today neither. And a bunch of businessmen come up, including Ben Cartwright, one of them is Walker, and Walker is the maddest one. And he's so mad, he's suddenly out of nowhere, he says, let's tear down the place. And he pulls that chalkboard off the wall and throws it.

And this is Clutterbuck? That's Clutterbuck. I gotta re-watch that. He goes to anarchy right away. It's the Wild West, man. They call it wild for a reason. I guess so, but man, they're gonna just kick the shit out of Sims and tear down the whole Sierra stage line office.

But Sims says, no, there's a troubleshooter coming to town. And sure enough, he shows up right on cue. Jed Trask is a stage coach troubleshooter. How do we not get to see that series? I know. Why didn't we see? Is that someone I assume who rides shotgun? No, in fact, he just rides from town to town where they're saying our stage coaches aren't getting through. And he says, all right, I'm going to find the people that are fucking with our stage coaches and fuck with them right back. So he's got a rifle and his wife, Belle, has a rifle too.

And he says, I've killed 26 men. All right. So there we go. Now, here's a piece of trivia you might find interesting. Okay. You got nine minutes. This is the 58th time that the map has burned on the episode of Bonanza. Oh, damn. Isn't that interesting? And how many episodes have we done?

Uh, well, this is the 58th episode of Bonanza. Okay. So here to for they have always correlated. I guess that's true. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. That's interesting.

All right. So now we got, uh, boy, we do need to hear it turns out. Okay. here's this, I'm going to give you the facts. There's a town called Letigo. Evidently this town has become overrun with gunfighters and bad elements. It's like a Moss Isley spaceport. Oh, wretched hive of scum and villainy. Exactly. And it's, uh, that's where the, that's the Sage coaches can't get past Letigo. They get that far and that's it. There's too many road agents. It's the Bermuda Triangle, the Wild West. That's what it is. So Jed says, well, that's where I'm going. And me and my wife are headed there with our rifles to sort out this problem and bend the cart rights.

Letigo commuter, boy, I want to take you to Letigo. out this problem and Ben Cartwrights. Yeah, but don't go. This is a terrible vacation destination, Letigo. So anyway, Ben says, you're going to need help. And Jed Trash says, I happily accept help. And Ben says, not just me, but all three of my sons too. He just volunteers all three of his sons to go too. They don't have no word in the matter, but sunup is when it comes. And then the next day they're all on the road. All four cart rides and Jed and Bell Trask is on the road together. Jed reveals himself to be a true asshole saying,

I'm in charge of this outfit and bing bong doodly doo, whatever I say goes. Meanwhile, his wife is sexually brushing her hair and he goes up and makes out with her real weirdly in front of all the cart rides. It's pretty strange. It's rather odd. But now they ride up on a destroyed wagon. They see one of their wagons and they, oh yeah, look, yeah, wagon got destroyed. They ride on into La Tigo, which is like a ghost town. In fact, there's a man spills out of the saloon, runs for his life and gets shot

in the back. So we know we're in a bad town. And the undertaker is real busy in this town. That's a little bit of a running joke, the undertaker. Doesn't have no dialogue, but he shows up a bunch. So right away, Jed goes to the office of the Sierra, and there's two jerks in there, and it's quite clear that these are the fellas who have been entrusted with running the Sierra stagecoach line through Letigo, and they are in total cahoots

with the Robin of the stagecoaches, to the point where they're sitting there in the office enjoying a plate of lamb chops that I guess came through on the stagecoach. Makes sense. They are just enjoying the spoils. They're in the process of merely enjoying the spoils of their illegal

crimes when Jed Tress comes in and finds them, he kicks Big Mike and Weasel. That's who they are. Big Mike and Weasel. He kicks them out of town. Ben says, you got to prosecute these guys. Jess says, I don't give a fuck as long as they're gone. I did my job. But this is when Big Mike and Weasel say they're not going to take it lying down and they're going to round up all of their various nefariouses, the various nefariouses, and they're going to come together and they're going

to stand up to Jed Trask. They do. They shoot. Mike shoots Jed Trask, doesn't he? Yep. Would have killed him too if not for Ben Cartwright jumping in and firing some shots. Now, Jed Trask has been shot and he is bed bound and then wheelchair bound. Right. So we think. So we think. Well, he's very clipper. What's going to happen? All the cartwrights care about is they're going to round up all the stolen stuff that's ball-loaded up in the barn from the past six weeks. All of it lamb chops.

It's crates and crates of unrefrigerated lamb chops. Unsmoked and unsalted and unrefrigerated. Yeah, it smells like a chardle house in there, but they're going to put together all these shipments and get them out to Virginia City and beyond. That's all they, all four of them are just doing inventory basically for this whole episode, that's not ready, but that's all they want to do. But meanwhile, Jed's been shot and he's lying in bed and Big Mike and Weasel and the other bad guys is on the outskirts of town or some shit like that. I don't know what the hell. But it comes down to, oh, but this is when things get crazy.

Because now the stage coach comes into town and the stage coach driver says, oh, I hate that Jed Trask. I hate him. I've got a letter for him and I've been waiting a long time to personally deliver this letter to Jed Trask. Like he's that, he's that. And so, you know, as a viewer, that Jed Trask has been fired, right? I mean, clearly that's all that Jed Trask has been fired, right?

I mean, clearly that's all that could possibly be in that letter, but it's about 31 minutes later that the show tells you that. So it holds it out as a mystery, but that is the fact of the matter. Jed has been fired by the Sierra stagecoach line, possibly because of those 26 men he's killed in service of a stagecoach line. But he's all mad. He doesn't accept it. He was in a mind to declare war on Big Mike and Weasel and the other bad guys.

Now he's of a mind to declare war on the Sierra trading stagecoach line, right? Yeah, as far as I know. You watched this one, didn't you? I watched it. Claire war on the Sierra trading stagecoach line, right? Yeah. As far as I know, you watched this one. I watched it. I sat there in front of it. Yeah, that's for sure. There's a good scene here where Jed, all the bad guys are sitting around playing

cards and Jed makes a very dramatic and abrupt entrance in a wheelchair. He speeds into the room in this wheelchair. I miss wheelchairs like that. Yeah, the undertaker made that wheelchair out of wood. They're so nice and ornate and all-encompassing and elegant. That's a good point. Yeah, nobody today, you won't find anybody today in a good old wooden wheelchair like Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. I bet if Jack White lost use of his legs, he'd use one of those.

We can only hope it happens then. We can make it happen. Really? Uh huh. All right. Talk to me later. All right. Look, we'll talk about that off, Mac.

Okay. So, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Well, uh, Bell and Jed Trask and blah, blah, blah. They are truly in love, but they're not on the same page because she's kind of like, well, okay, you've been fired. That's fine. Let's go on to the rest of our wonderful lives and, uh, everything will be fine.

He's like, fuck no, I'm going to take down the Sierras. Well, he gets into cahoots with all them bad guys is what he does. He says, look, I have all this knowledge and expertise about the Sierra stagecoach line. I'm going to be the leader of your gang of ne'er-do-wells now and I'm going to help you take down the shipments. I'm going to, as far as the cartwrights know, still be in a wheelchair, but actually I can stand up now just like this. Watch me.

He does. And then they said that all the bunch of them is all robbing stagecoaches and shooting the stagecoach drivers. And Ben, poor Ben, has a talk with Jed on the porch in a wheelchair where he's like, I hope you get better soon. And meanwhile, Jed's out there robbing stagecoaches. Make Ben look like a jackass. He really did. This is better than the episode, I got to tell you. It was a good episode.

It's a slow one, I will say. Yeah, but it's good. It's good. All right, then what we got now. Oh, okay. He killed Big Mike. You know, he killed Big Mike and took his place in the gang. Ben is saying, stagecoaches are being robbed left and right.

Jed says, well, it's that Big Mike. Then all of a sudden, Big Mike's corpse shows up on the back of a horse. Ben is like, what, what, what? Jed says, okay, gig is up. Stands up out of his wheelchair and says, this is my town now. What a dummy. He's gone and picked a fight with all four of the cartwrights now. And boy, they fight dirty because when they ambush him, they just shoot some of those people without warning.

You know what I mean? Who ambush who? The cartwrights and all his posse ambushed these men. That's right. It just seems unbecoming of a cartwrights in all his posse ambushed these men. That's right. It just seems unbecoming of a cartwright to shoot unannounced. Oh, I see what you mean. Regardless of the moral high ground. When they was hiding in the barn, you mean?

Yeah. Well, they weren't in the barn at first. They were out there and then, remember? Okay, let me see. And the cartwrights just sneak up on them with their other men and they just start shooting at them out in the open out of nowhere Really? Some of them with their backs turned

Really? Cartwrights walk into a saloon No, it's Jed and company leave, they vow to come back Jed, Bill and the bad guys are outside of town Says they're gonna burn the barn and shoot everyone who comes out Right? That's all, they're going to burn the barn and shoot everyone who comes out. Right? That's all they're going to have a turkey shoot. Jed has been kicked out of town successfully by the cartwrights.

So now they're out in the rocks making a plan. Weasel comes up and says, oh, they're all in the barn doing their precious inventory of lamb chops. Jed says, well, then here's what we're going to do. We're going to set the barn on fire, smoke them out, and shoot them when they run out. It'll be a good old fashioned turkey shoot, right? And then, Belle takes her rifle and she goes into the cart rights with her rifle.

She says, get out of this barn. Really what she's trying to do is save their lives and not put her husband in jeopardy. But a hawk sneaks up on her and de-rifles her. And then they find out what Jed's plan is and they say, okay, well we'll be ready for him. So they hide out in the barn, right? Didn't this, is there another time when they snuck up?

I don't know. But now they're hiding out in the barn and when the bad guys show up, they're about to set their torches on fire. They're trying to figure out. Yes, that's it, yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's the moment you're thinking. So okay, there's a couple guys their torches on fire. They're trying to figure out. Yes, that's it. Yeah.

Oh, that's the moment you're thinking. So, okay. There's a couple of guys with torches already. They're struggling to get their matches lit on their boots and whatnot. And that's the moment when the cart rights open fire from inside the barn. Oh, because I didn't realize they were inside the barn, I guess. Oh, no. Maybe they, no, you're right.

They ran out of the barn. You're right. They just shot them blind. They just shot them blind. They just shot them blind. I see that. You're right about that. They didn't say, get out of here, Jed, be honest. Yeah.

Yeah. They just opened fire. Started talking with their guns. Yeah. Good point. All right. But now the bad guys, the tables get turned and the bad guys flee into the barn and Ben is intent on going into the barn and having a word with Ben with a Jed Trask. Weasel freaked out and ran away and

got shot in the back by Jed for being a coward. The other, other bad guys did the same, but they didn't die. But now anyway, point is Jed is alone in the barn. Right. Ben goes in there to talk to him. Jed fires like six or seven shots at him. He's not in a talking mood. Doesn't seem that way. Meanwhile, all three of the other Cartwright boys just, they don't move.

Listen, they just sit and listen, wonder what's going to happen. Who's going to come walking out? All these shots are fired in that and listen, wonder what's going to happen. Who's going to come walking out? All these shots are fired in that barn. I wonder what's going on. Hope dad's okay. Very uncharacteristic of them. But Ben, I guess, I don't remember. Ben, I guess he shoots him?

Well, we don't see and then Trask comes out and it looks like he's emerged victorious, but he turns out he's taken a bullet and he come out to die. It's a classic, there was blood and a single gunshot, but just who shot who situation. And out stumbles dead, falls down. Is there time for her to say goodbye to him and for him to have a, no, he's just dead I think. I don't think he has a moment of redemption. That's okay.

That's all right. Yeah, that's all right. But Bill is so sad and the Cartwrights pose somberly over his corpse. And then they spread his ashes at Johnny Cash's house. When the cashes is out of town. Ashes at the cashes. Ashes at the cashes. Maybe that's what it was.

Maybe that was, maybe Johnny Cash ran a business. Spray your ashes at the cashes. Someone should have wrote the country song, Ashes at Cashes. Ashes at Cashes, a song about fair and high ashes at cashes. Yeah, you do it. Dry your eyelashes. Turns out in the very end, old Belle Trask, she has gone on to a second act as a sharpshooter performer. She's putting on a sharpshooting show. Okay, good for her, I guess. Yeah, I guess so. It seems like the traveling itinerant circus

life is a good life, especially for a woman. For a woman alone in the world? Yeah, good for her. And everything is right with the world and the shipments are coming in and Walker still ain't happy. He's whining about this and that, but it's a bit of a comical ending there. Yeah. And with that, I'm sorry to say that there's only 372 episodes of Bonanza left. Biden's America. Huh? Biden's America.

Yeah, right. I know Biden. If you want to fix something, Joe Biden, get us more Bonanzas to talk about. I don't care about no interest rates. Alrighty. Well, there you go. We've done it. We've done another bananas for bonanza and another bonanza and a live stream of

it too. Hello, live streamers. And, uh, I guess that's been it. I got an appointment after this. I got to go to. Okay. All right. So I'm going to go ahead and do my sign off.

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