Chatty Chatty Bang Bang
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -A podcast about the multiverse of car movies. From Cars 2 to Herbie: Fully Loaded, writer/presenter Harry Mitchell and cultural critic Dusty Smith delve into the movies that get our pistons firing. Car knowledge not required, and is usually not present.
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Episodes
We Need To Talk About Tenet
January 23, 2021 18:58 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBB-B-BONUS EPISODE! Dusty hates Christopher Nolan movies. Harry loves Tenet. Together we do a temporal pincer movement, piecing together this time-reversing action monster. We also recap movies new and old we watched in lockdown! Automobile flicks will return after this, it just had to be done.
The Transformers: The Movie
September 29, 2020 16:42 - 1 hour - 58 MBLong live Rodimus Prime! Harry, Dusty and journalist/Transformers nerd Danielle Partis comb through the 1986 Transformers film, to mass horror and confusion. Why was Optimus Prime's death so brutal? Why does Orson Welles play a vore planet? How can a human child transform into a car? Do we have The Touch? FOLLOW OUR NEW TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ChattyBangPod Follow Harry: https://twitter.com/HarryIsLate Follow Dusty: https://twitter.com/dustyajsmith Follow Danielle: https://twitter.c...
Locke
September 02, 2020 16:30 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBPut on your seatbelts and load up your hands-free phone, we're going on a ride. Harry & Dusty talk LOCKE, starring Tom Hardy and set entirely in a car on the M6. Harry reveals how they got such great performances, and Dusty gets excited over big concrete pours.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
August 04, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBTake a trip down DK Mountain as Harry and Dusty drift through the third Fast & Furious spin-off classic. Did Justin Lin get someone arrested over this movie? Is Han the coolest man alive? Was this movie technically set in 2013? Is this movie an underrated masterpiece?
Cars 2
July 04, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBFascism, antisemitism, international war crimes and car 9/11. Harry, Dusty and comedian/historian Noah Sykes expose anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, racial stereotyping, the consequences of a Car Pope and how the assassination of car JFK would go down. Cars 2 gets messy.
Christine
June 23, 2020 23:09 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBOur first spooky episode goes to CHRISTINE, the red Plymouth Fury with a Satanic soul and bad vibes. Harry and Dusty crack open car objectification, John Carpenter's crazy practical effects, male dominance, and how fire was invented in the 60s.
2 Fast 2 Furious
June 04, 2020 18:41 - 57 minutes - 53.7 MB2Cast2Pod? 2Pod2Cast? Something like that. Harry and Dusty chat about the lack of Diesel but an increase of action in the turbo-charged F&F sequel. Is this the best sequel name? What genius costumed Paul Walker's jorts? And why do the Dutch like racing so much?
Redline
May 26, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBGet your tentacles on this fresh data as Harry and Dusty race through REDLINE, the 2009 Japanese sci-fi wacky races extravaganza. But what does anime bring to the racing/car genre? Should all movie characters have their own theme songs? Were the Robot Space Nazis right all along? Who is Funky Boy, and why have you woken him?
Cars
May 19, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBHarry and Dusty feverishly delve into Pixar's Cars. How does the economy function? What are the tongues for? Do cars have souls? What's behind the windshield? To understand how Cars stunted Pixar's winning streak, Harry reveals how touchy director John Lasseter whiffed his big moment while Dusty breaks down the pro-capitalist attempt at themes.
The Fast And The Furious
May 19, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIt's time to get quick and rather cross, as we start with the best car franchise of all time: Fast & Furious. Harry and Dusty discuss how unintelligible car lingo, Vin Diesel gravitas and good ol' family values accidentally turned a forgettable action flick into a iconic cultural landmark.
Trailer
May 18, 2020 16:21 - 51 seconds - 817 KBStrap in for this quick glimpse of what Chatty Chatty Bang Bang is, and why you should join us at the holy altar of automobile cinema. "Hustle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/