K&F Show #114: The Best of Finnegan’s Game Show’s; J.E.M. F/X Owner Elia Popov on Building the Dukes of Hazzard Movie General Lee’s!
Laugh Factory: Finnegan’s Best Game Shows. Rob is (mostly) out this week, so we brought back Finnegan for some fun game shows to keep you entertained! Well….actually, this a little bit of the greatest hits from some of our previous game shows…..and if you’re not in a good mood by the end of these you probably need to seek counseling.
<Feature Interview: Elia Popov from J.E.M. F/X. This is a full interview done with Elia Popov, the man at the helm of JEM F/X – which is the company that built all of the movie General Lee's and coordinated it all to do their amazing stunts. This interview was conducted in full during the 2014 SEMA Show and was initially released on The MuscleCar Place Episode 231. For those of you that loved the movie, you'll love this. For those of you that loved the car most (like us), you'll REALLY LOVE it!
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K&F Show #72: Like a Phoenix from the Ashes – The Resurrection of “Death Metal: Finnegan’s ’68 Race-Car Charger!
Hey hey! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the Patreon support! We are sending out the first Q&A email tomorrow for the special Patreon edition of the show. Slowly but surely, between Patreon, ads, and old Chargers we’re getting this sucker figured out. Want to get in on it? You can find it at https://www.patreon.com/kfshow!
Well, this is the episode where we never actually got to the Dukes review. Or the movie review. Or the anything review, other than a brief description of the awesome new “Cobra Kai” series on YouTube Red. Why? Because this is the episode where we did the full dig on the resurrection of Finnegan’s ’68 Charger! If you’ll recall, a K&F listener sent me the car on eBay, I sent it to Mike, Mike bought it later that night, my buddy Rodney and I picked it up in Minnesota and then met Mike and his dad with it in Tennessee, and just last week he, Tony Angelo, Daniel Boshears, and a slew of the faithful put Humpty Dumpty back together again to return it to visit it’s original builder, Joe Berry. The problem was, it wasn’t exactly a bone stock ’68 Charger to start with. It was a race car built in 1970 by a farmer, it never turned a lap, and every home brewed trick in the books was used to get it NASCAR legal for an era that still allowed drivers to smoke cigarettes while racing. Listen in to hear Finnegan relive a week of 16 hours days to get the car back on the road – and back to Joe Berry. And if you prefer our standard banter/Hollywood format, not to worry; we’ll be back at it next week!
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K&F Show #68: The Podcast Finnegan Has Been Waiting For All His Life: Our Full Review of “Two Lane Blacktop”
Before I give the movie review, I’m happy to announce that we are now into our second week of being LIVE on Patreon! Thank you so much to those of you who chose to support the show directly, and we promise to use all funds to continue building the show you want and the one we love to make. We have also figured out what we’re going to do for Patreon supporters and you’ll hear about in an upcoming episode. You can go hear to add to the mix: www.patreon.com/kfshow. Thank you again!!
In this episode of the show we finally reviewed the movie Two Lane Blacktop, a movie that Finnegan’s been wanting to hit since we started. Without a doubt this is the last piece of the cinematic puzzle that makes Mike…well, Mike. It’s a movie that has clearly influenced him greatly not because it’s a fantastic comedy or anything, but because it’s about two guys running the country in a homebuilt gasser ’55 Chevy. In their lives that’s all there is, it’s all they need, and all they want. Or is it? Along with way they pick up a random hitchhiker girl who (like the two guys) has no apparent backstory and no dreams going forward. They race an older guy – cross country – in a ’70 GTO Judge who is as philosophical as he is total crackpot wacko. There’s a ton a dialogue in this movie, yet there’s nearly none at the exact same time. This was done in the era of movie making where sometimes the plot and meaning was a secret known only to the writer and director…and Finnegan freaking loves it. In fact he loves it so much that his favorite car ever is a ’55 Chevy gasser named Blasphemi. Kibbe has decided that the psyche of Finnegan is made up of a very simple equation, and once you understand it you’ll have unlocked the key to Mike’s brain, soul, and car:
Two Lane Blacktop + Better Off Dead + The Dukes of Hazzard + Spaceballs = Mike Finnegan
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K&F Show #64: The Great Hazzard Hijack – S3 Episode 20 of the Dukes of Hazzard
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This is a super great episode but what’s most remarkable about it (besides the near moonshot jump of the General lee) may just be that Finnegan’s hour long summary of it. It’s completely awesome. Anyway, here’s the gist of the show: several years ago some hijackers lost some money in Hazzard because they stashed it in a place that later flooded. While Bo and Luke were hooning the General Lee in a river they stumbled upon $1000 big ones. Word spread and it was quickly determined by dirtbike-riding-Baja-bug-driving money chasers across the country that the cash was nearby. The hijackers came back to reclaim it and it turns out that the dude in the Marines that save Luke’s life in Vietnam was one of them. He tells Luke that his hot wife is really his hot sister, gets her to flirt with Luke, cars fly, and wrongs are righted. Daisy fights a chick in this episode, so that’s good too. 9 Corndogs.
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