The year is 1971 and Ernest Hemingway said that every true podcast ends in death.

Well this is a true podcast. The movie Brian's song.

Hey everybody, welcome to Unscooled.

And this is the podcast where we are trying to find the 100 best films of all time.

And then when we do, we're sending them into outer space. We're in a brand new series right now called underdogs.

These are all sports films based on true life events, which I think is such a wonderful fun mashup to be doing.

It's cerebral honestly. I mean, because yes, you and I love sports.

And so it's great to have a whole season of sports films films. I mostly haven't seen a lot of these are brand new to me.

I'm wondering if they're brand new to most people out there. But also I think talking about true life and how true life gets shaped into film and what people take and don't take from the real story, how a director shapes, you know, a real occurrence into a fictional film what he thinks audiences want to see and don't.

To me, this is kind of the meat and the heart of what I love about film criticism because you really get into questions of intention and and shaping.

And I'm just excited to talk about all of these. It was fun to talk about it last week with Hoosiers and how dramatically that film has changed.

And now we have another film based on a true story called Brian song.

You know, this is a movie that I've heard referenced so much in my life and I think for a certain group of people this really registered with them. We'll get into all of that.

But this was a TV movie originally and this is the first time we've done a TV film. But in many respects, I think that a TV film is going to have a bigger audience than any film might because there's no barrier to entry, right?

And this film was such a massive hit that you can see that the reason why we picked it was because of its cultural impact very rarely are there TV films that I think bring the weight that this film did at the time that it did.

Yeah, I mean, this is a TV film that when it premiered on ABC 48% of the televisions in America were watching it 48% and it did something incredibly unusual.

Because you know, I'm a stadium like a movie hits theaters and then maybe in a year or two, it's on cable, right? Or it's on TV the way that we talked about Shawshank.

This movie to the opposite, it was a TV movie of the week that then went to theaters because people are like, I need to see that again. You need to play that again.

Like the phone lines lit up at ABC every film critic wrote about it and took it seriously. Like this film was a sensation.

So what do you say, me? Should we, hut, hut, let's pull it.

The year is 1971. The microprocessor is invented, bringing it with it the dawn of the digital age.

The birth of Greenpeace signals a growing concern about the earth's resources as well as the responsibility of worldwide governments to protect said resources.

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