It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

Okay, Scott, we're doing it.

We made it past the 27 Club.

We're at episode 28.

We did it.

Yay.

And they said it wouldn't last.

I probably said that every time you said that, too.

And now we're going to die in a towering inferno because that is the subject of this

episode 28 is the towering inferno from 1974. Yeah, I was I was a huge fan of disaster movies, loved it.

And I thought when we were talking about subject matter, because of the, I don't know,

it's like an inferno out there because it was 123 last week.

I just figured, oh, that's actually, I'm in the mood for this now.

I'm in the mood for this.

So, so, yeah.

But I had, I was, a little little while ago i was going through some old papers my old

scrapbook and i happen to find uh i used to collect movie ads i used to literally cut out movie ads

and paste them in my scrapbook i don't know why it was just such a weird thing to do, but I did. And, uh,

if this movies I really liked, and of course, I like the disaster movies, there's

earthquake, and I like young Frankenstein. But there's the towering inferno. And, uh,

and I wanted to read just the, the first paragraph of this review that I clipped. It was a magazine

called the Scholastic Voice, whatever that means. And it says,

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