Oh my!! That's Robert Dryden or Ralph Bell from CBSRMT the radio plays from 1974-1982!!! If you've never listened to them please do i implore u.Type in Chilly Sunshine and ule get 1399 episodes some with original adverts!!!! So enjoy, or not,,?!!
He’s played as a real jerk in this version. In the movie he’s like a friendly doof who operates the radios and helps out, but doesn’t have to be bribed to go along.
@@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo this version makes a better story, and if I know Robert Heinlein, this version is probably closer to what he wrote. I haven't seen the movie or read the text, but Hollywood tends to favor lovable goofs, just as Heinlein likes men who make hard decisions with an iron will.
@@quicksilvertongue3248 No, it's way off from what he wrote, and personally I don't think it makes for a better story. I think his pissed off surliness and having to be bribed detracts from it, and he's only redeemed when he falls back into character and tries to sacrifice himself at the end, as happens in all versions. I've seen the 1950 movie and read the short story. In the movie he plays the "lovable goof" for sure, which was a standard gimmick of '50's Sci-Fi: put a guy in there who isn't as sophisticated as the others so that they can explain things to him for the benefit of the audience, who chews bubble gum and goes on and on about the Brooklyn Dodgers and his hot date that he can't miss for something so trivial as a trip to the Moon. I'm surprised they didn't try and shoehorn a buxom woman into the crew, but they probably did try and Heinlein put a stop to it. In the short story which first appeared in "Short Stories Magazine" in September of 1950, the character "Mannie" (Emmanuel) Traub was asked to fill in for the sick Ward, and immediately agreed to help out, saying that on his job application he put down "Willing to travel." 😉 Personally I think (like you) that the "Hollywood" movie version makes for the best story. The short story is a bit dry in that regard. They're stuck because the guy who was supposed to go has appendicitis, and have to ask the radio guy "Joe Sweeney" to fill in. He argues at first that it will never get off the ground, and then that he has a date, but then when they plead with him that they'd be sunk without him he agrees to help, and he doesn't have to be bribed to do it. He's a radio and radar guy who doesn't need to be a super scientist or rocket building industry leader or Air Force General like the other three, so it works out nicely.
Oh my!! That's Robert Dryden or Ralph Bell from CBSRMT the radio plays from 1974-1982!!! If you've never listened to them please do i implore u.Type in Chilly Sunshine and ule get 1399 episodes some with original adverts!!!! So enjoy, or not,,?!!
22:45 Just as they're trying to figure out who to leave behind the Korean War breaks out.
And thus, one day, the dream of Ralph Kramden saw fulfillment.
I saw the movie of this one.
Which movie is it?
@@jeremybear5731950, Destination Moon, from a screenplay by Robert A. Heinlein.
@@jeremybear573 your clue is the title of the episode
Thank you🎉
GREAT EPISODE!
First news bulletin of the outbreak of the Korean War at 22:47.
Pretty wild. Talk about traveling back in time!
The impact wouldn't be felt until a while later.
The way he stumbles on the pronunciation Seoul is some comment on the way Americans learn geography through war.
And sixty years later, the Watchers found that Sweeney had aged into Stan Lee....
The planet moon, lol.
korea breaks out
Sweeney is a solid dude
He’s played as a real jerk in this version. In the movie he’s like a friendly doof who operates the radios and helps out, but doesn’t have to be bribed to go along.
@@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo this version makes a better story, and if I know Robert Heinlein, this version is probably closer to what he wrote. I haven't seen the movie or read the text, but Hollywood tends to favor lovable goofs, just as Heinlein likes men who make hard decisions with an iron will.
@@quicksilvertongue3248 No, it's way off from what he wrote, and personally I don't think it makes for a better story. I think his pissed off surliness and having to be bribed detracts from it, and he's only redeemed when he falls back into character and tries to sacrifice himself at the end, as happens in all versions. I've seen the 1950 movie and read the short story. In the movie he plays the "lovable goof" for sure, which was a standard gimmick of '50's Sci-Fi: put a guy in there who isn't as sophisticated as the others so that they can explain things to him for the benefit of the audience, who chews bubble gum and goes on and on about the Brooklyn Dodgers and his hot date that he can't miss for something so trivial as a trip to the Moon. I'm surprised they didn't try and shoehorn a buxom woman into the crew, but they probably did try and Heinlein put a stop to it.
In the short story which first appeared in "Short Stories Magazine" in September of 1950, the character "Mannie" (Emmanuel) Traub was asked to fill in for the sick Ward, and immediately agreed to help out, saying that on his job application he put down "Willing to travel." 😉
Personally I think (like you) that the "Hollywood" movie version makes for the best story. The short story is a bit dry in that regard. They're stuck because the guy who was supposed to go has appendicitis, and have to ask the radio guy "Joe Sweeney" to fill in. He argues at first that it will never get off the ground, and then that he has a date, but then when they plead with him that they'd be sunk without him he agrees to help, and he doesn't have to be bribed to do it. He's a radio and radar guy who doesn't need to be a super scientist or rocket building industry leader or Air Force General like the other three, so it works out nicely.
seems rather Buck Rogers