Chris Frain Podcasts

Congratulations! You've made it to the final episode. Thanks to all our guests, our families, and to all our listeners for your support! Keep the conversations going at Crescendo Summit on Facebook, and check out "American Graffiti: One Song at a Time" wherever you get podcasts.By Frain & Steele

Embezzlement! PCP! Hollywood? Tierney has all the Hot Gossip, and Chris has problems with the order of the cast listing. Brought to you by Fries Engineering: Building Tomorrow's French Fries TodayBy Frain & Steele

Sadie and Riley just saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and they have opinions!By Frain & Steele

One of the Titans of MxM podcasting, Alex Robinson (Star Wars Minute, Godfather Minute) is here to talk about meeting Dennis Muren and determine which Meco disco adaptation is better. The answer won't surprise you!By Frain & Steele

Drugs! Scandal! Topless production meetings! Tierney got all the hot gossip for this credits episode.By Frain & Steele

Chris gets MAUDLIN about the end of the movie, while Tierney teases some HOT GOSSIP about the behind-the-scenes drama that she will cover in future episodes. Plus, we track down whether "When You Wish Upon a Star" is used at the end, or whether it's some weird collective Mandela Effect nonsense.By Frain & Steele

Puck and LaCombe are throwing signs at each other while everyone on the Dark Side of the Moon looks on in blissful wonder, except for Lou Reed - he's too cool for that, man.By Frain & Steele

Roy heads up the ramp, Jillian is happy crying, and we finally get to meet...Puck the Alien.By Frain & Steele

Chris and Tierney begin the final week of full episodes by discussing Devo, LaCombe's gesture, and Laughlin being able to finally experience joy.By Frain & Steele

One last time with Paul Sapp! Astronauts get blessed so they can't be stressed.By Frain & Steele

Paul Sapp returns to point out a huge violation of employee health confidentiality laws. Tierney has a lot of information about the ballet students who contributed to the film as the little aliens. Chris wonders aloud how Jillian plans to get her film developed.By Frain & Steele

Paul Sapp and the Spindly Alien are back. One of them is a hideous creature from space, the other is a marionette puppet.By Frain & Steele

Paul Sapp is here once again to discuss nightmare aliens, Carly Simon, and the eternal debate about which is the better film: Eyes Wide Shut or Joe vs. The Volcano.By Frain & Steele

Friend of the show Paul Sapp is here as hasty arrangements are made for Roy's (assumed) journey while Barry realizes his friends are leaving.By Frain & Steele

Barry's back! Rudi's back! And Roy just wants to know if this is all real. All the plots will be resolved in this one minute...By Frain & Steele

Was Einstein one of them? Rudi Thornburgh is here to help answer that question, kinda.By Frain & Steele

Rudi Thornburgh from "Open the Podcast Doors, HAL" compares and contrasts the visual effects from CE3K to 2001. Tierney references George Carlin, and Chris wonders aloud if Spielberg is trying to heal the wounds from the Vietnam War era.By Frain & Steele

Chris and Tierney are joined by Rudi Thornburgh who brings up The Orb, synthesizer patch sheets, and how a bit of music from "2001" helped visualize this scene from CE3K.By Frain & Steele

Rudi Thornburgh returns to usher us over the two hour mark threshold. Together with Tierney and Chris they discuss the Arkanoid, Breakout, and whether the movie Jaws exists in the Close Encounters universe.By Frain & Steele

Heidi Bennett from Vibrant Visionaries is here to help us reach the 2 hour mark (!) in the movie. Chris has a dissenting opinion about the score for this scene, and Jillian finally loses her patience with these men and their interplanetary Simon game.By Frain & Steele

Chris jumps the gun and talks about quavers a minute early. Tierney reminisces about piano duels. And guest Heidi Bennett from Vibrant Visionaries returns!By Frain & Steele

The Vibrant Visionary, Heidi Bennett, is back to discuss what she sees and hears in this minute, and expounds on some issues regarding creativity and how it relates to the story lines in CE3K.By Frain & Steele

Heidi Bennett from Vibrant Visionaries and Spinal Tap Minute joins the podcast again to don some aviator shades and behold The Mothership.By Frain & Steele

Heidi Bennett from Vibrant Visionaries and Spinal Tap Minute is here to help us figure out if the porte-potty gag is legitimately funny.By Frain & Steele

Tierney and Chris react to the dramatic appearance of THE MOTHERSHIP in this minute, profanities are uttered.By Frain & Steele

A pause in the action and all is quiet as the spacecraft appear to have left the area. Or have they? (They haven't).By Frain & Steele

Roy and Jillian kiss, the spacecraft are all but gone, and all Tierney can talk about is the gritty reboot of Duck Tales (a woo ooo).By Frain & Steele

Chris and Tierney enjoy the spectacle of random objects with lights attached to them.By Frain & Steele

Tierney and Chris are talking cuboids, mirrors, and the challenges of multi-track cinema audio. Monorail!By Frain & Steele

Chris and Tierney decide whether to keep it or ditch it for the remaining deleted scenes contained with the currently available edition of Close Encounters.By Frain & Steele

Chris and Tierney wrap up the week and Tierney has a fantastic story about a meteorological event on the set almost (if not more) terrifying as the one shown in the film!By Frain & Steele

Chris and Tierney refuse to give in to a false sense of security, and Lance Henriksen has his only line in the film. Plus, scary clouds!By Frain & Steele

...with Jarf from Joe vs. The (Volcano) Minute. Automation in effects photography and electronic music meet during this minute of the movie - two crowning achievements of 1970s technology!By Frain & Steele

...with Jarf from Joe vs. the (Volcano) Minute. Roy and Jillian don't look well, and Jean Claude looks really nervous while playing the five tones.By Frain & Steele

Geoffrey "Jarf" Harden of Joe vs The (Volcano) Minute re-joins the podcast for a few episodes this week. Tierney is creeped out by the hovering scout UFOs, Chris is intrigued by all the analog recording equipment. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: www.cff.orgBy Frain & Steele

Dr Jennifer Levasseur from the National Air & Space Museum is here one last time to help us discuss Mother Ship models, cuboids, and the advantages of pre-digital effects.By Frain & Steele

The stage is set and the orchestra is tuning up, metaphorically, during this minute. Chris gets emotional thinking about the symbolism of the shooting stars, and Dr Jennifer Levasseur of the National Air and Space Museum relates how the music in this scene put her kids at ease.By Frain & Steele

Jennifer Levasseur - Curator at The National Air & Space Museum - is back to discuss this mostly voice over minute, and helps Chris get over his grudge regarding flowery language from mission control announcers.By Frain & Steele

Jennifer Levasseur of The National Air & Space Museum is here to discuss the minute, including an in-depth conversation about how the designs of 1970s sci-fi influenced the space programs of today.By Frain & Steele

For some reason we end up talking a lot about "Jaws" with Museum Curator at the Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space Museum, Jennifer Levasseur!By Frain & Steele

...with Pete Mummert from the Indiana Jones Minute. We bid farewell to Larry Butler. RIP Larry (he's not dead, he just needs a good night's rest)By Frain & Steele

...with Pete Mummert and Gerry Porter from the Indiana Jones Minute podcast!By Frain & Steele

...with Gerry Porter and Pete Mummert from Indiana Jones Minute!By Frain & Steele

...with Pete Mummert and Gerry Porter of Indiana Jones Minute. Who will win the next season of Close Encounters? Roy, the delusional suburban prophet? Jillian, the heartbroken mother looking for her son? Or...Larry, the jogging enthusiast from Los Angeles?By Frain & Steele

Gerry Porter and Pete Mummert from the Indiana Jones Minute podcast drop by to contribute dialog on the ethics of alien abductions and the logistical considerations of picking a remote Wyoming landmark as your landing festival site. Indiana Jones Minte: https://www.indianajonesminute.comBy Frain & Steele

Excised from a previous episode, Chris asks Paul Francis Sullivan from the "Locked On MLB" podcast a lightning round of questions about baseball from the 1970s to the present.By Frain & Steele

Paul Francis Sullivan (director of "I'll Believe You") stops by one last time to talk about "Witness," "The Final Countdown," "Solar Babies," and - from time to time - Close Encounters.By Frain & Steele

Locked on MLB's Paul Francis Sullivan revisits a very particular memory of the film, and how his fundamental understanding of its ending was determined by arbitrary editing choices made for The Special Edition.By Frain & Steele

Bull Durham Minute's Paul Francis Sullivan (please call him Sully) is here again to talk cereal, baseball, and Close Encounters.By Frain & Steele

Locked on MLB's Paul Francis Sullivan ("Sully") continues his residency, helping us fill in the backstory of the people in the helicopter and reviewing the career of Lance Henriksen.By Frain & Steele