Daily Dialogue — January 25, 2020

Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you a question: whose side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?
Chris Moore: What?
Marcus: What kind of question is that?
Chazz: Whose side did you take: Halen or Roth?
Chris Moore: …Van Halen.
Ian: HE’S A COP!

Chazz: Who’d win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?
Chris Moore: Lemmy.

Rex imitates a game show buzzer.

Chris Moore: … God?
Rex: Wrong, dickhead, trick question. Lemmy *IS* God.

— Airheads (1994), written by Rich Wilkes

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Radio.

Trivia: KPPX 103.3 (Rebel Radio) is based on the Long Beach radio station KNAC 105.5 (Pure Rock), which went off the air six months after this movie arrived in theaters. Like KPPX, KNAC had a hard rock/heavy metal format, and even used “if it’s too loud, you’re too old” (which is said by Ian (Joe Mantegna) at one point) as a slogan. Ironically, this movie was released around the same time the staff of KNAC announced that the radio station was going to change formats; KNAC went off the air on February 15, 1995 and was replaced by the Spanish-language station KBUE (Que Buena).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head D.J. refuses to play them. Funny concept and has its moments as this scene here.