So another Cory McCloskey video was put up today showing how he lost and retrieved his microphone in a sousaphone because he wasn't wearing driving, mmm newscasting gloves, and that got me to looking for other Cory McCloskey videos and I found a few tidbits.
It looks like I'll have to try and entice Cory be our entertainment during the 2018 SLO gathering.
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very good Cory
:-) That was fun!
Cory's classic hot temps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuc7SAyk2s
Keep Cork McClosky away from working on your car ......` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LovWz0154KI
As the Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOukkzQdQ5I
I heard Vinny was gonna ride 'Ol Debbie or possibly Gerd this year.
Cory you need to come to Carlisle 2019 !
Too late Robert! Cory has already asked to perform.
@Robert M, you're the nicest! Thanks, buddy...
So sorry I'm just now seeing this nice thread! Oh, how I missed you guys (again) this year. Another cursed May motor mishap...
However, even the Cubs eventually prevailed with the cry, "Wait 'til next year!"
I'd love to provide a little entertainment at SLO 2019! Maybe a bit of standup comedy? And, Will Hesch and I are working up a little musical number that we think will be a hit...
Thanks again, all -- can't wait to see all of your faces next June!
Alan Merklin posted:Cory you need to come to Carlisle 2019 !
Hoo boy, Alan! How I'd LOVE to get together with you East Coast pals! Carlisle's just down the river from my hometown, Millersburg.
Unfortunately, May remains one of the "sweeps" months during which no one in the TV industry can take any vacation days... It's a crime, really.
Someday, though, when TV is behind me, I'd love to drop some coin on shipping my Speedster out your way, and then enjoying the Carlisle get-together, and a couple of May weeks tooling around my old stomping grounds... A boy can dream!
drive it. Make a great Sweeps feature. And Carlisle always has "weather."
edsnova posted:drive it. Make a great Sweeps feature. And Carlisle always has "weather."
Boy, would I enjoy that drive!
I am serious.
I can totally understand if it can't happen. But I'm picturing you, solo, in the Speedster with a GoPro, and the station's mobile weather unit (truck) with at least one (probably 2?) crew trailing. The narrative is easy: "Will Cory Make It?"
You will experience "weather" throughout your journey (quest?), and so will you be challenged. Stocking proper garments, proper emergency provisions (jack, spare, sunscreen SPF 30,000, soap-on-rope...), fitting your gear into the tiny frunk, teaching viewers about how people road tripped in the Days of Old (I'd do this segment in a grainy B&W newsreel style), and bringing your special vehicle to its East Coast Home.
Two or three stops along the way, interviews with locals there maybe?
If you're lucky you'll get the chance to out-run a tornader.
Shots of the Speedy, doing 75 mph, getting passed by tandem semis whose wheel tops are visible above your door sills....
Then a short feature on the Carlisle show, wherein you will (possibly?) will the "Longest Distance Driven (Speedster Division) Award," which is much coveted.
Basically a week of A-1 Sweeps Week TV Content.
And yeah, I know I know: lotta bills for some silliness. But if I were you I would totally pitch this; AZ has some rabid-ass old-fogey car nuts and people in general seem to like you anyway.
They'd watch!
Oooooor.... You could try the idea out this fall during the Tour de Smo'. Just sayin'.
edsnova posted:I am serious.
I can totally understand if it can't happen. But I'm picturing you, solo, in the Speedster with a GoPro, and the station's mobile weather unit (truck) with at least one (probably 2?) crew trailing. The narrative is easy: "Will Cory Make It?"
You will experience "weather" throughout your journey (quest?), and so will you be challenged. Stocking proper garments, proper emergency provisions (jack, spare, sunscreen SPF 30,000, soap-on-rope...), fitting your gear into the tiny frunk, teaching viewers about how people road tripped in the Days of Old (I'd do this segment in a grainy B&W newsreel style), and bringing your special vehicle to its East Coast Home.
Two or three stops along the way, interviews with locals there maybe?
If you're lucky you'll get the chance to out-run a tornader.
Shots of the Speedy, doing 75 mph, getting passed by tandem semis whose wheel tops are visible above your door sills....
Then a short feature on the Carlisle show, wherein you will (possibly?) will the "Longest Distance Driven (Speedster Division) Award," which is much coveted.
Basically a week of A-1 Sweeps Week TV Content.
And yeah, I know I know: lotta bills for some silliness. But if I were you I would totally pitch this; AZ has some rabid-ass old-fogey car nuts and people in general seem to like you anyway.
They'd watch!
Ed -- you're a big thinker. It's what everyone here loves about you.
You don't ask "if something can be done." You lay it all out like an action-plan. You think like a producer.
All right... I'm down (in spirit) with this 2,500-mile odyssey.
Since it'll be May, and we'll be in the dark heart of tornado season, I'll take a southern route from Arizona to Pennsylvania, the better to meet up with the sorts of scary conditions that will test both the Speedster's legendary water-tightness, and its spider-like road-grip, even when lashed by rain, and buffeted by winds in excess of 140 mph. (If there's one thing I know, it's that viewers love actual danger.)
Howzabout this twist: we make it a real Route 66 adventure.
I blast up to Flagstaff from Phoenix, and, thereafter, I just lock off my life in 1957. Like I've stepped out of a time machine.
I use only roads, motels, diners, and gas stations that existed during the Eisenhower administration. I dress the part. I order a lot of egg salad sandwiches and meat loaf specials. No cell phone. I spend a lot of time in rest areas, leaning on the Speedster's door, looking cool, looking at a massive road map. (Of course, I'll be buying a new one at each state's border, so I know where the heck I'm headed.)
I think the idea's got legs, Ed. I'll pitch it. Never know when there's an unforeseen nugget in the station's budget...
Also -- I'm open to other suggestions for activities during this throwback journey... All should feel free to weigh in.
I did a slightly longer version of the trip described above a couple of years ago. Well, minus the looking cool part anyway.
Plan it so that you meet up with the Southeast Caravan coming through AR and TN. We’ll gather in east TN and head north from there.
The Rt 66 idea is great. You could even do the jeans, Converse Sneakers and a white tee-shirt with a pack of Camels rolled up in the sleeve and wear a pair of Ray-Bans and, with only a little re-arranging, look just like James Dean. That would REALLY turn heads (even more than normal).
You need a good theme, though, like “Finding James Dean’s America” and interviewing a person each day from the fly-over states, kind if like a modern day throw-back to Charles Kuralt but in a tiny Speedster, not a big, lumbering Winnabago. Just interesting people you bump into at the truck stop diner over meatloaf or when you’re buying gas or replacement parts and find out he/she has a collection of “art” in their yard made from old farm implement parts that they welded up themselves. Or the guy out watering his lawn when your Speedster died out front and find that he once was a Nuclear Scientist at Los Alamos but is now retired and making wind chimes out of pieces of sliced crystal decanters.
People back home in “The land of the Chicken rising from the ashes” would lap it up. EVERYONE would tune in each morning to see (A.) Did he make it through yesterday’s torrential downpour? (B.) Has he gotten food poisoning yet? (C.) What interesting person will he tell us about, today? and (D.) How does he keep his hair so nice?
This concept definitely has legs, Cory........ Sell It!
Gordon Nichols posted:The Rt 66 idea is great. You could even do the jeans, Converse Sneakers and a white tee-shirt with a pack of Camels rolled up in the sleeve and wear a pair of Ray-Bans and, with only a little re-arranging, look just like James Dean. That would REALLY turn heads (even more than normal).
You need a good theme, though, like “Finding James Dean’s America” and interviewing a person each day from the fly-over states, kind if like a modern day throw-back to Charles Kuralt but in a tiny Speedster, not a big, lumbering Winnabago. Just interesting people you bump into at the truck stop diner over meatloaf or when you’re buying gas or replacement parts and find out he/she has a collection of “art” in their yard made from old farm implement parts that they welded up themselves. Or the guy out watering his lawn when your Speedster died out front and find that he once was a Nuclear Scientist at Los Alamos but is now retired and making wind chimes out of pieces of sliced crystal decanters.
People back home in “The land of the Chicken rising from the ashes” would lap it up. EVERYONE would tune in each morning to see (A.) Did he make it through yesterday’s torrential downpour? (B.) Has he gotten food poisoning yet? (C.) What interesting person will he tell us about, today? and (D.) How does he keep his hair so nice?
This concept definitely has legs, Cory........ Sell It!
Dying... 😂🤣
It’s so vivid!
Lot's of it like this, Cory. You can do it too....no worries about traffic either.
Cory This is real.....what fun it would be for you and the viewers as well as the multitudes that would tune in each evening....The sound bite where Cory has to yank the E'Brake before coming to a complete stop, hopping out over the speedster door sprinting into the local Walgreens for anti diarrhea meds should be a hoot :~)
You could make stops at the best aircooled mechanics and replica builders along your way. They keep the car going and you spend part of each segment touting their business.
You could start at Vintage in Phoenix!
Veer off and hit Special Edition in Bremen, Indiana and maybe spend a few minutes with Carey showing off the new coupe and maybe a 904.
There are plenty of SOCer's along the way who could provide room/board/beverages of choice/laundry services/ gas money when you aren't plugging diners along the way.
I figure you could do this whole thing for the cost of production plus maybe $40.00 for toll money.
Charles Kurault, but better looking and more focused on a theme.
Heck, I'll foot the $40.00 toll money myself.
Geez Cory, if a microphone in a Sousaphone can go viral, this is a lead pipe cinch.
Bob I'll split the toll money with you at $20 each this way it will be both our faults
“The sound bite where Cory has to yank the E'Brake before coming to a complete stop, hopping out over the speedster door sprinting into the local Walgreens for anti diarrhea meds should be a hoot ”
Polymagma could be your newfound friend........
Oh, I love when the magic spills out of your fingertips, boys...
Bob and Alan — thanks for going long on the tolls... Much appreciated.
I have a feeling that this endeavor would be summarized thusly by @edsnova to his friends during halftime of every Ravens game being watched at his house:
”Look at this video of my buddy Cory’s last two weeks with FOX — it’s hilarious!”
Make it so.
Um, except for the "...last two weeks with FOX ..." part.
Great promo for the replica builders 
Ok, look.......If you want a “wrench” to ride shotgun and handle the GoPro and audio for the interviews, maybe even do some serious video editing on the fly (when I’m not keeping the car running), I hereby volunteer. That means we would seriously limit the luggage, but I’m used to that. Been washing bike clothes and hanging them out every night for a long time so it’s no big deal.
So I just upped the bid.......
No need to worry about luggage, Gordon. If this idea flies he'll have a film crew following him in a van - your very own Sag wagon.
