Dwyer & Michaels Morning Show: Show Notes 08/26/24

This is your one-stop shop for everything that happens throughout the Dwyer & Michaels Morning Show - in studio photos, the videos discussed, and goofy stuff that we find throughout the show.

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More Art Got Souped In The Name Of Stopping Oil

Some more protestors got arrested after throwing soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting and then gluing themselves to the wall.

Apartment Building Asked A Weird Favor

After a power outage, an apartment complex had to ask a weird favor to its residents: Please do not throw poo at the electrical workers trying to get the power back on.

No power? Throw poo, that’ll help.
byu/nobrayn intoronto

Doves Burned In The 1988 Olympics

We were reviewing animals being killed during the Olympics for the Live Pigeon Shoot event of 1900, and Michaels remembered the 1988 Olympics opening ceremony when a bunch of doves got torched when they lit the Olympic Torch. https://youtu.be/8dgXRXVScFM

The Original Wilhelm Scream Recording Session

That iconic scream that's in about every movie you've ever seen was recorded in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums. It's been used in over 400 films and other 100s of television shows.

It's not named Wilhelm after the guy who recorded it or for the character in Distant Drums, but "The sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 Western in which the character gets shot in the thigh with an arrow."

"the Wilhelm scream guy was doing a bad job until the recordist told him to do it better, resulting in the iconic sound effect." byu/EmirTanis inDamnthatsinteresting

Here's the original scene from Distant Drums: