Ep 4 - Convoy

Episode 4: CONVOY (1978) “Breaker! Breaker! Good buddy! Smokey! Bear in the air! Um… Is this facacta thing on?” This week, we roll out madman auteur Sam Peckinpah’s novelty song muscularization CONVOY (1978). Kris Kristofferson stars alongside Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Franklin Ajaye, and C. Thomas Howell from SOUL MAN—oh, wait a minute, that’s Ali MacGraw! It’s an open road with glide-in stops that include AM radio story songs; the desperate quest for HBO in Koch-era Brooklyn; Burt Young as a berserk children’s film screenwriter; Ben’s 16mm bedroom Bar Mitzvah; and Mike’s implanted memories of hayseed sodomy via ODE TO BILLY JOE. So roll this truckin’ episode through. 10-4.