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S4E40.5: Convoy (Patreon)

Published:
2026-06-05 10:26:18
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2026-06-05 15:19:17
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2026-06

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Holding the rare accolade of being one of the only movies ever made based on a song, Convoy is a tale of an emergent revolution; a small act of police corruption leads to a breakout of violence at a truck stop, and the fleeing truckers attract more and more attention during their journey south.

But, as the Convoy captures the imagination and hearts of the american people, politicians and the media plot to coopt and defang their message, whatever it might be.

NB: 1976 prop 14 was a vote supporting agricultural labour unionization that ultimately failed.

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Cyrus McEnnis

You know how you've talked in the past about having certain ur-movies that your family taped off TV and then rewatched incessantly as a kid? One of them for me was Convoy. Which is possibly why I identify as a truck these days.

Purple Pangolin

🎶🎶🎶 We got a big ol' Group Chat Postin' through the night Come on and join our Group Chat Ain't she a beautiful sight? GROUP CHAT 🎶🎶🎶

BarFly

I started watching this and immediately went "Directed by Sam Peckinpah?!" It's a strange movie to watch shortly after The Wild Bunch. You have Peckinpah pioneering slow motion to tap into the time dilation feeling of being under fire, and then using that same technique for a scene where truckers and cops punch each other in a diner

AnyaTopp, Mistress of the Truck

1976 prop 14 was an agricultural vote supporting unionization 1978's proposal or prop 14 was to clean up the language and numbering in California's constitution to make it more understandable

The Project Project

Listening to this as I hammer across Illinois in a Freightliner. Keep the shiny side up, Comrades. HENCHMAN clear.

Felicity Hall

I have also come across a brilliant example of context subtitles but for British English when I watched a clip of Yes Minister and when Sir Humphrey Appleby mentioned "the universities, both of them" the Chinese subtitles added "Oxford, Cambridge" in which is great because otherwise the joke wouldn't work

Frejo

did you say farmer season? is the next theme farmer season?

NowhereMan661

The translator that Abby got clearly also translates manga and anime in the good old days before official translations.

NowhereMan661

I miss when movies could portray cops as the sniveling greedy sadistic cowards that they are.

AnyaTopp, Mistress of the Truck

The Mann Act was also referenced in Smokey and the Bandit. It's "transportation a cross state lines for the purpose of sexual commerce", which could be "trafficking" of anyone, for the purposes of prostitution specifically.

Andrew Dunn

Okay that makes way more sense than varmint season

An impromptu concert from Bosco Hogan

I remember when I was a kid reading a YA book about a young girl who got into some car accident in the middle of nowhere and was saved because she knew how to use the CB radio. It really was the "next big thing" back in the 70s.

MaidenlessBrewer

The movie actually didn't match the song perfectly, they changed the lyrics of the song for the soundtrack and rereleased it.

Andrew Dunn

34 year old here- phone call difficulty is textbook millennial stuff. I've been hearing and making phone call anxiety jokes for like 10 years now. If anything, it's a joke that dates back to when you didn't have the smartphone as much and you did actually have to make phone calls more often

Andrew Dunn

No, I think they are saying varmint season and they're referring to cowboys/westerns I think

Frejo

Id never heard of that before. huh

The Project Project

Notable to this movie is that this is pre-deregulation, back when a trucker's authority was almost always limited to intRAstate. Crossing state lines with cargo on board was very much not the norm. There's a couple places out in the West where you can still see facilities, a little ways off the road, right on the state line, where cargo could be crossdocked. A truck from (say) Arizona would back into a dock and its cargo loaded onto a truck licensed for (say) New Mexico. Very inefficient.

NowhereMan661

I have lost any sense of revolutionary optimism. I'm sorry. "The material base for an uprising has eroded, the working class betrayed mankind and itself. The historic opportunity for a revolution has passed." If the real Communists want to execute me for being a Reactionary and Counter-Revolutionary, then please do it, just make sure your Revolution wins.

Andrew Dunn

Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose is technically a trucker movie. His day job is truck driver, and he also does bare knuckle boxing for money and beats up cops and neo-nazis

Noblese Oblahaj

As someone who grew up in a truck in the late 90s, I am gonna yap.

Noblese Oblahaj

CB radios were kind of like Boomer Discord. The radio had bands you could switch to ( think of them as channels ). There would be one or two common bands where everyone hung out, like public or main rooms. Some company men like Fedex or UPS would stick on other, less used bands and only talk to each other ( there was a kind of classism here because they were quite well paid and didn't associate with the average trucker ). Like Discord, a topic would take over a channel and 85 percent of the talking was about that until it ran out of steam and/or various long running beefs that would occur for however long two angry people were within radio range of each other for a given day. The rest would be like, oh, I broke down here, or is anyone willing to sell me this, or there's a traffic jam / accident at this mile marker

Noblese Oblahaj

Much like with military nick names, your CB handle would be based around whatever made you stick out. My dad is from New York and drove trucks in the south, something people could hear in his voice. So he was known by 'Yankee' or 'Damn Yankee' or ' Yankee Driver'

Noblese Oblahaj

The curtain on a truck sleeper is horrible thick leather because if you need to sleep during the day, you can button it shut from the inside and create a pitch black space.

Katie

Y'all need to share the totally legitimate place to watch this movie with the trucker translation subtitles

ArcherAz

CB enthusiast here, truckers still use it somewhat regularly in the US. most days driving down a highway you'll hear some folks on air, but not nearly as much as before. Some industries will have their fleet vehicles equipped with it for coordination on the property. One of the CB installers I know mostly equips fleet trucks for the oil business in the permian basin.

Zipzapzop

Dark star PLEASE

Andrew McClain

Nova said something this week about someone in Columbo sounding like the guy in Frontier Psychiatrist & it made me think about this guy in The Wild Bunch who also sounds incredibly like that guy. Also I’m so excited at the prospect of The Wild Bunch getting a SCUM rating

YOU

This episode is an all-timer boss

Victor

gen x-er with same phone anxiety 🫣

Camoose the Uncrackable Egg

I wanna suggest Smokey and the Bandit, the ultimate truck guy and car guy team up against the cop guy.

Canageek

This is an EXCELLENT idea, it has a *lot* to say about masculinity as well. I really hope November wasn't joking about Truck Season.

Charles noyes

Fun fact. The writer and performer of the song "convoy" also started the group Manhiem Steamroller.

Zipzapzop

the message of the film is not about the lack of theory but the dangers of personality cults in leftist movements even though rubber duck doesn’t want to be the leader the convoy is destroyed when he is separated from the movement by the false flag ice cream truck I would say the film is about the need for decentralized governance in communist politics

Ben Schwabe

As a GenXer who has always been phone phobic I have been feeling very vindicated by two generations of youth figuring out it is an awful way to communicate.

Ben Schwabe

Originally it was just trafficking "girls and women" but it got de-gendered in the 80s.

Andrew Dunn

Clint Eastwood's Every which Way but Loose (and its sequel) is basically a movie based on cops being weak dickheads that strong cool working men should beat up

Andrew Dunn

When I had to use a phone as a kid, I was either in trouble, or going to get in trouble if I didn't handle the phone call right. Or had to talk to a doctor or medical professional of some sort or handle some sort of business. Yeah there's basically never been a pleasant reason for using the phone

Andrew Dunn

You think there's anything political about romanticization of violent lebensraum? Okay buddy

Hey mind your business, name's not important

Nova's info on no speed limits on interstate highways isn't correct there were only a couple of states with no speed limit on rural interstates. Those were Montana and Nevada. Both of which are very empty except in the urban areas. Prior to 1974 speed limits on interstates varied between 60-75 mph (96 to 121 in non freedom units). From 1974-1987 the 55mph (88 in non freedom units) was introduced and enforced by states no complying losing federal highway funding.

Andrew Dunn

Back to Feuerbach, Texas

Andrew Dunn

That whole historically regressive figure thing- I grew up with family who were objectively by any measure white supremacists and they would be genuinely hurt and confused and defensive at any implication that they were not sparkling Martin Luther King style anti-racists.

Rose Callagy

On my KNEES requesting Smokey and the Bandit

Robert Jacobsen

we're gonna roll this truckin' convoy across the USA...

Dave Bloom

Seriously. A movie where car and truck are partners in crime.

Sweet Jacky

MAD MAX FURY ROAD! LETS GOOOOOOOO

Semya Lavorovna

As a communist blonde American Trans woman truck driver....

Tyren

Smoky and the Bandit is a whole extra season of truck on its own

Tom Skimmings

CB radio is still huge is Australia even amongst normal blokes who have utes

TOM PRICE

God yall were on fire with this one. There's like a spiritual exhaultation after you achieved liberation from the Fast and Furious mines

Brian Danger Hicks

There is a sequel (to the song) called "Around the World with a Rubber Duck". After just listening to it I can understand why Sam Peckinpah never adapted it to the big screen.

Brian Danger Hicks

Right up there with understanding why Johnny Cash never recorded Shel Silverstein's sequel to "A Boy Named Sue".

Raymond Price

My dad told me about driving through Nevada at 150MPH, and getting passed by a cop who apparently didn't know how fast he was going because his speedometer stopped at 180 or so.

Australian Estuary Pirate

Listening to this podcast after watching Tomska's latest video on movie based on memes is weird. Other than Eight Mile and a few Christmas movies I'm not aware of any other movies based on songs, lol. I love the American-to-English translations and the accompanying translation voice.

Raymond Price

I'm not sure if it's the politics or the whiskey sour, but I am suddenly an ardent supporter of Marxist-Leninist-Rubber-Duckist thought.

Brian Danger Hicks

A lot of movies are named after songs, many of which were inspired by the songs, and it can be hard to know where to draw the line between inspired by and adapted from. I do think you can count Earth Girls Are Easy and Alice's Restaurant, at least.

Rupert

Vanishing point hits some of the same themes but for the isolated lonely carman

skedazzle

1970s America really was an entirely different country. The whole zeitgeist was so different to just the next decade and it's really obvious watching media from the time. It gives me insight into some of the behavior of my dad and uncles as well as my own older brothers that was always incredible to me. For example: my dad's preoccupation with dash mounted police scanners and radar detectors, my brothers and their collective obsession with Dukes of Hazzard, and two uncles whose whole deal was similar to John McAfee, but with more fed prison time and less computer. It was just such a very very different time to when I grew up post Reagan, so different that I don't think I can ever really relate to them in a certain sense. My brothers had both a wild freedom and criminal sort of negligence growing up that would be unthinkable now and was only slightly more accepted in my day, and my dad and his brothers were very interested in stuff like spending a ridiculous amount on state of the art technology to pirate satellite television even into the 80s. Movies like this show where all that was coming from culture wise, and for that I find them really valuable apart from, y'know, the value they have as good movies

Andrew Dunn

You could have another patreon tier that is just Abi dropping random torrid tidbits and anecdotes like the one in this episode

Christopher Barnes

The only more truck movie than convoy is Maximum Overdrive!

James Rule

Smokey and the Bandit: the anti-Duel.

Tom

Fuck yeah a Bas Lag reference. I am one of those 10 people!

Sam Handwich

ACAB: All Convoys Are Bolshevik.

Dr Grasshopper

Abby release the website deets I am begging

foughtthelaw

Ok, thank you for clarifying, We Americans have a hard time with soft English vowels. I heard "Vomit season" and was not prepared

Saint Muerte

Please, I beg of you to do Death Race (2008).

NervesNebula

I’d suggest transformers as those movies tend to have trucks and various such things in them

Francisco L Lopez

Please, do Space Truckers for Truck season. It's the bisexual movie that tried to do Boomers passing to the next generation. If for nothing else but the line: "You know for a gimp r*p*st murder, he died okay". And then The Great Train Robbery for Heist season. British stuff to make fun of, Donald Sutherland, and Chrichton's directorial debut.

the raddish

my humble obscure suggestion for Truck Season is Black Dog (1998), which is about retired trucker Patrick Swayze teaming up with failed country singer Randy Travis to do One Last Truck Job at the behest of evil bolo tie wearing Meat Loaf. You get to see Truck-to-Truck Combat that culminates in a truck driving off a cliff and exploding

Princess Gwynevere

As usual suggesting Fury Road and Alien for truck season

Guy L.

Could someone tell me the origins and meaning of crispen potato snacks? I think I missed where ever it came from, but they've said it a few times.

PrismShank

it's a meme that depicts a guy who says something to the effect of "i have calculated the taste of your crispened potato snacks. hm, perhaps a bit less sodium chloride next time" without having tasted the snacks in question.

Meekle Tubas

Most people need annotations when trying to read Shakespeare, but not Abi. She needs them to watch Convoy.

Bran Mac Muffin

Kris Kristofferson campaigned to help Chavez for Proposition 14. https://ufw.org/kris-kristoffersons-lifetime-of-support-for-cesar-chavez-the-ufw/ "Cesar Chavez went backstage in the 1970s to thank Kris when he headlined fundraising concerts for the United Farm Workers" From Rolling Stone: "While helping Chavez campaign for Proposition 14, aimed at ensuring that union organizers would have access to farm workers on the job, among other initiatives, Kristofferson realized what he and Chavez and his organization were up against and how hard he’d have to fight." So I wonder if Kris added that sticker, or asked for it to be added.

Jack Fennell

For the Super Furry Animals fans out there (there has to be at least one): the secret track on the album 'Guerrilla' can be found by rewinding 4 minutes from the start of the first track, and it's made up almost completely of trucker slang. The only clue that it's there is a list of definitions for those slang terms printed inside the cardboard slipcase.

Jamie Swedler

"They gave him a great cop name, too [...] He's called Mr. Swedley." "Such a good chaser cop name." And then I sat bolt upright in my airline seat because that's a way people have misread/mispronounced my last name.

Anthony Spence

Had me til the end, then I was looking up my nearest bridge.

The Evil Cub

GenXer. I HATE talking on the phone. Years in customer service made me associate the ringing phone with "someone is about to yell at me for something not my fault". Texting was the greatest boon to me in a long time.

hill

looking forward to Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Ian Campbell

Canadian who was on the route to the capital when those fuckin' truck cunts were on the move, it was depressingly more popular than you would've thought. I had to suppress thoughts.

Ellis Nygma

I deeply need the link to where the annotated subtitles version of Convoy is.

Rory Thomas

'50,000 trucks used to drive here, now it's a car park.' . Convoy (1978) or the M20 on a bank holiday?

Aj Curtis

You'll be glad to know that while it's still around the CB radio has taken a back seat to group chat VC with other drivers. And it's not rare for me to spend 11 hours in one go in a call with dozens of other queer furry truckers yapping and shit talking all day

nozoqueer

i hope you guys end up watching the smokey and the bandit movies. it would be beautiful to finally have the truck-man and the car-man unite against their common enemy: the cops.

Max Keller

I really feel that Fury Road was tailor-made for this season, featuring a heist, and a HUGE truck...

John Benfield

It'd be interesting to hear them compare and contrast the cops. Sheriff J.W. Pepper had to walk (and die in a Thai prison) so that Sheriff Buford T. Justice could ride.

John Benfield

This podcast about leftist lesbians* extolling the virtues of long-haul trucking and CB radio communication in Convoy makes me want to re-listen to Alice Isn't Dead, a scripted podcast drama about a leftist lesbian trucker looking for her missing leftist trucker wife, telling her story over the CB radio as she drives across America fighting the forces of entrenched power.

LemonyNose

I love Nova subtly outing herself as a gamer with a Helldivers and a Call of Duty reference. I see you Nova

Catgirl Diogenes

I’m surprised there wasn’t more investigation of the influence of leading man, Kris Kristofferson’s politics on the themes of the film. Dude was a Rhodes scholar, Army Ranger helicopter pilot, and prominent, vocal leftist. He definitely read theory, but a lot of the film seems to accord with his anarcho syndicalism.

Henry Vorosmarti

My local arts org showed "She's the man" (2006) tonight. A movie based on the play twelfth night. Unfortunately, it's too scared to say much about masculinity and gender. Doesn't really fit in with this season, but I'd love to hear your takes on it.

Calvin H Frey

Truck Season gives us the slim hope of them covering White Lightning and Gator, and the jarring change in tone between the two movies.

Carlfish

It’s wild how this was just the norm pre-Reagan. Even in the Bond movies, police representation was Sheriff JW Pepper, and the most cutting thing you could call Bond was “stupid policeman.”

Dylan Not A Pseudonym Roosevelt

The film was filmed almost entirely in New Mexico, the ‘Arizona’ highway is in the gypsum desert of White Sands 😤

Squash fei

Oh my god I’m BEGGING everyone reading this to listen to the sequel song to Convoy, Around the World With a Rubber Duck. They drive across the Atlantic Ocean to England and Germany and the USSR and Japan (where it does get a little racist unfortunately) and they create a beautiful internationalist convoy

Squash fei

I think what Lyle goes through is more like Elmer Fuddification than Javertification

Pablito

If y’all don’t hit Smokey & The Bandit in truck season it will be a missed opportunity. To be clear it’s pretty trashy but explores the relationship between the truckmen and the laaaw

Rydr Strobl

omg it would have been the Iron Council. Great Bas-Lag reference Devon

Terra Obscura

Fr fr. I worked at a call center right around the same time I was dealing with some catastrophic medical bills; so any time a phone rang in my vicinity for fully a couple of years it was someone yelling at me for something that wasn't my fault, or someone threatening me for money. It's been more than a decade and I still flinch whenever my phone rings.

AbsolxGuardian

13:48 I've been on a lot of very legal websites that have scraped the entire open subtitles page for a movie and so you can end up with multiple options for English subtitles for a film. I need to look through those more carefully to see if I can find the secret annotated version.