hey our next guest is very popular young actor who
has been in such movies as heart like a wheel revenge of the nerds and now
he's co-starring with tom cruise in top gun please say hello to anthony edwards
people steal it yeah yeah because you don't have to travel with a lot of stuff can we talk about
the fact that this is like a big honor to be on the letterman show no and i get here and there's
a lady with a dog with a hat on who's pregnant yeah right and then a lady's got kitty litter
and you're touching her twisting no no no no no no come on now that didn't happen that didn't happen
she was a little excited the lights right right right and the book you were going for the book
looking for the book right uh you know i saw a hurt like a wheel it turned out i saw it ended up
seeing about five or six times because i was doing a lot of flying when it was playing on airplanes
right i thought it was a real nice movie and i thought you were terrific well thanks it was a one
of those movies that you see a lot on airplanes because this lasts too long in the theater yeah
but i think it probably surprised people who heard that it was about drag racing and they
assumed it might not have been handled in as nice of fashion as it was handling yeah exactly anyway
uh top gun is all about flying yeah yeah did do you fly have you ever flown no i i i've always
wanted to get my pilot's license but it seems like every time i go to get lessons i see a movie like
sweet dreams you know it's another ces named yeah yeah i've been staying away from that but the film
i mean we actually went up twice with whom who do you go oh f-14s yeah these are like uh jet
fighters you know the jet fighter that we see that was like hanging out over libya and uh they're
just incredible airplanes and so what they did for the film is they put us in the back seat and
had a camera locked off and then took us up in the air and you know photographed us puking at 30 000.
did you actually get sick i didn't get sick i was lucky i kind of hung on but uh it was one of the
most frightening things because they prep you you go through training and survival training water
survival training but uh when it came the day to go up you know we got briefed on what we were
gonna do and they said uh anthony this is your pilot he's gonna be taking you up your pilot's
name's bozo bozo yeah yeah at that point i thought great i don't think i'll go up today with bozo you
know uh why why do we call him bozo this guy they all have call signs everybody has a name i play
my character's name's nick bradshaw with my call signs goose and this guy's name is bozo and uh
we're getting ready to take off and uh i'm sitting there there's a green light flashing in the back
see i'm scared and the guy in the ground is going like this no no i can't go up and i'm thinking
what's wrong and bozo gets on the intercom there and says uh
anthony why don't you check some of the fuses back there so i checked
100 fuses over here i only expert in this there's two sticking out i press those in no i'm still got
a green light guys going like this okay well maybe we should get out bozo you know we can stop now
there's no chicken there's some fuses in here i couldn't even see and i went down
got there and they're four sticking out pop those puppies in light went off bozo says we're ready to
how my go started you fixed the airplane right exactly i'm thinking
i don't know what i'm doing i pretend for a living i don't i don't think i should be here
yeah that's very strange but did you ever find out why he acquired the name was there a story
yeah the story is he was a backseat there's two seats the front seat in the back seat and
pilots in the front he was in the back seat they had a new pilot up front and they were
taking off of a carrier and when you get shot off a carrier it's uh very fast very quick and the guy
the front seat guy was new and he he lost his left engine it went out and that engine goes out you
have to take the throttle down on that engine or something bizarre happens and it blows up
you have to fill it up feather the engine rather take it off exactly and uh take it off take it
off no no cut it yeah okay and uh the guy in the back seat who wasn't called bozo yet said
take off your right engine i mean you're left-handed it was too late by that time a
38 million dollar plane went into the ocean and they went we should call yeah now when you go up
there the the uh the g-force is unbelievable isn't it it's amazing it's your own weight being pressed
against itself several times right i mean one g-force is what we're feeling now and there were
times when we're up there we're pulling six g's so we're six times the body weight and you wear a g
suit that keeps the blood from rushing out of your head but at one point in the in the middle
of this long turn i said i'm not really supposed to be i can relax it's okay i don't have to
i relaxed a little tunnel vision black and white out cold you lost consciousness simply by
not fighting the g-forces exactly the blood went out from the head oh that was and how
long were you out until he came out of the turn oh goodness right i forgot it's a little frightening
it is yeah it's a little scary uh let me show this one photo here this is from revenge of the nerds
now you actually did some research for this film didn't you a little training you had a little uh
uh expedition that you went on well bobby kerrigan and i who played the we were partners in the film
went down to tucson a couple a couple of months early i mean a couple weeks early sorry and uh
we got into the whole nerd regalia and uh they were actually rushing fraternities at that time
and you showed up at fraternity showed up in fraternity and rushed as gilbert and lewis
they knew nothing about the movie some places did we got into one where they didn't and we
said take us right to the president we want to see what this you want him to see what did
he say so we go in there and he says uh this is like lewis and gilbert from ucla and they
want to join the fraternity the guy turns around with a drink and takes a look and says ah no way
we gotta we gotta do a commercial we'll be right back here folks with anthony nice to meet you i
hope the movie is a big hit for you thank you very much come back anytime sir yes sir uh my
thanks also to marge shot and uh the lovely the talented raquette all over the world she's been
tomorrow folks mike tyson and kim williams thank you very much everybody
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