Best Care Anywhere: A M*A*S*H* Podcast

"Hawkeye"
Season 4, Episode 18
Written by: Larry Gelbart & Simon Muntner
Directed by: Larry Gelbart
Air Date: January 13, 1976

Probably the hardest episode to do a podcast on. Ethan and Anthony discuss the one man show episode featuring Alan Alda. There is no doubt that Alda is capable of acting solo, but was it the right choice? Was it a successful experiment or a waste of celluloid? It probably comes down to how much you like Alan Alda and Hawkeye. 

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"Der Tag"
Season 4, Episode 17
Written by: Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum
Directed by: Gene Reynolds
Air Date: January 6, 1976

Anthony and Ethan return with the great Bill Dunn! We talk Scout Stories, Casinos, My Cousin Vinney, Star Wars and even a little bit of MASH. The downward Spiral of Frank continues. What could have been if they all woke up the next morning without the exhaustion of the front? Grab a Lemon Squash and dive in.

**NOTE: The internet was acting up a lot. Did the best I could to mitigate it in the edit. -Anthony***

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"Dear Ma"
Season 4, Episode 16
Written by: Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum
Directed by: Gene Reynolds
Air Date: December 23, 1975

Radar adorably writes about a day at the 4077th. Ethan and Anthony needed the soothing story of radar after yelling about the government.

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"The Price of Tomato Juice"
Season 4, Episode 15
Written by: Larry Gelbart & Gene Reynolds
Directed by: Gene Reynolds
Air Date: December 16, 1975

Another "favor for a favor" show. Frank is particularly unglued in this one and we unexpectedly talk at length about Margaret's position now that Frank is no longer top of her list.

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Anthony had a bout of patriotic inspiration and hope after the fireworks on the 4th of July. Please enjoy the worlds most eloquently worded break-up letter and reflect on the reasons our Founding Fathers felt the necessity to commit high treason and forge a new government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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TONIGHTS FILM: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Written by: William Goldman

Staring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, & Kathryn Ross

Watch the film HERE

Join Ethan as he takes Anthony on a journey through his favorite movie and the days of the dying waste. Just how true was the story of Butch and Sundance? Can the the story of 2 outlaws facing the ceaseless march of progress have messages for us now?

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"Mail Call Again"
Season 4, Episode 14
Written by: Jim Fritzell & Everette Greenbaum
Directed by: George Tyne
Air Date: December 9, 1975

Dean Bear finally joins us to discuss the final death blow in Frank and Margaret's relationship. We laugh at Hawkeye's hometown news and wonder if we could have talked some sense into Frank before he causes his own mental collapse.

PLEASE go check out Dove Makes' excellent MASH video!

https://youtu.be/V8UAn59HM-o?si=BjJ6WsywDCOPxCrx

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"The Gun"
Season 4, Episode 13
Written by: Larry Gelbart, Gene Reynolds
Directed by: Burt Metcalfe
Air Date: December 2, 1975

Yes, we talk a lot about the gun. We also discuss Frank's approaching downward spiral as we near the final death blows of his and Margaret's relationship.

Kansas Road Trip Video

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"Soldier of the Month"
Season 4, Episode 12
Written by: Linda Bloodworth-Thompson

Directed by: Gene Reynolds
Air Date: November 28, 1975

Ethan and Anthony share updates on their springs (Hint: it includes accidentally injuring themselves), tangent numerous times on several topics, and absolutely DO NOT talk about politics while navigating this rat-borne plague-infested episode.

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"Of Moose and Men"
Season 4, Episode 11
Written by: Jay Folb

Directed by: John Erman
Air Date: November 21, 1975

Anthony and Ethan debate Zale's slanted moral compass, Ethan blows Anthony's mind with an observation, and we play everyones favorite game: "Name the Dukes of Hazzard Episode"

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