Clear and Present Danger (4/9) Movie CLIP - Bombing the Cartel (1994) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
The United States executes a covert operation to bomb the household of a known Colombian drug cartel family.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President's lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them, aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his life and career on the line.
CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1994)
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Willem Dafoe, Joaquim de Almeida, Miguel Sandoval
Director: Phillip Noyce
Producers: Lis Kern, Mace Neufeld, Ralph S. Singleton, Robert Rehme
Screenwriters: Tom Clancy, John Milius, Steven Zaillian, Donald Stewart
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Under normal attack procedures, the plane would drop two such bombs, just in case one doesn't fuse properly. You'd never rely on a single bomb for such a target, especially when you don't have too. (Former Navy pilot)
Thank for your Service!
Respect to you sir. In the book they say it is a special bomb made from a polymer that is supposed to be completely destroyed by the blast. It is supposed to look like the monster truck was carrying a bomb.
Would you drop blind through cloud as well?
@No1sonuk it's laser designated, so the cloud shouldn't really have an effect. I was only ever an FCO, so please see the pilot for a more accurate answer.
@@monkchips My experience is mainly of thermal imagers from the manufacturer side and cloud can play havoc with those and near infra-red.
It'd be OK once it broke cloud if the designator is under the cloud, but I doubt the aircraft could have detected the laser through the cloud.
That was not a scale model that they blew up. It was an actual house. A Mexican couple was getting divorced and when the production company wanted to blow it up, they said go for it. A bit of trivia you don't hear every day. It was in the making of portion of the DVD.
Paul Johnson that's crazy! No CGI here! Too cool!
Yes, & I heard that this Couple received a wonderful price!!!
@@riccaruso7791 Skyrocketing price
It led to a house price boom in the local area.
Actually it was ammo depo
I love the CIA boss sitting in HQ watching the bomb hit while scoffing his lunch.
Gwasgray "BOOM!" Henry Czerny was great as Ritter.
He was great as the evil Grayson patriarch in the show "Revenge." I forgot that he was in this movie.
Henry Czerny was by far the best actor in this movie, second comes Dafoe.
TBH, it's the only thing I didn't like about the movie. The book depicted Ritter as just a man following orders, but then realizing how fucked up everything became and helped out Ryan and the SF group stuck in Colombia. It was Cutter and the President who were the real assholes. It was a good movie though.
Blood Beryl the ultimate irony is that right before this video, it was an energizer commercial with the bunny eatin his carrots and beatin his drum LOLOLOLOL
Sir, do we have smaller binoculars ?
-I'm sorry, those are the smallest we got.
Meh, I'll just have to deal with it...
lol...reading your comment..trying to remember what size they were..scrolled up back to video...saw them...laughed out loud ;)
Lautriche : love your profile pick
He's an opera lover and forget the larger pair -
What is this? Binoculars for ants?
I'm not small, I'm compact
Small moment but I love the juxtaposition of the special forces’ reaction when they realize a group of kids are going to be caught in the blast and the reaction of the CIA director to the blast. Guys on the frontline have to see the human cost of their operation and live with it while some suit thousands of miles away is eating his lunch and dropping one liners
It's pretty accurate in real life. Defintely a strong message from this scene.
If you hold off on killing the bad guys just because innocents are in the way, then the bad guys will always put innocents in the way. I'm totally fine with this. Nobody told them to have kids AND involve their whole family in high-stakes crime. Those kids would have gone to college on bloodmoney anyway and their professors would have been bribed or threatened to pass them. The world lost nothing here.
@@yawningpheonix I'm not sure I entirely agree but it's not like the cartels have a reputation of mercy themselves so it's not like this wasn't some sort of potential outcome.
While it may sound as lack of compassion, the next generation of cartel bosses was stopped.
You spelled "just a position" wrong.
Legend has it Don Eladio still hasn’t fixed this road.
He was too busy having a Blast in the house.
Damn Tuco and Green Goblin are owning it
"Operation King Breaker? THAT MAKES ME THE KING!!! WOOO HOOO!!!"
They missed Hernan Reyes. But Hobbs got him in Brazil years later.
Holy crap that IS Tuco. Good spot.
LOL
Yeh, his aim with that lazer was tight! Tight! Tight!
Sniper: Big, powerful super duper optics telescope.
Spotter: Rinky dink opera binocs.
He's laser-guiding the ordinance, those aren't binocs lol.
Willem Dafoes girl scout binos were priceless. Like he was at the opera.
Lmao he keeps them tucked away in a safe place
I really miss these kinds of movies.
Solid 90s action thrill.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Fugitive.
Prequel, patriot's game
Yea all the junk out there now is computer generated scene s and pitiful acting.stay safe people.
We love a good 90s Dad Thriller, don't we folks
I know 90s was the best! Ronin, Heat, Broken Arrow, Face-off
@@torferguson3866 Yeah. Heat is awesome
That was a lot of collateral damage just to destroy a monster truck.
There is no collateral damage when you kill the narco cancer family
It was a really, really ugly truck, to be fair.
i know right, why don't they just fire Javelin or Dragon AT missile.. lot of money wasted to blow that one car
@@notamoonraker Because murica.
@@simplyyellow6240 hollywood doesn't understand tomahawk purpose lol
I love the f-18 cockpit scene. It's kinda funny that you can see hes completely stationary and hasn't even fully done startup yet since his airspeed is showing 48kts, his altitude isnt changing and there's still checks/bit going on on the left ddi and the mk82 screen is showing master arm safe and mk82 not ready but it's still super cool that they got that footage.
Thinking the same thing lol
This ain't your Top Gun Maverick F/A-18 Super Hornet
You realize it's all just acting. Right?
@@TakaluKevin in Top Gun Maverick?, sure does, inside actually flying and maneuvering F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet.
@@TakaluKevin wow a movie had acting in it? crazy!
Guess we could say those kids had a blast
that kid with his nuclear foot always ruining the game
@US ARMY VET 11B 96-14
clearly you don't get the joke...
"Gotta blast"
Lol
Some times necessary to take hard decision.
I was there!!! This explosion was made in my town La Concepción, Jilotepec Veracruz in México. I have pictures of that day.
Lucky you...!!
Should make a slideshow video if you have enough, would love to see.
I'm going to eat tacos to honor you!
@Black Pill not white phosphorus
Please show us
that was actually a fairly decent and realistic explosion. it was more dust and dirt than it was fire.
It was an actual house.
Paul Johnson I think he was talking about how the explosion was realistic as to how actual Bombs are. Most movies have bombs create a huge fire ball, but in reality they don’t.
No petrol added.
Except for the sparks....
Agreed. Apart from the 'phosphorous'.
I wonder if that road ever ended up getting fixed
This made me laugh so hard
Well with the new owner, probably.
now that it blew up, they got to fix it!
Plenty of extra dirt around for repairs now, lol.
@@stevesullivan9752 yeah, save a lot of time removing the old one!
They left out the best line from the book, when Clark says " Do you think you used enough Dynamite there, butch?" After the explosion.
Or, "I bet the mileage sucks."
"They can afford it."
0:38 Those are the smallest binoculars I have ever seen.
The better to see the target that's about to go boom, and scatter across the landscape literally.......
So it would seem
I remember when my brother and I watched this movie as kids and my dad walked past and literally said the same thing.
With little size comes little respons- wait
That's what she said.
Clancy's books are like a dozen short stories all rolled into a great story and coming together for a great ending .
Sum of All their Fears is his best (most scary) work .
When I started dabbling in writing, I realized all the Clancys I read as a teen were an influence as my opening scene featured a quick snippet of a security guard's life before some main characters interact with him, and he's never to be seen again in the story. I loved those and the minor character threads we got in those books.
@@RugbyGuide If you haven't, read some Bruce Catton. Especially the Army of the Potomac trilogy. He had a way of taking a person's dilemma and connecting it to the larger drama. For the record, Sum of All Fears is my least favorite of Clancy's works. Liz Elliot is a character that I have a burning and undying hatred for. It is so bad that I cannot read the novel anymore.
Same here, favorite book!
Sum of All Fears? Was that the one about a nuclear warhead disguised as a cigarette machine in a Wash. D.C. stadium going off?
@@raymondfrye5017that's the movie version. In the book it's a fake news van and the stadium is in Denver. They had to cut way too much out for the movie. Only way to keep any Clancy novel intact would be to do a mini series for each.
The secondary explosion on the right side of the compound is their gun / ammo / grenade stash. Can't believe no one noticed this.
I don't know how to tell you this Mike but this clip is from a movie.
I'm pretty sure the actors and film crew didn't have a gun/ammo/grenade stash on the right side of the compound. That's unless they had an inkling they were going to get screwed out of their paycheques and had a back up plan.
I'm talking about the film makers attention to detail with secondary explosions....
@@steamboatwillie1453 this was fake?????
And that’s why you never play soccer in your backyard
And that's why you always leave a note........
How many more lives must be destroyed by soccer!?
Can we start doing this to the cartels In real life
You've already did this on terrorist suspect in afghanistan. Only with drones, a 10 , and super tucano.
One can only dream
No because where do you think the herion and crack comes from
George Bray they do in real life in my country Afghanistan they doesn’t care about civilians died part of target
You can but you don't can, understand?
0:43 Coming from DCS, I wouldn't be flying with all that warning messages in the left DDI, specially with the canopy still opened lmao!
Don't you just love Willem Dafoe. "Keep the target lit"
That Hornet belonged to VFA-125 (Rough Riders). VFA-125 will be reactivated soon to fly the F-35.
I love how the movie gave us an actual cockpit view of the operation of the MFD's in the Hornet cockpit.
@@mercedesbenz3021 except that all his control surfaces are disabled, his canopy is open and he still has his ladder extended lmao
Wow
Always loved how the antenna blew up too.
Lol, that's literally the first thing I noticed. 😂
freedom has been delivered
Satellite You mean taken. Attacking of foreign soil is an act of war.
Women and children.....
Adam Anderson Iraq, Libya,Syria,yugoslavia etc never asked to be bombed.Today Iraq is still a terrorist heaven,Libya used to be Africa richest country now it's one of Africa's biggest hellholes,Syria got lucky the russkies intervened now almost the entire country has been taken back from those terrorists by the Syria govt forces backed by the Russian airforce power.Afghanistan is still a shithole where talk an have taken control most of it.If freedom means uranium shelling of Belgrade Serbia, 1.5mln civilians killed in Iraq,thousands more in Libya due to terrorist attacks then I don't want it
@Tragic Machine To be related doesn't mean being criminal too. But hey let's screw courts, judges, lawyers and attorneys and drop a bomb instead. Good enough, eh?
Freedom? Or imperialistic rule....
I say that all the time when I'm driving "dammit why doesn't he fix this road?!" lol
Just like michigan
I recently read the book, and it's a nice touch that they had the LGB have a blueish main body. That's correct to the book. In the book, it's actually an A-6 intruder that carries out this mission off the carrier USS Ranger in the Pacific. Following orders, The carrier's CAG Commander sneaks away during a major exercise to carry out this attack alone, and the special Cellulose encased bombs are colored blue to differentiate them in the carrier's magazine.
Actually the bluish color denotes an inert or practice bomb, even on a carrier. Having not read the book (and it's been a long time since I saw the movie) the whole clandestine idea of sneaking away with a practice bomb that was actually live is neat idea. I really need to rewatch the movie (wish I had tome to read the book).
@@whytebearconcepts In the book there was a FleetEx, with them trying out new tactics from Cmdr Robby Jackson who is working in the Pentagon at the time. So with them simulating an alpha strike on an enemy carrier, the A-6 with the test bombs from China Lake were able to head to the coast. The pilot puts on a transponder and pretends to be a cargo jumbo jet. So they just fly along, dropping the bomb, and then flying back to the carrier after they leave the ATC for that area. With the bomb being made of heavy, stiffened cardboard with plastic fins and a plastic seeker, the only evidence left is the traces of the rare explosive filler used.
Really liked this movie. Was very true to the book, unlike later adaptions of Tom Clancey.
Yes, both Clear and Present Danger and Hunt for Red October were closet to the original novel.
1:55 “Boom" my best voice scene
Holy Shit it's Tuco and the Green Goblin ahaha. Dam they loook young af
Who is tuco
Welcome to internet! Go see "Breaking Bad" the best tv show/series ever. I am kinda jealous you didn't see it yet.
Both are psychopaths in their role 🤣
Lol it is tuco. Tight tight tight!!!
@@dehash666 hey we've got Better Call Saul, which is a bit of a slow burn, but I think it's actually better than Breaking Bad. BB definitely had some great and unforgettable moments, but the writing and story are way stronger in BCS I feel.
Great scouting AFTER pulling the trigger. :-D
You know it gon' be messy when Tuco's around.
Crazy how this scene led that soldier to be a meth dealer in New Mexico to deal directly with Heisenberg himself.
I was searching for this movie my whole life. Thank you UA-cam
GBU-12 is still 500lbs, that's more than enough to destroy a house.
And everything else within a few yards
Who said it wasn’t
@@chrismc410 especially if there's any of the materials and supplies for drug making on site, which will just make an even bigger bang.
@Mists & Shadows You sir know what you are talking about.
GBU-24 son. That's a MK84 bomb body.. Go back to your CDCs
"Think we used enough dynamite, Butch?"
man, I read these Jack Ryan's series pocket books way back in the 90s: Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October
Just read the book. Several different things from book to movie.
1. The family was inside the home at the other side in the book.
2. John Clark was working with another CIA officer, not the soldiers.
3. Filix was driving a BMW convertible when he showed up at the house, in the book. When he came back to the house, he was driving the Rande Rover.
There are more differences that I am not going into now.
Tuco got PTSD from that situation and ended up going to the dark side.
Or maybe he went on to becoming the homie in the movie Training Day.
it would be idiotic to do a mission like that without keeping a checklist to know if everyone you were looking to kill were in the building before dropping the ordnance.
They may have had a limited time window for the mission to keep the strike team before they had to run and hide.
Remember this mission wasnt supposed to exist.
0:46 For some reason, pilot didn't switch the master arm
"SAFE"
Awesome editing!
“Pickle is hot” LMAO
And bothered...
I more or less remembered this scene from the time I saw this movie on the theater, many years ago. Never forgot the paveway bomb tracking the laser beam. But in my memory the plane that dropped the bomb was a F16, now I see It was a F18 Hornet.
It was a Navy bird, forget which one... but I doubt it was a F/A-18!!! (Don't think they were in squadron service afloat during the time period that the story in the book was about!)
@@timengineman2nd714 Hornet came into service with the Navy in 1984, USMC in 1983. The movies based on Tom Clancy Novels aren’t necessarily set in the same time as the novels. I mean Sum of All Fears the movie was clearly happening in the late 1990s/21st century.
Dropping bomb with weapons at SAFE mode...
qwew eweqwe blue...
What's with the opera glasses, Willem?
"Oh, good... I love this aria."
Impact with high-order detonation. Have a nice day.
The pickle is hot and ready.
@@rock3tcatU233 200 is topside
Coming down
Circular error probability zero.
I came here to see this and it wasn't in the thing. "Have a nice day" Classic.
Glad to see Elias made it out.
Love the F/A18, most underrated fighter attack plane of all time
Cartel kids grow up to be Cartel bosses
Lol - “wait they have kids?” “Sir” “shit” “yea that was a big opps
Whoopsie daisy!
Though it's pretty common for drug lords and the like to have their families close at hand while doing business. Meeting at a big house like that? Bound to have innocents in the picture. It's never just the bad guys.
Well, it's just a small collateral damage within some acceptable range......
You sure you want to spare them, and wait for 10 or 20 years until those kids showing up in front of your door for revenge?
they would of turned into the next generation druglords anyway. and cartels intentionally kill kids all the time so its fair game
Those weren’t kids; they were unlawful combatants.
You missed the bit at the end when he says " have a good day " lol.
The explosion looks like fireworks.
Dafoe and the other guy (forget his name), I thought were the perfect Clarke and Chavez
Tuco
Anyone here after Soleimani's death???
Haha. Yup. I thought of this scene as soon as I heard the news.
Soleimani's hit, when you look at the scene, was a MESSAGE.
The UAV hit HIS vehicle, and his vehicle ONLY. The front and follow cars were untouched. The traffic in the other lanes was untouched.
That was us saying if we want you, we can get you, wherever you are, whomever you're with. You can be in a convoy at highway speed and we'll turn your car inside out without hurting our informant in the other car that tipped us off, or the commuting family in oncoming traffic. Hellfire missiles are supersonic, so you won't even hear it coming.
You know, I'm something of a bomber of drug lords myself.
Cardboard bomb. "Something blew up, I mean IDK leave a voicemail."
Circular Error Probability: Zero. Impact with high order detonation, have a nice day.
Into attack. Pickle is hot. Target is acquired and lit. Coming down
And let the fat lady sing.
@@kirra9152 F-18 Pilot: _Elvis has left the building!_
Read the book huh? Nice
In 2018, 72,000 Americans will die from drug addiction. It is high time we take this sort of airstrike approach to the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel (Colombia is no longer the major threat).
Yeah, legalize drugs and watch deaths skyrocket from 72,000. People miss the point that the crap is illegal for a good reason.
@Bugler55 alcohol, guns, and driving are not as addictive as narc. 72.000 death also mean people sometimes are that stupid.
That was very satisfying to watch
“Easy Rhino, impact with high order detonation. Have a nice day.”
Seen this movie like 4 different times, never recognised Tuco until now 💀
First time seeing Tuco, I was like, "He seems familiar" but couldn't remember where I saw him before.
Behold the Paveway Bomb cellulose powder mixed with octo and Semtex when this baby goes off you have a mini explosion compared to when a MOAB bomb is dropped.
By the way, that bomb is similar in design to one designed by the Germans in the '40s for destroying battleships.
this scene is excellent.
Rest In Peace little kids.
Funny to see people commenting that having the kids in the scene was a way to trick people into feeling sorry for the drug barons.
For one thing, what would you expect in reality? Drug barons are people too. They have wives, they have children, and they live with them in their houses. If you're going to drop bombs on their houses then you are going to murder innocent children, there's no two ways about it. And that's exactly the point of this scene - the writer (and this point was made by Clancy in the book too) is pointing out that this kind of attack carries the near-certainty of collateral damage, and you need to think about whether that's justified or not.
For another, anybody who thinks this is unrealistic needs a reality check. When the movie was made this was very much a "what if" kind of scenario. Now it's common American practice to bomb people from afar, and a great many of those people killed are innocent bystanders. Hell, it's not uncommon for Americans to bomb a place, wait half an hour, then bomb it again to get the first responders.
And now you have a President who openly states that he *wants* to murder the children of the terrorists. And most Americans seem to think that's just fine.
So don't pretend this is some cinematic trick to make you care. This is US policy, plain and simple.
the kids arent innocent. they would of become the next generation druglords, so better kill them before its too late
"Do we have a gig? That's a rog. Easy rhino. Blow bladala bla. Cool me full tap go". Tacticoolestest 'murican slang😂
We gots swagger like nobody else, baby
One of the best scenes in action movies.
I like !
Excellent film.
0:58 A Full house? I got a straight flush!
One of my friend have this movie DVD just only for this scene
Wow, that GBU-12 packed a GBU-24 punch.
At 1:23, I keep thinking to myself that Pacho Herrera's doppelganger was killed by the CIA lol.
Considering how the F/A 18 isn't a high altitude multi-role aircraft, I find it especially believable that you can't hear it above them as the bomb is released.
Higher service ceiling than the A6 they used in the book, haha.
I always got a kick out of Escobedo complaining about the road. It was probably intentionally made that way.
You don't become the head of IMF without breaking a few eggs.
Excellent!!!!
Back in the days when Holliwood was making awesome things
This is such a bizarre scene for it's mix of realism and inaccuracies. It's a real shot of an F/A-18C hornet, it's a real shot of inside the cockpit and going from the HSI page to selecting the stores page and the weapon, but the in cockpit shot is a hornet on the ground assumedly on ground power as on the left MFD you can see all the cautions and it's clear the engines aren't on, and the aircraft is on safe. It's very bizarre to select full throttle and afterburner right as you drop the bomb, but he pushes the correct weapons release button although you are supposed to press and hold for 10s as you fly though the release point. It's the correct weapon that's shown dropping but it's blue in the middle meaning it's a training bomb, and they don't show it 'banging' side to side as it tracks the laser
"That's gotta hurt,gene"!😳
Jman👀
Great magnification on those binos that clark has
That was a great movie. I think I need to watch it again. I would love to catch a bunch of MS13 leaders in one place and drop some ordinance on them.
The book is excellent, too. Regarding your comment - in the book one of the intelligence analysts makes a comment that he'd like the U.S. military to target the coca-producing areas of Colombia "with a 2 megaton bomb, air burst at 4,000 feet above ground level"
@@kevinhammond2361 There are no coca growing places anywhere near Medellin.
@@theshapeofthesword8973 thanks - I edited accordingly
@@kevinhammond2361 Yeah, but the whole point of the book is about how such operations can get out of hand. Narcos is another good example of how pursuing law enforcement operations as a military one gets out of hand and can make the problem worse, and the Narcos shows are based on actual events.
Yeah and kill all the kids too right?
In the novel, the plane was an A6 Intruder.
Wish they left in the line "Think you used enough dynamite, Butch?"
Where's Heisenberg and Peter Parker? Tuco and the Green Goblin are getting all the action.
Got that killstreak there in no time
Why arent we knocking the cartels out like this daily?
You obviously haven’t watched the whole movie. Suffice it to say, everyone’s involved.
How did he drop the bomb with his master arm off , canopy open, hud off , data link off , no hydraulic pressure and at a speed off 43 mph? 0:44
I think it reads 48 mph.
Easy… it was done by the power of SCREENWRITING😅
"In to attack. Pickle is hot. Target is acquired and lit. Coming down."
animated Laser Bom drop @0:47..was hilarious
The silent missile descent is the scariest part.
Its more like a guided gravity bomb. Yeah it is eerie to think that you have a lovely day right before the bang.
"How did the meeting go, sweetheart?"
"Oh, it was a big hit. The Americans did a presentation that really brought the house down. Well, sort of up and _then_ down."
It blew me away!
Some things in Clancy’s book the military would not go along with for the movie and were deleted or changed - among them was the shootdown without warning of a suspected drug plane, and Harrison Ford’s commandeering of a US Army helicopter - changed to a civilian helicopter and pilot.
They also cut vast chunks completely out of the story for time. They may have changed the helicopter scenes because they were part of a lengthy sub-plot culminating with the death of Master Sergeant Zimmer and Ryan's promise to ensure that his 7 kids would never have to worry about paying for college, which spills into "The Sum of All Fears" as a lengthy sub-plot involving Cathy Ryan suspecting Jack of having an affair with Zimmer's widow which, in turn, negatively influences the main plot as Ryan's advice is repeatedly doubted/questioned by National Command Authority as the world teeters on the brink of a devastating nuclear exchange. TLDR: NO film has EVER done a Clancy novel justice!
Very interesting - I had not read the book but agree the quality of the movies could be better. I heard about CPD when it was filming because a writer friend of mine did an interview with Phillip Noyce and tried to sell him on a video storyboard idea he developed - even showing him a promo we did of the town ambush scene. The video used real “actors” and I had made some prop weapons for the bad guys choosing the H&K MP5 machine gun and RPG7 rocket launcher (because that’s what bad guys often use in movies) turned out that’s what they did use. Anyway Noyce wasn’t interested.
„Look there up in the air, it’s Freedom!“
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” - John Lennon
"Boom." - Robert Ritter
He's like 2 miles away and he has binoculars smaller than his eyes.
“This is Angel 5, standby for JDAM”
In the book Clark mutters to himself, “You think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?”