Ed Helms

I love that.

In particular, I love how

You're just making such a great point about how humbling the movie making experience is.

And it does teach you to appreciate movies in a different way.

The more hours and days and weeks and months that you've spent on set, the more you realize, like, this is incredible.

The amount of cooperation and collaboration and luck.

that it takes to pull something together.

It's just crazy that any movie actually gets made.

Well, I'm really excited to dig into today's story because it feels like something out of a movie or that should become a movie.

I'm sure screenwriters have been pulling details from this event for plenty of doom-worthy plots over the years.

Today's snafu takes us deep into the paranoid void of the Cold War at the point where the space race meets the arms race.

So picture this.

You're on vacation in Hawaii.

Maybe you're having dinner at a beachfront bar in Waikiki.

It's a warm July night in 1962.

You're listening to a Navy band play some classy dance tunes when suddenly –

A massive flash lights up the sky.

The band goes quiet.

A red glow streaks across the sky like someone just opened a zipper to hell.

It's not aliens, although that would be a reasonable guess.