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The Wilder Ride is a podcast where we look to explore and celebrate the films of Gene Wilder, using the ​movies by minutes format. Your hosts are Alan Sanders and Walt Murray, getting Wilder by the minute.

May 31, 2019

The episode opens with Bart reading the notice Hedley Lamarr is circulating to recruit his army of ne'er-do-wells. Bart says it is the last act of a desperate man. Howard Johnson replies that he doesn't care if it's the first act of Henry the Fifth, they are all leaving. Bart then asks them to give him 24 hours to come...


May 30, 2019

Hedley decides Lili is onto something. He is going to raise an army of the worst dregs the West has ever seen. He asks Taggart to take down a list. He wants: rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican...


May 29, 2019

We open the episode with Taggart and his men doing their best to applaud The Waco Kid. We immediately cut to Lily von Shtupp's dressing room. She is tied to the pot-belly stove while Taggart and Hedley are deciding what to do next. Lily says Bart is too much of a man for Hedley. She says he will need an army to defeat...


May 28, 2019

The episode begins with Taggart finishing his lament about seeing sheriff that's blacker than any indian. He then slumps forward on his horse, declaring he is depressed. Lyle leans over and says he hates to see him that way. He wonders if shooting the sheriff dead might help? Taggart believes it might. Lyle commands the...


May 27, 2019

As the rest of the railroad workers surround Bart, Charlie does his best to keep their hands off of him. There is some discussion about keeping hands off of Bart's vines. Then Taggart, Lyle and company come riding up to the crowd. Taggart recognizes Bart and demands to know why he's wearing a tin star, calling him,...