EEK! Peter Graves! (just kidding)
He was asking Joey inappropriate questions in the cockpit!
(seemed humorous back then but nowadays...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_the_End_(film)
Beginning of the End is a 1957 independently made American black-and-white science fiction giant insects film, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. It stars Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, and Morris Ankrum. The film’s storyline concerns an agricultural scientist (Graves) who has successfully grown gigantic vegetables using radiation. Unfortunately, the vegetables are eaten by locusts (the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers), which quickly grow to a gigantic size and attack the nearby city of Chicago.