Patriot Games (1992)

Holy shit. Great ep! Had me screaming with laughter.

A formal tire was called a white wall. Nowadays the sidewall of most tires are too small for the white stripe.

When Kevin is watching TV waiting for the IRA shooters to turn up, it’s a music video by the Irish band Clannad - James Horner was a fan, he gives them credit as an influence on his Titanic score.

Hell yeah

Patriot Games is a film about family

I hate in movies when bad guys or antiheroes like in Sopranos or Son of Anarchy are all butt hurt when someone they love gets killed. Motherfucker you kill people left and right. Fuck you.

First time listen of this ep. The cold open is pretty appropriate.

Richard Harris as a Martin McGuinness type, actual Irish people cast as being in the IRA *chef's kiss*

It also features one of my favourite IRA movie trope: a red-headed woman who seduces people in and into the IRA

Another action movie that had a '90s song based around a memorable sample -- "Get Down" by Emergency Broadcast Network (whose songs were all about 99% samples). Some mixes, like the one linked here, even throw in bits from The Warriors. It's a whole buffet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuVd8k3QFP8

Ronin is on Prime right now and was a lot better and faster paced than I remembered. Bean’s not the traitor, he’s the amateur DeNiro calls on his bullshit.

I absolutely love these 90s' mid-budget action/thrillers with a superstar lead. The original Jack Reacher film from a few years back checks all the boxes and is criminally underrated. Love to see the Boyz cover it one of these days.

Mom was getting the amniocentesis results from her OBGYN, which makes sense because it's recommended for women above 35 in the nineties before we had more sophisticated testing for genetic abnormalities like a down syndrome . And With that, or looking at pictures of vaginas comet you can determine the sex of the baby

Brian Blessed, Boss Nass, Phantom Menace

John Krasinski is not a good actor... there's an episode of The Office - can't remember which one - where he accidentally looks straight at the camera and smirks.

I am so happy that they agree with my rating. I get so damn worried they won't agree

The picture of Bush is less a sign of politics and more a display of of good set design. It is regulation that all federal defense installations display pictures of their respective chain of Command.

Even with the expedited second season, Rome was indeed great.

Great car talk, you even still see a lot of Astros in car-destroying NYC

I bought a Golf Sportswagen this past year and now see one every day, never thought about that ... VW is killing it next year though to bring in three new SUVs, pricks. The 2001 song is called "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss, people should check out some of the performances of it by orchestras on YouTube it's sick. Plus: Phish cover it live a bit if you're into that kind of thing (RIP Harris)

I liked the Dr. that makes beats joke. Someone could make a great costume for the live show

Matinee is great!!!! The tail end of Dante's run of inarguable greatness, the burbs being my fave.

Still edging waiting to hear the Rodgers Paul McCartney story.

I'm surprised Gabrus didn't reference Wrongfully Accused.

It was a true team effort but Stanger Burr is the best new character

“Did someone say Wings?”

Yeah man, the gungans have it figured out.

I'm excited, we have no idea what the next podcast episodes will be...or the sexes of various unborn babies!

World class John Krasinksi SATs Stanger joke

I think the bloke the terrorists are trying to murder is supposed to be a mix between the Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten who the IRA killed and Airey Neave (former Colditz POW and Nuremberg Trial lawyer) who was the Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland when the INLA killed him outside Parliament with a car bomb. In the film he’s both minor royalty AND NI Minister.