This week we discuss John Avildsen’s rousing and immortal Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire. Plus: Real tennis, a dead car battery, and the time Sam’s parents met Mike Tyson.LINKS: <a href='https://youtu.be/-Hk-LYcavrw?si=Lyx7YWObOCD4DKZu'>Trailer for Rocky</a> <a href='https://www.lokithorshop.com/products/j402-jump-starter'>The LOKITHOR car charger</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9NfXIXzgnA'>Charlie Chaplin boxing in City Lights</a> <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_tennis'>Real tennis</a><a rel="payment" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/alternatesides">Support the show</a>

This week we discuss John Avildsen’s rousing and immortal Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire. Plus: Real tennis, a dead car battery, and the time Sam’s parents met Mike Tyson. LINKS: Trailer for Rocky The LOKITHOR car charger Charlie Chaplin boxing in City Lights Real tennis Support the show

This week we discuss John Avildsen’s rousing and immortal Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire. Plus: Real tennis, a dead car battery, and the time Sam’s parents met Mike Tyson.LINKS: <a href="https://youtu.be/-Hk-LYcavrw?si=Lyx7YWObOCD4DKZu" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trailer for Rocky</a> <a href="https://www.lokithorshop.com/products/j402-jump-starter" rel="noopener noreferrer">The LOKITHOR car charger</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9NfXIXzgnA" rel="noopener noreferrer">Charlie Chaplin boxing in City Lights</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_tennis" rel="noopener noreferrer">Real tennis</a><a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/alternatesides" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

1976: Rocky

James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder. But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed. Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now. One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2026…

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James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder. But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed. Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now. One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2026…

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