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Episode 199:   “So it all started when I ran over a Happy Meal toy in my car…” 

Jim, Joseph, and George offer the best musical duos and their Top 5 Personal Holiday Traditions. 

·        A Hall & Oates bass player sighting by the Stu. Co.

·        Is George a Closet Eggnog-ist?

·        Why did Henry Kissinger hat The Captain and Tennille?  

·        What is Joaquin Phoenix’s favorite movie

·        Which hit song began as a bank jingle?

·        Which podcast host’s spouse is a ‘White-est’?

·        The ‘Scrapbook Tree’

·        Joseph watched which Christmas classic 17 times one year? 

·        Which band was named after an Arthur Miller play?

·        “NO WAY OUT”

·        Who turned down a record deal because of a green sticker?

·        Santa fights with the Devil?

·        “We watch it for the racism.”

·        Alan Parson’s Prostate 

·        What record did first-grader Jim repeatedly play at his first DJ gig? 

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Episode 198:   “I had all my hate ready to pour onto this movie.” 

Jim, Joseph, and George reveal their Top 4 movies of 2023 + one stinker. In a year that boasted the release of 180 full-length movies, which will make the cut 

·        Did DC Comics finally crack the code for their feature films?

·        A sequel to Napoleon Dynamite?  

·        Intermission controversy?

·         “Why are those dogs being so mean?”

·        What does Gandhi, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, and 2001: A Space Odyssey have in common?

·        Can people in Hollywood read?

·        Which movie was so bad that Joseph went out into the lobby restroom to text his brother his rage about it?

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Episode 197:   “It’s like a wax museum with a pulse.”  

Jim, Joseph, and George tackle the Top 5 Guitar Solos of all-time while contemplating the best fictional restaurants in movies.

·        Kerri Russell turns pie into a Broadway play.

·        Why did Prince call Journey’s keyboardist?

·        Shenanigans’ floor plan and making desserts

·        The 3 versions of LET IT BE

·        A David Gilmour tug-of-war

·        Jennifer Aniston shows her flair finger.

·        Is the burger tainted or not?

·        Who was the only person to make money of the WALL tour in the 80s?

·        What is Joseph’s obsession with Rush’s  nine-minute instrumental LA VILLA STRANGIATO? 

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Episode 196:   Guilty Pleasures IV: The Guiltiest!

Another installment of Jim, Joseph, and George baring their souls and revealing their guilty pleasure movies.

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Episode 195:   “More blood, more nudity, more CGI-enhanced penises”  

For this episode the guys ‘battle it out’ in the debate arena for what is the Top 5 Gladiator stories in film and TV. Also considered is the best use of eyewear in film.

·        Michael Caine breaks out his old glasses from 1965.

·        Jim’s humiliating incident  with John Lennon spectacles

·        The gladiator story template

·        The symbolism of the Terminator’s shades

·        What is the ‘Godfather of Gladiator Flicks’?

·        “We didn't land on Lens Crafters. Lens Crafters was landed on us.”

·        Ridley Scott surprises everyone with a genre-revitalizing tale.

·        The time that Joseph hijacked Miss Mabry’s English class to teach ‘true’ Greek mythology.  

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Episode 194:   “Wow! They have a hit song and they’re a cartoon!”

Jim, Joseph, and George discuss songs with food in the title and the Top 5 appearances of motorcycles in film.

·        Grunge piano and cornflakes  

·        At age 26, who was the first person to win an Oscar for a musical score?

·        Which quirky pop song inspired John Lennon to return to recording after a 5-year hiatus?

·        Which movie was banned in England for a decade and half for fear that it would embolden motorcycle gangs?

·        What does George consider the 80s version of the POPOCORN song?

·        What is the movie that Joseph considers to be the ‘Godfather of Anime”?

·        A fever dream of a starving Jimmy Buffett leads to a hit song

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Episode 193:   “Life is too short to spend time crushing graham cracker crusts.”

Jim, Joseph, and George debate the Top 5 Movies directed by Ridley Scott. Also discussed are the best chocolate-centric foods. 

·        What was the first ice cream flavor?

·        What chocolate dessert did French painter Toulouse Lautrec create/invent?

·        Russell Crowe on a stamp?

·        Which dessert was created for the 1893 World’s Fair?

·        What is one of former President George W. Bush’s favorite movies?

·        The Chocolate Lava controversy 

·        Which movie is Ridley Scott the most proud of?

·        Who was the Game of Thrones character of Joffrey Baratheon modeled after?

·        Which Ridley Scott classic film was originally offered to director Robert Altman?

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Episode 192:   “Once a beanbag chair is punctured, you just have to move away and burn the house down to the ground.”

For this episode the boys discuss spy characters (that are NOT James Bond) and best chairs. 

·        Actor/comedian Steve Martin writes an intense terrorist/spy flick that’s not a comedy.

·        Richard Chamberlain or Matt Damon?  

·        Grace Slick gets stuck in a La-Z-Boy® chair 

·        How did Benjamin Franklin make so many chairs?

·        Which podcast host dreams of moonlighting  as a Cracker Barrel greeter?

·        King Tut’s folding chair?

·        What happened on the Condor’s other 3 days?

·        The secret to translating Russian by getting a close-up of the speaker’s mouth

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Episode 191:   “The Essence of Pickles”

Jim, Joseph, and George debate pop songs ‘hijacked’ by the movies they were featured in. Also discussed is the worst use/misuse of condiments on foods.

·        Why is Jon Heder so sweaty?

·        Was Ned Ryerson behind GROUNDHOG DAY all along?

·        “I’ve created with my own mouth breadsticks.”

·        Jim’s first “Food Betrayal” by a burger

·        Who was the song “LAYLA” written for?

·         “What does one of the podcast hosts claim that it’s like putting toothpaste on food?

·        What was the first Rated X movie to be nominated for an Academy Award?

·        Kenny Rogers or Kenny Loggins?

·        Jim’s segregated syrup requirement

·        Jim and Joseph “DO THE RIGHT THING” 

·        What’s up with Bennigan’s Jeff replacing fried cheese with broccoli?

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Episode 190:   “The Burst Episode… Where’s the Tylenol?”

In this show, the boys compare their Top 5 Movie Outbursts and the best Starburst flavors.

·        Fay Dunaway for mother of the year?

·        How did actor Gene Wilder startle Joseph and Jim?

·        “This is no longer a vacation—this is a quest… a quest for fun!”

·        Can you roast marshmallows with plastic coat hangers?

·        “This isn’t ‘Nam… there are rules.” 

·        John Belushi’s inspiration inaccurate historical pep talk  

·        History of Starburst candies 

·        Why you should never go bowling with actor Daniel Day Lewis.