Does This Still Work?

With this film Richard Pryor became the first black actor in US history to get a million bucks for a movie.This is also the first R-rated comedy by a black director (Sidney Poiter!) to make more than $100 million. Which is great and all but does the film still work?

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Bank Robberies

https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star/153880924/

Escapee

https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star/153882847/

On the 19th day of the month of December in a middle year of a decade not too long before our own the human race suddenly encountered a movie musical starring Rick Moranis. Join the boys as they tap their feet and discuss if it still works. 

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Skid Row

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news/153301270/

Musicals

https://www.theatretrip.com/musicals-of-the-1980s/#1986

In the UK pants are what Americans call underwear. Was this movie called traveling pants in England? And if so, were people disappointed when they weren’t watching a film with everyone running around in their panties? Anyway, what did Joe and George think of this movie?

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Documentary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Penguins

Girl’s Soccer

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun/152937441/

Mall

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times/152937773/

He’s a smut peddler. She’s a drug-addled stripper. And they are…in love? That aside, the most shocking thing in this pic is being reminded that the Supreme Court wasn’t always a rubber stamp for right wing BS. Join the boys as they discuss that and anything else that pops into their heads. 

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Porn Ban

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-winchester-sun/154301004/

Cable Ban

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post/154303560/

Making Porn Play

https://www.newspapers.com/article/la-weekly/154324511/

Susan Faludi article

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/10/30/the-money-shot

Jerry Falwell, Hustler Capri Ad

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/asayq/hustler_magazine_vs_jerry_falwellthe_pic_that/#lightbox

Patron Script Link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dD6g0LjqC_U0Gfyxo53r4H6nYSI9xnUNyzMLQI2kztI/edit?usp=sharing

It’s Taming of the Shrew but set in a high school because, honestly, would you sit through Shakespeare unless it had an updated spin? Shakespeare straight is boring. Dude wrote his plays over 400 years ago. You think his stuff is still fresh? And is this movie? The boys find out.

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WTO Protests

https://www.newspapers.com/image/805614350/

The Truth About 7 Common Concussion Myths

https://www.medstarhealth.org/blog/truth-7-common-concussion-myths

Paul Giamatti plays a lawyer who engages in defrauding an elderly client while getting mixed up in the life of a nice teenager and his not so nice mom. Joe hasn’t seen this movie since it came out. George has never seen it. Will it win the boys over?

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HS Wrestling. 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/926848456/?match=1&terms=Wrestling

Crooked Lawyer

https://www.newspapers.com/image/144572479/?match=1&terms=lawyer%2C%20Guardian

Patron Script Link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGlLAkRwY8z85p6NVEC_E0XGh36KQJKgT50DJhKGLN0/edit?usp=sharing

One of the hosts of this program had to manage his anger as he sat through this Adam Sandler\Jack Nicholson movie that he…did…not…like.. Listen and find out which one. 

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Pill Culture Pops

https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8763/

Genetic Map

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/151233889/

The world’s worst mom, Boston’s dirtiest cops , a very young PI and a missing child add up to one very unusual child abduction case. Or is it a child abduction case? George and Joe look into the mystery that was Gone Baby Gone. 

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World Series

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/150755927/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/150756834/

Baby Names

http://www.babynamescience.com/baby-names-by-state/most-popular-in-Massachusetts-boy-2008

Bomb Scare

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/150758937/

Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman star. Do you enjoy all male movies with lots of shouting and no sex? Then this may be the movie for you. But what do the boys think?

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Rebels

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/16/world/chechen-rebels-said-to-kill-hostages-at-russian-hospital.html

Violation

https://www.newspapers.com/image/237486177/

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a priest who might or might not be a pedo. Meryl Streep is a nun who thinks there is no might about it, he’s a  pedo. Meanwhile,  poor Amy Adams doesn’t know what to think. But George and Joe do. Have a listen.

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Pope at Yankee Stadium

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us/nationalspecial2/21pope.html

Newsday Poll

https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/149563134/