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Episode 31: Why is Pele Trinidadian?


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World Cup fever still not subsiding?
The boys got you covered with a Stallone deep cut: Escape to Victory!
This 1981 film unites Sly, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pele, and host of other soccer greats in a movie very loosely based on a true story. A POW team plays a German team in a propaganda football match at the height of WWII. Featuring all the classic WWII movie tropes of: the Nazi with an eyepatch, French Resistance woman, prison escapes, and British officers playing cards.
Plus: Other odd pairings, My Cocaine as Ebenezer Scrooge, West Ham United, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Clemmons, and more!
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