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GYMKATA

This week, the episode Jessica and Spencer have been training in the woods for their whole lives: Gymkata. In 1985's action film spectacular, the dear departed Kurt Thomas must travel to the very real and geographically consistent nation of Parmistan to try to survive THE GAME, a totally unnecessary obstacle course where people kill you at the very beginning. We discuss:

• For a closed central Asian nation, everyone sure is American and can come and go as needed
• Very 3-dimensional female characters with clear goals and lines (JKKKKKKK)
• MULLETS
• Men holding giant birds for no reason
• Cool technological weapons, like a...little axe?
• That thing where you find a dead body and hear a BOIYOINGGGGG sound
• The most accurate depiction of US military presence in Asia ever committed to film
• A horse just decking some dude
• An actual character named Thorg
• How Kurt Thomas is fully, unironically good at action movie
• The "Village of the Crazies" and how it gets DARK
• A guy in a white robe with the butt cut out (!)
• And of course, the iconic town square pommel horse fight: featuring RANDOM GOAT

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