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We've run out of Clint Eastwood movies that fit our weird criteria, and now we're gonna talk about what we've learned from this whole endeavor. Where we are on Clint, on the auteur theory, on thinking about film, on thinking about political art, on each other, on the prospect of ever doing anything - it's all here for your inspection, dear listener. Oh and also we reveal what we're doing next! We're very excited about it and we hope you will be, too. Here's a hint: I'm going to start reading the Bible. We can't thank you all enough for joining us through the Clint Eastwood ouvre. Your support, however worrisome to your friends and family, has meant a ton to us. We set out to make a podcast that we'd like to listen to, and it turned out that whatever's wrong with us has been afflicting other people too. Thank you to all the friends we've made through doing the show, thank you to the brave listeners who simply download episodes and leave us alone about it, thank you to the folks who support us on Patreon, thank you to the clearly more mentally stable folks who don't do that, and thank you to the handful of dangerous freaks who send us too many emails. We love you all. We'd also like to say a huge thank you to all the unbelievable guests who have joined us over the past year and change. You made us feel like real boys and you made the show a lot better, too. Our undying gratitude to Forrest Tiffany, John Semley, Eric Markovits, Chris Alfonso, Nick Newman, Dr. Joe Street, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory, Dr. Laurie R. Lambert, Jesse Thorn, Jordannah Elizabeth, Jonah Jeng, Marie Bardi-Salinas, Chadd Harbold, Jack Sinclair, Nima Shirazi, Jesse Hawken, Molly Lambert, Jamie Loftus, Jarrod Murray, Glenn Heath, Jr., Comrade Yui, Bilge Ebiri, Andrew Ti, Ian Green, Jordan Fish, Ray Tintori, and Will Sloan. We are truly lucky punks. We're taking a couple weeks off to get ready for the next thing and to apologize to our partners for all of this, but we'll see you in March with all-new, all-nude episodes of Pod Casty For Me.

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Here we are, folks - the end of Clint Eastwood's filmography to date. We've unlocked all the legendary weapons and retailer-exclusive armor sets and are ready to do battle with the final boss of Pod Casty For Me: writer and podcaster Will Sloan! Will joins us for a relaxed and agreeable discussion of Eastwood's relaxed and agreeable 2021 neo-Western CRY MACHO and some thoughts on the man's long career, his always-evolving relationship to images of masculinity, his love of animals, and his confounding age. A lovely end to the Clint Eastwood project - for now! - and a lot fewer attacks on the personal character of David Zaslav than you'd expect. Plus a teaser of what we're doing next - although you'll have to come back for next week's Clintclusions episode to find out for real.

Give it a listen or we'll make you live at your dad's house!

Topics include: if we've ever disliked Clint the man, final (and almost-final) films, Al Ruddy, the film's decades-long development process, Ian discusses the film's vision of Mexico, machismo, strong dogs, connections to more or less every movie we've ever covered, Will's recent zine, The Journal of Stoogeological Studies, pig triage, and more.

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You, dear listener, will know his name...and the truth. That's right, we're going long as hell on Clint's 2019 A.C.A.B. masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL with our biological parents, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory!! Join us for a thorough investigation of Eastwood's evolving relationship to images of masculinity, the film's treatment of the Kathy Scruggs character, #NOlympics, and the wonderful performances of Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Sam Rockwell. Special movie, special episode! Never talk to the cops!

Topics include: Clint's decades, American flag paraphernalia, Newt Gingrich, disc golf, the Bruce McGill courtroom scene in THE INSIDER, cinematic treatment of journalists, cinematic treatment of fat people, cinematic treatment of diarrhea, this movie's many connections to THE WATERBOY, and more.

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Hop in the Lincoln Mark LT, listeners, we've got a duffel bag full of conversation about THE MULE! Join us for a long-haul chat about Clint's 2018 old-man-drug-trafficker drama about shitty fathers and late capitalism. Spoiler for what we thought of the movie: we both loved it! We talk drug war cinema, the film as a sort of GRAN TORINO REDUX, the film as Alison Eastwood's personal 15:17 TO PARIS, Sondra Locke's death just before its release, and lots more. Hee-haw, folks!

(Actually I looked up a video of the sounds mules make and none of them are hee-haw.)

Topics include: hybrid animals, demeaning jobs, the film's real-life inspiration Leo Sharpe, Cooper's A STAR IS BORN, Taissa Farmiga's relationship to Vera Farmiga, Jake recounts a nightmare, the "Mexico Filter" and this film's lack of it, Jukt Micronics, Noel G., the VFW, the roots of American Empire in the Philippines, Waffle House, and, of course, the threesomes.

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Life has been catapulting us toward this moment...the episode where we lose our minds singing the praises of THE 15:17 TO PARIS with returning guest, writer and Slow Learners Podcast host John Semley! Join us for several hours of exaltant analysis of Clint Eastwood's 2018 avant garde docudrama, starring the real guys who really tackled a heavily armed shirtless man on a train. We really get into it here, folks: millennial masculinity amid the bleak futurelessness in which we've all spent most of our lives, re-enactments/non-professional actors in cinema history, and the transcendental quality of Dutch nightclubs. Listen up or we'll kick you out of Air Force sewing class!

Topics include: Clint as optimistic Hill/McBride, trains, Clint making some big and unequivocally not-lazy choices, Ian invokes Bresson a bunch, millennial grammar, the supporting cast of sitcom players, major breakthoughs on Clintertextuality, and more!

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Brace for impact, listeners! Returning guest Nick Newman of The Film Stage joins us for a white-knuckle journey through Clint Eastwood's 2016 chronicle of real-life heroism and not-so-real-life stifling bureaucracy, SULLY. We talk about the film's relationship to real events, the oddness of turning this particular story into a movie, and Nick unlocks something huge about late Clint for us. Great ep, and we even kept it under the film's running time! Listen or you're an NTSB stooge!

Topics include: Ian's Birthday Trutherism, January movies, Christian Petzold's love for DEN OF THIEVES, memories of the Miracle on the Hudson, Jake's Michael Rappreport, Nick scares the shit out of us by dryly pretending he's about to start a Woody Allen podcast, Robert Zemeckis's FLIGHT, some upsetting things the city of New York did to innocent birds, mustaches, and more.

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This is a big one, folks: for our 50th episode (arguably), we're taking aim at Clint Eastwood's monster hit military biopic AMERICAN SNIPER. Is this an anti-war film, as Clint claims? Is it a glorification of military power? Is it either? Why does Chris Kyle's hat say "Charlie" on it? What is Bradley Cooper's whole deal? For real, though, we get into a lot of pretty heavy stuff on this one, and we're extremely smart about it. They say we're the deadliest minds-men in podcast history, with over 200 confirmed Good Points each. Listen and enjoy!

Topics include: trucks, healing uses of orange juice, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, hedge fund guys wrestling on the floor of a bar, military intelligence, MAESTRO (sort of), texting while driving, and much more.

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Here's a little gift for you all this holiday season: we're going deep on Clint's infamous impromptu speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention where he talked to an invisible Barack Obama in a chair. Plus a bunch of our usual bullshit! Enjoy and see you in 2024!

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Oh, what an ep! We're singing in beautiful harmony about Clint's 2014 Broadway adaptation JERSEY BOYS with returning guest Marie Bardi-Salinas (now with extra last name)! Join us as we talk directly to the camera about jukebox musicals, New Jersey's cultural dominance in the 2000s, falsetto masculinity, and why exactly Clint was the one to make this movie. Plus, Ian gets mad at Jake for liking this movie despite claiming that he doesn't like musicals only for Marie to mostly talk him out of liking it that much. A real fun one, gang - listen to it or you aren't from Jersey.

Topics include: our high school bands, late December 1963, The Sopranos, the Philadelphia-Jersey connection, Marshall Brickman, a bunch of real-life mob guys, a humiliating relitigation of Jake's pronunication of "Pulitzer," the Beach Boys, and a good chunk of Jersey Shore talk.

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Take me out to the freaking podcast! It's time for us to talk Clint Eastwood's final (to date) film acting for another director, Robert Lorenz's 2012 father-daughter baseball dramedy TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. And who better to join us than producer-director, former aspiring pro baseballer, and returning guest Chadd Harbold? We discuss who exactly directed this thing, peak Amy Adams, the demon Justin Timberlake, sabermetrics, and more. Lousy movie, great ep. Check it out!

Topics include: screenplay theft, MONEYBALL, faith-based cinema, "You Are My Sunshine," speculation about Clint's acting coda, high school sports phenoms, clogging, the scene with the horse, Super Monkey Ball, and more.

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