Episodes

  • 268 Signs 2002
    May 14 2025

    Mel Gibson, Hollywood’s version of Elon Musk, stars in this movie about a man who loses his faith and then gets it back. Of course, he loses his religion for the same exact reason he had one. Because the script says so, that’s why! Join the boys as they discuss.

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    • Episcopal Priest Out

      • https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-danville-news/169623405/

    • Plagiarism

      • https://www.newspapers.com/article/bristol-herald-courier/169623588/

    • Child abuse

      • https://www.newspapers.com/article/tampa-bay-times/169623895/

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    48 mins
  • 267 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
    May 7 2025

    The first kind is unidentified flying objects. The second kind is finding some sort of physical evidence. But this? This is the third kind. And those aren’t the answers the boys need. The answer they need to know is if this movie still works.

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          • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

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    • IMDB Trivia Entry about the writers

      • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/trivia/?item=tr0611753&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

    • Wikipedia entry on the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • 265 Unfaithful 2002
    Apr 30 2025

    George Michael said you gotta have faith but nobody told the characters in this erotic thriller starring Diane Lane and Richard Gere.

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          • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

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    • Chandra Levy

    https://www.newspapers.com/image/408319006/?match=1&terms=Gary%20Condit

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    44 mins
  • 265 Uncle Buck 1989
    Apr 23 2025

    Dead John Hughes pops in from Hell to answer some questions then the boys discuss this hit from the late great Canadian comedian, John Candy. That’s right, the star of today’s film was from America’s new axis of evil, Canada. Oh, how the world has changed since 1989.

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          • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

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    • Berlin Wall

      • https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/168019542/

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    47 mins
  • 264 Lust, Caution 2007
    Apr 16 2025

    No, that’s not the name Joe has for his dating life. Instead it’s a movie about university students seeking to assassinate the leader of a puppet government in Japanese occupied Hong Kong during WW 2. There is also lots of sex, though, weirdly, not by most of the students.Listen to find out more.

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          • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

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    • Hong Kong leader ‘elected’

      • https://www.newspapers.com/article/pacific-daily-news/167487205/

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 263 Mona Lisa Smile 2003
    Apr 9 2025

    We’re not sure what Mona Lisa had to smile about but you can’t have a Julia Roberts’s movie without her flashing one. But, did this movie leave the boys smiling?

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    • Wellesley’s Most Famous Grad

      • https://www.newspapers.com/image/442927347/?match=1&terms=%27Wellesley%20College%27

    • College Boys and Girls

      • https://www.newspapers.com/image/232213459/?match=1&terms=women%20surpassing%20men%20in%20college

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    50 mins
  • 262 HOFFA (1992)
    Apr 2 2025

    Do the young folks even know who Jimmy Hoffa was? More importantly, would they after seeing this movie? The boys discuss.

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    • Teamsters Endorse a Democrat

      • https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press/166926435/

    • Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on Strikes in 1942

      • https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/strikes-1942.pdf

    • Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Improper_Activities_in_Labor_and_Management

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    40 mins
  • 261 Hook 1991
    Mar 26 2025

    Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Dustin Hoffman bring us a redux of Peter Pan but who the hell was asking for it?

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    • Peter Pan First Appearance

      • https://simonteen.com/2016/08/23/peter-pan-origin/

    • The Play

      • https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/nov/25/top-10-things-peter-pan-facts-jm-barrie?page=with:img-2

    • Peter Pan Impersonator

      • http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

    • JM Barrie

      • https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/peter-pan-author-jm-barrie-cleared-of-being-a-paedophile-l556pl7ns

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    40 mins