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We kick off union movie month (in March, get it?) with this chestnut from the forties picked by our Patreons. This comedy, about a boss spying on workers who want to form a union, was a box office hit back in its day. How does it hold up over eighty years later?

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Labor Stats of 1941

https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/strikes-1941-and-affecting-defense-production.pdf

On Just One Day in March, 1941

https://www.newspapers.com/image/432573705/?terms=Strike&match=22

Four guys in 2010 go back in time to the 1980s and do almost exactly the sort of humor you got out of many 1980s comedies. Now two guys in 2024 go back to 2010 and judge them for it.

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Iraq War Ends

https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post/140058578/

Remember Shelley Long? No? How about Bette Midler? She’s still working isn’t she? Well, Midler and Long did a movie together and a non AI George Carlin was also in it and the boys are gonna discuss. 

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Johathan Pollard

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

Relations

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-albuquerque-tribune/139055790/

Tough Sentence

https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/139056076/

Boy meets girl. Girl treat’s boy like boy treat’s girls. And boy does not like this one bit. But what do Joe and George think? You’ll have to listen to find out. 

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First Black Woman In Space

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/138628089/

The first and only X rated movie to win an Oscar, this story about a hustler and his ratty friend was devastating for its time. But is it still?

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The Times and The Daily News Cover Stonewall

https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/document/2020-04/Stonewall%20and%20Marsha%20Johnson%20Documents.pdf

Love might lift us up where we belong and the eagles cry, on a mountain high but does that make for a good movie?

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Hillary Schwartz

https://www.youtube.com/hilaryes

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Navy Recruitment

https://www.newspapers.com/image/736708096/?terms=Navy%20Recruitment&match=1 

Military Wives

https://www.newspapers.com/image/803804713/?terms=Military%20life&match=1 

Is life a malfunction? According to science we exist due to random mutations and planetary conditions developed over billions of years. Which could be read as an accident but this movie says otherwise so by all means let’s listen to it. Also, enjoy the brownface. 

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Electronics Boom

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/02/business/camcorder-cd-sales-may-double-in-1986.html?mwgrp=c-dbar∣=url-share

Computer History Timeline

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

Japan Buys American

https://www.newspapers.com/image/199727071/?terms=Fujitsu&match=1

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Take a touch of Hackers, add a little Weekend at Bernie’s and throw in some Footloose and what have you got? A very 1980s movie, that’s what. But does it still work?

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Skateboard Technology

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune/137246679/

Poll

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/137316804/

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When did you fall in love with hip hop? How about romcoms? When did you fall in love with those? If the answer is never to both then this may not be your movie. But what do the guys think?

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Eminem

https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/136829907/

Left Eye

https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/136833408/

Jam Master Jay

https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/136834630/

It’s our 200th episode! To celebrate we hopped into a Tardis and went all the way back to 1949. Why? Because that’s where you’ll find Joe’s favorite movie of all time, The Third Man. Yes, the show's only black host loves a movie set in post World War 2 Vienna that stars absolutely no POC. Yikes. Anyway, enjoy.

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Spy Offer

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune/136352816/

Fight Over Austria

https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-of-atlantic-city/136377775/

Crime Ring

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press/136383801/