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    Open Tabs #5

    en-usOctober 16, 2023
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    About this Episode

    On this weeks segment of Open Tabs, I invite my friend Chris Rivera, aka Diabeto, back onto the podcast to help me review a couple of comedy classics. With football starting again, we watched Adam Sander's movie, The Longest Yard.  And with Baseball just ending, we watched Billy Bob Thornton's movie, Bad News Bears. 

    The Longest Yard (2005). Directed by Peter Segal. Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

    Bad News Bears(2005). Directed by Richard Linklater. A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.

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