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Episode Synopsis
Send us a textA BIGGER BOAT: POLTERGEIST & ALWAYS Jack and Thomas are joined by Ryan to discuss Spielberg and two seemingly opposing views on the afterlife. In 1982s POLTERGEIST (credited director: Tobe Hooper) Spielberg was so hands-on with the story and film rumors have followed since that he, in fact, directed a fair portion. But so what? It's a classic with his fingerprints all over it as he was seemingly everywhere in the 1980s. Poltergeist is about the terror of the family unit being torn apart in suburbia but with ghosts and scary TVs as inciting elements instead of the spouse-swapping, drugs and financial stress that haunts real family life. Good metaphor, fellas! Then ALWAYS (1989), Spielberg's attempt at romantic comedy and death! Not exactly mixing chocolate and peanut butter there, beardo. Adapted from 1943's A GUY NAMED JOE, Spielberg fave Richard Dryfuss plays a *checks notes * firefighter that dies and then as a ghost tries to get Holly Hunter laid or... something. Man, this is not a good one. John Goodman and Audrey Hepburn show up as comic relief and an alarmingly skinny angel (guess who plays which!). THEME SONG: WEIRD A.I.Email: [email protected]: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTUInstagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodthepoda1YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-gBuzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/Letterboxd (follow us!):Ken: Ken KoralJack: jackk1096
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