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Iris recaps her Goonies-themed summer roadtrip to Astoria, Oregon with a shoutout to the Blue Scorcher Bakery. Check out the siblings’ discussion of THE GOONIES at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE blurs the line between what's real and imagined, past and present, safety and paranoia, when to wear shoes and when to go barefoot. Find out why this chilling slow burn leaves you wondering whether anyone ever truly escapes. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes succumbs to CG-animal fatigue, arguing filmmakers should’ ve used real or practically trained animals instead in this summer’s blockbusters. Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does language add a “Y” to the journeys of Odysseus, the Jabberwork, and Professor Nag? Where does the quote "no questions, just drive" come from? One of these questions is answered in today’s daily-dose. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris discuss the box office rivalry between AVATAR and AVENGERS, including James Cameron's playful notes to Marvel and the upcoming re-release of ENDGAME ahead of DOOMSDAY. Genuine box office power play or just Doomsday storyline retconning? Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come play the magic button game with Wes and Iris and decide if you’d watch these alternate reality Eric Stoltz, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Jeremy Sisto movies. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How are movies like a California roll? The answer to this riddle and a shining sibling example of agreeing to disagree in today’s daily-dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come back to PROJECT HAIL MARY in today’s daily-dose of whatever! Implausible plot moments aside, this movie about trust, connection, and sameness is worth the revisit. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 ⁠⁠orwhatevermovies@gmail.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Westley and Iris tackle Rob Reiner's beloved fairy tale classic, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, including albino villain tropes, Peter Falk's fake eye, and whether Fred Savage is secretly the greatest actor of the '90s. Complete with Andre the Giant impressions. Inconceivable? No. Just Thursday at OR WHATEVER MOVIES. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn mo...

The first superfan interview-style appreciates a super villain–the late, great Alan Rickman. Which of his infamous characters should be in the George Washington spot of Mount Rickman? Find out! Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 ⁠orwhatevermovies@gmail.com⁠ ⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Int Style | Six Degrees of Whatever | 121 Can Wesley perform under the bright lights and pressure of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Can you connect these four actors before he does? Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who plays Lieutenant Dan’s fiancee in FOREST GUMP? The siblings know. Who plays the InGen worker on Isla Nublar in JURASSIC PARK? They don’t know! So help OR WHATEVER MOVIES out! 818-835-0473, orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have any truly great, rewatchable, quotable movies been made in the last 10 years? Join the siblings for a cocktail of nostalgia and existential dread in today’s daily dose. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALMOST FAMOUS, CAMERON CROWE’S MONTH’S big finale, unpacks Penny Lane’s tragic orbit, Russell Hammond’s ongoing bad decisions, William Miller’s impossible innocence, and why this honest, earnest time capsule feels both timeless and completely impossible to make today. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening! orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more...

While traditional Hollywood is contracting, streaming continues and YouTube-style creators boom. How else should the siblings face the bleak landscape — editors driving Uber, documentary arms shutting down, and teams disappearing — except with dark humor? Thanks for supporting indie podcasts!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The siblings debate which movie holds the record for the highest on-screen death toll, considering SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the Marvel Snap, and recent Best Picture nominees. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes points out a JURASSIC PARK (1993) continuity gaffe that has haunted him for years. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it will now haunt you too. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To prove he truly absorbs movies even when not glued to the screen, Wes submits to a blind quiz on–surprise–NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. Does Iris prove her point, even if Wes's overall knowledge is impressively deep? CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s almost spoiler-free daily dose, Wes reveals his dream of doing an ALIEN-themed Bathroom of Terror — complete with black trash bags, KY Jelly, lasers, and alien eggS, though when (or if) it'll happen remains unconfirmed. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CAMERON CROWE MONTH is all about Crowe’s most adult movie, VANILLA SKY. Does its Hollywood polish justify the remake’s Life Extension? Find out at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris turn the mic on themselves, cataloguing each other's most annoying audio habits in this daily-dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s almost spoiler free daily-does Wes and Iris debate whether kids in movies are lazy plot devices or a necessary storytelling tools. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes cites, of all movies, the SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT movie to argue that movies teach kids what parents don't have time to say, urging listeners to watch movies intentionally before the next generation is lost to YouTube. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes makes a passionate case for film editors as the unsung heroes of cinema, highlighting legendary editors like Thelma Schoonmaker and Sally Menke who shaped the visions of Scorsese and Tarantino respectively. Editors are just like the unsung music producers of Pearl Jam and Creed.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Wes and Iris dig deeper into The Devil Wears Prada 2, unpacking the strategic genius behind the cafeteria ambush scene and arguing that the real protagonist is Nigel — the quiet puppet master whose arc from the first film finally gets its triumphant resolution. The episode ends with Wes posing the movie's most pressing unanswered question — what exactly is wrong with Andy's eyebrows — and Iris del...