Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast

If you’ve got a problem, a nobody can help, and if you can find them—maybe you can hire… the Ops Centre. The Dudes get their battle staff on and watch the 1995 TV movie Tom Clancy’s Op Centre. When a rogue KGB Colonel steals three nuclear warheads from a Ukrainian storage facility, it’s up to the National Crisis Management Centre to save the day. In this episode, we present a hilarious deep dive i...

On this episode of Clear and Present Dudes we sound “one ping only” and litigate the Tom Clancy adaptation that started it all: The Hunt for Red October. We ride the tension-packed sonar pings with Sean Connery as Marko Ramius, the Lithuanian Soviet submarine commander plotting a daring defection, and Alec Baldwin as the big-screen Jack Ryan whose cold-read of intent might be the only thing standi...

On this episode of Clear and Present Dudes we brace for impact with 1979’s disaster epic Meteor, starring Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Martin Landau, and Henry Fonda as The President. A giant meteor is barreling toward Earth, and the only plan involves space nukes on both sides of the Cold War—so naturally the US and USSR have to learn to cooperate, fast. We break down the film’s earnest doomsday s...

On this episode of Clear and Present Dudes we navigate the twisting corridors of power in Roger Donaldson's 1987 thriller "No Way Out". We follow Lt. Cdr. Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) as the DefSec’s mistress is found murdered and he’s suddenly the prime suspect, forcing him into a desperate hunt for the elusive Soviet spy “Yuri.” We dig into the film’s tense atmosphere, Gene Hackman’...