482: A Problematic Hen

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Your voice is your passport, so prepare to be verified. We discuss 1992’s “Sneakers,” a spy/heist thriller in which a team of smart people solve puzzles while trying to navigate the NSA, Russian spies, and an angry genius who works for the mob and is trying to overthrow the world order. Yes, star Robert Redford rolled a very high Charisma score, but the rest of the cast is also amazing.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 482, October 2019.
0:11.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.4	I am your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode we're going to be discussing an excellent film from 1992, directed by Phil Alden Robinson.
0:25.8	I think this was maybe his movie After Field Dreams, or was there another one in there?
0:30.4	I don't know.
0:31.1	Anyway, it is Sneakers, a movie with perhaps maybe the best cast in a movie ever?
0:40.2	I don't know.
0:40.8	It's a great movie.
0:41.8	And if you haven't seen it, you should go watch it and then listen to this episode.
0:44.2	Let me introduce my panel of wonderful people here to talk about sneakers.
0:49.0	Casey Liss returns to the program because I made a promise that if we ever talked about sneakers like The Hunt for
0:54.3	Red October, we would have to have Casey on the show. Hi, Casey. Hello, I appreciate you
0:59.7	slumming it with me for this one. I am happy to have you here. Wouldn't do it without you.
1:03.5	I wouldn't do it without you. Dan Morin similarly, I made a pact that if we ever did sneakers
1:09.8	on the incomparable, we would include him.
1:12.0	And Dan, I live up to my side of the bargain.
1:16.9	I'm not going to, like, go out for pizza and never come back.
1:19.6	You're here.
1:20.7	Jason, personally, I'm in it for the money.
1:22.8	I don't care if you go to jail.
1:24.5	And Eric Ensign is also here.
1:27.0	I don't know if you have a long history with
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