782: In Russia, Truck Stops You

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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We dive beneath the sea again with “K-19: The Widowmaker,” in which Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star as… wait a second… Soviet naval officers? It’s a film about a horrible nuclear accident assembled from pieces of other submarine movies, as well as possibly several “Star Trek” movies, and we can’t decide if the screenplay or the casting is more of a problem. But finally we’ll get to the bottom of the real question: if most of the crewmen aren’t married, can K-19 really be a widowmaker?...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 782, September 2025.
0:10.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.8	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:12.8	In this episode, we're going to be talking about another movie featuring submarines.
0:18.8	That's right.
0:19.4	We're moving to the 21st century with 2002's K-19, The Widowmaker,
0:26.7	directed by Catherine Bigelow. Oh, the stars, oh, the star, they're so bright. They're burning out
0:31.8	my eyes. Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson on a submarine. It's true.
0:40.4	The submarine they're on is K-19 the Widowmaker.
0:43.0	Sorry, K-19, colon, the Widowmaker.
0:45.2	Say that at least once just to get the punctuation right.
0:51.3	Joining me to talk about this, our latest in a barrage of submarine movies are the following wonderful people.
0:54.5	Tony Sindelar joins the submarine crew for the first time.
0:58.0	I hope nothing happens to him down in the engine room.
0:58.5	Hi, Tony.
1:01.0	Oh, I'm actually a replacement, Tony.
1:03.1	The first Tony was run over by a truck.
1:07.7	Is this going to be a long podcast because I get seasick?
1:09.6	Not as long as you think it's going to be.
1:10.2	Okay. Brian Warren's also here. Hello you think it's going to be. Okay.
1:12.1	Brian Warren's also here.
1:12.4	Hello.
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