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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This week, Shat The Movies heads to small-town Indiana, where basketball is life, second chances are rare, and Dennis Hopper is cold, coach—real cold. Commissioned by fantasy football champion Stephen J., 1986’s Hoosiers is one of the most celebrated underdog stories in sports cinema, often hailed as the “best basketball movie ever made.” But does it hold up nearly 40 years later?
Gene and Big D debate whether Gene Hackman’s Coach Norman Dale is a genius strategist or just a guy yelling “four passes!” while waiting for Jimmy Chitwood to show up. Along the way, we question the town’s obsession with high school hoops, the authenticity of Dennis Hopper’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of Shooter, and whether the film skips a pretty important historical context about race in 1950s basketball.
Was Hoosiers a masterclass in sports nostalgia, or just a paint-by-numbers blueprint for every “inspirational coach” movie that followed? And more importantly, should Ollie have ever touched the ball?
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. We're going to go around the hoop with the Nicobaccas. Oh, there's passes. |
| 0:04.0 | Schmitty passes it to Wilson. Wilson passes it to Thompson. Thompson back. And oh, it's another layup. And here they go. Them boys are really, it's 15 to 17 in the third quarter. |
| 0:14.5 | Remember when we first met John McLean? Our God picked him up from the plane and took him down the knock it tommy tower at the |
| 0:23.5 | christmas party and the terrorists were overzealous but it was sweet when they killed ellis |
| 0:30.1 | and with a little love from allen john mclec king died welcome back to chat the movies the podcast |
| 0:36.7 | where we answer the question, |
| 0:37.8 | where the movies we loved when we were growing up really that good. You've ever caught yourself thinking, why don't they make movies like they used to? Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie rental of Blockbuster Video? Do you know what Blockbuster video is? If you answered yes, then this is the podcast for you. I'm one of your hosts, Gene Lyons, and alongside me as my co-host, Big D. Dick Ebert. |
| 0:37.3 | Good evening. |
| 0:38.2 | And each week, we answered yes and this is the podcast for you i'm one of your hosts jean lions and alongside me as my co-host |
| 0:55.1 | big d dick ebert good evening and each week we take a look back in time decided if our favorite |
| 1:00.0 | films still hold up the movies we cover are chosen by you the listeners who generously commissioned |
| 1:04.5 | the films you love if you like to see all the movies we have covered we'll cover and want to choose |
| 1:08.8 | one for yourself please visit chatpod dot com and have a look at the of each podcast, we'll provide you the audience with a number of wipes each movie takes to get off your respective butts. So thank you so much for listening. If you have not already, hit that subscribe button and share with the friend. It's how we help the podcast grow. Additionally, subscribe to our sister podcast, chat on TV, review TV series such as Westworld, taboo, American Gods, Game of Thrones, True Detective, Lovecraft Country, and Watchmen. Find all information and past episodes at chatpod.com slash TV. And finally, if you'd like to hang out with us live, follow and subscribe to our Twitch channel, chatpod.com slash Twitch and our YouTube channel where we play video games, host watch parties, and edit this podcast live. |
| 1:45.5 | All that being said, Big D, what movie we're reviewing tonight? |
| 1:49.7 | So, Gene, tonight's film was selected as part of the Shat Fantasy League for the NFL season last year. |
| 1:58.6 | And for our listeners who don't know, yes, chat the movies, shot on TV, |
| 2:03.1 | we do podcasts about film, TV, but it goes way beyond that. You've become big into streaming |
| 2:08.4 | and playing video games with our community. Our community reaches into Discord. And this film |
| 2:15.8 | tonight was the prize for our great listener, Stephen, who won |
| 2:20.2 | fantasy football last year. So tonight's film is redemption rebounds and rural Indiana, where a |
| 2:28.0 | second chance needs a full court press. And the math is, think Friday Night Lights plus |
| 2:33.7 | Dead Poet Society times white men can't jump with heart. |
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