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MOVIE MANIA: The Rock 30th Anniversary Special

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Challenge Mania

Tv & Film

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

June 2026 marks dthe 30th Anniversary of an iconic Motion Picture and it is time for some MOVIE MANIA! Some of you may know...some of you may not...but Scott's favorite movie is the 1996 Action Thriller THE ROCK. The movie came out 30 years ago this month so Scott got together with his favorite movie podcasters Mike and Mike (from Mike, Mike and Oscar) to do this special look back at the film. Check out and Subscribe to Mike, Mike and Oscar for year round coverage of Hollywood, Cinema and the Awards Cycle! It is the best podcast for Movie Maniacs like us!

The Rock is currently available to stream on HBO Max, by the way.

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0:00.0

His name is John Mason, British National, incarcerated on Alcatraz in 1962, escaped in 63.

0:12.4

There's no identity in the United States or agreeing print. He does not exist.

0:19.5

Secrets have a way of coming back to haunt you.

0:23.1

There's a hostage situation in Alcatraz.

0:26.8

Austin, 81 tourist.

0:29.0

The rocks are tourist attraction.

0:31.1

And we're back.

0:31.8

Welcome once again to another episode of Mike, Mike, and Oscar.

0:34.1

I'm your co-host, Mike 1.

0:35.1

Co-host, also Mike is here.

0:36.7

And Mike, tell us about our third co-host joining us today.

0:39.3

He is the host of Challenge Mania, exclamation point. And he has been on the show for Tribeca Mania, Sag Mania on Mike, Mike and Oscar for I think three years now, Scott.

0:51.8

And he requested this episode today because it's the 30th

0:55.3

anniversary of one of the most awesome summer movies we've ever laid our eyes upon. He is Scott

1:02.2

Yeager and we are reviewing The Rock. Welcome, Scott. Yes. And I will say the Dwayne Johnson Rock

1:09.5

has complicated things where now when you say The Rock, people do think you're talking about him.

1:14.5

But no, long before, well not long before, a few months before he made his debut at Survivor Series 1996, which I was also at down the road at Madison Square Garden.

1:24.5

Okay.

1:25.0

In June 1996, this movie directed by Michael Bay in his sophomore attempt at

1:30.7

creating action madness rocked my world and many 11-year-olds worlds because this, I believe,

1:36.6

was the second R-rated movie I ever saw in the theater. My parents took me to see Die Hard

1:41.2

with a vengeance before I had even seen Die Hard One, which I think was 95.

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