I'm so relieved and glad that we here at Friendly Fire have decided to cordon off a donor-only feed for so-called pork chop movies. I believe that war movies are an actual

thing and while a concrete definition may allude our grasp I am confident to

paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart that I know them when I see them.

In that sense, Predator does not qualify as a war movie.

Obviously.

From now on, movies like this will be sequestered along with other of their ilk in a special place, our donor only feed.

But am I not human?

Do I not also, like Adam and Ben, thrilled to watching professional wrestlers coated in baby oil spew an impossible quantity of bullets downrange from insultingly implausible weapons at a special effects

UFO that looks like a reggae hermit crab. Of course I do. effects I like it when Spock uses his lifesaver to defeat the enemy kingclongs. I like all that stuff.

They just aren't war movies. So now we have a place for them. I want you to know that we appreciate.

Also, I'm super glad that now I can feel good

about watching these fun stupid movies instead of feeling guilty that I'm betraying some

sacred covenant I've made with you, the listener, to watch war movies only.

But now for the last time I will betray that covenant one last time and bring you predator, not

a war movie.

Adam and Ben really feel it's important in these introductions for me to give an overview of the plot of the movie,

so listeners who haven't seen it can follow along without getting confused.

They send me these detailed notes

about the production every week because we often watch movies with a lot going on.

But imagine how I howled when I received by Special Courier the packet of background information about

predator. Ben practically drafted a CIA fact sheet on El Salvador in the

expectation that you, the listener, tuned into this episode wondering about the historical

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