Rated or Dated: Wildcats (1986)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A sports comedy? Starring Goldie Hawn and featuring the big-screen debuts of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson? OK, we’ll bite. But will director Michael Ritchie’s tale of a single mum coaching a men’s American football team score a touchdown, or will Jen, Mick and Hannah send it for a gratuitous early bath? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sam Baker and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-bar truth about being a woman post-40.
0:07.6	I started The Shift because I was so tired of the absence of older women's voices.
0:12.4	Where had all the women over 40 gone?
0:14.4	I mean, seriously, if you want to walk about in your pyjamas for the rest of your life, we're invisible.
0:19.0	Each episode, I speak to an inspiring woman about
0:21.4	her shift. I feel very strong and think I genuinely don't care what anybody thinks of me.
0:27.1	Join me every Tuesday, wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:35.3	Hello and welcome to Rated or Dated.
0:40.9	I am Hannah Zohleavy and I am joined by Mickey Noonan.
0:46.7	I feel like I could be, you know, Papa Wilde if I just say the word pussy repeatedly and then giggle at myself. Yeah. I've changed my name to
0:56.9	Mickey the Pussy Noonan. Okay, thanks. Loals! And picker of this week's film, Jen Offert. Hello.
1:07.9	Hi. Okay, so I thought it was really nice of Kurt Russell to lend Goldie Horn his hair to make this film with.
1:16.7	That's it. That's my only joke.
1:18.2	I'm baffed it early.
1:19.6	What did we watch this week?
1:21.0	I actually thought of my own intro this week.
1:23.0	Which film did we watch this week that I instantly regretted upon hearing the song in the opening
1:30.0	credits?
1:31.3	Football.
1:32.7	Football.
1:33.5	What a strange, strange assault on the ears that was.
1:37.4	This week, football.
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