It should be clear by now to regular listeners of this program which war movies Adam added to the list.

Two of your hosts are taking the premise of this show seriously and one of us just wants to spooge all over the muscle man action movies he loved

when he was nine and his best friends were two bowling pins he found at the dump.

He literally squeezed at the very mention of Paul Verhoeven and I think it's because he knows for sure he's going to get to see boobs.

But I can and do bag on Adam all day and that's not what these intros are meant to do.

Primarily they're meant to do.

Primarily, they're meant to bank on Ben.

But he's an innocent party here.

So I'm going to try and make the case for Robocop

being a war movie, if for no other reason,

than as an intellectual exercise.

You never know when you're going to be tied to a chair and forced at gunpoint by a weep-eyed

villain to make the case that Bagger Vance is a war movie.

You have to be prepared for any eventuality.

Well, let's start with 1987.

Reagan loved things that went boom, and he'd been rattling his savor throughout the early 80s

while Breshneff and then drop-off matched him in both brown suits and ICBMs.

This felt like an almost war, one we could lose at any moment.

Constantine Churneyenko was the last of that old guard and he died in 1985 1985 leaving a new generation of young leaders in charge of the Soviet Union.

Did you know that Gorbachev was the first Soviet general secretary not born under the rule of the czar?

Well, that's incredible to imagine that he was both the not born under the rule of the Tsar?

Well, that he was both the first and last truly Soviet leader.

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