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The Big Picture

The 21st Century Action Hero Hall of Fame

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Shea Serrano joins Sean to break down the landscape of action moviemaking. With ‘Uncharted’ in theaters, featuring two generations of action hero—Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland—we ask: What does it mean to be an action star in the 21st century? Sean and Shea build out the Hall of Fame with 10 excruciating picks. Host: Sean Fennessey Guest: Shea Serrano Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Benefer is back.

0:04.6

Brad and Jen are friends again, and Peris Hilton is somehow still making headlines.

0:11.1

Sound familiar?

0:13.4

In the early 2000s, gossip publications were everywhere, powered by tipsters, paparazzi

0:19.2

and publicists.

0:20.8

They gave us a window into the lives of the rich and famous, and in the process helped

0:26.0

form a generation's ideas about sex, beauty, race, and power.

0:31.2

On this series, I'm going to tell you the story of a decade of American life through the

0:35.7

trash we love to consume.

0:38.6

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Claire Malone, and this is just like us,

0:44.8

the tabloids that change America.

0:49.0

The series premieres on February 14th on the Ringer Dish Feed.

0:52.8

It's an unspatified or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.9

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

1:03.4

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've

1:07.7

got to wrap up warm.

1:08.7

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap tops so warm, but then you're

1:13.0

climbing Hampstead Heath, and you get to the top and you're like, oh, and then you can

1:17.1

see the breath, but then your nose is still freezing to top.

1:21.6

Join in every sip with red carp's now back at Starbucks.

1:27.5

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1:30.2

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