The Hunt for Red October (Take Two)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Episode 26 — The Hunt for Red October (Take Two)
In this one year anniversary episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John return to the film that started it all, “The Hunt for Red October.” They discuss the film as an elegy for the Cold War era, and further explore the dilemma of American power and identity in the post-Soviet world.
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| 0:00.0 | The most brilliant commander in the Soviet Navy. |
| 0:05.0 | Remy has trained most of their officer corps. |
| 0:08.0 | He's nearly a legend in the submarine community. |
| 0:10.0 | The most deadly submarine ever built. |
| 0:13.0 | This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington. |
| 0:17.0 | Nobody'd know a thing about it until it was all over. |
| 0:20.0 | Once more, we play our dangerous game. |
| 0:22.9 | With our old adversities in American Navy. |
| 0:26.2 | His plan is a mystery. |
| 0:28.6 | A man with your responsibility is reading about the end of the world. |
| 0:31.9 | Apparently, he has suffered a kind of nervous breakdown in which he announced his |
| 0:36.1 | intention to fire his missiles on the United States. |
| 0:40.3 | He wants us to help you hunt him down, kill him. |
| 0:42.3 | Open the outer doors, firing point procedures. |
| 0:45.3 | We sail into history. |
| 0:47.3 | Now I'm going to blow him right to Mars. |
| 0:49.3 | Ramias might be trying to defect. |
| 0:51.3 | You're just an analyst. Why can you possibly know what goes on in this mind? |
| 0:54.8 | I'll give you three days to prove your theory correct. |
| 0:58.0 | I am not field personnel. I am only an analyst. |
| 1:00.3 | You're perfect. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm expendable. |
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