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🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This week, Shat The Movies tumbles through the space-time continuum with Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits, a chaotic fantasy adventure filled with Monty Python humor, mischievous dwarves, and a cosmic battle between Good, Evil, and negligent parenting. Commissioned by listener Mark, this 1981 classic follows young Kevin as he's swept away by a crew of dimension-hopping bandits who've stolen a map of the universe and are using it to rob history blind—Napoleon, Robin Hood, and ancient kings all included.
Gene and Big D debate whether the film is a brilliant kids' movie for adults or an unsettling fever dream wrapped in British absurdism. Along the way, they revisit the unforgettable Evil Genius, the Supreme Being's bureaucratic disappointment, and the ending that scarred an entire generation of children.
Is Time Bandits a masterpiece of imagination or just Gilliam letting chaos do the directing? Grab your map, avoid the pure concentrated evil, and find out.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not really bad. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm a friendly bull. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:05.1 | I just don't know what I'm doing. |
| 0:08.7 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:11.8 | Our God picked him up from the plane |
| 0:14.0 | and took him down the Nakatomi Tower |
| 0:16.7 | at the Christmas party. |
| 0:19.4 | And the terrorists were overzealous, but it was sweet when they killed Ellis. |
| 0:24.8 | And with a little help from Allen, John McClain came dies. |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome back to chat, the movies, the podcast where we answer the question were the movies we love when we were growing up really that good. |
| 0:35.4 | You ever caught yourself thinking, why don't they make movies like they used to? Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie rental blockbuster video? Do you know what blockbuster video is? If you answered yes, then this is the podcast for you. I am one of your hosts, Gene Lyons. Alongside me as my co-host, Big D. Dick Ebert. Marvelous show. Marvelous. |
| 1:09.7 | Each week, we took a look back in time and decided if our favorite films still hold up. The movies who cover are chosen by you, the listeners, who generously commissioned the films you love. If you like to see all the movies we have covered, we'll cover. We'll cover one. I want to choose one for yourself. Please visit chatpod.com and have a look. at the end of each podcast will provide you the audience, |
| 1:10.8 | the number of white stage movie tape to get off your respective butts. |
| 1:12.3 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 1:13.3 | If you have not already, hit that subscribe button and share with a friend. It's out. We help the podcast grow. Additionally, subscribe to our sister podcast, Shat on TV, or review TV series, such as Westworld, Taboo, American Gods, Game of Thrones, true detective, love, country and watch, find all information and past episodes at chatpod.com slash TV. And finally, if you would like to hang out with us |
| 1:32.8 | live, follow and subscribe to our Twitch channel, chatpod.com slash Twitch and our YouTube |
| 1:37.4 | channel where we play video games, host watch parties, and edit this podcast live. And I've had a few |
| 1:42.1 | people message and say, Gene, what's going on? You're not on Twitch anymore. I don't see you that often playing games. You're not on Steam. Had a baby. She can hold her own head up now. She's starting to move around a little bit. We're getting to the point where she might be sleeping like closer to like six hours at a time, in which case, you might see a little bit |
| 2:00.9 | of more of me, but right now we are in full baby mode. It's honorable. You know, it's more honorable |
| 2:05.5 | helping out your squad in Battlefield 6. With the baby, strap the baby on and go into battle. |
| 2:10.8 | She really does like hanging out in her tactical carrier. Hey, you got to get a 5.1 surround. Maybe |
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