Best Steve Skeet Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 17 I Tru2Shooters Podcast : Mastering the Mental Game with Skeet Legend Todd Bender 47:13

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Send us a text In this powerhouse episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner sit down with none other than Todd Bender — one of the winningest skeet shooter in history, 27-time NSSA World Champion, and the first-ever NSSA Master Instructor. Recognized worldwide as the leading authority in shotgun instruction, Todd …

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Episode 16 | Tru2Shooters Podcast : Pizza, Punchlines & Perfect Pairs with Steve ‘Woody’ Wood and Dessislav ‘Dess’ Ivanov 38:21

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Send us a text In this hilarious and heartfelt episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner sit down with two of the sport’s most entertaining athletes — Steve “Woody” Wood and Dessislav “Dess” Ivanov. Shooting partners, travel buddies, and all-around crowd favorites, Woody and Dess share their journey from a small N…

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52: They're a Weird Mob 2:04:19

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... is a film we're not discussing today. More of a comment about Doug, Steve, and Darren, who are discussing a film called The Mob. And also a film called The Mob. You'll see.

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Episode 15 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Leading from the Front with Team Krieghoff Captain Alessandro Vitale 48:17

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Send us a text In this powerful episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner sit down with Alessandro Vitale — Team Krieghoff Captain, NSSA/NSCA National Board Member, and founder of Highland Sporting Outfitters. From his start as a young hunter to developing his skills on the field and becoming a leader in the skeet…

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Episode 14 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Season Recap, Favorite Memories, and What’s Still Ahead 51:24

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Send us a text In this special episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner take the mics for a full season recap. From blizzard-shortened early shoots in Michigan to major stops like the Triple J Classic, Krieghoff Masters, U.S. Open, SCTP Nationals, and Junior Worlds, the guys share their favorite stories, biggest …

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51: Invasion of the Podcaster Snatchers 51:20

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This episode is under an hour. No, this is not a typo. We cannot guarantee that our hosts have not been body snatched by other hosts.

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Episode 13 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Healing Through the Hunt with Hunt2Heal's Carson Nyenhuis 50:42

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Send us a text 🎙️ Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 13: “Healing Through the Hunt with Carson Nyenhuis from Hunt 2 Heal” In this inspiring episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we sit down with Carson Nyenhuis, founder of Hunt 2 Heal, to talk about breaking barriers in the outdoors and empowering individuals with disabilities to experience the healing …

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Episode 12 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Reflections from the Youngest World Champ - Connor Thigpen’s Rise to the Top 43:29

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Send us a text In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we sit down with Connor Thigpen, the youngest shooter to ever win the NSSA Open World Skeet Championship, to talk about what it really takes to hit the top—and stay there. 💥 Hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner catch up with Connor fresh off his NSSA Junior World wins in Waco, Texas. Fr…

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Episode 11 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Clays, Kids and Character - Inside the SCTP 49:55

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Send us a text In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we go behind the scenes of one of the most impactful youth shooting programs in the country—the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP)—with National Director Wayne Rasmussen. 💬🔥 Recorded live at SCTP Nationals at the Cardinal Center, hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner sit down with Way…

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Episode 10 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Endowing the Future of Youth Shooting with MidwayUSA Foundation 50:23

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Send us a text In this powerful episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner sit down with Pete Eisentrager, Executive Director and Zach Abbott, Marketing Specialist, both from the MidwayUSA Foundation to talk about building long-term sustainability for youth shooting sports. 💥 Recorded live at the SCTP Nationals at …

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Episode 9 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : World Champion Wisdom - From Gravel Pits to Grass Fields with Bruce Christian 46:37

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Send us a text In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we’re sitting down with World Skeet Champion Bruce Christian to talk about championship shooting, precision target setting, and the transformation of St. Joe Valley Conservation Club into one of the most beautiful clubs in the country—all powered by volunteers. 💪 Hosts Tyler Wildman and Mi…

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Episode 8 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Breaking Clays & Building Legacy with Amber Brown 52:04

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Send us a text 🎯 Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 8: Breaking Clays & Building Legacy with Amber Brown In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we’re sitting down with Amber Brown, competitive sporting clays athlete, coach, and member of the Michigan Sporting Clays Association board. From youth SCTP days to shooting alongside her dad as “Team Bro…

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50: The Ashes of Trashathon 2:04:59

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Jesus Christ, Daffy Duck, and some ninjas walk into a bar. Just a usual day on Ludicrously Specific. But before that, we unpack the wonders of Trashathon, a new event at the Hollywood sponsored by the Incredibly Strange Archive and Vinegar Syndrome, and the absolute dreck (complimentary) that screened there.…

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Episode 7 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Straight from the Chief with NSSA Chief Instructor Fred Tschantz 49:23

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Send us a text 🔥 Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 7: Straight from the Chief with Fred Tschantz, NSSA Chief Instructor & 2013 .410 Bore World Champion In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we’re talking with Fred Tschantz — 2013 .410 bore World Champion, Hall of Famer, and the current NSSA Chief Instructor. 🏆🎯📘 Hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael …

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Episode 6 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : Goats, Guns & Goals! with youth athlete Kinsey Duzan 45:31

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Send us a text In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we’re hanging out with one of the most dynamic youth shooters in the game — Kinsey Duzan (@kinseyduzan)! From raising goats to raising the bar in ATA and International Trap, Kinsey brings energy, grit, and a whole lot of personality to the clay target world. 🐐🎯🔥 Hosts Tyler Wildman and Mic…

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Episode 5 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : The Next Gen with SCTP Athletes Bobby Kaufmann & Tanner Harvey 27:05

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Send us a text Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 5: The Next Gen with SCTP Athletes Bobby Kaufmann & Tanner Harvey In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we’re diving into the future of clay target sports with two rising stars: SCTP athletes Bobby Kaufmann and Tanner Harvey! 🚀🎯 Hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner sit down with Bobby and Tann…

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Episode 4 l Tru2Shooters Podcast : FITASC, Firearms and Everything in Between! with Master Class Sporting Clay Athlete and Pacific Arms Salesman Matthew Topor 43:54

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Send us a text Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 4: FITASC, Firearms & Everything in Between! with Matthew Topor In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we’re talking FITASC, fine firearms, and the mental game behind high-level competition with Master Class Sporting Clays athlete and Pacific Sporting Arms salesman Matthew Topor. 🎯🔥 Hosts Tyler Wi…

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Episode 3 | Tru2Shooters Podcast : The Importance of Coaching with World Champion Dave Scott 45:08

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Send us a text Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 3: The Importance of Coaching with World Champion Dave Scott In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we sit down with Dave Scott, a World Skeet Champion and NSSA Certified Instructor, to talk about the importance of coaching in clay target sports. 🏆 Hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner dive into…

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Episode 2 | Tru2Shooters Podcast : The MSA Has a NEW President with MSA President Andrew Bielman 51:13

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Send us a text Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 2: The MSA Has a NEW President with MSA President Andrew Bielman In this episode of the Tru2Shooters Podcast, we sit down with Andrew Bielman, the newly elected president of the Michigan Skeet Association (MSA)! 🎯 Join hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner as they dive into Andrew’s background in skee…

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Episode 1 | Tru2Shooters Podcast : Meet the Team Tyler Wildman & Michael Fitzner 38:28

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Send us a text Tru2Shooters Podcast | Episode 1: Meet the Team Welcome to the Tru2Shooters Podcast, your go-to source for everything clay target shooting! In this first episode, meet your hosts Tyler Wildman and Michael Fitzner, passionate shooters dedicated to growing the sport and helping others get started. Join us as we share our backgrounds, t…

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49: Hacking Away 1:55:30

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Skeet's been hacking away at #ACenturyOfCinema. Doug's been hacking away at the releases of 2024. Darren's been hacking away at Twin Peaks. And we've all been hacking away at the legacy of Gene Hackman. Join us for a double in-memoriam, followed by a few rounds of What We Watched, featuring a killer lawn mower, the worst idea for a date movie ever …

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48: LudiBest of 2024! 2:01:54

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Two episodes in one month?!? Hold onto your monocles, the surprises are only beginning as we explore the best and worst of cinema in 2024. Will Skeet praise a film that rhymes with "curiosa"? Will we talk for two hours yet again? Who's to say?

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47: WWW, Summer Solstice 2:12:31

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You know we couldn't let the year go by without another episode, right? (Well, we *could*, but we didn't.) Join us for everything from Dr. Seuss to Dr. Acula, from sheep to ants, from laughter to tears, from digressions to distracting cats, and - yes - more!

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46: What We Watched, Winterlong 2:09:04

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Is this thing on? Oh, yes it is. Get ready for two hours of zombie ninjas, oversized canaries, Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippo, and whatever the hell XTRO is. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. From Victor Erice to Bruce Leung, join us for a ramble as we discuss - that's right - what we watched for the last three months.…

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45: A Corman Tribute, With Digressions 2:10:46

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Roger Corman may be the only man who was involved with the making of more films than we could mention in a single podcast. But that doesn't mean we don't try! Come celebrate BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA, DEATH RACE 2000, A BUCKET OF BLOOD and much much more. Plus we conclude with a brief (lol) round of What We Watched, which explains…

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44: Radiant Snipers, Fully Exposed 1:02:33

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If you pay attention to obscure UK boutique Blu-ray labels - and who doesn't? - you know that Radiance is the most exciting new player in the market. Profiling two of their titles from Europe in the mid-70s would have been specific. Choosing two that had male nudity would be very specific. But two that also have their plot disrupted by the arrival …

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43: What We Watched, Summer Edition 1:31:21

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Two martyrs, three sperm donors and a kajillion ninjas walk into a podcast. And then there's the robot, the senile mother, and the devil. Tune in for ninety minutes of everything we've been watching: comedies, classics, current releases, and, of course, a Godfrey Ho film.

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42: Sinister Zombie, Not Sinister Zombies 1:11:44

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ELMER GANTRY. DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS. Two films bound together by nothing whatsoever. Except the sinister urge of Rob Zombie, who sampled them both on the first track of one of his albums. The Sinister Urge, to be specific.

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41: What We Watched, Holidays Edition 2:06:09

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You know Darren wouldn't let go of the holidays that quickly. We're kicking off the year with a few faves since our last recording, from Christmas-y musicals to two takes on the future 90s style at the absolute opposite ends of the budget and quality spectrum to, of course Godfrey Ho. We also take a surprisingly soulful detour into the question: if…

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40: A Very, Very Unmerry Sally Field 70s TV Movie Xmas 1:26:00

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Another Christmas, another set of Christmas-adjacent movies. But what *is* Christmas-adjacent, anyway? What makes a Christmas movie? And why does Darren love TV movies so much? All these mysteries - and more - are explored through the lens of two 70s tv movies featuring Sally Field available on YouTube that you've probably never seen: MONGO'S BACK …

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39: WWW, 2023 Wrap-up Edition 2:06:42

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Is 2023 over already? No, sorry. But we're over with 2023, and so we're chatting about our best cinema experience, biggest cinematic disappointment, our favourite film of the year, and much more. From Hundreds of Beavers and Rat Race to Stop Making Sense and Oppenheimer, join us for another ramble where we traipse through films that are sublime, fi…

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38: Beat It, NYC 50s Style 1:49:36

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In our latest connections episode, it's time to take two charismatic singers, put them on the streets of New York, give them percussion skills, and watch them squirm their way through very stressful situations, in luminous black and white. It's Frank Sinatra in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and Harry Belafonte - *not* Sidney Poitier - in ODDS AGAINST…

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37: What We Watched, Q3 Edition 1:48:38

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So: it's been a time since adulthood and winter bugs have allowed us to gather And it's only a few moments before the 24th Annual Movie Marathon. So it's a double duty episode: a rave about Auckland's (New Zealand's?) (Australasia's?) (The Universe's?) greatest cinemagoing event that doubles as a chance to shamelessly beg for our dream programming,…

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36: Putting The Team in Flying Guillotines 1:23:09

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If it's a secret that one of your hosts loves flying guillotine movies, it's a very badly kept one. So when Steve dug up two flying guillotine movies with what some might call a ludicrously specific connection, it was happy times in podcastland! Come join us as we unpack THE DEADLY SILVER SPEAR and THE HEROIC TRIO - but don't forget to duck and dod…

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35: What We Watched, June Edition 1:25:27

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Agnes Varda, Ronald Reagan and Kinji Fukusaku walk into a podcast. You expect nothing less, right?

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34: Quadruple Threats Of The Past 58:56

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One of the most celebrated films of all time joins one of the least celebrated films of all time. What of the many possible possibilities brings these two films together? Well, of the many options, there's the phrase "of the", but there's another connection between SPECTER OF THE ROSE and THE RULES OF THE GAME: their multi-hyphenated creators!…

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33: What We Watched, May Edition 1:35:01

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From Stephen King ripoffs and champagne-drinking birds to art documentaries and dueling werewolf flicks, from Peter Greenaway to Takashi Miike, from Jimmy Stewart to Gong Li, once again, it's a slice of something for everybody as we review another month of viewing in the Ludicrously Specific household! (Note: any resemblance to an actual household …

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32: Sight And Sound, Streaming, Short, Sfemale directors 1:39:33

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With the venerable institution Sight and Sound releasing not only its top 100 list but every last film that got a vote, we decided it was well past time to get classy and choose two feature films to watch. Short ones. Ones available on streaming services in New Zealand. And by female directors. And *that* is how you get Valerie Massadian's NANA and…

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31: What We Watched, April Edition 1:47:33

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An existential Bergman classic. A Bible epic. A no-budget creature feature. Can you guess who watched what? If so, you know us better than we know ourselves! Some left-field viewing choices this month also include the second movie we've covered called DETENTION, Ernest Borgnine on a bus, Peter Sellers on a rampage, and a bear ... ON COCAINE?!?!?…

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30: Not The 80s, Not Action 1:12:16

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What do Road House and Raw Deal have in common? If you say that they're 80s action movies, you're clearly not talking about the same film noirs that we are! And that's just the beginning of a long web of commonalities these two crackers share. We've divided this one into non-spoiler and spoiler sections, so if you're curious but averse to having to…

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28: Cape Fears: The Complete Abridged Collection 1:20:33

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It sounded so simple. We thought we'd watch every feature-length version of CAPE FEAR that wasn't CAPE FEAR (1962). Obviously there was Martin Scorsese's CAPE FEAR (1991), and less obviously, FORCE OF EVIL (not the film noir, but something much stranger and made for television), but our holy grail - the Bollywood version - proved elusive, while ano…

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27: What We’ve Watched, Februaryish Edition 1:34:38

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Supernatural film noir, topless tennis smuggled into a martial arts film, Uruguayan cinematheques, 70s car chases, Bette Davis, and Jeff Goldblum. Join us for another rambling celebration of what's passed through our eyeholes in the last month! (Also: WRECK, mentioned by Darren, is on TVNZ+ now. Call this a show note. Would you like show notes? Let…

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26: Scorsese Literary Adaptations, From A to B 1:36:26

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Throw a dart at Martin Scorsese's filmography and you could come up with a subset of films to discuss. But who throws a dart at the bloody Roger Corman-produced BOXCAR BERTHA and the prestigious Oscar-winning PG-rated THE AGE OF INNOCENCE? No points for realising the answer is us. Join us as we connect the dots on two of Scorsese's literary adaptat…

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25: What We’re Watching, January Edition 1:59:28

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It's 2023, and we're changing things up. From now on, we'll have a ramble of films we've seen as a standalone episode at the start of the month, and a deep dive into two films midway through the month. At least, for as long as we can keep it up! From BLOOD GAMES to ROVER DANGERFIELD to DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, and some little sci-fi film called NOPE, ge…

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24: Not Christmas, Not Special 3:18:53

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Are you ready for this year's Ludicrously Specific Christmas special? We certainly weren't, which is why we recorded this three days after Christmas. That's okay, because when it comes to seasonal topicality, the three films that we found to chat about make DIE HARD look like THE NATIVITY STORY. So after a pre-chat that lasts longer than that lefto…

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23: Blank You New York 2:01:35

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Have you watched the documentary BLANK CITY? Neither have two of our hosts. But one early morning viewing by our third host led to this installment covering three of the films profiled therein that emerged from the No Wave scene of New York in the early 80s. Meet three spray painting directionless protagonists in an urban ruin. Not your hosts. We d…

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22: Proof Of Life (Not The Russell Crowe Movie) 1:38:41

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Can you be forgiven for assuming we're dead? Probably, we're nice like that. Can we be forgiven for not bothering to not having a theme for our first episode in over six months? Probably not, but here we are! From the sublime to the ridiculous, we're back together, and only our enthusiasm is infectious!…

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21: The Seven Deadly Sins of 1964 2:36:34

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Long promised, finally delivered! Our in-person reunion. All the usually talking over each other with no awkward pauses on Skype! Recorded in the runup to Christmas, some discussion of seasonal favourites, and an excursis on Darren's favourite year in movies: 1964.By Doug Dillaman, Steve Skeet and Darren Waugh

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20: Quarantine 2: Throatclearing Boogaloo 2:20:32

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We thought we'd reunite in person soon HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry about that. It seemed plausible once! Anyway, we got together on what once was to be the opening night of the NZIFF in Auckland to chat about Doug's bespoke replacement, the Auckland Online Film Festival (AOFF), as well as the gargantuan number of films we've been watching in the last …

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19: 1987, A GRRReat Year For Movies 2:41:57

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What's the greatest year for film ever? Steve thinks it's 1987. So we talk a lot about 1987 movies, but that's not specific enough. What about movies that start with the letter R? Reasonably specific? And that are *also* rated R? Now we're talking ludicrously specific. Join us for RAGE OF HONOR, RAMPAGE, and RITA SUE AND BOB TOO in a episode that's…