Defocused Bootleg
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Defocused 378: Alien: Romulus
Joe and Dan get face-hugged back into the Alien franchise, and then very imprecisely tier rank the Alien movies.
Previous Episodes
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August 29, 2024
Defocused 377: Twisters
Dan and Joe chase the storm.
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July 18, 2024
Defocused 376: Hit Man
Dan and Joe are joined by Merlin Mann and Ry Amidon and mostly avoid talking about Hit Man. There is a lot of business brainstorming.
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June 28, 2024
Defocused 375: The Fall Guy
Dan and Joe talk about The Fall Guy.
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June 7, 2024
Defocused 374: The Defocused 10 Year Anniversary
Raw recording of a silly draft from 10 years of silly episodes.
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April 26, 2024
Defocused 373: Road House (2024)
Dan and Joe discuss the slick and polished cheeseball action movie, and its director who boycotted the movie to try and get a theatrical release. Also Limp Bizkit.
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March 22, 2024
Defocused 372
Dan has an idea for the Super Oscars, and Joe has an idea to reconsider awards, which mostly revolves around taking away Birdman’s Oscar.
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February 29, 2024
Defocused 371: The Creator
Joe and Dan love the look of ‘The Creator’ but have some quibbles about the story.
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January 26, 2024
Defocused 370: Asteroid City
Dan and Joe talk about this turducken of twee.
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December 12, 2023
Defocused 369: Dumb & Dumber
Dan has fond memories of ‘Dumb & Dumber’ and Joe does not.
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November 17, 2023
Defocused 368: The Killer
Dan and Joe can’t figure out why David Fincher went ahead with this made-for-TV movie.
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September 22, 2023
Defocused 367: Renfield
A love of storytelling, and a discussion of Dan’s “concussion syndrome”
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August 18, 2023
Defocused 366: Barbie
We talk about the Barbie movie and the general vibe of the summer of film.
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July 14, 2023
Defocused 365: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Joe doesn’t know much about D&D and explains it slowly to Dan. Also there is a lot of discussion of really trashy fast food and chain restaurants.
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June 7, 2023
Defocused 364
No movie. WWDC, and Visions of the future.
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April 20, 2023
Defocused 363: The Menu
Dan ate a prestigious restaurant before we recorded.
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February 9, 2023
Defocused 362: The Lost City
Dan and Joe talk about D.
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January 12, 2023
Defocused 351: Glass Onion
A Knive’s Out Podcast.
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December 8, 2022
Defocused 360: Reindeer Games
Don’t play no reindeer games with me.
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November 15, 2022
Defocused 359
No movie this time. Just having some Arby’s fun.
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October 4, 2022
Defocused 358: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Joe worried about Dan having ideal conditions to finally watch the movie.
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September 8, 2022
Defocused 357: Top Gun: Maverick
You’ll never believe this, but these men are not good at expressing their feelings.
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August 19, 2022
Defocused 356: Prey
A brief summary of all Predator movies, and then Prey, which was fine.
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July 28, 2022
Defocused 355
No movie this week.
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July 6, 2022
Defocused 354: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
This definitely was a sequel.
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May 25, 2022
Defocused 353: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Who can belive we covered another movie released in 2022? Not us.
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May 5, 2022
Defocused 352: The Batman
You’ll never believe this but he’s The Batman.
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April 19, 2022
Defocused 351
No movie this week, but Dan gives a brief, but unenthusiastic nod to ‘The Batman’ and Joe heartily endorses ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ - No spoilers.
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April 13, 2022
Defocused 350: Cliffhanger
Die Hard on a mountain. Another Carolco masterpiece.
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March 9, 2022
Defocused 349: Free Guy
Ryan Reynolds is heavily featured.
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March 3, 2022
Defocused 348: Gone Girl
Gone Girl. That’s the tweet.
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February 23, 2022
Defocused 347: Panic Room
Panic! Room.
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January 26, 2022
Defocused 346: Fight Club
Some people seem to take this seriously, like Joe’s RA.
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January 20, 2022
Defocused 345: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Dan and Joe are joined by Seth Worley and Ryan Polly from The Writers Room Game Show to talk about a very WRGS movie.
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January 13, 2022
Defocused: Ghostbusters (2016)
Well, there’s a lot to say just about The Discourse on this one.
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January 6, 2022
Defocused: The Matrix Resurrections
These rebels would be foiled by a captcha.
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December 16, 2021
Defocused 342: Moonstruck
Christmas adjacent.
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December 8, 2021
Defocused 341
No movie this week. Air filters, bidet’s, and Christmas trees.
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November 18, 2021
Defocused 340: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
It’s a good thing 3D never went out of fashion.
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November 11, 2021
Defocused 339: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
We mostly talk about bad fast-food menus.
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October 28, 2021
Defocused 338: Dune
We talk about the 2021 version of Dune and compare adaptations.
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October 20, 2021
Defocused 337: Freaky
Deween, Hallowfocused. Stuff.
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October 13, 2021
Defocused 336: The Lego Batman Movie
Batman should be fun!
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September 15, 2021
Defocused 335
Naval promotions, cinema, shooting Alexa LF and dropping it on film to scan it again for the ulimate cinematic mode, and Nolan News.
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August 25, 2021
Defocused 334: The Suicide Squad
The other one.
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August 19, 2021
Defocused 333: Birds of Prey
We have some editing notes.
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August 5, 2021
Defocused 332: Suicide Squad
Not to be confused with “The Suicide Squad”.
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July 28, 2021
Defocused 331: Hot Rod
Shifting gears back to silly, and light after ‘The Lighthouse’
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July 23, 2021
Defocused 330: The Lighthouse
Fond of me lobster.
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July 15, 2021
Defocused 329: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
And soda fountains.
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July 1, 2021
Defocused 328: The Punisher
Tampa!
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June 17, 2021
Defocused 327
No movie this week. Coffee! Espresso! Corndog problem-solving!
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May 26, 2021
Defocused 326: Next
We talk about the very bad Nicolas Cage movie “Next” for 57 minutes, and then we have an aftershow where we talk about the “recipes” section of the Wonder Bread website.
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May 13, 2021
Defocused 325: Source Code
Loops!
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May 6, 2021
Defocused 324: Tenet
It’s safe to say that this wasn’t Christopher Nolan’s best work.
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April 29, 2021
Defocused 323: Palm Springs
Like Groundhog Day but with more stuff.
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April 14, 2021
Defocused 322: Paycheck
There is some colorful (blue) language in this episode.
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April 8, 2021
Defocused 321
No movie this week. Talking about stuff and things - and food. Always food.
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March 24, 2021
Defocused 320: Jumper
At least it’s only an hour and a half.
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March 17, 2021
Defocused 319: Detective Pikachu
Maybe there are some issues with the writing.
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February 25, 2021
Defocused 317: Sonic the Hedgehog
TEETH, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
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February 18, 2021
Defocused 316: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Dining on ashes.
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February 11, 2021
Defocused 315: Sneakers
We’re joined by Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Todd Vaziri!
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February 3, 2021
Defocused 314: Kuffs
Dan saw this movie a long time ago and wanted an excuse to watch it again. Joe was not very happy about it.
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January 28, 2021
Defocused 313: Face/Off
Dan ate some candy, and Joe says he doesn’t really have a sweet tooth. The movie is also discussed.
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January 20, 2021
Defocused 312: Broken Arrow
Nuclear bomb things and boxing.
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January 11, 2021
Defocused 311: Cutthroat Island
The film that killed Carolco Pictures. We can see why. Remember that our Carolco-inspired shirts are only on sale for a few more days.
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December 30, 2020
Defocused 310: Street People
A.K.A. Gli esecutori, The Executors, or The Sicilian Cross. There is a tenuous connection between this very bad movie and our new Defocused shirts on sale January 4th.
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December 23, 2020
Defocused 309
Food, including watergate salad, and then drafting the food for the “gift guide”
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December 10, 2020
Defocused 308: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Of course they have to capture the president to prove their family never did anything to the president.
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November 25, 2020
Defocused 307: National Treasure
Sure, why not?
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November 17, 2020
Defocused 306: Gone In 60 Seconds
This is extremely 2000. After the show is over we read through the list of other movies from 2000 that we can’t believe were from 2000 if you really want some wikipedia reading in your life.
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November 12, 2020
Defocused 305: Con Air
Joe has never seen this movie before. Dan has seen this movie a lot.
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November 6, 2020
Defocused 303
No movie, just pensive election coverage that no one really needs and will be out of date by the time anyone listens. We’re releasing this as 303 and we’re releasing ‘Alien: Covenant’ next week.
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October 22, 2020
Defocused 304: Alien: Covenant
We finally did it. Now they have to stop making them, right?
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October 15, 2020
Defocused 302: Prometheus
Maybe the writing isn’t so good on this one.
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October 5, 2020
Defocused 301
No movie this time. Just catching up.
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September 4, 2020
Defocused 300: 300
What a toxic waste dump.
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August 26, 2020
Defocused 299: Batman & Robin
The Scooby-Doo sound library.
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August 19, 2020
Defocused 298: Batman Forever
Dan is not having any of these shenanigans.
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August 13, 2020
Defocused 297: Batman Returns
What you put in your toilet I put on my mantel.
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August 6, 2020
Defocused 296: Batman
There are some disagreements about Batman.
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July 31, 2020
Defocused 295: Alita: Battle Angel
There’s a lot going on here.
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July 23, 2020
Defocused 294: The Iron Giant
Joe says Dan hates The Iron Giant and Dan says Joe hates dogs. Technical call issues abound, but that’s why this is an unedited bootleg.
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July 15, 2020
Defocused 293: Super 8
An extensive discussion of J.J. Abrams, and tippy toes.
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July 9, 2020
Defocused 292: Paddington 2
Mid-Atlantic pink.
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July 2, 2020
Defocused 291: Paddington
We also talked for a long time about junk food before the movie.
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June 17, 2020
Defocused 290: Six Year Anniversary Episode
We go through each year of podcast episodes and pick our favorites.
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June 11, 2020
Defocused 289: Speed 2: Cruise Control
June de Bont continues with the deeply flawed sequel to his first hit movie.
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June 4, 2020
Defocused 288: Twister
Seth Worley’s “favorite” movie, so naturally Seth Worley is on.
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May 27, 2020
Defocused 287: Speed
The start of June de Bont.
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May 21, 2020
Defocused 286: The Adventures of Tintin
Seth Worley joins us once again to talk about a Spielberg movie.
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May 6, 2020
Defocused 285: Red Planet
Just like that Krusty the Clown doll with the evil/good switch.
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April 29, 2020
Defocused 284: The Saint
Dan defends his position.
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April 23, 2020
Defocused 283: Timecop
Dan wishes he could travel back in time and stop Peter Hyams.
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April 15, 2020
Defocused 282: Running Scared
This 1986 movie starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal might not have lived up to expectations.
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April 8, 2020
Defocused 281: Outland
Sean Connery is a space cop.
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April 3, 2020
Defocused 280: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Seth Worley returns as our guest to discuss our mutual disappointment in this Indiana Jones installment, and maybe it’s a good thing James Mangold will take this over.
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March 25, 2020
Defocused 279: Stargate
The movie, not the TV shows.
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March 21, 2020
Defocused 278: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
We know people mostly want to listen to this bootleg for the Skype issues.
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March 10, 2020
Defocused 277
We ate hot dogs.
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February 25, 2020
Defocused 276: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
At this point you really know what to expect.
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February 11, 2020
Defocused 275: Knives Out
Steve Yedlin’s 11 herbs and spices.
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February 6, 2020
Defocused 274
Film vs. Digital vs. Food (as usual).
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January 30, 2020
Defocused 273
No movie. Mostly food.
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January 23, 2020
Defocused 272: Hustlers
Pretty sure The Financial Crisis was bad.
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January 16, 2020
Defocused 271: Dolemite Is My Name
Eddie Murphy appears as a real-life comedian who had to promote himself because no one else would - which is pretty meta when you realize Netflix didn’t really promote this movie at all.
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January 7, 2020
Defocused 270: Tremors
Let’s have some fun.
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December 18, 2019
Defocused 269: Hudson Hawk
Dan tricked Joe into watching this one.
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December 10, 2019
Defocused 268: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Seth Worley is back and he really wants to rewrite this entire movie.
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December 4, 2019
Defocused 267: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Returning guest Seth Worley is on to talk about one of his childhood favorites.
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November 20, 2019
Defocused 266
No movie. Bread. At an hour and 20 minutes Dan does mention a slight spoiler for The Mandalorian episode 1, so stop listening or skip it for five minutes.
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November 13, 2019
Defocused 265: The Man Who Knew Too Little
Bill Murray as Bill Murray.
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November 7, 2019
Defocused 264
No movie this time, just catching up, and of course a conversation about food and salsa viscosity.
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October 23, 2019
Defocused 263: Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Dark Knight of Mission: Impossible movies.
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October 15, 2019
Defocused 262: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Pepe Silvia and the Syndicate Gang.
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October 9, 2019
Defocused 261: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Maybe Joe likes it.
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September 30, 2019
Defocused 260: Mission: Impossible III
Now we enter uncharted territory.
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September 25, 2019
Defocused 259: Mission: Impossible 2
🐦 🏍 🏃 🦠
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September 18, 2019
Defocused 258: Mission: Impossible
Your bootleg, should you choose to accept it.
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September 10, 2019
Defocused 257: Venom
If Upton Sinclair had a leather jacket.
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September 4, 2019
Defocused 256
No movie this week. We talk about Joe’s trip to Spain and Portugal, hot dogs, and the importance of camera backpacks.
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August 14, 2019
Defocused 255: A Quiet Place
We talk about a suspenseful, thrilling monster movie about a family trying to hold together - also Pepe Silvia.
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August 12, 2019
Defocused 254: The Predator
It’s definitely a Shane Black movie.
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August 7, 2019
Defocused 253: Predators
Adrian Brody falls out of the sky and does a Batman voice with some other people in Predator Fan Fiction.
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July 31, 2019
Defocused 252: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
How is predalien babby formed?
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July 25, 2019
Defocused 251
More trailers! • Terminator: Dark Fate Followup • Cats Followup • Top Gun: Maverick • Gemini Man • Picard If you would like to suggest a title, go to The Incomparable Member Slack’s #defocused channel.
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July 17, 2019
Defocused 250
We talked about current trailers, and behind the scenes featurette: • Terminator: Dark Fate • Hobbes & Shaw • King’s Man • Knives Out • Cats • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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July 12, 2019
Defocused 249: John Carter
We have some notes.
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June 28, 2019
Defocused 248: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I’ve buried 14 Spiders-Men.
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June 19, 2019
Defocused 247: Universal Soldier
This movie is exactly what you think it is.
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June 13, 2019
Defocused 246
No movie this week, just spicy tacos.
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May 30, 2019
Defocused 245
No movie. Hawaii and routers galore. If you’re listening to the bootleg, please feel free to suggest titles in #defocused
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May 21, 2019
Defocused 244: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Dan didn’t know what “Star Trek Bad” was so Joe showed him.
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May 16, 2019
Defocused 243: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Joe made Dan watch a Star Track.
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May 8, 2019
Defocused 242: Doom
Well. We talked about it.
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April 30, 2019
Defocused 241: The Blues Brothers
Dan is excited about ‘The Blues Brothers’ and Joe is mostly fine with it.
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April 24, 2019
Defocused 240: Be Cool
Well this was a mistake. Remember when I used to be John Travolta? I used to talk into my disco shoe.
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April 18, 2019
Defocused 239: Out of Sight
Another Elmore Leonard novel turned into a movie, but definitely different from the other two. When you’re here, you’re family.
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April 12, 2019
Defocused 238: Jackie Brown
Continuing with movies based on Elmore Leonard novels.
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April 5, 2019
Defocused 237
No movie this week, just Joe’s trip to Mexico City.
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March 26, 2019
Defocused 236: Get Shorty
Coffee mugs, soup, and mobsters in 90s LA. This is a lively one.
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March 21, 2019
Defocused 235
No movie this week. Keep an eye out for the member special with Mikah Sargent in the First Class feed. It’ll show up shortly.
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March 13, 2019
Defocused 234: Die Another Day
Pie Another Day.
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March 8, 2019
Defocused 233: The World is Not Enough
I hope everyone likes bread.
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February 27, 2019
Defocused 232: Tomorrow Never Dies
In a strange turn of events, Joe likes this one and Dan hates this one.
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February 20, 2019
Defocused 231: GoldenEye
Only 90s kids will remember… Also we talked about how Dan doesn’t play card games.
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February 13, 2019
Defocused 230: The Shadow
Well … we have some notes.
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February 7, 2019
Defocused 229: The Phantom
The 1996 box office bomb. Also there’s a milk poster.
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February 1, 2019
Defocused 228
No topic, but a lot of Apple gripes.
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January 25, 2019
Defocused 227: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Title for the “aftershow” is: ‘Sanity (Grape Leaves)’
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January 16, 2019
Defocused 226: Annihilation
One of us generally liked it, and one of us didn’t like it at all
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January 9, 2019
Defocused 225: Super Troopers 2
The first disappointment of 2019!
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January 2, 2019
Defocused 224
No topic! Happy New Year!
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December 12, 2018
Defocused 223: Dune
Dunecember continues with ‘Dune, Where’s My Kwisatz Haderach?’
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December 10, 2018
Defocused 222: Dude, Where's My Car?
Dudecember continues … sorry.
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December 5, 2018
Defocused 221: The Big Lebowski
Dudecember continues with The Dude. Dan mostly looks at maps and google results. Joe likes oat milk.
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November 28, 2018
Defocused 220: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Welcome to DUDEcember. (Sorry.)
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November 23, 2018
Defocused 219
NoTopicVember. Dan made some Black Friday purchases, and tried to get a bouncy house.
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November 14, 2018
Defocused 218
Inspired by The Incomparable Film Score Draft and Do By Friday’s recent make-a-playlist episode, Dan and Joe draft their favorite film scores, and songs, from the films that have been covered on Defocused up to this point. Dan also learns how drafts work.
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November 7, 2018
Defocused 217
NoTopicVember! Ice cubes, craft services, seating arrangements, social pressures of networking, laundry, sheets on top of sheets, shoes, phone colors, and RED Hydrogen One — oh my!
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October 31, 2018
Defocused 216: Addams Family Values
The physics of severed hands.
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October 24, 2018
Defocused 215: Weekend at Bernie's
Well… Foxtober took an unexpected turn.
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October 18, 2018
Defocused 214: AvP: Alien vs. Predator
Exploring another of Fox’s brands, Predator, but we already talked about the first and second one, so let’s talk about this mess.
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October 10, 2018
Defocused 213: Logan
FOXtober continues with another Fox franchise kept alive through science and money.
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October 3, 2018
Defocused 212: Alien: Resurrection
Welcome to FOXtober. There’s nothing more scary than a brrrrraaaaaand being reanimated when it’s purchased by another company. Let’s examine the franchises that are coming along on this spooky ride. 👻
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September 25, 2018
Defocused 211: Ready Player One
We end Steven Septemberg with his latest blockbuster film based on the book based on references to things he and his contemporaries did 30+ years ago.
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September 18, 2018
Defocused 210: Minority Report
Steven Septemberg continues with ‘Minority Report’.
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September 13, 2018
Defocused 209: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
For Steven Septemberg, Dan picked E.T., another Spielberg movie Joe had not watched all of before.
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August 21, 2018
Defocused 208: Jaws
Starting off the month of Steven Septemberg.
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August 14, 2018
Defocused 207: Flight
Denzel WAUGUSTshington concludes with the critically acclaimed ‘Flight’.
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August 7, 2018
Defocused 206: Man On Fire
Dan and Joe love Dezel’s performance, but maybe don’t love everything that’s happening with this camera — and we do mean EVERYTHING.
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August 2, 2018
Defocused 205: Training Day
Raw recording of our discussion of ‘Training Day’ and some bootleg material about “everyday carry” peanut butter.
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July 27, 2018
Defocused 204: Crimson Tide
Everyone’s favorite red submarine movie … (checks notes)
‘Crimson Tide’
Welcome to (checks notes again)
Denzel WAUGUSTshington
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July 19, 2018
Defocused 203: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Seth Worley joins us again to discuss the flamming mountain of things that went wrong with this film.
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July 12, 2018
Defocused 202: Jurassic Park III
Returning guest Seth Worley sums up his thoughts on the first two Jurassic Park films before we dive into Jurassic Park III.
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July 9, 2018
Defocused 201: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Mistakes were made.
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June 28, 2018
Defocused 200: Jurassic Park
JULYssic Park
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June 19, 2018
Defocused 199: The Big Short
The end of ChrisJUNE Bale.
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June 13, 2018
Defocused 198: Terminator Salvation
ChrisJUNE Bale continues with a movie that’s mostly famous for him yelling at the DP.
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June 6, 2018
Defocused 197: Equilibrium
ChrisJUNE Bale continues with a very … derivative movie.
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May 22, 2018
Defocused 196: American Psycho
First episode of ChrisJUNE Bale.
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May 17, 2018
Defocused 195: Avatar
Continuing James CaMAYron with this … thing.
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May 9, 2018
Defocused 194
No movie. Thanks a lot, James CaMAYron.
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May 4, 2018
Defocused 193: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James CaMAYron continues.
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April 25, 2018
Defocused 192: The Terminator
It’s the start of James CaMAYron.
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April 19, 2018
Defocused 191: Bad Boys II
The conclusion of Michael Baypril.
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April 10, 2018
Defocused 190: Bad Boys
For the month of Michael Baypril.
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April 3, 2018
Defocused 188: Back to the Future Part III
Seth Worley returns to talk about the final movie in the series, and reflect on the series as a whole. After the show Dan and Joe talk to Seth about what his directing future holds.
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March 29, 2018
Defocused 189
Dan and Joe talk about nonsense. This is the episode that will be published after the ‘Back to the Future Part III’ episode. It was recorded before that one. It’s just like time travel.
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March 21, 2018
Defocused 187: Back to the Future Part II
The Elisabeth Shue is on the other Claudia Foote.
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March 14, 2018
Defocused 186: Back to the Future
We’re happy to have Seth Worley returning to discuss one of his favorite movies. It’s been influential in how he thinks of film. That’s the power of love.
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March 6, 2018
Defocused 185: Donnie Darko
Dan asked to watch ‘Donnie Darko’ but was a little underwhelmed.
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February 20, 2018
Defocused 184: Zodiac
“More like Mark Mumble-O”
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February 12, 2018
Defocused 183: Nightcrawler
Not the blue guy. Welcome to Gyllenbruary.
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February 1, 2018
Defocused 182: 22 Jump Street
We recommend seeing the movie before listening. It’s worthy of your time.
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January 23, 2018
Defocused 181: 21 Jump Street
Dan and Joe discuss a lot of jokes from this movie. Also Halloween … for reasons.
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January 16, 2018
Defocused 180: Logan Lucky
Channing Tatum and John Denver again this week, but this time it’s a Steven Soderbergh heist movie.
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January 9, 2018
Defocused 179: Kingsman: The Golden Circle
We discussed the first Kingsman movie with Mikah Sargent, and he makes a triumphant return to discuss the Kingsman sequel.
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January 2, 2018
Defocused 178
No movie topic this week, just catching up on what we did over the holidays.
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December 18, 2017
Defocused 176: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dan and Joe like many things about the film, but they have some notes.
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December 11, 2017
Defocused 177: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Dreaming of a Shane Black Christmas. This is recorded as episode 177, episode 176 will record later.
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December 6, 2017
Defocused 175: Bad Santa
We discuss the crass, but acclaimed, movie from 2003. Also sandwiches.
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December 4, 2017
Defocused 174: Trading Places
Dan tries to avoid saying “problematic”.
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November 27, 2017
Defocused 173: Gremlins
So much casual murder.
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November 21, 2017
Defocused 172
Non-movie episode about Dan’s trip to LA.
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November 16, 2017
Defocused 171
No movie this week. Dan’s sick, but still using a jib. Dan and Joe talk about iPhones and Portrait Mode, followed by Animoji.
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November 8, 2017
Defocused 170: Men in Black
In an unusual twist, we talk about the news of Kevin Spacey being replaced with Christopher Plummer on a movie that’s finished filming, when it’s supposed to debut in about a month and a half. Then we say a lot of complimentary things about 1996’s ‘Men in Black’. If you have any title suggestions, send them to @DefocusedShow, or post them in the #defocused Slack channel.
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November 2, 2017
Defocused 169: Wild Wild West
Last week we talked about ‘Blade Runner 2049’. You can always listen to that one again. If not, there’s this monstrosity.
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October 27, 2017
Defocused 168: Blade Runner 2049
We talk about the movie that’s in theaters right now, and we do heartily encourage you to watch it first.
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October 19, 2017
Defocused 167: Alien 3
We continue our tradition of talking about an Alien franchise movie every year. Unfortunately it’s Alien Superscript Three. We’re all out of good Alien franchise movies.
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October 10, 2017
Defocused 166: Blade Runner
Joe sent Dan mail. The ‘Final Cut’ version of ‘Blade Runner’ is discussed. Neither of us has seen ‘Blade Runner 2049’ yet so we don’t compare the movies.
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September 20, 2017
Defocused 165
No movie this week. Some nonsense, and some nonsense about spending money on Apple things.
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September 14, 2017
Defocused 164: The Matrix Revolutions
Dan and Joe are back after a break to finish the trilogy off.
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August 21, 2017
Defocused 163: The Matrix Reloaded
Maybe don’t undo your whole movie with some bad dialog at the end?
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August 15, 2017
Defocused 162: The Matrix
If you ever wanted to hear two guys who were teens when the movie came out discuss it 18 years later, now’s your chance. It’s also on Netflix, if you want to revisit it for yourself without taking out your 4:3 VHS copy.
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August 15, 2017
Defocused 161
Joe is going on a vacation so we’re banking episodes. For some reason we talked about text editors and to-do list apps. But these are not good opinions about these things, or advice. Yikes.
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August 8, 2017
Defocused 160
No movie this week. We discussed Dan’s Ohio trip, Netflix and Disney, and UHD HDR Apple TV.
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August 2, 2017
Defocused 159: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Special guest Mikah Sargent joins Dan and Joe to discuss how warm it is, Mikah’s food feels, and ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’.
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July 25, 2017
Defocused 158: Drive
With Special Guest Merlin Mann.
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July 17, 2017
Defocused 157: Baby Driver
Discussion of Edgar Wright’s latest film.
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July 12, 2017
Defocused 156: Her
Dan and Joe discuss 2014’s ‘Her’. “What if Samantha was a hot dog?”
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July 6, 2017
Defocused 155
No movie episode. Discussion of recent travels and then Dan let’s RED camera know what he really thinks about their holographic smartphone nonsense.
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June 28, 2017
Defocused 154: Mortal Kombat
Techno beats.
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June 22, 2017
Defocused 153
No movie. Topics include Dan ranting about tourists when he was a tourist in San Diego, and the recent, and abrupt change to who’s directing the Han Solo movie.
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June 14, 2017
Defocused 152: My Cousin Vinny
Dan and Joe are very tired because they haven’t had much sleep with all the screeching owls, and steam whistles, and freight trains.
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June 5, 2017
Defocused 151
No movie this week. Dan and Joe discuss a couple things from Apple’s WWDC event, Dan’s love of San Jose food, and Dan’s photographic catalog of San Jose restrooms.
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May 30, 2017
Defocused 150: Animal House
Dan said Joe should watch ‘Animal House’ even though all signs pointed to this being a bad idea. It’s not clear if fans, or critics, will be able to listen to this episode.
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May 22, 2017
Defocused 149: Caddyshack
Follow up from last week about palomas, and Scott Conant, and then Kenny Loggins.
Pool. Pond.
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May 16, 2017
Defocused 148: My Blue Heaven
Dan really likes this movie. Joe found out it was a movie.
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May 3, 2017
Defocused 147
No movie this week, but there was a listener Q&A.
Here are some of the titles suggested by listeners during the live broadcast:
- Add Verberations To My Things
- See Dan Jump
- Social Network Gameshow
- What’s So Bad About Your Life
- Make Podcast Go
- Hard Puck of Meat
- #notallhomemadehamburgers
- Oblong Meat Puck
- Sad Depressing Meat Pucks
- A Controversial Sandwich
- You Don’t Know Enough People Who Let You Down In Your Life
- Expert Flop Flipper Dan Sturm
- Big Questions That Require Thought
- Spend Our Hard Earned Cash to be Disappointed Again
- I Like Looking at Michael Fassbender
- Nice And Square And Delicious
- Depressing Little Manifestation of Loneliness
- All Waffles are Good Waffles
- Baker, Florist, Something
- I Managed to Stay Awake, It Was a Good Movie
- Sometimes I Save Files to Dropbox
- Not Elated About Elara
- A-E-I-O-U and sometimes Y
- What About Their iPad Pro Support?
- Match Made In Confusion
- A Lot of Chefs in the Fire
- Scorsese’s World War Z
- Beat this Button to Death
- We Berated Everyone’s Hamburgers
- That Griddles this Burger
- Put the Burger In Between Two Round Waffles
- Or Else It Gets the World War Z Again
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April 24, 2017
Defocused 146: Inglorious Basterds
The raw recording of Dan and Joe discussing ‘Inglorious Basterds’ with special guests Merlin Mann and Todd Vaziri.
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April 17, 2017
Defocused 145: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
This probably would have been a good place to leave the series.
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April 13, 2017
Defocused 144: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Screaming and chasing and more screaming and more chasing.
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April 5, 2017
Defocused 143: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Special guest Seth Worley was on to talk about nerdy Indiana Jones stuff with Dan and Joe.
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March 28, 2017
Defocused 142: Turner & Hooch
‘Turner & Hooch’ is not a great movie so we talk about a lot of other stuff including a general overview of Pierce Brosnan Bond movies.
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March 20, 2017
Defocused 141
No movie topic this week. Crackers, slit scan, and Netflix’s “skip intro” button were discussed.
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March 16, 2017
Defocused 140: Hellboy
This movie doesn’t make any sense so don’t expect to much from us.
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March 8, 2017
Defocused 139: L.A Confidential
Another ray of suuuunnnnn — no wait, wrong movie. Little darker.
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March 1, 2017
Defocused 138: La La Land
Another day of sun.
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February 22, 2017
Defocused 137: Hail, Caesar!
Would that it t’were so simple.
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February 15, 2017
Defocused 136
No specific movie was covered in this episode. Pies were discussed.
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February 8, 2017
Defocused 135: Spaceballs
We discussed then, just now.
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February 2, 2017
Defocused 134: Dredd
Dr. McCoy is Batman.
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January 27, 2017
Defocused 133: Judge Dredd
Armand Assante is so wet, and unblinking.
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January 19, 2017
Defocused 132: Kickboxer
For some reason, we thought it would be fun to go from ‘Bloodsport’ to ‘Kickboxer’. We regret this decision.
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January 11, 2017
Defocused 131: Bloodsport
Dan and Joe briefly discuss the Defocused shirts, and logo, inspired by Cannon films, which inspired the selection of a Cannon film for this week, which … Well. Here’s ‘Bloodsport’. It qualifies as a Cannon film.
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January 3, 2017
Defocused 130: The Running Man
Raw recording of Dan and Joe talking about 1987’s movie about 2017.
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December 17, 2016
Defocused 127: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Dan and Joe discuss ‘Rogue One’. Spoilers right from the start.
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December 7, 2016
Defocused 128: Die Hard 2
This episode will be released after the ‘Rogue One’ episode is recorded, which is why the episode number won’t make sense chronologically in the Bootleg feed, but will in the Defocused feed. Also we talked about ‘Die Hard 2’ so … Happy Holidays.
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November 30, 2016
Defocused 126: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Dan and Joe return to the Home Alone franchise and watch the same movie, but set in New York.
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November 25, 2016
Defocused 125: Scrooged
Dan and Joe discuss Scrooged, and new potatoes, to kick off their Christmas-themed December episodes.
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November 25, 2016
Defocused 124: Spies Like Us
Dan, Joe, and Anže Tomic discuss this 1980s film, and vans.
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November 16, 2016
Defocused 123
No movie this week. Just stuff and things. There is a brief mention of Doctor Strange with a spoiler warning called out in advance of it.
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November 9, 2016
Defocused 122: The Nice Guys
Raw recording of Dan and Joe discussing ‘The Nice Guys’.
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November 3, 2016
Defocused 121: Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused is briefly mentioned.
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October 26, 2016
Defocused 120
Raw recording of Dan and Joe talking about stuff and things. Things and stuff.
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October 20, 2016
Defocused 119: The Thing
Raw recording of Dan and Joe discussing John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’.
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October 12, 2016
Defocused 118: Predator 2
Welcome to the jungle we got fun and games We got everything you want honey, we know the names We are the people that can find whatever you may need If you got the money honey we got your disease In the jungle, welcome to the jungle Watch it bring you to your sha na na na na knees knees I wanna watch you bleed
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October 4, 2016
Defocused 117: Predator
Raw recording of ‘Predator’ episode.
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September 27, 2016
Defocused 116: Aliens
Start of October seasonal programming. Check out Defocused 69 for the episode on Alien, (Also there was a recent Incomparable episode on Alien).
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September 21, 2016
Defocused 115: Top Gun
Highway to the breath away.
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September 15, 2016
Defocused 114
No movie this week. iPhone 7 thoughts, donuts, and cereal.
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September 7, 2016
Defocused 113: Demolition Man
You can take this podcast, and you can shovel it.
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August 30, 2016
Defocused 112: The Net
Ordering pizza on the internet! Backdoors!
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August 25, 2016
Defocused 111: Cobra
Ugh.
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August 15, 2016
Defocused 110: Beverly Hills Cop II
‘Beverly Hills Cop II’
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August 10, 2016
Defocused 109: Beverly Hills Cop
‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and horrible, horrible, horrible junk food.
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August 2, 2016
Defocused 108
No movie this week. Just stuff and things. Things and stuff.
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July 27, 2016
Defocused: Star Trek Beyond
Rounding out the last three weeks of Star Trek, we have this week’s Star Trek Beyond. Spoilers, obvi.
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July 14, 2016
Defocused: Star Trek into Darkness
Dan and Joe discuss the not-so-great Star Trek into Darkness. This will be published the week before Star Trek Beyond is released.
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July 13, 2016
Defocused: Star Trek
Dan and Joe discuss the 2009 ‘Star Trek’ movie. This will be edited as Defocused 105 for this week.