Ryan McNeil
Runtime
84 minutes
Up for Discussion
0:00 Introduction
2:22 Know Your Enemy: Alia Miller
14:51 The New Slang: BULL DURHAM
48:22 The Other Side pt. I: Alia spins BROADCAST NEWS
1:01:59 The Other Side pt. II: Ryan spins THE GOOD GIRL
1:15:16 Further Down the Spiral
Thoughts from your host…
Greetings from San Francisco Bay, and welcome back to The Matinee!
The last week has treated me well vacation-wise, both the trip and the time away from my laptop. Now though, I’m ready to get back up and at ’em. To that end, I have a lot of content rattling around in my brain after a week away, so I do hope you’ll come back often as the week goes along.
Today though, it’s time for a tradition. In case you’re new to these parts, I decided back in 2013 to stop dedicating my birthday show to a weaker film. After griping about films like GET HIM TO THE GREEK and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 in early episodes, it became clear to me that the last weekend in May would forever be a dead zone in the film release calendar. Call me crazy, but this summer doesn’t seem much different.
So, every June we pause the new release love to discuss an old favorite. This year, not only is the film selected very much a favorite…but the guest makes the proceedings feel that much more special. You see, it was her birthday just four days ago, and besides that, she happens to be the co-host of two podcasts I love tuning into.
So while I look to add new goodies to my bookshelf and record cabinet, and close out the day with a stop at my nineteenth and twentieth baseball stadiums, do give a listen to our discussion of film, love, laughter, and The Great American Pastime.
So this is what thirty-seven feels like…
Further Down the Spiral Suggestions:
From Alia… “Mermaid Avenue” album by Billy Bragg and Wilco
From Ryan… The music of Otis Redding, specifically the ‘Live from Norway’ version of “Try a Little Tenderness”
Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-thirty-eight.
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Enjoy!
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Dog movies for Lindsay to watch:
1. Scarface
2. Babe in the Big City
3. Old Yeller (I’ve actually never seen this… )
4. Lassie… the olden years (this needs to be a movie)
Nice to have you back. Hope you enjoyed the time off.
Saddened that when I made Douglas watch this movie for the first time a year or so back I got nothing but a shrug from him. He’s not entranced by prime Costner it would seem.
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Does Douglas have an aversion to joy and merriment?
I was so excited to see you do a podcast for Bull Durham! I saw the movie for the first time last spring and it quickly became one of my all-time favorites. I could probably make this comment embarrassingly long with comments on the movie, but since you’ve mentioned on twitter adding a few more stadium visits to your list, here’s a little anecdote:
One of the benefits of living in Chapel Hill is I’m just south of Durham, so the Durham Bulls are my de facto baseball team. Every time I visited last summer I thought I was going to the same baseball field from the movie, just recently renovated and expanded. However, I found out this season that the ballpark from the movie is still standing, just a few blocks north of the current one. The Durham Bulls actually had to build a new stadium with larger capacity because the popularity of the movie pushed attendance high enough to bump the Durham Bulls to AAA status. I still haven’t visited the old stadium yet, but I joked to my friend that it’s started to feel like a religious pilgrimage.
You & Alia made great points on the movie and it was fun to hear a lively conversation on a new favorite movie. I hope you had an excellent birthday.
Hey stranger! I’d thought I’d lost you as a loyal listener. Hope things are well in your neck of the woods.
It’s interesting that you mention going to games in Durham, because that’s always been something of a roadtrip I’ve wanted to tack on to my ballpark tour (I’m trying to hit all 30 MLB cities: 10 left to go). Besides it being so iconic, there’s so many minor league parks and towns that seem to have so much character. Hell, some of the team names alone are reason to make a trip: The Chatanooga Lookouts, The Albuquerque Isotopes, The Las Vegas 51’s!
Glad you loved our discussion on this modern classic, and believe me – my baseball-tinted-birthday was most definitely excellent.