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Floyd Gondolli Enjoyment Award

Tunnel rumors; thick glasses on an armed operator; debrief; night vision

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  • Bill introduces a listener-proposed Floyd Gondolli personal-enjoyment award and uses rumors of a tunnel. Other answers are an armed operator with thick glasses and a debrief, with Donovan’s reported visual inspiration discussed. — Bill Simmons
  • Research reports a replica border crossing, practical thermal camera use, heated shoe soles, the word’s Latin origin, Blunt’s food poisoning and Brolin’s effective pause after forgetting dialogue. Night vision is an added personal-enjoyment answer.
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“OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch

The border-operation escalation

Flex pick · Chris Ryan

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  • Chris explicitly selects the Okay Motherfucker flex and describes seven escalation beats around the border operation: Cartagena, folding the jacket, trucks over bumps, spotter warning, drawing weapons, gun warning and shooting. — Chris Ryan
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Agency mechanics; Kate’s reporting insistence

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  • The complex agency mechanics are a weak-link candidate; Garber’s explanatory scene is praised but considered late, and Kate’s official role is unpacked.
  • Kate’s insistence on reporting the operation after the tunnel is another weak-link/nitpick choice, despite a five-star overall opinion. — Chris Ryan
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Kate’s smoking; sequel differences; supposed unattractiveness; Alejandro’s cartel connections; Reggie Wayne name; period-specific Juárez

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  • Three adult films competing in 2015 is an early aged-worst comparison with current releases; a genre movie exceeding expectations makes Chris return to theaters immediately.
  • Kate’s smoking is criticized under aged-worst and a Tom Cruise bad-smoking award, with disagreement that she smokes convincingly. — Bill Simmons
  • The sequel is judged acceptable but different and unusually evil; an initial claim that it changed screenwriter is explicitly corrected to Sheridan. — Bill Simmons
  • Aged-worst objections include treating Blunt as unattractive, insufficient detail on Alejandro’s cartel connections and the script naming Reggie Wayne. The geopolitical premise is defended as plausible. — Chris Ryan
  • Juárez’s portrayal is discussed as tied to the writing period rather than the later city, with contemporary crime claims presented as the hosts’ reported research. — Sean Fennessey
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Foreign-policy allegory; Yellowstone’s cost to cinema; Del Toro’s romantic reputation

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  • A hottest take ranks the crossing alongside Heat’s robbery and The Dark Knight’s truck chase; the hosts recall the chaotic Grantland period. — Chris Ryan
  • A hottest take reads the film as an allegory of American foreign policy exploiting crises and desires for justice.
  • Another hottest take calls Yellowstone’s success a major loss for film screenwriting, with Mike White discussed as a different film-to-TV example. — Chris Ryan
  • Bill’s hottest take is that Del Toro’s reputation as a ladies’ man is underrecognized; purported relationships are recited as hearsay rather than independently established facts.
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