The Hunt for Red October

Published: Aug. 22, 2020, 5:01 a.m.

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on--and there's only one man who can find her: Jack Ryan! Alan and Craig discuss intelligent heroes, how to identify a Russian cook, the star power of Sean Connery and the movie “The Hunt for Red October” on Craig's birthday edition of Matinee Heroes! This week's episode is sponsored by Matinee Heroes presents CastOFF! This is it! The championship game of season 1’s CastOFF! is this Sunday, August 23rd as Patrick from Gaggle of Geeks and Randy from the Cult 45 Podcast battle it out in this winner take all finale!! The movie they’ll recast: The modern classic Pulp Fiction It’s been 6 nail-biting weeks but we’ll finally name the best caster on the internet. Head over to twitch.tv/matineeheroes or matineeheroes.com/castoff to subscribe to the video now you don’t miss any of the action August 23rd at 6pm PT 9pm ET. Show Notes 1:07 Craig and Alan discuss upcoming appearances on Geeks Without God and The Dungeon Files Podcast 8:13 Craig and Alan discuss "The Hunt for Red October" 31:11 Recasting 57:43 Double Feature 1:02:00 Final Thoughts 1:08:37 A preview of next week's episode "Unforgiven" Next week, Craig, Alan and guest Rob Ervin go old school cowboy with "Unforgiven"