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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are discovering that we\\u2019re actually highly trained super-duper killer spies. Except we\\u2019ve lost our memories and can\\u2019t recall our brutal pasts. Also, we\\u2019re hanging out with Samuel L. Jackson. Whaaaaaaaattt?! Yep, it\\u2019s the 1996 film from Renny Harlin, The Long Kiss Goodnight.

I think I dig this whole sleeper agent/memory loss sub-genre of action films. There\\u2019s something so mysterious about a normal, probably meek-looking person who could be your next-door neighbor suddenly transforming into a badass killing machine intent on exacting revenge. Yeah, you do not want to get in their way. They\\u2019re now on a mission, and that mission is to kill every dang fool who wronged them in the past.

And just last week they baked you a whole tray of snickerdoodle cookies. Who would have ever guessed?

I guess that explains why everyone is so into weirdo murder mystery podcasts these days. I don\\u2019t get it, so I guess they\\u2019re just not for me. On the other hand, why are there so many people interested in listening to gruesome stories about people being murdered? And not just one episode. No, instead there are entire podcast shows dedicated to the terrible subject. Entire swaths of the Discovery network of channels are devoted to that stuff. What\\u2019s the appeal there?

Perhaps I\\u2019ll never know. I mean, I don\\u2019t want to make myself feel crazy anxious all the time or have nightmares. No, thank you. Instead, we should all just be happy to watch a pretty campy Geena Davis-Samuel L. Jackson film from the \\u201890s. Doesn\\u2019t that sentence alone take you back to a time when all action movies had infinite bullets, insane explosions, and a soundtrack that makes you wonder if synthesizers were the only instruments available back then?

The only travesty about this film is the fact that Geena Davis\\u2019s career took a bit of a hit after the one-two underperforming punch of Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight. It\\u2019s Geena freaking Davis. She\\u2019s excellent. I mean, we all saw Thelma & Louise, right? She should have been, and should still be, an international superstar. Okay, she\\u2019s not hurting for work, but I would love to see a McConaughey-style renaissance for her. A Davis-sance, if you will. Friends, let\\u2019s make it happen! Geena Davis for season four of True Detective!

(Recorded on April 19, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

The Long Kiss Goodnight - IMDb

The Long Kiss Goodnight trailer - YouTube

Audio Hijack - Rogue Amoeba

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Lilo & Stitch - IMDb

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - IMDb

Samuel L. Jackson - IMDb

Geena Davis - IMDb

Renny Harlin - IMDb

Lethal Weapon 4 - IMDb

Memento - IMDb

Jingle All the Way - IMDb

Lethal Weapon - IMDb

Heavy Metal - IMDb

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